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Residents challenge city budget priorities, call for larger direct‑assistance fund and audits
Summary
During public comments, multiple residents criticized the proposed fiscal 2025 budget’s large unassigned reserves and asked the council to set aside $3–5 million for resident assistance, while also pressing for timely audits and answers about sanitation and hotel‑motel funds.
Several residents used the May 5 public‑comment period to press the council on the proposed fiscal‑year 2025 budget and related financial matters.
Ja'Pere Hemming (listed as Jaipure/Jaffray Hemming in the record) urged the council to set aside $3–5 million from unassigned general‑fund reserves for a community rainy‑day fund to provide direct resident assistance — utility rebates, small emergency cash grants and micro‑grants to small businesses. Hemming said the draft budget held nearly $35 million in unassigned general‑fund reserves, “triple the…
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