A group of five women representing the YWCO’s Girl’s Club
asked the Athens-Clarke County Commission to consider funding their summer camp
at Thursday’s Commission Meeting.
Kitty Meyran, Executive Director of the Girl’s Club, said
the summer camp teaches young women a valuable work ethic at a young age, which
would help them pursue jobs when they were old enough.
Commissioner Maxwell brought up the $215,000 the Commission
hasn’t purposed yet saying he wanted to repurpose some of these funds “to help
the young ladies at the YWCO and to instill in them that we as a community care
about them.”
However, Commissioner Girtz reminded all that the Commission is
limited to spending 15 percent of the budget on public service programs and
these funds have already been allocated.
No budget changes were made, but future dialogue about the funding was
agreed on.
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