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Commissioners approve donations and Special District Funds for community projects

Reno, Nev. Feb. 18, 2020. The following report highlights several important agenda items from the Washoe County Board of Commissioners meeting:

1. The Board of County Commissioners accepted the following donations:

• Donations to Washoe County Regional Animal Services in the amount of $10,621.84 from generous community members to be used for the humane care and treatment of sick, injured abandoned or at-risk animals.
• Donations to Washoe County Human Services Agency of various items with an estimated value of $34,654.77 from generous community members, faith groups and businesses, as well as donations in the amount of $8,071.22 from generous community members to support child welfare activities.  
• Donation to the Washoe County Human Services Agency – Senior Services of various items with an estimated value of $2,160.00 and accept donations in the amount of $832.06 from generous community members to support operations of the Washoe County Senior Centers.
• Donation to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in the amount of $300 from Fire Shows West to the Citizen Corps Program.

2. Commissioners direct Special District Funds. The Board of County Commissioners has approved special district funds disbursement for:

• Vice-Chair Marsha Berkbigler in the amount of $8,800 to support various arts and cultural programming throughout Washoe County.
• Commissioner Vaughn Hartung in the amount of $17,500, with $12,500 of those funds to support the Community Foundation of Western Nevada Youth Engaged in Service (YES) grant, and $5,000 to support the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District Ash Can Program.
• Commissioner Jeanne Herman in the amount of $3,000, with $1,500 of those funds to support a grant to the Vya Conservation District to support their natural resource conservation mission, and $1,500 to support the Washoe Storey Conservation District to support invasive weed eradication and wildfire prevention.

Commission Special District Funds were created on Feb. 10, 2015, to provide $20,000 to be distributed by each Commissioner in their Commission District, for a total amount of $100,000. The money will support the needs of all county residents.

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