That's how much Metro pays just the animal care staff at the zoo operation to attend mandatory "discrimination and harrassment training", which are required by Metro every three years. Obviously, it costs far more than that, because the 1.5-hour indoctrinations must be conducted by highly-paid "facilitators".
Does anybody really need this stuff? If so, why should you have to pay for it? Nobody ever questions such idiotic mandates, much less the costs associated with them. It's all just part of governmental bloat. It's not an essential "service", it costs real money, and it's time to start holding elected officials accountable for their bloated bureaucracies.
