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Mayor's office seeks city funding to sustain outreach, ambassadors and trauma response work
Summary
At a Syracuse City Council budget hearing, leaders of the Mayor's Office to Reduce Gun Violence sought city funding to retain outreach staff, expand seasonal neighborhood ambassadors and restore trauma‑response contracting after grant funding declined; councilors pressed for data, training and clearer public messaging.
Syracuse City held a budget hearing on funding for the Mayor's Office to Reduce Gun Violence where staff and partners described requests to convert several grant‑funded positions to city pay, re‑engage trauma‑response contractors and fund seasonal neighborhood ambassadors.
Pastor Latif, who leads the mayoral office's gun‑violence work, told councilors the office wants city funding for three part‑time 'credible messenger' outreach workers (previously funded through grants) and to maintain a project coordinator and a data analyst so the office can track outreach and attendance. "Anytime we're out doing anything ... we will make sure we are recording every child that we're involved with today," Latif said when a councilor asked whether the program tracks how many youth it reaches.
Councilors pressed for line‑item detail. A councilor flagged an apparent typo in operating supplies that appeared as $25,000 in the packet; the presenter corrected it…
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