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Committee examines program and staffing requests for meals, legal/ethics offices, tax-assistance and criminal justice items
Summary
The committee reviewed diverse smaller-dollar and personnel requests, including a proposed restaurant-meals SNAP pilot, ethics commission staff positions, an extra VITA staffer to move sites to full-time equivalents, and a slate of Criminal Justice Council equipment and position requests.
The committee reviewed multiple social-service program requests and several staffing position requests that members said require careful prioritization against larger appropriations.
On food-security proposals, members discussed a proposed SNAP restaurant meals program startup line of $175,000, described by a lobbyist as roughly $100,000 for positions and $50,000 for startup costs for participating restaurants (software upgrades, etc.). Members said they would be reluctant to cut Meals on Wheels or…
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