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Joint Budget Committee rejects state request to expand Safer Streets grants; approves staff recommendation
Summary
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.
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.
The action followed a staff presentation highlighting national and local crime trends and program-level detail. Justin Brackie, Joint Budget Committee staff, told the committee preliminary department data showed a 26% reduction in overall offenses in 2024 when compared to 2022 and urged caution in attributing crime declines to any single grant program: “If you start from a very high level during COVID because crime spiked and…
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