[ CITY OF BAYTOWN NOTICE OF MEETING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2023 5:30 P.M. HULLUM CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL 2401 MARKET STREET, BAYTOWN, TEXAS 77520 AGENDA CALL TO ORDER AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF QUORUM ]
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THE TIME IS FIVE THIRTY THREE AND OUR CALL THIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISING COMMITTEE LEADING TO ORDER[a. Discuss and consider the Community Development Block Grant budget recommendation for the 2023-2024 program year.]
ITEM ONE EIGHT, IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT BUDGET RECOMMENDATION FOR THE 20 23 20 24 PROGRAM YEAR.SO THIS HERE IS OUR LITTLE HANDY DANDY SPREADSHEET THAT SHOWS, UM, IF THEY ARE CURRENTLY FUNDED, WE HAVE A LINE ITEM HERE, WHAT THEY ARE REQUESTING FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE IS $849,907.
THERE IS A 15% CAP ON PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES.
SO THAT WOULD BE THESE SIX PROGRAMS HERE.
THE TOTAL FUNDING FOR THESE SIX PROGRAMS CANNOT EXCEED $111,736.
SO WHENEVER WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT FOR HERE, LIKE RIGHT NOW, THE TOTAL REQUEST FOR PUBLIC SERVICES IS 1 65, I BELIEVE THAT'S A OH 35.
SO HOW MUCH OVER IS THAT? UH, ABOUT 50,000 MORE.
SO WHAT WE CAN DO NOW IS WE CAN ALWAYS STOP AT THE TOP START, EXCUSE ME AT THE TOP AND WORK OUR WAY DOWN.
OR WE CAN JUST KIND OF GO BY MAYBE THE MORE CONTENTIOUS ONES.
UM, WE CAN DO ALL INTERNAL FUNDING FIRST IF YOU WANTED TO DO THAT, OR IT'S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU.
I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE BEGIN WITH BAY AREA COUNCIL ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
ALRIGHT, SO BAY AREA COUNCIL ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL, THIS IS THEIR FIRST TIME APPLYING FOR CDBG FUNDS.
SO THEY ARE REQUESTING $50,000.
UH, THE BULK OF THAT REQUEST IS IN SALARIES.
I BELIEVE IT'S A LITTLE BIT OVER $32,000 IN SALARIES THAT THEY'RE REQUESTING.
UM, YOU GUYS WANT TO GO AHEAD AND GET THE PARTY STARTED? THAT IS TAB NUMBER THREE AND THE BOOKLET.
I WANNA KNOW, UM, I KNOW WE ASKED ABOUT WHETHER IT WAS GOING TO BE FOR REHABBING OR NOT, IF IT, UH, INFORMATIONAL.
AND SO, UM, I AM, UM, I, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, UH, WE HAVE SOME INFORMATION OUT THERE FOR THESE, UH, YOUTH IN THE HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL.
AND, UM, AT THIS ONE, MY HIGH SCHOOL NEVER, NEVER BEEN INVOLVED IN ANYTHING, ANYTHING.
AND, UH, FIRST TIME AND THE KID IS, AND THEY, SOMEBODY OFFERED HIMSELF.
I KNOW HIS IS A NAIVE THING BECAUSE HE'S JUST A
SO MY CONCERN IS, IS THERE ANYBODY OR ANYTHING OUT THERE, UM, THAT IS BEING GIVEN TO THESE CHILDREN TO, TO STOP, TO HELP OUT, YOU KNOW, AND IN ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS, IN THREE HIGH SCHOOLS.
AND IF THAT'S MY BIGGEST CONCERN, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY GET SOME KIND OF INFORMATION FROM SOMEWHERE.
AND IF THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES IN MY, IN MY, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT, UM, THAT SOME MONEY, WHETHER THEY WILL, EVEN IF, IF A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY IS GIVEN TO 'EM, WILL THAT HELP THEM GET STARTED OR NOT? NO.
OR IS THERE ANYTHING? SO I DON'T THINK IT, NO, I DID NOT GET THAT FROM THEIR GRADE.
THE BULK OF THEIR REQUEST IS FOR SALARIES.
AND SHE SAID IT WASN'T ANY REHAB.
NO, I KNOW, BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT EDUCATION RIGHT NOW.
BUT SHE SAID IT WAS ALL EDUCATION.
BUT THE EDUCATION IS NOT IN THE SCHOOLS, PER SE.
THE MONEY'S FOR RADIO ADS AND MOVIES.
AND THAT'S WHO WE WERE SAYING EARLIER.
WE ONLY HAVE ONE THEATER AND IT'S NOT IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN.
AND WE HAVE ONE RADIO STATION, WHICH IS ONLY ON AIR, OCCASIONALLY NOT, YOU KNOW, NOT ALL THE TIME.
AND I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY PEOPLE WATCH IT.
UM, IT, IT IS A, UH, HALF OF THIS ALMOST IS FOR A PERSON AND IT'S FOR, UH, 18 HOURS A WEEK.
AND SHE SAYS IN THIS EMAIL SHE SENT THAT THEY'RE REQUESTED ANOTHER 18 HOURS WITH SOMEONE ELSE,
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BUT THAT STILL ISN'T A FULL TIME PERSON.AND THAT DALIA, THERE'S AN EMAIL THAT SHE SENDS US YEAH, RIGHT HERE EXPLAINING ALSO THE, UM, WHEN I ASKED HER ABOUT THE COALITION, THEY ALREADY HAVE THE COALITION AND SHE SAYS IN THE GRANT, THEY'RE GONNA BUILD A COALITION, BUT THEY ALREADY HAVE THE COALITION AND YOU HAVE TO BE, UH, THROUGH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRAINING TO EVEN BE ON IT.
AND SHE DID NOT ACT OR WHAT SHE SAID THEY WERE NOT GONNA ADD TO THAT COALITION.
AND THAT CONCERNED ME BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND QUITE WHAT THIS STAFF PERSON IS GOING TO DO.
UM, BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEND 36 HOURS A WEEK TO GET A RADIO AD OR A TELEVISION AD.
I, I WAS, I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THIS GRANT BECAUSE I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT THEY COULD DO, BUT THEY ARE NOT WHAT'S IN THIS GRANT.
I DON'T DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAY WE NEED, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS GRANT'S GONNA GIVE US.
SO I, MY SIDE, I AGREE, DAHLIA, THAT THIS IS DEFINITELY NEEDED.
I'M JUST NOT SURE THAT THIS GRANT IS GOING TO ACHIEVE WHAT THEY THINK OR THEY, WHAT THEY WANT IT TO ACHIEVE.
MOST OF IT IS GOING TOWARD A SALARY FOR SOMEBODY WHO FIRST SHE SAID WAS FULL TIME, AND THEN SHE SAID, WELL, I THOUGHT SHE SAID LIKE 20 TO 30 SOMETHING HOURS A WEEK.
UM, I'M JUST NOT SURE FROM WHAT I READ AND WHAT SHE PRESENTED THAT THIS IS GOING TO DO WHAT THEY THINK OR WHAT THEY WANT IT TO DO, OR WHAT WE NEED, WHAT BAYTOWN NEEDS OR WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS.
UM, WE HAVE OUR DISCRETION THAT WE CAN EITHER INCREASE OR INCREASE BY LINE ITEM WITH SPECIFICALLY ASKING FOR.
SO SAY, HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING, IF IT'S THE SALARIES, SAY THEY'RE REQUESTING 36,000, WE CAN EITHER LOWER THAT OR WE COULD INCREASE THAT.
SO ONE, I'LL START THE DISCUSSION BY MAKING THE MOTION THAT WE DID NOT FUND THIS AT ALL.
AND THEN WE CAN DISCUSS FROM THERE.
I, I DO AGREE WITH MS. MESSA THAT, THAT SOMETHING SIMILAR IS NEEDED IN THIS COMMUNITY.
THE ONLY THING THAT IS SIMILAR IS THERE, IN OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS PROGRAM, THERE'S ALSO CEASE ADDICTION.
NOW THEY HAVE THAT BUILDING OVER THERE ON TEXAS AVENUE.
UM, JOHN VENAR, I BELIEVE IS THE ONE IN CHARGE OF THAT BECAUSE THEY APPLIED FOR FUNDING BACK IN 2019.
REMEMBER THEY WANTED US TO DO THEIR PARKING LOT.
SO THERE IS, UH, THERE IS A RESOURCE IN BAYTOWN FOR THAT.
NOW PEOPLE ARE ALREADY IN HERE AND I'M, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT REHAB, BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT, UM, FIRE PREVENTATIVE.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
SEE, AND I WOULD THINK THAT IT WOULD BE COOL TO GIVE THEM THE PRINTING MONEY FOR THE FLYERS, BUT THEN THEY SAID THAT THEY NEED THE MONEY TO BUY US RENT THE STORAGE UNIT, JUST TO STORE ALL OF THAT.
SO IT'S, IT'S SO WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE DARE? I THOUGHT DARE WAS PART OF THAT TOO.
YEAH, BUT THAT, THAT DOESN'T GO EVERYWHERE.
A SEPARATE ENTITY, BUT IT'S FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE, UM, JUST FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE STANDPOINT, IT WOULD BE VERY HARD TO TRACK THEM.
UM, BECAUSE I, WE HAVE TO, WHEN THEY SUBMIT REIMBURSEMENT REQUESTS, IT'S GONNA BE IT.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF SUB RECIPIENTS THAT, WELL, AT LEAST ONE FOR SURE THAT WE HAVE AN ISSUE WITH WHENEVER WE'RE THEY REQUEST REIMBURSEMENT ON HOW IT IS THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SPENDING THE MONEY THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.
'CAUSE YOU KNOW, WE DON'T JUST GIVE THEM THE MONEY, THEY SPEND THEIR OWN MONEY AND THEN WE PAY THEM BACK.
HOW DO WE KNOW YOU'RE WORKING? THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I WOULD NEVER WORK FROM HOME BECAUSE MY HOME IS MY HAPPY PLACE.
I WON'T WORK FROM HOME BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF I WILL.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO I'M BEING 100% HONEST.
SO WITH THIS, IT'S JUST A LITTLE, IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, IT'S KIND OF, IT WOULD BE HARD TO TRACK BECAUSE ARE WE TRACKING HOW MANY FLYERS YOU GAVE OUT? LIKE HOW DO WE KNOW FOR THE INCENTIVES WHO YOU'RE REACHING OUT TO? WELL, SHE DIDN'T HAVE, UH, ANY MEASURES AND SHE DIDN'T IN ANY WAY TELL US HOW SHE WOULD KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE SHE HAD REACHED OR HOW MANY, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD RECEIVED A FLYER AND WHAT THE IMPACT WAS, HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE GOING TO, UH, ADDITIONAL CALLS THEY WERE GONNA GET FROM BAYTOWN.
I DIDN'T SEE MEASUREMENTS IN THAT OR HEAR HER SAY ANY MEASUREMENTS IN WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO.
SO I AGREE WITH WHAT SHARON'S SAYING.
THE MEASUREMENT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT WHEN WE REPORT, WHEN WE FIRST, UH, BASICALLY EVERY YEAR WE TAKE YOUR BUDGET AND WE HAVE TO CREATE AN ACTION PLAN.
AND IN THAT ACTION PLAN, WE HAVE TO HAVE METRICS IN THERE.
SO THIS NOT MANY NUMBER OF PEOPLE WILL BE ASSISTED, OR THIS MANY NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS WILL BE ASSISTED, OR THIS MANY HOUSES
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WILL BE DEMOLISHED OR THIS MANY, IT'S VERY SPECIFIC.AND SOMETIMES WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THIS IS MORE EPHEMERAL IN A WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT'S, IT, IT WOULD BE KIND OF HARD.
AND I'M JUST TELLING YOU FROM AN ADMINISTRATOR, I HAVE NO SAY IN THIS.
I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH ON OUR END IF WE WERE TO FUND THAT.
'CAUSE IT'LL BE HARD ON US BECAUSE I'M NOT GONNA LIE, I HAVE ISSUES WITH TALENT YIELD THAT I'LL BRING THAT UP LATER.
BUT, UM, IT'S HARD
UM, AND IT'S, AND I WOULD HATE FOR YOU TO ALLOCATE FUNDS TO SOMETHING TO WHERE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE DON'T REIMBURSE THEM FOR STUFF BECAUSE IT MIGHT NOT QUALIFY FOR REIMBURSEMENT OR THERE'S NO WAY FOR US TO BACK IT UP.
'CAUSE MY JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE EVER GET AUDITED, WE'RE GOOD.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR, ALL MY, UH, WHAT IS IT? MY I'S ARE CROSSED AND MY T'S ARE DOTTED OR SO, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S ALL GOOD.
SO IF THEY, IF IF THEY TRIED TO MEASURE, SAY THE MOVIE THEATER ADS, WHICH, HOW, HOW WOULD THEY KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THAT THEATER WERE FROM BAYTOWN? HOW WOULD THEY KNOW? HOW MANY PEOPLE SAW THAT OVER HOW EVERMAN MANY SHOWINGS THAT WERE? I I JUST DON'T SEE ANY WAY TO MEASURE IT.
I KNOW THAT THIS SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING THAT COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS COULD PROBABLY DO.
SINCE THEY HAVE CASEWORKERS IN ALL OF THE SCHOOLS NOW AND THEY'RE INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CASEWORKERS THAT THEY HAVE, LIKE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOLS, I CAN SEE THIS BEING LIKE, THAT KIND OF EDUCATION WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS, THAT IS.
'CAUSE EVEN WHEN THEY LISTED ON THEIR APPLICATION ITSELF, WHEN THEY LISTED ALL THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT THEY WORKED WITH, THEY DIDN'T EVEN LIST GOOSE CREEK.
IT WASN'T UNTIL HER PRESENTATION.
HERE, UM, WILL YOU PARTNER WITH GOOSE CREEK OR CEASE ADDICTION NOW? AND I PUT A YES NEXT TO GOOSE CREEK, BUT I DIDN'T GET TO ASK HER ABOUT CEASE ADDICTION NOW.
WELL, SHE LEFT MY, SHE LEFT MY ZIP CODE OUT TOO
IT JUST WAS, I WAS PERSONALLY OFFENDED.
SHE LEFT OUR 7, 7, 5 2, 1 WAS NOT INCLUDED IN HER.
THAT'S LIKE A MAJORITY OF BAYTOWN.
WELL, THAT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, BUT THEN SHE DID, IT'S THE MAJORITY.
BUT THEN SHE DID SAY IT INCLUDED THAT, RIGHT? NO, THAT'S WHAT I HEARD.
SHE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WE, WE MENTIONED IT TO HER.
SHE SAID I THOUGHT THAT SHE JUST, THAT'S THE MAJORITY OF BAYTOWN.
BUT, AND SO I REAL, I SAW THAT SHE LEFT THAT OUT OF THE ORIGINAL, UM, REQUEST, BUT I THOUGHT SHE MENTIONED IN HER RESERVATION IT DIDN'T INCLUDE THAT.
AND SHE SAID THAT WORKING CHAMBER COUNTY, WHICH IS A THIRD, WELL MAYBE A QUARTER OF BAYTOWN, WHICH WOULD BE ALSO SOMETHING I'M NOT IN.
SO IT'S JUST, THOSE ARE JUST LITTLE THINGS JUST FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE, IT'D BE A LITTLE HARD.
I, I SAY AGAIN, I I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF FUNDING THIS ONE NEXT.
THIS GAVE HER OH, TIME TO CATCH UP.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, BIG AREA COUNSEL ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
OH, THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S MOSTLY LIKE ADVERTISING, RIGHT? YES.
YEAH, BECAUSE IT'S, UM, THIS IS MOSTLY ADVERTISING AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY HAVE A LOT OF LIKE, HELP FROM OTHER LIKE, UH, PLACES AND WE'VE BEEN SAYING THERE'S NOT, THEY REALLY HAVE INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO WHAT THEY WOULD THAT'S TRUE.
I'M GOTTA KEEP TRACK OF IT ALL.
DID Y'ALL SEE THE, THE EMAIL THAT CAME IN, SORRY, I'M ALSO LATE
I DIDN'T CHANGE MY, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE ALL THE MARISSA JUST GOT HERE, SO IF SHE DIDN'T SEE IT, BUT EVERYBODY ELSE SHOULD.
SO SHE KIND OF PROVIDED THE SLIDING SCALE AND MM-HMM
THE ONLY SPECIFIC STATISTIC I THINK THAT SHE HAD ON BAYTOWN WAS HOW MANY PEOPLE, THE 14,000 PEOPLE WHO LIVED POVERTY AND BELOW THAT WAS THE ONLY SPECIFICS OF, UM, UM, POPULATION OR POSSIBLE PEOPLE THEY WOULD SERVE WAS THE 14,000.
