Mayor Long – Actually, I have some good news on that. It wasn’t the County that pulled it. They lost the grant. So, the actual program lost the grant and that’s where the money went. We have been working with the County and developing a plan and we’re alm

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Mayor Long – Actually, I have some good news on that. It wasn’t the County that pulled it. They lost the grant. So, the actual program lost the grant and that’s where the money went. We have been working with the County and developing a plan and we’re almost ready to go. It’s going to be on probably the next agenda. The City has the money in the budget to pick it up for a couple of months until it’s fully implemented. But then, it’s a partnership with the County and faith-based organizations around the county on a rotation to get those meals picked up, each of them taking a month at a time and rotating through, with some grant support from Galveston County and H-GAC. We did get some extra money from H-GAC and found some additional opportunities there. So, the City will be on the hook for a couple of months and then hopefully we’ll have the program up and running and provide those same services without interruption. I think that’s the good news behind it. I also want to congratulate Dickinson ISD on getting their CTE Center put together, and breaking the ground on that. I will continue providing on Dickinson ISD as the chief correspondent to it.

This motion is scored as EXPANDS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 2.6/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, measures that increase tax rates or fee schedules, issue new debt or Certificates of Obligation, expand regulatory/zoning restrictions on private land use, or authorize unbudgeted spending expansions reduce an official's Freedom Score when voted YES (and reward dissenting NO votes).