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Pierce County to tap contingency funds after federal grant terms clash with court injunction
Summary
The Pierce County executive notified council it intends to use up to $180,000 in contingency funds to cover a juvenile-court program after a pass-through nonprofit declined a federal subaward that included conditions the county says its preliminary injunction bars.
Pierce County announced at its Feb. 24 council meeting that the executive intends to allocate up to $180,000 from a miscellaneous federal contingency fund to support juvenile-court operations after a negotiation impasse over federal grant conditions.
Julie Murray, counsel to Executive Mello, told the council that the county had been a subrecipient to an award administered by the Center for Children and Youth Justice and that new federal terms — which Murray described as tying compliance to certain executive-order provisions related to gender identity — were…
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