Monday, @MayorGorton proposed funding implicit bias training for city employees. Sounds great, right?
BUT: the money to fund the trainings is being taken from emergency rental assistance—during the worst eviction crisis in at least a decade.
BUT: the money to fund the trainings is being taken from emergency rental assistance—during the worst eviction crisis in at least a decade.
The city’s rental assistance program is already deeply underfunded. Now Mayor Gorton wants to cut funding even more. This will lead to even more Lexingtonians losing their homes in the coming months, after hundreds have already been evicted since August 24.
What we need is MORE rental assistance, a comprehensive and automatic eviction moratorium, and for @GovAndyBeshear to #CancelRent. Instead, @MayorGorton is trying to cut rental assistance. Shame.
We need you to tell city council to oppose @MayorGorton's proposal! Tell them to fund implicit bias using money from the oversized police budget, not the underfunded rental assistance program.
Council votes on the proposal Tuesday, December 1 at 3pm. Sign up for public comment using instructions here: lexingtonky.gov/publiccomment. Before the meeting, call and email your city council person using contact information here: lexingtonky.gov/browse/governm…
The proposal is part of Mayor Gorton’s response to the Commission for Racial & Equality. But Black and Brown people are disproportionately evicted. Taking $ from rental assistance does not advance racial justice. It means more Black and Brown people will lose their homes.
Cancel rent! Cancel evictions! & EXPAND, not cut, rental assistance! @MayorGorton @GovAndyBeshear
Here is where @MayorGorton (referred to as "the administration") makes this proposal. Note: the funds were "unallocated" bc of bureaucratic slowness, not bc they are unneeded. The current amount dedicated to rental assistance will leave 2/3 of current applicants unfunded. 
Source: the agenda for December 1 here drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
More info on signing up for public comment:
Go to this link lexingtonky.formstack.com/forms/online_p…
It requires your name, address, & email
The meeting is on December 1st at 1pm ET; it is a Budget, Finance, and Economic Development meeting
The agenda item is Item #4: Implicit Bias proposal
Go to this link lexingtonky.formstack.com/forms/online_p…
It requires your name, address, & email
The meeting is on December 1st at 1pm ET; it is a Budget, Finance, and Economic Development meeting
The agenda item is Item #4: Implicit Bias proposal
It requires that you write something even if you sign up for zoom. Say that you oppose the Implicit Bias proposal taking money from The Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention’s Household Assistance Fund.
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