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A nonprofit 16-county, three-state partnership that seeks regional answers to transportation, conservation and economic development issues, it seems to us, is a necessary, forward-looking entity that should be able to anticipate problems before they become problems and seek solutions to them.
But nonprofits without enough oversight often become mushy, duplicative money-wasters which live to serve themselves and get little done for the communities they vow to assist.
We hope the Thrive Regional Partnership won’t ever become one of those nonprofits.
On Wednesday, the Hamilton County Commission voted to give the agency $300,000 over three years, essentially a seventh of its $700,000 annual budget. The agency’s request came without a line-item budget and no description of how the money will be spent. The request also was not included in the county’s 2019 budget, although the agency had begun talks with the county in January or February, according to County Mayor Jim Coppinger.