Burnet County divvies up funds to nonprofits

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Eleven Highland Lakes nonprofit organizations are splitting $100,000 in funds from the Capitol Area Housing Finance Corporation (CAHFC) after action taken by the Burnet County Commissioners Court last week.

Commissioners were notified by CAHFC president Mark Mayfield, a Burnet County resident, that the Austin-based organization, which serves nine counties in the Capital Area Council of Governments with a total population of over 2.1 million, had voted to reinvest money in the local communities it serves and had charged the court with distributing the funds to nonprofits in the area. …

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