More than a dozen people spoke inside council chambers in support of the Stop The Violence fund Tuesday morning and the programs that receive grant money. In the end, council members voted unanimously to also support those efforts, but emotions ran high after last week’s meeting.
“No one was taking the funding. Nobody was – the funding wasn’t even on the table,” said Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith of District 2.
Some Pittsburgh City Council members were looking for clarity on Tuesday, prior to a vote regarding the community grant program, which allocates resources to organizations that operate in areas experiencing high levels of crime…