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now. And, uh Good evening,

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Rockville. We are beginning our

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meeting on AUGUST 3rd, 2026,

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and all virtual, and we thank

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you for joining us here today.

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m gonna start with the pledge

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of Allegiance. I pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the

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United States of America. Into

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the Republic for which it

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stands, one nation under GOD,

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indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. Thank you,

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MISS Sarah Taylor Farrell, uh,

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have there been any changes to

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the agenda. MADAM Mayor and

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council members, there are no

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changes to this evening

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agenda. Thank you. Excellent.

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ll now have the

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city manager

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s report, MR. Jeff

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Mahalik. Mayor Ash and members

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of city council, ladies and

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gentlemen, good evening. I only

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have 1 item tonight, and that

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just to invite people to

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participate with our economic

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development strategic plan.

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re just starting that

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process right now. We

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ve loaded

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that project up onto engage

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Rockville and we have the new

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survey also show you a hard

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copy of it. There it is. The

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surveys available for people to

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go online or to hit the qr code,

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they pick it up live and please

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provide their comments. They

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can track the progress of the

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of the economic development

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plan, strategic plan

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development and provide other

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comments, we would appreciate

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it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you

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very much, and I just wanted to

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flag 1 thing between the city

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manager

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s office and the city

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clerk

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s office, we did have

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several agenda items added on

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Thursday for consent, uh, they

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were trying to get busy and

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make sure that we get a lot

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done before the recess. I just

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wanted to flag that if you

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downloaded your agenda earlier

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in the week to please feel free

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to check that out. Excellent.

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Thank you, MR. City Manager.

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Thank you, uh, city clerk.

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re now moving on to boards

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and commissions appointments

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and reappointments, we do have

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sure that, um, uh, it

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least for the human rights

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commission that we can move

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forward. Would anyone like to

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make the motion, Council member

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just had, uh, I was raising my

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hand, um, for the previous, um

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Section, I just wanted to, no,

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just wanted to remind folks

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that tomorrow night is National

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Night Out. So that if they

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t know of a gathering, um,

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you know, you can, you can, uh,

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check it out. Um, apologies, I

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note that we are gonna have a

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proclamation for that and we

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ahead if you have any, no, that,

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forgot we had a proclamation.

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s great. Thank you. No

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problem. Thank you. Teamwork.

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motion for our human rights

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commission appointees. MADAM

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s helpful. Please

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do thank you. Not a problem.

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quick. I apologize. I

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Mayor, I would like to Uh, Why

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I moved the appointment of Anna

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De Leon. To serve an expiring

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in 3-year term, a new

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appointment to serve an

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expiring 3-year term until

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APRIL 1st, 2027. And Richard

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Kaufman, a new appointment to

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serve an expiring 3-year term

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until JULY 1st, 2028. Excellent.

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Do we have a second? Second,

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aye. Hi. Alright, thank you.

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proclamations, and we have 2

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for this evening, uh, 1 is for

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National Night Out, and the

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other one is for SEPTEMBER 11th

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as National Day of Service and

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remembrance. Um, I will get

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started with the first, uh,

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National Night Out, and I see

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Chief West is on here. I want

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to just echo and say thank you

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to all the previous thanks that

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City Police Department. Here is

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another one, there are. Over 20

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events across the city that are

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happening, uh, on every corner

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of the city, uh, some are large

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events, some are block parties,

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and I want to encourage

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everyone to get out and meet

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your neighbors. Uh, this is an

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event that is designed to have

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neighbors meet each other, talk

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about what, what we

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for safety, but also our police

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department is going to be

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getting out to all of these

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events, uh, to meet folks and

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just to create more

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opportunities for uh community

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trust. Trust, partnership and

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relationship building, uh,

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there, like, as I said, more

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than 20 events across the city

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tomorrow. It will be starting

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somewhere around 5 o

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until 9, so feel free to get

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your running shoes on with all

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of us as we try to crisscross

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the city. I do want to say the

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following, we try to get out to

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as many as we can, uh, but

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because we have to get all

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across the city, we are not

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able to get to all of them, so

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please know that every single

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community is in our hearts and

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our minds, and we appreciate.

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Every community member that

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helping to plan this event. Uh,

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read the proclamation. Whereas

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the National Association of

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Town Watch is sponsoring a

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unique nationwide crime and

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drug prevention program on

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AUGUST 4th, 2026 called

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National Night Out, and whereas

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the 43rd annual Nationalite

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provides an opportunity for

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Rockville residents to join

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with thousands of other

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communities across the country

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to promote cooperative police

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community crime and drug

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prevention efforts. The city of

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Rockville will be celebrating

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National Night Out 2026, and

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all residents of Rockville must

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be aware of the importance of

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crime prevention programs and

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the impact that their

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participation has on reducing

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crime and drug abuse in the

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community. Now, therefore, the

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mayor and council of Rockville,

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Maryland, do hereby proclaim

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AUGUST 4th, 2026 as National

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Night Out and encouraged the

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entire Rockville community to

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be a part of this special event

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and participate in the fight

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against crime and drugs. And

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someone moved the proclamation,

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proclamation, do we have a

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second? Councilor Van Grak

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seconds. All those in favor,

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please raise your hand and say

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aye. All right. Excellent. And

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we have a recipient here with

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Chief West. Chief West, please

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proceed. Uh, MADAM Mayor, thank

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you very much, uh, our

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department. Um, plans for this

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all year long, uh, the entire

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department will be out tomorrow

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night. Uh, we look forward to

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connecting with all the

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residents of the city, and we

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will hit just as many of those

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parties, the, the police

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department will be at every one

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of them, so it

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s a great

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opportunity for us to get out,

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uh, let our residents, uh, meet

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our police officers and and

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know us on a personal level, so

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thank you for all your support

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and we look forward to it.

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and thank you to the entire

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team. I know there

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coordination that goes around

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with reaching out to residents

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and helping them to plan for a

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great national night out. And

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thank you to our community

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partners. This would not be

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possible without you. Please

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join us tomorrow. Ok, we have

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our next proclamation, which is

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to recognize SEPTEMBER 11th,

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and that will be by Council

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member Jackson. Thank you, uh,

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mayor. Uh, so this is, uh,

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proclamation that needs no

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really introduction. So let me

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jump right into it. Whereas

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people of all ages and walks of

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life across America and around

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the world collectively

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witnessed an immense tragedy on

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SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001, and the

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events of that day instantly

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transformed nearly everyone

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lives through some through

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personal loss and many through

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an unfamiliar sense of

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individual and national

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vulnerability and whereas an

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unprecedented historic bonding

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of Americans arose from the

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collective shock, unifying the

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country in an outpouring of

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natural. Spirit, fried,

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selflessness, generosity,

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courage, and service, and now,

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therefore, the mayor and

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council of the city of

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Rockville, Maryland, do herero

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proclaim SEPTEMBER 11th, 2026

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As 9/11, day of service and

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remembrance in Sherbert to the

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victims of the 9/11 terrorist

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attacks, and to the many who

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rose in service in response to

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the attacks, and we urge the

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Rockville community to reserve

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SEPTEMBER 11th, 2026, as a

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voluntary day of service and

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remember, Madamir, I moved the

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proclamation. Thank you. Do we

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have a second? I

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ll second.

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Thank you. All those in favor,

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please raise your hand and say

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aye. Hi, bye, thank you. Uh,

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just to note, uh, we do still

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not only do a proclamation but

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have an event, so please join

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us on SEPTEMBER 11th from 9 to

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10 at Courthouse Square Park,

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and if you didn

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t know we have

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a bench for each person, uh,

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that is from the Rockville area,

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uh, who has, uh, passed away as

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a result of that event and in

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remembrance of them, so please

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join us on that day. Ok. MADAM

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City Clerk, I think that we

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didn

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t have anyone signed up

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for community forum, can you

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just please confirm? At a mayor

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and council members, that is

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correct. There is no signups

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for community forum so we can

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move forward. Excellent. Thank

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you. We

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re now moving on to our

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consent agenda item 9, we have

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several on the list for today.

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I will read the titles. 9a is a

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award and authorize the city

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manager to execute a contract

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with Ferguson Enterprises of

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Tyson

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s, Virginia for request

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for proposal 30-25. This is, uh,

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in relation to the advanced

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metering infrastructure project

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associated with our water

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system, and everything is safe.

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It

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s just a system upgrade and

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that is what we

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re talking

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about in that item. B. A proven

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authorize the city manager to

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execute a change order for

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contract with Boulevard

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Contractors Corp of Owings Mill,

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Maryland for the Lincoln Park

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Community Center renovation

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project in the amount not to

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exceed 316,000 on, on or about,

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uh, just to note there we will

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be opening up that Lincoln Park

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Community Center very soon and

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that supports that project.

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Item c, approval of an

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authorization for the city

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manager to execute a moderately

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priced dwelling unit rental

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program agreements and approval

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and authorization of the city

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manager to execute the

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declaration of restrictive

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covenants for Twinbrook Place

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between the mayor and council

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of Rockville and Twinard

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Limited Partnership, subject to

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approval as to legal form by

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the acting city attorney. This

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is new housing that is being

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developed in Rockville and with

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projects of this size, there

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are new, uh, Molly Price

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dwelling units. That are for

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rents coming online. D.

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Authorization for the city

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manager to execute a grants

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agreement with the us

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Department of Transportation,

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Federal Highway Administration

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for fr 2023, active

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transportation infrastructure

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Investment Program for the

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Maryvale Park to Red Gate Park

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shared youth Path study. This

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is in alignment with our Vision

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Zero plan and we have been

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working to create this

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connectivity and this study

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will help us advance those

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efforts. E is an award at the

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Metropolitan Washington Council

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of Government s, Montgomery

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County, Maryland cooperative

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led in invitation, lead

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invitation forbid, uh, for road

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deicing to more in salt of

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Chicago, Illinois, and the

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amount not to exceed 1 million

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each year with no arrogate, not

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to exceed 5 million.

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Authorization for the city

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manager to execute a settlement

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agreement with Engineering

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Corporation. This is related to

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water infrastructure as well.

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Colleagues, does anyone have

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any questions about these

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consent agenda items, or shall

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we move to your proof? Ok. Who

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can make the motion? Councilor

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Van Gra. MADAM Mayor, I move to

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approve consent agenda items a,

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b, c, d, e, and f. Excellent.

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Thank you. Do we have a second?

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Seconds. Councilor Jackson

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seconds, all those in favor,

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please raise your hand and say

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aye. Aye. Aye. Ok. Thank you

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very much. That Uh. We will now

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move on to our work session, a

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work session for grants to

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nonprofits. I would like to

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welcome Nick Shushka. She is a

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collective impact manager in

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the Department of Housing and

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Community Development, as well

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as Sarah Maisel, Program and

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grant specialist from the

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Housing Community Development

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Department and we also have a

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panelist, Ryan Trout, who will

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be supporting. He is the

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director of housing Community

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Development. Welcome. We look

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forward to your presentation.

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Good evening, everyone. Thank

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you for having Sarah and myself,

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Nick Suka, tonight we are

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looking forward to our grants

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work session about our city

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s

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grants nonprofits. As you said,

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my name is Nick Sushka. I am

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our collective impact manager

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here in the city of Rockville.

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I work in the Department of

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Housing and Community

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Development, where I support

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the city

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s grants to nonprofits

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as well as partnership work

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such as our Bank on Rockville

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Coalition and our Rockville

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goes. Efforts. I

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m joined this

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evening by my colleague Sarah

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Mizell, who will introduce

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herself. Good evening. My name

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is Sarah Meisel. I

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m the

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programs and grant specialists

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under the Department of Housing

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and Community Development, um,

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and I

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m very excited to share

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what Nick and I have been

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working on today. So 4 our

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presentation this evening. We

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will be requesting feedback on

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a few items, we

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ll provide

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background and a little bit of

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overview of the grants programs

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in question, as well as program

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design changes, review next

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steps if those design changes

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are adopted and then have time

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to hear the requested feedback

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from mayor and council this

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evening. We have 3 questions

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this evening that we

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re

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requesting feedback on should

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the city adopt 5 proposed

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impact focus areas to guide

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future grant funding. Decisions

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should 1 or 2 of these impact

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focus areas be prioritized in

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fiscal year 28, and should the

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city provide a streamlined

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renewal pathway for

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high-performing programs. So

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some background about our

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grants programs to nonprofit

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organizations, we

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ve provided

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grants through 2 primary

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programs are Human Services

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grants and community

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organization grants. These are

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reorganized into a single

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community services and

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enrichment grants managed by

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dhcd in fiscal year 25, and the

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city

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s community empowerment

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matching grants were also moved

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under dhcd and fy26. There have

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been several benefits of this

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reorganization, including

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stronger nonprofit partnerships

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as we have worked to not only

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connect nonprofits that receive

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grants more to city departments

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and provide greater support

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from a single grant management

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team, but also to one another

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through efforts like our

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community partner cafes and our

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nonprofit symposium, that

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s

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also allowed us to connect

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nonprofits to more resources

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across the region, like

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nonprofit Montgomery and the

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Maryland nonprofit Navigator.

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We

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ve worked To improve

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outcomes tracking and

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accountability through this

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streamlined single grants

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program, and through that we

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ve

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identified opportunities to

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standardize and improve

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administrative processes. Most

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recently, we

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ve been able to

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make some changes about right

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sizing requirements for smaller,

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lower complexity grants up to

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$10,000 and Sarah will share

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more about the benefits of

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those new requirements on the

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following slides. Thank you so

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much. Right, so, like Nick was

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saying, um, we have already

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begun a little bit of this

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process transitioning, um, into

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this model for the lower,

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smaller, lower compre

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complexity grants that are

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$10,000 or under, um, so we

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already have a model like this

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in place with the community

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empowerment Matching grant,

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which will now be the Community

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Empowerment mini grants. Um,

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this model includes one-time

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upfront payments, one-time

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post-project reports. For the

579
00:17:14,622 --> 00:17:16,156
quality assurance, um, and the

580
00:17:16,156 --> 00:17:19,756
reason why this model is in

581
00:17:19,927 --> 00:17:21,950
place, um, many of these

582
00:17:21,950 --> 00:17:22,396
organizations are smaller

583
00:17:22,396 --> 00:17:22,796
volunteer ran, and they

584
00:17:22,796 --> 00:17:24,796
re

585
00:17:25,199 --> 00:17:27,635
operating on very tight budgets

586
00:17:27,635 --> 00:17:30,400
to put on events, maybe 1 to,

587
00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,600
maybe 2 events a year. Um, so

588
00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:33,874
they really rely on this

589
00:17:33,874 --> 00:17:36,274
funding within their budgets

590
00:17:36,810 --> 00:17:39,790
that are already constrained,

591
00:17:39,790 --> 00:17:40,514
um, and 2 right size this model,

592
00:17:40,514 --> 00:17:42,816
we do require a quality

593
00:17:42,816 --> 00:17:45,686
assurance, but it would be a a

594
00:17:45,686 --> 00:17:47,154
post-project report on the

595
00:17:47,154 --> 00:17:49,924
metrics that they would submit

596
00:17:49,924 --> 00:17:51,225
in the grants process in the

597
00:17:51,225 --> 00:17:54,225
application process. Um, so for

598
00:17:54,461 --> 00:17:55,429
fy 27. The Community

599
00:17:55,429 --> 00:17:57,429
Empowerment Matching grant

600
00:17:57,464 --> 00:18:00,464
would be administered by JUNE

601
00:18:01,802 --> 00:18:04,710
2027, um, but for the current

602
00:18:04,710 --> 00:18:05,506
fy27 Community Services and

603
00:18:05,506 --> 00:18:07,508
Enrichment grant for awards

604
00:18:07,508 --> 00:18:07,908
that are $10,000 or less. We

605
00:18:07,908 --> 00:18:09,376
ve

606
00:18:09,376 --> 00:18:11,779
already shifted this model a

607
00:18:11,779 --> 00:18:12,379
little bit, um, in the next

608
00:18:12,379 --> 00:18:14,379
slide, you

609
00:18:15,249 --> 00:18:17,510
ll see, um, we have

610
00:18:17,510 --> 00:18:19,451
these organizations that fall

611
00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,188
within the $10,000 threshold,

612
00:18:21,188 --> 00:18:24,580
um, so for example, we have f.

