Reply #217: The problem is the way funds are designated; you can't cross budget lines

[proud2BlibKansan]

Your boys and girls club got a grant that stipulated the money go for computer security, not overall operating expenses.

We deal with this in education all the time. I'll never forget about 20 years ago when the feds started giving us grant money for a breakfast program at school. We got money to buy the food but no money to pay workers to serve it or teachers to supervise kids while they ate.

And if you spend grant money inappropriately or refuse to spend any portion of it, you don't get the grant again.

So it isn't so much about how well spent the money is. It's about the rules attached to the money.