The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to end supervisor sponsorship for individual grants and make other revisions to the county’s Community Services Program, which distributes $300,000 a year to nonprofits but has been criticized in the past for how it allocates the funds.
Supervisor Steve Kinsey dissented, harshly denouncing the changes as a capitulation to the idea—which he said has been perpetuated in the press—that the program operates as a “slush fund” or…