613
00:18:24,580 --> 00:18:26,580
Scott Fitzgerald, literacy.

614
00:18:26,393 --> 00:18:28,929
Literacy, um, festival, um, as

615
00:18:28,929 --> 00:18:30,564
well as the village Support

616
00:18:30,564 --> 00:18:33,564
Network, um, next slide, please.

617
00:18:36,570 --> 00:18:38,572
And so for the fy28 proposed

618
00:18:38,572 --> 00:18:39,874
budget, we would include this

619
00:18:39,874 --> 00:18:40,908
smaller shift from the

620
00:18:40,908 --> 00:18:42,376
community services and

621
00:18:42,376 --> 00:18:44,745
enrichment grant program to the

622
00:18:44,745 --> 00:18:47,715
Mini Grant Program. So the mini

623
00:18:47,715 --> 00:18:49,984
grant program for fy28 would

624
00:18:49,984 --> 00:18:51,984
accept $10,000 request, that

625
00:18:52,386 --> 00:18:54,455
would be the cap, and we

626
00:18:54,455 --> 00:18:56,230
anticipate about 15 to 10

627
00:18:56,230 --> 00:18:58,559
applicants, um, for that grant

628
00:18:58,559 --> 00:19:00,959
program. The application would

629
00:19:01,897 --> 00:19:04,198
open in MARCH of 2027 and close

630
00:19:04,198 --> 00:19:06,735
in APRIL, and in that time, we

631
00:19:06,735 --> 00:19:09,136
would also convene the panel to

632
00:19:09,136 --> 00:19:11,472
review those applications. So

633
00:19:11,472 --> 00:19:12,873
then by MAY, um, we would have

634
00:19:12,873 --> 00:19:14,609
a selection and recommendations

635
00:19:14,609 --> 00:19:15,343
to the city manager

636
00:19:15,343 --> 00:19:17,343
s office,

637
00:19:18,112 --> 00:19:20,648
um, and then by JUNE 2027, we

638
00:19:20,648 --> 00:19:22,216
would have the approval via

639
00:19:22,216 --> 00:19:23,551
consent agenda item. So, with

640
00:19:23,551 --> 00:19:26,787
that, I will pass it back over

641
00:19:26,787 --> 00:19:28,689
to Nick. Um, thank you, Sarah.

642
00:19:28,689 --> 00:19:30,624
Uh, this is, uh, as Sarah and I

643
00:19:30,624 --> 00:19:30,724
noted, and process that we

644
00:19:30,724 --> 00:19:32,526
ve

645
00:19:32,526 --> 00:19:34,429
been able to begin to implement

646
00:19:34,429 --> 00:19:35,963
in the current grant you

647
00:19:35,963 --> 00:19:36,964
benefiting some of those

648
00:19:36,964 --> 00:19:37,198
grantees who

649
00:19:37,198 --> 00:19:38,299
ve already

650
00:19:38,299 --> 00:19:39,233
received awards, as we

651
00:19:39,233 --> 00:19:39,800
ve been

652
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,734
preparing their grant

653
00:19:40,734 --> 00:19:41,135
agreements. We

654
00:19:41,135 --> 00:19:42,570
ve been

655
00:19:42,570 --> 00:19:43,637
notifying them about this shift,

656
00:19:43,637 --> 00:19:44,380
letting them know that they

657
00:19:44,380 --> 00:19:46,380
ll

658
00:19:46,974 --> 00:19:48,576
be able to request that full

659
00:19:48,576 --> 00:19:50,945
grant award upfront, um, that

660
00:19:50,945 --> 00:19:52,813
has, as Sarah said, been

661
00:19:52,813 --> 00:19:53,747
welcome news for some of these

662
00:19:53,747 --> 00:19:55,747
organizations, particularly

663
00:19:56,317 --> 00:19:58,252
those volunteer-run Stations,

664
00:19:58,252 --> 00:20:00,870
and this shift to the fiscal

665
00:20:00,870 --> 00:20:02,890
year deadline also allows us to

666
00:20:02,890 --> 00:20:04,425
now have both grant programs on

667
00:20:04,425 --> 00:20:06,360
the same timeline, and further

668
00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,795
improve transparency, as Sarah

669
00:20:07,795 --> 00:20:08,896
noted by including those

670
00:20:08,896 --> 00:20:10,264
approved grants on the consent

671
00:20:10,264 --> 00:20:12,990
agenda for mayor and council so

672
00:20:12,990 --> 00:20:13,534
that you can see which grants

673
00:20:13,534 --> 00:20:15,934
the community panel has

674
00:20:17,404 --> 00:20:19,673
selected for these many grants.

675
00:20:19,673 --> 00:20:19,907
So as we move into the rest of

676
00:20:19,907 --> 00:20:20,741
tonight

677
00:20:20,741 --> 00:20:20,842
s work session, we

678
00:20:20,842 --> 00:20:22,576
ll

679
00:20:22,576 --> 00:20:24,511
be talking about 2 further

680
00:20:24,511 --> 00:20:24,678
program design changes that

681
00:20:24,678 --> 00:20:26,413
we

682
00:20:26,413 --> 00:20:28,415
re proposing, those are

683
00:20:28,415 --> 00:20:29,451
primarily about the community

684
00:20:29,451 --> 00:20:31,285
services and enrichment grants

685
00:20:31,285 --> 00:20:32,821
program, so a little bit of

686
00:20:32,821 --> 00:20:35,560
overview about this program,

687
00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,692
last fiscal year, which we have

688
00:20:37,692 --> 00:20:40,494
just finished closing out, we

689
00:20:40,494 --> 00:20:42,894
supported 40 programs run by 34

690
00:20:45,166 --> 00:20:45,833
nonprofits with their total

691
00:20:45,833 --> 00:20:47,835
funding of $1,781,110 as we

692
00:20:47,835 --> 00:20:49,803
move into this. This fiscal

693
00:20:49,803 --> 00:20:52,139
year, Sarah and I are in the

694
00:20:52,139 --> 00:20:54,740
process of setting up our grant

695
00:20:54,740 --> 00:20:55,109
agreements and preparing to

696
00:20:55,109 --> 00:20:57,211
support 48 programs that will

697
00:20:57,211 --> 00:21:00,211
be managed by 40 nonprofits for

698
00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,119
a total of $184,500,790. These

699
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:06,121
grants are run by nonprofits

700
00:21:06,121 --> 00:21:07,989
that meet community needs and

701
00:21:07,989 --> 00:21:10,240
enrich the lives of Rockville

702
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,859
residents through a number of

703
00:21:11,859 --> 00:21:13,727
different service approaches,

704
00:21:13,727 --> 00:21:15,229
providing programs, events that

705
00:21:15,229 --> 00:21:15,930
connect residents to one

706
00:21:15,930 --> 00:21:18,732
another and help improve things

707
00:21:18,732 --> 00:21:20,434
like access To needed community

708
00:21:20,434 --> 00:21:22,636
services. For this particular

709
00:21:22,636 --> 00:21:24,171
grant program, we require

710
00:21:24,171 --> 00:21:26,600
quarterly reports, and we also

711
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,375
conduct an annual site visit.

712
00:21:28,375 --> 00:21:29,610
This helps us to measure how

713
00:21:29,610 --> 00:21:31,450
each grant is achieving its

714
00:21:31,450 --> 00:21:32,681
outcomes, which are identified

715
00:21:32,681 --> 00:21:35,820
by the grantees in their

716
00:21:35,820 --> 00:21:37,519
application. It also has the

717
00:21:37,519 --> 00:21:39,540
benefit of our staff being able

718
00:21:39,540 --> 00:21:40,200
to support nonprofits if they

719
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,188
are encountering challenges, if

720
00:21:41,188 --> 00:21:42,890
they need further support from

721
00:21:42,890 --> 00:21:45,659
the city or from other

722
00:21:45,659 --> 00:21:46,127
resources, and we can identify

723
00:21:46,127 --> 00:21:48,127
opportunities from

724
00:21:48,362 --> 00:21:50,362
collaboration between nonprofit

725
00:21:50,664 --> 00:21:53,100
as I noted last year we were

726
00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:54,235
able to resume the opportunity

727
00:21:54,235 --> 00:21:55,736
to regularly convene nonprofit

728
00:21:55,736 --> 00:21:57,538
partners, both that have grants

729
00:21:57,538 --> 00:21:59,306
and that partner with the city

730
00:21:59,306 --> 00:22:01,742
in other ways through our

731
00:22:01,742 --> 00:22:02,710
community partner cafes and our

732
00:22:02,710 --> 00:22:04,778
annual nonprofit symposium, and

733
00:22:04,778 --> 00:22:06,460
Sarah and I provide ongoing

734
00:22:06,460 --> 00:22:07,982
staff support throughout the

735
00:22:07,982 --> 00:22:09,982
year, providing those

736
00:22:10,170 --> 00:22:11,352
connections for nonprofits to

737
00:22:11,352 --> 00:22:12,820
resources and helping to raise

738
00:22:12,820 --> 00:22:14,722
more awareness for Rockville

739
00:22:14,722 --> 00:22:15,656
residents of the opportunity to

740
00:22:15,656 --> 00:22:17,825
benefit from these services,

741
00:22:17,825 --> 00:22:18,459
attend nonprofit events. And

742
00:22:18,459 --> 00:22:20,859
participate in the programs

743
00:22:21,829 --> 00:22:23,831
that they lead. We have

744
00:22:23,831 --> 00:22:24,632
continued to identify further

745
00:22:24,632 --> 00:22:26,660
opportunities to strengthen

746
00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:26,233
this program, as I mentioned,

747
00:22:26,233 --> 00:22:27,968
we

748
00:22:27,968 --> 00:22:29,103
ve seen benefits of the

749
00:22:29,103 --> 00:22:31,839
reorganization so far, but we

750
00:22:31,839 --> 00:22:32,573
believe there are still

751
00:22:32,573 --> 00:22:34,573
opportunities to streamline

752
00:22:34,776 --> 00:22:36,343
requirements, improve the

753
00:22:36,343 --> 00:22:38,780
evaluation process, increase

754
00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:40,150
alignment with the hoped for

755
00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:42,490
outcomes of this grant program,

756
00:22:42,490 --> 00:22:43,350
and importantly invest in more

757
00:22:43,350 --> 00:22:45,253
long-term outcomes, even though

758
00:22:45,253 --> 00:22:47,721
this grant program is a single

759
00:22:47,721 --> 00:22:48,889
year of funding, we know that

760
00:22:48,889 --> 00:22:49,523
many of our nonprofit

761
00:22:49,523 --> 00:22:51,425
organizations apply for funds

762
00:22:51,425 --> 00:22:52,226
year to year. And they

763
00:22:52,226 --> 00:22:53,661
re doing

764
00:22:53,661 --> 00:22:56,610
that with the understanding

765
00:22:56,970 --> 00:22:57,310
that many of our community

766
00:22:57,310 --> 00:22:58,966
goals and community needs are

767
00:22:58,966 --> 00:22:59,967
going to take more than a year

768
00:22:59,967 --> 00:23:00,134
to support or implement if

769
00:23:00,134 --> 00:23:01,435
you

770
00:23:01,435 --> 00:23:02,903
re running a youth

771
00:23:02,903 --> 00:23:03,300
development program, you

772
00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:04,238
re

773
00:23:04,238 --> 00:23:05,706
working with elementary school

774
00:23:05,706 --> 00:23:07,241
students through high school,

775
00:23:07,241 --> 00:23:09,430
you have multi-year goals, of

776
00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:09,510
course, and so we

777
00:23:09,510 --> 00:23:11,510
ve identified

778
00:23:11,512 --> 00:23:13,130
some opportunities for the city

779
00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:14,140
to further support long-term

780
00:23:14,140 --> 00:23:15,282
outcomes that we know that many

781
00:23:15,282 --> 00:23:18,882
of our partners are also aiming

782
00:23:18,954 --> 00:23:19,353
for. The program design changes

783
00:23:19,353 --> 00:23:20,287
that we

784
00:23:20,287 --> 00:23:22,324
ll discuss this evening

785
00:23:22,324 --> 00:23:23,724
have been formed by many

786
00:23:23,724 --> 00:23:26,930
different sources. The primary

787
00:23:26,930 --> 00:23:26,360
of them being the city of

788
00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:27,270
Rockville

789
00:23:27,270 --> 00:23:28,429
s 5 guiding

790
00:23:28,429 --> 00:23:30,397
principles. In addition, we

791
00:23:30,397 --> 00:23:31,799
looked at the recently

792
00:23:31,799 --> 00:23:33,799
completed Rockville Human

793
00:23:33,868 --> 00:23:34,969
Services needs assessment,

794
00:23:34,969 --> 00:23:36,969
which provided opportunities

795
00:23:37,671 --> 00:23:38,272
for community members,

796
00:23:38,272 --> 00:23:40,242
nonprofit organizations and

797
00:23:40,242 --> 00:23:42,910
members of our Human Services

798
00:23:42,910 --> 00:23:44,812
Advisory commission to help us

799
00:23:44,812 --> 00:23:45,813
understand the evolving needs

800
00:23:45,813 --> 00:23:46,460
of Rockville residents, we

801
00:23:46,460 --> 00:23:46,747
ve

802
00:23:46,747 --> 00:23:49,147
received feedback from multiple

803
00:23:49,383 --> 00:23:51,218
grantees. Who have continued to

804
00:23:51,218 --> 00:23:53,187
provide feedback to us both

805
00:23:53,187 --> 00:23:54,655
directly as city staff and to

806
00:23:54,655 --> 00:23:56,223
mayor and council as we noted,

807
00:23:56,223 --> 00:23:57,157
we complete annual site visits

808
00:23:57,157 --> 00:23:57,992
with our grantees, and we

809
00:23:57,992 --> 00:23:58,960
ve

810
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,328
had many other opportunities to

811
00:24:01,328 --> 00:24:03,764
look beyond the city as well as

812
00:24:03,764 --> 00:24:04,331
we consider grantmaking best

813
00:24:04,331 --> 00:24:05,766
practices and the

814
00:24:05,766 --> 00:24:07,766
evidence-based practices that

815
00:24:08,102 --> 00:24:09,360
are outlined in frameworks like

816
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:09,937
the upward mobility framework

817
00:24:09,937 --> 00:24:12,337
and the economic mobility

818
00:24:13,607 --> 00:24:15,476
catalog. Our first

819
00:24:15,476 --> 00:24:17,478
recommendation for this evening

820
00:24:17,478 --> 00:24:19,813
is to adopt impact focus areas.

