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M ® M <br />199-1 <br />$10,395 <br />1992 <br />$7,495 <br />1993 <br />$5,945 <br />1994 <br />$5,135 <br />The cost of the program for 1994 was $7,512. Only through the collections in 1991 have we been <br />able to continue the program for the past three years. Those extra dollars have now been expended. <br />HISTORY <br />The Thanksgiving program serves 300 families, and provides gift certificates to each of these families. <br />The dollar amount depends on the size of the family ranging from $10.00 for families of 1 and 2 to <br />$15.00 for the larger families (limitation on the gift certificates for food only.) <br />The Christmas program serves these same 300 families, and provides gift certificates to each family, <br />a basket (sack) of food and toys for each child under the age of 14. Again, the gift certificate amount <br />was dependent on family size with $10:00 for families of 1 and 2, $15.00 for families of 3, 4, 5 and <br />-.6 and $20.00 for families of 7 and more. The size of the sack of food also depended on the family <br />size. <br />These programs have always been provided for by donations from the community and we have not <br />had to use tax dollars to support either the Thanksgiving or the Christmas gifts. In 1985 when I <br />started the program, there was only one other program that did either Thanksgiving or Christmas for <br />the general public and that was the Salvation Army. There were churches who provided for members <br />of their congregation, but not the general public. In .1994 I counted 13 programs that were doing <br />everything from serving meals to similar programs that the Welfare Department was providing. <br />OPTIONS FOR CHANGE <br />1. Reduce the number of families in the program from 300 to 150 cutting the expenses <br />to about half and referring the remaining 150 families not served to other agencies. <br />2. Eliminate the Thanksgiving program cutting the cost by $3,195 as based on the 1994 <br />figures. <br />3. Leave the program as it was in 1994 but ask the County to cover any part of the <br />program that donation from the community does not cover. This could be any <br />amount up to the $7,512, but I would estimate closer to $3,000. This amount would <br />not be available until after the program is completed in December. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Staff recommendation would be to reduce the number of families served to 150. <br />Welfare Director Joyce Carlson advised that in other years we <br />have coordinated with all of other agencies having similar programs <br />SEPTEMBER 12, 1995 <br />13 <br />BOOK ds'f1�;c <br />IR <br />