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File #: 25-1745    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 11/20/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/25/2025 Final action: 12/18/2025
Enactment date: 12/11/2025 Enactment #: 219941
Title: Requesting approval to appropriate $250,000 from the Community Benefits Stabilization Fund Account to the Immigrant Legal Services Stabilization Fund Account for legal services for immigrants and asylum seekers seeking permanent residency.
Indexes: Communications-SomerViva & Immigrant Affairs, Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury
Code sections: Appropriation/Budget -

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to appropriate $250,000 from the Community Benefits Stabilization Fund Account to the Immigrant Legal Services Stabilization Fund Account for legal services for immigrants and asylum seekers seeking permanent residency.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council approve the appropriation of $250,000 from the Community Benefits Stabilization Fund (Fund 7155) to the Immigrant Legal Services Stabilization Fund (714601-530010), to fund legal services for immigrants and asylum seekers seeking permanent residency.

 

Appropriate staff will be available to address any questions you may have. Thank you for your consideration of this item.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor