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TO ORDER[ CITY OF BAYTOWN NOTICE OF MEETING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2020 5:30 P.M. HULLUM CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL 2401 MARKET STREET, BAYTOWN, TEXAS 77520 AGENDA Due to the COVID 19 Disaster and the CDC's recommendation regarding social distancing measures, the public will not be allowed to be physically present at this meeting. However, the meeting will be available to members of the public and allow for two-way communications for those desiring to participate. To attend the meeting via video conference, please use the following website www.zoom.com, click on "join a meeting" on the top right hand corner, and input the following Meeting ID: 820 4968 8234. To attend the meeting via telephone, please use the following toll-free number: 1-877-853-5247, Meeting ID: 820 4968 8234. Any person interested in speaking on any item on the agenda must submit his/her request via email to the Community Development Division at CDBG@baytown.org. The request must include the speaker's name, address, and phone number that will be used if teleconferencing as well as the agenda item number. The request must be received prior to the posted time of the meeting. The agenda packet is accessible to the public in both HTML and PDF formats at the following link: https://www.baytown.org/city-hall/city-clerk/agendas-minutes. For more information or questions concerning the teleconference, please contact the Community Development Division at 281-420-5390. CALL TO ORDER AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF QUORUM ]
OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT OF CITY OF BAYTOWN TECH CITIES.JUST MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY CAN HEAR US.
CAN EVERYBODY HEAR US? GOOD TO GO.
LET'S GO TO ITEM ONE DISCUSSIONS.
AND LET'S GO TO, UM, WE GO DIRECTLY TO THE AREA.
WE GO TO BAY AREA HOMELESS SERVICES, PROJECT BRIDGE, CHRIS DAVIS.
SO PROJECT, PROJECT BRIDGE IN THIS PARTICULAR AMOUNT THAT THEY ARE, UH, REQUESTING IS GOING TO BE 4,000.
UM, FOR THIS TIME AROUND, UH, ULTIMATELY THE PROGRAM HERE IS TO PROVIDE THE HOMELESS SERVICES, UM, FOR, UH, PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF CHILDCARE AS WELL.
UH, IF YOU REMEMBER, THE APPLICANT MADE A, MADE A PRESENTATION.
THE GOAL IS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDCARE SERVICES WHILE THE, THE PERSON THAT IS IN DANGER OF BEING HOMELESS, THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF THE SERVICES FOR THEM, THE CHILDCARE SERVICES FOR THEM, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS GRANT WILL ALSO COVER.
SO, WITH THAT, YOU GUYS CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION.
UM, THE AMOUNT THAT THEY ARE BEING REQUESTING AGAIN IS $4,000.
WHAT DO I HEAR FOR DISCUSSIONS? IT'S, BEFORE WE START, WHAT IS THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE TO ALLOCATE? IS THIS 759? NO, SCROLL DOWN.
UM, THE TOTAL AMOUNT FOR THE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION, UM, OR NOT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION, I'M SORRY.
FOR, UH, PUBLIC SERVICES, IT IS GOING TO BE 1 15, 5 20.
THAT'S OUR NUMBER RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S THE PUBLIC SERVICE CAP? YES, SIR.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? CAN I ENTERTAIN A, UH, SOME INPUT ON THAT ITEM? WELL, THIS IS A, A PROGRAM THAT, AGAIN, THAT IS ALREADY IN OPERATION.
I MEAN, IT'S ALREADY IN OPERATION.
UH, IT, THERE'S NOTHING NEW TO THE ACTIVITY.
UM, IS THERE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR CURRENTLY? NO, THERE'S NOT A MOTION.
I, I ASSUME WE HAVE TO HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND BEFORE WE DISCUSS A, I THINK MOTION.
ONCE I, I MOVE THAT WE, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE, THE PROJECT BRIDGE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE WANTING TO APPROVE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS? OR ARE YOU ASKING US TO APPROVE THE WHOLE THING ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS? I DON'T THINK YOU HEARD.
SO AT THIS TIME IT'S JUST THE DISCUSSION.
AND SO ARE YOU WANT, YOU'RE WANTING, UM, MOTION, ARE YOU WANTING MOTIONS ON INDIVIDUAL ITEM BUDGET? WE'RE DOING, WE GET INPUT ON WHETHER WE WANT TO FUND THAT ORGANIZATION OR NOT.
THEN WE'LL ASK FOR A MOTION OF APPROVAL OR WHATEVER WE DECIDE TO FUND THAT THE ENTITY WITH.
WE DON'T DO ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER.
I'LL DO IT WITH WHATEVER Y'ALL WANNA DO IS FINE.
PROCESS IS, BECAUSE SHE SAID SOME ROBERT'S RULES, YOU ONLY HAVE ONE ACTION, RIGHT.
WHEN YOU'RE DOING, WHEN YOU'RE DOING ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER.
AND JUST LIKE AT CITY COUNCIL, THEY HAVE TO HAVE A, A MOTION ON THE TABLE THAT'S BEEN SECONDED BEFORE THEY CAN DISCUSS IT.
AND I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT WE DID.
BUT IF THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO, THAT'S FINE.
SO IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WE HAVE, UH, TWO ITEMS. THE FIRST ONE IS GOING TO BE THE DISCUSSION, AND THEN, WE'LL, THE SECOND ITEM, HE'LL OPEN UP THE SECOND ITEM FOR A ACTUAL, UH, PROPOSAL FOR ADOPTING THE BUDGET.
SO WE'LL DISCUSS EACH INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATION AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK IN THE SECOND ITEM AND MAKE A VOTE ON THE TOTAL AMOUNT TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL.
SO THE ONLY THING I SEE, ONE THING I SEE HERE IS THAT THEY HAVE NOT EXPENDED ALL OF THE FUNDS THAT WE ALLOCATE.
AND, UH, IS THAT COMMON? PARDON ME? I'M
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SO SORRY.IT'S A COMMON, YEAH, WE STILL, COMMON JUDGE IS, IS THAT A COMMON PRACTICE NOT TO EXPEND, UH, THEIR, HAVE THEY DONE THIS IN THE PAST WHERE THEY HAVEN'T SPENT THEIR FUNDING, UH, UP TO THIS POINT? OR IS THIS, UH, A NEW THING THAT'S HAPPENED BECAUSE OF COVID? PROBABLY THE, PROBABLY PROBABLY MIGRATING CIRCUMSTANCES ON THAT CODE.
THEY TYPICALLY SUBMIT THEIR REIMBURSEMENT REQUEST AS A BULK THING AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM YEAR.
UM, WHEN WE DID HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING WHERE THEY PRESENTED, THEY DID, UM, DISCUSS HOW THEY ONLY EXPENDED, WHAT WAS IT? 20%.
SO FAR THEY HAVEN'T SUBMITTED FOR ANY REIMBURSEMENTS FOR IT, BUT THEY SAID THEY HAVE SPENT 20%.
BUT TYPICALLY, UM, THEY WILL GIVE ME AT THE END OF THE YEAR, AND, YOU KNOW, LATE SEPTEMBER, THEY'LL GIVE ME A WHOLE STACK AND THEY'RE LIKE, HERE, THIS IS EVERYONE WE SERVE.
AND I'VE SEEN IT GO THROUGH NOVEMBER, YOU KNOW, UNTIL SEPTEMBER.
SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW THEY DO IT.
WE'D LIKE TO CHANGE IT TO WHERE THEY DO SUBMIT FOR REIMBURSEMENT MORE OFTEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, ESPECIALLY.
'CAUSE IT'LL BE EASIER ON Y'ALL TO GAUGE EXACTLY HOW OFTEN THEY'RE SPENDING THE MONEY AND IF THERE IS REALLY A NEED.
SO, AND THESE FUNDS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 2020 KIDS, TWO 50 PER, UH, PER CHILD.
IS THAT, IS THAT THE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS? UH, YES.
I REMEMBER THEY DID MENTION THE 20 CHILDREN.
AND A YEAR, MORE OR LESS RIGHT UP THE NUMBER, I THINK IS TWO 50 BE DIVIDED BY YEAH.
AND, AND WE'VE FUNDED THAT ORGANIZATION IN THE PAST, AND THEY, THEY'VE KEPT THEIR, UH, ALLOCATION AND ASKED FOR US AROUND $4,000 IN THE PAST.
AND WE, WE'VE BEEN FUNDING THOSE PEOPLE FOR SOME YEARS NOW.
I WAS GONNA SAY LAST YEAR WE AWARDED THEM 32 50.
UM, UH, AND AS SHARON WAS ALLUDING TO, THEY HAVE NOT REQUESTED FOR ANY REIMBURSEMENT AT THIS TIME.
UM, BEFORE THEN, THEY REQUESTED, UH, FOUR $4,525, WHICH WAS ONLY 64 OF THEIR ALLOTTED FUNDS AT THAT YEAR, WHICH WAS SEVEN ONE 7,100.
SO THEY HADN'T ALWAYS SPENT UP TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
HOWEVER, WE'VE ALSO DECREASED IT SINCE THEN.
YOU GOT A QUESTION? I JUST LOOKING, LOOKING AT THE HISTORY THAT, UM, AND I, I APOLOGIZE, I WASN'T ABLE TO SAY LAST WEEK, UM, DUE TO A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, BUT LOOKING AT THE HISTORY, IT APPEARS THAT THEY'RE CERTAINLY USING MORE THAN 4,000.
ARE THEY ABLE TO ROLL OVER WITH THIS QUESTION, I GUESS DISCUSSED LAST WEEK? ARE THEY ROLLING OVER ANY FUNDS? NO, MA'AM.
ONCE, IF THE FUNDS ARE NOT SPENT BY SEPTEMBER 30TH, THEN THEY GO AWAY.
WELL, THEY DON'T ACTUALLY GO AWAY.
UM, LUIS, CAN YOU SCROLL DOWN A LITTLE BIT? THEY DON'T ACTUALLY GO AWAY.
SO YOU SEE OVER HERE ON THE BOTTOM ON THE SPREADSHEET, PREVIOUS YEARS UNEXPECTED, WE ESTIMATE THAT FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS LEFTOVER MONEY.
SO BASICALLY WHATEVER'S LEFT OVER ROLLS INTO THAT POCKET RIGHT THERE, THAT LITTLE BUCKET, THAT A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
WE NEVER KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH WE'RE GONNA HAVE LEFT OVER AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
WE PROBABLY WON'T FIND OUT UNTIL NOVEMBER, HONESTLY, HOW MUCH WE HAD LEFT OVER FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO ANYTHING THAT'S NOT SPENT ON ANY PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITY WILL ROLL INTO THAT UNENDED FUNDS LINE ITEM.
MY CONCERN IS THEY'VE GONE OVER 4,000.
I KNOW THEY HAVE NOT, UM, USED ANY OF THEIR FUNDS FOR THIS YEAR.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT NUMBER WILL SHOW UP TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR SINCE THEY'RE SENDING IT IN THROUGH A, A REIMBURSEMENT.
UM, BUT I MEAN, I, I GUESS I WOULD'VE BEEN CURIOUS WHY THEY ONLY REQUEST FOR THAT, WHY IT APPEARS TO KIND OF FLUCTUATE.
DID THEY WELL, ARE THEY SEEING MORE CHILDREN COME IN OR LESS CHILDREN COME IN? MOST OF THE CHILDREN THAT UTILIZE THAT SERVICE ARE LIVING IN THE BRITAIN FULLER, UM, FAMILY CENTER.
AND I BELIEVE THEY ONLY HAVE ENOUGH.
I FORGOT HOW MANY ROOMS THEY HAD THAT FAMILIES CAN STAY IN.
BUT THAT'S BASICALLY THE CHILDREN.
I BELIEVE THERE'S ONLY FIVE FAMILIES AT A TIME.
SO IT REALLY ALL DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN THAT ARE RESIDING AT THE SHELTER AT THAT TIME.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SHE DID SAY WAS THAT WITH THE WHOLE COVID THING, THEY REALLY HAVEN'T USED ANYTHING HERE LATELY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE NOT ESSENTIAL, YOU COULDN'T EVEN USE CHILDCARE.
YOU HAVE TO BE AN ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEE.
SO I KNOW THAT PROBABLY THROUGH MARCH AND APRIL AND
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THE BEGINNING OF MAY, THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT GONNA HAVE ANYTHING.WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO ANY NUMBER THAT WE SET.
RIGHT? I MEAN, WE CAN ALWAYS SAY, LET'S MOVE ON, WE CAN SAVE THE 4,000, THEN IT WILL COME BACK.
OKAY, I MOVED, WE YES, WE CAN, OR WE CAN DO IT THIS WAY, OR WE CAN, UH, GIVE US A MOTION ON WHAT WE THINK THAT WE WANT TO FUND THEM, AND THEN COME BACK AND TOTAL WHEN WE ADD EVERYTHING UP, SEE IF THERE'S ANY GLASS STORAGE THAT SHAVE OFF A LITTLE BIT OR ADD TO, OR ET CETERA.
BUT, BUT WHAT I WANT IS, IS A, UM, A MOTION TO EITHER FUND THEM AT 4,000 OR IF YOU WANT TO SHAVE IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.
BECAUSE AFTER WE FINISH DOING THE, AS I SAID, WHAT WE'LL DO IS, IS TAKE THE NUMBER THAT WE WANT TO ALLOCATE AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL, UM, AT THE END WE'LL SEE WHERE WE'RE ALL ON THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT'S ALLOCATED.
THAT WAY WE CAN SHAVE OFF AT DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE WE CAN, UH, BALANCE IT OUT.
SO, SO MS. CUMMINGS HAS ALREADY STATED THAT SHE WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH 4,000.
IS ARE THERE ANY DISAGREEMENTS WITH THAT? NO, I AGREE WITH, I AGREE WITH HER.
THEN WE'LL JUST, WE'LL JUST PUT 4,000 WATER TO BAY AREA HOME, BUT IT'S PROJECT BRIDGE 4,000.
SO THAT'LL BE, UH, A YES ON THAT.
UH, BAY AREA TURNING POINT, VICTIM SERVICES, THEY'RE ASKING FOR $15,000.
TURNING POINT IS, UH, ESSENTIALLY AN ORGANIZATION THAT WANTS TO HELP THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS INSIDE OF THE CITY FROM THE CITY OF BAYTOWN.
UM, ONE OF THE CONS OF THEIR REQUEST IS THAT, UH, A LARGE AMOUNT OF IT WAS IN SALARIES.
UM, HOWEVER, UH, I HAD FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM.
ONE WAY THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO TRACK THAT, UH, THEY'RE ABLE TO TRACK THE ACTIVITIES BY A DOLLAR AMOUNT.
FOR INSTANCE, EACH MEAL IS, HAS A CERTAIN DOLLAR AMOUNT, THE COUNSELING SERVICE PER DAY HAS A DOLLAR AMOUNT, ET CETERA.
ALL OF THEIR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED IN-HOUSE.
SO, UM, ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MONITOR THAT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT EACH BATIAN IS RECEIVING THE FULL AMOUNT OF SERVICES EACH TIME THAT THEY GO.
SO WEDNESDAY CAN BE CHECKED OFF FOR COUNSELING SERVICES AS OPPOSED TO JUST GIVING THEM, UM, AS A, A WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS OPPOSED TO THE WHOLE WEEK OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
IS THAT THE ONE WHERE THEY, THE GUY SAID THAT, OR HE LIST SOMETIMES WHEN THEY HAVE TO GO OUT TO THE HOMELESS AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY MAY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, TO TALK TO 'EM.
THEY MAY HAVE TO BUY 'EM A HAMBURGER OR, OH, NO, NO.
THIS IS A DIFFERENT, YEAH, THESE ARE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
THEY, SO THIS IS, THIS IS WITH THE, THIS AREA, THIS PARTICULAR FACILITY HAS EVERYTHING IN HOUSE.
UM, ESSENTIALLY THEY GET A CALL, THEY TAKE A PERSON, UM, TO THEIR FACILITY.
THEY SAID THAT THE, THE AVERAGE STAY IS ABOUT 30 DAYS.
AND WHAT THEY DETER, OR WHAT THEY TOLD US WAS THAT, UH, FOR ABOUT A $50 PER DAY, UM, FOR ANY PERSON THAT STAYS IN THEIR FACILITY.
SO THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE, THE COVERAGE ON THAT.
YOU GUYS ARE OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION.
I, I KIND OF, WHEN IT COMES TO VICTIM, UH, SERVICES FOR ABUSE AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA, UH, AS Y'ALL ALL KNOW THAT THAT PARTICULAR AREA OF, UH, GOING UP QUITE FREQUENTLY WHEN THERE'S WOMEN AND, AND OUR CHILDREN, UH, VIC BEING VICTIMIZED, UM, I THINK THIS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE A FIRST TIME APPLICANT, AM I CORRECT? THAT'S RIGHT FOR THIS, SIR.
WE WILL NOT FUND THOSE, THE PEOPLE BEFORE, BUT I THINK THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
MAYBE JUST GIMME A, MAYBE IF YOU CAN'T FUND ALL OF IT, THEN MAYBE, UH, IN TURN GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO, IN THAT REGARDS TOWARDS THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILDREN AND, AND WOMEN, ET CETERA.
SO COULD SOMEONE GIVE ME A, SO LET, OH, GO AHEAD.
LET ME START OFF BY APOLOGIZING TO THAT.
I DON'T THINK I WAS HERE FOR THIS, UH, PRESENTATION.
WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT CONSULTANT SERVICES, A THOUSAND DOLLARS, WHAT WAS THAT FOR? UH, I MEAN, THEY ACTUALLY STATED THAT THOSE SERVICES WOULD GO TOWARDS THEIR GENERAL, UM, BUILDING SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES.
UM, AGAIN, THAT'S AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THEIR ENTIRE FACILITY IS EVERYTHING IN HOUSE HERE.
UM, SO WE IDENTIFIED THAT, AND IN MY DISCUSSION WITH THEM, UM,
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I TOLD 'EM THAT USUALLY WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF FUNDING, JUST THE, THE CHILDREN FACILITY.AND, AND THEY WERE, AND THAT'S WHY THEY PROVIDED ME THAT ADDITIONAL SHEET SAYING, THIS IS WHAT THE BREAKDOWN IS.
REMIND WHERE ARE THEY LOCATED OUT OF? SAY THAT AGAIN? WHERE ARE THEY LOCATED OUT OF THE HOUSTON WEB? WEBSTER.
SEE, WITH THIS, UH, I'M A LITTLE IFFY.
'CAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, ESPECIALLY WITH THE COVID-19, I MEAN, I TRY TO STAY AFLOAT OF NEWS AND EVERYTHING.
THERE'S A LOT OF SHELTERS THAT ARE NOT ANSWERING TO PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF SH WOMEN OUT THERE THAT ARE STAYING WITH FRIENDS.
AND, YOU KNOW, I, I ALSO PAY ATTENTION TO THE SOCIAL MEDIAS.