821
00:24:19,813 --> 00:24:21,749
This is arising from a few

822
00:24:21,749 --> 00:24:23,951
different needs. One need that

823
00:24:23,951 --> 00:24:26,288
we see is for well-defined

824
00:24:26,288 --> 00:24:27,988
criteria to help our community

825
00:24:27,988 --> 00:24:29,658
panel evaluate them the many

826
00:24:29,658 --> 00:24:31,425
worthy projects that we receive

827
00:24:31,425 --> 00:24:33,894
requests for. As I noted in the

828
00:24:33,894 --> 00:24:37,132
year that we are headed into

829
00:24:37,132 --> 00:24:38,165
will be funding about $1.8

830
00:24:38,165 --> 00:24:40,267
million in grants for 48

831
00:24:40,267 --> 00:24:40,968
projects, but our community

832
00:24:40,968 --> 00:24:43,368
panel received requests for 2.8.

833
00:24:45,472 --> 00:24:46,907
Million dollars in projects, so

834
00:24:46,907 --> 00:24:48,842
we expect those applications to

835
00:24:48,842 --> 00:24:49,810
continue to greatly exceed

836
00:24:49,810 --> 00:24:52,210
available funding, we think

837
00:24:54,181 --> 00:24:55,149
that we will be best able to

838
00:24:55,149 --> 00:24:56,500
support organizations and

839
00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:57,585
prioritizing applications when

840
00:24:57,585 --> 00:24:59,453
they know what those grants are

841
00:24:59,453 --> 00:25:01,388
going to be evaluated against,

842
00:25:01,388 --> 00:25:02,890
and we want to make sure that

843
00:25:02,890 --> 00:25:05,890
our community panel has clear

844
00:25:06,126 --> 00:25:08,529
criteria that they can use to

845
00:25:08,529 --> 00:25:10,297
help them recommend among many

846
00:25:10,297 --> 00:25:10,965
worthy projects. Under this

847
00:25:10,965 --> 00:25:13,365
framework, proposals that are

848
00:25:13,567 --> 00:25:15,350
most Aligned with the impact

849
00:25:15,350 --> 00:25:16,937
focus areas would be

850
00:25:16,937 --> 00:25:18,873
competitive for the highest

851
00:25:18,873 --> 00:25:20,474
ratings, but importantly, we

852
00:25:20,474 --> 00:25:22,309
wanted to maintain flexibility

853
00:25:22,309 --> 00:25:25,309
for proposals beyond the focus

854
00:25:26,113 --> 00:25:26,213
areas as well. And so we

855
00:25:26,213 --> 00:25:28,213
ve

856
00:25:28,515 --> 00:25:29,450
proposed to continue to

857
00:25:29,450 --> 00:25:31,850
prioritize our service areas,

858
00:25:31,886 --> 00:25:34,221
as you can see on the bottom of

859
00:25:34,221 --> 00:25:37,591
this slide, the city has going

860
00:25:37,591 --> 00:25:38,559
into this grant year, 9 service

861
00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:40,559
areas, including adult

862
00:25:40,961 --> 00:25:42,830
education, arts and culture,

863
00:25:42,830 --> 00:25:43,964
housing services, senior

864
00:25:43,964 --> 00:25:44,798
services, and we

865
00:25:44,798 --> 00:25:46,798
re proposing

866
00:25:47,635 --> 00:25:49,470
in the next grant cycle to

867
00:25:49,470 --> 00:25:51,305
continue to ask organizations

868
00:25:51,305 --> 00:25:53,740
to identify one or more service

869
00:25:53,740 --> 00:25:54,642
areas, as well as describe the

870
00:25:54,642 --> 00:25:55,743
program and program output.

871
00:25:55,743 --> 00:25:55,943
Outcomes. This is something

872
00:25:55,943 --> 00:25:57,110
that

873
00:25:57,110 --> 00:25:58,612
s been standard in our

874
00:25:58,612 --> 00:26:01,612
application for the last couple

875
00:26:01,849 --> 00:26:03,617
of years. What we would like to

876
00:26:03,617 --> 00:26:06,170
add our 5 recommended impact

877
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,588
focus areas that are more

878
00:26:07,588 --> 00:26:09,490
outcomes-focused and will help

879
00:26:09,490 --> 00:26:11,492
us to establish clear criteria

880
00:26:11,492 --> 00:26:13,994
for the community panel to

881
00:26:13,994 --> 00:26:16,363
evaluate how well a proposed

882
00:26:16,363 --> 00:26:19,634
project aligns with a hoped for

883
00:26:19,634 --> 00:26:21,169
outcome. These 5 impact focus

884
00:26:21,169 --> 00:26:23,569
areas are housing stability,

885
00:26:24,705 --> 00:26:26,607
economic mobility, Youth and

886
00:26:26,607 --> 00:26:28,175
family success, service access

887
00:26:28,175 --> 00:26:30,575
and navigation and community

888
00:26:33,247 --> 00:26:35,647
enrichment and belonging. These

889
00:26:35,649 --> 00:26:37,818
5 impact focus areas if adopted,

890
00:26:37,818 --> 00:26:40,540
would allow us to incorporate

891
00:26:40,540 --> 00:26:42,858
them into the application and

892
00:26:42,858 --> 00:26:44,792
evaluation, and would allow

893
00:26:44,792 --> 00:26:45,827
organizations to identify how

894
00:26:45,827 --> 00:26:48,262
their services would align with

895
00:26:48,262 --> 00:26:50,640
one or more of those impact

896
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,990
focus areas. So for example, if

897
00:26:52,990 --> 00:26:54,368
we look at the impact focus

898
00:26:54,368 --> 00:26:55,870
area community enrichment and

899
00:26:55,870 --> 00:26:57,870
belonging, Preferred strategies

900
00:26:58,839 --> 00:26:59,840
that we can solicit in fy28

901
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:00,674
applications could include

902
00:27:00,674 --> 00:27:03,740
programs that help reduce

903
00:27:04,245 --> 00:27:06,645
social isolation. Or proposals

904
00:27:07,114 --> 00:27:08,549
for arts, culture, or community

905
00:27:08,549 --> 00:27:10,549
building activities that

906
00:27:10,951 --> 00:27:12,387
increase belonging or civic

907
00:27:12,387 --> 00:27:12,586
connection and an organization

908
00:27:12,586 --> 00:27:14,289
that

909
00:27:14,289 --> 00:27:14,855
s proposing a program

910
00:27:14,855 --> 00:27:14,955
could identify that they

911
00:27:14,955 --> 00:27:16,955
ll

912
00:27:18,626 --> 00:27:20,127
provide an arts and cultural

913
00:27:20,127 --> 00:27:21,996
program that supports community

914
00:27:21,996 --> 00:27:23,898
enrichment, and they could

915
00:27:23,898 --> 00:27:25,990
include how they would measure

916
00:27:25,990 --> 00:27:28,990
how well their programs are

917
00:27:28,435 --> 00:27:30,835
increasing belonging. Or, for

918
00:27:30,938 --> 00:27:31,805
example, an organization that

919
00:27:31,805 --> 00:27:33,805
s

920
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:35,743
providing food distribution

921
00:27:35,743 --> 00:27:37,578
services might select youth and

922
00:27:37,578 --> 00:27:39,513
family success if the primary

923
00:27:39,513 --> 00:27:41,415
outcome of their program is

924
00:27:41,415 --> 00:27:43,417
meant to support youth in

925
00:27:43,417 --> 00:27:45,252
schools, and reduce hunger in

926
00:27:45,252 --> 00:27:47,855
families. So it will really be

927
00:27:47,855 --> 00:27:49,900
up to the organizations to, um,

928
00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:50,524
identify how they measure the

929
00:27:50,524 --> 00:27:51,693
outcomes of their programs and

930
00:27:51,693 --> 00:27:53,929
how those would align with one

931
00:27:53,929 --> 00:27:55,162
or more of our 5 impact focus

932
00:27:55,162 --> 00:27:55,729
areas. And then I want to

933
00:27:55,729 --> 00:27:58,129
emphasize that we would

934
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,302
continue. To ask organizations

935
00:28:01,302 --> 00:28:03,370
to identify a service area that

936
00:28:03,370 --> 00:28:05,139
aligns with our current service

937
00:28:05,139 --> 00:28:08,420
areas. We will also continue as

938
00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:09,510
we currently do, to ask and

939
00:28:09,510 --> 00:28:10,450
assess how proposals support

940
00:28:10,450 --> 00:28:11,478
our city

941
00:28:11,478 --> 00:28:11,645
s Jedi priorities.

942
00:28:11,645 --> 00:28:12,880
We

943
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:13,881
ve just recently adopted a

944
00:28:13,881 --> 00:28:15,749
strategic plan for Jedi at the

945
00:28:15,749 --> 00:28:18,118
seti, and this is a great

946
00:28:18,118 --> 00:28:20,870
opportunity for us to align

947
00:28:20,870 --> 00:28:22,230
those applications with the

948
00:28:22,230 --> 00:28:25,230
Jedi priorities, and we would

949
00:28:25,192 --> 00:28:25,693
continue to ask how applicants

950
00:28:25,693 --> 00:28:27,693
would improve access

951
00:28:27,996 --> 00:28:28,929
opportunity, and outcome. For

952
00:28:28,929 --> 00:28:30,999
Rockville residents, that would

953
00:28:30,999 --> 00:28:32,366
be across any of these 5 impact

954
00:28:32,366 --> 00:28:34,301
focus areas, but what would be

955
00:28:34,301 --> 00:28:35,669
different is that we would be

956
00:28:35,669 --> 00:28:38,730
able to integrate the impact

957
00:28:38,730 --> 00:28:39,506
focus areas into the

958
00:28:39,506 --> 00:28:41,108
application and provide a way

959
00:28:41,108 --> 00:28:42,978
for our community panel to

960
00:28:42,978 --> 00:28:45,978
evaluate how well a proposal

961
00:28:47,314 --> 00:28:48,816
would achieve those outcomes.

962
00:28:48,816 --> 00:28:50,317
Our second recommendation for a

963
00:28:50,317 --> 00:28:51,186
program design change this

964
00:28:51,186 --> 00:28:52,853
evening, it

965
00:28:52,853 --> 00:28:53,455
s to streamline

966
00:28:53,455 --> 00:28:55,455
renewal for high-performing

967
00:28:56,857 --> 00:28:59,593
programs. As we mentioned, many

968
00:28:59,593 --> 00:29:01,529
of our applications come from

969
00:29:01,529 --> 00:29:02,563
organizations that are trying

970
00:29:02,563 --> 00:29:03,964
to achieve outcomes that

971
00:29:03,964 --> 00:29:05,499
necessitate more than 1 year of

972
00:29:05,499 --> 00:29:07,269
funding. We know that many of

973
00:29:07,269 --> 00:29:08,235
the needs that our residents

974
00:29:08,235 --> 00:29:09,236
have or the community goals

975
00:29:09,236 --> 00:29:09,870
that we

976
00:29:09,870 --> 00:29:11,639
re trying to support

977
00:29:11,639 --> 00:29:14,740
need more than 1 year of

978
00:29:14,740 --> 00:29:16,410
funding. We also are aiming to

979
00:29:16,410 --> 00:29:17,811
reduce the application burden

980
00:29:17,811 --> 00:29:18,946
for high-performing programs

981
00:29:18,946 --> 00:29:21,215
that are requesting renewal

982
00:29:21,215 --> 00:29:22,250
funding. What we mean by

983
00:29:22,250 --> 00:29:23,150
renewal funding are the

984
00:29:23,150 --> 00:29:25,550
applications we receive each

985
00:29:25,886 --> 00:29:28,155
year, for existing programs

986
00:29:28,155 --> 00:29:29,557
that are asking for the same

987
00:29:29,557 --> 00:29:30,791
amount of funding. We do

988
00:29:30,791 --> 00:29:33,394
receive a significant number of

989
00:29:33,394 --> 00:29:34,395
those applications each year.

990
00:29:34,395 --> 00:29:34,628
So the second recommendation

991
00:29:34,628 --> 00:29:35,829
that we

992
00:29:35,829 --> 00:29:36,897
re seeking your

993
00:29:36,897 --> 00:29:39,897
feedback on this evening would

994
00:29:40,634 --> 00:29:41,368
be to allow a streamlined

995
00:29:41,368 --> 00:29:42,603
renewal for high-performing

996
00:29:42,603 --> 00:29:43,904
programs that are seeking

997
00:29:43,904 --> 00:29:45,440
funding to maintain that

998
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,974
program. We would recommend

999
00:29:46,974 --> 00:29:49,345
that we allow those

1000
00:29:49,345 --> 00:29:51,178
high-performing programs up to

1001
00:29:51,178 --> 00:29:53,113
2 years of renewals. We could

1002
00:29:53,113 --> 00:29:54,348
include a modest cost of

1003
00:29:54,348 --> 00:29:56,748
service adjustment, subject to

1004
00:29:57,484 --> 00:29:59,520
available funding in the city

1005
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:00,422
budget, and after 2 renewal

1006
00:30:00,422 --> 00:30:01,388
years, those programs would

1007
00:30:01,388 --> 00:30:02,957
need to resubmit a full

1008
00:30:02,957 --> 00:30:03,557
application and part

1009
00:30:03,557 --> 00:30:05,957
participate in the review

1010
00:30:06,794 --> 00:30:07,940
process again. Importantly,

1011
00:30:07,940 --> 00:30:07,661
this doesn

1012
00:30:07,661 --> 00:30:08,295
t mean that

1013
00:30:08,295 --> 00:30:10,640
organizations are never

1014
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,498
reviewed, you would always

1015
00:30:11,498 --> 00:30:13,400
begin with a full application

1016
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,869
that is reviewed by the

1017
00:30:14,869 --> 00:30:16,869
community panel, recommended

1018
00:30:17,271 --> 00:30:19,240
for funding, and then we would

1019
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,575
use the site visits and the

1020
00:30:21,575 --> 00:30:22,276
quarterly reports to help us

1021
00:30:22,276 --> 00:30:24,276
identify high performing

1022
00:30:24,945 --> 00:30:26,380
programs that are meeting their

1023
00:30:26,380 --> 00:30:27,314
performance metrics and are

1024
00:30:27,314 --> 00:30:28,816
achieving their program

1025
00:30:28,816 --> 00:30:30,784
outcomes. We would begin that

1026
00:30:30,784 --> 00:30:33,254
process in the year ahead,

1027
00:30:33,254 --> 00:30:33,787
which would allow us to then

1028
00:30:33,787 --> 00:30:34,388
identify high-performing

1029
00:30:34,388 --> 00:30:37,388
programs that could seek a

1030
00:30:38,158 --> 00:30:40,561
renewal. For next year. If we

1031
00:30:40,561 --> 00:30:42,496
adopt this approach, we can

1032
00:30:42,496 --> 00:30:44,896
focus our annual competitive

1033
00:30:44,899 --> 00:30:47,268
review process on other

1034
00:30:47,268 --> 00:30:48,303
applications, such as

1035
00:30:48,303 --> 00:30:50,303
applications from new

1036
00:30:51,105 --> 00:30:52,540
organizations, proposals for

1037
00:30:52,540 --> 00:30:54,174
new programs or organizations

1038
00:30:54,174 --> 00:30:56,574
that are undergoing significant

1039
00:30:58,312 --> 00:30:59,280
changes, and we can provide

1040
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,248
more consistent support to

1041
00:31:01,248 --> 00:31:02,283
organizations that are seeking

1042
00:31:02,283 --> 00:31:03,450
to continue a program with

1043
00:31:03,450 --> 00:31:04,118
largely the same amount of

1044
00:31:04,118 --> 00:31:06,287
funding who have already shown

1045
00:31:06,287 --> 00:31:09,287
that They are achieving the

1046
00:31:09,790 --> 00:31:11,292
outcomes of that program. If

1047
00:31:11,292 --> 00:31:12,927
these changes are adopted,

1048
00:31:12,927 --> 00:31:14,628
staff will finalize program

1049
00:31:14,628 --> 00:31:16,960
changes based on mayor and

1050
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:16,263
council feedback this evening.

