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Council approves liquor-tax budget revision to add staff for homeless care coordination team
Summary
On May 27 the Wichita City Council approved two consent items to revise funding and a contract for the city's homeless care coordination teams, adding staff and raising pay for peer recovery specialists. Council approved both items 7-0.
The Wichita City Council approved two consent items May 27 to revise funding and a contract for the city's homeless care coordination teams, adding another team member and increasing pay for peer recovery specialists. The motions passed unanimously, 7-0.
City staff said the care coordination teams are managed by the Department of Housing and Community Services and have been funded with liquor-tax revenue. "This is a project that has been ongoing and has been funded by Liquor Tax," said Steve, assistant director of the Department of Housing and Community Services. He described the item as "a budget revision item to allow the care coordination team to add another person in order to complete the spending." The council voted to approve consent agenda items 16 and 17 separately; both passed 7-0.
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