City must make clearer goals, scope of reparations program

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DECISION TIME: Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, seated, and the City Council must decide on $10 million in recommended spending for the city’s racial reparations program. Elorza is pictured in February at the announcement of his creation of a panel that has made spending recommendations for the program. 
COURTESY CITY OF PROVIDENCE
DECISION TIME: Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, seated, and the City Council must decide on $10 million in recommended spending for the city’s racial reparations program. Elorza is pictured in February at the announcement of his creation of a panel that has made spending recommendations for the program. 
COURTESY CITY OF PROVIDENCE

Proposed spending for Providence’s still-evolving racial reparations program includes several worthy suggestions. Among them, funding for homeownership, workforce training and support for small businesses. The proposals come from a 13-member group appointed by outgoing Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and the City Council and will be paid for with $10 million in pandemic-related federal aid. The

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