Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-287-R1

Redraft GOV 287

Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts

Messrs. Lesser and Welch moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7002-0010, by adding at the end thereof the following: "provided that $75,000 be expended for the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts for a pilot program in collaboration with the national Partnership for Young Women’s Progress that will utilize public/private funding and address core structural issues that keep a majority of the nation’s low-income young women from experiencing robust health, economic security, personal safety and the leadership opportunities that their gifts and strengths deserve"; and in said item, by striking out the figure "$150,000" and inserting in place thereof the figure "$225,000"