AND I MEAN, THERE'S WHERE, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE PROBABLY EXAGGERATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND EVERYTHING, BUT I DID HAVE SEE A WOMAN WHERE SHE WAS ON ALSO THE SAME PERSON WAS ON THE, UH, NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, WHAT IS IT CALLED? ON THE NEXT DOOR? NEXT DOOR, YEAH.
AND THEY, YEAH, THERE WAS ONE LADY THAT WAS HOUSING TWO PEOPLE, AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE SAYING, WELL, WHY DON'T YOU PUT THAT ONE IN THE, YOU KNOW, IN YOUR KITCHEN IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO CONTACT THESE PEOPLE, THESE PEOPLE, SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT ANSWERING.
SO WITH THAT BEING SO FAR AND US TRYING TO FUND BAYTOWN, I'D REALLY RATHER JUST FUND VOCAL.
I, I GUESS NO, BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE BAYTOWN CLIENTELE.
AM I, AM I CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
SET UP TO HAVE BAYTOWN CLIENTELE? YES.
AND IF THEY ARE SERVING A BAYTON, UM, IT, IT HAS TO BE A BAYTON MM-HMM
WE'RE NOT PAYING FOR ANYBODY ELSE FROM WEBSTER OR FROM HIGHLANDS OR ANYTHING.
IF THEY HAPPEN TO HAVE CLIENTS THAT COME FROM BAYTOWN, THAT'S WHAT THESE FUNDS WOULD COVER THERE.
AND WHAT WAS THE BREAKDOWN OF THE PERCENTAGE OF BAYTON VERSUS, WELL, IN THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM, THEY'RE ASKING FOR 10, UM, LOOKING AT 10, UH, 10, UH, PARTICIPANTS OR CLIENTS MM-HMM
UH, I BELIEVE SHE SAID IN HER PRESENTATION THAT THAT, THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE MORE THAN 10 AT THIS TIME FROM THE BAYTOWN AREA, BUT NOT NECESSARILY THE CITY LIMITS OF BAYTOWN, YOUR HONOR.
UM, HOW THEY'RE CONFIRMING, I MEAN, ARE THEY USING A DRIVER'S LICENSE? I WOULD IMAGINE SO.
BUT, UH, WHEN, WHEN THEY DO THE PROGRAM, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL REQUIRE ON OUR END JUST TO VERIFY THAT THAT PERSON HAS A RESIDENCE IN INSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS.
IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I BELIEVE THAT, UM, THIS ORGANIZATION HAS ALREADY BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF A GRANT IN THE FORM OF UNITED RAY THAT WERE AWARDED 2,500 FOR THIS EXACT PURPOSE.
SO THAT WAS ANNOUNCED THROUGH THE BAYTOWN SUN.
ALSO, IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE BUDGET WORKSHEET, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE OVER $900,000 IN OTHER FUNDING SOURCES AS WELL.
ESG EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT, THEY HAVE FROM TEXAS DEPARTMENT HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, THEY HAVE MONEY COMING IN FROM, FROM A LOT OF AREAS.
MY, IF, IF THAT'S, I'M GONNA ASK THE QUESTION OUT OF IGNORANCE.
UM, SO WE, WE DON'T HAVE, UH, A SHELTER THAT HA THAT PROVIDES THE SAME KIND OF SERVICE HERE IN BAYTOWN.
WE HAVE A HOMELESS SHELTER, BUT NOT A SHELTER FOR, UH, WOMEN SEEKING, UM, SHELTER FROM VIOLENCE.
AM I CORRECT IN THAT? YES, MA'AM.
SO THE CLOSEST SHELTER IS EITHER IN PASADENA.
THE CLOSEST SHELTER, THE CLOSEST SHELTER IS THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS, WHICH IS IN PASADENA.
AND THEN THIS SHELTER HERE, BAY AREA TURNING POINT, WHICH IS IN WEBSTER.
BUT THERE'S NOTHING, I, I WAS STUNNED TO SAY THAT THERE WASN'T SOMETHING CLOSER FOR, UH, FOR PEOPLE IN THIS AREA, BUT, UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE HAD BEEN ONE AT, AT, AT ONE POINT, BUT NOW THAT I KNOW THAT WE HAVE, UH, SERVICES AVAILABLE NEARBY IN PASADENA, THAT MAKES MORE SENSE WITH REGARD TO, UH, BAY AREA TURNING POINT.
UM, DO Y'ALL WANT TO OFFER THEM SOME MONEY SINCE THEY DO SERVE SOME BAY, UH, BAYTON, DO YOU WANNA OFFER THEM, YOU KNOW, $5,000? DO YOU WANT TO TRY TO MEET 'EM HALFWAY THERE? IF Y'ALL FEEL LIKE THIS IS
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NOT SOMETHING THAT BAYTOWN SHOULD BE PARTICIPATING TOO HEAVILY IN WITHOUT A FIRM FEELING OF, UM, UH, ITS SERVICE TO BAYTOWN.I, I FEEL THAT IF WE COULD SCREEN THOSE, I THINK IT WAS 10 PERSONNEL PEOPLE, IF WE COULD SCREEN THOSE PEOPLE, MAKE SURE BY ID THAT THERE ARE LIMITED IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, ET CETERA, UH, WE CAN ENTERTAIN A, A MOTION TO IF SERGEANT STAFF, UH, GIVE THEM SOMETHING, BUT NOT ALL.
AND SINCE THEY HAVE OTHER FUNDING FROM OTHER SOURCES, UH, YEAH.
I, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF WE GIVE THEM A PORTION AND THEN THEY COME BACK NEXT YEAR AND GIVE US A, A GREAT REPORT, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM MORE.
BUT, UM, SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AROUND, I UNDERSTAND RELUCTANCE TO, TO GO WHOLE HOG ON THIS.
ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO, UH, POSE TO THE GROUP IS THAT, OR JUST A REMINDER, IS THAT WE ACTUALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE, UH, ORGANIZATIONS TO HAVE OTHER FUNDING.
SO IN YOUR, IN YOUR THINKING, I DON'T WANT YOU TO DISCOUNT THAT.
DEFINITELY CONSIDER THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT THEY'RE GETTING.
BUT REMEMBER, WE DON'T WANT THE CDBG TO BE THE WHOLE, THE SOLE SUPPORT FOR ANY ORGANIZATION.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY TOO, WE WILL BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE NUMBERS.
I MEAN, SINCE WE'RE NOT, WE'RE PUTTING OUT THE NUMBERS.
WE THINK THIS ORGANIZATION IS GONNA GET X AND THIS ONE'S GONNA GET X, BUT IF WE WANT TO, THIS IS A NEW GROUP, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND WE'LL SEE BY HOW THEIR PROCESSES WELL, YEAH.
IF THEY SUBMIT AGAIN NEXT YEAR, AND DEPENDING ON OUR REPORT, YOU GUYS CAN GO UP OR DOWN, DEPENDING OF COURSE, JUST LIKE THE CONSIDERATION OF ALL THE OTHERS.
SO LET'S, LET'S JUST CONSIDER JUST FOR GM PUR, UH, GB PURPOSES, UH, AND $5,000.
AND AT THE END WE TELL EVERYTHING, WE GOTTA CUT THAT BACK OR ADD TO ET CETERA.
DEPENDS ON HOW OUR FULL BUDGET, UH, COMES OUT.
SO WE'LL JUST MARK IN 5,000 AND THEN, AND LADIES AT HOME, WHENEVER YOU LOOK AT THE BUDGET THAT THEY SUBMIT, YOU CAN ALWAYS MOVE TO NOT FUND FOR CONSULTING SERVICES OR NOT FUND FOR OFFICE SUPPLIES.
YOU CAN KIND OF PICK EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO RECEIVE FUNDING FOR.
AND THEN WHEN WE DO THE AGREEMENT WITH THEM, WE ACTUALLY WILL PUT THAT IN THERE AND ITEMIZE, OKAY, YOU REQUESTED THIS MUCH, BUT THIS IS HOW MUCH YOU'RE GETTING FOR THAT ONLY, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ALSO.
SO YOU SAID WE'RE GONNA GO WITH THE START NUMBER OF 5,000 MM-HMM
WE'LL JUST START THERE AND BUILD.
UH, WE'LL COME BACK TO, NOW LET'S GO TO, UM, BAYTOWN OPTIMIST CLUB.
BAYTOWN OPTIMIST CLUB IS ANOTHER, UH, RETURNING, UM, APPLICANT.
THIS PERSON IN, OR THIS ENTITY IN THE PAST HAS RECEIVED $1,200 IN 2019 TO 2020.
THAT WAS, THAT, THAT IS FOR THIS YEAR'S, UM, UH, ALLOTMENT.
THE PREVIOUS YEAR THEY WERE ALLOTTED, UM, LOOKS LIKE ABOUT, UH, $4,000 AND THEY SPENT UP TO 99% OF THEIR FUNDS.
UH, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM IS THAT THIS BOARD AND HAS CONSISTENTLY ASKED THE APPLICANT TO ADVERTISE THEIR PROGRAM, AND HE HAS FAILED TO DO SO.
SO THAT IS HINTS NOTATED WITH, DUE TO THE INCREASE THAT YOU SEE FROM THE 4,000 TO THE 1200.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STAFF IS GOING TO DO WITH THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION IS ONE, UH, WE'RE PROPOSING IF YOU DECIDE TO FUND IT, IS THAT WE WILL CONDITION THE FUNDS THAT HE DOES SOME CERTAIN TYPES OF APP, UH, ADVERTISING, WHETHER IT BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WHETHER IT BE DIRECTLY ON HIS FLYER, ET CETERA.
UM, AND THAT'LL BE A, A, A CONDITION ON HIS REIMBURSEMENT.
AND STAFF WILL THEMSELVES ALSO ASSIST IN HIS ADVERTISEMENT.
WE'LL GET IT OUT TO THE, THE SERVICE AGENCIES TO SEND OUT TO THEIR, UM, CLIENTELES AS WELL.
SO, AND WHAT WAS, WHAT IS THE APPREHENSION, UH, ABOUT, UH, MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS, UH, ON WHY THEY DON'T WANT TO ADVERTISE THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE SCHOLARSHIPS? I, I DON'T, I, I DON'T REALLY, LOOK, I'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD OVER 20 YEARS AND WE FUND THEM, AND THAT'S BEEN MY MAIN CONCERN.
ADVERTISEMENT HAD NEVER BEEN DONE THAT I GO BACK TO 10, 12 YEARS AGO.
AND OF COURSE, AND THE WAY THE SCHOLARSHIPS IS DISTRIBUTED, UH, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS THEY GIVE EVERY YEAR.
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UH, NORMAN, THAT I, I WAS INVOLVED IN THAT PROGRAM FOR MANY YEARS TOO.AND THE THING IS, WHEN THEY GIVE THE SCHOLARSHIPS TO PEOPLE, LIKE HE SAID, REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE TALKING TO PAYA, HE SAID THERE IS, THERE'S TIMES WHEN HE MAY, YOU MAY HAVE 60 KIDS, AND IF THEY ADVERTISE AND THEY SAY, WE'RE GONNA BRING IN 400 KIDS, WELL, THERE'S NO WAY THAT THAT PROGRAM COULD SUSTAIN THAT MANY CHILDREN.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? WITH THE FACT THAT IF YOU'RE, THEY, THEY DONATE THE HELMETS NOW THAT THE, THE HELMETS NOW HAVE TO BE, UH, YOU KNOW, TESTED, SENT TO A LAB AND TESTED, YOU KNOW, FOR CONCUSSION PROTOCOL.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE I'M CONFUSED NOW VERSUS, YOU KNOW, IT USED TO BE, HEY, YOU WANT TO PLAY IF YOU CAN'T PAY, WELL, OKAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE, WE HAVE FUN HERE AND WE'LL FUND YOU HERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PAID.
I DIDN'T, I, I WASN'T IN THAT, I WAS JUST COACHED, YOU KNOW, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PAID AND HOW MANY DID NOT PAY MR. NO, I, I THINK THEY, THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE ALREADY, AND SO THEY SHOULD HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE, WHERE THEY'RE SCREENING APPLICANTS.
I, I'M SURE THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET 400, 500, BUT THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOME KIND OF MECHANISM WHERE THEY'RE SCREENING THOSE APPLICANTS AND WHO NEEDS HELP WITH, WHO DOESN'T NEED THE HELP.
AND THEY HAVEN'T BEEN PUTTING THE, THE SYSTEM IN PLACE FOR A LONG TIME.
AND I REMEMBER WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION LAST TIME AND WE SAID, NO, WE'RE NOT GONNA FUND IT.
WE'RE GONNA DECREASE IT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT HAVING SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO EITHER ADVERTISE OR TO, SO I, I, I, BY HIM PLACING THE WORD SCHOLARSHIP ON THE FLYER, THERE'S GOING TO BE PARENTS THAT WOULD BE APPREHENDED TO PAY FOR THEIR KIDS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OPTIMIST.
SO THAT'S WHY HE HASN'T PLACED IT.
AND THE FLYERS ARE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
ONE OF THE THINGS THOUGH, IS THAT OPTIMIST, YOU CAN ALMOST COMPARE IT TO THE SHOE PROGRAM.
SHE CAN ONLY GIVE OUT SO MANY VOUCHERS.
WHEN SHE ADVERTISES FOR HER PROGRAM, SHE PUTS, WHAT ARE THE DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO PROVE THAT YOU'RE ELIGIBLE? SO YOU HAVE TO PRE-SCREEN PEOPLE PRIOR TO THEM GETTING THE SCHOLARSHIP, BECAUSE WHEN YOU SUBMIT YOUR PAPERWORK TO OUR OFFICE FOR US TO REVIEW, IF IT'S NOT ON THE UP AND UP, WE'RE NOT GONNA REIMBURSE YOU FOR THAT CHILD.
SO THEY CAN PUT FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE UP TO 60 AVAILABLE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THEN THE DOCUMENTS TO BRING IN TO QUALIFY FOR THAT SCHOLARSHIP.
WAS IT THAT WHAT HE SAID IN THE, UH, IN THE MEETING THAT HE COULDN'T, HE, HE GOT ABOUT 40 KIDS, LET'S SAY OUTTA 60, BECAUSE HE COULDN'T CONFIRM THEIR, THEIR, UH, THEIR, THEIR STATUS.
IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, THAT IS CORRECT.
THAT'S BECAUSE SINCE HE DOESN'T ADVERTISE THE SCHOLARSHIP AND WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO BRING IN, PEOPLE WILL SHOW UP TO APPLY WITHOUT THAT INFORMATION.
SO WITH THE SHOE PROGRAM, SHE ACTUALLY HAS A FORM THAT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BRING FOR YOU TO QUALIFY FOR THE VOUCHER.
IF HE WERE TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR, THEN HE WOULD END UP SPENDING ALL HIS MONEY AND HE WOULD END UP BEING ABLE TO HELP THE KIDS AND JUST BASICALLY LIMIT HOW MANY SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE, REQUEST MORE IN THE FUTURE.
HE MAY BE THE ONLY GUY DOING IT
I MEAN, AND, YOU KNOW, UH, THAT MAY BE, THAT MAY BE SOMETHING TO CONSIDER, BUT IF THE THING THAT WE WANT TO PROHIBIT IS, UH, THE SELECTION, UH, OF, OF THE PEOPLE WHO GET THE SCHOLARSHIP, WE WANT TO HAVE IT OPEN, JUST LIKE WE HAVE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
WE WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT, HEY, THERE'S A SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE MOVING FORWARD.
AND THAT'S THE MAIN PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THAT.
AND THAT'S BEEN CONSIST FOR YEARS.
UH, AND, AND HE HASN'T BEEN CORRECTED.
AND, UH, UH, I RAISED AN EYEBROW AT, UH, WHY REQUESTED SO MUCH, UH, 7,000 WHEN WE GAVE HIM, WHAT, 1200 LAST YEAR? MM-HMM
WELL, THAT'S THE CURRENT YEAR, THE 1200, THAT'S FOR THE YEAR THAT WE'RE IN NOW.
REGISTRATIONS WON'T START TILL THE SECOND.
WELL, HE WANTS TO COVER 60 STUDENTS.
HE'S, BUT HE WANTS TO COVER NEXT YEAR, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
NEXT YEAR, NOT, AND SEE THAT WAS SOME, THAT WAS ANOTHER QUESTION THAT, THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT I ASKED ALSO WAS, WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S EVEN GONNA BE A SEASON THIS YEAR? YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE THE FUNDS FROM THIS YEAR THAT WON'T, THAT WON'T WORK.
THEY, YOU DON'T USE 'EM, YOU LOSE 'EM.
SO, I MEAN, SO HE'S, HE'S KIND OF, YOU'RE KIND OF, YOU'RE KIND OF IN A ROCK HARD SPOT THERE.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IF YOU WERE ABLE TO HAVE A SEASON, YOU CAN USE THE FUNDS.
IF WITH THIS COVID THING GOING ON RIGHT NOW, THEN WE, WE LOSE A SEASON AND THEY, THEY GOT A LOT TO LOSE BECAUSE THEN THE FUND IS GONNA BE LOST.
AND THEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE WAITING FOR ONE MORE SEASON.
SO NOW YOU'RE A YEAR BEHIND MR. OSA.
BUT IF YOU SEE THE YEARS, UH, PRIOR YEARS, HE HASN'T EVEN, UM, WELL,
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JUST FOR THAT, UH, THE 2018, 2019, THAT'S WHEN HE WAS, HE WAS AT 99%.BUT LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS YEAR, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, HE, HE DOESN'T USE ALL THE MONEY ANYWAYS.
AND I HAD PROBLEM WITH THE COACHING STAFF, UH, HOW THEY WERE PAID, THE NOT, THEY WERE PAID FOR THE FOOTBALL REFEREES AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
WE HAD KIND OF SOME EYEBROWS ON THAT FOR YEARS.
AND PERSONALLY, I I, I'M NOT READY TO FIND THEM TO HOLD 'EM OUT.
UH, BECAUSE DIDN'T HE SAY IN HIS MEETING THAT THE EQUIPMENT IS IN REAL GOOD CONDITION? IT'S PRACTICALLY NEW.
SO, AND THAT'S OUR MAIN CONCERN RIGHT NOW MM-HMM
SO FOR THE 20 18, 19 YEAR LAST YEAR WHERE THEY EXTENDED 99%, THAT'S ACTUALLY BECAUSE WE DID HELMET CERTIFICATIONS AS WELL THAT YEAR.
SO THAT'S WHY THEY WERE ABLE TO SPEND SO MUCH.
'CAUSE LAST YEAR WE, UM, PAID FOR HELMET CERTIFICATIONS, AND THEN WE COVERED SCHOLARSHIPS.
AND THEN THERE'S A TWO WHAT, TWO YEAR? THE TWO YEAR PROCESS, YOU KNOW, TO TILL THE NEXT TIME I'M GONNA HAVE TO BE CERTIFIED RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT SURE.