1051
00:31:16,263 --> 00:31:18,132
We

1052
00:31:18,132 --> 00:31:19,934
ll communicate to current

1053
00:31:19,934 --> 00:31:21,902
and prospective grantees

1054
00:31:21,902 --> 00:31:22,436
through the application

1055
00:31:22,436 --> 00:31:23,904
materials are technical

1056
00:31:23,904 --> 00:31:25,139
sessions, and our next

1057
00:31:25,139 --> 00:31:27,539
community partner cafe, that

1058
00:31:27,808 --> 00:31:30,477
would take place in SEPTEMBER

1059
00:31:30,477 --> 00:31:31,979
next month, when we launched

1060
00:31:31,979 --> 00:31:33,347
the fa28 Community Services and

1061
00:31:33,347 --> 00:31:34,381
enrichment application, we

1062
00:31:34,381 --> 00:31:36,381
would incorporate those 5

1063
00:31:36,383 --> 00:31:37,551
impact focus areas, again, that

1064
00:31:37,551 --> 00:31:39,386
application will launch next

1065
00:31:39,386 --> 00:31:41,388
month, and when our community

1066
00:31:41,388 --> 00:31:43,324
Panel convened it would review

1067
00:31:43,324 --> 00:31:44,625
the applications with impact

1068
00:31:44,625 --> 00:31:46,927
focus areas incorporated into

1069
00:31:46,927 --> 00:31:48,530
the evaluation criteria. This

1070
00:31:48,530 --> 00:31:50,640
would allow us over the coming

1071
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:51,265
year to then measure those

1072
00:31:51,265 --> 00:31:52,733
high-performing programs that

1073
00:31:52,733 --> 00:31:55,133
are achieving their outcomes,

1074
00:31:55,836 --> 00:31:58,720
and we could offer streamlined

1075
00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:58,739
renewals next AUGUST before the

1076
00:31:58,739 --> 00:32:01,739
launch of the fy29 application

1077
00:32:02,309 --> 00:32:03,344
cycle. So we look forward to

1078
00:32:03,344 --> 00:32:04,812
hearing your feedback this

1079
00:32:04,812 --> 00:32:07,114
evening again on those 3

1080
00:32:07,114 --> 00:32:09,117
questions, should the city

1081
00:32:09,117 --> 00:32:11,180
adopt 5 proposed impact focus

1082
00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:13,320
areas to guide future grant

1083
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,320
funding decisions, household

1084
00:32:15,322 --> 00:32:16,724
stability, economic mobility,

1085
00:32:16,724 --> 00:32:18,158
youth and family success,

1086
00:32:18,158 --> 00:32:18,926
service access and navigation,

1087
00:32:18,926 --> 00:32:21,295
and community enrichment and

1088
00:32:21,295 --> 00:32:23,970
belonging. And should we

1089
00:32:23,970 --> 00:32:24,466
prioritize 1 or 2 of these

1090
00:32:24,466 --> 00:32:26,867
impact focus areas in the next

1091
00:32:26,867 --> 00:32:28,802
grant cycle, fy 28, and lastly,

1092
00:32:28,802 --> 00:32:30,704
should the city provide a

1093
00:32:30,704 --> 00:32:31,372
streamlined renewal pathway for

1094
00:32:31,372 --> 00:32:32,239
high-performing programs. We

1095
00:32:32,239 --> 00:32:35,239
look forward to hearing your

1096
00:32:36,610 --> 00:32:38,612
feedback. I want to say thank

1097
00:32:38,612 --> 00:32:39,680
you very much for thinking so

1098
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,982
critically about the programs

1099
00:32:41,982 --> 00:32:43,817
and the grants so that we can

1100
00:32:43,817 --> 00:32:45,819
continue to evolve as a city. I

1101
00:32:45,819 --> 00:32:46,687
know that this has been a

1102
00:32:46,687 --> 00:32:48,255
progression and things have

1103
00:32:48,255 --> 00:32:50,659
changed to make things more

1104
00:32:50,659 --> 00:32:51,959
effective, uh, and, uh,

1105
00:32:51,959 --> 00:32:53,628
targeted over time. I also want

1106
00:32:53,628 --> 00:32:55,963
to just thank the nonprofit

1107
00:32:55,963 --> 00:32:57,298
community members who are doing

1108
00:32:57,298 --> 00:32:57,399
such incredible work that

1109
00:32:57,399 --> 00:32:58,532
s

1110
00:32:58,532 --> 00:32:58,900
really an extension where

1111
00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:00,668
government can

1112
00:33:00,668 --> 00:33:03,103
t do, but we can

1113
00:33:03,103 --> 00:33:03,704
support and lift up, uh, and to

1114
00:33:03,704 --> 00:33:05,739
really respect and recognize

1115
00:33:05,739 --> 00:33:06,607
them as third party. In Mary

1116
00:33:06,607 --> 00:33:08,750
s

1117
00:33:08,750 --> 00:33:10,440
intermediaries that are doing

1118
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,110
really good social safety

1119
00:33:11,110 --> 00:33:12,580
network programming on behalf

1120
00:33:12,580 --> 00:33:13,380
of the city, uh, and I know I

1121
00:33:13,380 --> 00:33:14,815
speak on behalf of my

1122
00:33:14,815 --> 00:33:17,184
colleagues that were just so

1123
00:33:17,184 --> 00:33:19,119
thankful that we have

1124
00:33:19,119 --> 00:33:20,540
incredible nonprofits. Uh, I

1125
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,570
also acknowledge that times

1126
00:33:22,570 --> 00:33:23,424
have been really hard with a

1127
00:33:23,424 --> 00:33:25,250
lot of changes that are

1128
00:33:25,250 --> 00:33:27,261
happening in the federal space

1129
00:33:27,261 --> 00:33:28,797
that are impacting, uh, grants

1130
00:33:28,797 --> 00:33:28,996
and payment schedules, etc. And

1131
00:33:28,996 --> 00:33:29,663
there

1132
00:33:29,663 --> 00:33:31,398
s been more uncertainty,

1133
00:33:31,398 --> 00:33:32,567
so thank you for having the

1134
00:33:32,567 --> 00:33:33,367
nonprofit roundtable so we can

1135
00:33:33,367 --> 00:33:35,170
wrap our arms around what is

1136
00:33:35,170 --> 00:33:36,737
happening, what is the

1137
00:33:36,737 --> 00:33:38,500
Realistic, uh, life cycle of

1138
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:39,600
some of the products that

1139
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,474
nonprofits are working on and

1140
00:33:40,474 --> 00:33:41,242
what are their challenges and

1141
00:33:41,242 --> 00:33:42,877
what are the opportunities that

1142
00:33:42,877 --> 00:33:44,278
we can be better and more

1143
00:33:44,278 --> 00:33:44,411
responsive to our community, so

1144
00:33:44,411 --> 00:33:45,790
i

1145
00:33:45,790 --> 00:33:45,846
ll just say thank you on

1146
00:33:45,846 --> 00:33:46,280
behalf of all of us. I

1147
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,280
m going

1148
00:33:49,149 --> 00:33:50,518
to, I have several questions,

1149
00:33:50,518 --> 00:33:51,653
uh, but more about just fine

1150
00:33:51,653 --> 00:33:53,187
tuning and figuring out, um,

1151
00:33:53,187 --> 00:33:55,357
how do we adjust some of these

1152
00:33:55,357 --> 00:33:57,358
items, but I really just say I

1153
00:33:57,358 --> 00:33:58,692
agree with, with the concept

1154
00:33:58,692 --> 00:33:59,727
and love what you have done

1155
00:33:59,727 --> 00:34:00,127
here. I wanna, I

1156
00:34:00,127 --> 00:34:01,629
m gonna call

1157
00:34:01,629 --> 00:34:03,430
on as if we were starting from

1158
00:34:03,430 --> 00:34:03,764
the right of me on the dais, uh,

1159
00:34:03,764 --> 00:34:05,764
and then we

1160
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,103
ll move. To the

1161
00:34:08,103 --> 00:34:08,602
left of where we normally sit.

1162
00:34:08,602 --> 00:34:09,503
So with that, I

1163
00:34:09,503 --> 00:34:11,903
m gonna turn it

1164
00:34:12,406 --> 00:34:14,442
over to Councilor Van Grack.

1165
00:34:14,442 --> 00:34:15,376
Thank you, Mayor, and, uh,

1166
00:34:15,376 --> 00:34:17,678
thank you guys for putting this

1167
00:34:17,678 --> 00:34:19,580
together. I know a lot of us

1168
00:34:19,580 --> 00:34:21,216
have talked, um, significantly

1169
00:34:21,216 --> 00:34:23,918
over the past number of years

1170
00:34:23,918 --> 00:34:25,553
about trying to make this

1171
00:34:25,553 --> 00:34:27,953
entire process more smooth,

1172
00:34:28,290 --> 00:34:29,890
more smooth for the nonprofits

1173
00:34:29,890 --> 00:34:30,926
to understand more streamlined

1174
00:34:30,926 --> 00:34:33,294
and better understanding and

1175
00:34:33,294 --> 00:34:33,961
focused. So this is exactly

1176
00:34:33,961 --> 00:34:35,863
what I think we want to see,

1177
00:34:35,863 --> 00:34:38,132
and I think with the nonprofits

1178
00:34:38,132 --> 00:34:39,667
in the community want to see,

1179
00:34:39,667 --> 00:34:42,369
um, with regard to the feedback

1180
00:34:42,369 --> 00:34:45,272
first, and I think your number

1181
00:34:45,272 --> 00:34:46,707
3 is really critical. A

1182
00:34:46,707 --> 00:34:47,341
streamlined renewal path path

1183
00:34:47,341 --> 00:34:49,644
path pathway path for

1184
00:34:49,644 --> 00:34:49,743
high-performing programs, we

1185
00:34:49,743 --> 00:34:51,743
ve

1186
00:34:52,479 --> 00:34:53,581
heard it continually from the

1187
00:34:53,581 --> 00:34:55,416
nonprofits that sometimes going

1188
00:34:55,416 --> 00:34:55,549
through the process, I mean,

1189
00:34:55,549 --> 00:34:56,500
I

1190
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:58,253
ve heard from nonprofits

1191
00:34:58,253 --> 00:35:00,221
where the person who was in

1192
00:35:00,221 --> 00:35:02,189
charge of it missed the packet,

1193
00:35:02,189 --> 00:35:02,389
you know, and all of a sudden,

1194
00:35:02,389 --> 00:35:03,324
they

1195
00:35:03,324 --> 00:35:06,324
re behind the eight ball

1196
00:35:06,627 --> 00:35:07,596
and things get off track. So

1197
00:35:07,596 --> 00:35:09,996
providing a streamlined renewal

1198
00:35:09,997 --> 00:35:10,998
pathway, I think is critical

1199
00:35:10,998 --> 00:35:12,533
and exactly the right way of

1200
00:35:12,533 --> 00:35:14,902
thinking about this. Um, with

1201
00:35:14,902 --> 00:35:16,837
regard to kind of your 1st 2

1202
00:35:16,837 --> 00:35:18,172
questions, um, I, I, I wanna

1203
00:35:18,172 --> 00:35:18,639
understand a little bit about

1204
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:19,273
essentially what we

1205
00:35:19,273 --> 00:35:21,273
re doing

1206
00:35:21,575 --> 00:35:23,100
here, because I know we

1207
00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:23,944
ve got

1208
00:35:23,944 --> 00:35:25,846
some significant nonprofit

1209
00:35:25,846 --> 00:35:28,249
partners that we work with, are

1210
00:35:28,249 --> 00:35:30,718
we just talking about those who

1211
00:35:30,718 --> 00:35:31,185
are regularly have been under

1212
00:35:31,185 --> 00:35:32,586
$10,000 because we

1213
00:35:32,586 --> 00:35:33,554
ve got some

1214
00:35:33,554 --> 00:35:36,554
significant partners I know who

1215
00:35:38,580 --> 00:35:40,270
have been a Above $10,000 who

1216
00:35:40,270 --> 00:35:42,300
are significant partners that

1217
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:42,229
do amazing things. I know

1218
00:35:42,229 --> 00:35:42,963
there

1219
00:35:42,963 --> 00:35:43,163
s community reach. I know

1220
00:35:43,163 --> 00:35:44,198
there

1221
00:35:44,198 --> 00:35:45,990
s a Rockville Volunteer

1222
00:35:45,990 --> 00:35:45,266
Fire Department. I know there

1223
00:35:45,266 --> 00:35:47,266
s,

1224
00:35:47,668 --> 00:35:49,137
you know, sister cities, are we

1225
00:35:49,137 --> 00:35:50,738
talking about some of these

1226
00:35:50,738 --> 00:35:52,540
large partners as well, or we

1227
00:35:52,540 --> 00:35:54,308
solely talking about some of

1228
00:35:54,308 --> 00:35:57,308
these larger grants, or a

1229
00:35:58,312 --> 00:36:00,147
combination of both. Yeah,

1230
00:36:00,147 --> 00:36:03,500
thank you for that question. Uh,

1231
00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:05,530
just to make sure that I

1232
00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:07,540
understand you referenced the

1233
00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:09,454
grants above 10,000 and below

