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Residents and advocates urge council to reverse proposed cuts to Human Rights Commission
Summary
Multiple residents, community leaders and complainants urged Sioux City council members to restore funding to the Human Rights Commission after a proposed 40% reduction drew strong criticism during citizen comment.
Public commenters implored the Sioux City Council to restore funding to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) after the budget docket included a substantial cut to the commission’s budget.
Kevin Engelcardi, who said he has lived in Sioux City for nearly 23 years, described the council’s cut as “capricious” and questioned the process used to set the reduction. Engelcardi noted that the HRC’s caseload and pace of closures compare favorably to the state civil rights commission and argued that the local commission’s work cannot be measured only by closed-case counts. He told the council the HRC’s roughly $400,000 budget represents a…
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