By Aaron Moody, reporter, The News & Observer |

Nine nonprofit organizations have submitted applications asking Zebulon leaders to consider them for support as the town prepares its budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The town has dished out the same amount of funding to the same groups for the past four years: $1,000 each to the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce, Shepherd’s Care Medical Clinic and the East Wake Education Foundation, and $500 to the annual Zebulon Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast. All those groups reapplied for varying levels of support this year.

Representatives of six of the nine applicants made brief presentations on their requests at the March 7 board of commissioners’ meeting.