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Residents press council on cannabis reinvestment funds, youth jobs and extension cuts
Summary
Speakers asked the council to release cannabis-reinvestment funds, protect summer youth employment, preserve extension funding and support local nonprofits such as Food and Friends; council members outlined where appointments and allocations stand and promised follow-up.
Several residents used the listening session to press the council about county funding for community programs, including cannabis-reinvestment dollars, summer youth employment and cooperative-extension services.
One resident said the county has "about maybe a little over $10,000,000 sitting somewhere in the state that is supposed to be used for community reinvestment because of the cannabis sales," and asked what the council is doing to distribute those funds. Chair Crystal Oriada said…
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