BECAUSE SHE NEVER SAID HOW MANY OF THOSE THEY WOULD TRY TO ACTUALLY, OR BE ABLE TO MEASURE.
TONY, WHAT DO YOU THINK? THINKING
YOU KNOW, WE, WE ASKED FOR CERTAIN CRITERIA, RIGHT? AND THEN YOU GO AROUND THE BUSH AND ASK YOU A SECOND TIME
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AND ASK YOU A THIRD TIME, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED AND YOU NEVER GIVE US A DIRECT ANSWER.AND I, I BELIEVE CATHERINE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
AND YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HELP EVERY ONE OF THESE PROGRAMS BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE ABOUT.
RIGHT? BUT IF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COME INTO US IN GOOD FAITH AS FAR AS WE CAN SEE, THEN, THEN YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM, RIGHT? AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S MY PROBLEM IS THAT, HEY, THEY ALREADY KNOW, WE ALREADY KNOW THEY'VE ASKED YOU THESE QUESTIONS.
YOU DON'T ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
RIGHT? SO WHAT HAPPENS? WE DON'T GIVE IT THEN COME TO FIND OUT LATER ON THAT THERE WAS PROBLEMS, BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN JUST ASKING FOR THAT FOR THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM.
YOU KNOW? AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME CLEAR ABOUT THIS.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SAY ONE OR TWO POWER.
YOU, YOU COULD SAY, HEY, I AGREE, DISAGREE WITH WHATEVER.
BUT IF YOU ALREADY ASK THESE QUESTIONS AND EVERYBODY'S ANSWERING THE SAME QUESTIONS THE SAME WAY ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL, THEN THERE'S SOMETHING TO THIS.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT, I, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THESE PROGRAMS ARE FOR THE KIDS.
I REALIZE THAT I SEE IT IF I'M GONNA TALK TO THEM, THESE KIDS.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IF, IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEN THEY'RE JUST GONNA JUST SEND 'EM FLYER.
AND THAT MAKES ME THINK I THEY DON'T NEED MY FUNDING.
I MEAN THE FUNDING FROM HERE, BECAUSE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY'RE GONNA GET THE BENEFIT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY FOR ME TO SAY, I'M, I'M GONNA WRITE THIS PIECE OF PAPER.
I'M GONNA SEND IT OUT TO EVERYBODY.
AND SO, AND I SAID, WELL, OKAY, I SENT IT OUT TO 10 PEOPLE.
I DID MY, I DID MY 18,000 OR WHATEVER THEY WOULD'VE PAID, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, 36,000.
I THINK TO BE FAIR, THE OPTIMIST IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE FUNDED THEM SAYING WE'RE FUNDING YOU, BUT NEXT TIME WE NEED THIS.
AND THEN WE FUNDED THEM AGAIN.
AND, BUT NEXT TIME WE NEED THIS.
AND THEN LIKE BEFORE I GOT HERE, YOU GUYS HAD SAID, WE ASKED THEM FOR THIS AND THEY DIDN'T BRING YOU THIS, BUT YET WE CONTINUE TO FUND THEM.
SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, I THINK.
UM, BUT I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, TONY.
UM, AND AS FAR AS I, I DO THINK THIS WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO TRACK AND KEEP TRACK OF AND MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY IS BEING SPENT ON, IN BAYTOWN IN THE AREA.
IT SHOULD FOR THE PEOPLE THAT IT SHOULD.
UM, I DO THINK THOUGH, TO SHE'S POINT ABOUT PRINTING THERE.
I MEAN, YOU CAN ONLY PRINT A THOUSAND, YOU PRINT A THOUSAND FLYERS AND YOU GO TO THIS CLASSROOM AND YOU SPEAK TO 30 KIDS AND YOU HAND OUT 30 FLYERS AND YOU, I MEAN, THERE'S A WAY TO TRACK THAT, BUT NOT LIKE THE MOVIE ADVERTISING.
LIKE THERE'S NO WAY ABSOLUTELY.
TO TELL WHO IN THE THEATER IS ACTUALLY A BAYTOWN RESIDENT THAT WOULD QUALIFY UNDER OUR GUIDELINES.
UM, I THINK IT ALSO BE HARD TO TRACK THEIR SALARY, LIKE THE TIME THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY SPENDING WORKING ON EVERYTHING.
NOW THE ONLY ORGANIZATION THAT WE REALLY PAY SALARIES TO IS HEARTS AND HANDS.
BUT THEIRS IS LIKE, THEY'RE WORKING ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT OR THEY'RE SETTING UP FOR THE EVENT.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF, YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S AN END PRODUCT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THIS ONE, IT'S A LITTLE PORTER BECAUSE WHAT IS THE END PRODUCT EXACTLY.
BECAUSE MOST OF IT, THEY'RE ASKING, MOST OF THE 50,000 THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS OF THE SALARY OF RIGHT.
AND I'M STILL, I STILL, I STILL STICK WITH WHAT I SAID EARLIER.
I'M NOT SURE THAT THIS IS GONNA ACCOMPLISH WHAT THEY SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH.
SO I'M NOT NECESSARILY FOR FUNDING.
I JUST, I MEAN, I THINK THAT THERE ARE WAYS TO TRACK SOME OF THIS STUFF, BUT I'M JUST NOT SURE THAT, THAT THEY THOUGHT THIS COMPLETELY THROUGH.
I ALSO TRY TO REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE COMPETITIVE GRANTS IN THE SENSE THAT WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHO GETS WHAT.
AND IN A COMPETITIVE, I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY WERE BEING COMPETITIVE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T TELL US WHAT WE WERE GONNA DO.
I COULDN'T SEE THAT THERE WOULD BE AS MUCH OF A BENEFIT, PROVEN BENEFIT THAT THEY COULD PROVE AS MUCH OF A BENEFIT AS SOME OF THE OTHER GRANTS.
AND I, I WOULD RATHER PUT THIS MONEY ON SOME OF THE OTHER GRANTS THAN NOT HAVE TO CUT THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO DO MORE DIRECT, MEASURABLE, UH, SERVICE TO SOMEBODY.
THEY'LL BE A BETTER OUTCOME FROM YEAH.
THE HOMELESS I THAT AND SCHOOLS WOULD BE
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A GOOD ONE TO ACTUALLY INCREASE THEIR AMOUNT JUST BECAUSE NEXT YEAR THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING IT IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND THEY REQUESTED IN THE CURRENT YEAR, THEY GOT $7,000 AND THEY SPENT 6,000 DOING THE WORKSHOPS WITH THE HIGH SCHOOLS.BUT NEXT YEAR THEY'RE GONNA BE ADDING MIDDLE SCHOOLS TO THAT.
SO THEY ALSO WERE MUCH MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE OR COULD EXPLAIN WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO AND WHAT THEY HAD DONE AND WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO MUCH BETTER THAN, THAN THIS GROUP.
CAN WE, IF WE INCREASE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR, CAN WE SET, CAN WE ADD A STIPULATION ABOUT EDUCATING ABOUT DRUG ALCOHOL ABUSE? WELL, LET'S SEE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
IS IT SEVEN OR SIX? IT'S UP ON THE, IT'S UP ON THE SCREEN UP THERE IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
THEY GOT SEVEN AND THE NEW YEAR THEY'RE ASKING FOR SEVEN.
BUT IF THEY ALREADY SPENT, THEY ONLY HAVE A THOUSAND DOLLARS LEFT.
NO, I WANTED TO LOOK AT THE RIGHT AND SEE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
UM, SEE WHERE WE WOULD PUT THE MONEY.
BUT SHOULD WE STICK WITH HER ON IT, WITH THE TABS? WELL, LET'S JUST, YOU WANNA SIGN, LET'S FINISH OUT, LET'S FINISH OUT.
WELL, I'LL GO BACK TO WHAT I SAID.
I, I MAKE THE MOTION OR HOWEVER Y'ALL DO THIS SINCE I'M NEW, THAT WE NOT FUND THIS ONE AT ALL.
IS THAT A SECOND? MS. BROWN OR MS. MEA? MS. MEA THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR THIS PROGRAM.
I HAVE PUT HERE THAT IF THE PROGRAM WAS COMING ANYWAY, THEN I'M, I'M ACTUALLY CONCENTRATING ON THE ACTUAL, UH, INFORMATION.
THIS WOULD BE SHARED WITH THE STUDENTS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL AREAS ESPECIALLY, OR THE COMMUNITY THAT HALF FOR A THIRD COULD GO IF IT WOULD HELP 'EM, YOU KNOW.
BUT IF IT'S NOT, IF IT'S NOT GONNA GO, IF THEY'RE JUST LOOKING FOR THESE 50,000 TO GET STARTED AND THEY NEED EVERY PENNY OF IT TO GET STARTED, THEN YEAH, IT'S NOT GONNA HELP IT.
I, I AGREE WITH MS.
BUT I ALSO AGREE WITH MS. GROVE, MS. SHARON ROSE, THAT THINK IF THEY DO GET AUDITED, IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO KEEP TRACK OF THIS TAX AND THEREFORE I WON'T BE ABLE TO REIMBURSE.
IT'S GONNA BE SO HARD, DO THE REIMBURSEMENT REQUESTS, THEREFORE I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE DO NOT FUND THEM.
IF THIS ORGANIZATION GETS UP AND GOING AND THEY A FEW YEARS COME BACK TO US WITH ENOUGH PROVEN RECORD WITH ENOUGH, IT'S ESTABLISHED.
THEN MAYBE WE CAN REVISIT THIS AND THEN WE CAN, UM, GRANT THEM SOME SORT OF, AND IF THEY CAN GIVE US SOME KIND OF MEASUREMENTS YES.
WHAT THEIR OUTCOME IS GOING TO BE.
I, I TOTALLY AGREE THAT WE NEED IT.
SO CATHERINE MADE THE MOTION, SIR, YOUR SECONDING? YES.
ALRIGHT, SO, SO NOW WE'RE 5,000 OVER.
WELL, NO, UM, WE STILL HAVE 111,700.
YOU SEE THE COLUMN ON THE RIGHT? ONE 11.
SO AS WE ADD NUMBERS IN HERE, THIS NUMBER IS GONNA GO DOWN.
ONCE THIS GETS TO ZERO, WE CAN'T GO OVER THIS NUMBER HERE.
RIGHT? BUT ORIGINALLY WE WERE 55,000 OVER, SO NOW WE'RE ONLY FIVE.
SO NEXT UP WE HAVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM.
UM, IN THE CURRENT YEAR, THIS WAS THE FUNDING THAT WE PROVIDED TO LOVE NETWORK, TO MANAGE THE PROGRAM.
UM, IT'S AN INTERNAL PROGRAM, SO IT'LL BE TAB TWO.
UM, THIS YEAR WE ARE ASKING FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS NOW MANAGED INTERNALLY AND OUR SALARIES ARE COMING OUT OF IT.
WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE TO BALANCE THIS IS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE REQUEST IN SUBSTANDARD BECAUSE WE, UM, COMPLETELY TOOK STEPHANIE'S SALARY OUT OF THIS BUDGET HERE.
AND I BELIEVE MOST OF MY SALARY IS OUT OF HERE.
AND WE KIND OF ADDED IT IN HERE.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S, THERE'S A LITTLE DIFFERENCE RIGHT THERE.
BUT THAT'S FOR US TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO, UM, ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS OF BAYTOWN FOR BUS PASSES AND RIDES, CARS AND SALARIES AND RELATED EXPENSES.
SO I GUESS, DO YOU WANT TO FUND AS IS I'D LIKE TO SEE US FUND THIS AS IS.
I THINK THIS A HUGELY IMPORTANT PROGRAM.
THE PEOPLE THAT HELPS LIKE REALLY, REALLY NEED THE HELP.
UM, OH, MARISSA, DID KIM SEND YOU THAT INFO? YES, SHE DID.
YEAH, I'VE ALWAYS SAID IF WE WERE TO CANCEL THIS PROGRAM, I'D HAVE A HUNDRED OLD PEOPLE HERE YELLING AT ME.
UH, SHARON, THIS IS THE ONE THAT, UH, THESE ARE THE BUSES THAT PICK UP ALL THE OLD PEOPLE DOWN THERE THAT GO TO THE, UH, DIALYSIS AND ALL THAT IT, THE HARRIS COUNTY TRANSIT
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BUSES THAT IT'S OKAY.I'M GONNA TELL YOU WHAT I'VE SEEN WHERE TRAFFIC'S PICKED UP.
'CAUSE I MEAN, I'M ALWAYS RUNNING AROUND EVERY DAY.
SO THE, THEIR BUSES ARE LINED UP IN THE MORNING AND THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE BUSES WITH WALMART.
YOU GO TO TARGET, THEY'RE STOPPING THERE.
OLD PEOPLE SEEM LIKE THEY'RE USING IT.
AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THAT IS WHAT WE'RE ABOUT.
WE'RE HELPING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, ESPECIALLY THE OLDER GENERATION RIGHT NOW.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF, I'M NOT JUST SAYING OLD STUFF, AT LEAST HAVE ACCESS TO GETTING WHERE THEY NEED TO GO.
THEY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, WAIT TO, YOU KNOW, GOES WITHOUT WITHOUT EATING OR ANYTHING.
THEY CAN ACTUALLY GET UP AND GO GET ON THE BUS AND THE TAXI BRING YOU BACK.
OH, THIS ALSO INCLUDES RIDES CARDS.
SO WE, UM, UH, FUND RIDES CARDS MONTHLY FOR THE TAXI RIDES.
SO IF THEY CAN'T USE THE BUS, THEY CAN ACTUALLY USE THE HARRIS COUNTY, UM, HARRIS COUNTY PARTNERS WITH DIFFERENT TAXI PROVIDERS AND IT'LL ALSO TAKE THEM TO THE MEDICAL CENTER IF THEY HAVE DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS.
I MEAN, STEPHANIE CAN TELL YOU HOW OFTEN WE HAVE PEOPLE COME UP HERE OR CALL OR EMAIL ABOUT THE PROGRAM.
'CAUSE SHE'S, SHE'S THE FACE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BUT YEAH, THEY, THEY, THEY USE THEIR CARDS A LOT.
UM, A LOT OF THEM HAVE EITHER, THEY HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO DOESN'T, THEY DON'T HAVE LIKE, GRANTS TO GET ON THEIR, ON THEIR, SO A LOT OF THESE, LIKE TAXI RIDES HAVE RAMP.
SO EITHER ALVESTON OR SOMETIMES YOU HOUSTON, VANCO ANDERSON, NO, IT'S, UH, WJ J ONE.
THAT'S A GOOD DRIVE FROM HERE TOO TO GAL.
SO FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO, TO CALL THE CAB THE TAXI AND THEN BRING THEM BACK, LIKE, I MEAN, THEY, DO THEY, LOT OF PEOPLE, HOW DO THEY GET THE MESSAGE? YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THE WORD OF MOUTH, WORD MOUTH, UM, THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A POSTER ON THE BUS.
UM, THE PEOPLE TO LET THEM KNOW.
AND ALSO HARRIS HEALTH, UM, THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER TO UM, SEND ME A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THEY KNOW LIVE IN BAYTOWN, UM, AND THAT DON'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION.
A LOT OF THEM IT'S BECAUSE THEIR UH, EITHER OLDER SON OR OLDER DAUGHTER TAKES CARE OF THEM.
AND SOMETIMES THEY CAN'T GET OUTTA WORK, TAKE THEIR PARENTS TO THE DOCTORS.
SO A LOT OF THOSE, UH, CASE WORKERS WORK WITH THOSE PEOPLE AND THEY, ONCE THEY, THEY KNOW, OH, WE LIVE IN DAYTIME, THEY SENT THEM OVER.
THEY HAVE OUR APPLICATION AND THEY ALREADY SEE, OH, APPLICATION.
I LIKE TO THINK THAT IT LENDS TO THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.
AND I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY AS YOU GET OLDER 'CAUSE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF INDEPENDENCE.
SO I AGREE THAT WE MAINTAIN THAT AS IT'S, IT'S A LIFETIME FOR THESE, IT'S INDIVIDUALS.
SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE FUND THEM, WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING.
SO NEXT UP WE HAVE NEW YEAR SHOES.
IT'S ALL SHOES, NO SALARIES, NO PRINTING.
NOTHING COMES OUT OF THIS BUDGET.
IT IS LITERALLY A LINE ITEM FOR SHOES.
AND STEPHANIE ACTUALLY, UM, SPOKE TO A COUPLE OF PEOPLE TODAY OF DIFFERENT STORES.
WE WERE TOLD TO, WE HAVE TO REACH OUT TO ACADEMY OF THE CORPORATE OFFICE FOR ACADEMY REACHED OUT.
AND THEN, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO SEE A STORE THAT'LL TAKE OUR VOUCHERS BECAUSE WE CAN'T GIVE OUT MONEY ORDERS.
