Del. official responds to request to cut grant to historical society

A local elected official responds, after the Lower Sussex County NAACP requests that public funds not be granted to a historical society with a Confederate monument on the Georgetown site.

According to officials, the Georgetown Historical Society operates the Nutter D. Museum where a Confederate monument is on display.

In a statement, Representative Ruth Briggs King says that the grant funding, approved in 2016 for the Georgetown Society, was a very small portion of the larger funding measures for nonprofits throughout Delaware. According to the report, the $37.2 million Grant-in-Aid bill was considered and approved by the 62 members of the General Assembly, and signed in law a by Governor Carney.

In response to revoking funding, Representative Briggs King said, " We have a certain process for allocating funding for Delaware's nonprofit organizations and to begin now with efforts to revoke funding for a particular organization, outside of that process, is a slippery slope I am sure no one wants to venture upon."

Briggs King says, "I remain firm in my position that Grant-in-Aid funding for the Georgetown Historical Society should remain intact and I look forward to a review of all Grant-in-Aid recipients in the upcoming year."