BEING INVOLVED IN SOME OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PAST TOO, THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, I THINK MISSED PAYMENTS TOO THAT I, I KNOW THAT THIS WOULD ALL BE THROUGH REIMBURSEMENT.
SO HE WOULD COME TO THE CITY AND SAY, THESE ARE THE KIDS THAT I WANT TO REIMBURSE, AND THEN THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR, OR OUR ORGANIZATION WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONFIRMING THESE CHILDREN, OR IS THIS, THAT IS CORRECT.
BECAUSE I, I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE, UM, JUST WITH, WITH AN AMOUNT OF MONEY, UM, KNOWING THAT THERE ARE CONTROLS IN PLACE, BECAUSE I DO THINK THAT KIDS NEED THE OPPORTUNITY, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF OBSTACLES WHEN DEALING WITH YOUTH PROGRAMS AND TRYING TO COLLECT MONEY FROM PARENTS THAT HAVE MONEY.
YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S JUST, IT'S AN ONGOING BATTLE.
AND IT'S, YOU'VE GOT TO BE IN THEIR FACE SOMETIMES AND SAY, OKAY, I'LL TAKE THAT CHECK RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE MONEY.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THEN THERE ARE THOSE THAT, THAT DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS.
AND THEN THERE'S THE SENSITIVITY TO IT.
SO I CAN UNDERSTAND HIS CONCERN ABOUT NOT WANTING TO ADVERTISE IT.
IT'S A, AND THEN I ALSO UNDERSTAND THE POINTS THAT ARE BEING BROUGHT UP ABOUT PAYING REFEREES, AND YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THESE GO TO THE KIDS, BUT COULD WE ASK FOR SOME SPECIFIC CONTROLS TO BE IN PLACE FOR REIMBURSEMENT? SHARON, CAN YOU PLEASE SHARE WITH, UH, YES, MA'AM.
THE, UH, WHAT WE EXACTLY VERIFY? YES, MA'AM.
WHENEVER THEY SUBMIT, UM, THEIR PAPERWORK FOR REIMBURSEMENT, THEY SUBMIT THE APPLICATION THAT THE, THE FAMILY FILLED OUT FOR THE CHILD THAT'S GONNA BE PLAYING, THEY ALSO HAVE TO SUBMIT PROOF THAT THEY'RE ON SOME KIND OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.
SO THAT BASICALLY I GET, BUT IT HAS TO BE THE MOST RECENT.
SO I HAVE TO GET THE 2020 FOOD STAMP AWARD LETTER, OR SSI OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, FREE LUNCH FROM SCHOOL.
ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE DO COME ACROSS IS THAT I DON'T GET THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION.
I GET THINGS FROM 2016 OR, AND THEN SOMETIMES I ASK FOR, YOU KNOW, MORE CURRENT AND THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE IT, WHICH IS WHY I'M VERY PRECISE THOUGH, IN WHAT I GET.
SO SOMETIMES THEY MIGHT, LIKE IN THE MEETING, HE SAID HE SUBMITS FOR 40 KIDS, BUT I WAS ONLY ABLE TO VERIFY 25 BECAUSE IF WE GET AUDITED, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN GET IN TROUBLE FOR.
SO I'M VERY PARTICULAR IN THE INFORMATION THAT THEY HAVE TO GIVE US.
I HAVE TO HAVE BASICALLY PROOF OF RESIDENCY AND PROOF OF INCOME, BECAUSE FOR CDBG, YOU DO HAVE TO LIVE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS, AND YOU HAVE TO BE AT OR BELOW A CERTAIN INCOME LEVEL.
SO WE DO VERIFY THAT PRIOR TO REIMBURSING THEM.
AND THAT'S WHY I THINK WITH ADVERTISING IT, IF THEY WERE TO PUT THAT THEY NEED THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION INSTEAD OF OLD STUFF, THEN WE WOULD GET THAT INFORMATION AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO REIMBURSE THEM FOR MORE THAN THEY ACTUALLY HAVE GOTTEN IN THE PAST.
WELL, AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH SCHOLARSHIPS.
IT'S THE ONES THAT SUBMIT A COMPLETE APPLICATION AND IT'S THE BEST APPLICATION THAT'S SUBMITTED.
IT'S THOSE, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CHOSEN, AND THEN MAYBE THAT ENCOURAGES THEM NEXT TIME TO BE A LITTLE MORE INVOLVED IN, YOU KNOW,
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TRYING TO GET INTO IT THE FOLLOWING YEAR.SO I CAN SEE YOUR POINT, LIKE YOU SAID, IF YOU'RE, YOU, YOU WANT TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT THERE, BUT YOU ALSO DON'T WANT TO TURN PEOPLE AWAY.
SO I UNDERSTAND WHY HE'S, BUT WELL, THE KIDS ARE THE ONES THAT NEED, YOU KNOW, THIS BENEFITS THE KIDS.
WELL, IF HE DOES, IF HE DOESN'T ADVERTISE, THEN YOU HAVE LIMITED PEOPLE THAT WILL PROBABLY BE AWARE OF THE PROGRAM.
AND MY, I DON'T WANT GET TECH, RIGHT? I DON'T WANT GET TECHNICAL, BUT LIKE SHE, SHE SAYS OLD INFORMATION COMING IN AND HUD MONEY IS, IS TO BE USED NON-DISCRIMINATORY.
AND THAT'S WHY, AS FOR ACTIVE BACKGROUND OF THE, THE PEOPLE THAT RECEIVE THESE SCHOLARSHIPS.
SO, UH, THAT'S MY MAIN CONCERN BECAUSE THIS MONEY'S ALLOCATED FOR, FOR DESTITUTE, SLUM AND BLACK, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO, UH, THAT'S MY MAIN CONCERN.
WE'VE BEEN USING $1,200, 3000 BACK AND FORTH, BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S $7,200.
WE'VE CONSISTENTLY ASKED THEM FOR YEARS TO PLEASE ADVERTISE MM-HMM
CAN I, UH, OFFER, UH, SOME COMMENT, UH, FIRST, UH, IT'S CLEAR THERE'S MORE NEED, RIGHT? IF, IF HE'S, IF HE SAYS, I DON'T WANNA ADVERTISE BECAUSE I'LL BE OVERRUN AND I CAN'T LET EVERYBODY IN.
SO THAT MEANS THAT THERE ARE, THERE ARE MORE CHILDREN OUT THERE WHO COULD QUALIFY MM-HMM
SO I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ADDRESS PARTICULARLY.
BUT I, I THINK THAT, THAT WE SHOULD SHARE THAT WITH, YOU KNOW, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, SCHOOLS OR WHATEVER THAT WE'RE, THAT WE HAVE A FOOTBALL, A YOUTH FOOTBALL PROGRAM THAT HAS GREAT NEEDS AND IT'S NOT BEING MET.
NOW ON THE, THE THINGS THAT CAUSE ME TO RAISE MY EYEBROWS ARE THINGS LIKE, I WANT TO KNOW HOW, HOW HE GETS THE WORD OUT.
WHERE'S YOUR EVIDENCE OF HOW YOU GET, HOW, HOW DOES HE ATTRACT THE, THE, THE KIDS TO COME? BECAUSE DOES HE ONLY DO ON THE EAST SIDE OF BAYTOWN OR THE WEST SIDE OF BAYTOWN? HOW DO WE KNOW THIS MS. CUMMINGS? AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THIS EQUITABLY THAT, THAT EVERYONE WHO QUALIFIES FINANCIALLY HAS A CHANCE TO, UM, TO APPLY.
IF WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS PUTTING OUT HIS APPLICATIONS, HOW CAN WE, HOW CAN WE VOUCH FOR THE FAIRNESS OF THAT PROCESS? MS. CUMMINGS? YEAH.
A FLYER IS SENT HOME WITH THE CHILDREN FROM GOOSE CREEK.
HE ACTUALLY PROVIDES GOOSE CREEK WITH FLYERS, ALL THE SCHOOLS.
AND THEN THAT FLYER IS SENT HOME WITH THE KIDS.
AND SO, OH, IS THE FEELING THAT THAT, THAT THAT ONE FLYER IS NOT ENOUGH ADVERTISEMENT? IS THAT, IS THAT A FEELING THAT IS, DID I READ, HAVE I READ Y'ALL CORRECTLY THAT Y'ALL THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE DOING MORE THAN JUST HANDING OUT A FLYER? WELL, THE GOING ON, YEAH.
WELL, THE SENTIMENT IS THAT THE FLYER DOESN'T ANNOUNCE THE SCHOLARSHIP.
UM, AND WE COULDN'T GET THAT OUT OF HIM.
WE SHOULD REQUIRE HIM TO HAVE SOME SORT OF VERBIAGE ON THERE THAT INDICATE THAT SCHOLARSHIP ARE AVAILABLE.
NOT, NOT THAT EVERYBODY GETS ONE.
LET ME RECOMMEND THIS, UH, MS. CUMMINS, LET'S, LET'S JUST GIVE A SMALL NUMBER, GIVE TEMPORARILY UNTIL WE SUM UP ALL OUR ALLOCATION, JUST MAYBE $1,200 AND WE'LL COME BACK, ENTERTAIN THAT PARTICULAR ITEM ONCE WE MAKE THE, UH, UH, THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION.
LET'S GO TO, UH, BAYTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SPECIAL VICTIM UNIT.
THIS PARTICULAR APPLICANT IS ALSO A REPEAT APPLICANT.
UH, THEY IN THE PAST HAVE RECEIVED, UM, $3,700, UH, AND ALSO $4,000.
AND THEN BEFORE THAT IT WAS AT 2 2200.
UM, IN, IN NEITHER OF THOSE YEARS, HAVE THEY RECEIVED, HAVE THEY COMPLETE OR HAVE THEY, UH, FULFILLED THEIR FUNDING? UM, PARTICULARLY INITIALLY THEY ONLY FULFILLED 3% AND THEN 55% AND THEY HAVE YET TO REQUEST ANY FUNDS AS OF THIS YEAR.
SO KEEP THAT IN MIND FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, IS THAT
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EVERY YEAR THEY REQUEST MONEY, BUT THEY FAIL TO SPEND ALL THE DOLLARS.I KIND OF REMEMBER ON THE PRESENTATION THAT THE, THE BATTLE OF WOMEN'S OR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THAT'S NOT A CONSISTENT FLOW CONSISTENTLY THAT'S AT NEED BASIS.
A LOT OF TIMES THEY WILL EITHER GIVE THE, THE, UH, THE UH, UH, THE INDIVIDUAL MEAL, OR AT SOME POINT IN TIME THEY HAVE TO GET THEM A TICKET TO GO OUT OF TOWN.
AND THE MAIN FOLKS IS TO GET THE PERSON AWAY FROM THE DANGER ZONE.
AND I THINK IF I'M CORRECT, THAT THEY HAVE A HOTEL STAY, WHAT ABOUT TWO DAYS MAX? TWO OR THREE DAYS MAXIMUM? YES.
IN, IN, IN THEIR CURRENT AGREEMENT.
THEY CAN USE HO THEY CAN USE IT FOR HOTEL STAY, THEY CAN USE IT FOR A MEAL AND TRANSPORTATION.
BUT AS IF ON HER REPORT IT SAID NO HOTEL STAY WAS ALLOCATED.
UHHUH
BUT I DO KNOW WHEN WE FIRST FUND THAT PROGRAM, THEY USED ALL OF IT DURING HARVEY AND THINGS OF THAT SORT.
BUT, UM, I'M INCLINED TO, UM, AND I THINK IT, ANOTHER THING SHE SAID ALSO THAT THEY USE POLICE CARS TO MAKE FOR TRANSPORTATION PURPOSES.
THEY GOT A CAR ALLOCATED FOR THAT PURPOSES IF A PERSON COMES IN DOMESTICALLY VIOLATED, ET ET CETERA, AND THEY NEED TO GET OUT OF TOWN OR GO TO PLACES OF, UH, RESCUE.
SO, WELL, IT WASN'T, THAT WASN'T THAT ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS WAS THE, THE FACT THAT YOU, THAT THEY JUST WANT TO BUS, THEY WANT YOU TO SEND 'EM WHEREVER THEY WANT TO GO.
A FAMILY MEMBER GET AWAY, BUT YOU CAN'T GET ON.
YOU CAN'T, THE WHERE THEY SPENT, I THINK THEY HAD SPENT FUNDS WAS THEY, WITHOUT A, WITHOUT A PROPER ID, YOU CAN'T GET ON A BUS MM-HMM
IS THAT WHAT THEY SAID? RIGHT, EXACTLY.
SO NOW THEY GOTTA GO BACK AND SAY, AND GET 'EM A PROPER ID AND THEN SAY, OH, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT TAKES, SHE SAID IT TAKES MONEY.
SO I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THEY DON'T, UH, USE UP ALL THEIR ALLOCATIONS, YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S THE KIND OF SITUATION THEY'RE IN, OR MAYBE THEY JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO SUBMIT IT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC IN THERE AND THAT WITH THE BAYTOWN PD AND THESE DOMESTIC PROBLEMS, I MEAN, I MEAN BY WHAT THE NEWS SAYS, IT'S INCREASING TWOFOLD, YOU KNOW, SO THEY MAY NOT USE SAY IN, IN CERTAIN, UH, QUARTERS OF THE YEAR, I WAS SURMISED AROUND THE HOLIDAYS, STUFF LIKE THAT.
IT PROBABLY INCREASES, OR SUMMERTIME IT NORMALLY INCREASES BECAUSE IT'S WHATEVER REASONS.
BUT THEY'RE ASKING WHAT, 20, $2,500 MM-HMM
AND I THINK WE FUND THEM LAST YEAR FOR 33,000 AND, UM, AND EXPEND, AND I WOULD THINK THEN IF THAT'S THE CASE, WE CAN PROBABLY SHAVE THAT DOWN SOMEWHAT TO THE EXPENSE OF THESE 3000 FUNDS.
MAYBE THEY'RE 25, MAYBE CONSIDERED 15.
THAT'S JUST MY CONSENSUS THERE.
I I, I HAVE A REALLY BAD FEELING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE AS WE ARE SPEAKING, THERE ARE PEOPLE JUST SUFFERING HORRIBLY BECAUSE THEY'RE TRAPPED WITH THEIR ABUSERS.
AS SOON AS PEOPLE CAN GET OUT, THERE'S GONNA BE MORE CALLS.
AND SO THEY MAY BE USING MUCH MORE IN THIS LA IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF 2020 THAN SAY THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
I JUST THINK THAT THIS, UM, THIS CURRENT PANDEMIC HAS PUT SO MUCH MORE PRESSURES ON FAMILIES AND YOU'RE ALL TOGETHER IN ONE SMALL APARTMENT AND THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND WOMEN ARE NOT BEING ABLE TO LEAVE.
THEY, THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE EVEN USING TELEPHONES TO BE ABLE TO TELL SOMEBODY, PLEASE SEND SOMEBODY FOR ME.
I JUST THINK THAT PROBABLY AFTER PEOPLE START SLOWLY RETURNING TO WORK, THAT THESE WOMEN ARE GOING TO START SAYING, I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW.
AND SO I WOULD HATE TO SEE IT GO BELOW, YOU KNOW, $2,500 FOR, FOR THEM.
I DON'T KNOW, MAY, MAYBE I'M WRONG, BUT I'VE WORKED WITH, WITH, UH, WOMEN'S SHELTERS FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES, AND I'VE BEEN KEEPING UP WITH WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON WITH COVID AND WHAT SHELTER DIRECTORS ARE SAYING, AND THE CALLS THEY'RE GETTING ARE HORRIBLE.
SO I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
I SEE THAT THEY'VE BEEN ASKING FOR FUNDING FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS.
ARE THEY, IS THIS, UH, PROGRAM ONE THAT, THAT WAITS TO, TO THE VERY END TO, TO GET REIMBURSED OR NO, SIR.
THEY ASKED, UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE AN INTERNAL PROGRAM,
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I BASICALLY GIVE THEM THE ACCOUNT NUMBER AND THEIR ACCOUNTANT CHARGES IT TO THAT ACCOUNT NUMBER.SO LAST YEAR I WAS ACTUALLY RECEIVING REIMBURSEMENT OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND RECEIPTS REGULARLY THIS YEAR I HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANYTHING.
AND WE DID RUN AN EXPENDITURE STATUS REPORT THIS MORNING, AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T EXPENDED ANY MONEY TO THIS PROGRAM, IF I REMEMBER CORRECT.
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I BELIEVE SHE SAID THAT THEY HAD ALLOTTED FUNDS THAT WERE COMING FROM ANOTHER AREA FOR THESE PEARL CARDS.
AND BECAUSE WE HAD ASKED HER WHY SHE HAD NOT USED ANY OF HER FUNDS THIS YEAR, AND SHE HAD EXPLAINED THAT, THAT THERE WASN'T A NEED.
UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT THAT WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD OTHER, OTHER FUNDING, I GUESS, OR OTHER AVAILABILITY THROUGH THESE PATROL CARS BEING ABLE TO TAKE THEM TO WHEREVER THEY NEEDED TO GO.
ONE OF THE THINGS TO ALSO CONSIDER IS THAT IN THEIR BUDGET LINE ITEM THAT THEY, THEY SUBMITTED TO US, UH, THEY HAVE A THOUSAND DOLLARS ALLOCATED FROM OTHER SOURCES, AND THAT WAS A SELF-REPORT.
MY OPINION IS EVEN THOUGH THE MONEY WASN'T USED LAST YEAR, IT IS A DIFFERENT SITUATION THIS YEAR.
I MEAN, LIKE ME, MYSELF, I THINK I LIVE IN A CIVIL HOUSEHOLD, BUT I DO GET OVERWHELMED YEAH.
WITH STUFF, YOU KNOW, WITH KIDS NOT WANTING TO DO THEIR WORK AND EVERYTHING.
AND IF THE SPOUSE THAT'S ABUSIVE IS NOT HELPING, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE.
I, I THINK WE ARE GONNA BE, WELL, THEY ARE GONNA BE GETTING MORE CALLS THIS YEAR.
I SAY WE ALLOCATE THEM TO WHOLE 2,500 MM-HMM
I CONCUR THAT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT AN ASTRONOMICAL AMOUNT OF PROCEEDS.
AND UH, THAT'S ACTUALLY, AND ACTUALLY I, THAT'S A SMALL AMOUNT TO REALLY 'CAUSE, UH, A LOT OF ABUSE VICTIM HAS, MRS. CUMMINS SAYS THEY DON'T SPEAK OUT.
THEY'RE AFRAID SH IN SHOCK TRAUMATIZED AND YOU CAN WALK AROUND WITH THEM, NEVER KNOW IT.
SO REALLY THAT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY, BUT I, I WOULD FEEL BETTER IF IT'S THERE FOR THE USE IF THEY NEED IT RATHER THAN NEED IT AND NOT HAVE IT.