1234
00:36:10,724 --> 00:36:13,160
10,000, um, are you asking if

1235
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,530
the program design changes for

1236
00:36:15,530 --> 00:36:17,464
the impact focus areas would

1237
00:36:17,464 --> 00:36:19,864
affect the $10,000 above grants,

1238
00:36:21,302 --> 00:36:22,736
or are you asking if the

1239
00:36:22,736 --> 00:36:24,238
streamlined one-time payment

1240
00:36:24,238 --> 00:36:25,640
upfront and one-time project

1241
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:26,240
report at the end would only

1242
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,750
affect those grants under

1243
00:36:28,750 --> 00:36:28,610
10,000. I, I

1244
00:36:28,610 --> 00:36:29,543
m actually asking

1245
00:36:29,543 --> 00:36:30,444
about both. I

1246
00:36:30,444 --> 00:36:31,378
m trying to

1247
00:36:31,378 --> 00:36:31,545
understand this process that

1248
00:36:31,545 --> 00:36:33,545
we

1249
00:36:33,781 --> 00:36:34,882
re trying to get at, and are

1250
00:36:34,882 --> 00:36:36,183
we reforming a certain section

1251
00:36:36,183 --> 00:36:38,185
of them? Are we looking to

1252
00:36:38,185 --> 00:36:40,200
reform all of them? How is some

1253
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:40,254
of the decisions and the focus

1254
00:36:40,254 --> 00:36:41,455
that we

1255
00:36:41,455 --> 00:36:43,557
re doing here, going to

1256
00:36:43,557 --> 00:36:46,260
apply to all of our nonprofit

1257
00:36:46,260 --> 00:36:47,595
partners, both the ones before

1258
00:36:47,595 --> 00:36:49,598
under 10,000 and the ones above

1259
00:36:49,598 --> 00:36:51,565
or below and above. Thank you

1260
00:36:51,565 --> 00:36:53,567
for that. I understand the

1261
00:36:53,567 --> 00:36:56,337
questions. So the changes that

1262
00:36:56,337 --> 00:36:57,471
are underway are to the

1263
00:36:57,471 --> 00:36:58,739
community empowerment Matching

1264
00:36:58,739 --> 00:37:00,274
grant program that was

1265
00:37:00,274 --> 00:37:02,277
previously a very small

1266
00:37:02,277 --> 00:37:03,544
neighborhood focused, uh,

1267
00:37:03,544 --> 00:37:05,446
program that some nonprofits

1268
00:37:05,446 --> 00:37:07,846
participated in, awards were

1269
00:37:08,415 --> 00:37:10,815
typically 500 to $1000 we are

1270
00:37:11,218 --> 00:37:12,653
shifting that to a community

1271
00:37:12,653 --> 00:37:15,530
empowerment mini grant program

1272
00:37:15,122 --> 00:37:17,691
that will accept proposals up

1273
00:37:17,691 --> 00:37:18,260
to $10,000 now, and that aligns

1274
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:20,260
with the city

1275
00:37:21,290 --> 00:37:22,497
s other fiscal Go,

1276
00:37:22,497 --> 00:37:24,598
uh, thresholds where we can do

1277
00:37:24,598 --> 00:37:26,998
gx payments, for instance,

1278
00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:28,302
through procurement up to

1279
00:37:28,302 --> 00:37:29,203
$10,000 so we

1280
00:37:29,203 --> 00:37:31,203
ve aligned those

1281
00:37:31,605 --> 00:37:33,605
smaller, lower complexity

1282
00:37:34,575 --> 00:37:35,276
grants and have taken the

1283
00:37:35,276 --> 00:37:36,877
opportunity there to streamline

1284
00:37:36,877 --> 00:37:38,479
so that we can do a single

1285
00:37:38,479 --> 00:37:40,714
upfront payment up to 10,000

1286
00:37:40,714 --> 00:37:41,749
and just require that one end

1287
00:37:41,749 --> 00:37:41,849
of project report, but you

1288
00:37:41,849 --> 00:37:43,751
re

1289
00:37:43,751 --> 00:37:45,720
correct, that would be limited

1290
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,655
to proposals that are $10,000

1291
00:37:47,655 --> 00:37:49,457
or less for the new community

1292
00:37:49,457 --> 00:37:50,791
apartment mini grants. Exactly

1293
00:37:50,791 --> 00:37:52,159
my understanding, I just want

1294
00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:53,127
to make sure because I know

1295
00:37:53,127 --> 00:37:53,661
there have been some questions

1296
00:37:53,661 --> 00:37:54,663
that I

1297
00:37:54,663 --> 00:37:56,497
ve gotten from folks

1298
00:37:56,497 --> 00:37:57,565
with regard to uh the

1299
00:37:57,565 --> 00:37:57,666
understanding. Um, here

1300
00:37:57,666 --> 00:37:59,433
s

1301
00:37:59,433 --> 00:38:00,340
another question I had. You,

1302
00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:00,834
you might have recall, we

1303
00:38:00,834 --> 00:38:02,269
ve

1304
00:38:02,269 --> 00:38:05,269
had a number of conversations

1305
00:38:06,106 --> 00:38:07,641
from the dais with regard to

1306
00:38:07,641 --> 00:38:09,143
grants and proposals with

1307
00:38:09,143 --> 00:38:10,412
regard to projects that either

1308
00:38:10,412 --> 00:38:11,946
the city might be able to

1309
00:38:11,946 --> 00:38:12,146
provide it, or there

1310
00:38:12,146 --> 00:38:13,782
s other

1311
00:38:13,782 --> 00:38:14,883
avenues. I know one of the

1312
00:38:14,883 --> 00:38:15,783
examples I know MADAM Mayors

1313
00:38:15,783 --> 00:38:16,170
talked about it, I

1314
00:38:16,170 --> 00:38:17,651
ve talked

1315
00:38:17,651 --> 00:38:20,955
about it, deals with some of

1316
00:38:20,955 --> 00:38:23,900
the um Legal Services, um, that

1317
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:24,191
I know that there are other

1318
00:38:24,191 --> 00:38:27,191
avenues out there with regard

1319
00:38:27,461 --> 00:38:28,596
to, um, with regard to In

1320
00:38:28,596 --> 00:38:31,596
absence of our funding, has

1321
00:38:32,233 --> 00:38:34,703
there been some Discussion with

1322
00:38:34,703 --> 00:38:36,470
regard to guiding our future

1323
00:38:36,470 --> 00:38:38,405
grant funding decisions with

1324
00:38:38,405 --> 00:38:39,975
regard to what other

1325
00:38:39,975 --> 00:38:40,808
opportunities are out there

1326
00:38:40,808 --> 00:38:40,975
when choosing which grants

1327
00:38:40,975 --> 00:38:42,142
we

1328
00:38:42,142 --> 00:38:45,742
re gonna go forward with the

1329
00:38:47,948 --> 00:38:49,884
limited funds that we have. So,

1330
00:38:49,884 --> 00:38:52,253
thank you for the question

1331
00:38:52,253 --> 00:38:53,320
about have there been

1332
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,722
discussion of guiding those

1333
00:38:54,722 --> 00:38:56,690
applications when there are

1334
00:38:56,690 --> 00:38:57,158
other services that are being

1335
00:38:57,158 --> 00:38:58,692
provided, that

1336
00:38:58,692 --> 00:39:00,692
s not something

1337
00:39:01,362 --> 00:39:04,298
that was discussed per se in

1338
00:39:04,298 --> 00:39:05,666
these program design changes,

1339
00:39:05,666 --> 00:39:07,134
although the evaluation

1340
00:39:07,134 --> 00:39:09,537
criteria do currently ask if

1341
00:39:09,537 --> 00:39:10,700
there is a community need or a

1342
00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:12,700
gap that

1343
00:39:12,439 --> 00:39:12,973
s being met, and I

1344
00:39:12,973 --> 00:39:14,875
would anticipate that

1345
00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:16,430
continuing to be a part of the

1346
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:16,611
evaluation, but to your

1347
00:39:16,611 --> 00:39:18,611
question, that specific

1348
00:39:21,181 --> 00:39:24,510
conversa has not taken place.

1349
00:39:24,510 --> 00:39:25,686
Um, and so I guess, uh, one

1350
00:39:25,686 --> 00:39:27,922
more question, um, I know that

1351
00:39:27,922 --> 00:39:31,522
a number of the nonprofits that

1352
00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:34,963
have come to us from the city.

1353
00:39:34,963 --> 00:39:36,964
Are uh squarely within helpful

1354
00:39:36,964 --> 00:39:39,300
issues, but might not be

1355
00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:41,268
squarely within one of these

1356
00:39:41,268 --> 00:39:43,704
impact focus areas. Are we

1357
00:39:43,704 --> 00:39:46,104
treating these impact focus

1358
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:47,174
areas broadly to ensure that

1359
00:39:47,174 --> 00:39:47,508
we

1360
00:39:47,508 --> 00:39:47,975
re covering what

1361
00:39:47,975 --> 00:39:49,410
s needed,

1362
00:39:49,410 --> 00:39:50,911
and I guess my worry here is,

1363
00:39:50,911 --> 00:39:52,813
first of all, I love the idea

1364
00:39:52,813 --> 00:39:53,281
of the impact focus areas. I

1365
00:39:53,281 --> 00:39:53,781
think that

1366
00:39:53,781 --> 00:39:54,783
s absolutely our

1367
00:39:54,783 --> 00:39:55,616
right to make sure they

1368
00:39:55,616 --> 00:39:57,616
re in

1369
00:40:01,755 --> 00:40:02,723
some focus areas. My one worry.

1370
00:40:02,723 --> 00:40:05,125
I accidentally hit my mute

1371
00:40:05,125 --> 00:40:05,359
button. Um, my one worry is

1372
00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:06,600
that we

1373
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:06,493
re necessarily, I don

1374
00:40:06,493 --> 00:40:08,493
t

1375
00:40:09,364 --> 00:40:11,765
want these to be prohibitive

1376
00:40:11,765 --> 00:40:12,533
with regard to a program, and

1377
00:40:12,533 --> 00:40:13,234
just one example that I

1378
00:40:13,234 --> 00:40:14,201
m, I

1379
00:40:14,201 --> 00:40:14,735
would be thinking of, and I

1380
00:40:14,735 --> 00:40:16,104
know that they

1381
00:40:16,104 --> 00:40:17,304
ve been a little

1382
00:40:17,304 --> 00:40:17,538
bit outside of $10,000 but I

1383
00:40:17,538 --> 00:40:19,107
m

1384
00:40:19,107 --> 00:40:20,941
using it as an example because

1385
00:40:20,941 --> 00:40:22,576
it works. The Rockville,

1386
00:40:22,576 --> 00:40:24,576
Science Center. Rockville

1387
00:40:24,745 --> 00:40:24,945
Science Center, I would believe

1388
00:40:24,945 --> 00:40:25,346
there

1389
00:40:25,346 --> 00:40:26,780
s youth and family

1390
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:27,648
success, and there

1391
00:40:27,648 --> 00:40:29,217
s community

1392
00:40:29,217 --> 00:40:29,951
enrichment and belonging, but

1393
00:40:29,951 --> 00:40:33,870
one could have it as a separate.

1394
00:40:33,870 --> 00:40:34,688
Whole category for what they

1395
00:40:34,688 --> 00:40:37,258
provide to the city, and I just

1396
00:40:37,258 --> 00:40:39,260
wanna make sure that These

1397
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:39,327
ideas of these impact focus

1398
00:40:39,327 --> 00:40:40,494
areas aren

1399
00:40:40,494 --> 00:40:42,494
t necessarily going

1400
00:40:45,232 --> 00:40:45,933
to be a hurdle if one does an

1401
00:40:45,933 --> 00:40:46,734
organization doesn

1402
00:40:46,734 --> 00:40:48,734
t fall 100%

1403
00:40:49,470 --> 00:40:52,470
behind 1 or 2 of the proposed

1404
00:40:59,514 --> 00:41:01,115
funding areas. Nick, you want

1405
00:41:01,115 --> 00:41:03,951
me to take that one? Uh, sure,

1406
00:41:03,951 --> 00:41:04,952
go ahead, Jeff. Ok, thanks. Um,

1407
00:41:04,952 --> 00:41:05,819
COUNCILMAN Van Grak, I wanna

1408
00:41:05,819 --> 00:41:06,254
want to move back. I

1409
00:41:06,254 --> 00:41:07,688
m gonna

1410
00:41:07,688 --> 00:41:09,123
break a rule that I always say

1411
00:41:09,123 --> 00:41:09,690
to the team about going back to

1412
00:41:09,690 --> 00:41:10,591
a question that

1413
00:41:10,591 --> 00:41:12,293
s been asked

1414
00:41:12,293 --> 00:41:13,194
and answered, but, um, you and

1415
00:41:13,194 --> 00:41:15,964
a couple other members of

1416
00:41:15,964 --> 00:41:17,298
council had talked to me about

1417
00:41:17,298 --> 00:41:18,732
services that people have

1418
00:41:18,732 --> 00:41:20,668
requested for grants such as

1419
00:41:20,668 --> 00:41:22,136
legal services that can be

1420
00:41:22,136 --> 00:41:23,204
provided through other means.

