Joint Budget Committee rejects state request to expand Safer Streets grants; approves staff recommendation
The JBC voted to adopt staff’s recommendation on the Safer Streets (crime prevention by environmental design) grant program, rejecting a requested $4.4 million marijuana tax cash-fund increase and leaving program choices to the committee’s policy judgment.
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The Joint Budget Committee on Wednesday adopted staff’s recommendation and declined the Department of Public Safety’s request for a $4.4 million one-time increase from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund for the crime-prevention by environmental-design (Safer Streets) grant program.
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