The Haines Borough Assembly last week authorized $94,300 in funding for local nonprofits, nearly $33,000 less than the amount requested and the lowest amount it has disbursed in grants since 2009.
The assembly appropriated $109,200 last year.
Following several attempts to postpone funding the programs, the assembly voted 4-2 to pass the resolution funding 11 local nonprofits. Assembly members Joanne Waterman and George Campbell were opposed.
The borough’s ad-hoc committee decided to fund nonprofits based…