Franklin County Commissioners have
agreed to provide 1500 dollars to help out a local youth basketball
program.
The funding request was made by Allison
Speed, the organizer for the traveling basketball teams from Franklin
County.
The summer basketball program includes
between 30 and 50 children of various ages.
The program in the past has taken local
teams to neighboring towns for summertime basketball tournaments and
has also held tournaments in the county that brought teams from as
far away as Athens, Georgia.
Mister Speed requested 3000 dollars,
but the commission said he needed to find additional sources of
money, including holding fundraisers.
In general the county provides money to
local sports teams only if they earn a spot in a regional, state or
national tournament but the county doesn’t usually provide
operational funding.
Instead the county provides and
maintains the fields and parks for most sports.
There are no county maintained
basketball courts at this time, though the county is seeking a grant
to build one in Apalachicola.
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