1421
00:41:23,204 --> 00:41:24,672
We have talked about that a

1422
00:41:24,672 --> 00:41:26,407
little bit, um, we are going to

1423
00:41:26,407 --> 00:41:27,875
make sure that when people are

1424
00:41:27,875 --> 00:41:28,420
applying for grants this year,

1425
00:41:28,420 --> 00:41:29,376
we

1426
00:41:29,376 --> 00:41:29,577
re gonna make sure that one,

1427
00:41:29,577 --> 00:41:30,878
they

1428
00:41:30,878 --> 00:41:32,913
re trying to hit these 5

1429
00:41:32,913 --> 00:41:34,548
impact areas, but secondarily,

1430
00:41:34,548 --> 00:41:35,450
If we know there

1431
00:41:35,450 --> 00:41:36,350
s another

1432
00:41:36,350 --> 00:41:37,285
entity that provides funding

1433
00:41:37,285 --> 00:41:37,384
like for legal services, we

1434
00:41:37,384 --> 00:41:39,187
re

1435
00:41:39,187 --> 00:41:39,620
gonna try to steer them there,

1436
00:41:39,620 --> 00:41:40,154
because what that

1437
00:41:40,154 --> 00:41:40,321
s gonna do is

1438
00:41:40,321 --> 00:41:41,522
it

1439
00:41:41,522 --> 00:41:42,990
s gonna provide funding for

1440
00:41:42,990 --> 00:41:43,724
some other programs, so I heard

1441
00:41:43,724 --> 00:41:44,124
that loud and clear from

1442
00:41:44,124 --> 00:41:45,426
counsel, and I

1443
00:41:45,426 --> 00:41:46,827
ll talk to the

1444
00:41:46,827 --> 00:41:47,328
team about that. Um, the other

1445
00:41:47,328 --> 00:41:48,729
thing I

1446
00:41:48,729 --> 00:41:49,830
ll mention is just to

1447
00:41:49,830 --> 00:41:51,298
answer your more recent

1448
00:41:51,298 --> 00:41:54,100
question is, yes, the goal is

1449
00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:56,470
to really try to make sure that

1450
00:41:56,470 --> 00:41:57,873
grantees are looking very

1451
00:41:57,873 --> 00:41:59,840
diligently at those 5, impact

1452
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,208
areas that are on your screen,

1453
00:42:01,208 --> 00:42:02,877
but yes, there are going to be

1454
00:42:02,877 --> 00:42:04,311
broad enough that people People

1455
00:42:04,311 --> 00:42:04,545
can make an argument to us, and

1456
00:42:04,545 --> 00:42:05,846
I can

1457
00:42:05,846 --> 00:42:07,314
t stress that enough, of

1458
00:42:07,314 --> 00:42:08,816
where they think their grant

1459
00:42:08,816 --> 00:42:10,150
falls into one of those

1460
00:42:10,150 --> 00:42:11,552
categories. And then the

1461
00:42:11,552 --> 00:42:12,586
evaluation committee is really

1462
00:42:12,586 --> 00:42:14,540
gonna kind of slice it and dice

1463
00:42:14,540 --> 00:42:15,422
it and say, yeah, we agree, or

1464
00:42:15,422 --> 00:42:15,890
it falls a little bit short,

1465
00:42:15,890 --> 00:42:17,359
and if it

1466
00:42:17,359 --> 00:42:17,525
s a little short,

1467
00:42:17,525 --> 00:42:18,425
it

1468
00:42:18,425 --> 00:42:19,393
ll be ranked lower relative

1469
00:42:19,393 --> 00:42:20,828
to the ones that we know are

1470
00:42:20,828 --> 00:42:23,664
right on point, so hopefully

1471
00:42:23,664 --> 00:42:23,864
that answers the question. No,

1472
00:42:23,864 --> 00:42:25,320
that

1473
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:26,330
s perfect. Uh, you guys

1474
00:42:26,330 --> 00:42:27,435
have both answered the

1475
00:42:27,435 --> 00:42:29,837
questions. So that, that helps

1476
00:42:29,837 --> 00:42:30,838
me with my feedback. So, with

1477
00:42:30,838 --> 00:42:32,838
those answered, number 1,

1478
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:36,110
should the city adopt the 5

1479
00:42:36,110 --> 00:42:38,120
proposed impact focus areas?

1480
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,446
Yes, focusing answers, and

1481
00:42:39,446 --> 00:42:41,582
there are nonprofit partners to

1482
00:42:41,582 --> 00:42:43,317
those areas are good, however,

1483
00:42:43,317 --> 00:42:44,818
that leads me to the number 2,

1484
00:42:44,818 --> 00:42:48,880
where I actually am not in

1485
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,558
favor of that. Um, I think that

1486
00:42:50,558 --> 00:42:51,725
we should be allowing folks and

1487
00:42:51,725 --> 00:42:54,940
allowing nonprofits to be

1488
00:42:54,940 --> 00:42:54,662
within those, the impact. Focus

1489
00:42:54,662 --> 00:42:55,130
areas because we don

1490
00:42:55,130 --> 00:42:55,329
t know

1491
00:42:55,329 --> 00:42:56,564
what

1492
00:42:56,564 --> 00:42:57,498
s out there and what

1493
00:42:57,498 --> 00:42:58,599
programs are going to be

1494
00:42:58,599 --> 00:42:59,900
proposed, and I would hate to

1495
00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:00,501
say that we

1496
00:43:00,501 --> 00:43:02,403
re going to

1497
00:43:02,403 --> 00:43:05,206
prioritize 2 out of the 5, only

1498
00:43:05,206 --> 00:43:05,406
to find out that because we

1499
00:43:05,406 --> 00:43:06,674
didn

1500
00:43:06,674 --> 00:43:07,174
t prioritize one of those

1501
00:43:07,174 --> 00:43:08,509
other areas we

1502
00:43:08,509 --> 00:43:09,476
ve lost out on

1503
00:43:09,476 --> 00:43:11,450
supporting a fantastic program.

1504
00:43:11,450 --> 00:43:12,980
So I think you guys are

1505
00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:14,882
absolutely right to be focusing

1506
00:43:14,882 --> 00:43:16,217
and ensuring that our nonprofit

1507
00:43:16,217 --> 00:43:17,185
partners are focusing in areas,

1508
00:43:17,185 --> 00:43:18,285
but I don

1509
00:43:18,285 --> 00:43:19,653
t want to necessarily

1510
00:43:19,653 --> 00:43:21,822
just limit it to 1 or 2 per

1511
00:43:21,822 --> 00:43:23,157
year, I want to give them the

1512
00:43:23,157 --> 00:43:23,624
opportunity to say, hey, We

1513
00:43:23,624 --> 00:43:24,292
re

1514
00:43:24,292 --> 00:43:26,894
gonna support our community in

1515
00:43:26,894 --> 00:43:28,929
one of these 5 ways. But

1516
00:43:28,929 --> 00:43:30,431
fantastic, I love your, the

1517
00:43:30,431 --> 00:43:32,333
thinking, I love the direction,

1518
00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:33,334
and I love the focused energy,

1519
00:43:33,334 --> 00:43:34,100
so fantastic job. I really

1520
00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:37,100
appreciate what you guys have

1521
00:43:37,238 --> 00:43:40,238
done. Thank you, council member.

1522
00:43:51,510 --> 00:43:54,588
We now move on to coman Shaw.

1523
00:43:54,588 --> 00:43:58,125
Can you hear me? We can hear

1524
00:43:58,125 --> 00:43:59,793
you. Thank you. I also wanna

1525
00:43:59,793 --> 00:44:01,793
Echo my There

1526
00:44:03,564 --> 00:44:05,964
s a Echo. Mhm.

1527
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:06,400
Can you, uh, come back to me. I

1528
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,350
think there

1529
00:44:08,350 --> 00:44:08,536
s some tech issues.

1530
00:44:08,536 --> 00:44:09,300
No problem. I

1531
00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:09,604
ll come back to

1532
00:44:09,604 --> 00:44:12,400
you after Council member

1533
00:44:13,107 --> 00:44:14,508
Jackson. All right, thank you,

1534
00:44:14,508 --> 00:44:16,911
uh, mayor. So first of all, let

1535
00:44:16,911 --> 00:44:18,512
me say, excellent presentation

1536
00:44:18,512 --> 00:44:18,612
and excellent work, um, I

1537
00:44:18,612 --> 00:44:20,281
ve

1538
00:44:20,281 --> 00:44:22,249
been, uh, uh, talking about

1539
00:44:22,249 --> 00:44:23,884
this with city manager and with

1540
00:44:23,884 --> 00:44:26,520
my colleagues for a long time

1541
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,222
and, you know, the subject of

1542
00:44:28,222 --> 00:44:29,390
nonprofits and, um, working

1543
00:44:29,390 --> 00:44:29,590
with the city is something

1544
00:44:29,590 --> 00:44:30,900
that

1545
00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:32,726
s near and dear to, I

1546
00:44:32,726 --> 00:44:32,893
think, all of our hearts, and

1547
00:44:32,893 --> 00:44:34,893
we

1548
00:44:35,162 --> 00:44:37,531
ve really done, or you guys,

1549
00:44:37,531 --> 00:44:40,100
sorry, not we, you have really

1550
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:40,768
done a stellar job and doing

1551
00:44:40,768 --> 00:44:43,168
outreach to nonprofits, um,

1552
00:44:43,437 --> 00:44:46,437
holding. Um, uh, seminars and

1553
00:44:46,473 --> 00:44:47,942
the, the, the, uh, the recent,

1554
00:44:47,942 --> 00:44:50,378
uh, meeting that was held at

1555
00:44:50,378 --> 00:44:52,346
the second sem uh um Oh, summit,

1556
00:44:52,346 --> 00:44:52,614
or whatever it was, uh, I

1557
00:44:52,614 --> 00:44:53,881
ll

1558
00:44:53,881 --> 00:44:55,549
call it a summit, but the

1559
00:44:55,549 --> 00:44:57,518
second one was, it was great,

1560
00:44:57,518 --> 00:44:58,987
and then the nonprofit cafes

1561
00:44:58,987 --> 00:45:00,387
con continue in that mold, and

1562
00:45:00,387 --> 00:45:01,288
I know that I

1563
00:45:01,288 --> 00:45:03,288
ve been talking

1564
00:45:03,724 --> 00:45:06,160
about, um, having a priorities,

1565
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,280
uh, for, uh, the grants that we

1566
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:09,697
give, sorry, uh, the cat and

1567
00:45:09,697 --> 00:45:12,990
dog are fighting, so ignore

1568
00:45:12,990 --> 00:45:12,233
that background noise, um, but

1569
00:45:12,233 --> 00:45:13,467
I

1570
00:45:13,467 --> 00:45:15,936
ve been talking about, uh,

1571
00:45:15,936 --> 00:45:17,171
having these, uh, uh,

1572
00:45:17,171 --> 00:45:18,305
priorities, and I think this is

1573
00:45:18,305 --> 00:45:21,305
right in the right direction,

1574
00:45:21,742 --> 00:45:24,178
um. I, I, so number one, I say

1575
00:45:24,178 --> 00:45:24,445
yes. Um, number 2, I

1576
00:45:24,445 --> 00:45:26,445
m a little

1577
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,917
bit with uh council member Van

1578
00:45:29,917 --> 00:45:31,887
Grack on, on the answer there,

1579
00:45:31,887 --> 00:45:34,221
um, not really for any other

1580
00:45:34,221 --> 00:45:34,321
reason other than, I think it

1581
00:45:34,321 --> 00:45:36,321
s

1582
00:45:38,659 --> 00:45:39,927
probably too soon, uh, to, um,

1583
00:45:39,927 --> 00:45:41,950
uh, drill down into these areas

1584
00:45:41,950 --> 00:45:42,830
and, and which one should be

1585
00:45:42,830 --> 00:45:46,430
funded. I think we need some

1586
00:45:46,734 --> 00:45:48,202
more data, um, uh, to look at,

1587
00:45:48,202 --> 00:45:49,770
uh, that, and then prioritize

1588
00:45:49,770 --> 00:45:51,238
the areas. So I think when you

1589
00:45:51,238 --> 00:45:52,806
another year or 2 years to

1590
00:45:52,806 --> 00:45:54,808
actually, um, you know, uh,

1591
00:45:54,808 --> 00:45:57,808
prioritize, uh, the, the focus

1592
00:45:59,346 --> 00:46:01,348
areas. Um. I also had a little

1593
00:46:01,348 --> 00:46:03,817
question and, and, uh, this is

1594
00:46:03,817 --> 00:46:05,653
for, for, uh, um, neck or, uh,

1595
00:46:05,653 --> 00:46:08,653
maybe, uh, the city manager,

1596
00:46:10,591 --> 00:46:12,726
but Are we taking care that we

1597
00:46:12,726 --> 00:46:15,563
in an attempt to put parameters

1598
00:46:15,563 --> 00:46:19,366
in place and make it, um, uh,

1599
00:46:19,366 --> 00:46:20,201
easier for, uh, grantees to, uh,

1600
00:46:20,201 --> 00:46:20,668
understand what we

1601
00:46:20,668 --> 00:46:22,668
re asking

1602
00:46:22,703 --> 00:46:25,639
for, um, are we in fact making

1603
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:28,410
it harder and will there be

1604
00:46:28,410 --> 00:46:31,410
assistance for, for them, uh,

1605
00:46:32,213 --> 00:46:32,881
to navigate this new process. I

1606
00:46:32,881 --> 00:46:35,281
appreciate that question very

1607
00:46:35,616 --> 00:46:37,151
much, thank you, yes, we

1608
00:46:37,151 --> 00:46:39,954
definitely want to make sure

1609
00:46:39,954 --> 00:46:41,455
that not only do we provide

1610
00:46:41,455 --> 00:46:42,823
that assistance through the

1611
00:46:42,823 --> 00:46:44,823
application instructions and

1612
00:46:44,825 --> 00:46:47,161
our technical sessions, which

1613
00:46:47,161 --> 00:46:48,529
will provide over a number of

1614
00:46:48,529 --> 00:46:50,931
different options and days as

1615
00:46:50,931 --> 00:46:52,399
well as recorded so they can be

1616
00:46:52,399 --> 00:46:54,301
accessed after the technical

1617
00:46:54,301 --> 00:46:55,436
sessions, but we want to

1618
00:46:55,436 --> 00:46:57,205
provide that support,

1619
00:46:57,205 --> 00:46:59,607
especially to anyone who might

1620
00:46:59,607 --> 00:47:00,140
be, um, returning and

1621
00:47:00,140 --> 00:47:02,140
encountering a different

1622
00:47:02,943 --> 00:47:04,178
process, uh, also The materials

1623
00:47:04,178 --> 00:47:07,178
that Sarah has prepared, I

1624
00:47:07,514 --> 00:47:09,450
think do a really good job of

1625
00:47:09,450 --> 00:47:11,385
showing how the application as

1626
00:47:11,385 --> 00:47:13,288
it is currently designed where

1627
00:47:13,288 --> 00:47:15,222
the nonprofits are identifying

1628
00:47:15,222 --> 00:47:17,224
a service area really connects

1629
00:47:17,224 --> 00:47:17,392
to the impact focus areas, so

1630
00:47:17,392 --> 00:47:18,659
we

1631
00:47:18,659 --> 00:47:20,227
re trained to do our due

1632
00:47:20,227 --> 00:47:20,395
diligence to show that this

1633
00:47:20,395 --> 00:47:22,395
isn

1634
00:47:23,564 --> 00:47:24,431
t, um, a completely new, um,

1635
00:47:24,431 --> 00:47:25,299
requirement, it

1636
00:47:25,299 --> 00:47:26,867
s asking them

1637
00:47:26,867 --> 00:47:28,702
to make that connection between

1638
00:47:28,702 --> 00:47:29,904
their current program, their

1639
00:47:29,904 --> 00:47:30,337
current services, and the

1640
00:47:30,337 --> 00:47:30,604
outcomes that they

1641
00:47:30,604 --> 00:47:32,604
re proposing.

1642
00:47:33,173 --> 00:47:34,742
So that we can see how it maps

1643
00:47:34,742 --> 00:47:38,780
to one of these 5 impact areas,

1644
00:47:38,780 --> 00:47:39,613
so we hope that it will be both

1645
00:47:39,613 --> 00:47:39,980
a very straightforward change

1646
00:47:39,980 --> 00:47:41,448
and we

1647
00:47:41,448 --> 00:47:43,218
re planning for how to

1648
00:47:43,218 --> 00:47:43,717
support the organizations as

1649
00:47:43,717 --> 00:47:45,753
they navigate the new

1650
00:47:45,753 --> 00:47:46,530
application. All right. No,

1651
00:47:46,530 --> 00:47:47,154
that, that

1652
00:47:47,154 --> 00:47:49,523
s perfect. Thank you.

