Deficit? What Deficit? How the Democrats Spend $3,000,000.

From Section 252 of proposed state budget:

The following amounts appropriated in section 1 of this act to the Judicial Department, for Youth Services Prevention, for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2018, and June 30, 2019, shall be made available in each of said fiscal years for the following grants:

$ 45,700 to Stamford YMCA; $ 88,800 to HANDS; $ 113,800 to The Walter E. Luckett, Jr. Foundation; $ 20,700 to Stamford YMCA; $ 88,800 to Take a Chance Foundation; $ 25,000 to Arte, Inc. ; $ 20,700 to Bregamos Theater; $ 49,000 to Computer Center Pope Park; $ 45,000 to Mi Casa; $ 20,000 to Charter Oak Boxing; $ 40,000 to Boys and Girls Club/Chandler Street; $ 35,000 to O. P. M. Ad; $ 25,000 to Family Reentry Organization, Inc. /Transition Mentoring Program; $ 15,000 to CHAMP Community Hands in Action Mentoring Program; $ 30,000 to The Village Initiative Project, Inc. ; $ 14,500 to the Stratford Police Athletic League; $ 35,000 to the Bridgeport Caribe Youth League, Inc. ; $ 15,000 to the United Mentoring Academy, Inc. ; $ 74,500 to the Human Resources Agency of New Britain, Inc. ; $ 30,000 to Pathways Sandero Center/Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Inc. ; $ 30,000 to OIC of New Britain Inc. ; $ 13,070 to Girls, Inc. ; $ 13,070 to Boys and Girls Club of Meriden; $ 16,470 to Beat the Street Community Center; $ 13,070 to Meriden YMCA; $ 13,070 to Women and Family Center; $ 14,070 to City of Meriden/Police Cadets; $ 13,070 to Rushford Hospital Youth Program; $ 14,070 to New Opportunities of Greater Meriden/Boys to Men Program; $ 16,470 to Meriden Wallingford Chrysalis; $ 8,070 to Advocacy Academy Accomplish Education, Inc. ; $ 13,000 to Sound Community Services, Inc. ; $ 13,000 to New London Little League; $ 7,500 to Heavy Hitters USA; $ 6,000 to New London Babe Ruth League, Inc. ; $ 6,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Connecticut; $ 6,000 to Historically Black College Alumni, Inc. ; $ 6,000 to New London NAACP; $ 22,416. 70 to Waterbury Police Activity League, Inc. c/o Waterbury Young Men’s Christian Association dba Greater Waterbury YMCA; $ 22,416. 66 to Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury; $ 22,416. 66 to Walnut Orange Walsh Neighborhood Revitalization Zone Association, Inc. ; $ 22,416. 66 to Rivera Memorial Foundation, Inc. ; $ 22,416. 66 to St. Margaret Willow Plaza NRZ, Association, Inc. ; $ 134,500 to the Church of the Good Shepard; $ 67,250 to town of East Hartford Youth Services/Youth Task Force; $ 67,250 to the town of Manchester; $ 91,150 to Bridgeport Caribe Youth League, Inc. ; $ 43,350 to McGivney Community Center; $ 25,000 to Project Overcome, Inc. ; $ 44,000 to Archipelago, Inc. Project Music; $ 44,500 to Boys and Girls Club of Stamford; $ 21,000 to William E. Edwards Academic College Tours, Inc. ; $ 25,000 to Artists Collective; $ 30,600 to C. U. R. E. T; $ 77,000 to Upper Albany Collaborative; $ 25,000 to Our Piece of the Pie; $ 114,000 to Windsor Collaborative; $ 30,000 to Urban League of Greater Hartford; $ 134,500 to Headquarters and Church Care of Kanaan Baptist Church; $ 50,000 to Buddy Jordan Foundation; $ 30,700 to Haitian Woman Association – Anacaona Youth Enrichment Program; $ 23,800 to Patrons of the Trumbull Nature and Arts Center, Inc. ; $ 30,000 to GVI; $ 50,000 to M. G. LL; $ 30,000 to Friends of Pope Park Troop 105; $ 40,000 to Boys and Girls Club/Chandler Street; $ 35,000 to O. P. M. Ad; $ 50,000 to ‘r Kids, Inc. ; $ 78,500 to VETTS, Inc. ; $ 20,000 to Kids Kook Association, Inc. ; $ 5,000 to Cross Street Training and Academic Center, Inc. ; $ 104,150 to Middlesex United Way; $ 25,350 to Oddfellows Playhouse; $ 25,000 to Citadel of Love; $ 22,000 to Hartford Drill, Drum and Dance Corp. ; $ 19,000 to Mount Olive Ministries; $ 19,000 to Supreme Athletes; $ 10,600 to Windsor Collaborative; $ 28,000 to BSL Education Foundation; $ 10,900 to The Pillar; $ 50,000 to NH Symphony Orchestra; $ 50,000 to Solar Youth; $ 50,000 to Police Athletic League/NH PAL; $ 15,000 to BIMEC (Believe in Me Corp. ); $ 50,000 to New Haven Reads Community Book Bank; $ 20,000 to Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs, Inc. ; $ 20,000 to Sullivan Basketball Academy, Inc.

What does any of this have to do with the Judicial Department? Nothing other than the Judicial Department has limited resources to pay close attention to how these funds are spent once they go out the door. The state’s Office of Policy and Management is the appropriate administrator of all this money.