Fort Lauderdale is moving funds previously considered for the FIFA World Cup to its homelessness budget instead.<\/p>\n
The city formally torpedoed a $350,000 proposal to fund events in the county around the soccer tournament, which is being held in Miami and 15 other cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada next summer. <\/p>\n
It comes just weeks after a Miami-Dade commissioner asked for a halt to $46 million in county funds for the World Cup<\/a>, on the back of major cuts to county services and staffing in the proposed budget for next year. <\/p>\n READ MORE: Miami-Dade mayor was at World Cup party that broke up after Border agent arrived: \u2018Troubling\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n The shift in priorities in Broward, disclosed in an Aug. 13 memorandum<\/a> from the city manager, came after Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis and other officials raised financial concerns last month.<\/p>\n \u201cPersonally, I don\u2019t see any gain from it when nothing\u2019s happening in Fort Lauderdale. Nothing\u2019s happening in Chase Stadium of consequence,\u201d Trantalis said at a June 17 workshop meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n The only time teams will be playing in Broward County during the tournament, Trantalis said, will be for practice at Chase Stadium. The stadium, which hosts Inter Miami’s games, is not large enough to accommodate World Cup matches and fans.<\/p>\n