SO IT'S A CONSENSUS OF BOARD TO LET'S MARK THE $2,500, COULD WE DO THAT AND COME BACK AND I TOTAL EVERYTHING UP THAT MARKUP $2,500 FOR THE, FOR THAT PROGRAM.
BAYTOWN RESOURCE AND ASSISTANT CENTER.
BAYTOWN RESOURCE IS AGAIN, ANOTHER, UH, RETURNING APPLICANT IN THE PAST.
WE HAVE FUNDED THEM, UH, 72,000 PLUS DOLLARS, UM, FOR THIS TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM.
THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES TRANSPORTATION TO THE ELDERLY AND IT GETS THEM TRANSPORTATION OUTSIDE OF BAYTOWN FOR MEDICAL, UM, APPOINTMENTS ONLY.
AND THEN THEY ALSO HAVE THE OPTION OF, UH, TRANSIT RIDES, UH, VIA, UH, A CAR, UM, IN THE CITY.
UM, THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP WHAT THEY DO.
UH, THEY PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION AND JUST AN ADDENDUM TO THAT.
UM, THAT'S MOSTLY FOR OUR ELDERLY.
THEY DO GO INTO THE MED CENTER, THE VOUCHERS OR MM-HMM
MED CENTER AND I THINK LAPORTE, UH, BAYTOWN, UH, CHANNEL VIEW NORTH SHORE AREA, IF I'M CORRECT, IF I'M WRONG.
BUT I THINK THEY, THEY DO A LOT OF AREA COVERING THIS AND WE, WE FUND THEM IN THE PAST, WHAT THEY ASKED FOR, BECAUSE IT'S USUALLY, IT DOESN'T LAST VERY LONG, BUT I, I'M SURE PROBABLY THE CONDITION BECAUSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS PAYMENT, THIS, THIS CORONAVIRUS, IT PROBABLY HAVE CAUSED YOU TO NOT USE AS MUCH BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO GET OUT SOCIAL DISTANCING, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS CONCERNING THIS IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR SALARY COUNT, UM, IT IS CURRENTLY AT $31,775.
UH, ONE THING STAFF WOULD, HAS INTERNALLY DISCUSSED IS LIKE ACTUALLY PUTTING A CAP ON THE AMOUNT OF SALARY DOLLARS.
UM, I'VE HAD A PRE A DISCUSSION WITH, UM, MS. HILDA WHO IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND SHE SAYS THAT A $20,000 CAP WILL BE FINE WITH HER, UM, SETTING THAT ESTABLISHMENT JUST SO THAT WE CAN, AGAIN, MAKE SURE
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THAT WE CONTROL THE ALLOCATION OF SALARY TO SERVICES BEING PROVIDED.SO MUCH SAFETY, WE CAN SAVE OFF 11 AND MAKE 20,000 CAP FOR SALARIES INSTEAD OF THIRD MONTH.
COULD YOU COMMENT ON THAT BOARD FOR YOUR CONSENSUS? SO, UM, TAKING THAT 31,000 DOWN TO 20,000, UM, THE IDEA IS THAT'S GOING TO REDUCE THE, THE TOTAL AMOUNT BY 20,000, NOT THAT WE'RE SPREADING THAT 20,000 AROUND INTO THEIR CLIENT SERVICES COLUMN.
IT WILL REDUCE THE TOTAL AMOUNT BY A LITTLE BIT OVER $11,000.
SO IN THAT 11,000 FROM WHAT THEY ASKED FOR, WHAT WOULD THAT NUMBER BE? ABOUT 70, ABOUT 61.
YOU WILL GO DOWN TO, I DON'T HAVE MY, MY MATH HERE ABOUT 61, 61, 100 SOMETHING.
YEAH, WE'LL JUST SAY $61,000, GIVE OR TAKE.
THAT'LL REDUCE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR BY, BY THAT AMOUNT.
AND ONCE WE START, UH, ADDING WHAT WE TEMPORARILY, TEMPORARILY ALLOCATED, THEN WE CAN PROBABLY THROW SOMETHING BACK AND FORTH TO WHATEVER OTHER ENTITY THAT YOU WANT TO APPLY TO.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON THAT? SEVENTH MATTER? SO IT'S GONNA BE 61 60 1000.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO, UH, TAB 10.
BAYTOWN RESOURCE AND ASSISTANT CENTER.
OUR NEW SHOES, BAYTOWN RESOURCE AND ASSISTANT CENTER.
AGAIN, THIS IS A REPEAT APPLICANT AND THIS IS A REPEAT PROGRAM.
UH, THEY ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED LAST YEAR IN OUR BACK TO SCHOOL PROGRAM WITH US, AND THEY GAVE AWAY THE, THE NUMBER OF SHOES AT THAT PARTICULAR, UM, AT THAT PARTICULAR EVENT.
UM, IT, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST SHOES FOR KIDS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AND THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP.
UH, THEY ARE ASKING FOR $12,000 IN THIS REQUEST IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
WE'VE FUNDED THEM FOR, UM, 10,500 AND THEN $10,000 BEFORE THEN.
UH, SO FAR THEY HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM MEETING THEIR, THEIR SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.
AND I, UH, IN OUR CONVERSATION, THEY DO PARTNER WITH, UH, THEY TEACHERS, THEY PARTNER WITH JASON OH.
TO FIND OUT KIDS IN THEIR SCHOOL THAT NEEDS EXCEPT, UH, SHOES.
AND I THINK SHE ALLUDED TO THE FACT THAT AVERAGE $30 $35 PER SHOE AND THEY EXPEND THEIR FUNDS AT THE END OF THE YEAR WHEN SCHOOL STARTS.
BECAUSE USUALLY THAT'S SCHOOL STARTS, THE MONEY'S GONE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STAFF WANTS TO WORK ON IT, ON WORK WITH THEM, UM, IS ON MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE ENOUGH VENDORS TO SUPPLY THOSE SHOES.
CURRENTLY, THEY'RE ONLY, UH, LINKED WITH JCPENNEY AND ACADEMY.
ANYTHING TO KNOW? NO, JUST JC PENNY.
AND IT'S THE JCPENNEY IN BAYTOWN.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO CONSIDER OR NOT CONSIDER BUT HAVE TO WORK WITH THEM ON IS OPENING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT SO THAT THEY CAN SERVE AS, AS THINGS GO ALONG HERE, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THAT? I KNOW JC PENNY FALLS WITH BANKRUPTCY AND THEY'RE CLOSING TO 30% OF HIS FOREST.
AND I YEAH, WE MAY, I'M STARTING FUTURE AS WELL FOR THE RIGHT, FOR JC PENN'S BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
WELL, MAYBE THEY'LL INCORPORATE ANOTHER ENTITY.
I THINK SHE SAID SHE'S TRIED TARGET, I DON'T WHAT THE PROBLEM, BUT TARGET.
BUT MAYBE IN THE FUTURE THEY CAN, UH, LOOK AT OTHER ENTITIES THAT WILL TAKE VOUCHERS FOR THESE, FOR THESE KIDS.
THEY'VE ALWAYS USED ALL THEIR MONEY.
AND AT ONE POINT, SOMETIMES IN THE PAST, COUNSELORS WAS SCHOOL WAS KIND OF GIVING SOME INPUT ON WHAT THE CHILD NEEDS WERE BECAUSE COUNSELORS PRETTY WELL INVOLVED IN THE KIDS.
WHAT DO I HEAR ON THE, ON THE BOARD FOR THAT? OKAY.
THEN LET'S GO TO TAB 10 COMMUNITY.
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COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS IS LOOKING TO, UH, ESSENTIALLY SUPPLY A, UH, OR CREATE A, A JOB READINESS PROGRAM.THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY ALREADY ARE IN OPERATION, HOWEVER, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY'VE COME BEFORE US TO REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
UM, AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR 12,500 WITH THEIR PARTICULAR APPLICATION.
UM, THEY'RE LOOKING TO SERVICE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 150 STUDENTS, UM, WITH IT.
SO, UH, THEY'RE GONNA DO THIS AT THE VARIOUS DIFFERENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BAYTOWN.
AND THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP THEIR APPLICATION.
A LOT OF THEIR, THEIR FUNDING AS IT EXISTS IS IN SALARIES.
SO YOU HAVE 8,000 OF THEIR REQUESTS GOING TOWARDS SALARIES AND WAGES, AND THEN THE OTHER GOING, THE OTHER AMOUNT GOING TOWARDS, UH, OFFICE SUPPLIES, ADVERTISING AND POSTAGE.
AND WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THAT PROGRAM IS THEY TAKE SENIORS OR PROSPECTIVE SENIORS TO DIFFERENT COLLEGES TO KIND OF INTRODUCE THEM TO COLLEGE LIFE, UH, COLLEGE ATMOSPHERE.
THEY GO TO SEVERAL COLLEGES, U OF H, TEXAS, SOUTHERN PRAIRIE VIEW, UH, HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEAGUE.
THEY USED A LOT OF FUNDS TRANSPORTING THOSE KIDS OVER THERE TO KIND OF GET COLLEGE FEELING.
AND ALSO THAT PROBABLY EXPOSED THEM TO THINGS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROBABLY, UH, IMPROVE ON IN COLLEGES, COURSE MEALS AND ET CETERA.
UH, WE FUND THOSE, THAT ENTITY IN THE PAST, I THINK FOR ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS NOW.
AND THEY USUALLY EXPEND THEIR FUNDS PRETTY QUICKLY.
THAT'S ACTUALLY A DIFFERENT PROGRAM.
THIS IS, THIS IS GONNA BE FOR JOB READINESS, FOR AT-RISK KIDS.
I YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND.
THERE WAS SOME QUESTIONS THAT HE DIDN'T ANSWER WHEN Y'ALL ASKED HIM ABOUT, UH, UH, THE HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THEN THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM, HE, HE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE THREE DAYS A WEEK AND HE WASN'T, HE WAS VERY, ARE THEY FULLY DEPENDENT ON CITY BG FUNDING? NO, ABSOLUTELY.
HIS PRESENTATION, HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT THE PROGRAM WILL GO FORWARD EVEN WITHOUT OUR FUNDING.
I, I THINK THERE'S TOO MUCH OVERLAP THERE.
YOU KNOW, ON WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN THE SCHOOL IS, I MEAN, THE REASON MY CAN, CAN I, I MEAN, DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT? ABOUT WHAT THE SCHOOLS ALREADY, LET'S SAY PRIMARILY IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS, THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR PROGRAMS SET UP, YOU KNOW, FOR, YOU KNOW, THE COLLEGES AND, AND, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, APPLYING FOR THEIR, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR THEIR MONIES, FOR HOPEFULLY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS.
THEY ALREADY GOT ALL THOSE KIND OF THINGS, RIGHT? SO THEY DO, THERE, THERE ARE SOME PLACE, AND THIS IS OUTSIDE MY REALM, ELEMENTARY, THAT'S HIGH SCHOOL.
BUT I THINK ONE THING THAT THEY'VE CATCH MY EYE, AND I WAS NOT EVEN FOR THE PRESENTATION, IS THE FACT THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR AT RISK SKITTLES, UH, WHO MAY BE FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS.
I THINK I SAID, I READ IT SAYS LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY, UH, LOW READING BELOW GRADE LEVEL BEHAVIOR ISSUES.
BUT SOME OF THOSE SKITTLES WHO MAY NOT, UH, BE, UH, VERY, UH, ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT GOING AND SEEING A COUNSELOR, UH, AND OR THEY MAY NOT BE SEEING THEMSELVES GOING TO COLLEGE.
BUT I MEAN, I, I, YOU GUYS KNOW MORE BECAUSE YOU HEARD THE PRESENTATION.
I HAVEN'T HEARD IT, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT DID CATCH MY EYE.
I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I I ADVOCATE FOR IS THE FACT THAT IF, IF A STUDENT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S NOT BILL FOR, FOR COLLEGE, RIGHT? MM-HMM
SO IF, IF, IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA GO TO COLLEGE AND YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE, WHETHER YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN FINANCIALLY DO IT OR NOT, THERE SHOULD BE AN AVENUE FOR SAY, UM, YOU KNOW, OKAY, MAYBE YOU WANT TO BE A WELDER.
MAYBE YOU WANT TO BE A PIPE FITTER.
MAYBE YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE GOOD PAYING JOBS IF YOU CAN GET THOSE JOBS.
I MEAN, IF YOU KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY HAVE ALL THESE CLASSES AT LEE COLLEGE AND IF, IF EVEN IF YOU WORK FOR A COMPANY, THEY STILL SEE YOU AT LEE COLLEGE OR SAN JACK OR YOU KNOW, U OF H TO, TO, UH, TO, TO GET YOUR CERTIFICATIONS FROM, FROM DIFFERENT VARIETIES.
SO I HAVEN'T HEARD, I DIDN'T HEAR THIS PROGRAM SAY THAT.
THEY SAID, WELL, I'M GONNA TAKE YOU TO COLLEGE.
AND IN ALL DUE RESPECT, I I DO BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, KIDS GO TO COLLEGE, BUT NOT EVERYONE IS READY FOR THAT.
THIS PRO, LUIS ISN'T, I'M SORRY.
ISN'T THIS YEAR GONNA, THE SCHOOLS ARE GONNA BE LIKE DIFFERENT, UH, IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
I DON'T HAVE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS AND MY GRAND, MY GRANDKID, BUT I HEARD MY SISTER SAY SOMETHING THAT MY NEPHEW'S GONNA GO TO A CERTAIN HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA INCORPORATE SOME KIND OF PROGRAM IN THAT HIGH SCHOOL.
WELL, DIFFERENT SCHOOLS HAVE DIFFERENT, HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE A DIFFERENT ENDORSEMENTS DID.
AND SO YOU HAVE DIFFERENT ENDORSEMENTS.
I THINK LEE, UH, I WANT TO SAY LEE HIGH SCHOOL, UH, THEY FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE, I THINK UHHUH,
UH, BUT, BUT, AND WAS SHARON, WAS THIS ONE, THE ONE THAT SPOKE LAST YEAR
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OVER THERE ABOUT HAVING, DOING LIKE LITTLE CAFES IN LEE COLLEGE? NO, MA'AM.MY ISSUE I HAVE WITH THIS IS THAT IN THE PAST, COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS HAVE ADVOCATED FOR LOW, UM, LOW TO INCOME AND MINORITY KIDS.
AND I GIVE THEM TOWARD COLLEGE, WHETHER IT BE AS A TRADE OR A FORM OF CERTIFICATION, BUT THIS YEAR, IN MY OPINION, THEY RENT THEIR WHOLE 360 AND THEY SAID, AND THEY DEVIATED AND THEY SAID, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE 'EM TOWARDS COLLEGE OR EVEN A TRADE.
WE'RE GOING TO PLACE 'EM IN A MINIMUM WAGE JOB AS A FORM OF, AS A FORM OF EVEN A SAC OR SOMETHING.
WE NEED TO PLACE 'EM IN A COLLEGE CLASSROOM, EVEN AS A FORM OF A TRADE.
THAT WAY THEY CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES.
I WAS ON, I WAS ON, I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD.
OH, NOW, OH, WELL, I JUST, I REMEMBER ONE OF THE STATEMENTS, IT SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS MORE SOFT SKILLS IN GETTING THEM PREPARED FOR COLLEGE.
YOU KNOW, UM, IT, IT'S THE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, PULL THEM OUT OF, UM, YOU KNOW, PULL THEM OUT OF THEIR DAILY LIVES AND GO, OKAY, YOU CAN EITHER GO THIS ROUTE OR YOU CAN GO THIS ROUTE.
IF YOU CONTINUE THIS WAY, THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR FUTURE.
AND THEN ALSO KIND OF FOCUS ON THOSE, THOSE SOFT SKILLS OF, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH ANOTHER TEAM, WORKING WITH THE MANAGER, HAVING RESPONSIBILITY, HAVING ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND IT, IT'S A LITTLE MORE OF A PROGRAM WITH TRAINING WHEELS, SO TO SPEAK, BECAUSE WHEN YOU GO TO COLLEGE, YOU DON'T HAVE THAT COMFORTING, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH, WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH SOMEONE, YOU CERTAINLY DON'T ALWAYS GET IT FROM YOUR BOSS.
YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF LEARN THE HARD WAY.
SO I DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH FUNDING ALL OF IT OR WITH WHAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE TRYING TO DO.
AND, AND MY CONCERN IS WHERE MOST OF IT IS GOING TO SALARY.
UM, BUT I DO SEE HOW THEY'RE TRYING TO KIND OF, INSTEAD OF TAKE A CHILD THAT DOESN'T SEE THEMSELVES IN COLLEGE, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A BABY STEP TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, GET THEM IN THAT RIGHT DIRECTION SO THEY DON'T DROP THEM IN THE DEEP END, SO TO SPEAK, AND THEN THEY FLUNK OUT.
SO CAN I, YEAH, I, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I, I UNDERSTOOD TOO THAT THERE WAS AN EMPHASIS ON, ON SOFT SKILLS THAT IF YOU DON'T HAVE 'EM, YOU CAN'T GET A JOB AT THE DAIRY QUEEN AND YOU CAN'T GO YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR AND FINISH SUCCESSFULLY.
SO IT, IT'S THOSE KINDS OF THINGS THAT I THINK THEY'RE HAVING TO, TO REALLY, UH, TALK TO THEM ABOUT AND, AND DEMONSTRATE AND GIVING THEM LANGUAGE FOR, UH, CERTAIN KINDS OF BEHAVIORS THAT ARE EXPECTED WHEN WE GO OFF TO COLLEGE OR WHEN WE, WE ARE AT THE WORKPLACE.
AND, UH, SOMETIMES THESE KIDS JUST, JUST HAVEN'T HAD THAT MODELED FOR THEM.
SO, BECAUSE I, THEY SAID THAT, UH, THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD WITHOUT FUNDING.
IF WE ARE, DO NOT ALLOCATE ANY FUNDS, AND BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO HISTORY AS FAR AS THIS PROGRAM, WHY DON'T WE GIVE 'EM FIVE, 5,000, START WITH 5,000 AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK, UH, UH, FOR NEXT YEAR AS FAR AS IF THEY'RE SUCCESSFUL.
I MEAN, WE CAN ALWAYS LOOK AT FUNDING THE FULLY NEXT YEAR.
WHAT'S, IS THAT, IS THAT THE CONSENSUS OF THE BOARD? WE'LL, WITH 5,000, HOW MANY DID WE GIVE 'EM LAST YEAR? THIS IS THEIR FIRST, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME PROGRAM? YES, SIR.
I, I, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY 2,500.
I JUST, I, I, I, I JUST CAN'T SEE, THIS IS A PILOT AND IT'S A, AND IF I, IF I REMEMBER, WAS IT A PILOT PROGRAM TOO? YES, SIR.