1653
00:47:49,523 --> 00:47:53,123
So, the, the question on number

1654
00:47:53,427 --> 00:47:54,495
3, you know, what, and I, I,

1655
00:47:54,495 --> 00:47:55,429
maybe you addressed it in your

1656
00:47:55,429 --> 00:47:57,264
presentation. I just wanna, uh,

1657
00:47:57,264 --> 00:47:57,432
go back to it for a second.

1658
00:47:57,432 --> 00:47:59,334
It

1659
00:47:59,334 --> 00:48:01,769
s what is a high performing

1660
00:48:01,769 --> 00:48:04,672
grant or program. Yeah, thank

1661
00:48:04,672 --> 00:48:06,607
you for that question. So we

1662
00:48:06,607 --> 00:48:08,209
currently have our quarterly

1663
00:48:08,209 --> 00:48:10,609
reports that are nonprofits

1664
00:48:10,912 --> 00:48:11,979
provide, um, they show us in

1665
00:48:11,979 --> 00:48:12,179
those quarterly reports, if

1666
00:48:12,179 --> 00:48:14,179
they

1667
00:48:14,248 --> 00:48:15,683
re on track to reach their

1668
00:48:15,683 --> 00:48:18,830
program metrics, these are

1669
00:48:18,850 --> 00:48:19,553
metrics that they propose in

1670
00:48:19,553 --> 00:48:20,988
their application when the city

1671
00:48:20,988 --> 00:48:21,555
awards them a grant if it

1672
00:48:21,555 --> 00:48:23,390
s,

1673
00:48:23,390 --> 00:48:24,892
for instance, less than the

1674
00:48:24,892 --> 00:48:26,260
amount requested, they have an

1675
00:48:26,260 --> 00:48:27,695
opportunity to adjust those

1676
00:48:27,695 --> 00:48:29,396
metrics, but they tell us what

1677
00:48:29,396 --> 00:48:30,970
they will be tracking this year,

1678
00:48:30,970 --> 00:48:32,800
and each quarter they tell us

1679
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,604
if there are On track to reach

1680
00:48:35,604 --> 00:48:36,270
those metrics. We also have

1681
00:48:36,270 --> 00:48:37,705
some qualitative questions

1682
00:48:37,705 --> 00:48:39,730
where they can provide a

1683
00:48:39,730 --> 00:48:39,173
narrative of, you know, what

1684
00:48:39,173 --> 00:48:40,975
s

1685
00:48:40,975 --> 00:48:41,342
going well, what are some

1686
00:48:41,342 --> 00:48:41,909
challenges they

1687
00:48:41,909 --> 00:48:43,510
ve encountered,

1688
00:48:43,510 --> 00:48:44,345
and if they need any assistance

1689
00:48:44,345 --> 00:48:46,347
or support, so we do that

1690
00:48:46,347 --> 00:48:47,715
through each of the quarterly

1691
00:48:47,715 --> 00:48:49,550
reports, and during the site

1692
00:48:49,550 --> 00:48:51,850
visits, we actually have a

1693
00:48:51,850 --> 00:48:53,487
virtual or in-person site visit

1694
00:48:53,487 --> 00:48:55,220
where we dive deeper into those

1695
00:48:55,220 --> 00:48:55,122
program outcomes and if they

1696
00:48:55,122 --> 00:48:56,323
re

1697
00:48:56,323 --> 00:48:57,358
on track or if they

1698
00:48:57,358 --> 00:48:57,758
re not, and

1699
00:48:57,758 --> 00:48:58,692
what they

1700
00:48:58,692 --> 00:48:59,627
re doing to adjust so

1701
00:48:59,627 --> 00:49:01,429
that they can meet the goals of

1702
00:49:01,429 --> 00:49:02,363
their grant and they can Serve

1703
00:49:02,363 --> 00:49:05,299
Rockville residents in the way

1704
00:49:05,299 --> 00:49:05,499
that they said they would, um,

1705
00:49:05,499 --> 00:49:06,301
so we

1706
00:49:06,301 --> 00:49:07,701
ve currently already been

1707
00:49:07,701 --> 00:49:08,502
doing that. What we haven

1708
00:49:08,502 --> 00:49:10,502
t

1709
00:49:10,971 --> 00:49:14,275
done in the past is, um,

1710
00:49:14,275 --> 00:49:16,143
assigned, um, a, a way of

1711
00:49:16,143 --> 00:49:16,343
telling the organizations if

1712
00:49:16,343 --> 00:49:18,112
they

1713
00:49:18,112 --> 00:49:19,647
re meeting those metrics

1714
00:49:19,647 --> 00:49:20,148
and then letting them know

1715
00:49:20,148 --> 00:49:20,581
overall how they

1716
00:49:20,581 --> 00:49:20,981
ve done. It

1717
00:49:20,981 --> 00:49:22,384
s

1718
00:49:22,384 --> 00:49:23,984
been more of a, yes, thank you

1719
00:49:23,984 --> 00:49:25,353
for your support, it meets the

1720
00:49:25,353 --> 00:49:26,921
goals. Thank you for the site

1721
00:49:26,921 --> 00:49:28,689
visit. It meets the

1722
00:49:28,689 --> 00:49:29,858
requirements, uh, what we would

1723
00:49:29,858 --> 00:49:33,194
do in the year ahead is create

1724
00:49:33,194 --> 00:49:34,280
a threshold. So that we could

1725
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,280
tell nonprofit organizations,

1726
00:49:36,130 --> 00:49:36,598
for example, if you

1727
00:49:36,598 --> 00:49:38,598
re reaching

1728
00:49:39,433 --> 00:49:39,601
80% or more of your metrics and

1729
00:49:39,601 --> 00:49:41,368
you

1730
00:49:41,368 --> 00:49:42,403
re in compliance with the

1731
00:49:42,403 --> 00:49:44,439
grant requirements, then you

1732
00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:46,674
can qualify as a high

1733
00:49:46,674 --> 00:49:47,775
performing program, so we look

1734
00:49:47,775 --> 00:49:47,975
to use the current process

1735
00:49:47,975 --> 00:49:49,143
that

1736
00:49:49,143 --> 00:49:51,780
s in place just to

1737
00:49:51,780 --> 00:49:51,979
establish more of a feedback to

1738
00:49:51,979 --> 00:49:53,214
the nonprofit throughout the

1739
00:49:53,214 --> 00:49:53,415
year so they know where they

1740
00:49:53,415 --> 00:49:55,317
re

1741
00:49:55,317 --> 00:49:57,318
at, and then have that actually

1742
00:49:57,318 --> 00:49:59,587
be a concrete way to provide a

1743
00:49:59,587 --> 00:50:01,455
streamlined renewal. No, well,

1744
00:50:01,455 --> 00:50:03,390
thank you, and honestly, i

1745
00:50:03,390 --> 00:50:05,393
think that this uh high

1746
00:50:05,393 --> 00:50:06,827
performing programs that this,

1747
00:50:06,827 --> 00:50:08,295
that streamline renewable power

1748
00:50:08,295 --> 00:50:10,297
pathway is a really great thing.

1749
00:50:10,297 --> 00:50:11,632
And so I thank you for actually

1750
00:50:11,632 --> 00:50:13,601
thinking, uh, about how to

1751
00:50:13,601 --> 00:50:14,568
improve the, the, the, the

1752
00:50:14,568 --> 00:50:14,735
grant process, which I think

1753
00:50:14,735 --> 00:50:15,970
it

1754
00:50:15,970 --> 00:50:18,472
s gonna do a lot of good for

1755
00:50:18,472 --> 00:50:19,106
the city as well as for, uh,

1756
00:50:19,106 --> 00:50:19,274
obviously the nonprofits who

1757
00:50:19,274 --> 00:50:20,708
don

1758
00:50:20,708 --> 00:50:22,576
t have to take their time

1759
00:50:22,576 --> 00:50:24,144
and, and energy, uh, applying

1760
00:50:24,144 --> 00:50:24,345
year after year after year when

1761
00:50:24,345 --> 00:50:25,479
they

1762
00:50:25,479 --> 00:50:26,480
re actually doing

1763
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:27,281
everything right. Um, and I

1764
00:50:27,281 --> 00:50:27,482
thank you too. I, I

1765
00:50:27,482 --> 00:50:29,482
ve heard

1766
00:50:30,985 --> 00:50:31,318
from various nonprofit Profits,

1767
00:50:31,318 --> 00:50:33,200
um, who you

1768
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:34,355
ve already kind of

1769
00:50:34,355 --> 00:50:36,957
streamlined it or taking away

1770
00:50:36,957 --> 00:50:39,760
some of the requirements, uh,

1771
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,950
for reporting that were just

1772
00:50:41,950 --> 00:50:41,629
extraneous and, um, I think

1773
00:50:41,629 --> 00:50:43,630
that that

1774
00:50:43,630 --> 00:50:44,932
s really helpful to

1775
00:50:44,932 --> 00:50:45,467
just boil it down to the meat

1776
00:50:45,467 --> 00:50:46,467
of what they

1777
00:50:46,467 --> 00:50:48,867
re trying to do,

1778
00:50:49,870 --> 00:50:50,571
rather than, uh, mentoring, um,

1779
00:50:50,571 --> 00:50:52,206
statistics or other things that

1780
00:50:52,206 --> 00:50:53,675
really were kind of on the

1781
00:50:53,675 --> 00:50:53,874
periphery, so I know that

1782
00:50:53,874 --> 00:50:54,708
there

1783
00:50:54,708 --> 00:50:56,443
s some progress already,

1784
00:50:56,443 --> 00:50:57,344
so thank you for that, but

1785
00:50:57,344 --> 00:50:59,713
thank you for these, uh, as

1786
00:50:59,713 --> 00:51:03,317
well. And then just to a couple

1787
00:51:03,317 --> 00:51:04,451
of other questions. Um The

1788
00:51:04,451 --> 00:51:06,287
community in empowering

1789
00:51:06,287 --> 00:51:08,880
matching program, um, under

1790
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:08,623
$10,000. And I, I

1791
00:51:08,623 --> 00:51:09,690
m not, and I

1792
00:51:09,690 --> 00:51:11,525
know I talked to the city

1793
00:51:11,525 --> 00:51:12,893
manager about it, so maybe, uh,

1794
00:51:12,893 --> 00:51:14,828
Jeff, this is a question for

1795
00:51:14,828 --> 00:51:18,199
you. Does that take the place

1796
00:51:18,199 --> 00:51:22,399
of what is in your, uh, office,

1797
00:51:22,504 --> 00:51:24,838
uh, for,, small, uh, grants, um,

1798
00:51:24,838 --> 00:51:27,241
uh, for like the neighborhood

1799
00:51:27,241 --> 00:51:28,375
associations or moon bounces or

1800
00:51:28,375 --> 00:51:30,611
little things like that, uh,

1801
00:51:30,611 --> 00:51:32,460
would those go through the

1802
00:51:32,460 --> 00:51:33,470
community empowerment, uh, the

1803
00:51:33,470 --> 00:51:33,480
mini grant program that we

1804
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,480
re

1805
00:51:35,951 --> 00:51:37,551
setting up now, uh, or is that

1806
00:51:37,551 --> 00:51:39,954
still in your shop, uh, for, uh

1807
00:51:39,954 --> 00:51:40,554
Uh, those little, little grants.

1808
00:51:40,554 --> 00:51:42,423
Yeah, there

1809
00:51:42,423 --> 00:51:43,425
s still 2 different,

1810
00:51:43,425 --> 00:51:43,657
um, grants, uh, mini grants

1811
00:51:43,657 --> 00:51:44,580
that we

1812
00:51:44,580 --> 00:51:46,458
re talking about are

1813
00:51:46,694 --> 00:51:47,661
the ones less than $10,000 but

1814
00:51:47,661 --> 00:51:47,895
the small neighborhood grants

1815
00:51:47,895 --> 00:51:49,563
that we

1816
00:51:49,563 --> 00:51:50,998
re talking about, less

1817
00:51:50,998 --> 00:51:52,933
than $1000. Yeah, those are

1818
00:51:52,933 --> 00:51:53,902
still be a separate process,

1819
00:51:53,902 --> 00:51:54,134
very streamlined, quick

1820
00:51:54,134 --> 00:51:56,360
,

1821
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:57,438
they get the money upfront,

1822
00:51:57,438 --> 00:51:58,839
simple reporting process. Thank

1823
00:51:58,839 --> 00:52:01,108
you. Oh, perfect. Thank you so

1824
00:52:01,108 --> 00:52:03,577
much for, for just clarifying

1825
00:52:03,577 --> 00:52:05,579
that. Um, I think this, this,

1826
00:52:05,579 --> 00:52:06,615
uh, under $10,000 is great. And

1827
00:52:06,615 --> 00:52:07,581
so one final, final question,

1828
00:52:07,581 --> 00:52:08,483
and I know I

1829
00:52:08,483 --> 00:52:10,484
ve talked about it

1830
00:52:10,484 --> 00:52:12,453
with the, the city manager and

1831
00:52:12,453 --> 00:52:13,921
just, but I, I wanna just bring

1832
00:52:13,921 --> 00:52:16,223
it up again because I just

1833
00:52:16,223 --> 00:52:17,258
noticed it, uh, as I was

1834
00:52:17,258 --> 00:52:19,258
looking through the

1835
00:52:19,994 --> 00:52:22,994
presentation, so the f. Scott

1836
00:52:23,130 --> 00:52:25,530
Fisred Literary Festival. So

1837
00:52:27,501 --> 00:52:31,339
what is it that we, um, uh, uh

1838
00:52:31,339 --> 00:52:33,874
Have an mou or, uh, that, that,

1839
00:52:33,874 --> 00:52:34,676
that we do with the uh f. Scott

1840
00:52:34,676 --> 00:52:35,142
Fitzgerald, and I

1841
00:52:35,142 --> 00:52:36,744
m not picking

1842
00:52:36,744 --> 00:52:38,120
on them. It could be a number

1843
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,614
of things, but I just wanna, uh,

1844
00:52:40,614 --> 00:52:42,883
uh Just bear with me for a

1845
00:52:42,883 --> 00:52:44,518
second and, and, and let me

1846
00:52:44,518 --> 00:52:46,754
know what is it that we

1847
00:52:46,754 --> 00:52:47,354
actually contract for the f

1848
00:52:47,354 --> 00:52:49,354
Scott Fitzgerald Literary

1849
00:52:49,790 --> 00:52:51,325
Festival for. Nick, I think you

1850
00:52:51,325 --> 00:52:54,325
have a complete answer. Go

1851
00:52:54,595 --> 00:52:56,697
ahead. Yeah, sure. Uh, so, yeah,

1852
00:52:56,697 --> 00:52:58,432
constable Jackson that f. Scott

1853
00:52:58,432 --> 00:53:00,869
Literary Festival or some of

1854
00:53:00,869 --> 00:53:03,869
these other similar grants that

1855
00:53:04,272 --> 00:53:07,107
provide like a one-time event,

1856
00:53:07,107 --> 00:53:09,477
um, we currently have a grant

1857
00:53:09,477 --> 00:53:10,511
agreement, and it contracts

1858
00:53:10,511 --> 00:53:11,912
with them according to what

1859
00:53:11,912 --> 00:53:13,881
they put in their application.