WE CAN'T GIVE OUT CHECKS, CAN'T GIVE OUT GIFT CARDS.
UM, AND WE COULD STAND THERE AND SWIPE CARDS ALL DAY.
BUT THAT'S, SO, UM, KOHL'S A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE.
UM, SHE WAS GONNA EMAIL THE SALES PITCH TO THEM.
'CAUSE THIS IS A PLUS FOR THESE STORES.
THIS IS ALL REVENUE FOR YOU, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THIS IS 15 GRAND THAT YOU BE, I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULD WANT.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A PLUS.
SO STEPHANIE PUTS TOGETHER A LITTLE SALES PITCH SHOWING HOW MUCH EVERY YEAR HAS BEEN SPENT ON THE PROGRAM AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
SO WE'RE HOPING THAT WE CAN DO IT'S NEVER ENOUGH.
SO, SO I'M, SINCE WE'RE FIVE
AND IF WE WANT TO, THEN WE WOULD HAVE SOMETHING IN THE WALL THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND.
WELL, WHY DON'T WE JUST WORK DOWN THE LINE FOR NOW AND THEN KIND OF REVISIT, JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE IS GONNA GET, IF THE BOARD IS ON IS ONLY SEEING IT AS 5,000 SHORT.
THE BOARD MIGHT BE SEEING IT AS, OR WE'RE OVER BY 5,000.
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MIGHT BE SEEING IT AS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.SO, UM, I FIGURED LET'S JUST GO DOWN THE LINE REAL QUICK AND THEN GO FROM THERE.
SO FOR THE NEW YEAR IN THE SHOES PROGRAM, I JUST SAID, MY ONLY QUESTION IS WHEN ARE YOU PLANNING ON DISTRIBUTING THIS VOUCHERS? I BELIEVE LAST YEAR THERE WERE TALKS ABOUT DOING IT TWICE A YEAR.
ONCE BEGINNING ONCE IN THE SPRING SEMESTER.
YES, THEY TRIED, UM, THEY RELEASED APPLICATIONS TO ONLY, UM, A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SCHOOLS AND THEY ONLY GOT EIGHT APPLICATIONS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WE PLAN ON RELEASING THE APPLICATION ON JULY 3RD.
IT WILL BE OPEN FOR TWO WEEKS.
WE WILL CLOSE THE APPLICATION PERIOD ON JULY 17TH.
AT THAT TIME, WE'LL REVIEW ALL OF THE APPLICATIONS THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, DETERMINE WHO'S ELIGIBLE, WHO'S NOT.
IF WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, THEN WE CAN MAKE PEOPLE A WAITING LIST OF PEOPLE WHO THEN WE CAN THEN LET THEM APPLY UNTIL WE REACH 300.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA DISTRIBUTE THE VOUCHERS ON THE DAY OF THE BACK TO SCHOOL FAIR.
WHICH IS ON AUGUST 5TH YOU'LL BE WORKING.
IT'LL GIVE US, UM, AT LEAST A WEEK.
MIND YOU WE'RE HOPING TO GET 300 APPLICATIONS.
SO ME, STEPHANIE, AND KIM ARE GONNA BE BUSY FOR A WEEK.
I FIGURE WE COULD SPLIT IT UP A HUNDRED EACH AND IT'S SHOULD BE EASY TO PROCESS THEM.
'CAUSE WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT PROOF OF RESIDENCY PROOF THAT YOU RECEIVED SOME KIND OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.
SO IT WAS FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH LETTER, SNAP LETTER, MEDICAID, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO IT SHOULDN'T BE TOO HARD FOR US TO PROCESS THEM.
I SAY THAT NOW, BUT IT PROBABLY WILL BE
UM, BUT UM, SO WE'LL HAVE THAT AND THEN WE'LL ALSO KEEP LIKE A WAITING LIST.
THAT WAY IF ANYBODY OF THOSE 300 APPLICATIONS THAT WE INITIALLY ACCEPT DO NOT QUALIFY, THEN WE CAN CONTACT GO DOWN THE LIST.
I NEVER UNDERSTOOD, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU QUALIFY, IF THERE'S UH, FIVE CHILDREN, THE FIVE KIDS WILL BE ELIGIBLE AND THEY GO TO SCHOOL, BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THESE FUNDS.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS JUST LIMITED.
THERE'S FIVE KIDS GOING SCHOOL AND FIVE KIDS.
SO LAST TIME, LOVE, LOVE NETWORK, RIGHT? DID THIS, IT WAS FOR 300 CHILDREN.
SO CAN WE, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE ASKING FOR 15,000 FOR 300 CHILDREN, CAN WE DO MORE CHILDREN? WE CAN, IF WE STAY AT 15,000, WE DO MORE CHILDREN AT LESS MONEY PER VOUCHER.
OR WE INCREASE THE AMOUNT THAT WE, WE HAVE FROM THIS PROGRAM.
LET'S INCREASE THE AMOUNT AND LET'S REACH MORE CHILDREN.
I JUST HOLD YOUR HAND AND I DON'T KNOW, WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? SHOULD WE JUST, I MEAN I THINK WE DEFINITELY WANNA JUST FUND IT FOR THE, WHAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR 15.
RIGHT? BUT THAT'S 300 KIDS IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT OF 22,000.
HOW MUCH WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCREASE IT AND 75, 80% OR? WELL HOW ABOUT THIS? HOW ABOUT WE, YOU'RE SPEAKING OF YOUR HYPOTHETICALS.
WE GIVE THEM WHAT THEY'RE ASKING AND IF THERE'S ANY MONEY LEFT OVER, THEY'LL PUT IT BACK THERE.
OKAY, WELL I MOVE THAT WE FUND NEW YOUR NEW SHOES, WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS JOB READINESS TRAINING PROGRAM.
THEY ARE CURRENTLY REQUESTED SEVEN AND THEY WANT SEVEN MORE FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
DO THEY SPEND ALL OF IT YET? THEY SPENT SIX GRAND.
WELL, IN THE YEAR THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW, SHE HASN'T SUBMITTED ANY MORE RECEIPTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THE FIRST REIMBURSEMENT REQUEST THEY SUBMITTED TO US WAS FOR SIX DIFFERENT CLASSES.
SO, SO MY QUESTION ALONG WITH THAT WAS BE WHAT PERCENTAGE ARE WILLING FOR THE KIDS ARE GETTING, BUT 6,056, THEY HAVE, THEY'RE PAYING FOR THE KIDS TO ATTEND THE CLASS.
SO THEY, UM, WHENEVER THEY SUBMIT THEIR REIMBURSEMENT REQUESTS, THEY SUBMIT THE SIGN IN SHEET FOR THE CLASS AS WELL AS THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORMS FOR THE, UM, CHILDREN THAT ATTENDED THAT CLASS.
AND THEN THE INVOICES FOR THE CLASS.
SO, UM, IT'S ON KIM'S DESK, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S LIKE 25 KIDS PER CLASS.
HOW MANY CLASSES? 650 AT ONE SCHOOL OR THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS.
RIGHT NOW THEY'RE ONLY IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
SO NEXT YEAR THEY'RE GOING UNDER NEXT YEAR THERE'S, THERE'S EXPANDING OUT TO JUNIOR HIGHS.
I THINK EVERYBODY NEEDS
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GOING INTO JUNIOR HIGHS.YEAH, I'M MAD THAT THEY'RE DOING IT AFTER MY DAUGHTER LEAVES.
YEAH, YEAH KNOW IN HIGH SCHOOL, I, I'M SURPRISED IT'S TAKING THIS LONG TO, FOR SOMEBODY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS BECAUSE SOME OF THESE KIDS, MOST OF THESE KIDS DO NOT GET THE HELP FROM THE COUNSELORS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
GUIDANCE TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE.
AND I AND, AND THESE PEOPLE, THEY DO.
SO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN THAT'S WHY I'M WONDERING WHAT, HOW MANY STUDENTS NEEDS OUTTA SCHOOLS.
WELL THIS IS ONLY THE SECOND YEAR, RIGHT? NO, THIS IS A BRAND NEW PROGRAM.
THEY DID THIS, UM, NOT THE YEAR BEFORE, BUT THE YEAR BEFORE THAT.
SO 20, 'CAUSE 20, IT WAS VIRTUAL 21.
THEY DIDN'T REQUEST FUNDING 22, WHICH IS THE YEAR THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY IN.
AND THEN THEY'RE REQUESTING FOR 23 NOW.
SO IT'S BEEN OH, REALLY? YEARS AGO.
AND, AND MY, THEY HAD A DIFFERENT ITERATION OF THIS PROGRAM BEFORE BECAUSE BEFORE IT WAS ACTUALLY, UM, TAKING THE KIDS ON COLLEGE TOURS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEN THEY DECIDED TO ADD A JOB READINESS COMPONENT BECAUSE THEY REALIZED THAT NOT EVERY KID IS GONNA GO STRAIGHT TO COLLEGE WHENEVER THEY GET OUTTA HIGH SCHOOL.
SOME OF THEM, THEY JUST, THEY CAN'T.
YOU KNOW, SO THEY DIDN'T WANNA HAVE THAT BE, YOU KNOW, A POPULATION THAT WASN'T, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? GETTING WHAT THEY NEEDED TO BE SUCCESSFUL RIGHT AFTER COLLEGE.
SO THAT THEN THEY ADDED THE JOB READINESS PORTION.
SO THIS WILL HELP THEM WITH FAFSA, SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, RESUMES AND INTERVIEW SKILLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND IT WOULD ALSO HELP THEM JUST UNDERSTAND ABOUT COLLEGE, YOU KNOW, ABOUT HOW TO GO ABOUT PREPARING GRADES AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS, GRADES THEY PROPOSED TO.
THAT MIGHT BE HARD FOR US TO FUND DEPENDING ON HOW THEY DO THAT.
UNLESS THEY GO SHOPPING WITH THE KIDS, THEY CAN'T GIVE THEM GIFT CARDS OR VOUCHERS.
BUT TO HELP THE CHILD UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DON'T GO TO AN INTERVIEW ON A T-SHIRT AND YEAH, DEFINITELY.
WELL, I WAS GONNA ASK THE QUESTION HERE THAT FOR THE JOB READINESS, RIGHT? ALRIGHT.
IF YOU, IF YOU'RE GONNA, YOU'RE GONNA WORK IN THE FIELD, RIGHT? YOU DON'T NEED ALL THESE LITTLE THINGS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, YOU GO, YOU'RE GONNA GO IN BLUE JEANS AND YOU'RE GONNA GO IN A NICE SHIRT.
YOU'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT GONNA GO DECK OUT.
LIKE IF YOU WOULD, IF YOU WERE TRYING TO GO TO A BUSINESS AND WORK FOR SOMEBODY IN A STORE OR WHATEVER.
UH, MY POINT IS THERE THAT, UM, THE, I THOUGHT THE HIGH SCHOOLS HAD ALL THESE PROGRAMS THAT THE CAREER ACADEMIES IS REFERRING TO.
THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING THE HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE RECENTLY STARTED.
SO, UM, YOU CAN ACTUALLY APPLY TO JOIN AN ACADEMY.
SO FOR KAYLA, UM, AT STERLING HIGH SCHOOL, THEY HAVE THE EDUCATION PROGRAM AND THEN THEY HAVE THE NURSING PROGRAM.
AND IF YOU APPLY TO BE A PART OF THAT PROGRAM, THEN THROUGHOUT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER, YOUR CLASSES ARE GONNA BE REGULAR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES AS WELL AS EDUCATION FOCUSED CLASSES.
SO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THAT WHEN YOU GRADUATE, YOU ALREADY HAVE A BACKGROUND IN THAT SPECIFIC FIELD.
SO I WAS GONNA ASK DON WHAT THEY USED TO CALL THAT MAN, EVERYBODY USED TO GET OFF OF GO TO SCHOOL AND THEN THEY'D GET OFF AT 12 O'CLOCK AND GO TO THAT JOB WORK STUDY.
IS THAT WHAT THAT YEAH, THAT'S STUDY.
SO THAT'S NOT WHAT COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS IS DOING.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING CLASSES AFTER SCHOOL OR DURING THE SCHOOL DAY, UM, TEACHING KIDS HOW TO APPLY FOR JOBS, HOW TO APPLY FOR FINANCIAL AID AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THOSE EXTRA CLASSES ARE BASICALLY LIKE COUNTED AS ELECTIVES THEN FOR THEM GRADUATE? WELL, IT'S ONLY, OH WHAT THE COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS ONES? YEAH.
WELL THEY ONLY GO LIKE FOR ONE CLASS.
THEY ONLY DO, SO THEY'LL TAILOR IT TO WHATEVER THE SCHOOL NEEDS ACCORDING TO WHAT MEL SAID.
SO IF THE SCHOOL SAYS THAT THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, THIS GROUP OF KIDS THAT, UM, ALL OF THEM WANT, YOU KNOW, TRAINING ON HOW TO APPLY FOR JOBS OR HOW TO DO THEIR RESUME, THEN THEY'LL FOCUS IT TO JUST THAT.
AND IF IN THE NEXT SCHOOL THEY WANT FAFSA AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, THEN THEY'LL FOCUS THAT CURRICULUM TO THAT.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE AN ELECTIVE THAT THEY GO TO LIKE ONCE A WEEK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO.
I WASN'T SURE IF, YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
NO, IT'S JUST KIND OF LIKE AN EXTRA FOR THEM.
HEARING Y'ALL TALK ABOUT THIS.
A COUPLE THOUGHTS I HAD WAS, UM, ONE, I WONDER WHAT KIND OF PARTNERSHIP THEY COULD OR HAVE WITH, UM, GRAD CAFE SINCE THAT IS BACK IN THE COMMUNITY.
IT WAS CLOSED FOR A WHILE, RIGHT? RIGHT.
AND THE SECOND ONE WOULD BE IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO INCREASE YOUR BUDGET, UM, WOULD WE HAVE TO SPECIFY, BE LYING FOR IT? AND
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I'M WAS ALWAYS A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT ADDING A LITTLE MORE BUDGET.IF THEY'RE NOT, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT.
MAKING SURE IT'S IN THE RIGHT SPOT.
THEY DIDN'T SPEND THE WHOLE THEY DID.
THEY WERE, THEY'RE SHY A LITTLE BIT THIS YEAR.
BUY A THOUSAND DOLLARS A THOUSAND DOLLARS THIS YEAR.
BUT NEXT YEAR THEY'RE GONNA HAVE MORE CLASSES TO TEACH.
SO IF YOU WERE TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT THAT YOU PROVIDE THEM WITH, I WOULD INCREASE THE CONSULTANT SERVICES LINE ITEM.
AND THEY ARE GONNA BE PARTNERING WITH GRAD CAFE AGAIN BECAUSE THEY'RE REOPENING.
DO THEY PROVIDE US ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE GRAD CAFE, THE RP? I DIDN'T, I KNOW SHE MENTIONED IT AT THE PRESENTATION, BUT VERONICA IS THE PERSON THAT THEY USED TO, UM, WORK WITH BEFORE.
THAT'S WHO THEY PARTNERED WITH BEFORE GRAD CAFE CLOSED.
SHE WAS THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY PROVIDED THE TRAININGS AND NOW NEVER HAPPENED TO THAT PROGRAM.
I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY THING I COULD THINK OF BECAUSE IT WAS IN 2020 WHEN THEY HAD THE FUNDING AND THEY DID IT VIRTUALLY AND IT WAS WITH GRAD CAFE.
I THINK THEY OVEREXTENDED THE LITTLE, UM, THAT THEY, THEY WERE BACK OUT AGAIN BECAUSE IT WASN'T JUST THE BAYTOWN LOCATION THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT IIII JUST KEEP KIND GO BACK TO THE FACT THAT A LOT OF THESE PROGRAMS, THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF VERIFICATION.
LIKE WE TALKING AND HOW COME WE CAN'T DO LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE KIDS THAT THEY, A LOT OF 'EM ARE NOT GONNA GO TO COLLEGE, RIGHT? I, I'M, I'M FOR ONE, ONE OF THOSE GUYS TELL ME TOO, YOU KNOW, MY PARENTS WANTED ME TO GO TO COLLEGE, BUT YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T WANT UNTIL LATER IN LIFE.
BUT AFTER I STARTED GOING, THEN I REALIZED, UH OH I NEED, BECAUSE I WENT TO COLLEGE.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? BECAUSE I GOT INTO, UH, THE TRAINING THAT I NEEDED FOR THE FIELDS THAT I THOUGHT I HAD THOUGHT I WANTED TO BE IN AFTER 30 YEARS.
AND YOU LOOK BACK AND SAY, HEY MAN, I WHAT? I DO THAT FOR TOO LATE NOW.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? DO YOU WANT BE A WELDER? WANNA BE A PIPE FITTER? THAT INDUSTRY THAT'S VALUABLE IN THIS AREA TODAY, PASADENA, HOUSTON, THEY COME OUT OF BAYTOWN.
