Three nonprofit agencies, who have seen their budgets cut by Chattanooga the last three years, came before the City Council on Thursday night asking that at least some of their funding be restored.
“Over a three-year period, 2007 to 2010, our funding dropped 70 percent,” said Colleen Combs, executive director of Alexian Brothers Senior Neighbors.
The City Council conducted a budget hearing Thursday night for a few of the nonprofit agencies that annually request funding from the city.
The council will continue holding budget meetings on Tuesday morning and Thursday nights for the next month.
Allied Arts, Alexian Brothers Senior Neighbors and Urban League made their cases Thursday night in front of the council’s Budget, Finance and Personnel Committee, which is made up of all the sitting council members.