COURIER EXCLUSIVE: City sends $125,000 check for B. Marshall’s Juneteenth event

B. MARSHALL Check sent to POISE Foundation, Sept. 10 & The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned exclusively that the City of Pittsburgh Controller’s Office sent a $125,000 check on Tuesday, Sept. 10, to the POISE Foun­dation, the fiscal sponsor of William B. Marshall’s high­ly-popular June­teenth Celebration, ending a months-long saga between B. Marshall and the city over when he would get the funding that Pittsburgh City Council allotted to his organization back in mid-June. Patrick Cornell, Chief Financial Offi­cer for the city’s Office of Management and Budget, confirmed in an email to the Cou­rier on Sept. 10 that the City Controller’s Office confirmed the check was sent in the mail earlier in the day. It’s unclear what day POISE will re­ceive the check in the mail. It comes on the heels of another $125,000 check that the city sent; this one to Bounce Marketing and Events, run by Fantasy Zellars. The primary difference was that Zellars was selected through an RFP (Request For Proposals) to put on the new, city-spon­sored Juneteenth celebration. That cel­ebration, held June 29, saw the city send Bounce Marketing a check for the event on June 27, two days prior to that Juneteenth event. B. Marshall...