Community Conversation set

A Community Conversation, “How should billions in federal relief money be spent?,” will be held at noon Wednesday.

Community Conversations are a Dayton Daily News series of moderated panel discussions on topics important to the Dayton region. You can watch April’s Community Conversation on immigration, March’s Community Conversation about how the pandemic has affect child development, January’s that focused on the region’s economic outlook for 2022 and December’s Community Conversation about Wright-Patt Air Force Base.

In addition to asking local governments to show how they’re spending taxpayer money and keeping an eye out for waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement, we’re asking our readers to see how you want to see this money spent in your communities.

The discussion will be co-hosted by DDN Community Impact Editor Nick Hrkman and investigative journalist Josh Sweigart. The panel will include experts and decision-makers from around the area:

· Michael Colbert, Montgomery County administrator

· Shelley Dickstein, Dayton city manager

· Derrick Foward, Dayton Unit NAACP president

· Alison Goebel, executive director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center

· Terry Posey, Miami Twp. Trustee

The Community Conversation can be watched live on the Dayton Daily News Facebook page.