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City council liaison warns social-service organizations are strained; cites AmeriCorps cuts and paused sustainability work in Bryant neighborhood
Summary
Ayesha Godsey Edwin, Ann Arbor city council liaison to the Human Rights Commission, told commissioners that local social-service providers are struggling, AmeriCorps funding and staffing losses are affecting services, and a federal grant-backed geothermal project in the Bryant neighborhood is on hold.
Ayesha Godsey Edwin, the city council liaison to the Ann Arbor Human Rights Commission, told commissioners the city is seeing acute strain among local social-service organizations and that several matters may come before council during the budget season.
Godsey Edwin said some nonprofit partners have experienced staff losses and funding interruptions. She said Food Gatherers has frozen operations in certain areas and that one local organization lost its AmeriCorps staff. She reported citizens and service providers are contacting council…
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