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Commissioners question $200,000 ARPA reallocation for Griffin Place community information exchange
Summary
Board members raised concerns about moving the county’s last $200,000 set aside for gun-violence data to pay salaries and community-health-worker certifications for Griffin Place’s proposed Community Information Exchange (CIE). No final authorization was made; commissioners agreed to hold the funds pending further clarity and data reporting.
Kalamazoo County commissioners debated May 20 whether to permit Griffin Place to reallocate $200,000 in previously awarded ARPA funds toward a Community Information Exchange (CIE) program that would support a full-time director and four community intervention navigators.
Commissioner Sharon Ray, who has training in community violence intervention, said the proposed budget appeared to spend the county’s remaining gun‑violence ARPA dollars on salaries rather than the data enhancement the board originally intended. "Once I saw the budget and how the money was gonna be spent, I'm not really sure how that's aligned with how we wanted to allocate the $200,000 for data for…
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