It's a federally funded program in which the outreach aids other programs in areas that will help them become more effective in their services. The more effective an organization is, the more people can help.

Because we are federally funded (by Community Development Block Grant funds), we're open to nonresidents. The day after Eastpointe's center closed, we got a few Eastpointe seniors here. They were totally surprised -- a lot of them showed up to their senior center one day and found it padlocked.

No American citizen should ever have to pass some else's religious test to qualify for a federally funded job,

We weren't funding the (gang outreach) program much anyway.

This is all part of our program of reviewing our assistance programs.

I am kind of perplexed by their argument, ... You have a federally mandated program, created with federal dollars, but the states are issuing it. The states are not deciding anything, so I am not really sure how it is not a federal ID when the federal government makes all the decisions.