CDBGF Funds

The doling out (allocation) of Community Development Block Granting Funds at the January 7th council meeting was a haphazard affair with the big winner being the St. Martha’s Catholic Food Bank. Though St. Martha’s Food Bank is a worthy cause, there were other causes just as worthy that were sparsed because of this. Out of $27,750.00, St. Martha’s got over 17,000. The Murrieta Humane Society got zero. In a country where there is supposed to be separation of church and state, this prop to an organization that is already extremely well funded all the way back to the Vatican has me a little concerned. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is perfectly acceptable for school children to say the pledge of allegiance in the old way, but St. Martha’s is a very wealthy parish, and the other non profits (the ones that bothered to show up) were also doing good things in the community that needed funding. Why the favoritism towards St. Martha’s?