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Camas reviews city’s contracts with nonprofits

Decision to audit longstanding financial support surprises downtown association, several city council members

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Carrie Schulstad (right), executive director of the Downtown Camas Association, talks about Camas' downtown businesses during the Columbia River Economic Development Council's Main Street Day tour on July 13, 2018. (Post-Record file photo)

A decision to review money flowing from the city of Camas to local nonprofits has caught some nonprofit leaders as well as a few city councilmembers off guard. 

“We’re not saying we’re not going to fund (the nonprofits), we’re just saying we’re making a process around it,” Camas Finance Director Cathy Huber Nickerson explained during the city council’s March 15 workshop after a councilmember asked why the city’s annual $15,000 contract to fund Downtown Camas Association (DCA) projects was on hold. “We’re daylighting all of our contracts so (the council) and the public and everyone, including these organizations, know what the city is doing and understand where tax dollars are going.” 

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