MAYBE THEY SURE KNOW THEY CAN PROVE THAT THEY DID HAVE, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, HOLD ANYBODY BACK OR, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THE BELIEFS.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT RIGHT NOW.
OKAY, LET'S, LET'S COMPROMISE AND GO TO 2,500.
UNTIL WE SEE WHAT THE PROGRESS IN.
IS THAT, IS THAT CONSENSUS FOR THE BOARD? MM-HMM
NOW WITH THE 2,500, THE ONE THING THAT I'M GONNA ASK YOU IS, IS THAT, DO YOU HAVE ANY CONDITIONS THAT YOU WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH THAT? IS THAT TO BE FOR SALARY? OR BE ELIGIBLE FOR SALARY, OR IS THAT JUST FOR THE, UM, FOR THE ACTUAL KIDS? MISCELLANEOUS FOR THE KIDS.
LOVE NETWORK OR BAYTOWN, HANDS ON CARPENTER.
LOVE NETWORK, AGAIN, IS A, A REPEAT, UM, UH, AGENCY.
UM, THIS HANDS OF A CARPENTER IS A, A REPEAT
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PROGRAM AS WELL.IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, UH, WE AWARDED THIS PARTICULAR APPLICANT, UM, ABOUT $5,000 IN FUNDS.
UM, THEY WERE, UM, LIMITED TO ONLY DOING, UH, ACCESSIBILITY RAMPS FOR, UM, HOUSES IN NEED.
ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT WAS SPOKEN ABOUT FOR THAT WAS TO LIMITING THAT WAS THE SCOPE OF CONSTRUCTION AND IT BEING, UM, IT BEING TRACKED APPROPRIATELY.
SO WHAT WE DO IS WE FUND THE MATERIALS THAT ALLOW THAT RAMP TO BE BUILT.
UM, THE THING THAT I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER IN THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION, IF YOU REMEMBER IN HER PRESENTATION, SHE GAVE US, UH, AN IDEA ABOUT WANTING TO OPEN UP THE PROGRAM.
SHE HAS STARTED EXPENDING FUNDS.
UM, BUT BECAUSE OF THE SCOPE BEING SO NARROW, THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ACTIVITY TO SPEND THOSE FUNDS THAT WERE AWARDED TO 'EM.
SO SHE WANTS TO PURSUE THE FULL ACTIVITY OF, UM, REHAB, UM, FOR THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS OF $10,000.
IS THAT, WAS THAT THE ONE THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT SHE, UH, THEY, THEY, THEY WANT TO DO MORE.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME PEOPLE THEY GO TO THEIR HOUSES AND THE BATHROOMS AREN'T WORKING, AND YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.
I MEAN, I, I, YOU KNOW, THAT'S CORRECT.
I, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU, YOU NEED A RAMP, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU NEED THE BATHROOM OR YOU NEED YOUR, YOU NEED YOUR WATER SYSTEMS WORKING, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S YOUR SINK, WHETHER IT'S YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOUR, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR BATHROOM SINKS.
YOU NEED THOSE, YOU NEED THOSE WORK.
YOU KNOW, AND I, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THESE PEOPLE GO IN THERE AND THEY GOT, THEIR HANDS ARE TIED BECAUSE THEY WANT TO HELP.
I, I, I JUST BELIEVE THAT'S A, THAT I THINK, YOU KNOW, LOVE, LOVE, UH, LOVE NETWORK DOES A REAL GOOD JOB.
I, I THINK WHAT THAT WAS IS THEY WANT TO EXPAND.
BECAUSE AT FIRST WHEN WE ALLOCATED MONEY WAS FAR THE MATERIAL FOR WHEELCHAIR ACCESS, ELDERLY, AND I THINK IN ENTERPRISE WANT EXPAND IT, LIKE IT WAS A TOILET OR ET CETERA, ET CETERA, OR CLOTHES WANT TO EXPAND THE SERVICE TO ADDRESS THOSE ITEMS. WELL, I, YOU KNOW,
AND THESE ARE ALMOST A HANDICAP ELDERLY PEOPLE.
YEAH, I MEAN, I, I'M, I'M FOR THE WHOLE, I'M FOR THE WHOLE AMOUNT FOR THEM THAT THEY HAVE 25 PEOPLE ON THE RATING LIST.
WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE YOU CONSENSUS ON? THEY ASKING FOR 10,000, $10,000? I'D SAY THE WHOLE AMOUNT.
LOUIS, YOU KEEP IN CONTACT ON THAT, RIGHT? YES.
THAT'S TAP 12 TALENT YIELD COALITION.
UH, THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS, UH, THE DIRECT ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT PROGRAM.
THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A JOB READINESS PROGRAM FOR ADULTS.
UH, THEY'VE IDENTIFIED THAT THERE ARE, UM, SOME ADULTS THAT STILL NEED SKILL LEVEL IMPROVEMENT, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE HOPING TO DO.
THEY WANT TO, UH, GET THESE ADULTS COACHED UP AND READY FOR, UM, EITHER ADVANCING IN THEIR CAREER, GOING FROM A MINIMUM WAGE JOB TO SOMETHING GREATER, OR JUST SIMPLY GETTING INTO THE WORKFORCE AS BEST THEY CAN.
UM, I'VE HAD PREV, I'VE HAD FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM SINCE OUR, OUR LAST MEETING.
UM, THEY WERE HAVING TROUBLE WITH, UH, I GUESS HAVING A DIRECT CONNECTION WITH THE APPLICANT, BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR PROPOSAL, THEY WERE ASKING FOR MOSTLY SALARIES INSIDE OF THEIR, INSIDE OF THEIR APPLICATION.
AND THEN THE OTHER AMOUNTS WERE GOING TO, UH, THE ZOOM MEETINGS AND THEN, UH, COMPUTERS.
UH, SO THE CONNECTION OF THE SALARIES PIECE IS WHAT THEY'RE, THEY REALLY ARE GOING FOR, IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE PRIORITIZING HERE, RIGHT.
WHAT STAFF WANTS TO PROPOSE IS THAT WE ACTUALLY, UM, UH, GIVE THEM SOME TECHNOLOGY TO GO WITH IT.
AND THOSE THINGS WILL GO WITH THE, THE JOB COACHES OR THE COUNSELORS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS.
UM, IF WE DO DECIDE TO GO FUNDING, 'CAUSE THAT'S A TANGIBLE THING THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO ASK, ASK OR SOMETHING THAT WE, WE CAN TANGIBLY TRACK THOSE DEVICES.
WE MAY, MY CONSENSUS IS NO SALARIES, UH, NO FUNDING OF SALARIES AND JUST, UH, IF WE FUND ANY AMOUNT, IT'LL BE FOR TECHNOLOGY, LIKE COMPUTERS, ET CETERA.
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UH, AND WE'VE NEVER FUND THESE, THIS ORGANIZATION BEFORE.THEY ARE, THEY, I DO REMEMBER HIM SAYING THAT THEY WERE USING A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS INSTEAD OF SALARY FEE.
THAT'S WHAT I GOT ON MY NOTES.
SO THERE'S ARIES AT, WHAT, 16,000 MM-HMM
SO I WOULD BE AGAINST FUNDING SALARIES.
THAT'S MY PERSONAL, AND, AND THEY'RE COMPLEX WHAT'S OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, CORRECT.
TWO, UM, ON THE APPLICATION, THEY LISTED FOUR DIFFERENT APARTMENTS.
TWO OF THEM ARE OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS, AND TWO OF THEM ARE WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING OUTSIDE CIVIL, SIR.
SO WILL WE ONLY DO, UH, IF, IF THE CONSIDERATION IS FOR TECHNOLOGY, ARE WE GONNA DO HALF OF WHAT THEIR REQUEST IS FOR THE TECHNOLOGY, WHICH WAS 2,500 TOTAL? THAT MEANS IT WOULD GO DOWN TO, UM, 15, 15 12.
WHAT ARE THE CONSENSUS, MR. C**S? YOU GOT COMMENT ON THAT? UM, YEAH, I AGREE WITH THE IDEA THAT, THAT THE SALARY PIECE SHOULDN'T BE THERE AT THIS POINT.
UM, AND, AND WITH REGARD TO THE, UH, OFFICE SUPPLIES AND POSTAGE, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, THE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT, UM, SOMETIMES WITH TECHNOLOGY, YOU GOTTA GO WHOLE HOG AND YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T, YOU KNOW, JUST CAST THE AMOUNT.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? THAT SOMETIMES WITH, WITH TECHNOLOGY YOU NEED, IF WE WANTED TO REDUCE THE BUDGET, WE COULDN'T REDUCE IT SO MUCH THAT THEY COULD ONLY BUY HALF A COMPUTER.
WELL, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
WELL, I, I, I THINK I, I KNOW CEDAR BA, UH, GOOSE CREEK FUNDED STUDENTS COMPUTERS, RIGHT? MR. FOR BEING OUT SCHOOL CLASSWORK, UH, THEY'RE BEING COLLECTED AT THE MM-HMM
AND I THINK LAPTOPS, IF THEY WERE RIGHT, I KNOW FOR THE ELEMENTARY LAB, WE WERE PICKING UP THE IPADS.
SO THOSE, THEY WEREN'T ALL BRAND NEW.
SO I'M SAYING, UH, I WOULD HATE TO SPEND MONEY ON A NEW PROJECT WITHOUT HAVING SOME WAY OF, OF, OF TRACING WHAT THE MONEY'S GOING FOR.
AND MAYBE THEY NEED TO REDUCE THEIR BUDGET AND JUST LOOK FOR SOME MATERIAL, BECAUSE LOOK, I GOTTA USE COMPUTERS LAPTOP.
SO, WELL, ONE THING, YOU COULD HAVE THE TOP NOTCH DEVICE, AND IF YOUR INTERNET SERVICE IS NOT GOOD,
THAT'S, I GUESS THAT'S MY CONFUSION.
IF I'M LOOKING AT $3,000 FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT, WHAT TECHNICAL SUPPORT THEY'RE REFERRING TO, UH, $400 FOR INTERNET SERVICES.
AND I'M ASSUMING THAT THIS IS FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR.
YOU WANNA FOCUS ON COLUMN A, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GONNA BE USING OUR FUNDING FOR.
SO WITH, WE'RE REQUESTING, THEY, THE ONE THAT REALLY STRIKES ME THE MOST IS $2,400 FOR ZOOM MEETINGS.
RIGHT? I, I REALLY, WE DON'T EVEN PAY THAT IN OUR OFFICE.
UM, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON WHY THEY WOULD NEED $2,400 JUST FOR ZOOM MEETINGS.
AND THEY'VE ONLY ALLOTTED $2,500, WHICH THEY'RE SAYING FOUR DESKTOP COMPUTERS, NOT $625 A COMPUTER.
SO THEY'VE ALMOST ALLOTTED AS MUCH, THEY'RE REQUESTING AS MUCH MONEY FOR ZOOM AS THEY ARE THEIR TECHNOLOGY IN THE, SO I JUST FIND THAT IN THE HYPOTHETICAL, IF, LET'S JUST SAY WE'RE TO FUND THEM THE 24TH FOR ZOOM MEETINGS, HOW WOULD THE CITY TRACK 'EM? LIKE, WILL WE JUST DROP IN ON THE MEETINGS? WELL,
AND THEN WE WOULD TRACK ACCORDINGLY TO THAT.
I MEAN, WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO MONITOR EACH MEETING THAT THEY, THAT THEY UTILIZED IT, BUT IT WOULD BE JUST, THEY WOULD BE PAYING FOR THAT SERVICE.
THAT'S A MONTHLY CHARGE, HUH? IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT JUST A MEETING.
IF YOU USE IT THAT FOR THE YEAR, THAT'S $200 A MONTH.
WHY? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE, HAD WE RECEIVED ANY CLARITY ON WHY THEY ASKED FOR 2,400 FOR ZOOM.
THERE WAS NO CLARITY PROVIDED FOR THAT
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I GET IT.WHERE ARE THE SERVICES DELIVERED? WHERE, WHERE ARE THE SERVICES DELIVERED? SO IF, IF THEY HAVE PHYSICAL THINGS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE USING, LIKE A COMPUTER OR A PRINTER, AN INTERNET THAT HAS TO PHYSICALLY TAKE PLACE SOMEWHERE, WHERE IS WHERE? SO IN, IN THEIR PRO, IN THEIR INITIAL PROPOSAL, THE IDEA WAS TO ACTUALLY HAVE THE SERVICES AT THE COMPLEX THEMSELVES.
SO THEY WANTED TO PROVIDE THE, UH, I BELIEVE THIS IS, THIS IS AT THE APARTMENT UNITS, UM, WOULD HAVE THE, THE TECHNOLOGY LOCATED WITHIN THEM.
BUT IN OUR CONVERSATION, IT WENT FROM THE APARTMENT UNITS BEING, UM, OR THE APARTMENT UNITS, HOUSING THE TECHNOLOGY TO THE TECHNOLOGY BEING WITH THE ACTUAL CASE MANAGERS.
SO THE CASE MANAGER CAN GO TO THE, THE PLACE AND WHO MEET THE APPLICANT OR MEET THE CLIENT AT THE HOME OR AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, AND THEN RENDER THE SERVICES THERE THAT WAY.
I HATE THAT IDEA FOR SO MANY REASONS.
I CANNOT IMAGINE DELIVERING A SERVICE IN SOMEONE'S HOME.
WELL, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY IN THEIR HOME.
IT COULD BE IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, APARTMENT COMPLEX, OR THE, THE WELL, THAT, THAT, THAT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
AND I, AND I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, GONNA BE AT THE LIBRARY OR, OR THE COMMUNITY CENTER OR THE APARTMENT COMPLEX.
BUT I WOULD NOT WANT ANY OF OUR MONEY TO GO TO, TO ALLOW SOMEBODY TO GO INTO SOMEBODY'S HOME.
WELL, THAT'S THE STILL, THEY STILL HAVE, UH, I'M SORRY.
OH, THEY, BUT, BUT THEY ONLY QUALIFY FOR TWO OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT ARE IN THE BAYTOWN CITY LIMITS JURISDICTION.
THE OTHER TWO DON'T, DON'T QUALIFY.
SO EVEN AT, IF WE, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE ASKING FOR 21,000.
I MEAN, AND, AND THEY'RE, AND THIS IS THE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS ANOTHER, THIS IS ANOTHER PILOT PLANT, UH, PROGRAM TOO.
I THINK WE, THAT'S, THAT'S TOO MUCH MONEY, IN MY OPINION.
BE BECAUSE, UH, SO WILL THE PROGRAM FALL APART IF WE CUT? I MEAN, WE, THE, WE DIMINISH THE FUNDS.
IF THEY CAN'T HOLD, HAVE THE PROGRAM, WELL, THEY GOT FUNDS.
FOR FUNDING OR NO FOR FUNDING? AND THEN ARE WE LOOK OR ABSOLUTELY NO SALARIES.
SO THAT WOULD BE NO MORE THAN 5,000, 4,900 MAYBE AT THE MAX, RIGHT, EXACTLY.
IF WE DECIDE TO DO THE COMPUTERS OR, UH, THEY HAVE TO SHOW THE RECEIPTS, CORRECT? YES, MA'AM.
WHAT ABOUT THE COMPUTER? GO AHEAD, SIR.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, WE CAN DO IS VERY SIMILAR TO, AS I EXPLAINED WITH THE, UM, WHAT WAS IT, BAY AREA TURNING POINT.
WE CAN SEEK THE COST OF SERVICE PER CLIENT THAT THEY HAVE, UM, AND WE CAN GET A TALLY SHEET AND FOLLOW IT THAT WAY.
BUT HOWEVER, THEY HAVE NOT PROVIDED US WITH THAT PARTICULAR, UH, SPREADSHEET TO DO THAT.
SO IF, IF, IF YOU GUYS WANT TO FUND THEM, UM, MORE BEYOND THE TECHNOLOGY PIECE IN ITSELF, WE CAN REQUIRE SOME BREAKDOWN NUMBERS LIKE THAT AND, AND GO FORWARD AND RENDER THE SERVICE THAT WOULD SEE HOW ABOUT IF WE, IF WE FUND THE TECHNOLOGY, SAY TODAY, PUT IT IN OUR SYSTEM, UH, IT'S POSSIBLE.
LIKE BEFORE, OF COURSE, BEFORE THEY RECEIVE THE MONEY, YOU'LL TAKE CHARGE OF WHAT YOU JUST TO, RIGHT? MM-HMM
REPLACE, OR YOU CAN, OR WITH THE REQUIREMENTS THAT, THAT WE'RE, THAT YOU'RE ASKING US TO PUT IN PLACE, WE CAN REPLACE THAT SERVICE OR THAT AMOUNT INSTEAD OF FUNDING THE TECHNOLOGY, RIGHT? SO WE CAN, IF YOU SAID, HEY, WE WANT YOU TO LOOK INTO THE, THE SPREADSHEET AND BREAKING DOWN THE AMOUNT OF SERVICES AND, BUT WE WANT TO FUND A TOTAL OF $5,000, UM, THEN WE CAN SAY THAT IT'S GOING TO GO FOR THAT PARTICULAR EXACTLY.
OUTLINE AND NOT THE TECHNOLOGY.
SO MEAN, WHY DON'T, SO WHY DON'T WE JUST FUND, IF ONLY TWO OF THE, ONLY TWO OF THE COMPLEXES ARE IN OUR JURISDICTION, THEN WE CUT THE MONEY DOWN TO, HEY, OKAY, WE'LL GIVE YOU THE, WE'LL GIVE YOU THE MONEY FOR THE, UH, COMPUTERS.
WELL, NO, FOR THE COMPUTERS, YOU KNOW, THE SAYS FOUR DESKTOP, COMPUTER AND ACCESSORIES $2,500.
I MEAN, WE CAN START AT THAT POINT, RIGHT? IF NEXT YEAR THEY COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, WE DID A, B, C, AND STAYED UNDER OUR CRITERIA, HEY, THEN YOU KNOW WHAT? WE MIGHT GIVE YOU THE 21.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS WELL, YOU KNOW.
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER? GIVE 'EM A CHANCE? PARDON? YEAH, I THINK GIVING THEM A CHANCE OF,
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WITH THE, UM, THE COMPUTERS IS, IS A GOOD THING.UH, EVERYTHING ELSE I THINK THEY NEED TO WORK OUT.
I, HEY, COULD I SAY THAT THE FOUR DESKTOPS ARE FOR THE FOUR FOUR COMPLEXES? SO THAT'S ACTUALLY, THEY JUST NEED TO, I MEAN, THAT'S CORRECT.
AND THEN, SO THEN THEY COULD USE, THEY COULD PROVE THE RISK FOR CLIENT SERVICES.
SO HOW, LIKE I SAY, 5,000? NO, 20.
