County receives $82K for non-profit groups

County receives $82K for non-profit groups

Donley County Commissioners will soon decided what to do with almost $82,000 that until recently was just chilling in a bank account somewhere.

Becky Fuller, who is the director of the 100th Judicial District Adult Probation Department, presented a check to the county in the amount of $81,958.72 last Monday.
The money presented represents one-fifth of the donations collected prior to March 2008 through the 100th Judicial District Community Service Program from participants in lieu of performing community service hours. County Judge Jack Hall said the money had been being deposited for about 15 years without being distributed.

Qualified participants “could buy one of hour of community supervision time for $4,” Hall said. The option is only available to participants who are employed full-time and are current on their court-ordered fees.
Money collected since March 2008 has been donated quarterly to qualifying food programs in the 100th Judicial District, but the commissioners’ court will decide what to do with the more than $81,000 they received last week.

“We’ll be looking at that at our next regular meeting on March 8,” Hall said. “The only requirement is that it has to go to a non-profit organization that is not religiously affiliated.”

The five counties which make up the 100th Judicial District – Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and Hall – each received an equal portion of the collections

County Judge Jack Hall and Commissioners Bob Trout, Mark White, Don Hall, and Andy Wheatley with Becky Fuller, CSCD Director.