Seminole County commissioners will be asked Tuesday to end a federally funded agreement with Boys Town Central Florida and take back most of the money, after county staff concluded the nonprofit could not document how it was being spent.
The item, on the consent agenda for the Board of County Commissioners' Nov. 10 meeting, would terminate a $170,000 agreement signed in March 2025 that paid Boys Town to deliver in-home services to high-risk teens and their families. The money comes from the county's $3,046,438 share of HOME-ARP, the federal pandemic-relief housing program run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
What the county says went wrong
According to the staff summary, Boys Town has spent about $36,000 of the award. The agreement required at least half of the money to be spent by the end of its 24th month, and staff say they have not been able to approve any payment requests this year because the paperwork did not verify the expenses or the eligibility of the families served.
A notice letter the county's housing division sent the organization on Oct. 1 lists the problems it found: mismatched participant names and identifying details, missing signatures, incomplete files and missing proof of household income, which the federal program requires.
The letter recounts a series of contacts going back to September 2025, including virtual meetings, an on-site visit in April and a June session in which, the county says, Boys Town told staff it could meet the requirements. Payment requests filed for June and July still had significant problems, according to the letter.