WE, THIS IS WHAT I THINK THESE PROGRAMS SHOULD BE.
THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T NEED, I, I NEED A GUY THAT'S GONNA DIRECT 'EM.
YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT 'EM TO PAY WHAT, WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO.
AND THEY'RE GONNA GO THROUGH THE COLLEGE, THEY TRACK IT, THEY DO ALL THESE THINGS AND THEN COME BACK AND, AND THEN SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE SPENT, THIS IS HOW WE SPENT IT.
YOU KNOW WHAT, NOW THAT'S, AND YOU KNOW WHAT ALL THIS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT STARTUPS AND IT MAY WORK, IT MAY NOT WORK FINE.
SO IN A WAY THAT'S JUST, THIS IS JUST MY OPINION.
THAT'S WHAT I SEE WHEN I, WHEN I SEE THESE, WE'RE GONNA HELP THE KIDS WITH UH, OKAY PASTOR, I THOUGHT THAT WHAT DO THE COUNSELORS DO? THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T PLAY THAT.
AM I GONNA CRITICIZE THEM? BECAUSE I LOVE, I LOVED ALL MY COUNSELORS.
ALL THE EMOTIONAL AND OTHER ISSUES THAT THE KIDS HAVE DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.
I THINK IT KIND OF PROBABLY FILLS UP THEIR DAY.
YOU DON'T THINK SO? I DON'T KNOW.
ANYTIME I TRY TO CONTACT COUNSELORS, I CAN NEVER GET AHOLD OF THEM.
THE WAY I GOT MY DAUGHTER'S COUNSELOR OR REPLY TO MY EMAIL WAS WHEN I EMAILED HER AND CC'D THE PRINCIPAL AND THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
AND SHE RESPONDED TO MY UPSET.
THEY'RE NOT, I DUNNO WHAT THEY DO.
BUT I GRADUATED A LONG TIME AGO AND THEY DIDN'T DO THAT FOR ME EITHER.
I GRADUATED WAY TWICE AS LONG.
YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE GOING TO EXTEND TO MIDDLE SCHOOL THIS, THIS NEXT YEAR, WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK FOR MORE MONEY? I DON'T THINK THAT THEY, THEY REALIZED THAT THAT WAS GONNA BE, UM, A REALITY UNTIL AFTER THEY SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION.
FRANKIE, YOU WERE GONNA SAY SOMETHING? YES.
UM, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I WAS LOOKING AT THEIR REQUEST FROM LAST YEAR AND LAST YEAR THEY REQUESTED 4,500 FOR THE CONSULTANT FOR THEIR PROGRAM AND THIS YEAR WAS 6,000.
SO THAT 1500 COULD BE AN EXPANSION OR IT COULD JUST BE EVERYTHING GOT MORE EXPENSIVE.
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YOU INTRODUCE A CHILD INTO A CAREER READINESS, MORE MOTIVATED ME IS TO BECOME THAT PROFESSION.SO THAT'S WHY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU HAVE THIS CAREER IN YOUR DAY OR PROFESSIONAL DAY TERMINAL, JUNIOR HIGH, YOU STARTING TO SEE MORE AND MORE ABOUT RECRUITING THEM FOR THE COLLEGE AT ALL THEIR HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BECOME? I THINK YOU HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR OPTIONS ARE BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY REALLY AREN'T AWARE OF A LOT.
THEY MIGHT WELL, I, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM AND I WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND FUND THIS AGAIN THIS YEAR.
OKAY, SO YOU WANNA JUST DO THE SEVENTH FOR NOW AND THEN I THINK THE SEVENTH FOR NOW.
SINCE I DID, SINCE THEY ARE ASKING FOR 1500 MORE THAN THEY DID LAST YEAR AND THEY DIDN'T, UM, THEY COMPLIED WITH EVERYTHING WE ASKED.
SO, AND THEY DIDN'T, THEY HAVENT EVERYTHING YET AND THEY'RE GETTING YOURS.
THEY HAVEN'T UNTIL OCTOBER 1ST.
THEY HAVE TO UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH.
SPEND THAT OTHER THOUSAND DOLLARS.
WELL, I MEAN THAT LADY HAS NOT SUNK, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL YEAR JUST TO, TO CLARIFY.
BUT THEY COULD HAVE ASKED WEST WAS THE SAME, JUST THEIR LINE ITEMS WERE LOOKED DOWN, WERE DIFFERENT.
WELL, THEY COULD HAVE ASKED FOR 10,000 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AND SAID, OKAY, WELL MAYBE THEY'LL ONLY FUND US FOR LIKE YEAH, I WISH I
IF KIDS DON'T GET THE HELP COSTS, LIKE EVERYTHING, THEY'RE GONNA GET THE HELP.
THEY HAD ASKED FOR MORE MONEY.
EVERYBODY'S GONNA HAVE MONEY LEFT OVER.
DID WE VOTE? I WANT AHEAD AND I JUST PUT IT IN THERE, BUT I CAN GO AHEAD AND YOU CAN VOTE AT THE END AND DO IT FULL.
IT SAYS HEARTS OF PANICS AND BAYTOWN IS TAB NUMBER SIX.
I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS.
UM, THEY GET A LOT OF FUNDING FROM A LOT OF OTHER PLACES, BIG COMPANIES, A LOT, A LOT.
AND THEY'RE INCREASING WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR BY ALMOST $9,000 FROM LAST YEAR.
UM, IT'S A DEFINITELY, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND.
IT'S A DEFINITELY WONDERFUL WORTHWHILE PROGRAM.
THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE MANY PROGRAMS. THIS IS JUST ONE.
I JUST, I JUST FEEL LIKE THEY'RE SO WELL CONNECTED.
THEY'RE SO WELL FUNDED BY A LOT OF OTHER BIGGER PEOPLE THAN THE CDBG COMMITTEE.
NOT THAT I DON'T THINK IT'S A WORTHWHILE CAUSE I, I DON'T KNOW.
I AGREE WITH YOU BECAUSE I THINK THEY GET ENOUGH FUNDING FROM THESE BIG COMPANIES THAT THEY DON'T NEED SO MUCH FROM US AND THEY WENT UP ABOVE 10, WHAT IS IT, 20,000.
THEY ALSO HAVE PROGRAMS THEY DO AND NINE THOUSANDS LAST YEAR.
AND I HONESTLY CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH THEY'VE SPENT THIS YEAR.
'CAUSE THEY HAVEN'T SUBMITTED ANY REIMBURSEMENT REQUESTS.
I KNOW I, I, I USUALLY ENCOURAGE ANY SUBRECIPIENT THAT'S APPLYING FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR TO SUBMIT SOMETHING PRIOR TO ME PRINTING THIS BOOK.
BECAUSE THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS BOOK, I TELL YOU HOW MUCH THEY SPENT EVERY TIME THEY HAVE FUNDING.
SO I'LL GO BACK A COUPLE YEARS EVEN, YOU KNOW, BUT WITH THEM, AT THE TIME THAT I PRINTED THIS BOOK, THEY HADN'T SUBMITTED ANYTHING.
AND TO, TO THIS DAY, THEY HAVEN'T SUBMITTED ANYTHING.
SO KAREN, UM, HOW MUCH WERE THEY AWARDED? DID THEY YEAR BEFORE LAST? LIKE BEFORE THIS CURRENT YOU MEAN THE CURRENT THE COVID BECAUSE THIS IS THEIR SECOND YEAR THAT THEY'RE APPLYING.
SO IT'S JUST THE COVID THAT'S, AND IT'S ON THE FRONT PAGE DOWN HERE.
THEY WERE, THEY AWARDED 56 250 AND THEY EXPENDED 56 1 97 41.
WE COULD TAKE THE 5,000 THAT WERE SHORT OUT HERE AND YOU CAN GIVE ANOTHER 5,000.
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SHOES.THAT WAS WITH THE COVID DOLLARS.
THAT WASN'T NOT A REGULAR C TO BE DOING.
THAT WAS COVID MONEY SMITH ROLL.
YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY, THEY PARTNER WITH CHURCHES ALL OVER TOWN AND YOU DO DISTRIBUTIONS AND THEY HAVE THEIR, THEIR OR THEIR BUILDING THERE ON CEDAR BIO ROAD WHERE YOU CAN LIKE, OH YOU MISSED THE TOUR.
WE TOOK A TOUR OF THAT BUILDING.
WHERE WAS I FRIEND'S MINE, I WAS AT MY, THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR MY FRIEND'S DESK.
I HAVE TO, I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD.
NO, YOU WERE SPEAKING FIRST ON THIS, UH, HEARTS AND HANDS.
IT IT, YOU'RE NOT RELATED TO HIM.
WELL YOU ARE RELATED TO NIKKI.
AH, THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T VOTE THE LAST TIME.
YOU WERE, YOU, YOU YOU ARE WHAT I THINK IS A PRACTICAL, WELL LET ME LEMME SAY THIS.
MY SECOND COUSIN SON, MY FIRST COUSIN ONCE REVIEWED.
I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE, YOU TALKING ABOUT THE HOST CLASS? YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU TALKING ABOUT, I DON'T SEE THAT AS BEING A BIG PROBLEM BECAUSE YOU ALSO DIDN'T REALIZE YOU WERE RELATED TO HIM UNTIL APRIL.
IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE ON THE BOARD OF AN ORGANIZATION THE WAY RHONDA IS.
YOU KNOW,
I I BUT I DID MAKE MY STATEMENT.
JUST LISTEN, I HAVE A FEELING ON THIS.
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING THE COMMUNITY RALLIES AROUND AND AND SOMEBODY IS GONNA FUND THEM AND WHAT STEP AT A TIME GO FROM 10 10 TO THEY'RE GONNA GET THEIR MONEY AS MONEY 20.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME FROM US WHERE SOME OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS ARE NOT AS WELL KNOWN AND DON'T HAVE THE CONNECTIONS AND THEY WILL NEED OUR MONEY.
BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT COMING FROM US, IT'S COMING FROM THE CITY IN, BUT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? CITY BG MONEY.
SO I, THEY'RE GONNA GET THAT MONEY.
SO I, I WOULD, I REALLY DON'T CARE WHAT WE FUND THEM AT ALL, I GUESS IS WHAT I'M SAY BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GONNA GET THAT MONEY AND I WOULD RATHER SPREAD THIS MONEY ELSEWHERE.
5,000 IS YOU NOT FUND THEM AT ALL AND USE THAT TOWARDS SOMETHING ELSE.
I DON'T REMEMBER FROM THE PRESENTATION.
WELL, DIDN'T HEAR THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE SHE HAD DIDN'T HAVE A VOICE.
THAT'S, THAT'S ACTUALLY A MEDICAL CONDITION THAT SHE HAS.
SHE, SHE PREFERS TO COMMUNICATE VIA TEXT OR EMAIL.
SHE DOESN'T DO PHONE CALLS BECAUSE IT HURTS HER VOICE.
BUT IT DIDN'T LET ME HEAR ELSE.
UM, SHE TALKED ABOUT PARTNERING WITH RESTAURANTS AND SO I'M THINKING THAT SHE MEANT, UM, LIKE IF THEY HAVE FOOD THAT'S NOT GONNA BE USED OR IS NEARING EXPIRATION OR SOMETHING, THAT THEY GO AND PICK THAT UP SO THAT THEY CAN GIVE IT TO PE ME PEOPLE SEE, I, I TOOK IT TO MEAN THAT THEY DONATE MEALS OR DONATE SANDWICHES OR DONATE.
IT JUST, SHE JUST SAID THEY PARTNERED WITH US.
SO DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW THAT WORKS? I, I MEAN, I MEAN ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WE WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE FOOD BANK DEALER.
THEY IT'S LIKE A STORE NOW, CORRECT.
SO PEOPLE CAN JUST DRIVE, YOU CAN GO ON YOUR BICYCLE AND PICK UP SOMETHING.
NO, YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AND YOU EITHER HAVE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT OR THEY HAVE CERTAIN DAYS AND TIMES AND YOU CAN JUST DRIVE THROUGH.
WE WERE, WE WERE THERE WHEN, WHEN THE BICYCLE DROVE UP A COUPLE OF PEOPLE BICYCLE.
BICYCLE, THEY HAD JUST FINISHED HANDING OUT BOXES.
I BELIEVE THAT WAS A LADY A BAG OR SOMETHING.
BUT YOU KNOW, THEY JUST DO A LOT OF THINGS.
THEY JUST DO A LOT OF THINGS FOR THE OKAY, I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION AND WE CAN VOTE FOR IT OR WE CAN VOTE IT DOWN.
I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE NOT FUND THIS,
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THIS GRANT AT ALL.OKAY, WELL GRANT AT ALL WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY MEANS ONE DAY THEY ASK ALL IN FAVOR.
YOU COULD SAY NAY IF YOU DON'T AGREE.
YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY, I WAS WONDERING HOW THAT WORKED WITH THE RESTAURANTS.
I KNOW THEY GET STUFF FROM THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK.
UM, I WAS GOING TO LOOKING AT THEIR LINE ITEMS. I WAS GONNA SAY MAYBE ONLY FUND THE FOOD LINE ITEM AND NOT THE REST.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO, WHO SUFFER FROM FOOD SCARCITY.
AND UM, BUT, BUT I ALSO AGREE THAT THEY HAVE A LOT OF OTHER FUNDING FROM A LOT OF OTHER SOURCES AND, AND SOMEBODY WILL MAKE UP THAT MONEY AND SOME WHO COME FROM SOME GROCERY STORES, HEB KROGER'S OR WHOEVER THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, PARTNERING WITH PLUS THE RESTAURANTS.
I'M SURE IT'S, IT'S LIKE YEAH.
WHATEVER IS CLOSE TO EXPIRING.
UH, YOU KNOW, THEY DONATE THAT AND IT GOES TO FAMILIES AND I, I DON'T SEE, IF WE DON'T FUND THEM AT ALL, I DON'T THINK THEY WILL FEEL MUCH OF AN IMPACT.
BUT SOME OF THESE OTHERS WOULD.
OKAY, SO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE, CORRECT?
THIS IS WHY I PUT PIZZA FOR Y'ALL.
WAIT, I, I DIDN'T, I ABSTAINED 'CAUSE I'M NOT SURE YET.
I MAKE A, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE FUND THEM FOR $8,500, WHICH IS THE COST OF FOOD.
SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM, IT'S STORES THAT BLESSING.
SO THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE EITHER MAKING BOXES OF FOOD OR BAGS OF FOOD.
SO I WOULD SUGGEST INCLUDING THE LINE ITEM FOR BAGS AND BOXES, JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE RECOVERING THE FOOD AND THE MODE OF DELIVERY.
WHERE'S, WHERE'S THE BAGS? IT'S RIGHT ABOVE THE FOOD.
SO WE GET OUR, WE GET OUR 10,000 BAG ADD BACK TO OTHER YES MA'AM.
WE MAKE UP OUR FIVE AND WE HAVE FIVE.
I'LL, I'LL TAKE, I'LL ACCEPT THAT.
ARE WE, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I CAN'T, I CAN'T.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE FUND THEM FOR $9,000, WHICH IS 8,500 FOR FOOD AND 500 FOR BOXES TO DELIVER IT IN.
ALRIGHT MS. LOPEZ, I'M GONNA HAVE TO ASK FOR YOU TO CLEAN IN CUE YOUR, SO NOT THERE.
THIS IS THE BEST BOARD THERE SHOULD BE.
DO YOU WANNA GO GET COFFEE? YOU WANNA GO GET COFFEE? NO, I'M GOOD.
MARGARITA KIND OF TROUBLE, LIKE SO I HAVE A QUESTION.
DO YOU SHUT THE DOOR PLEASE? NO, I HAVE A QUESTION THAT, THAT SHERON CAN ANSWER.
I GUESS WHY HAS, UM, THE HOMELESS OUTREACH NOT REQUESTED ANY FUNDING? THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE FUNDS IN THE CURRENT YEAR RIGHT NOW? NO, I KNOW, BUT THEY HAVEN'T EXPENDED IT.
THEY HAVEN'T ASKED FOR REIMBURSEMENT SINCE WE MADE THE BOOKS.
THEY HAVE EXPENDED $345 I BELIEVE.
SO ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH UM, THIS IS OUR PROGRAMS ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF BAYTOWN.
THEIR OFFICES ARE LOCATED IN MCNAIR.
THEY DO HAVE AN OFFICE OUTSIDE OF THE LIBRARY.
UM, THEY HAVE
BUT IT'S HARD TO DETERMINE IF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE ASSISTING ARE BAY BAYTOWN RESIDENTS.
