Outside agencies have submitted their requests for city dollars. The Washington City Council is scheduled to review those requests at its Feb. 12 meeting.

The requests were to be submitted Jan. 29, according to the budget schedule adopted by the council in December.

When it developed the budget for the current fiscal year, the council, for the most part, reduced funding levels, by 20 percent when compared to funding levels in the 2016-2917 fiscal year budget.

Thirteen agencies submitted requests for funds in the next fiscal year, City Manager Bobby Roberson said Friday. The North Carolina Blind Center did not submit a request this year.

“The majority of them that came in had increases (in requested amount),” said Roberson, noting the council in recent years has been decreasing funding to the agencies.

“What we do is turn it right over to the council and say, ‘Look, these are the people, these are the presentations, what would you like for us to do?’” Roberson said. “At that juncture, it’s up to the council to instruct us on how to fund these agencies.”

The agencies are asking for a combined $156,614, according to their requests. Two new entities — Daughters of Worth and the Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities — are among the agencies seeking city funds. Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities is seeking $10,000. Daughters of Worth seeks $500.

The institute rehabilitates failing or vacant historic houses for use in residential programs for female veterans and disabled veterans and their families. Daughters of Worth, which started in Greenville, is expanding into Beaufort County. The nonprofit’s website says it provides young girls with the tools needed to be successful in life.

Washington’s current budget allocates $79,490 in direct and in-kind contributions to outside agencies and some economic-development entities.

Here’s list of the agencies (excluding Daughters of Worth and Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities) and their funding requests:

• Arts of the Pamlico, $15,000;
• Boys & Girls Club of the Coastal Plain, $20,000;
• Zion Shelter and Kitchen, $7,600;
• Highway 17 Association, $7,500;
• Purpose of God Annex Outreach Center, $11,664;
• Eagle’s Wings, $1,000;
• Kiwanis Club of Washington, $1,350;
• Wright Flight, $5,000;
• Washington Harbor District Alliance, $55,ooo;
• Cornerstone Community Learning Center, $7,000;
• North Carolina Estuarium, $15,000.

The current budget appropriated $40,176 to the Washington Harbor District Alliance, $12,960 to the North Carolina Estuarium, $10,368 to Arts of the Pamlico, $6,750 to the Highway 17 Association and $972 to the Washington Christmas parade (organized by the Washington Kiwanis).

The current budget allocated $12,960 to Purpose of God Annex Outreach Center, which provides after-school services and summer programs for children and Project New Hope, a program that helps people with criminal pasts and others turn their lives around and find employment. The Boys & Girls Club of the Coastal Plains, received $10,368, followed by Open Door Community Center (a new agency being funded for the first time), $8,000; Cornerstone Community Learning Center, $6,480; Zion Shelter and Kitchen, $6,120; Wright Flight, $2,268; The Blind Center, $809.60; Eagle’s Wings food pantry, $648.