An Apache Junction commission tasked with interviewing nonprofit agencies seeking a piece of $80,000 in health and human service funding has approved a recommendation for the City Council to consider.
“Thanks to all the nonprofits, all the work that’s being done. I think it was — as usual — tough to cut. We had $131,260 of requests and we can only give out $80,000, so cuts had to be made — $51,260 out of it,” Chairperson Jeffrey P. Mitchell said at the Apache Junction Health and Human Services Commission’s April 24 meeting. “Love to give everybody exactly what they asked for but, you know, here we are with six agencies again.”
The commission later in the meeting voted unanimously to recommend that the Apache Junction City Council divvy up the funds as follows:
