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Council amends Impact Award motion; removes explicit grocery‑delivery directive, keeps food‑insecurity RFP focus
Summary
Councilmembers debated changes to human‑services funding and whether the Impact Award should explicitly fund a grocery‑delivery pilot in Winton Hills; an amendment to remove the grocery‑delivery directive passed on a roll call.
Councilmembers spent a substantial portion of the meeting discussing a package of motions to change how the city’s human services Impact Award and related funding categories are allocated for the coming biennium.
Councilmember Mika Owens, who introduced the reallocation motion, said the package was intended to reduce duplication between existing city funding streams and the Human Services Department’s RFP process and to direct funds to human‑services priorities for fiscal years 2026–27. Owens described changes in proposed funding percentages: reducing the Impact Award allocation from 33% to 10% while increasing other categories (comprehensive workforce development to ~26%, youth gun‑violence prevention to ~26%, housing stability to ~26%). Owens said the motion would preserve the overall funding level — "human services funding would remain…
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