With revenue projections dipping, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks seeks to tap rainy-day funds and amend her budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1
held a news conference alongside other activists pressing Alsobrooks to fund social justice initiatives. Advocates called for Alsobrooks to fund a guaranteed basic income, an incentive program for crime-prevention security cameras, senior housing assistance, rental assistance, and the small-dollar-match Fair Elections Program created by the county council in 2018.
“We might be talking about a big difference in public parks or a big difference in being able to [fix] potholes, and snow removal, or all the other things that local governments do,” he said. “It may only be one percent of the budget, but an awful lot of every year’s budget is just [continuing] to pay the employees who were there the year before and [continuing] to run most of the same programs you did before.
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