SO WE'LL, WE'LL GO BETWEEN, IS THAT CONSENSUS BOARD 2,500? YEAH, I, I WOULD ASK THAT WE LOOK AT THE YOUTH PROGRAM LIFE SKILLS, TOO.
IT'S SIMILAR WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, THE TYPE OF PROGRAMS THEY DESCRIBED.
AND, UH, THEY WANNA DELIVER THAT AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES AS WELL.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF THEY, IF YOU FUND TECHNOLOGY, YOU FUND THESE LAPTOPS, THEY CAN BE USED FOR BOTH PROGRAMS. AND YOU'LL SEE IN THAT LIFE SKILLS, THE YOUTH LIFE SKILLS, THEY'VE ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL LAPTOPS OR ADDITIONAL COMPUTERS.
SO MAYBE SPLITTING, UH, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING THE 2,500 FOR YOUR LAPTOPS, BUT SAYING, NOW WE WANNA SEE THAT YOU ALL PROVIDE SERVICE UNDER BOTH OF THESE PROGRAMS USING THIS PARTICULAR TECHNOLOGY AT THOSE TWO APARTMENT COMPLEX.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TALL HILL COALITION.
FIRST STEP, HELPING THE HOMELESS PROGRAM.
THIS AGAIN, IS, UH, ANOTHER PILOT PROGRAM FOR TALEN YIELD, WHO IS ALSO, AGAIN, A NEW APPLICANT.
UH, AGAIN, THE, THEIR PROPOSAL, MAJORITY OF IT IS IN SALARIES.
UM, THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM IS BASICALLY TO GET CLIENTS DOCUMENTATION.
SO WHAT THEY'VE IDENTIFIED IS THAT THEY HAVE, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF HOMELESS POPUL OR A NUMBER OF HOMELESS MEMBERS THAT DON'T HAVE THE PROPER ID AND OR THE BIRTH CERTIFICATES TO GET AN ID.
UM, THEY WANT TO TAKE UP ON, TAKE UP, TAKE UP THE SERVICE OF PROVIDING AND GETTING THOSE THINGS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN NEED.
UM, FOR THEM IN THEIR PRESENTATION.
THE ONE THING THAT THEY STATED IS THAT A LOT OF, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE BORN OUTTA STATE, AND THAT COSTS, UH, THAT COMES WITH A DOLLAR FIGURE TO SEEK THOSE TYPE OF, UH, BIRTH CERTIFICATES, UM, FROM OUTTA STATE.
SO THEY'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT $50 PER, UM, SUCCESSFUL CLIENT TO GET A BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND A LICENSE.
THEY, THEY CAME TO US MANY TIMES IN THE PAST.
UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE CAN, I GUESS THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME IF WE FUNDED THIS ORGANIZATION.
UH, I HAVE SOME REGULATIONS, BUT YOU CAN FORCE FORCE YOUR OPINION.
IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TRACK AN INDIVIDUAL THAT YOU, YOU, THAT'S HOMELESS AND ET CETERA, FROM THE STREET TO TRACE.
TRACK HIS LITTLE, WHEN HE, WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED THESE SERVICES, HOW ARE WE GONNA KNOW? HOW CAN WE TRACK IF THAT'S GOING TO HELP HIM, HIM OR HER? OR WE JUST WASTED OUR MONEY ON A ONE TIME THING LIKE BIRTH CERTIFICATES? WELL, YOU GOTTA HAVE IDS ANYWHERE DOWN.
RIGHT? BUT THEN AFTER THAT, THEN WHAT? WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE AS STAFF CAN DO IS ACTUALLY, UH, AGAIN, CONDITION THAT THE REIMBURSEMENT IS BASED UPON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ID.
BUT THAT ID HAS TO BE A MEMBER.
IT HAS TO BE IN A, UH, BAYTOWN CITY LIMIT ADDRESS.
SO WE CAN TRACK THE PHYSICAL THINGS THAT I THINK THAT WE CAN GET THERE FAIRLY EASILY.
UM, BUT THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE WITH THE SALARIES IS THE SERVICES THAT ARE RENDERED UP TO THAT POINT.
SO WE, WE HAVE A HARDER TIME TRACKING THAT.
UH, WITH THE IDS, CHRIS, UM, IF THEY'RE HOMELESS, HOW ARE WE GONNA TRACK THEM? KEEP ON TRACKING THEM? REPEAT THAT FOR ME.
WITH THE IDS, WHAT ADDRESS IS GONNA BE IMPLEMENTED ON THE ID AND HOW ARE WE GONNA TRACK THEM? THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW EXACTLY, UH, I GUESS THE DRIVER'S LICENSE SERVICES DOES THAT.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S KIND OF THAT CAVEAT.
THAT IS THAT THEIR REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE LEANING ON.
IS THAT, THAT ID HAS TO HAVE A BAYTOWN ADDRESS.
HOW, HOW THAT COMES ABOUT, I'M NOT SURE.
AND DO THEY HAVE, THEY DO HAVE A LISTING HERE IN BAYTOWN, OR THEY JUST CAME TO THIS, THIS, THEY, THEY HEARD ABOUT THESE FUNDS AND THEY, THEY CAME TO A PLATFORM
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YOU TALKING ABOUT LOCATED IN HIGHLAND.AND HIGHLAND, THAT'S, REMEMBER, THAT'S NOT CITY, THAT'S NOT CITY LIMITS THE BAYTOWN, RIGHT? THAT JUST ETJ AREA THERE.
SO TECHNICALLY IT'S NOT IN THE CITY.
THE CITY HAVE NOT, THEY N THAT AREA.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS TO ALSO CONSIDER, REMEMBER THIS PROGRAM IS NOT ONLY JUST FOR HOMELESS, IT'S ALSO PEOPLE THAT ARE NEAR HOMELESSNESS.
SO IN THE CASE THAT THERE'S A, I'M STAYING WITH A FAMILY MEMBER, I WILL BE NEAR HOMELESS.
SO MAYBE I HAVE, NOW MY FAMILY MEMBER IS GOING TO GIVE ME A CHANCE TO LIVE WITH THEM.
SO I WOULD USE THEIR ADDRESSES AS MY PERMANENT AND PUT THAT ON THE ID.
I'M NOT SURE, AGAIN, NOT SURE HOW THEY GET THERE, BUT THAT IS, THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY THERE.
SO, MS. CUMMINS, WHAT'S YOUR OBSERVATION ON THAT MATTER?
I, YEAH, I, I, I AM TRYING TO FORMULATE THAT.
I, I JUST HAVE MAJOR DOUBTS ABOUT THE EFFICACY OF THIS.
I KNOW THERE'S A NEED, BUT THEY HAVEN'T DEMONSTRATED THE, THE DEGREE OF NEED.
THEY HAVEN'T SAID, WE HAVE X NUMBER OF HOMELESS PEOPLE WANDERING AROUND HERE, AND, UH, I'M HAVING A REAL HARD TIME MAKING A CONNECTION TO BAYTOWN.
I MEAN, THEY'RE NOT IN BASED ON WHY ARE WE FUNDING THEM.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT GIVING 'EM 2,500, THAT 12, THAT'S THE SAME PEOPLE MM-HMM
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, AND THEN WE MADE THE DECISION TO GO WITH 2,500 BECAUSE IT WAS HALF.
AND THEY USED, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY GOT TWO, TWO APARTMENT COMPLEX HERE IN BAYTOWN.
BUT THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THE MAJORITY OF 'EM ARE COMING FROM THESE OTHER TWO COMPLEXES VERSUS, RIGHT.
SHALL WE SAY HIGHLANDS, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? UM MM-HMM
I THAT I HAD, I I, I'M GOT RESERVATIONS ABOUT NUMBER 12 TOO.
I GUESS WE CAN SPECIFY ON THE COMPUTER JUST AT THAT, THAT ONE PARTICULAR ONE THAT'S IN BAYTOWN.
WE CAN JUST SAY IT'S FOR THAT ONLY.
AND MAYBE THE OTHERS WHERE THEY'RE ASKING FOR, SEE, THEY GOT THREE PROGRAMS, SO MAYBE THE SECOND ONE THEY, THAT WE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW, THE DRIVER'S LICENSE, ET CETERA.
I, I THINK WE DON'T HAVE TO FUND THEM.
I THINK IT'S OKAY FOR US TO SAY WE'RE NOT GONNA FUND, I MEAN, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO NECESSARILY ALWAYS JUST, UH, GIVE THEM A PORTION OF WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
ALRIGHT, WELL THEN I GO, LET'S GO BACK TO 12 AND I'D RATHER Z SEE THAT ZERO.
THEN CAN WE DO THAT? OR WE'LL DO IT ON THE, ON THE BACK END.
YOU CAN DO IT ON THE BACK END.
BUT THE, AS FOR NOW, ON THE, ON THE TALENT ON THE FIRST STEP, HELPING THE HOMELESS, THAT'S A ZERO, RIGHT? ZERO.
LET'S GO TO, THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THEIR YOUTH, ONE OF THEIR PROGRAMS IS TALENT YIELD COALITION, YOUTH LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM.
AGAIN, THIS IS A PILOT PROGRAM.
UH, THIS IS A YOUTH SERVICE, UH, INITIATIVE, VERY SIMILAR TO COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS.
THEY WANT TO GIVE, UH, HELP GIVE STUDENTS, UM, SKILLS, UM, PARTICULARLY IN COMMUNICATION, UM, TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND BE READY FOR THE, THE JOB WORLD.
UH, HOWEVER, UNLIKE, UNLIKE, UH, THE COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM, THIS ONE DOES NOT END IN WITH THE STUDENTS GETTING A JOB.
THIS ACTUALLY ENDS WITH A PRESENTATION BY THE STUDENTS.
UM, AN ORAL PRESENTATION IN WHICH THEY ARE AWARDED, UM, FOR THAT.
SO THAT, THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP THAT PROGRAM.
AND THIS IS A FIRST TIME APPLICANT, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO THE CONSENSUS, NO SALARIES, RIGHT? SO THAT, THAT'S, I'M AT A ZERO WITH THIS ONE TOO.
THEY'RE ASKING US TO FUND A TALENT SHOW.
THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE RIGHT NOW IS OFFERING A, UM, SPEAKING CLASS FOR FREE, WHICH I'M TAKING HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME I'LL BE BETTER.
WELL, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING CLASSES ARE ONE THING, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HE DESCRIBED.
AND I'M IN AGREEANCE WITH THAT.
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LOUIS, WOULD YOU GIVE US A, UH, BREAKDOWN OF ALL THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE, UH, TEMPORARY? OH, WE STILL NEED TO DECIDE ON OUR INTERNAL PROGRAMS. PARDON ME? STANDARD STRUCTURES, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, HOUSING PROGRAMS. YOU STILL THERE? OKAY.OH, Y'ALL READY FOR THAT TOO? YES.
WE HAVE TO PASS THIS, THE MUSTARD AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE THE REQUEST FOR $125,000 FOR SUBSTANDARD STRUCTURES ABATEMENT.
THAT'S, UH, MARCUS'S KEEPING BAYTOWN BEAUTIFUL.
SO, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HOUSING PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDES YOUR SEWER LINE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, UH, THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES, THE FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS PROGRAM.
AND THEN THERE IS SALARIES AND RELATED EXPENSES.
AND YEAH, THOSE ARE ALSO LO UH, LOCATED INSIDE OF THAT SECTION AS WELL.
UM, HOW WAS THE FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS PROGRAM COMING ALONG? I KNOW I HAVEN'T USED IT IN A COUPLE OF YEARS.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE ONE COMPLETED.
WE HAVE ONE IN THE WHOLE, SO, WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY, WE'LL LIKELY HAVE TWO BY THE END OF THE YEAR FOR SURE.
AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET THE THIRD MM-HMM
THIRD COMING UP IN THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS OR SO.
SO WHERE, WHERE ARE YOU AT NOW, UH, SHARON ON THE, SO THE FIRST ONE, UM, ARE Y'ALL OKAY WITH THE 125,000? MM-HMM.
AND THEN THE HOUSING PROGRAMS, THE REQUEST IS 3 85 1 40, THAT'S THE REHAB AND ETC.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
THE NIP AS I, AS WE EXPLAINED THE LAST MEETING, WE'RE CHANGING THE AREA.
WE'RE GOING FROM THE WEST BAYTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD, AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE IT OVER TO OLD PELLY.
AND A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITION TO THAT, UM, ESSENTIALLY THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, IT HELPS US WITH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHT OUT, THE TRASH OFF PROGRAM, WHICH IS A NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP INITIATIVE.
AND THEN ANY OTHER TYPE OF PROGRAM THAT WE WANT TO DO, WE GET THE OUTREACH TO THE PARTICULAR COMMUNITY, HOPEFULLY ESTABLISHING KIND OF A, UH, A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, UM, INSIDE OF THAT PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST TO GET THEM INTERESTED IN, UM, ONE THE CITY SERVICES.
AND WE CAN GET DIRECT FEEDBACK FROM THEM OF WHAT THEY NEED INSIDE OF THEIR COMMUNITY.
THAT NIP PROGRAM WORKS GOOD BECAUSE IT WAS A PRINGLE ADDITION AT ONE TIME.
AND ALSO OVER ON WARD ROAD IN THAT AREA.
AND IN FACT, I THINK YOU GUYS SET UP A, A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM.
ONE OF THOSE OVER, UH, IN MIDDLETOWN.
WE DID, UM, TRY TO START ONE, AND WE DID HAVE SOME INTEREST, BUT THAT WAS RIGHT AROUND THE TIME THAT HARVEY HIT WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE OUR BIG NATIONAL NIGHT OWL.
SO IF YOU GUYS ARE OKAY, WE WOULD LIKE YOU GUYS TO FIND $20,000 FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
THAT THE PARENTS AND ALL OF THAT.
AND THE LAST ONE IS THE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION IS THE FUNDS THAT SUPPORTS THE STAFF HERE, UM, TO ACTUALLY PUT ON THOSE PROGRAMS IN ITSELF.
ADDITION, IT SUPPORTS, IT SUPPORTS, BUT MOST OF ALL, THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE TO SUPPORT YOU ALL.
THAT'S, UH, WELL, WE GET PAID THE BIG BUCKS, DON'T YOU SAY? THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
SO LOUIS, YOU ABOUT THE LETITIA, WHAT DO WE COME UP WITH? WE HAVE $19,820 LEFT.
I, I WANT US TO GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL.
AND I KNOW WE PROPOSED, UH, 2,500, BUT I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND INCREASE THAT, UH, OR PROPOSE THAT WE INCREASE IT TO AT LEAST 4,000.
WHAT DO WE HAVE ON THE MR. EZ? WE WERE INITIALLY ASKING, I THINK, WHAT IS IT? UH, IT WAS 2,500.
WHAT'S THE PROPOSAL WITH NO SALARIES? I THINK IT'S TAB 10 10.
SO YOU GUYS WANT TO BRING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT? I WANT BRING IT UP A LITTLE BIT.
I THINK, UH, READING ABOUT IT, I THINK IT, I MEAN, IT, IT, IT'S A GOOD CAUSE, UH, WE HAVEN'T SEEN 'EM BEFORE, BUT THEY ARE TARGETING KIDS WHO ARE,
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ARE AT RISK AND WHO, UM, I BELIEVE, UH, WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE PROGRAM AND NOT KNOWING THE PROGRAM.WELL, BECAUSE THIS IS THEIR FIRST TIME, BUT I, I, I WANT US TO INCREASE IT.
I MEAN, THAT'S THE PROPOSAL THAT I, I BRING TO THE TABLE.
AND, AND ARE THEY AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOLS? WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS? YES.
THEY OFFICES AND ON DIFFERENT CAMPUSES.
I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH INCREASING IT TO ME NEITHER.
GIVE 'EM A CHANCE TO, TO DO SOMETHING AND SHOW US THAT WE CAN DO IT AGAIN.
SO WHAT, WHAT WOULD THAT BRING OUR, UM, SO IT, A FINAL 5,010 THAT BRING IT DOWN TO ABOUT 17, 17, 3 20 OUR PROPOSED THAT WE FUND MORE FOR THE NEW, NEW SHOES PROGRAM.
WELL, WHAT DID WE SAY? NO, WE, WE, WE, WE SAID 12.
THAT'S NUMBER NINE, RIGHT? YES, YES.
SO WE'RE GOING THERE FROM 12 TO 15, RIGHT? YEAH.
I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE AN INCREASE FOR THE YOUTH PROGRAM BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR CHILDREN IN SPORTS AND NOT, NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY THOSE FEES.
OR, OR AT LEAST OPEN THE DISCUSSION AGAIN.
OH, JUST FOR, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION FOR YOU ALL'S CONSIDERATION, AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE TO FUND THE FULL AMOUNT FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITY, BECAUSE REMEMBER, IF WE DON'T, IF WE, IF WE HAVE ANY LEFT OVER, IT GOES INTO THE HOUSING PLAN.
AND THAT ALLOWS US TO SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PRIMARY, THE PREMIER PORTION OF THE PROGRAM.
SO, OKAY, WELL, LET'S, LET'S DISCUSS THE OPTIMIST AND MAYBE WHAT WE HAVE LEFT, IF IT BALANCES OUT TO PUT IT INTO HOUSING, AND THAT, THAT'S THE COMPLETE OUR BUDGET.
SO I, I HAVE NO PROBLEMS INCREASING, UH, THE YOUTH FOOTBALL PROGRAM.
IF, IF HE WILL PUT ON THERE THAT IT'S A SCHOLARSHIP, AND THAT MAY MEAN THAT THERE ARE MORE APPLICATIONS, BUT THAT, THAT'S TOO BAD.
IT
BECAUSE WHEN A PARENT SEES, OH, FILL THIS FORM OUT, THEY'RE ALWAYS ASSUMING THERE'S MONEY ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, AND THEY'RE JUST GONNA THROW IT AWAY.
IF THEY SEE THAT THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THAT THEIR KID MIGHT GET A SCHOLARSHIP, THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY FILL IT OUT.
BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT, WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT A, A CONDITION OF, OF HIM GETTING THE MONEY IS THAT THOSE, THOSE FLYERS THAT HE DISTRIBUTES HAVE TO SAY, WE WORKED ON SOMETHING ABOUT, WE WORKED ON IT FOR YEARS, MR. CUMMINS, I THINK I KNOW THE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS WE ASKED HIM FOR, UH, ADVERTISE MORE.
AND HE CONSISTENTLY DON'T DO THAT.
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
I, I, HE, YOU KNOW, THAT I, I MEAN, I DON'T MIND BEING A HARD ASS
I JUST HAVE A PERSONALLY, UH, THEIR RECORD SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD IS, IS NOT WHAT I WOULD CALL A GOOD, UH, RESPONSE TO OUR, OUR, OUR APPROPRIATE, UH, IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
CHILDREN NEED TO BE OUTSIDE AND THEY NEED TO BE WITH TEAM SPORTS.
