Committee backs ordinance to accept Arnold Foundation grant for Financial Justice Project
The committee advanced an ordinance to accept roughly $415,597 from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to support a Financial Justice Project and create one grant-funded FTE; the Treasurer’s Office said the program helped eliminate certain local criminal justice administrative fees and cited court debt write-offs affecting about 21,000 people.
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The Budget and Finance Committee forwarded to the full Board an ordinance to accept and expend $415,597 from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to support the Treasurer and Tax Collector's Financial Justice Project and to amend the annual salary ordinance to create one grant-funded position (1 FTE).
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