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Local AmeriCorps members, providers urge city support after funding cuts; council issued proclamation for Fair Housing Month
Summary
Multiple AmeriCorps members and United Way representatives told council the program faces federal cuts that will affect 21 members in Santa Barbara County and asked the city for support and proclamations; council also proclaimed April 2025 Fair Housing Month and recognized the city’s Rental Housing Mediation Program.
At the April 29 meeting, multiple speakers during general public comment described recent cuts to AmeriCorps funding and asked the council for local support. Leon Martindale, director of the AmeriCorps program at United Way of Northern Santa Barbara County, told the council federal cuts of about $400 million were affecting programs statewide and locally, and said 21 AmeriCorps members serve in Santa Barbara County, eight of them in the city.
"The federal government has made massive illegal cuts of $400,000,000…
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