Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-908-R1

Redraft EHS 908

Boys & Girls Clubs

Mr. Lesser, Ms. Gobi, Mr. Lewis, Mrs. L'Italien, Ms. Forry, Mr. Moore, Ms. Flanagan, Mr. Fattman, Ms. Lovely, Messrs. Eldridge, Rodrigues, Welch, Humason, Kennedy and Brownsberger, Ms. Donoghue, Messrs. McGee, Joyce and deMacedo moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4590-1507, by striking out the text and inserting in place thereof the following:

For matching grants to the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc., the Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs, Inc., the YWCA organizations, nonprofit community centers and teen empowerment and youth development programs; provided, that the department of public health shall award at least the full amount of each grant to each organization previously included in the youth-at-risk grants, provided that those organizations applied for funds in fiscal year 2016, upon commitment of matching funds from those organizations; provided further, that the department of public health shall award not less than $1,100,000 to the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc., which shall be distributed equally between the alliance’s member organizations; and provided further, that the department shall award not less than $900,000 to the Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs, Inc., which shall be distributed between the alliance’s member organizations..........$3,800,000”