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Dallas council committee backs $300,000 amendment to HUD plan for youth violence-interruption programming
Summary
Councilman Zaren Gracie moved at a committee-of-the-whole meeting May 21 to create a $300,000, line item in Dallas’ FY 2025–26 HUD consolidated plan for a violence-interruption and youth reengagement program and to shift the money from the plan’s drivers-of-poverty allocation.
Councilman Zaren Gracie moved in a committee of the whole on May 21 to amend the city’s proposed fiscal-year 2025–26 HUD consolidated plan budget by creating a new line item for a violence-interruption program and moving $300,000 from the existing “drivers of poverty” line to that new purpose.
The motion: Gracie described the change as a targeted, data-driven investment to support youth-focused violence-prevention activities and to align with the city’s youth strategic planning and the Dallas Youth Safety Collaborative. He said the funds could support contracts with community-based organizations for youth…
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