City Budget, Discretionary Funding

Discretionary funding/spending is the means by which city council can appropriate contributions to charitable organizations using tax dollars to do so. At the first budget hearing for the FY 2006 city budget, after years of toiling to rid ourselves of the discriminatory burden of “discretionary funding” from city budgets, we now have some on city council who believe the city needs to distribute your tax dollars to selected charitable organizations.
Update:Some council members don't understand the word NO. After voting no during the first budget hearing this same issue came back again at the final budget hearing. First there was a motion to give away $34K of your tax dollars, that motion failed. Still they persisted with another motion for $25K, that motion also failed on a 4-4 vote. Those that wanted to spend are; Boyd, Day, Jeffers and Rosado.