Daily News | Philly City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson wants the city to spend millions more on anti-violence programs
that a $22 million grant program sent millions of taxpayers dollars to small nonprofits that were unprepared to manage the money. That program is set to receive another $13 million under Kenney’s proposed budget.
Kevin Bethel, a former deputy police commissioner and the district’s chief of school safety, said the program has a presence at about two dozen schools heading into next school year, and that the proposed additional funding would allow the district to double that number.
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