Escambia Clerk Questions Commissioners' Charitable Spending

Escambia County, FL (Newsradio 92.3) -- Escambia County's clerk is pushing back on how commissioners spend their discretionary funds. Clerk Pam Childers says taxpayer money shouldn't go to nonprofits and charities because it doesn't serve a county purpose. She's denied several recent funding requests. But some commissioners disagree. Commissioner Lumon May says the denials hurt vulnerable residents who rely on those programs. Each of the five commissioners gets 50-thousand dollars a year in discretionary funding. Board Chair Ashlee Hofberger says the issue will go back before the full board for discussion.