Agency in Croshairs of DOGE
"A Palm Beach County agency that provides grants to nonprofits to help struggling teens and their families is in the crosshairs of the state’s DOGE team and county commissioners.At a meeting Aug. 26, leaders of the county’s Youth Services Department will be asked to justify why they want to give $3.1 million in tax money to 33 agencies. It marks the commission’s first critical inquiry into spending since it created the department 10 years ago.
The review comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ government efficiency team scours county books for waste. Before the Florida DOGE auditors arrived in the county on Monday for a two-day visit, they said they wanted to take a close look at the $18 million-a-year Youth Services Department.
During a July 8 meeting, Commissioner Baxter criticized youth services staff for not giving her enough time to review information to see if the proposed grants were duplicating efforts of the Children’s Services Council. The council, an independent taxing agency approved by county voters in 1986, collects $167 million annually for programs that help kids and families.
“I want a breakdown of how many are getting money from the Children’s Services Council and the county,” said Commissioner Baxter, who is on the council’s board. “Is it one agency? Is it the other? Is it both?” She was supported by the entire council.
The six agencies were selected for council grants of up to $50,000 because they offer programs for older children who received high scores from outside professionals who reviewed the applications for the county.
The programs, offered by agencies such as Compass, the Milagro Center and Children of Inmates, focus on education, building life skills, suicide prevention, financial planning and family counseling."
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Local governments are just as bad as the federal government they're greedy their corrupt they commit fraud and they're very piggish too they inflate property values to get really high taxes and all this money that they're collecting they're raping the citizens and taxing people out of counties States and this country for that matter! Then you wonder why so many people are leaving certain counties or Florida or even moving out of this country all together because they're being taxed out of this nation! So much greed corruption fraud and piggishness!
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