Lincoln City Council: Juneteenth request for funding taken off the agenda at the Monday voting session

 

[May 03, 2022] 

At the Monday night voting session of the Lincoln City Council item 9F was the last possible motion for the night and involved a request from Jennifer Hunt of the Hunt For Foundation for $2,500 for the annual Juneteenth celebration in Lincoln.

When the item came up, Mayor Tracy Welch said that he had sent the aldermen a copy of an email from the city’s Diversity and Inclusion Commission (DNI) Chair Jeanette Harris, withdrawing the request on behalf of Hunt and the foundation and asking that the item be removed from the agenda.

There was not further discussion on the topic and no one from the DNI or the Hunt Foundation was in the room for comment.

The motion to permanently remove the item from the agenda was made by Rick Hoefle and seconded by newly appointed Ward One Alderman Rob Jones. The motion passed with a vote of 7-0 with alderman Steve Parrott being absent for the evening.

Welch shared with aldermen that the Juneteenth committee had made a request to the tourism bureau and did receive grant funding for their event.

[Nila Smith]