SO THEIR FIRST REIMBURSEMENT REQUEST, THEY, UM, REQUESTED TO, UM, GET A TEMPORARY ID FOR SOMEONE, BUT IT WAS MAILED TO A ADDRESS IN HIGHLAND.
AND SO WE DID TALK TO THEM ABOUT HOW WE CAN DO THIS SO THAT IT'S AT LEAST BEING MAILED TO A BAYTOWN ADDRESS.
THAT WAY IF WE EVER GET AUDITED, IT'S GO INTO A BAYTOWN ADDRESS.
SO ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS THAT WE HAD WAS FOR THEM TO GET A POST OFFICE BOX.
UM, APPARENTLY THEY DID SPEAK TO JAMIE OR SOMEONE AT THE LIBRARY AND THEY'RE GONNA BE ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR STUFF DELIVERED THERE.
BUT, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DISCUSSED AT THAT MEETING, 'CAUSE THEY ALSO HAD PURCHASED BIRTH CERTIFICATES, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROOF THAT YOU PURCHASED THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
SO I HAD SUGGESTED TO THEM THAT YOU GET A COPY OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE APPLICATION AND THEN YOU KNOW, YOUR RECEIPT FROM YOUR PAYMENT OF IT OR
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WHATEVER, AND SUBMIT THAT WITH YOUR REIMBURSEMENT REQUEST.SO, SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE REASON THAT YOU'RE, THAT YOU'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND HOW TO SHOW YOU THAT THEY CAN GET REIMBURSED AND THEY HAVEN'T WORKED THAT OUT YET? NO.
WE'RE ON ROUND TWO OF REIMBURSEMENT REQUESTS AND IT'S STILL NOT GOOD.
THIS IS THEIR FIRST YEAR BEING FUNDED AND THEY ACTUALLY REQUESTED 10,075, I BELIEVE, WHAT WAS IT? 12,075.
THAT'S HOW MUCH THEY REQUESTED LAST YEAR, RIGHT? YES.
UH, SO, BUT THEY WERE NOT FUNDED? WE DID NOT, NO.
THEY WERE FUNDED FOR $4,200 AND THE YEAR THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY IN NOW.
SO WE CHOPPED UP THEIR LINE ITEMS. SO WE DIDN'T FUND, UM, CLIENT SHOWERS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT REALLY SURE HOW WE CAN TRACK THAT.
WE DIDN'T FUND, WELL, ALL WE FUNDED WAS BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND ID CARDS.
THE HARRIS COUNTY BUS PASSES EMERGENCY HOTEL STAYS FOR, UM, ANY OF THE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS AND THEY'RE TRYING TO GET THEM INTO A BETTER SITUATION.
AND I PROBABLY HAVE PRINTING AND SUPPLIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT WE DID NOT FULLY FUND THEM LAST YEAR.
MY BIGGEST CONCERN WITH THIS ONE IS THE CONTRACTED SERVICES, THE $8,200, BECAUSE I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THAT ENTAILS, BECAUSE THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING IN LINE FOR THAT.
SO THAT WOULD BE, I GUESS THAT'S TO HELP THEM FIND A JOB, BASICALLY.
WELL, THEY WERE SAYING TO PROVIDE TRAININGS TO PEOPLE, TRAINING FOR THEM SO THEY CAN HAVE JOBS.
WHAT SHE SAID, SEND IT, LIKE TO USE A COMPUTER, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING LINED UP FOR THAT.
SO I THINK THAT'LL BE KIND OF HARD.
IN FACT, I BELIEVE THAT WAS JUST AN ESTIMATE THAT THEY PROVIDED BECAUSE THEY'VE NEVER GOT ANY QUOTES.
THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM HAS LIKE THE MOST CHALLENGES, I CAN SAY ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE.
ON, ON HAVING TO PROCESS EVERYTHING.
IT'S, YEAH, BUT I I BUT IT IS REALLY BADLY.
I THINK STEPHANIE, YOU KNOW, YES.
STEPHANIE LIVED AT THE LIBRARY FOR YEARS.
SHE LITERALLY LIVED AT THE LIBRARY.
SHE SLEPT OUTSIDE ON A BENCH AND SHE STAYED INSIDE ALL DAY AND AND BROUGHT ALL HER LUGGAGE WITH HER.
AND, AND THEY'RE, SHE'S, SHE'S JUST AN EXAMPLE.
AND, AND, UH, IT'S REALLY A NEEDED PROGRAM.
I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT TRACKING IT.
AND THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN LOOK AT THE LINE ITEMS. I'M JUST GONNA TELL YOU FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE STANDPOINT, IT'S HARD.
AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE CAN TRACK IT AND JUSTIFY IT.
IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE CAN TRACK IT AND JUSTIFY IT.
OTHERWISE, UH, WE DO HAVE TO REPAY THE MONEY AND WE ACTUALLY LOSE OUR JOBS.
BUT
DO THEY GO SEND 'EM TO TRUCK STOPS WHERE THEY SENT STOPS? YES.
S OKAY, SO YOU COULD TRACK THAT? NO, YOU COULD TRACK.
THEY REQUESTED THAT LAST YEAR AND WE AREN'T SURE HOW WE'LL BE ABLE TO TRACK IT.
DON'T THEY PAY THE TRUCK STOP AND GET A RECEIPT? THEY DO, BUT THE RECEIPT ISN'T SPECIFIC TO THE PERSON THAT'S USING THIS.
ALSO, IT DOES HAVE TO BE INSIDE CITY LIMITS BECAUSE WE ARE.
BUT, BUT, BUT I WOULD THINK YOU COULD GET, LIKE YOU DO VOUCHERS FOR THE SHOES.
YOU GET VOUCHERS FOR SHOWERS OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS.
EVERYTHING'S OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS THAT HAVE THE SHOWERS LIKE THAT.
EVEN THE TRUCK STOP AT THE DENNY'S OVER THERE.
IS THAT WHAT IT'S IT'S OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS.
WELL, I, I, I SAW A FEW OF, I WANTED TO SEND SHOWERS, I'LL TELL YOU.
WE CAN TRACK S WE CAN TRACK PLUS TOKENS AND EMERGENCY HOTEL STAYS.
BUT WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING ABOUT CONTRACTED SERVICES 'CAUSE THEY HAVEN'T CONTRACTED OR EVEN GOT ANY BIDS OR ANYTHING ON IT.
THAT, FROM WHAT SHE SAID, THAT'S JUST A NUMBER THAT THEY PULLED OUT OF THE, OUT OF THAT.
AND THAT'S ALSO THOSE, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY MENTIONED THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE CLASSES FOR.
I BELIEVE THE HARRIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS CLASSES LIKE THAT.
SO THEY MIGHT, THEY COULD PARTNER WITH THEM AND IT COULD BE AT NO COST.
SO YOU DID ASK THAT, IN MY OPINION, WHEN ONE THING OF A HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL, ONE THING'S OF A TRANSIENT MM-HMM
UM, GOING FROM PLACE TO PLACE, GOING FROM LOCATION TO LOCATION.
SO IT IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT GOING FROM CITY TO CITY.
IT IS GONNA BE DIFFICULT IN ORDER TO TRACK THAT INDIVIDUAL.
AND SO AS MUCH AS WE WANT TO ASSIST THEM, MAKE HELP THEM, I, I WOULD.
YOU ENCOURAGE THEM TO APPLY FOR CDD GRANTS THROUGH HARRIS COUNTY, WHICH, WHICH DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME CITY RESTRICTIONS.
'CAUSE A LOT OF THESE ARE GOING BE
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DIFFICULT TO TRACK.AND IN THE BACK END FOR THE CITY, IF THEY GET LIKE THE SHOWERS.
SO GUYS, IF YOU CAN ARGUE THE POST EXPERIENCE, THAT COULD BE EASY.
BECAUSE THEY MAIL IN BIRTH CERTIFICATE APPLICATIONS.
AND THE, AND THE IDS AND THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
THAT WAS A PROBLEM WE HAD LAST YEAR.
THAT'S WHAT WE FUNDED THEM FOR IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
AND, AND WHY DON'T WE OFFICE, OFFICE SUPPLIES.
I MEAN, I COULD SEE WE DO OFFICE SUPPLIES.
BUT THEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT WHAT OFFICE SUPPLIES, JUST SPEAKING TO YOU ARE AT $2,800 I OFFICE SUPPLIES? NO, NO.
WITH OFFICE SUPPLIES THAT THEY COULD TRACK THE HOTEL STATE.
YEAH, YOU CAN TRACK THE BUS TOKEN.
YOU CAN, SO IT'S BASICALLY EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR THE CLIENT SHOWERS, THE TRAINING AND THE CONTRACTED SERVICES.
OH, I'M SORRY, 8,700, RIGHT? YES, THAT'S CORRECT.
WHO WANTS TO GET, YEAH, I COME OUT WITH, WHAT'S IT, IS IT 32 OR 22? MY MATH, BUT IT'S A LOT LESS.
APPLE SAYS 38, 35, DOUBLE CHECK.
33, 35 IS WHEN I PUT, I THINK I WAS WRONG.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS, THIS PROGRAM MUST BE TREMENDOUS PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
YOU KNOW, IT DEPENDS ON LIKE, LIKE SOMEBODY SAID, ARE THEY TRANSIENTS OR ARE THEY HOMELESS? AND THEY ALL NEED SOME OF THESE SERVICES PROBABLY.
BUT THE HOMELESS ARE ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THEY'RE TALKING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND THEY DON'T WANT TO GO TO A SHELTER.
AND WELL, THIS LADY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THEN THAT'S LINDA THAT WAS OVER THERE.
SHE STAYED ON, SHE STAYED OVER THERE.
I BELIEVE THEY JUST REMOVED HER.
REALLY? YEAH, THEY JUST REMOVED HER BECAUSE YOU KNOW, MY WIFE WOULD HELP HER, BUT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANTED TO HELP HER AT THE LIBRARY, BUT THEY ACTUALLY WERE NOT HELPING THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST ENABLING HER TO CONTINUE TO LIVE LIKE THAT.
AND, UM, AND HER FAMILY WAS TRYING TO GET TO HELP HER.
WELL MAYBE SHE, THEY MAYBE THEY GOT THROUGH BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SHE HAD ALL THEM BAGS AND ALL THAT STUFF.
YOU KNOW, THE TIRE PLACE DISCOUNTS.
SHE HAD TO, IT WAS A CUMULATIVE FOR HER.
SHE, WELL, PEOPLE GAVE HER BLANKETS AND COATS.
WE DON'T NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS.
BUT ANYWAY, IT, IT'S AN ISSUE.
THAT'S WHAT I'M, SO, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE, THESE REQUEST, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY WOULD NEED EVERYTHING THAT THEY WOULD GIVE BECAUSE JUST, THERE'S SO MUCH NEED FOR THAT.
I MEAN, WHETHER IT'S, YOU SAY TRANSIT OR, UH, IT'S ALL KINDS, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE JUST NEED HELP FOR TWO DAYS, ONE DAY MAKE, LET ME MAKE IT TO TODAY.
AND UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE JUST, WE LOOK AT NUMBERS AND THINGS, BUT THE REALITY OF IT IS THAT THERE IS PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE STRUGGLING EVERY DAY.
WHETHER WE KNOW IT OR NOT, OR WHETHER, YOU KNOW, THE, OUR FUNDS I THINK ARE WORKING FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE.
AND I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE FUND THAT WE SUBTRACT 8,200 FROM THEIR REQUESTS.
AND THAT'S THE AMOUNT FOR CONTRACTED SERVICES FOR TRAINING FIVE AND THE 500 FORS.
SO THAT LEAVES US JUST ON THE PUBLIC SERVICE SIDE WITH 15,401 THAT YOU CAN PUT ANYWHERE.
DOES THAT TAKE OUT THE 5,000 THAT WE'RE OVER THIS? THIS DID THE MATH FOR ME.
I'M NOT SURE ABOUT YOUR 5,000.
I LET, I LET EXCEL TO THE MATH FOR ME
SO ONCE WE HAVE THE FUNDING FOR ALL THOSE PROGRAMS THERE, WE HAVE $15,401 THAT WE CAN ADD TO ANOTHER PROGRAM.
UM, OR YOU CAN ADD IT TO THE HOUSING PROGRAMS. YOU CAN ADD IT TO THE SHOES, TO
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THE TRANSPORTATION, TO THE JOB READINESS TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.UM, IT'S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU.
WE, WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT THE REHABILITATION.
WELL, RIGHT NOW WE'RE ONLY DOING THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES.
OH, SO, SO THE MONEY FROM, FROM REHABILITATION CAN'T BE OH, YOU, OH, WE CAN TALK ABOUT HERE, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BAY AREA REHAB.
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT? BUT IT DOESN'T COUNT TOWARD THAT ONE.
THAT, WELL, THAT WAS MY QUESTION.
IT'S ALL CDBG, BUT IT'S JUST, WE CAN ONLY SPEND THAT MUCH ON PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES.
SO 15,000, MAYBE 5,003 DIFFERENT.
LIKE WHAT WE WANNA DO THAT WAY.
SHOULD WE GO GET RHONDA? OH YEAH,
WHY WAS SHE, HOW COME SHE STEPPED OUT? SHE'S ON THE BOARD OF TALENT YIELD.
SO SHE CAN'T REALLY BE A PART OF THE DECISION MAKING WHEN IT COMES TO PROVIDING THEM WITH FUNDING.
THEY'RE NOT GETTING I DID THAT THOUGH.
Y'ALL ALREADY PUT ME OUT BEHIND THAT.
Y'ALL ALREADY PUT ME OUT ON THAT ONE.
SO THEY COME TO FIND OUT, NAH, THAT FOLKS, SO WE'VE GOT 15,000 AND WE TOOK, WE TOOK FUNDING AWAY FROM TWO OF THE OTHERS.
SO WE GOT TWO LEFT TO DIVIDE THE 15,000 BETWEEN.
IS THAT RIGHT? I I I HAVE NO IDEA.
I'M JUST GOING BY WHAT THIS WORD, THIS EXCEL DOCUMENT IS TELLING ME HERE.
WELL, BUT WE'RE NOT FUNDING BAY AREA COUNCIL.
SO IT'S TRANSPORTATION, SHOES AND COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY AND SCHOOLS PLUS THREE.
DO YOU WANT TO PUT, DO WE WANT TO PUT FIVE IN EACH? WHAT WOULD THAT DO? WHERE WOULD WE, YOU KNOW, WHERE WOULD WE PUT IT IN EACH JOB? WELL, FOR THE SHOES IT'S JUST FOR SHOES.
SO $5,000, I'D PROBABLY PUT ALL 50 COULD BE A HUNDRED MORE.
WE COULD LIKE, INSTEAD OF TARGET 300 KIDS, IT COULD BE LIKE 600.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING TO YOU ABOUT EARLIER.
I SAID, I MEAN THAT'S STILL NOT A LOT.
THEY DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY THEN THEY NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF PROPOSALS.
SO BY ADDING 5,000 TO THE DUE BUDGET, THAT WOULD PROVIDE US WITH A HUNDRED ADDITIONAL VOUCHERS.
IF WE DID THE VOUCHERS AT $50 EACH.
SO INSTEAD OF ASSISTING 300 KIDS WITH VOUCHERS FOR SCHOOL TO BUY SHOES, THEN WE'D BE ASSISTING 400.
WELL, WHAT I WAS REALLY THINKING WAS, UH, WE DON'T WANNA PUT TOO MUCH IN, BECAUSE WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO FUND HERE ANYWHERE NEAR THAT.
THAT WE WOULD BE SETTING A PRECEDENT.
SO, WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS WITH CDBG IS THAT YOUR PROGRAM HAS TO BE SUSTAINABLE WITH OR WITHOUT OUR FUNDING.
SO IF NEXT YEAR WE DO HAVE TO LOWER THE AMOUNT, IT IS WHAT IT'S BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO, IF, 'CAUSE OUR FUNDS CAN GET CUT AT ANY TIME.
AND THEN NO ONE'S GONNA BE ABLE TO FUND, YOU KNOW, SO WE DON'T WANT THESE PROGRAMS TO DISAPPEAR.
SO YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN YOURSELF.
IF WE DON'T FIND, THIS IS JUST LIKE, WE'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT HEARTS AND HANDS BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY'RE GONNA MAKE IT.
THAT'S KIND OF THE SAME THING.
BUT, BUT WE DON'T KNOW THAT SHOES WOULD MAKE IT.
WELL WE MANAGE THE PROGRAM IN HOUSE.
SO IF THEY GET RID OF THE GRANT, THEY GET RID OF FOUR EMPLOYEES TOO.
BUT, UM, BUT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT INCREASING, LET'S SAY COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS BY ANOTHER 5,000.
'CAUSE IF WE DID 5,000 PER PROGRAM, RIGHT? YEAH.
