By Theresa Clift, The Sacramento Bee, June 16, 2020
The leader of a citizen commission tasked with helping the Sacramento City Council decide how to spend tens of millions of dollars in new sales tax money is claiming the commission has been excluded from the process. And she wants nearly $50 million in tax dollars headed to the police department budget to be shifted instead toward economic development, affordable housing and homelessness initiatives.
Flojaune Cofer, chairwoman of the Measure U Citizens Advisory Committee, blasted Mayor Darrell Steinberg during a five-hour meeting Tuesday – the committee’s first since February.
During the three-month recess prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, City Manager Howard Chan proposed a budget and the council approved it weeks earlier than normal.
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