First, they prayed outside Citizens Square. Then the group of about eight people, four of them pastors, went inside to make their case to those who set Allen County’s budget. Members of the Fort Wayne chapter of Faith in Indiana sought less incarceration and more funding for treatment for mental illness and addiction.
But the group, which had invited county Sheriff David Gladieux and Council President Tom Harris to a meeting last month to lay out their agenda, again got no promises for funding – even though the council is in the midst of 2020 budget presentations.
