"At least 49 states and the Virgin Islands have created or proposed ways to track, provide oversight, and distribute information relating to federal stimulus funds. Governors have created new entities, state agencies are documenting projects, and legislatures are forming commissions or committees to oversee the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The following provides a brief summary of actions that states are proposing or taking to provide oversight and transparency of ARRA. Also included are state websites that will provide information on implementation and spending of funds from ARRA." Courtesy of National Conference of State Legislators.
Specifically the following information on Missouri is on the National Conference of State Legislators site:
"Missouri has formed the Senate Select Committee on Oversight of Stimulus Funds, which will be charged with studying and analyzing strategies for securing the maximum amount of federal dollars for Missouri and Missourians that will come from the anticipated federal economic stimulus plan of 2009. The committee shall issue recommendations in a report to the Senate by Mar. 12, 2009. The governor of Missouri has created a website, http://transform.mo.gov/ to solicit ideas of stimulus package funds and to rejuvenate Missouri's economy. The site will also provide transparency of ARRA funds by listing the appropriation of funds in detail."
I'll urge my fellow minorities to scrutinize the site created by Gov. Nixon (http://transform.mo.gov/) to solicit for ideas and to provide details as to how these funds are being used. Please call Gov. Nixon at (573) 751-3222 if you have been excluded from the stimulus funds. Also send your concerns to me at minorityinclusion@gmail.com so that I can post it on this blog for the entire world to read. Don't forget to share your concerns with the White House (their links are on the right column of this blog).
Eric Vickers
Attorney, Minority Inclusion Alliance.
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God bless Eric vickers. He is a true African American. I'm glad he got his license back. I wish we had more brave blacks like Vickers.
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Bryan james
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Information is the Key to a whole new world!!!! Keep up the good work, the more information the more we will move on what we should have known long time ago. The Rules and Regulations of the game now we must all become MVP's in the game of New opportunity for Minority Business Growth.
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