BUT, BUT HOW DO WE, HERE'S AN ISSUE.
DO WE KNOW THAT THEY WANT IT OR THAT THEY CAN USE IT? ARE THEY SET UP TO ACCEPT? 'CAUSE THAT'S A, THAT'S A PRETTY BIG, THAT'S ALMOST DOUBLE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
ISN IT WHAT I, I THINK IF THEY'RE GONNA BE EXPANDING THEIR PROGRAM TO INCLUDE THOSE CLASSES IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS, THEN YEAH, THEY CAN DEFINITELY USE IT.
WELL ISN'T THAT WHAT FRANK, YOU KIND OF SAID EARLIER, I WOULD SHARE THAT CONCERN.
WILL THEY BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE 5,000? YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
CAN THEY DO THAT? WELL, WE CAN ALWAYS PUT THAT IN HOUSING.
UNDERSTAND FOR THE SAKE OF GIVING, LET'S FIND A HUNDRED ADDITIONAL KICKS WITH YOU FOR SURE.
AND MAYBE LET'S GIVE, LET'S GIVE COMMUNITIES TO SCHOOLS 25 MORE.
I'M TRYING TO LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE SPENDING IT ON.
THAT'S THE CLASSES THAT THEY PROVIDE.
UM, KAREN, CAN YOU REMIND US ALL WHAT ANY UNSPENT FUNDS GO TO NEXT YEAR? HOUSING? EVERYTHING THAT THESE NONPROFITS DON'T SPEND.
IT GOES TO HOUSING, IT GOES BACK INTO THE POT OF MONEY AND THEN THAT POT GOES INTO THE
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HOUSING PROGRAMS. I WOULDN'T EVEN, WELL THAT'S DEFINITELY NEEDED.I MEAN THAT'S OKAY WITH, THAT'S I WOULD SAY LET'S, LET'S NOT GIVE THEM LIKE 5,000.
LET'S GIVE THEM LIKE 2000 OR 2,500 GRAND.
LET'S, LET'S DISCUSS THE HOUSING PROGRAM.
WITH THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING, WHERE WOULD THAT ENTAIL ANOTHER SEWER LINE? MAYBE FOR ANOTHER FIVE GRAND.
SO THE HOUSING PROGRAMS CONSIST OF THE OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM, SEWER LINE REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
AND THEN OPERATION PAINTBRUSH KIND OF FALLS UNDER REHAB.
SO ALSO WE HAVE SALARIES AND RELATED EXPENSES THAT COME OUT OF THAT AS WELL.
SO WE SPEND, MAYBE ANOTHER THING TOO IS, IS THAT, UM, I WAS GONNA BRING IT UP IN THE MANAGER'S REPORT IS I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING RIGHT NOW OUR MAXIMUM CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR REHABS OR RECONSTRUCTIONS IS A HUNDRED GRAND.
IT'S NOT VERY EASY TO GET SOMEBODY TO BID ON REBUILDING A HOUSE FROM THE GROUND UP FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND BUCKS.
SO I WANT TO INCREASE THAT TO UM, AND I'VE BEEN ACTUALLY, UM, CALLING AROUND TO DIFFERENT CITIES.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, TEXAS CITY SPENDS $190,000.
THAT'S THEIR CAP ON RECONSTRUCTION AND THEY GET WAY LESS MONEY THAN WE DO.
BUT THEY HAD A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY LEFT OVER FROM PREVIOUS YEARS.
TOLD ONE CITY THAT OURS OUR CAP IS A HUNDRED.
THEY'RE LIKE, HOW DO YOU BUILD ANYTHING? I WAS LIKE, WELL WE'RE LUCKY TO WHERE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, CONTRACTORS THAT WILL BID ON OUR PROJECTS.
BUT UM, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THOSE TWO CONTRACTORS THOUGH, WE PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO ANY RECONSTRUCTIONS.
SO I DO WANNA LOOK TO INCREASE THAT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE SPEND ABOUT ONE 15 PER PROJECT.
THAT'S A HUNDRED FOR THE COST OF THE HOUSE.
PLUS ABOUT 15 GRAND FOR THE FENCE AND THE FLAT WORK, WHICH IS THE DRIVEWAY AND THE SIDEWALKS AND THINGS.
SO WE SPEND, SO 5,000 WON'T MAKE A STENT, NOT IN REHAB, BUT WE COULD DO AN ADDITIONAL SEWER LINE PROJECT.
UM, AND ANOTHER THING I WANT INCREASE IS OUR DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE.
WE ONLY OFFER 5% OF UH, THE SALES PRICE OF THE PROPERTY.
BUT THE MAXIMUM SALES PRICE IS $180,000.
CAN YOU FIND A HOUSE FOR $180,000 NOW? SO I WANNA INCREASE OUR MAXIMUM SALES PRICE, WHICH WOULD INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I CAN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHERE RIGHT NOW SAY YES, I'LL BUY THAT HOME.
OR SOMETHING THAT WELL I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE IF YOU SAY YOU GIVE IT TO UM, A SCIENTIST AT CIS, UM, THEN IF THEY DON'T SPEND IT NEXT YEAR, IT'LL GO INTO HOUSING.
SO IF UM, HEARTS AND HAND DOESN'T SPEND ALL THEIR 9,000, WHATEVER'S LEFT, WE'LL GO TO HOUSING HERE.
SO RIGHT HERE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS, I'M SURE IT'S NOT JUST LOST.
WELL ISN'T THAT THE SAME THING? IF IT DIDN'T, WE, WE DON'T GET IT TO A SEWER LINE.
UNENDED FUNDS A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
SO WE ESTIMATE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE BUSINESS.
SO FROM THIS YEAR, UM, AND I KNOW AT LEAST WITH ON GO MAN, I MEAN THIS YEAR WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE NO LAST YEAR, LAST YEAR WAS WHEN WE HAD A LOT OF SALARY SAVINGS.
'CAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR LIKE SIX MONTHS.
SO WE HAD SALARY SAVINGS, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT IF THEY DON'T GET, OH, I'M SORRY.
SO WHATEVER DOESN'T GET SPENT, THERE'S A, WE CANNOT ALLOCATE THAT 10,000 JUST SPEAKING.
UM, WE CANNOT ALLOCATE THAT 10,000 TO SUBSTANDARD.
SUBSTANDARD IS ONLY THE SALARIES AND RELATED EXPENSES.
IT, WE DON'T ACTUALLY DEMOLISH HOMES.
THE CITY PAYS FOR THE DEMOLITIONS NOW BECAUSE WE DON'T GET ENOUGH IN CDBG.
IT WAS BACK WHEN WE GOT MILLIONS THAT THE CITY THAT WE PAID FOR IT.
BUT THAT'S WHY WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO LOWER THE SUBSTANDARD BUDGET FROM THE CURRENT NUMBER TO THE PROPOSED ONE FOR NEXT YEAR BECAUSE IT'S ONLY SALARIES COMING OUT OF THERE.
BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE SALARIES COMING OUT OF TRANSPORTATION AND SO YOU HAVE TO THINK 70% OF THE MONEY THAT WE SPEND IN TOTAL HAS TO GO TO BENEFIT LOW TO MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES IN BAYTOWN THAT NUMBER, THAT 75 GRAND, ANYTHING IN SUBSTANDARD THAT'S NOT A PART OF THAT 70%.
SO I WOULD RATHER SPEND LESS THAN THAT THAN AND MORE IN SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY BENEFITS THE LOW MOD FAMILIES.
BECAUSE THEN WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT WE'RE GONNA MEET OUR 70% MINIMUM IF WE'RE SPENDING MORE MONEY IN TRANSPORTATION OR MORE MONEY IN HOUSING OR MORE MONEY IN COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THAT'S BASICALLY THE CLEARANCE OF BLIGHTED STRUCTURES.
BUT THAT'S NOT ONLY IN LOW MOD AREAS, RIGHT? THAT'S EVERYWHERE.
LAKEWOOD HAS LOW MOD, HAS BLIGHTED STRUCTURES, UM, COUNTRY CLUB OAKS, YOU KNOW ALL OF THOSE.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE ONLY USING TOWARD THAT TOO THIS YEAR.
I KNOW THIS TOOK OUT TOO THIS YEAR.
IS THERE A RATING LIST FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM? I IMAGINE THERE IS.
IS THERE A WHAT? A RATING LIST? NO, NO.
WHEN WE TOOK OVER THE PROGRAM, WE ACTUALLY, SO WHEN WE GOT THE PROGRAM BACK, WE DID AN AUDIT OF ALL OF THE APPLICANTS THAT WERE ON THERE.
SO WHEN WE TOOK THE PROGRAM BACK, IT HAD 121 CLIENTS.
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AN AUDIT.MIND YOU THIS IS ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE THAT WERE HELPING.
SOME OF THEM DECEASED NO LONGER LIVE IN BAYTOWN, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
SO AFTER THE AUDIT WE ONLY HAD 81 CLIENTS LEFT.
AND WE'VE BEEN BUILDING THAT NUMBER BACK.
BUT WE ARE BUILDING THAT NUMBER BACK.
SO NOW THERE, THERE USED TO BE BACK IN THE DAY, YEAH, THERE WAS A WAITING LIST.
NOW IF WE DID INCREASE THE BUDGET FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO IS INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE PUT ON PEOPLE'S RIDES CARDS RIGHT NOW.
SO HARRIS COUNTY RIDES MATCHES US.
SO EVERY MONTH WE WILL PUT $300 ON YOUR RIDES CARD.
BUT WE DON'T GIVE YOU 300 JUST OFF THE JOB EVERY MONTH AT THE END OF THE MONTH WE RUN A REPORT.
IF YOU HAVE $50 LEFT ON YOUR RIDES CARD, WE'RE GONNA ADD TWO 50 AND WE'RE GONNA GET YOU BACK TO THAT $300 AMOUNT.
BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY ONLY ADDING ONE 50 HARRIS COUNTY RIDES MATCHES US THE OTHER 150.
THE PROBLEM IS WE HAD A CLIENT CALL A COUPLE WEEKS BACK, IT COST $147 ROUND TRIP FOR HIM TO GO TO THE MEDICAL CENTER AND COME BACK HOME.
SO IF HE'S GOING TO THE MED CENTER FOR DIALYSIS, IT'S TWO TRIPS.
WHAT IF HE HAS TO GO MULTIPLE TIMES? SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN ALWAYS DO IS, IS INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE PUT ON PEOPLE'S RIDES CARDS.
THAT WAY THEY CAN TAKE MORE OF THE TAXI RIDES INTO HOUSTON BECAUSE HARRIS COUNTY RIDES ARE THE ONES THAT CONTRACT WITH THESE TAXI PROVIDERS.
WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TAXI.
WE CAN'T CALL 'EM AND SAY HEY, LOWER RATES.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THAT'S EXACTLY EXPENSIVE FOR A TAXI RIDE.
AND WHY WOULD, WAS IT ACTUALLY FOR DIALYSIS? IT'S, WE ACTUALLY CAN SEE WHERE YOU GET PICKED UP AND WHERE YOU GET DROPPED OFF.
WHY GO TO HOUSTON? GO TO HOUSTON? I CAN'T.
I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT YOU NO, BUT I WANTED TO ASK, JUST TELL YOU THAT.
I CAN TELL YOU, WE CAN ACTUALLY SHOW YOU HOW MUCH IT COSTS PER RIDE PER PERSON.
WE CAN RUN SOMETHING CALLED A DETAILED TRIP REPORT AND SEE WHERE YOU GET PICKED UP.
'CAUSE YOU'RE ONLY, IF YOU ARE USING THE TAXI TO LEAVE BAYTOWN, IT'S ONLY FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED INSURANCE THAT ONLY THAT'S TRUE.
WELL IN THAT CASE THEN HE COULD DEFINITELY USE THE INCREASE ON YOUR CARD.
MM-HMM BECAUSE, AND WE'LL GIVE IT TO THEM.
WE DO IT ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
'CAUSE HE ACTUALLY CALLED KIM AND HE WAS WORRIED THAT HE WAS GONNA RUN OUT OF MONEY AND WE'RE ONLY IN THE FIRST WEEK OF THE MONTH.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU GOT FOUR WEEKS, THAT'S UNTIL WE GO YOUR PART AGAIN.
OKAY, LET'S PUT MORE IN THE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM.
WHAT OFTEN I THINK IT IS WHAT WE DO.
WHERE THIS OUT THERE, WE DO THAT 10,000 DIVIDED BY HALF GIVE HALF TO TRANSPORTATION.
THE OTHER HALF TO HOUSING PROGRAMS. SO FIVE AND FIVE.
THE REMAINING FUNDS GOES TOWARDS HOUSE HOUSING PROGRAM.
NO, WE STILL GOTTA DO SUBSTANDARD.
ARE WE GONNA FUND SUBSTANDARD THE SAME? I'M SORRY.
OKAY, SO NOW WE'RE JUST STARTING AT THE TOP.
I HAVE MYSELF, UM, BAY AREA REHAB CENTER, PATSY'S DESTINY, WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE PLAYGROUND.
THAT PLAYGROUND, THEY ACTUALLY USED CDBG FUNDS TO BUILD THAT PLAYGROUND ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO.
AND THEN THEY CAME BACK IN 2021.
A LOT OF FUNDING, A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SO LAST YEAR WE PROVIDED THEM WITH $5,000 FOR THEM TO START REFURBISHING THE PROGRAM, THE, THE PLAYGROUND.
AND THIS YEAR, NOW THEY'RE ASKING FOR AN ADDITIONAL 15,000 TO CONTINUE ON WITH THE PROJECT.
NOW MR. KATES DID SEND AN EMAIL, I PRINTED THOSE OUT TO WALL SO Y'ALL CAN LOOK AT THEM, UM, AND SEE, UM, 'CAUSE HE WANTED TO KIND OF GO MORE INTO DETAIL ON IF THEY DON'T RECEIVE THE FUNDING.
BECAUSE I KNOW THAT ONE OF THE CONCERNS WAS THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ALL OF THEIR FUNDING SECURED BEFORE THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT.
SO THEY MIGHT SECURE THIS 15,000 FROM US, BUT THEY MIGHT NOT USE IT.
AND THIS IS, YOU HAVE OCTOBER 1ST AND SEPTEMBER 30TH, IT'S YOU USE THE MONEY.
SO I KNOW THAT THAT WAS A CONCERN WITH SOMEBODY.
ISN'T THAT ONE OF OUR, OUR CRITERIA IS THAT IF YOU DON'T GET FUNDED BY US, THE PROJECT STILL IS VIABLE.
BUT HE AND HE HAS AND HIS LIST, HE HAS A LIST OF ALL THESE OTHER PRO UM, SOURCES OF FUNDING THAT THEY'RE NOT, NONE OF THEM ARE SECURED SECURED YET.
SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROGRAM THAT WAS HELPING ALL THE, UH, THE OLDER PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WITH HAD PROBLEMS WITH THEIR SEWERS OR THEY NEEDED LITTLE HELP RAMPS AND THEY DIDN'T APPLY.
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THING ABOUT PATSY'S DESTINY PLAYGROUND.I MEAN THAT'S THEIR CLIENTELE THAT THEY SERVE, RIGHT? THEY, THEY, WELL I DON'T KNOW ABOUT NOW, BUT THEY USED TO HAVE LIKE AN ECI PROGRAM AND THEY ALSO HAVE A PEDIATRIC THERAPY PROGRAM.
AND THEY'VE GOT THAT JUNIOR OLYMPIC SIZED POOL INDOORS THAT THEY CAN USE FOR THERAPY.
UM, THEY GET A LOT OF KIDDOS IN THERE FOR, FOR SERVICES WHO ARE UM, WHO HAVE DISABILITIES.
AND THIS PRO PLAYGROUND WOULD BE, AND THIS PLAYGROUND IS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.
I JUST, I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW MANY, HOW DO WE KNOW THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO USE UTILIZE THIS PLAYGROUND? SIMILAR TO THE QUESTIONS WE'VE ASKED FOR SOME OF THE OTHER, UH, GRANTS APPLICATIONS.
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE BAYTOWN RESIDENTS? LOW TO MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES? THE PLAYGROUND WOULDN'T BE, WE WOULDN'T MEASURE THE METRICS ON THAT PERSON BY PERSON.
IT'S NOT, IT'S A MONT AREA BENEFIT.
SO WHAT WE DO IS BECAUSE THAT PLAYGROUND, ANYBODY CAN GO TO IT.
SO WHAT WE DO IS, IS WE LOOK AT THE CENSUS INFORMATION FOR THAT AREA.
AND THEN SO THAT AREA IS MONT? YES.
THE VILLAGE IS RIGHT UP THE STREET.
THERE'S THOSE OTHER, BUT THOSE ARE OUTSIDE STATE LIMITS.
THE, THE DUPLEXES THAT ARE ON HOUSING.
BUT YOU ACTUALLY WOULD LOOK AT THE CENSUS INFORMATION FOR THAT AREA AND THEN WE BASE IT ON THE AREA.
SAME ANYTIME WE FUND THE PARK, WE DON'T LOOK AT LIKE THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON THEN GET THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS.
WE LOOK AT THE AREA AS A WHOLE TO SEE IF THE PEOPLE IN THAT AREA SURROUNDING THE PARK ARE ROLE MODERN INCOME.
I HAVE MY FEELING OF THIS ONE IS, IT'S A, IT'S A WORTHY PROJECT.
I MEAN IT'S A PROJECT THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE USED HOWEVER, KIND OF LIKE HEARTS AND HANDS.
AND THEN THE OTHER PART OF IT IS HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OTHER FUNDING.
HE CAN'T SHOW THAT HE'S ACTUALLY, AND SOME OF THOSE FUNDS ARE GONNA TAKE LONGER THAN WE HAVE, I THINK TO GET, GO THROUGH THESE COMPANIES TO GET FUNDING FROM THESE COMPANIES.
OUR FUNDING PERIOD IS GONNA BE OVER BEFORE HE KNOWS WHETHER OR NOT HE'S GOT ALL OF HIS FUNDING TOGETHER TO FUND THIS PLAYGROUND.
SO I'M A LITTLE HESITANT ON PROVIDING THIS, EVEN THOUGH I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA.
IT'S JUST NOT SOMETHING I'M SURE IS WITHIN OUR BUDGET YEAR CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.
AND THEY'VE GOT THAT, THAT ORIGINAL SORT OF PLAYGROUND THAT THEY'RE GONNA BUILD OR WANT OTHER STRUCTURES AROUND.
BUT THAT ORIGINAL ONE THAT'S BEEN THERE FOR 20 YEARS WITH NO, WELL THE GAZEBO I GUESS WAS LIKE A, ONE OF THE UNITED DAY WAY OR CARE DAY OF HEARING OR SOMEBODY BUILT THAT.
BUT UM, BUT THE ORIGINAL PLAYGROUND, THEY HAVEN'T DONE MUCH TO IT IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.
I JUST THINK THAT'S INTERESTING.
LAST YEAR THEY DID REFURBISH SOME OF IT.
WELL THEY, BUT THEY ASKED FOR MORE AND WE GET, WE ONLY GAVE THEM FIVE.
I JUST, I KIND OF FEEL LIKE CATHERINE, I THINK THEY'RE, WELL THERE IS TRAVIS ELEMENTARY THAT DOES HAVE IT ON INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND.
AH, BUT THIS PLAYGROUND ALSO IS FOR SOME OF THE KIDS THAT GO TO THAT REHAB CENTER TOO.
SOME OF THE KIDS WHO GO THERE.
OH, I'M JUST, I I HAVE NO SAY.
WHAT DO YOU THINK TONY? I'M THINKING
I LIKE THE FACT THAT, UM, THAT KNOW THAT EQUIPMENT IS SUCCESSFUL TO CHILDREN THAT ARE GONNA BE, I KNOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH.
WE'RE NOT HOUSTON, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH IN BIG TIME.
I THINK THAT BE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE WELL ONE DAY AND CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN.
I THINK IT'S BENEFICIAL TO KIDS WITH DISABILITIES.
I MEAN 'CAUSE EVEN IF HE DOESN'T RECEIVE ALL THE FUNDING THAT HE NEEDS, THIS WILL JUST GO TO WHAT THE HOUSING PROGRAM THEN DOES THAT WORK? WELL, HE'LL GET THE, IF IF YOU DECIDE TO GRANT HIM THE MONEY THIS YEAR,
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YOU'LL HAVE THOSE FUNDS AVAILABLE.IF THEY DON'T SPEND THEM BY SEPTEMBER 30TH, THAT WILL GO BACK INTO THAT UNEXPENDED FUNDS POT.
THE, THEY CAN'T SPEND ANY MONEY PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1ST OR 23 AND THEY CAN'T SPEND IT.
WELL THEY CAN SPEND WHAT THEY WANT AFTER SEPTEMBER 30TH, BUT I'M NOT REIMBURSING THEM FOR IT.
SO, BUT IF THEY DO GET THOSE OTHER GRANTS FROM THOSE OTHER AGENCIES, THEN THE MONEY WILL BE SPENT.
I HOPE SEE, COME TO FRUITION THAT TO PEOPLE.
A LOT OF TIMES THEY JUST GO HOME AND THERE'S NOTHING FOR THEM TO DO.
SO, SO PLACE LIKE THIS AND IT BENEFITS THE, JUST THE THE RETAIL COMMUNITY, RIGHT? YEAH.
HOW WILL THEY KNOW ABOUT IT? I KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE WHO GO THERE WILL KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT HOW WILL OTHER CHILDREN WHO NEED THIS PLAYGROUND KNOW ABOUT IT? I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY IT WOULD, IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
BUT HOW DO THEY KNOW ABOUT IT? I'M SURE THROUGH THE SCHOOL AS WELL.
'CAUSE ANY TIME YOU HAVE A, THEY DID SAY THAT THEY HAVE GOOSE CREEK SCHOOL.
I MEAN WE ALL KNOW KIDS THAT ARE HANDICAPPED AND, AND I'M SURE THEY HAVE LIKE THEIR OWN COMMUNITY OF WORK.
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN COMMUNITY OF, YOU KNOW, CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES THAT BY WORD OF MOUTH ALSO WILL BE SPREADING WORD.
I THINK THE, I THINK THE PLAYGROUND WILL BE WONDERFUL WHEN I'M JUST NOT REALLY IN FAVOR OF PUTTING $15,000 OF CBDG MONEY AT PLAYGROUND.
AND HE HAS NO OTHER FUNDS AT THIS TIME.
BUT I THINK HE SAID HE HAS UNTIL JUNE 30TH.
LIKE TO HEAR BACK FROM SOME OF THEM.
HE HAS 5,000 FROM JUNIOR PACIFIC RIGHT NOW.
THE REST ARE PENDING THOUSAND DOLLARS OF GRANTS PENDING.
AND I THINK IT WAS LIKE JUNE 30TH OR SOMETHING OR THAT YOU SENT, BUT PART OF THAT IS THE ONE THAT YOU GET ON A LIST AND THEN YOU MAY GET MORE OH YEAH.
SO THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT REALLY AND PART THAT'S NOT REALLY TEMPING YOU AN EXTRA HUNDRED GRAND OFF OF THAT.
AND THAT WOULD BE LIKE TWO FIVE.
UM, AND THE PHASE ONE, THEY'RE EXPECTING TO BE ABOUT 200.
SO DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MAKE A MOTION THAT I SECOND IT.
MARISSA SECONDED A BOTH A, A FOUR TWO.
SUB STANDARD STRUCTURES ABATEMENT PROGRAM SALARIES AND RELATED EXPENSES FOR THE DEMOLITION AND HOUSING INSPECTOR TO OVERSEE THE DEMOLITION OF VACANT SUBSTANDARD BUILDING THROUGHOUT THE CITY LIMITS OF BAYTOWN AND WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AREA.
I SAY YES TO WHAT THEY REQUEST.
I'M STARTING TO SEE THE IMPACT OF MY DISTRICT ABOUT, UM, SUBSTANDARD STRUCTURES.
AND I'M NOT SEEING ANY BECAUSE YOU LIVE ON THE FANCY SIDE OF THE STATE STREET
WHO'S THE NEW PERSON? CODY? HE WAS AT THE MEETING LAST WEEK.
I AM NOT SEEING ANYTHING IN MINE TODAY.
YOU TELL ME IF THERE'S A VACANT, SUBSTANDARD BUILDING IN THERE AND WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL HAVE CODY GO OUT THERE AND INVESTIGATE.
DO YOU HAVE THE CITY? IF IT'S OCCUPIED, WE'LL SEND A CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
YOU HAVE THE CITY APP ON YOUR PHONE.
IT'S EASY TO HAVE A C APP ON YOUR PHONE AND YOU CAN REPORT SOMETHING RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S WHAT, AND YOU TAKE A PICTURE AND UPLOAD IT WITH YOUR WELL YOU, YOU CAN, YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE HOW MUCH, HOW MANY PICTURES WE'VE SENT YOU CANNOT IMAGINE HOW MUCH.
BUT DID YOU SEND 'EM TO THE RIGHT PLACE? TALK TO BRANDON.
DID YOU USE, IF YOU WENT TO THE TOP
YOU DON'T, DON'T TALK, TALK TO SOMEBODY THAT GETS THE WORK DONE.
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YES.OPPOSED? NIP NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
THAT IS FOR SALARIES AND WELL IT'S A VERY, I THINK IT'S LIKE 10% OF THAT IS SALARIES.
PROBABLY ABOUT 25% OF THAT IS SALARIES.
AND THEN WE UM, HOST OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP EVENTS THAT BOBBY HAS COME AND WORKED AT.
AND I WISH ALL OF YOU WOULD COME AND WORK AT THESE EVENTS WITH US.
WE GO UM, SIT, DELEGATE, SIT THERE, DIRECT TRAFFIC, BUT UM, ACTUALLY ALL PULLED OUT FOR YOU.
I WAS REMEMBER SEE I ALMOST WENT HOME.
I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
WE UM, BUT THAT IS TO PAY FOR UM, ANYTHING THAT WE DO.
SO YOU KNOW, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS PELLY.
SO THE TREE STREETS, YUKON OAK, ELM, WILLOW BOLSTER.
I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MISSED ONE.
I JUST LOVE HOW BIG THIS MAP IS THAT YOU'RE
SO IT'S THE TREES RIGHT HERE AND THEN BEHIND BAYTOWN SEA.
SO, UM, WE'VE ALREADY DONE QUITE A FEW, ABOUT THREE TRASH OFFS IN THAT AREA.
AND THEN WE DID THE DO MORE THREE PLUS PARTNERSHIPS.
FAMILY FAITH, FAMILY VOLUNTEER DAY.
I WILL NOT ASK YOU TO COME OUT AND WORK IN JULY WHEN FAITH FAMILY DOES THERE.
'CAUSE THAT'S JUST NOT NICE TO HAVE PEOPLE PICKING UP FOR LUNCH TO THE HOT SUN IN JULY.
BUT, UM, SO THAT COVERS, UM, A PORTION OF THAT IS SALARIES AND THEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP EVENTS.
AND IF WE WERE TO ATTEND ANY MEETINGS, UM, ANY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS AND WE PROVIDE ANYTHING FOR THOSE MEETINGS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO YOU WOULDN'T LOOK AT THAT
SO MY AGE 5,000 WAS PUT INTO THE HOUSING PROGRAMS. SO ALL WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE HAVE LEFT IS 2 0 3 1 71 OF THE OVERALL BUDGET.
THE OVERALL BUDGET, WE HAVE 2 0 3.
SO IF WE WERE TO FUND, AND I'M JUST GONNA PUT THIS IN HERE.
THAT IS FOR THE OVERALL ADMINISTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK, GRANT FUNDS, REPORTING, ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS, ALL OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE DO ON THE BACK END TO KEEP THESE PROGRAMS GOING AND TO KEEP THE FUNDS COMING IN FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IS THAT 1 35 AT THE 20% CAP? NO, THE CAP IS ACTUALLY 1 48 9 81.
SO I'M NOT GONNA ASK FOR IT IF WE DON'T NEED IT.
AND IT'S ALWAYS SCARY WHEN WE GET CLOSE TO THE CAP BECAUSE IF FOR WHATEVER REASON YOU EXCEED THAT CAP, YOU CAN GET IN TROUBLE.
SO, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO I'D RATHER STAY UNDER THE CAP THAN FLIRT.
LIKE I DON'T WANT TO TOE THE LINE.
SO, SO I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING WHY THERE'S THAT MONEY LEFT OVER AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH IT.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT TO ME? WE DIDN'T FULLY FUND SOME PROJECTS.
I'M SORRY, WHAT? WE DIDN'T FULLY FUND SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.
SO, AND THIS IS ONLY SHOWING 1 78.
ONCE I ADD THIS 1 35 RIGHT HERE, WE HAVE $43,171 LEFT.
AND THAT'S TO MEET OUR TOTAL AVAILABLE ESTIMATE.
MM-HMM
SO WE STILL HAVE THAT MUCH LEFT SO WE CAN THROW IT INTO HOUSING.
WE CAN'T THROW MORE THAN $5,000 INTO A PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITY.
THAT 5,000 WAS JUST SITTING THERE TO TELL US THAT WE CAN'T PUT EXCEED THAT OR ELSE WE'LL GO OVER OUR CAP.
I GUESS WITH THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES, I DON'T REALLY NEED ANY MORE MONEY AND, AND PROGRAM ADMIN UNLESS I GET A BIG RAISE, WHICH ISN'T HAPPENING.
SO, UM, AND THAT'S FOUR PEOPLE'S SALARIES COMING.
HOW ABOUT WE GET RAISES GET PAID.
WHAT ABOUT YOU GET PAID BY SEEING THE KIDS GET THE SHOE VOUCHERS? EXACTLY.
LET'S VOUCHERS TRANSPORTATION.
IT'S A TRANSPORTATION AND THAT'S ALL WE CAN ADD, RIGHT? NO, WE HAVE, WE STILL HAVE 5,000 THAT WE CAN PUT IN, BUT WE'RE STILL GONNA HAVE MORE MONEY LEFT BECAUSE EVEN IF WE WERE, WE HAVE 5,400.
I THOUGHT I ADDED THAT INTO HOUSING.
SO IT'S JUST OH, BECAUSE THIS IS SUBTRACTING FROM HERE.
SO YEAH, SO SO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ANY WHATEVER YOU SAID THAT'S THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE CAME UP TO, GOT THE NUMBERS EVERY TIME.
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ELSE MAN, WE'RE LESS, WE HAD A CUT.WE HAVE FEW OPTIMISTS DIDN'T APPLY.
BARRIER HOMELESS DIDN'T APPLY.
AND THOSE ARE LIKE, THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO APPLY ALL THE TIME.
I WONDER WHY I, I KNOW THAT BARRIER HOMELESS HAD A CHANGE IN STAFF.
SO I'M WONDERING IF THE NEW PERSON THAT NOW MANAGES THEIR PROGRAM ISN'T AWARE OF THIS.
THEY DID ATTEND THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP THAT WE DID AND I HOPED THAT THEY WOULD REACH OUT SO THAT I CAN, YOU KNOW, TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT WASN'T A BAD PROGRAM.
UM, OPTIMIST, I'M SURE WE KNOW WHY.
UM, AND HARTS, UH, HARTS AND HIS LOVE NETWORK OF BAYTOWN IS CURRENTLY RESTRUCTURING.
UM, THEY, UM, ARE BETH THOMPSON, WHO WAS THE PREVIOUS DIRECTOR, HAS ACTUALLY COME BACK BRIEFLY.
SO, UM, TO HELP THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND, UH, WHO DID THAT HAND TO THE CARPENTER OR WHATEVER THAT WAS THE NETWORK WOULD BE, THAT WAS LOVE NETWORK.
SO WHAT, WHAT UM, WHAT CAN WE PUT MONEY INTO? THE SAFEST BED IS ALWAYS HOUSING.
LET'S DO HOUSING JUST BECAUSE THAT 70%, THAT HAS TO GO TO LOW TO MODERATE INCOME FAMILY.
SO IF WE WERE TO PUT THAT INTO, LET'S SAY SUBSTANDARD DOESN'T COUNT TOWARD THAT 70%, DOES IT GO INTO THE DOWN PAYMENT PROGRAM? YEAH.
IT, IT WOULD GO TOWARD ANYTHING IN OUR HOUSING PROGRAM.
ALRIGHT, I GOT A MATH SOME MORE.
PLUS YOU'RE GONNA BEAT ME ON THE CALCULATOR.
SHARON THERE GO, IF THEY WANTED TO, COULD THEY REALLOCATE THAT 5,400 BACK INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES? I'D SAY DO 5,000 JUST SO THAT WE'RE NOT TOO CLOSE TO THE CAPITAL.
IT'S GONNA HELP THE COMMUNITY.
I MEAN THAT, THAT, THAT NEVER HAVE ENOUGH FUNDING, RIGHT.
TO HELP THE COMMUNITY TO HELP ANOTHER PERSON IN A HELP AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE CAN IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO IF YOU DO ANOTHER FIVE, THAT'S 500 KICKS.
YOU KNOW HOW MANY KIDS WE HAVE THAT ARE LOAD THEM ON IN BAYTOWN.
SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT, I ACTUALLY HAD A KID, A STUDENT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY SHOES.
HIS SHOES WERE GOING LIKE FLOPPY, FLOPPY, FLOPPY.
