The Charlottesville City Council will hold a second budget work session on Thursday at 6 p.m. in CitySpace. There’s no agenda yet but the calendar describes this as a time when staff will go through the recommended allocations for nonprofit groups and other third parties. Details begin on page 151 of the budget book which you can download here. (meeting info)
Some funding for nonprofits comes through memorandums of understanding and these are referred to as “intergovernmental” agencies. These range from the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail to the Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Others are deemed to provide “fundamental” services and range from the Charlottesville Free Clinic to Shelter for Help in Emergency.
Other funding comes through a process called the Vibrant Community Fund, a process that for many years was conducted with collaboration with Albemarle County. There’s a full report that evaluates and scores all of the applications which can be downloaded here.
The recommended budget increases the amount of funding for “health agencies” from $3.56 million to $4.51 million, a 26.64 percent increase.
Some changes of note from the adopted fiscal year 2024 budget:
- The allocation for the Emergency Communications Center jumps 22.35 percent to $2,429,298.
- Funding for Offenders Aid and Restoration increased 16.13 percent to $439,287.
- The amount for the Charlottesville Free Clinic would go up by 35.67 percent to $162,000.
- The mandatory payment associated with the remediation of the now-closed Ivy Landfill would drop ten percent to $450,000.
- Bridgeline’s allocation would increase 44.32 percent to $64,400.
- The amount of Birth Sisters would increase 30.43 percent to $60,000.
- The allocation to the Loaves and Fishes food pantry would drop $5,000 to $40,000.
- The Reclaimed Hope Initiative would see their allocation increase by 66.66 percent to $150,000.
- New Hill Development, which received $500,000 to create a Starr Hill Small Area Plan and another $500,000 toward their Beacon Kitchen, will have an 185.71 percent increase in their allocation.
- 100 Black Men of Charlottesville would see their funding increase 73.91 percent to a total of $34,200.
- The amount for City of Promise Inc. would increase 117.39 percent to $150,000.
- The BUCK Squad received $161,000 in FY24 and the proposal is to increase that to $456,000 in FY25. That’s a 183.22 increase.
- A group called Wartime Fitness Warriors would receive a 118.18 percent increase to $60,000.
- Shelter for Help in Emergency would receive $285,600, a 66.85 percent increase.
- United Way Child Care would go up 28.04 percent to $246,500.
- Boys and Girls Club funding would increase 86.79 percent to $116,000.
- The Public Housing Association of Residents would get an additional $28,000 for a total of $68,000.
- Big Brothers / Big Sisters would see a 28.26 percent decrease to $33,000.
- The amount for “Food Equity” that has gone to Cultivate Charlottesville would increase 22.58 percent to $190,000.
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