NEI3A CEO addresses county supervisors’ previous statement on funding

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By Zach Jensen,

Thursday, February 20, 2025 8:57 am

NEI3A Chief Executive Officer Mike Donohue (left) and NEI3A Regional Coordinator Kristie Wiltgen met with the Winneshiek County Board of Supervisors Monday morning to set the record straight on several issues while asking a second time for $4,700 in funding for Fiscal Year 2025-26. (Photo by Zach Jensen)

Several past statements made by Winneshiek County supervisors were called into question Monday, when Mike Donohue, chief executive officer of Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging, addressed the board during its regular meeting. Donohue asserted several claims board members made regarding county funding of NEI3A — some as recently as during that same meeting — weren’t true.

Some of the supervisors and the county auditor were previously under the impression the county hadn’t funded NEI3A in the last 10 years, but Donohue said the county funded the nonprofit in 2022.

The supervisors denied a recent $4,700 funding request from NEI3A for Fiscal Year 2025-26, which the organization presented during the Jan. 13 board of supervisors meeting. Winneshiek County Supervisor Mark Vick voiced frustration with the agency during that meeting, saying NEI3A had not accepted the county’s offer of a space in the new Community Services Building.

Donohue noted that NEI3A, which claims to have served 1,500 Winneshiek County residents in the last three years, was already a tenant in the Community Services Building for more than seven years before the county purchased the building from Spectrum Industries. NEI3A provides caregiver programs and case management as well as dementia, nutrition and wellness programs in addition to transportation and elder abuse services for seniors and disabled adults. Donohue said the county’s terms for continuing to rent space in the Community Services Building didn’t meet the agency’s needs.

Full article available in the February 20 Decorah Leader.

By Zach Jensen,

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