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BY KANYE SOUTH

Staff Writer, Rome Herald

ROME, Ga. -- The Floyd County United Way Monday awarded $28,312 in supplemental appropriations to three agencies whose programs were threatened by inadequate funding.

The United Way board of directors appropriated $15,137 to the Women’s Out Service to enable the agency to operate through the end of the current fiscal year. Director Brenda Trapp said the supplemental funds will help pay her salary and those of two part-time professional counselors.

The United Way board of directors also appropriated $10,000 to the Front Door Center, a personal crisis counseling center that caters to those with drug abuse and alcohol problems. The Front Door Center will use the funds to pay higher rent at its new facility, located at 800 N. Broad St. The city condemned the center’s old facility in June 2005.

“If we hadn’t approved the additional monies, Front Door likely would have to shut down,” said William Nichols, chair of the United Way board of directors.

A supplemental appropriation of $3,175 will go to the Boy Scouts for a summer camp program for disadvantaged youths. The amount matches a similar sum given to the Girl Scouts during the board’s regular funding process, which concluded in the spring. The Boy Scouts plan to spend half of the supplemental appropriation on improvements to a recreation center and the balance -- $1587 -- on field trips.

During the regular funding process the board appropriated $1.3 million for 15 other United Way agencies in Floyd County.