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Gary finance committee reviews plan to create community development supplemental fund, boost code-enforcement budget
Summary
The Gary City Finance Committee discussed CPO 2025-26, which would rename dormant funds into a Community Development Supplemental fund with $100,000 for code enforcement operating costs and $800,000 for consolidated-plan/HUD-related work; discussion included current staff levels and a council goal to expand enforcement capacity.
Councilman Kenneth Whitson, at-large, opened discussion of CPO 2025-26, an ordinance proposing changes to the city’s 2025 operating budget that would establish a Community Development Supplemental fund to support code enforcement and other community development activities. City Controller Salida Green told the committee the ordinance would rename dormant funds and a coding center fund to the Community Development Supplemental fund and assign two line items: $100,000 for the code-enforcement fund and $800,000 for the community development miscellaneous department.
The ordinance, Green…
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