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Interim human and cultural services director presents flat budget, outlines planetarium opening and senior-program goals
Summary
Pamela Deasy Junior, interim director of Human and Cultural Services, told the council the department’s 2026 operating budget is essentially flat, discussed plans to staff and open the renovated planetarium and outlined senior-center programming and community-center repair needs.
Pamela Deasy Junior, interim director of Human and Cultural Services, told the Jackson City Council that her department’s fiscal 2026 request is essentially flat relative to 2025 and described priorities the department plans to pursue within that constraint: reopening community centers, staffing and activating the city’s renovated planetarium, restoring Monell (spelled in the transcript several ways) Gardens and resuming the Jobs to Jacksonian senior employment program once federal support is resolved.
Deasy Junior said the department’s operating numbers “haven’t really changed from last year” and emphasized doing more with current funds by expanding programming for seniors and leveraging…
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