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Speaker tells Flint City council funding uncertainty may deter program applicants
Summary
A meeting participant warned that potential applicants will not apply to a city program if funding is uncertain and suggested giving council final approval over participating organizations, but said he was unsure whether to pursue that amendment.
A speaker at a Flint City Council meeting warned that uncertainty about program funding will discourage people from applying to participate in the city's program.
"The fact is is that people aren't going to be willing to submit applications to be a part of this program if the funding isn't going to be there," the speaker said. He added that "this council has shown over and over and over again that they want those people," but that in practice applicants would not apply if funding were not assured.
The speaker said an option would be to amend the resolution to give the council final approval over participating organizations, but he expressed hesitation about pursuing that change: "Now we can sit there and we can mend this this resolution to say, that counsel has final approval over, over the, organizations, but I don't know that we want to do that. So, I'll I'm gonna that's my time."
No vote or formal directive on the funding or on changing approval authority was recorded in the transcript. The comment was made during discussion; no additional budget figures or program names were specified in the recorded remarks.
