MLK50: Justice Through Journalism @mlk50.com · Jul 6 Memphis City Council will decide from a list of projects how to spend more than $3 million set aside for southwest Memphis. Residents and community advocates say the process that produced the recommendations downplayed their biggest priority: environmental health.
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Some of the criticism traces back to a survey by the mayor’s office that didn’t include health issues as a community concern. Residents were asked to rank the importance of different community issues on a scale of 1 to 9. The word health still doesn’t appear in the survey.