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Residents urge restoration of senior transport, tenant legal aid, LGBTQ housing and arts funding during budget hearing
Summary
More than a dozen speakers at the county budget hearing asked supervisors to restore or add funding to specific programs, including a no-cost senior transportation program facing cuts, tenant legal services, LGBTQ adult housing contracts and arts funding.
Multiple residents, service providers and advocacy groups used the county's budget hearing on June 3 to press supervisors to restore or add funding for community programs they said are at risk under the recommended plan.
Ray Whitmer, a representative of Teamsters Local 911, told the board that proposed labor and benefit assumptions in negotiations would amount to effective pay cuts for county skilled trades workers, and he urged higher wages for maintenance and infrastructure staff.
Representatives of Jewish Family Service, including Kaylee Levitt and Maureen Glaser, asked the board to allocate $450,000 to continue the county's no-cost…
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