WORKERS WANT FUNDS LOOSENED UP.Byline: Dan Laidman Staff Writer Domestic violence responders called on the city Monday Monday: see week. to speed up their funding, saying that workers have taken to paying the cash-strapped programs' bills with personal credit cards. Gail Pincus Pin·cus , Gregory Goodwin 1903-1967. American physiologist. Through his studies of natural hormones that inhibit ovulation in mammals, he developed the first effective oral contraceptive, which was first tested in 1954. , director of the Domestic Abuse Center in Northridge, said the $500,000 the city has earmarked for Domestic Abuse Response Teams is crucial to her organization, which has been out of money since July. ``We're just asking that, instead of letting it wind its way through the process, they do what they can to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. it,'' she said. Bobbye Gooden of Project: PeaceMakers This article is about the pacifist organization. For other meanings, see Peacemaker (disambiguation). Peacemakers was an American pacifist organization. said her colleagues at the 77th Street DART have been making payroll and buying equipment with personal charge cards and equity credit lines. Established with federal grant money in 2001, the DART program teams police and emergency room personnel in Van Nuys, the West Valley and parts of South L.A. with specially trained domestic violence responders. The federal grants ran out in March, and the city has allocated money from its general fund to continue the program. The Public Safety Committee supported the DART programs and sent the grant to the City Council for approval in order to expedite the funding. However, the panel asked for more information about $50,000 in overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. set aside by the Mayor's Criminal Justice Planning Office, which administers the grant. ``Why does it cost that kind of money to coordinate,'' Zine said. ``The program has proven itself time and time again.'' The groups that take part in the DART program are particularly short on cash now because they have tapped their reserves in previous years as other sources of funding dried up, Pincus said. Pincus therefore called the arrival of city grants ``momentous mo·men·tous adj. Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence: a momentous occasion; a momentous decision. ,'' although it takes months for such funding to work its way through the various city agencies and panels that need to sign off. Joe Jackson There are several people named Joe Jackson:
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