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again funding chamber of commerce
Council approves
$4,000-per-month stipend for group whose president sat on Citizens’ Police
Advisory Committee
By
Allison Jean Eaton
Bulletin
Editor
COMPTON—The
city is again providing funding for one of the local chambers of commerce.
The City Council approved Tuesday, July 20, a resolution calling
for the city to pay the Compton Chamber of Commerce $4,000 per month as
a stipend for the next 12 months. The stipend is effective retroactively
from July 1 through June 30, 2011.
The financial support was approved despite City Manager Charles Evans’ apparent
failure to conduct audits of the chamber and the Latino Chamber of Commerce
and submit to the Council his findings as he was instructed to do on March
16 by Councilwoman Barbara Calhoun.
Though Calhoun did acknowledge last week that the Council had yet
to receive the audit reports, she voted to approve the yearlong stipend.
No funds were allotted to the Latino chamber.
Calhoun’s request four months ago for a review of the two organizations’ financial
statements stemmed from an ongoing disagreement regarding whether the city
has in the past granted funding to the Compton Chamber of Commerce, as
well as if the city has granted it more funding than it has the Latino
chamber.
“To this day, since I’ve been on City Council in six years,
I have never seen an audit or a report from either one of the chambers — where
the money went to, where it came from or whatever, what they spend
it on, what they do,” Calhoun said on March 16. “Maybe we’ll
put an end to all this speculation.”
Maria Villareal, president of the Latino chamber, said earlier this
year that the business association she heads hasn’t received an equal
amount of financial support, something that many in the Latino community
interpret as an act of discrimination.
Compton Chamber of Commerce Secretary Lorraine Cervantes has denied
on several occasions that the city in the past provided funds to the chamber.
This, however, is not true.
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