THERE'S A LOT THAT YOU CAN GLEAN FROM BEING ON A TEAM AND BEING IN SPORTS AND, AND, UM, IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT, THAT THIS ISN'T BEING MANAGED THE WAY WE WOULD LIKE.
UM, IF I CAN SAY SOMETHING, I, I, I WOULD BE, UH, TOLD, UH, I MEAN FOR, FOR, UH, GIVING THEM THE, UH, WHOLE AMOUNT, IF THEY PUT SOME PARAMETERS THAT IF THEY ADVERTISE THAT THEY'RE GIVING, UH, SCHOLARSHIPS, UH, BECAUSE I WOULD BE THE KIDDO WHO WOULD GET THE FIRE AND I WOULD BE LIKE, OKAY, IT'S GOING IN THE TRASH.
MY PARENTS AND I GOTTA PAY FOR THIS.
SO, AND THE FACT IS THAT HE HASN'T DONE IT THE LAST FEW YEARS, BUT I REMEMBER WE HAD THE SAME CONVERSATION LAST YEAR AND HE DID NOT DO IT AGAIN.
SO IT WOULD BE, I KNOW IT'S A SHAME BECAUSE IT GOES FOR KIDS AND I HATE THAT, BUT HE NEEDS TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE SO THAT OTHER KIDS CAN APPLY.
BECAUSE THERE'S PLENTY OF KIDS WHO WILL NOT APPLY WHEN THEY SEE THAT FLYER MARTINEZ
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ANNA PAPER THROW IT AWAY.AND OF COURSE, IF YOU NOTICE ANOTHER THING, HE HAD PROBLEMS PRESENTING UPDATE PICTURES.
I'VE SEEN PICTURES BACK IN 2008, PROBABLY.
YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T GIVE US AN UPDATE ON PICTURES AS WHAT, HOW YOU'RE PROGRESSING IN YOUR PROGRAM.
AND THOSE OLD PICTURES OLDER THAN I AM.
I, YOU KNOW, I WANNA BELIEVE, YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID THAT HE HAD NEW PICTURES THIS YEAR.
I KNOW, BUT HE DIDN'T SHARE THE POWERPOINT WITH US SO THAT WE COULD WASN'T, WASN'T IT LAST YEAR THAT HE INCREASED THE PRICE FOR KIDS TO, UM, PLAY? I THINK IT WENT UP BY 20 OR 40 BUCKS.
IT USED TO BE A HUNDRED AND THEN IT WENT TO ONE 20.
'CAUSE HE IS TRYING TO BE COMPETITIVE WITH THE LEADS, UH, AT THE LEADS IN CITY.
WHAT WAS HIS RATIONALE FOR NOT ADVERTISING THE SCHOLARSHIPS? I THINK I ASKED HIM THAT QUESTION AND HE, HE NEVER GOT TO MY ANSWER.
I THINK HE WENT AROUND SOMETHING AND I EVEN ASKED HIM, HE SAID, BECAUSE IT, IT WOULD TAKE LOGISTICS.
IT WOULD TAKE YOU A LONG TIME.
AND HE SAID, NO, BUT THEN HE NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION.
HE SAYS THAT, I, I MAY BE WRONG.
HE SAYS THAT IF YOU PUT THE WORD SCHOLARSHIP ON THE FLYER, THAT PEOPLE DON'T BE HESITANT TO PAY FOR THEIR KIDS TO PLAY BECAUSE THEY SEE IT AS A FORM OF WHY SHOULD I PAY FOR MY CHILD WHEN THEY'RE FREE? YOU HAVE A FREE PROGRAM THERE AND THEN, AND SO AND SO YOU, YOU HAVE THE COMPETITION THERE OF SAYING, ALRIGHT, UH, I MEAN, I, I CAN, I CAN PAY IT FOR MY KID, BUT SOMEBODY ELSE CAN'T PAY FOR THE KID.
SO, BUT HE'S GONNA GET IT FREE.
HOW COME I CAN'T, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL? WELL, ALL THE DIFFERENCE IS I'M MAKING $10 AND YOU'RE MAKING $20.
I CAN'T AFFORD TO PUT MY CHILD.
I TRUST, AND BY ADVERTISING, THAT'S WHY I ASKED THEM A QUESTION THAT THE BREAKDOWN OF THE KIDS THAT GOT SCHOLARSHIPS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
'CAUSE THIS IS GOVERNMENT FUNDS MONEY, UH, IT NEVER GOT THAT INFO BACK BECAUSE, UH, IF YOU ADVERTISE, YOU WANT TO DO IT NOT JUST ONE CERTAIN LOCAL AREA.
I WOULD THINK YOU KIND OF DO GET OTHER AREAS.
HISPANIC, UH, BLACKS A COMBINATION OF BOTH.
BUT, UM, PERSONALLY I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
FUNDING THEM EXTRA MONEY I DO TO YOU.
MY KIDS ARE IN THEIR THIRTIES AND WHEN THEY WERE IN THE OPTIMIST CLUB, THEY DID THE DINNER SALES.
ARE THEY STILL DOING THAT? THEY DOES SELL WELL, LESS A YEAR.
IT'S LIKE LITERALLY THEY DO THE CHOCOLATE SALES.
SO THEY HAD DO HAVE OTHER FUNDS MM-HMM
SO I JUST DON'T, THEY ONLY DO IT ONCE A YEAR.
NOW ONCE IT WAS HIS FRY, BARBECUE FRY, OKAY.
I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE THE, THE MEMBERS ANYMORE.
IT USED TO BE THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF PE UH, YEAH.
I THINK THAT MORE GRANDPARENTS ARE, ARE HELPING THEIR, THEIR PARENTS AND, AND TO SAY LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, EVEN PII, I MEAN, HE KNOWS, HE, HE'S A, HE'S A, HE'S IN THE UPPER SIXTIES, YOU KNOW, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I DID IT FOR 25 YEARS AND, AND I KNOW THAT MY ENERGY LEVEL WENT DOWN.
I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE IF I'D HAVE BEEN 60, 66 YEARS OLD.
YOU KNOW? SO I'M JUST SAYING THAT, AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYBODY THAT'S BACKING YOU UP AND ALL THIS PAPERWORK PILED UP ON YOU, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU, YOU, YOU MADE A GOOD POINT.
HE NEEDS TO, MAYBE WE NEED TO GIVE HIM THAT FUNDING SO HE CAN HIRE SOMEBODY TO ACTUALLY DO THE STATISTICS OF, OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON IN THIS PROGRAM.
I JUST, I JUST HAVE SOME RESERVATIONS ABOUT HOW HIS PROGRAM SET UP BECAUSE, UH, NO DOUBT WE, YOU'RE RIGHT, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN HIS ATTENTION.
UH, BUT, AND STILL HAVEN'T GOT HIS ATTENTION.
I THINK THE BEST WAY TO GET PERSONAL ATTENTION IS COME OFF, THIS IS WHAT, THIS IS WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE.
IF YOU CAN'T GO WITH OUR RECOMMENDATION, AND IF YOU CAN'T GO BY THE RULES, THEN I AGREE WITH THAT.
HIS TIREDNESS IS AFFECTING THE KIDS THEN.
SO I MEAN, WHY FUND HIM? IT'S THE KIDS.
SO JUST, YOU KNOW, SO AGAIN, WE CAN, AGAIN, WE CAN PUT THAT CONDITION ON THERE.
IF HE DOESN'T ADVERTISE THE SCHOLARSHIP, THEN WE WON'T REIMBURSE HIM THE FUNDS WE'LL RECEIVE.
WE'LL, WE CAN PUT IN THE CHECK MARKS FOR HIS ADVERTISEMENT.
WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT IT'S, UM, THE FLYER THAT WENT OUT TO THE SCHOOLS HAS IT ON THERE.
THE STAFF WILL HELP DISTRIBUTE THOSE TO OUR PARTNERS, UM, SO THAT THEY CAN GET IT OUT TO THEIR CLIENTS, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
DO Y'ALL HAVE A STEP OF HIS FLYER FROM S SEND THE APPLICATION? IT SHOULD.
THE, UH, I HATE THE, A HORSE BACK IN, BUT, UH, AFTER FIVE, SIX YEARS, I, I UNDERSTAND.
YEAH, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
AND, UH, EVEN THIS PROGRAM WOULDN'T COMPLY.
AND I HATE SEEING THOSE OLD PICTURES.
IF HE'S USING THE SAME FLYER, THERE'S NO REASON FOR HIM NOT TO PUT SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.
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YOU KNOW, SO HE CAN HAVE TIME TO BE DOWN SOON.AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT YOU ALL CAN MANDATE IF YOU GIVE HIM FUNDS FOR, FOR THE PARTICIPANT SCHOLARSHIPS.
ALSO PROVIDING HIM FUNDS TO DO AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE BAYTOWN SUN TO DO MORE FLYERS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THEN SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, UNLESS THE CITY HAS APPROVED THE LANGUAGE THAT'S ON THERE, THAT KIND OF THING, THEN WE WON'T PAY FUNDS FOR, FOR THE PARTICIPANTS.
'CAUSE I THINK WHAT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT THEY DO IS WHEN PEOPLE SIGN UP, IF THEY FIND OUT THROUGH SOME MEANS THAT THE KIDS HAVE A FINANCIAL ISSUE, THEN THEY GIVE THEM A SCHOLARSHIP.
WHAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE IS THAT EVERY KID KNOWS THAT A SCHOLARSHIP IS AVAILABLE.
NOT, NOT AFTER THEY'VE SIGNED UP.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT YOU ALL CAN, CAN CONSIDER GIVING THE PARTICIPANT FUNDS AND THEN, UH, MAYBE A SMALL AMOUNT OF FUNDS FOR ADVERTISING AND STIPULATE THAT THEY MUST ADVERTISE THESE SCHOLARSHIPS.
I THINK ANOTHER CRITERIA THERE TOO IS THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, COACHES CHANGE.
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN I STUCK AROUND, DID IT 'CAUSE I LIKED IT AND, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY KIDS TILL LATER ON.
BUT, UH, THE FACT THAT THE, YOU KNOW, THE COACHING CHANGE EVERY YEAR.
SO HE, HE DEALS WITH NEW, YOU KNOW, NATURALLY A LOT OF, UH, THE KIDS' DAD WANNA COACH, RIGHT? SO, UH, USUALLY THEY STAY WITHIN THE PROGRAM A COUPLE OF YEARS.
I MEAN, IF THEY START FROM THE PEEWEE AND THEN THEY GO UP TO THE, YOU KNOW, 11 AND 12, THEN THE DADS GO UP WITH 'EM.
SO THEY GOT A COACH, MAYBE THEY LOSE A COACH AND THE SMALLER KIDS AND GANG ONE IN THE SENIOR DIVISION.
AND THEN AFTER THAT, THEN THEY'RE DONE.
RIGHT? THE NEXT GROUP COMES IN.
NOW HE'S GOTTA DEAL WITH SOME, SOME OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE COMING IN THAT HE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE COACHES.
IT'S THE SAME THING WITH LITTLE LEAGUE.
AND LITTLE LEAGUE HAS HAD THREE OR FOUR COACHES PER TEAM.
AND IT'S ALSO PARENTS, IT'S JUST MAYBE YEAH.
THE WAY IT'S ADVERTISED, RIGHT? YOU'RE, BUT HOW ABOUT JUST GIVING THE $1,200 AND A THOUSAND DOLLARS OF ADVERTISEMENT? THAT'S 20, WHAT? 20, $2,200? UH, YEAH.
YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T THINK THE EXTRA MONEY FOR ADVERTISEMENT WILL HELP BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO READ THE BAYTOWN FUND ARE NOT THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE SCHOLARSHIP.
THE PEOPLE WHO READ THE BAYTOWN SUN ARE OLD WHITE PEOPLE.
THE PEOPLE WHO READ THE BAYTOWN FUND ARE OKAY.
THEY HAVE CIRCULATION OF LESS THAN 10,000.
SO I JUST DON'T THINK THAT'S MONEY WELL SPENT.
YOU KNOW, GIVE THEM THE 12, THE 1200 AND BE DONE WITH AND SAY IF, IF YOU, IF YOU COME BACK AND DON'T SHOW US A, A FLYER THAT HAS SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE, SOME SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.
YOU DON'T EVER GET ANY MONEY FROM IT.
I MEAN, WELL, AND YOU, YOU, YOU PUT UP WITH WAY TOO MUCH FROM, FROM HIM FOR THESE HERE.
SO CAN Y'ALL TYPICALLY, IF WE GET 1200 HOW TO USE IT, LET'S GO WITH THAT.
WE MAKE IT, WE'LL MAKE IT CLEAR IN HIS AGREEMENT WITH THIS, UM, EXACTLY WHAT ADVERTISEMENT WE COULD EVEN GO AS FAR AS HAVING, AS MS. TIFFANY ALLUDED TO, WE CAN EVEN GO AS FAR AS HAVING, UM, YOU ALL REVIEW THE FLYER STAFF.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR, FOR THE, COULD YOU JUST SAY THAT, THAT YOU THINK THAT Y'ALL SHOULD APPROVE THIS FLYER? YES.
I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I, I HEARD CORRECTLY, UM, ON THE, THAT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME ON THE TALENT YIELD.
UM, YOU ALL DEALT WITH THE FIRST ONE AND TALKED ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, BUT THE MORE CONVERSATION YOU HAD AS YOU GOT TO THE OTHER TWO APPLICATIONS, YOU DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE EVEN COMFORTABLE WITH THE ORGANIZATION.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF POINT THAT OUT.
I WAS JUST LISTENING TO HOW THE CONVERSATIONS WENT.
IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK AND CONSIDER EVEN THE 2,500 THAT YOU PUT FOR TALENT YIELD.
'CAUSE SOME OF THE, THE CONVERSATION YOU HAD WAS HOW DO YOU DOCUMENT OR HOW DO YOU MAKE SURE THEY'RE USING, USING THE FUNDS FOR EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING? WELL, IF YOU'RE ALLOCATING MONEY FOR A LAPTOP THAT GOES ANY AND EVERYWHERE TO MM-HMM
APARTMENT COMPLEX, I MEAN, IT, IT IS THE SAME ISSUE.
AND SO I JUST WANNA PUT THAT BEFORE YOU, YOU MAY BE COMPLETELY COMFORTABLE, BUT AGAIN, JUST AS I WAS LISTENING TO THE CONVERSATIONS, YOU DIDN'T SEEM, YOU WERE VERY KIND OF KEEN ON THE ORGANIZATION, DIDN'T YOU? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
SO LET'S, LET'S KIND OF WHAT WE HAD LEWIS ON THIS, NOW, LEMME SHOW YOU,
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IF YOU KEEP THE FUNDING THE WAY IT IS, YOU STILL HAVE $14,320 LEFT THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR FUNDING.BUT YOU COULD ROLL THAT INTO THE HOUSING PROGRAMS BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A GREAT NEED FOR HOUSING, UM, PROGRAM THINGS IN THE CITY.
THAT'S THE HOME BUYERS AND A SEWER LINE PROJECT.
THAT'S, THAT COULD BE LIKE FIVE SEW LINE PROJECT SEW.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE OLD SOIL.
IF YOU KEEP 2,500 FOR TALENT YIELD, IF YOU TAKE AWAY THAT 2,500 FROM TALENT YIELD AND THAT BECOMES 16,820.
THEN WE SPLIT THAT BETWEEN, UH, SUR LINE.
WELL, IT WOULD JUST GO ALL TOWARD THE HOUSING PROGRAMS. CORRECT.
'CAUSE THEY ALL FALL UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THAT.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT STAFF? I'M GOING THE HOUSING PROGRAM.
RIGHT? I, I WANNA TAKE OUT THE TAKE OFF.
HOW MUCH IS THE, SO THAT'LL PUT THE HOUSING AT 4 0 1, 9 60 AND SCROLL DOWN.
I MOTION MOTION MY MR. MR. ETTE SECOND BY SECOND.
I HAVE A QUESTION, LUIS, THAT, UM, UNEXPECTED FUNDS A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
IS THAT INCLUDING, UM, YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS? SOME YOU DO UN SUSPENDED FUNDS.
UM, DOES THAT INCLUDING PAY TIME, HOUSING AUTHORITY? THE 80, 80,000 THAT WE, THAT'S IN THE CURRENT YEAR IS UNENDED FUNDS.
THIS BASICALLY WE'RE, WE'RE ESTIMATING THAT IN THE YEAR THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW, ALL THE MONEY ISN'T GONNA BE SPENT IN EVERY PROGRAM IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
SO WE'RE ESTIMATING THAT WE'LL HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS LEFT OVER FOR THIS YEAR THAT WE'RE IN NOW, BUT WE WON'T KNOW THAT NUMBER UNTIL PROBABLY NOVEMBER.
BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO, THEY HAVE TO RECONCILE THE BOOKS, DO THE FINAL DRAW DOWNS, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A MORE CONCRETE NUMBER OF UNENDED FUNDS.
WHAT ELSE WE GOT? UH, WE HAVE THREE MORE BUSINESS ITEMS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS WITH YOU.
AND THESE ITEMS ARE ALL BASED AROUND THE, THE AMENDMENTS FOR THE COVID PLAN, I MEAN, FOR THE COVID DOLLARS, AS I STATED BEFORE, UH, THE CARES ACT DID, UH, ALLOW THE CITY OF BAYTOWN TO RECEIVE ONE $401.
UM, A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT.
AND WITH THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY, UH, WE ARE CHARGED WITH PROGRAMMING IT TO GET IT BACK INTO THE HANDS OF BAYTON.
UM, SO VERY SIMILAR TO THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU, YOU SAW, UH, PRESENTED BY THE, THE SUB RECIPIENTS, UM, THAT WE HAVE TO WRITE THOSE PROGRAMS TO, TO, TO ESSENTIALLY PUT THOSE DOLLARS INTO WORK.
UM, IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE'VE HAD TO UPDATE SEVERAL OF OUR EXISTING PLANS.
WE HAVE A CITIZEN'S PARTICIPATION PLAN, WE HAVE THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, AND WE ALSO HAVE THE 2019 ACTION PLAN.
UM, ALL OF THEM HAVE THEIR PARTICULAR AMENDMENTS.
SO IN, UM, IN THIS PARTICULAR AGENDA ITEM HERE, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT TWO A, OH, THAT WOULD BE TWO B, TWO B OH, I'M SORRY, TWO B.
WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CITIZEN'S PARTICIPATION PLAN.
THE THING THAT WE'RE AMENDING INSIDE OF THIS PLAN IS THE REQUIREMENTS TO USE EMERGENCY FUNDS.
WHAT WE'RE DOING IS REDUCING THAT DOWN TO FIVE DAYS.
SO HUD HAS ACTUALLY, UH, HAS ACTUALLY GIVEN US THE, THE LEEWAY TO REDUCE THAT, THAT PUBLIC, OR TO REDUCE THAT, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FROM 30 DAYS DOWN TO FIVE.
