Orion Area Youth Assistance will get $5,000 from the township’s 2006 General Fund balance.
The action was taken at the Nov. 20 board meeting, three weeks after the board decided not to give OAYA any CDBG funding for the upcoming year (the issue was reported in the Nov. 15 edition of The Review).
The $5,000 will go to the OAYA camp program for 2007, allowing about 25 more youths to participate.
Clerk Jill Bastian originally proposed that the board take the money from the township’s Host Fee Fund, but the board decided instead (in a motion by Mike Gingell) to take it from the projected general fund surplus.