Local Chambers of Commerce representing the Black, Hispanic, and Asian communities in Jacksonville should now be clear to receive $80,000-worth of city funds promised back in December of last year.
“This is the first time our chamber would have even been receiving big dollars from the city,” said Kym Maye with the Jacksonville Black Chamber of Commerce.
Maye explained that after the Governor signed a new state law prohibiting local governments from funding diversity, equity and inclusion, the local chambers were told by the Office of Economic Development that those funds wouldn’t be released…