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Memorandum <br />Page 2 <br />October 29, 1996 <br /> <br />* CVAN Battered Women's Program <br /> Family Counseling <br />* Habitat for Humanity - Cabarrus County <br />* Hospice of Cabarrus County <br /> Information & Referral Services - Cabarrus County <br />* L.I.F.E. Adult Day Care Center <br /> Logan Community Day Care <br /> Piedmont Residential Development Center <br /> Salvation Army - Cabarrus County <br /> Serenity House <br /> United Family Services <br />* YMCA, Cabarrus County <br /> <br />(*) Received direct appropriation from Cabarrus County along with <br /> Historic Cabarrus, Cooperative Christian Ministpj and Cabarrus <br /> Communities in Schools, Inc. <br /> <br />If the Board of Commissioners wants to continue to address these requests each year at budget time <br />and as in this request fi.om L.I.F.E. Center, Inc. throughout the budget year, then no specific direction <br />is required. We will compile a list of requests each time they come and the Board of Commissioners <br />will rule on those requests on a one-by-one basis. If the Board desires to phase out these types of <br />appropriations, then you reject this request from L.I.F.E. Center, Inc. and authorize further reductions <br />as have been discussed. <br /> <br />I would like to offer one further alternative that might have merit in allowing the County government <br />to allocate funding in a non-direct manner to many of the same non-profit agencies it.now supports <br />and possibly generate increased financial support for those agencies in increased public contributions. <br /> <br />Hank Grady (Cabarrus Home Health) headed up a very successful County Employee United Way <br />Campaign. County employees contributed over $14,000 to local United Way agencies. An option <br />for the County Commission which would encourage County employee support for the United Way <br />could include the County matching dollar for dollar County employee contributions to the Cabarms <br />United Way. <br /> <br />This would offer an opportunity for the County to still support local non-profits in an indirect manner <br />while directly encouraging County employees to increase then' support for local non-profits. It would <br />also remove any perceived political aspects of how the Board of CommisSioners decides which non- <br />profit gets how much County financial support. <br /> <br />4- <br /> <br /> <br />