Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-471

EHS 471

Boys & Girls Clubs

Messrs. Hart, Moore, Finegold, DiDomenico and Rodrigues moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4590-1507, by striking out:

"For matching grants to the Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs, the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs and YWCA organizations: provided, that the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs shall distribute funds to all Boys and Girls Clubs that received grants from this item in fiscal year 2011 ……………………………………..……..$1,300,000"

and inserting:

For matching grants to the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, the Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs, the YWCA organizations, nonprofit community centers, and youth development programs; provided, that the department of public health shall award the full amount of each grant to each organization previously included in the youth-at-risk grants, upon commitment of matching funds from such organizations; provided further, that each organization previously included in the youth-at-risk grants shall receive in fiscal year 2012 a grant amount not less than that received in fiscal year 2011; and provided further, that any allocation less than $2,000,000 to a recipient of a youth-at-risk grant must be distributed equally between said recipient’s member organizations…...$1,700,000