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Fresno Building Healthy Communities says the effort to invest in city parks has been a long time coming, in fact, nearly a decade of work to raise public awareness. Youth advocates worked to highlight the disparity between conditions in the northern parts of Fresno, and the southern parts of Fresno, where facilities were in major need of repair.
That’s why President and CEO Sandra Celedon praised Thursday’s appellate court ruling to overturn the need for a two-thirds majority for passage.
“A democracy is about counting on the voice of people and the power of people. And the people have prevailed,” she says.
With a sense of urgency to combat Covid-19 among the Latino neighborhoods where the virus has wreaked the most havoc, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors scheduled a special meeting for noon on Monday, Dec. 21, to consider a nearly $2.3 million pilot program to employ community health workers beginning Jan. 1.Â
Those workers would help educate families, as well as connect people who are tested with needed services, such as temporary housing for quarantine or isolation, cash assistance, food, medical care and information about employment rights.
promotores, trusted people from community-based organizations to reach out to people who may not know what services are available, or in the case of undocumented workers, are too afraid to come forward.
Fresno s sales tax could go up next month after court rules Measure P passed, two years after election
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) A court has ruled that Fresno s Measure P, a 2018 parks funding measure, should be considered passed.
It s another step, and might even be the final step, in a long running legal battle over the three-eighths percent sales tax increase to fund city parks and recreation that was on the November 2018 ballot.
Measure P received 52% of the vote at that time, but that set off a battle over the margin it needed to pass.
The city of Fresno argued that the California Constitution, as modified by Proposition 218 in 1996, requires that new taxes be approved by a two-thirds vote.
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Police announced the arrest of a suspect in a recent home invasion.
Farmington Hills police said Friday that Kasci Santana Patterson-Perry, a 26-year-old Detroit resident, has been arrested and charged.
She was arrested in connection with a home invasion, where gun shots were also apparently fired, that occurred at about 11:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, at Diamond Forest Apartments, located on Halstead Road, between Nine Mile Road and Grand River Avenue.
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Patterson-Perry was charged with first-degree home invasion, a potential 20-year felony, on Friday, arraigned by Magistrate Michael Sawicky at the 47th District Court.
Bond was set at $100,000 cash, or at 10 percent with a GPS tether ordered to be worn if she is released.