The majority of the grant recipients do not exclude clients who reside in the Sequoia Healthcare District(SHD). Funding for these agencies includes voluntary contributions from the entire community which they serve, including district residents. Benefits accrue to all members of their community, including district residents.

Essentially, what the Sequoia Healthcare District Community Grants Program does is invite these agencies to seek reimbursement for their services to district residents. That reimbursement is then used to grow their community-wide services which, in many cases, extend beyond San Mateo County. Therefore, the incremental benefit of the grants is diluted to the fraction which district residents represent as a part of the community-wide client total.

Grantees, like Second Harvest Food Bank, Meals on Wheels, Peninsula Family Services, Ravenswood Medical Clinic, Planned Parenthood, Villages of San Mateo County, Caminar, Casa, etc., which many of you support voluntarily, are examples where the incremental benefit of SHD Grants is substantially diluted.

Other grantees which function essentially within SHD boundaries, such as Redwood City Police Activities League, Sequoia YMCA, Adaptive PE at the VMSC in Redwood City, etc. Provide near 100% return on investment(ROI).

Here's an updated link to the SHD Board Meeting packet.

Web Link

There is always some guy trying to kill good programs, with death by a thousand (paper) cuts.

Knock it off - let these good folks support these great causes.

Taip:

NOT WITH MY TAXES. If these people or programs are not located in the Sequoia health district then they are not "entitled" to any of MY tax money. It's bad enough my taxes are funding a hospital district that no longer owns a hospital and no longer has a reason to exist other than for SMC insiders to distribute largess to their buddies. It needs to stop. The district needs to be disbanded.

Today I picked up a 3" binder full of Caring Community Grants 2018-2019 which Pamela left out for me.

NOTABLE:
"Criteria for Determining Whether to APPROVE an organization for funding" contained this:

"The program will serve an appropriate percent of district residents relative to percent of budget requested." This is explained on the district website.Web Link

Taking fungibility into account, I went through the applications with an eye towards determining how much of the grant money benefited district residents. Twenty three of the 50 applicants were below 50%. Some notables:
Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County - 23% of a $55,000 grant;
CORA - 24% of a $100,000 grant;
St. Vincent de Paul - 35% of a $100,000 grant;
Peninsula Volunteers Wheels on Meals - 35% of a $100,000 grant;
Second Harvest Food Bank had inadequate and questionable information, but I expect them to be no better than Meals on Wheels with their $100,000 grant.