Committee forwards four items to council, including guaranteed-income authorization and funding reallocation

The Education and Human Services Standing Committee voted to forward four papers to City Council with recommendations for approval: an ordinance reappropriating funds from a nonprofit that ceased operations; an ordinance authorizing an amendment to opioid funds for a sheriff's medication-assisted treatment pilot; an ordinance to authorize a contract instrument to implement the Richmond Resilience Initiative (guaranteed income program); and a resolution requesting the chief administrative officer to form a joint work group with Richmond Public Schools to develop a funding formula.

Committee members voted unanimously on each item. For each paper, the committee approved forwarding to council with a recommendation to approve: Miss Jones recorded "Aye" and Chair Lynch recorded "Aye" on the roll calls; the clerk announced each motion "has been approved."

Item 1 (ordinance 2025-121) would amend the FY25 general-fund appropriation by transferring $96,250 originally allocated to Literacy Lab after that nonprofit notified the…