Haines Animal Rescue Kennel officials will not accept $14,000 allocated to the nonprofit by the Haines Borough Assembly last week, citing an earlier position that they weren’t interested in siphoning that money from the “community chest.”
The assembly last week approved giving $18,063 to local nonprofits from the borough’s community chest, a pot of money from the general fund set aside during the budget cycle for future distribution to nonprofits through an application process.
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