
Trevor Storrs
43:10 - 43:41
"what we're already planning is, is over the summer is to actually meet with all the assembly members and talk about the budget and specifically talk about the alcohol tax and the changes and how it's being detrimental to the fund and to the overall purpose of how this fund was created."
“what we're already planning is, is over the summer is to actually meet with all the assembly members and talk about the budget and specifically talk about the alcohol tax and the changes and how it's being detrimental to the fund and to the overall purpose of how this fund was created.”
What does this look like? And I see your hand up, Barry. What we're already planning is, is over the summer is to actually meet with all the assembly members and talk about the budget and specifically talk about the alcohol tax and the changes and how it's being detrimental to the fund and to the overall purpose of how this fund was created. To do exactly what you said, advocate and see. For those who joined us, was last month when the mayor joined us.
The ACCEE Fund board says two programs transferred from the alcohol tax now consume more than $2 million of its $5.2 million base, leaving too little for the operational grants and capital projects the fund was built to deliver. Board Chair Trevor Storrs plans a summer campaign to move both programs back.
