Funding for After Prom Parties Safe
Despite budget uncertainties, the county will continue to fund PTSA-sponsored after-prom activities this year.
This year's after-prom activities will receive the same funding from the county as they have for the past two years, according to the county executive's office. "We will be providing each high school PTSA with $2,000 grants from the asset forfeiture fund to support their official after prom parties," Deputy Chief of Staff Ian Kennedy said. The grants are being processed, he said and should be allocated this week. Because of "uncertainty surrounding next year's budget," as of late March, the county had not yet decided if it was going to fund the programs, according to Kennedy. That uncertainty was due, in part, the governor's proposal to shift some of the cost of teacher pensions from the state to counties. For the past two years, PTSA-…
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2:57 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
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