Funding for After Prom Parties Safe

This year's after-prom activities will receive the same funding from the county as they have for the past two years, according to the county executive's office.

"We will be providing each high school PTSA with $2,000 grants from the asset forfeiture fund to support their official after prom parties," Deputy Chief of Staff Ian Kennedy said.

The grants are being processed, he said and should be allocated this week. 

Because of "uncertainty surrounding next year's budget," , the county had not yet decided if it was going to fund the programs, according to Kennedy.

That uncertainty was due, in part, the governor's from the state to counties.

For the past two years, PTSA-sponsored after prom events have received funding from the county’s drug forfeiture fund – assets, including cash, confiscated from those who have broken drug laws.

That money is designated for certain drug enforcement and education-related activities including “programs related to drug prevention, treatment or education including, without limitation, events that provide educational or supervised activities for teenagers.”