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RESOLUTION 99-182
APPROVING REVISIONS TO POLICY RELATING TO
CITY FUNDING OF HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES
(Supersedes Resolution 92-31, January 6, 1992;
Resolution 84-506, July 23, 1984)
The Plymouth City Council is responsible for periodically determining whether a financial or in-
kind contribution will be made by the City to assist human service agencies. Human service
funding requests will be considered as part of the annual budget cycle.
1. Any City contribution to a human service agency shall be for a public purpose and shall be
expressly authorized by statute, and this information shall be forwarded to the City Council with
the funding request.
2. The City Council will consider the following guidelines in determining which human service
agencies, if any, receive funding. This policy should not be construed to obligate the City
Council to provide funding or in-kind human service contributions.
A. Agencies must submit funding requests and all required information within the
established time frame to be considered for funding.
B. All funding requests shall be evaluated for effectiveness and appropriateness each year.
C. Human service agencies will be expected to provide data substantiating the need for their
specific types of service within the Plymouth community. Specific figures on the
Plymouth population served through their efforts, fiscal analysis of cost of delivery of
such services and documentation that their services do not duplicate those of other
agencies serving the Plymouth population.
D. The City Council will only consider funding programs or agencies which can
demonstrate that the funds are used solely to provide services to Plymouth residents.
E. Funding requests will normally be considered in relation to existing City human service
commitments and the target populations served.
F. Preference will be given to agencies or programs which:
1. Have taken affirmative efforts to raise funds to support their efforts.
2. Demonstrate in their budgets that there is a continuing concentration on
minimizing administrative and overhead costs.
Cannot be effectively or fully funded through other sources.
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4. Sponsor programs which have verifiable benefits to the community at large,
for example, programs that put people to work or enhance the effectiveness of
City service delivery programs.
5. Make effective use of volunteer skills and in-kind contributions to reduce the
cost of program/service delivery.
G. The City Council may establish additional guidelines or criteria for consideration of
human service funding requests.
3. Before any human service agency receives funding, an agreement or contract between the
City and the human service agency shall be executed to ensure that the funds will be spent on a
program which meets the public purpose and statutory authority requirements and, when
appropriate, to establish that the agency is providing a service for the City in exchange for a
contribution.
Adopted by the City Council on April 20, 1999.