2 weeks ago The hearing also came a day after a particularly violent weekend in which 25 people were shot, seven of them killed, in 14 separate shootings. It brings the murder total to at least 183 people, a 34% increase over the same in 2020, the deadliest year in three decades. The additional funding, much of which would go to the Managing Director’s Office, would be used to increase the budget for CCIP and GVI, bolster the city’s blight remediation efforts, and launch a transitional jobs program in the near future, among other priorities. If passed, the two anti-violence programs would have a combined budget of $6.6 million during the 2022 fiscal year.