AND THE, AND THEN THAT'S REALLY IT ON THAT PARTICULAR ITEM.
SO WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU ALL TO DO IS TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE, UM, MAKE THE AMENDMENTS TO THOSE PLANS OR TO THAT PLAN.
MS. FLORES? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
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ALRIGHT, WITH THE NEXT ITEM WE HAVE IS TWO C.THIS IS GOING TO BE, UH, A DISCUSSION AND A RECOMMENDATION ABOUT, UH, AMENDING THE ACTION PLAN.
AGAIN, THE ACTION PLAN HAS A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ITEMS IN IT.
UH, IN YOUR PACKET, YOU WOULD'VE SEEN THE, THE NUMBER OF PROGRAMS THAT WE ARE PROPOSING INSIDE OF THAT BECAUSE OF, BECAUSE THESE PROGRAMS ARE FAIRLY, UH, ARE NEW PROGRAMS. THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE, WHAT WE CALL A SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT.
UM, BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPLETELY NEW PROGRAMS AND IT, WE NEED TO, NEED TO CHANGE THE, THE 2019 ACTION PLAN TO ACCOMMODATE THESE NEW PROGRAMS. PROGRAMS. THE FOUR, THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE ARE GOING TO BE ONE, UM, THE, UH, PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION FOR THE COVID DOLLARS, WHICH IS GOING TO INCLUDE THE $40,000 OR SO.
HOLD ON, LET ME GET TO THE, MY PLACE HERE.
UH, THAT IS BASICALLY GOING TO BE, UH, THE ACTIVITIES THAT IT TAKES FOR STAFF TO ADMINISTER THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING.
UM, THE OTHER PROGRAM THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS GOING TO BE CONCERNING, UM, THE HOUSING, OR NOT HOUSING, UH, WHAT WE CALL SUBSISTENCE PAYMENTS.
AND THOSE SUBSISTENCE PAYMENTS ARE FOR EMERGENCY CASES, FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT HAVE EITHER LOST THEIR JOB AND OR HAVE BEEN FURLOUGHED.
WE'RE PROPOSING TO PUT ABOUT $125,000 TOWARDS THAT PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
THAT IS FOR THE SUBSISTENCE PAYMENTS, FOR, UM, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE, AND ALSO UTILITY ASSISTANCE.
THE PROJECT NAME SAYS EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE.
JUST I SAW WHERE COUNTY CAME IN AND GAVE HOUSTON FOR THAT SAME PROGRAM.
THEY GAVE THE CITY OF BAYTOWN NO.
SO THE COUNTY ALSO RECEIVED FUNDING JUST AS WE DID $400,000.
AND WHAT THEY ANNOUNCED IS BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER GONNA BE PROTECTED FROM EVICTIONS.
THE COUNTY'S CREATING A VERY SIMILAR PROGRAM TO GET THAT MONEY OUT TO PEOPLE.
UM, IT'S VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE WE, AGAIN, JUST AS WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS, I'M ASSUMING THEY'VE BEEN DOING THAT, AND THEY JUST ANNOUNCED IT WHEN THE GOVERNOR MADE HIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE RIGHT NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY SAID NOW THEY CAN EVICT EVERYBODY, AND YES.
IT, IT WAS LIFTED LIKE THE TODAY OR YESTERDAY.
UH, THE NEXT PROGRAM IS GOING TO BE FOOD DELIVERY ASSISTANCE.
UM, WITH THAT PARTICULAR PROGRAM, WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO DO IS GET THE MONEY INTO THE, UH, FOR FOOD BANKS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MEALS ON WHEELS AND, UH, HEARTS AND HEARTS AND HANDS OF BAYTOWN.
SO 37,500 WOULD GO TO MEALS ON WHEELS TO GET MEALS TO THE SENIORS WHO HAVE TO BE LOCKED IN AND WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO COVID.
AND THEN WE'RE WORKING WITH, UH, HEARTS AND HANDS TO ESTABLISH A PROGRAM WHERE THEY CAN GET THE, THE FOODS TO SOME OF OUR LOW INCOME AREAS AS WELL, PARTICULARLY THE HOUSING COMPLEXES, UM, FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A HARD TIME GETTING IN AND OUT OF THAT, I THINK THEY PARTNERED WITH THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK? YES, THEY DO.
SO BOTH OF THOSE WILL RECEIVE, UH, 37,500, UM, FOR, THAT'S A TOTAL OF $75,000 GOING TOWARDS FOOD, FOOD ASSISTANCE.
WE NEED APPROVAL OF THAT ITEM.
WE HAVE A FEW MORE PROGRAMS. OKAY.
UH, UH, THE NEXT PROGRAM IS GOING TO BE FOR THE, UM, REHAB AND PROVISION ASSISTANCE.
THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM IS GOING TO ALLOW BUSINESSES TO RECEIVE UP TO A $5,000 GRANT TO ACTUALLY PUT UP, UH, THINGS THAT SHIELD AND PREVENT, UM, THE SPREAD OF COVID.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, LIKE THE SNEEZE GUARD, THE PLASTIC WINDOWS THAT YOU HAVE IN THERE AND OR ADDITIONS, ADDITIONAL FURNITURE OPTIONS TO MAINTAIN THE SPACING.
AND FOR THAT PROGRAM, WE'RE ALLOCATING ABOUT 50 THOU, WE'RE ALLOCATING $50,000.
THE NEXT PROGRAM IS FOR ESSENTIAL CHILDCARE.
UH, THAT PROGRAM, UH, WE WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY, BY THE CITY OF BAYTOWN AGAIN.
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AN APPLICANT CAN COME IN AND SAY THAT, HEY, I'M AN ESSENTIAL WORKER AND I HAVE TO PUT MY CHILD IN CHILDCARE.UM, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE, I MEAN, WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO HELP ME AFFORD THIS CHILDCARE FOR THAT PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT, UH, $111,000 117, UM, TO GO TOWARDS THAT FUNDING.
DO THEY HAVE TO MEET A, A, A SALARY REQUIREMENT? YES, SIR.
IT STILL HAVE TO BE LOW INCOME PEOPLE.
UM, AND WE WILL GLADLY HELP THEM AS THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ESSENTIAL.
HOW DO, 'CAUSE HOW DO WE DEFINE WHAT ESSENTIAL WORKERS ARE AT THIS POINT? ESSENTIAL WORKERS HAVE BEEN DEFINED ALREADY BY THE, UM, NOT BY HU BUT BY THE, UM, HOMELAND SECURITY.
UM, SO WE WOULD STILL MAINTAIN IT.
YOU, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR, YOUR FOOD SERVICE WORKERS, UM, RESTAURANTS, GROCERY STORES.
THERE'S A LONG LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT AND THEY WILL MEET ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES.
WELL, YOU KNOW, I JUST SEE THAT THESE PROGRAMS ARE JUST DOING GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ON THURSDAYS WHERE I LIVE, RIGHT HERE, CLOSE BY THE LINE IS I, I'M SURE YOU CAN SEE IT FROM HERE.
IT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE GUADALUPE CHURCH, ALL THE WAY DOWN HERE TO MARKET STREET, BEEN OVER HERE TO THE CLOSE, TO THE FIRE STATION.
THAT'S HOW LONG THE LINE IS FOR THE PEOPLE TO GET, UH, GET THE, WELL, I HEARD THE FOOD ON, UH, THE COURTHOUSE.
SATURDAY WAS A BIG SUCCESS TOO.
YEAH, IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS, YEAH.
I MEAN, SUCCESS TO HEAR, TO HEAR THAT THESE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO HELP FUND THESE AND IT'S WONDERFUL.
IS THERE ANY COMMENT ABOUT ANY THE PROGRAMS, ANY QUESTIONS THAT ARE LEFT UNANSWERED? DO IT.
THE PEOPLE NEED IT RIGHT NOW, MAN.
SO WITH THAT, I WOULD ASK YOU ALL TO, UH, RECOMMEND THAT WE MOVE THIS FORWARD TO CITY COUNCIL.
UM, WE STILL, INSIDE OF THE PROCESS, WE STILL HAVE TO DO THAT, THAT MINIMUM FIVE DAY, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
AND WE'RE HOPING WE WILL GET IT TO CITY COUNCIL AND HAVE ALL THINGS IN PLACE BY THAT JUNE 11TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, AND OF COURSE WE WILL BE HAPPY TO INVITE YOU ALL TO THAT.
LET, LEMME ASK FOR A RECOMME, UH, UH, RECOMMENDATION ON THE APPROVAL OF ITEMS THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED.
IT'S BEEN, UH, MR. BS AND THAT MS. CUMMINS.
ARE WE DOWN TO THE MAGNITUDE REPORT? YES.
IS THAT WHERE WE ARE? CONSOLIDATED PLANS, CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BACK OF THE FRONT PAGE.
UM, THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF OUR PLANS THAT IS IN PLACE.
THE REASON WE HAD TO AMEND THIS PARTICULAR, UH, PARTICULAR PLAN WAS BECAUSE THE, THE ITEMS OF, UH, FOOD BANKS AND, UH, AND UH, CHILDREN'S SERVICES WAS NOT IN THERE, WAS NOT PRIORITIZED.
SO WE PRIORITIZED IT INSIDE OF OUR CONSOLIDATED PLAN IN ORDER TO ALLOW US TO DO THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU JUST MADE A RECOMMENDATION FOR, UM, IN THE ACTION PLAN.
WE ASKED FOR A RECOMMENDATION OF REPORT I A MOTION ON ITEM DA, MS. DIAZ.
MS. FLORES? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
SO NOW WITH MR. MANAGER'S REPORT.
SO ALSO WITH THIS, UH, MOVING WITH TWO BUDGETS, WE ARE ALSO, REMEMBER WE'RE IN OUR CONSOLIDATED PLAN UPDATE PROCESS.
UM, UH, SO IN THE COMING WEEKS, UM, YOU WILL PROBABLY BE RECEIVING EMAILS, ONE CONCERNING SURVEYS, UM, TO FILL OUT.
WE WANT YOU TO SHARE THOSE SURVEYS.
UH, WE WANT YOU TO FILL OUT THE SURVEYS ONE, UM, WHICH WILL HELP PRIORITIZE WHAT THE, UH, CONSOLIDATED PLANS GOALS ARE IN THE UPCOMING FIVE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
UM, SO WE WANT YOU GUYS TO FILL THAT OUT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH YOUR, YOUR PARTNERS AND SHARE IT WITH YOUR, YOUR COMMUNITY AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THAT PUBLIC
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PARTICIPATION AND THAT FEEDBACK, UM, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THE CONSULTANTS TO WRITE UP, YOU KNOW, WE HAD 9,000 PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE, IN THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN.CAN, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, THAT I'M, AGAIN, I'M KIND OF FOR IS THAT, UH, THAT WE GET, UH, THE SENSES, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WE ALL TELL OUR, OUR FRIENDS, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, UH, UH, ABOUT THE SENSES, BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE LITTLE BIT, THEY'RE LAGGING RIGHT NOW MM-HMM
AND, UH, THAT'S PRETTY CRUCIAL TO OUR, OUR TOWN, YOU KNOW, OUR COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, AND IT DETERMINES HOW MUCH WE GET FUNDED.
HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, THE MORE THE MERRIER, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT'S BEEN, IT'S GONNA BE BENEFICIAL FOR THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, BUT, UH, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE NOT GETTING THE MESSAGE UNDERSTOOD.
AND, UH, BUT, UH, I MEAN, LIKE, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS FOR THE CITY.
WE WILL WANT TO SAY, HEY, GET YOUR CENSUS IN WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND WE HAVE A PERSON ON STAFF THAT, THAT IS FOCUSED ON THE CENSUS.
UH, MS. FRANKIE LINDER, WHO IS THE PRINCIPAL PLANNING MANAGER NOW, UM, SHE IS SPEARHEADING THE CENSUS PROJECT FOR THE CITY.
UM, SO YOU MIGHT SEE THE YELLOW SIGNS AROUND TOWN, UM, THAT'S PARTLY DUE TO HER.
THERE'S ONE IN, UM, TOWN SQUARE AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE AT, UM, OVER HERE IN ROSE TOWN, THIS PARK BEHIND SANTO ELEMENTARY.
AND WITH, WITH THE CENSUS, UH, WE ACTUALLY, BEFORE COVID, WE HAD A WHOLE PUBLICATION PROCESS GOING ON WHERE WE WERE DOING ROAD TRIPS TO DIFFERENT AGENCIES, APARTMENT COMPLEXES, CIVIC MEETINGS, AND SO FORTH.
SO WE GOT A COUPLE DONE BEFORE COVID AND NOW OBVIOUSLY BIG GROUPS AND THOSE MEETINGS AND STUFF THAT WE WERE PROGRAMMED TO GO TO ARE NO LONGER HAPPENING.
UH, WE DID GET SOME COVERAGE IN THE BAYTOWN SUN YESTERDAY, UH, OR TODAY, I THINK IT WAS TODAY.
UM, WE'VE BEEN PUSHING OUT THINGS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SO IF YOU'RE ON, UH, ANY OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR THE CITY, YOU SHOULD, SHOULD SEE SOME INFORMATION ON CENSUS.
UH, WE ACTUALLY ARE DOING A PRESENTATION WITH, UH, ROTARY TOMORROW, WHICH WILL BE A VIRTUAL PRESENTATION.
UH, WE HAD STAFF, UH, PARTICIPATING IN, UM, THE MASS GIVEAWAY ON LAST WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY, UH, OUT, YOU KNOW, JUST OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIND THOSE EVENTS TO PUSH.
IF YOU ALL KNOW OF ANY OTHER EVENTS, UH, THAT ARE GOING ON THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT, PLEASE LET US KNOW ANYWHERE WHERE PEOPLE ARE, I GUESS NOT NECESSARILY CONGREGATING 'CAUSE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S LIMITED RIGHT NOW, BUT IF THERE IS, UM, PERHAPS A CHURCH HAVING A MEETING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE'LL BE GLAD TO SEND, UH, INFORMATION, SEND A STAFF PERSON, UM, O OVER TO, TO THOSE VENUES BECAUSE THE CENSUS, WHAT WE'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE, IT IS SO IMPORTANT.
IT'S NOT JUST IMPORTANT TO THIS, TO THIS, UM, COMMITTEE AND CDBG FUNDS, BUT IT IMPACTS ALMOST EVERY GRANT OPPORTUNITY OUT THERE FOR THE CITY.
AND WE PARTICIPATE IN LOTS OF GRANTS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND SO FORTH.
AND IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO YOUR POPULATION NUMBERS IS SOMEWHERE IN THAT FORMULA.
AND SO IT, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE IN BAYTOWN.
UM, I THINK LAST WEEK WHERE WE WERE ABOUT 11% LAGGING BEHIND, UM, THE, UM, THE STATE IN OUR RESPONSES.
AND SO WE ARE, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET THE WORD OUT THERE.
SO AS MUCH AS YOU ALL CAN DO TO HELP US, IF YOU HAVE SOME IDEAS TO, TO GET THE WORD OUT, UM, IN DIFFERENT VENUES AT THIS POINT, PLEASE, PLEASE SEND US A LITTLE NOTE.
I WANT THANK ALL OUR STAFF MEMBERS FOR SUCH, UH, GOOD CORPORATION AND GETTING THIS BUDGET DONE.
AND ALSO SHAVIS OR CHAVIS, CHAVIS.
CHAVIS AND MS. FOSTER AND SHARON AND LOUIS.
HOW ABOUT, AND HOW ABOUT AND THE, UH, THE, UH, THE, UH, MR. CURRY? YEAH.
IN THAT, I WOULD JUST TO ONE, ONE QUICK CLARIFICATION, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THE NEXT STEP FOR THE BUDGET IS FOR US TO, UH, GET IT TOGETHER FOR THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND THE ACTION PLAN COMING UP.
UM, SO YOU'LL BE SEEING IT, UM, COME BACK UP AT THAT TIME AGAIN.
IT'S GOING TO TAKE, SHE'S GOING TO TAKE WHAT WE, UH, DISCUSS TONIGHT AND PUT THAT IN A PRIORITIZATION CATEGORY, UM, FOR US.
SO THAT'LL HELP INFORM WHAT THE GOALS AND PRIORITIES ARE, UM, IN THE FUTURE.
SO DO THEY HAVE ANOTHER MEETING AFTER THIS? OH, NO, NO.
UM, NEXT WEEK MEETING IS CANCELED.
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IS CANCELED.AND THEN IT, WE WILL BE PACKAGING THIS TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION.
UH, THAT GOES TO JUNE IN JULY.
THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS WILL START IN JUNE.
UM, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE DELAYED, BUT WE DO HAVE IT ON THE CALENDAR RIGHT NOW FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TO BEGIN ON JUNE 3RD AND END ON JULY 3RD.
BUT, UM, DEPENDING ON COMPLETION OF THE PLAN WOULD KIND OF DEPEND ON WHEN WE PUT THAT OUT.
UM, WE WILL BE PUBLISHING THE AD IN THE BAYTOWN SUN, OF COURSE, OPENING IT UP FOR COMMENT.
BUT ONCE WE FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHEN THE PERIOD IS GOING TO OCCUR, IS WHEN WE'LL PUT THE AD OUT IN THE PAPER.
AND THERE IS ALSO A PUBLIC HEARING IN JUNE.
UM, I FORGOT WHICH DATE IT IS.
JUNE, IT'S THE SECOND THURSDAY IN JUNE, I THINK, OR THE THIRD I FORGET.
AND IS THAT PUBLIC HEARING WITH WHO THAT'S GONNA BE THE ACTION PLAN, PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
SO, SO THAT'S A MEETING FOR THIS? YES.
SO IT'S A-C-D-A-C PUBLIC HEARING.
THAT'S WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DO OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, WE TELL THE PUBLIC THIS IS HOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND THE MONEY.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? THAT'S THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN AND SPEAK TO US IN PERSON OR DIGITALLY OR TO WRITE A COMMENT OR CALL IN A COMMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'LL BE THE NEXT CDC MEETING.
IS THAT PUBLICATION AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, ARE WE STILL SCHEDULED TO HAVE A TRI OFF THIS YEAR? WE ARE TRYING TO, WE ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW TO CREATE THAT AGAIN.
RIGHT? SO WE'RE, YES, INITIALLY WE WANTED TO DO A SPRING SPRINGING, BUT AGAIN, COVID-19 OCCURRED, SO WE WE'RE REPROGRAMMING IT.
I JUST LIKE, LITERALLY JUST TRASH TO GO, YOU KNOW? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
IT, IT STILL, IT STILL CAN OCCUR.
UM, WE JUST GOTTA REMOBILIZE MM-HMM
THE, THE ENTITIES TO HELP DO IT.
I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR JOINING ME.
FACE MASK, SOCIAL DISTANCING PLAN SURVEYS.