Council OKs grants for social services
More than two dozen social service programs will be receiving approximately $700,000 in grants from Spokane City Hall under action taken by the City Council on Monday.
In addition, council members approved a measure to add $132,000 to the grant program through an emergency budget ordinance.
The council voted in favor of grant recommendations by the Human Services Advisory Board and asked the board to come up with recommendations on how to spend the additional $132,000, to be approved at a future council meeting.
The agencies and programs receiving the grants are providing front-line services to low-income residents and the homeless, including youths, seniors and victims of crime.
The Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs will receive $41,750 for its intervention and support program plus $17,250 for its community voice-mail program, which will be funded separately through federal community development funds.
The Volunteers of America Hope House is slated to get $20,880, the VOA Crosswalk youth shelter will get $25,050, and VOA’s Alexandria House, $18,370.
The YWCA’s Alternatives to Domestic Violence program will get $41,750, while its homeless children’s educational resource program will receive $42,400.
Second Harvest Food Bank won a $58,450 grant for service to city outlets and agencies. The Spokane AIDS Network will get $8,350.
The Educational Service District 101’s service team will receive $7,700 in community development funds.
Catholic Charities won $16,700 for St. Margaret’s Shelter and $50,100 for the House of Charity.
Spokane Mental Health will receive $58,400 for its shelter-plus care program. Lutheran Community Services will receive $37,500 for its victim rights program.
Partners with Families and Children will receive $16,700 toward a child interview specialist.
Mid-City Concerns will receive $6,680 for its programs. Youth Family and Adults will receive $35,000 for adult treatment services.
The Transitions organization is in line for $29,200 for its transitional living center, $28,000 for an “edu-care” program, $29,200 for its Women’s Hearth program and $18,300 for Miryam’s House.
Holy Family Adult Day Center will get $29,200.
Martin Luther King Jr. family outreach emergency services will receive $15,000. Cancer Patient Care will get $20,800 for mammography, food supplies and other emergency needs.
The NATIVE health clinic is going to get $20,800 for an uninsured prescription program.
The Community Health Association of Spokane will receive $37,500 for dental health improvement. The East Central Community Organization will receive $15,500 for its primary health-care clinic.
St. Joseph’s Family Center is to receive $16,700 for professional counseling.
In other business, the council approved Spokane COPS as the sole source for providing community policing programs and authorized a $195,000 contract for the services.
The council also approved funding for a lease and other costs for the Spokane Regional Domestic Violence Team at a total of $111,000.
A contract with Fire District 10 was also approved in which the city will pay the fire district $15,000 over the next two years for fire protection at the waste incinerator and city park land within the fire district.