MAYVILLE – A matching grant to provide a $1 million revenue stream for the Chautauqua County Home was voted down in committee earlier this week in Mayville, and another committee tabled the resolution.
That’s according to a report in Friday’s Jamestown Post-Journal, which says the home’s financial officer announced Thursday the Dunkirk nursing facility will run out of cash by the middle of next year. As a result, the county’s Audit and Control Committee tabled a resolution to appropriate $500,000 out of the county’s fund balance to match a federal grant. The same resolution was tabled Wednesday by the legislature’s Human Services Committee.
The Post-Journal article says legislators in both committees agreed funding would help the cash-strapped County Home, however, neither group would commit to providing taxpayer money until a study was complete on the financial stability of the facility. An ad-hoc committee has tapped the Center for Governmental Research to perform the viability study.
Regardless, resolution will head to the legislature floor during next week’s full meeting.
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