Seattle received funding through this program for the first time this year and we are using it in a variety of crucial programs. like the North Seattle Health Station which Senator Magnuson visited Just last week. This is the only flexible public health funding available which allows cities to target their programs to the neediest areas. Basic funding to aid cities in providing assistance to Indochinese refugees must continue to be provided. The federal decision to increase the flow of refugees must be matched with the tools to care for them. including funds for health care and housing. The supplemental appropriation Is needed immediately to maintain language program for the refugee children in our schools. The elimination of LEAA will curtail an exemplary law and justice program here in Seattle. TheCity will have to terminate the project which generated the Block Watch program which has been replicated both nationally and internationally.
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