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Avondale mayor joins others urging Congress to restore block grant funds

National League of Cities board members, including league President Marie Lopez Rogers, the mayor of Avondale, called the threatened reductions in community block grant funds "unconscionable."
National League of Cities board members, including league President Marie Lopez Rogers, the mayor of Avondale, called the threatened reductions in community block grant funds “unconscionable.”

By Xi Chen | Cronkite News Service

Avondale Mayor Marie Lopez Rogers was in Washington on Wednesday urging Congress to reverse “unconscionable” cuts to the Community Development Block Grants program, which helps more than 1,200 local governments.

Rogers joined other members of the National League of Cities board who criticized Congress for continuing, in her words, to “slash funding that cities, day in, day out, depend on.”

The block grant program, started in 1974, gives local governments grants for economic and community development projects. But its budget was cut from $4.4 billion in fiscal 2010 to $3.1 billion this year.

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