TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- In effort to abide by federal laws, the City of Tampa is discontinuing its Racial Reconciliation Committee (TRRC). The group was formed to make recommendations to the city regarding racial discrimination in areas like affordable housing and economic development.

The committed wanted to address racial discrimination in affordable/accessible housing, as well as economic development, empowerment and entrepreneurship, opportunity for youth, and ignored history.

Committee Vice Chair Christopher Harris explained how the group was doing.

"Can we sit here and say that we walked away with the recommendations, the final recommendations? Absolutely not. But I think progress was being made," Harris said.

City officials said the committee stopped because it used up the amount

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