Santa Cruz County supervisors are considering softening the blow to local nonprofits this year by adjusting a proposed 20 percent cut to 12 percent. The county currently gives about $3.4 million to local nonprofits, about half of what it gave in 2002. Among the beneficiaries are Second Harvest and Big Brothers and Big Sisters, as well as several smaller nonprofits. Supervisor Ellen Pirie, who fought to have the cuts reduced, called them representative of the county’s long tradition of “compassion” toward others, yet even she agreed that budgetary constraints make it impossible to provide all the assistance that the county would like to give.
The county will be debating its final budget on June 24. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
