For five years, St. Petersburg had an extra $45.4 million to spend on some of the city’s hardest problems, from homelessness and housing costs to hunger and access to mental health care. By the end of this year, that money will be gone. The problems it helped address will not.
St. Petersburg City Council members got a look at that approaching deadline Thursday during a Youth and Family Services Committee meeting. As they reviewed what the federal money paid for, the discussion turned toward what happens after it runs out. Some investments will last for decades. Other services need someone to keep paying for them, and St. Petersburg will not be alone looking for money.
“Just like the city right now is feeling the pressure, every organization here that’s doing nonprofit work is trying to find funding,” Council Chair Lisset Hanewicz said…