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City Attorney seeks permanent funding for victim-witness staff and ongoing support for Ethos diversion work
Summary
City Attorney Lindsay Olsen asked the council to convert a grant-funded victim-witness position to the general fund to avoid losing services when grants expire, and requested an ongoing $70,000 line for Ethos restorative-justice programming (plus $30,000 one-time) to sustain diversion and gun-intervention work.
City Attorney Lindsay Olsen presented the City Attorney’s Office budget at a council work session, asking the council to stabilize victim services staffing and create a recurring budget line for Ethos, a restorative-justice diversion program.
Olsen said the office currently relies on a mix of funding sources — general fund positions, an expiring VOCA federal grant, and ARP-funded positions — and warned that grant timing and partial coverage put victim-witness support at risk. She asked the council to convert one grant-funded victim-witness staff position to a general-fund FTE this budget year to preserve continuity, and to consider a follow-up request next year…
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