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Muncie resident urges city to shift American rescue funds toward social services
Summary
At the Sept. 17 Muncie Board of Works meeting, Rick Yentzer said the city should redirect leftover American rescue funds from arts and culture to poverty and homelessness services.
Rick Yentzer, identified in the meeting as a "newsman author," used the Sept. 17 public‑comment period to urge the Muncie Board of Works and Safety to direct more city resources to social‑service groups.
"While arts and culture is a worthy cause, a half million dollars seems excessive, especially when we still have people too many people in poverty, too many people homeless, and too many people that need help," Yentzer said, referring to what he described as roughly a half‑million dollars remaining from "American rescue funds" that the city had distributed to arts and culture in prior meetings.
Yentzer named neighborhood service points such as the Norm over on Madison and a café in a French church as local groups that could use additional city support. He asked the administration to consider funneling more money to people and direct service organizations.
The presiding officer thanked Yentzer for his comment; the transcript records no formal response from other board members during the meeting. The comment was made during the public‑comment portion of the agenda and did not trigger board action at that session.
