Expansion of the national advisory budget services in accordance with the results of the ## referendum, but limited so as to meet the views of many of those who voted in the ## has been authorized by the board of directors of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, it was announced today by Sidney Hollander, president.
This action was taken by the board at a meeting Saturday following the report of the committee of tellers consisting of Joseph Goldstein, Rochester, chairman; Donald Kaffenburgh, Hartford, and Kurt Peiser, Philadelphia. Their canvass of ballots showed the proposal had received 141 affirmative votes and 127 negative, with a number of agencies not voting.
The board, Hollander said, considered carefully the expressed desire of those voting both for and against the proposal. “It decided not to expand its services to the full extent authorized by the majority,” he said, “but to limit it for the year 1941 to services desired by the majority and many of the minority who wanted more than the Council had been giving but less than the referendum contemplated.
“The referendum was taken on the question of the Council proceeding immediately to organize an advisory service which would, in addition to fact finding, make recommendations on the appeals of agencies appealing to welfare funds, their campaign goals and financial needs. In view of the variety of opinions expressed by member agencies, it was considered desirable to undertake the expanded service experimentally and to impose certain specific limitations.
“The reports in 1941 will not attempt to translate evaluations in terms of total budget requirements and no specific recommendations will be offered to member agencies on approved minimum or maximum financial needs of any organization. Future plans will be made by the board after consideration of the results of the 1941 experiment.
“it was generally agreed by the members of the Board who represented both the affirmative and negative of view that these decisions most nearly squared with the divergent views expressed by the member agencies.”
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