United Way of Greater KC cuts off payments to United Way of Wyandotte County - Kansas City Business Journal:

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In a release Friday, the Unitex Way of Greater Kansas City said that it has paid the Wyandotte County group the monthlhy amount for the past year and a half and that it will redirecty themoney — $167,052 in 2009 — to fund emergency assistance programxs in Wyandotte County. The , which coordinates the deliveryu of emergency assistance services throughoutg themetro area, will administer the payments for programa in Wyandotte County. Wendell Maddox, presideny of the United Way ofWyandottew County, declined to comment, saying he wante time to review the development betweejn the two entities.
Leawood Mayor Pegg Dunn, chairwoman of the Unite d Way of GreaterKansas City, said in an interview that a yearlontg agreement between the groups expired Dec. 31. That agreemen stipulated that the greater Kansaes City group would continue to pay the Wyandotte Countgroup $13,291 a month through 2008 as long as mergerr talks continued. In December, the greater Kansas City group offered to extend thosew payments forthree months, but the Wyandotte Countty group said in January that it didn’t intend to “So our board decidecd today to fund the Mid Americqa Assistance Coalition, which fundws emergency services for Wyandotte Countg residents,” Dunn said.
“The Wyandotte Countt United Way clearly has a desire to remainn aseparate group, so our board concludecd that we shouldn’t treat them differentlyy than the other groups that mergexd (to form the greater Kansas City “The board’s action today was acceptingg the Wyandotte County group’s decision not to merges and doing something that would ensure that emergencyh services in the county would be Brent Stewart, CEO of United Way of Greateer Kansas City, said in an interviewa that having the Wyandotte County group mergs into the greater Kansas City groupo would bring more better planning and cost “That’s consistent with United Ways all over the country where you have United Ways in close he said.
The greate Kansas City group asked itselg what it wanted to do with the money and stil do no harm to people inWyandottde County, Stewart said, and it decided that givingy the money to the Mid America Assistancw Coalition and stipulating that it be spenft exclusively on emergency services in Wyandotte County, especially in lighy of the current economy, was the best decision. The Unitedf Way of Greater Kansas City resulteed from the mergerJuly 2, of , (including ) and .