Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica
Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's
Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting
money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to
aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.
The Boston
Municipal Research Bureau, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks city finances, said that if Baker's budget is approved, the amount of
money the city receives in education
aid would have risen by 5.5 percent going back to fiscal year 2013.