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2005 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Member Request)

Chief Patron: Rust
Fairfax Partnership for Youth

Item 531 #211h

Item 531 #211h

First Year - FY2005 Second Year - FY2006
Nonstate Agencies
State Grants to Nonstate Entities-Nonstate Agencies FY2005 $0 FY2006 $125,000 GF

Language
Page 482, after line 18, insert:
"Out of the amounts for Financial Assistance for Cultural and Artistic Affairs, $125,000 the second year from the general fund is provided to the Fairfax Partnership for Youth."


Explanation
(This amendment provides $125,000 from the general fund in the second year to the Fairfax Partnership for Youth, an organization formed in 1997 by the Fairfax Board of Supervisors and School Board to stem the growth of gangs in Fairfax County. The amendment provides funding to support the program's mentoring partnership, its after-school network, a program to assist suspended students, and a youth depression and suicide prevention task force.)