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Show Commissioners Deny Funds For 5 Federally-aided Groups MR. NELSON told commissioners commis-sioners the county has traditionally tradi-tionally supplied the match for the Council On Aging. Auditor Ludeen Gibbons said too many departments request matching money in their budget, then request an additional addi-tional sum when the contracts are signed. "We want to know whether we're obligating ourselves to any match that has not been budgeted." Com. Eberhard told Nelson. "We're not approving any additional match that has not been budgeted." COM. EBERHARD and Com. Harry B. Gerlach cited a tight budget as one key reason behind their decision to cut additional match funding. Com. Glen Saunders was not in attendance at the meeting. "We've got to be selective in w here we place our matched money," Eberhard said. MR. NELSON said the mental men-tal health department has requested re-quested $27,500 worth of matching money. And again. Com. Eberhard questioned the appropriation. He said Davis County will continue to take more and more mentally disturbed patients pa-tients into the jail. "VOL CAN only let them bang their heads against the walls for so long, then you have to do something." he said. But. he added. "We've got to realize that some areas are far more critical than others." The commissioner did not specify spe-cify what the "priority" areas are. THE COMMISSIONERS agreed not to allocate any further budget money for matching funds and tabled a decision on the future of the United Way information and referral service. By MARK D. MICKELSEN FARMINGTON -In a precedent pre-cedent setting decision Tuesday, Tues-day, the Davis County Commission Com-mission refused to set aside additional matching money for five federally-sponsored county coun-ty organizations. EACH YEAR a number of Davis departments routinely sign up to receive matching funds from the federal government govern-ment under the so-called Title Twenty program. For every dollar collected by the county organization, the federal government gov-ernment matches w ith a dollar of their own. As a result of the commissioner's commis-sioner's decision, the Davis County Council On Aging. Community Action Group. United Way information and referral service, legal and vocational aid group and mental men-tal health departments will have to match the federal funds with money from their own budgets. HARDEST HIT by the ruling rul-ing is the United Way information informa-tion and referral center w hose local sponsors are now forced to come up with $22,500 to meet the federal match. Com. Ernest Eberhard told Richard Nelson, the county's Title Twenty supervisor, that the information and referral service is being "dismantled" and said he isn't sure if the county should continue to sup port the program. MR. NELSON explained that unless the service is carried car-ried out by United Way, a proposal will have to be made to find a secondary organization organiza-tion to take over the program. And, if a secondary source cannot be found. Nelson said another county department will have to oversee the service. ser-vice. Com. Eberhard said there is currently no county mandate which says the information and referral service must be provided residents. AS FAR AS funding, the commissioner said, "I'd like to keep that one open for discussion." discus-sion." "It's been a good service. I can't fault the service," he said, noting, however, that additional funding cannot be appropriated until an investigation investi-gation into the stability of the service is completed. HE ADDED that the county should not continue to appropriate approp-riate matching money for the departments when the departments depart-ments hav e money in their own budgets for federally-sponsored federally-sponsored programs. Over $25,000 in matching funds is required by the county legal and vocational aid organization: organi-zation: $3,750 by the county Community Action group and $ 1 8.750 for the county Council On Aging. |