AND THEN I SENT HIM TO THE AND THEY GET HECKLED AND YEAH.
AND THEN THE WHOLE, EVEN THE NURSE DIDN'T HAVE ANY AND THEY HAD SOME SHOES IN THE
HE SAID, I'M NOT PUTTING THOSE ON.
AND, AND ACTUALLY LIKE, OH, SO, SO CAN WE MAYBE HAVE SOMETHING DURING THE YEAR? WE WOULD LIKE TO, RIGHT NOW WE ARE STILL, BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE OUR FIRST YEAR TAKING IT OVER, WE STILL HAVE TO FIND A STORE THAT WOULD WORK WITH US FOR VOUCHERS.
SO I I I KNOW, BUT THAT'S, I UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW, KIDS, THEY OUTGROW THEIR SHOES IN TWO MONTHS.
ARE THEY, ARE THEY, YOU KNOW, THE SHOE FALLS APART OR WHATEVER.
SOMETHING THAT DURING THE YEAR THE SCHOOL COULD REQUEST.
'CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, I'VE WORKED IN SCHOOLS LAST YEAR.
WE ACTUALLY, THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE PROGRAM LAST YEAR WAS FOR THEM TO DO A MIDYEAR BECAUSE I HAVE A 14-YEAR-OLD.
I KNOW THAT IT MIGHT FITTER TODAY, BUT IT WON'T FITTER TOMORROW.
SO WE WERE, THEY LOVE NETWORK WAS SUPPOSED TO DO ONE MIDYEAR, BUT THE WAY THAT THEY WENT ABOUT DOING IT WASN'T VERY, IT WASN'T SUCCESSFUL TO WHERE THEY ONLY GOT EIGHT APPLICANTS.
YEAH, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT EARLIER.
ONCE WE SECURE A VENDOR THAT WILL ACTUALLY WORK WITH US TO DO THE VOUCHER PROGRAM, WE CAN DEFINITELY DO IT TWICE A YEAR.
BUT I'M THINKING, I'M THINKING OF DIFFERENTLY ABOUT IT NOT DOING A PROGRAM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.
CAN YOU DO IT FOR ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS? YEAH.
YOU KNOW, I HAD A FOSTER CHILD, SHE CAME TO ME WITH SHOES LIKE THAT AND SO, YOU KNOW, YES YOU GET MONEY FOR A FOSTER CHILD, BUT EVERYBODY MAYBE A HOMELESS FAMILY OR SOMETHING NEEDS IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR OR AT AN UNUSUAL TIME.
SO CAN THERE BE VOUCHERS THAT CAN BE HANDED OUT AS NEEDED ON THE ADVICE OF WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT, BUT WE ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE LIMIT THAT NUMBER BECAUSE LET'S SAY, LET'S SAY WE DO HAVE 400 VOUCHERS, RIGHT? AND THEN WE HAVE 100 THAT ARE ONLY ON AS NEEDED AND 300 FOR THE KIDS.
BUT THEN WE HAVE 150 COME IN AND THEN THAT LESSONS THAT NEW PAIR OF SHOES FOR THE FIRST DAY.
SO THERE'S A DOWNSIDE TO THAT'S KIND.
THAT WOULD BE WHAT I WOULD THINK OF.
SO IT WOULD BE MAYBE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT WIDELY ADVERTISED OR SOMETHING.
JUST SOMETHING THAT THE PRINCIPALS OR THE COUNSELORS, NURSES KNOW AT THE SCHOOL.
MY ONLY ISSUE I HAVE, IF YOU WANT TO INCREASE BY ANOTHER HUNDRED KIDS IS THAT, CAN YOU MS. SHARON
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AND STEPHANIE, CAN YOU SCREEN 250 APPLICATIONS? WELL, WE'RE GONNA DO 300 THIS YEAR.WE TOLD YOU THAT LAST YEAR, RIGHT? OH, YOU CAN HAND OUT THE VOUCHERS.
OH, I'LL HAND OUT THE VOUCHERS.
OH, YOU SHOW UP TO THAT ONE
SHE GOES SUPPOSED WE SPECIFICALLY HER LIKE, SEND ME THE FLYER AND WE SENT HER THE FLYER AND IT OH, YIKES.
SO WE GOT, WE DO MESS WITH HER NOW.
EITHER THAT OR PUT IT INTO MY NEIGHBOR.
I MEAN, PUT IT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN.
LIKE KIDS THAT PLAY SPORTS CAN'T AFFORD LIKE CLEATS OR BASKETBALL SHOES OR WHATEVER.
NO, AND SERIOUSLY, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
YOU LEAVE, YOU KNOW,
YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY TO, TO BUY YOUR SHOES.
YOU HAPPENS, HAPPENS IN REALITY.
UNFORTUNATELY WE CAN'T FUND EVERYTHING.
BUT WE, I MEAN BUT THAT IS, THAT IS AN ISSUE I'M SURE.
RIGHT? AND I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE GONNA TAKE OVER BECAUSE THE WAY IT WAS, IT WAS, YES, IT WAS THE COUNSELORS, THEN IT WAS THE PARENT EDUCATORS, THEN YOU WENT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND I'M LIKE, WHAT DOES THAT DO? THEY, THEY DON'T HAVE ANY TIME OR HELP OF DO THEY? AND SO VERY FEW PEOPLE GOT ANYTHING.
THEY FINALLY, YOU KNOW, THEY WENT BACK TO THE, THE CS THREES AND SO ON SUPPORT THEM.
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE, AND THAT'S THEIR JOB.
THAT'S THEIR JOB IS JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, YOU KNOW, PARENT EDUCATORS ARE THERE FOR THE KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS, YOU KNOW, SO, AND THERE MIGHT BE A BIT OF A LEARNING CURVE SINCE THIS IS OUR FI FIRST TIME DOING IT.
BUT UM, I'M REALLY CONFIDENT THAT THE STAFF WILL DO IT.
I'M VERY CONFIDENT IN THE STAFF.
SO WHAT DO Y'ALL WANNA DO? JUST LEAVE IT AS IS BALANCED BUDGET OR? OH, JUST, I DUNNO, MORE SHOPPING.
SOME SCHOOLS WE DID DIDN'T WE? WE GAVE, WE DIDN'T 7,000.
I THINK WE NEED TO DO SOME HOW ABOUT 2,500 MORE OF THAT TOO.
TAKING 2,500 EVENT FOR COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS.
PUT IT ON THE LINE ITEM OF TRAINING.
AND SO WHATEVER THEY DON'T USE GOES TO HOUSING.
WE CAN, BUT IT WOULD END UP GETTING UNUSED AND MAKE THAT 9,500.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IT STILL BALANCES.
CAN WE JUST PUT THE REST IN HOUSING? OH, THAT'S IT.
WE TOOK 2,500 OUT OF HOUSING AND PUT IT IN COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS.
SO THIS IS JUST, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS BALANCED.
THAT'S MY, THIS, THAT'S ZERO IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME.
YOU GUYS CAN MAKE ALL THE DECISIONS.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE TAKE 25,000, THAT WE ADD 2,500 TO COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS.
WHERE'D WE TAKE THAT FROM? HOUSING.
WE TOOK FROM HOUSING PLACES AND COMMUNITIES.
IT IS GONNA GO BACK AND THERE, IF IT DON'T USE IT, IT'LL GO BACK INTO HOUSING FOR NEXT YEAR.
SO WE HAVE A SHOES, WE HAVE MORE SHOES AND MORE KIDS BEING TRAINED FOR SUCCESSFUL.
SO THEN THAT WAS, AND WE HAVE MORE HOUSES.
WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL FIVE DELIVERED STILL.
YEAH, WE HAVE RADIO ANNOUNCEMENTS OR EXPENSIVE FOR ME TO CHOOSE.
AND WE'RE GIVEN A MOTION FOR THIS TO BE THE BUDGET.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION FOR THIS TO BE THE BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
[a. Receive the Community Development Manager's Report.]
SO WE MOVE ON TO ITEM TWO, EIGHT MANAGER'S REPORT.SEE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER REPORT.
WE HAVE A BUDGET EVERY, HAS A BLACK EYE
UM, SO I'M HOPING TO HAVE SOMETHING FOR Y'ALL AT THE NEXT MEETING THAT WE CAN MAYBE DISCUSS AND VOTE ON.
I'M THINKING OF INCREASING IT TO MAYBE ONE 30.
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OF LOOK AT THE NUMBERS RIGHT NOW.THE LOWEST I'VE SEEN AT OTHER CITIES IS ONE 50, BUT THEIRS INCLUDES THE FENCE AND THE SIDEWALK AND THE DRIVEWAY.
SO WITH THE COST OF THE FENCE AND THE SIDEWALK AND THE DRIVEWAY, IT WOULD REALLY MAKE OURS ONE 50.
BUT THE MAXIMUM CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOME ITSELF, ONE 30.
SO I'M STILL, I'M WAITING FOR A COUPLE OF, UM, OTHER CITIES TO GIMME A CALL BACK TO FIND OUT HOW THEY DO THAT.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN OUR, WE'RE DOING GOOD.
THIS, UM, WE DON'T MEET AGAIN UNTIL JUNE 13TH I BELIEVE.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS BUDGET.
SO WE BASICALLY NOW HAVE TO PUT AN AD IN THE PAPER ADVERTISING WHAT OUR PROPOSED BUDGET IS GONNA BE.
WE HAVE A 30 DAY PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
AND DURING THAT TIME ANYBODY CAN WRITE CALL OR EMAIL TO COMMENT ON THE BUDGET.
WE HAVE A MEETING HALFWAY THROUGH THAT PERIOD AND I BELIEVE IT'S JUNE 13TH.
AND, UM, ONCE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS DONE, WE START WRITING OUR ACTION PLAN, WHICH IS THE DOCUMENT THAT WE SUBMIT TO HOOD ON HOW IT IS THAT WE INTEND TO SPEND THESE FUNDS FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
WE GO TO CITY COUNCIL JULY 27TH.
AND THAT'S WHEN YOU NEED US AT CITY COUNCIL.
YOU CAN COME IN CASE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR 27TH.
I GET SICK OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
SO YEAH, WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL ON JULY 27TH.
WE SUBMIT THE ACTION PLANS HU UM, BY AUGUST 15TH AND THEY LET US KNOW IF EVERYTHING IS APPROVED PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1ST AND THEN WE CAN START SPENDING MONEY.
YOU NEED ME TO GO WITH YOUR SHOPPING
OKAY, SO TELL US AGAIN, UM, BACK TO SCHOOL OR WHEN IS THAT? THE BACK TO SCHOOL FAIR IS GONNA BE ON AUGUST 5TH.
IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER LIKE HERE.
WE HAVE IT FROM EIGHT TO 12, BUT LAST YEAR WE RAN OUT OF BACKPACKS BY 10 30.
IT WAS OVER 750 BACKPACKS THAT WE GAVE AWAY AND WE RAN OUT BY 10 30 IN THE MORNING.
AND YOU'RE BUYING THEM OR YOU ARE GIVING UP TO YOU? UM, WE GET THEM DONATED.
SOME PEOPLE DID MAKE MONETARY DONATIONS, SO WE WENT OUT AND PURCHASED BACKPACKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
STEPHANIE IS GOING TO BE REACHING OUT TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED LAST YEAR, AS WELL AS ADDING SOME NEW PEOPLE TO THE LIST.
SO IF YOU KNOW OF ANY LOCAL BUSINESSES OR ORGANIZATIONS OR HOSPITAL SYSTEMS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT THAT WANNA DONATE ANYTHING, WE HAVE A PACKET FOR THEM, A SPONSORSHIP PACKET THAT STEPHANIE HAS WORKED VERY HARD ON.
UM, SO THAT WE CAN ALWAYS PROVIDE IT TO Y'ALL SO THAT YOU CAN SEE IF THEY, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO DONATE MONEY, THEY CAN BUY BACKPACKS, YOU KNOW, UM, JSW STEEL OR WHATEVER.
THEY DONATED 80 BACKPACKS LAST YEAR.
I THINK EXXON GAVE US 50 BACKPACKS.
STATE SENATOR ALVARADO'S OFFICE GAVE US 250 BACKPACKS.
UM, WE GOT 300 BACKPACKS FROM TEXAS CHILDREN'S.
DID THEY HAVE SUPPLIES? YOU DID? YEAH, THEY DID ALSO.
SO THE TEXAS CHILDREN'S ONES CAME WITH SUPPLIES IN THEM.
YMCA PROJECT BACKPACK ACTUALLY GAVE US 300 SCHOOL SUPPLY PACKS.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT RON? NO.
WHO DID YOU CONTACT? I DON'T KNOW.
I WAS THINKING I NEED TO FIND OUT WHO TO CONTACT IN MARKETING.
I REMEMBER LAST YEAR WE WERE HAVING TROUBLE REACHING OUT.
WE TALKED ABOUT AT A MEETING AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN END OF SUPPLIES AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ME, BUT IT WASN'T.
SEE I'VE BEEN GIVING YOU CREDIT FOR NOTHING.
I MEAN, I KNOW YOU DIDN'T COME TO THE
I I NO LONGER WORK IN MARKETING.
I USED TO WORK IN MARKETING FOR TEXAS CHILDREN, BUT I WORK IN PROVIDER RELATIONS, BUT I KNOW WHO THE NEW MARKETING DIRECTOR IS, BUT I WAS JUST LIKE, WHO DID YOU CALL THAT? I WAS JUST THINKING TO MYSELF, I WAS WRITING MYSELF A NOTE CONTACT MARKETING AND SEE IF THEY CAN GET BACKPACKS.
I'LL FIND OUT TOMORROW AND I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHO WE TALK TO.
LET, SO THE SHOE VOUCHER, THE SHOE VOUCHERS ARE GIVING AWAY ON THIS BACK TO SCHOOL FAIRS.
WE'RE GONNA DO THAT THIS YEAR.
BUT EITHER THAT OR WE'RE GONNA BE SET UP WITH A LAPTOP, BUY SOME SHOES,
BUT, UM, BUT YES, IDEALLY WE'LL GIVE OUT THE VOUCHERS.
WE'RE GONNA OPEN THE SHOE, UM, APPLICATION FOR A TWO WEEK PERIOD.
THAT WAY WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME PRIOR TO THE EVENT FOR US TO ACTUALLY REVIEW EVERYTHING AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE IT.
AND THEN WE'LL LET THE PARENTS KNOW THAT THEY COME PICK IT UP ON THAT DAY.
OF COURSE, IF THEY CAN'T MAKE IT THAT DAY, WE WILL LET THEM COME UP HERE TO GET IT.
BUT EVERYTHING, ALL OF OUR FUNDS HAVE TO BE EXPENDED BY SEPTEMBER 30TH.
SO THE VOUCHER'S NOT GONNA BE GOOD PAST THAT DATE.
SO IF THEY COME AND PICK IT UP AND THEY DON'T
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SPEND IT BY SEPTEMBER 30TH, THEN, BUT THAT GIVES THEM TWO MONTHS.BUT, BUT THESE VOUCHERS THAT THEY'RE PICKING UP ARE THE 300 BECAUSE OUR 400 WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
AND HOW ARE YOU GONNA HAVE THE KIDS? STEPHANIE HAS ALREADY CREATED A SAVE THE DATE THAT WE'RE GONNA SHARE WITH COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS FOR THEM TO SEND TO THE COUNSELORS AT THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT WE CAN SEND THIS FLYER TO, I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO GIVE ME THEIR INFORMATION.
I WANTED TO GET THE SAVE THE DATE OUT AT LEAST BY THE, BEFORE THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDS EXACTLY ON WEDNESDAY.
SO STEPHANIE ACTUALLY, I THINK ALMOST FINISHED IT TODAY.
I HAD A QR THAT'S GONNA OH, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
QR BECAUSE THE LAST DAY FOR THE KIDS IS WEDNESDAY.
SO I HAVE TO START BUYING MORE GROCERIES NOW.
BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT LOT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW.
SO MANY KIDS ARE HUNGRY IN THE SUMMER.
THE FAMILY CAN'T AFFORD TO CLEAN THEM.
BUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES HAVE LIKE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY DAYS OUT OF THE WEEK WHERE THEY ACTUALLY GIVE, THEY DO LUNCHES.
OH, THEY HAVE IT AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
I THINK THEY DO IT AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
AND WE HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL SCHOOLS AND OTHER LOCATIONS.
SO THEY USUALLY DO AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER TOO.
SO PEOPLE DON'T GIVE AS MUCH FOOD TO FOOD.
YOU KNOW WHERE THING ALSO GOES UP, INCREASES TO LIKE BILLS.
ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY, WATER, $600, NOBODY MONEY AT THE HOUSE.
ARE WE, WE'RE STILL BEING RECORDED.
SO HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS? HE'S AT THE END OF I'M DONE.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING.