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There was a large turnout for Wednesday's special meeting of Galveston City Council for a public hearing on Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership Program allocations. "You wouldn't be here if you didn't care," said Mayor Roger Quiroga in welcoming the crowd, many of whom were angered by city staff recommendations to not grant new funds for the Jesse Tree, which works with a local church to distribute food boxes to seniors. Julie Penrod-Glenn, whose Meals on Wheels program at the Galveston Senior Center was listed as being cut from $16,375 to $15,000, suggested that the problem is not of our making in Galveston but that the system is flawed from Washington DC to Austin. "The system pits one group of the needy against all others," she said, and in so doing destroys the unity of purpose that all agencies must muster to stand strong against the powers that be in funding services for all the needy in the country." An report on the meeting by Ivan Arceneaux is posted on the Forum Page of The Online News Station.
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