The Dalles City Council voted to not provide the Blue Zones Project with additional funds during the current fiscal year, but left the door open to reconsider the issue in January and for the 2019-20 fiscal year.  Members of the Blue Zones Project, a three-year effort designed to promote healthier lifestyles in The Dalles, had asked for $50,000 in this fiscal year and the same amount in 19-20 to help close a funding gap.  City officials had already said Blue Zones should come back for next year’s request during the upcoming budget process, and Councilor Tim McGlothlin moved to provide $20,000 for the current fiscal year, which was supported by fellow Councilor Darcy Long-Curtiss.  But Taner Elliott and Russ Brown both voted no, with each expressing support for Blue Zones but concerned about going outside of established processes.  With Linda Miller absent, Mayor Steve Lawrence became a tiebreaker, and his abstention became essentially a no vote.  Lawrence did say he’d like to see how Blue Zones fundraising efforts go and come back to the issue in early 2019.  Blue Zones is under a deadline from Oregon Healthiest State, which is carrying over some of the financial debt, to get more funding commitments by March.