1860
00:53:13,881 --> 00:53:15,249
So for instance, with the f.

1861
00:53:15,249 --> 00:53:16,417
Scott Literary Festival, they

1862
00:53:16,417 --> 00:53:16,684
proposed that they

1863
00:53:16,684 --> 00:53:17,918
ll host

1864
00:53:17,918 --> 00:53:18,185
their, um, weekend festival

1865
00:53:18,185 --> 00:53:20,185
that they

1866
00:53:20,754 --> 00:53:22,256
ll Provide a certain

1867
00:53:22,256 --> 00:53:24,592
number of workshops and

1868
00:53:24,592 --> 00:53:26,560
scholarships as part of their

1869
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,496
short story contest, and that

1870
00:53:29,496 --> 00:53:31,866
is still all encompassed in one

1871
00:53:31,866 --> 00:53:34,301
single grant agreement, uh, the

1872
00:53:34,301 --> 00:53:36,704
major chef in pulling them into

1873
00:53:36,704 --> 00:53:38,105
the $10,000 and less grant

1874
00:53:38,105 --> 00:53:40,700
threshold is that we are not

1875
00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:41,750
going to ask them to do a

1876
00:53:41,750 --> 00:53:43,811
quarterly report, they will not

1877
00:53:43,811 --> 00:53:44,845
have to do an annual site visit

1878
00:53:44,845 --> 00:53:46,915
once the grant agreement is

1879
00:53:46,915 --> 00:53:47,214
signed, notarized, and returned

1880
00:53:47,214 --> 00:53:47,715
once we

1881
00:53:47,715 --> 00:53:50,251
ve got it on our end

1882
00:53:50,251 --> 00:53:52,753
completed. We can provide them

1883
00:53:52,753 --> 00:53:54,588
with their full grant upfront,

1884
00:53:54,588 --> 00:53:55,222
and then very similar to those

1885
00:53:55,222 --> 00:53:56,590
former neighborhood projects

1886
00:53:56,590 --> 00:53:57,491
that you were talking about,

1887
00:53:57,491 --> 00:53:58,250
the Community empowerment

1888
00:53:58,250 --> 00:53:58,559
matching grants, they

1889
00:53:58,559 --> 00:54:00,559
ll just

1890
00:54:00,561 --> 00:54:02,396
be 1 single end of project

1891
00:54:02,396 --> 00:54:04,198
report. So just when

1892
00:54:04,198 --> 00:54:05,199
streamlines it for f. Scott

1893
00:54:05,199 --> 00:54:05,466
Fitzgerald as an example. No,

1894
00:54:05,466 --> 00:54:05,766
and that

1895
00:54:05,766 --> 00:54:06,600
s, that

1896
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,668
s perfect, and

1897
00:54:07,668 --> 00:54:09,503
what I was really getting at,

1898
00:54:09,503 --> 00:54:10,337
and thank you for the, the

1899
00:54:10,337 --> 00:54:12,139
answer and for clarifying what

1900
00:54:12,139 --> 00:54:12,473
it is and what it isn

1901
00:54:12,473 --> 00:54:14,408
t is I

1902
00:54:14,408 --> 00:54:17,177
just wanted to make sure that

1903
00:54:17,177 --> 00:54:17,912
as Scott Fitzgerald, um any

1904
00:54:17,912 --> 00:54:20,381
others that really are like, uh,

1905
00:54:20,381 --> 00:54:22,182
events or Sponsorships should

1906
00:54:22,182 --> 00:54:25,152
not go through the grant

1907
00:54:25,152 --> 00:54:25,586
process, but are separate. So,

1908
00:54:25,586 --> 00:54:26,860
um, and I think I

1909
00:54:26,860 --> 00:54:27,288
ve talked to

1910
00:54:27,288 --> 00:54:28,222
the city manager about that as

1911
00:54:28,222 --> 00:54:28,456
well, and that that we

1912
00:54:28,456 --> 00:54:30,456
re

1913
00:54:31,910 --> 00:54:32,260
setting up a separate, uh, Uh,

1914
00:54:32,260 --> 00:54:32,194
programming process, and I

1915
00:54:32,194 --> 00:54:33,928
won

1916
00:54:33,928 --> 00:54:35,362
t go into that, but, but no,

1917
00:54:35,362 --> 00:54:36,597
thank you so much for all your

1918
00:54:36,597 --> 00:54:37,364
work and I, uh, that

1919
00:54:37,364 --> 00:54:39,364
s it for

1920
00:54:39,466 --> 00:54:41,402
my questions and, uh, uh, I

1921
00:54:41,402 --> 00:54:42,803
turned back over to you, mayor.

1922
00:54:42,803 --> 00:54:43,772
Thank you very much, I

1923
00:54:43,772 --> 00:54:45,273
appreciate all the comments and

1924
00:54:45,273 --> 00:54:46,240
questions of my colleagues. I

1925
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,240
wanted to turn back to

1926
00:54:51,745 --> 00:54:54,745
COUNCILMAN Bra Shaw. Thank you.

1927
00:54:58,919 --> 00:54:59,120
Ah Uh, I wanted to echo my

1928
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:00,421
There

1929
00:55:00,421 --> 00:55:01,789
s still a very strong

1930
00:55:01,789 --> 00:55:04,789
echo. Could you just circle

1931
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,929
back again? Sounds ok now. The

1932
00:55:08,929 --> 00:55:09,830
last part of what you said. If

1933
00:55:09,830 --> 00:55:12,666
you wanna proceed echo is

1934
00:55:12,666 --> 00:55:12,833
really loud in the rooms, so I

1935
00:55:12,833 --> 00:55:14,690
can

1936
00:55:14,690 --> 00:55:17,690
t. Ok. All right, sounds

1937
00:55:17,137 --> 00:55:20,641
good. Well, then that would be,

1938
00:55:20,641 --> 00:55:22,343
uh, my turn then I will go, um,

1939
00:55:22,343 --> 00:55:24,278
so I just wanted to, uh, thank

1940
00:55:24,278 --> 00:55:25,746
staff again, uh, where I began

1941
00:55:25,746 --> 00:55:27,648
and, and echo the comments of

1942
00:55:27,648 --> 00:55:30,150
my colleagues. I have a few

1943
00:55:30,150 --> 00:55:31,151
questions and I did get some

1944
00:55:31,151 --> 00:55:32,253
feedback from grantees, and I

1945
00:55:32,253 --> 00:55:32,386
want to honor the feedback that

1946
00:55:32,386 --> 00:55:33,530
I

1947
00:55:33,530 --> 00:55:33,387
ve heard as well. I

1948
00:55:33,387 --> 00:55:35,230
ll start

1949
00:55:35,230 --> 00:55:38,230
with some of my questions

1950
00:55:38,580 --> 00:55:39,493
though. Um, one is, uh Just

1951
00:55:39,493 --> 00:55:41,290
trying to unders on your first

1952
00:55:41,290 --> 00:55:42,263
question, adopt the 5 proposed

1953
00:55:42,263 --> 00:55:44,399
impact focus areas. I think

1954
00:55:44,399 --> 00:55:45,299
this is spot on to try to help

1955
00:55:45,299 --> 00:55:46,635
people understand what the

1956
00:55:46,635 --> 00:55:48,536
strategic areas that we as a

1957
00:55:48,536 --> 00:55:50,500
mayor and council and the city

1958
00:55:50,500 --> 00:55:50,204
is trying to advance, you know,

1959
00:55:50,204 --> 00:55:50,638
there

1960
00:55:50,638 --> 00:55:51,405
s, there

1961
00:55:51,405 --> 00:55:52,106
s a lot to be

1962
00:55:52,106 --> 00:55:52,373
done in the world and we

1963
00:55:52,373 --> 00:55:53,574
re

1964
00:55:53,574 --> 00:55:53,807
trying to make sure that we

1965
00:55:53,807 --> 00:55:54,808
re

1966
00:55:54,808 --> 00:55:54,909
providing support where it

1967
00:55:54,909 --> 00:55:56,210
s

1968
00:55:56,210 --> 00:55:56,378
needed most, but also that

1969
00:55:56,378 --> 00:55:57,879
we

1970
00:55:57,879 --> 00:56:00,279
re advancing the strategic

1971
00:56:00,581 --> 00:56:02,449
priorities of, of, of our city,

1972
00:56:02,449 --> 00:56:03,951
uh, so the, I do have a few

1973
00:56:03,951 --> 00:56:04,518
questions about these

1974
00:56:04,518 --> 00:56:05,452
categories if that

1975
00:56:05,452 --> 00:56:05,886
s ok. Um,

1976
00:56:05,886 --> 00:56:06,520
one is I

1977
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,520
m trying to figure out,

1978
00:56:09,523 --> 00:56:10,891
uh. As we look at housing

1979
00:56:10,891 --> 00:56:12,293
stability, economic mobility,

1980
00:56:12,293 --> 00:56:13,294
youth and family success,

1981
00:56:13,294 --> 00:56:15,162
service access and navigation,

1982
00:56:15,162 --> 00:56:16,297
and community enrichment and

1983
00:56:16,297 --> 00:56:17,164
belonging. I appreciate, uh,

1984
00:56:17,164 --> 00:56:18,660
Mashika, what you said is that

1985
00:56:18,660 --> 00:56:19,967
sometimes people can fit into

1986
00:56:19,967 --> 00:56:21,100
one or the other. I do feel

1987
00:56:21,100 --> 00:56:23,337
like we did nicely call out

1988
00:56:23,337 --> 00:56:24,405
housing, but there are 2 other

1989
00:56:24,405 --> 00:56:26,707
important areas that have been

1990
00:56:26,707 --> 00:56:28,409
a strategic part of our grant

1991
00:56:28,409 --> 00:56:30,144
program, which are, uh, the

1992
00:56:30,144 --> 00:56:31,146
food services because there has

1993
00:56:31,146 --> 00:56:32,546
been food insecurity, uh,

1994
00:56:32,546 --> 00:56:33,514
through covid, there was food

1995
00:56:33,514 --> 00:56:34,448
insecurity as a result of some

1996
00:56:34,448 --> 00:56:36,150
of the federal changes. So we,

1997
00:56:36,150 --> 00:56:36,384
this is a, that is a big area.

1998
00:56:36,384 --> 00:56:38,384
Uh, we

1999
00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:40,454
ve also been very strong

2000
00:56:40,454 --> 00:56:42,223
on supporting health, uh,

2001
00:56:42,223 --> 00:56:44,626
services. So, what they, what,

2002
00:56:44,626 --> 00:56:46,160
are you thinking that would

2003
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,560
fall under household stability,

2004
00:56:48,696 --> 00:56:50,130
uh, should that be called

2005
00:56:50,130 --> 00:56:51,498
community stability or, uh,

2006
00:56:51,498 --> 00:56:52,433
would that go under the commu

2007
00:56:52,433 --> 00:56:53,400
the Service and Access

2008
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:53,801
navigation. I think that

2009
00:56:53,801 --> 00:56:55,369
s

2010
00:56:55,369 --> 00:56:56,704
interesting that we, you know,

2011
00:56:56,704 --> 00:56:58,138
include 1 sort of social

2012
00:56:58,138 --> 00:56:59,573
determinant of health name and

2013
00:56:59,573 --> 00:56:59,940
not the others too, which I

2014
00:56:59,940 --> 00:57:00,241
understand you

2015
00:57:00,241 --> 00:57:01,508
re trying to

2016
00:57:01,508 --> 00:57:02,743
streamline, but I just want to

2017
00:57:02,743 --> 00:57:04,440
be sensitive to that cause

2018
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:04,144
sometimes people, if they don

2019
00:57:04,144 --> 00:57:05,145
t

2020
00:57:05,145 --> 00:57:06,213
see themselves and where they

2021
00:57:06,213 --> 00:57:07,982
squarely fit, it

2022
00:57:07,982 --> 00:57:09,160
s a challenge.

2023
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,918
Appreciate that question. Thank

2024
00:57:10,918 --> 00:57:12,720
you. I have just flipped over

2025
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:15,623
to one of the previous slides

2026
00:57:15,623 --> 00:57:17,570
to, uh, I think hopefully

2027
00:57:17,570 --> 00:57:19,260
illustrate where food services

2028
00:57:19,260 --> 00:57:20,661
or health services might fit

2029
00:57:20,661 --> 00:57:22,630
and where those would, um, it

2030
00:57:22,630 --> 00:57:23,899
would be possible to evaluate

2031
00:57:23,899 --> 00:57:25,900
them in more than one way. So

2032
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:27,669
to your point about household

2033
00:57:27,669 --> 00:57:29,270
stability, um, we have, for

2034
00:57:29,270 --> 00:57:31,505
instance, one of the preferred

2035
00:57:31,505 --> 00:57:33,407
strategies could be basic needs

2036
00:57:33,407 --> 00:57:36,110
access. So looking at food or

2037
00:57:36,110 --> 00:57:37,945
health care or even utilities,

2038
00:57:37,945 --> 00:57:39,847
um, under household stability.

2039
00:57:39,847 --> 00:57:41,348
And some of our grantees that

2040
00:57:41,348 --> 00:57:43,217
provide food, For for instance,

2041
00:57:43,217 --> 00:57:44,184
where they look at, um, and

2042
00:57:44,184 --> 00:57:44,818
measure the number of

2043
00:57:44,818 --> 00:57:46,120
households that they

2044
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:46,320
re serving,

2045
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:47,588
they

2046
00:57:47,588 --> 00:57:49,957
re looking at particular

2047
00:57:49,957 --> 00:57:51,960
zip codes, um, targeting

2048
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:52,590
disparity zones, so they

2049
00:57:52,590 --> 00:57:53,894
re

2050
00:57:53,894 --> 00:57:55,330
looking at really more of the

2051
00:57:55,330 --> 00:57:58,330
basic needs access as an

2052
00:57:58,599 --> 00:58:00,534
example, um, whereas some of

2053
00:58:00,534 --> 00:58:02,934
our healthcare grantees have

2054
00:58:03,370 --> 00:58:04,638
really focused more on case

2055
00:58:04,638 --> 00:58:06,730
management and helping, uh, the

2056
00:58:06,730 --> 00:58:06,607
clients as they might get

2057
00:58:06,607 --> 00:58:09,607
access to one kind of

2058
00:58:10,811 --> 00:58:12,581
healthcare. To connect with a

2059
00:58:12,581 --> 00:58:15,183
case manager who helps them to

2060
00:58:15,183 --> 00:58:16,617
navigate, uh, kind of a more

2061
00:58:16,617 --> 00:58:18,153
holistic approach to healthcare,

2062
00:58:18,153 --> 00:58:20,921
um, both of those, I think, can

2063
00:58:20,921 --> 00:58:23,824
have, um, you know, a lot of

2064
00:58:23,824 --> 00:58:24,758
connection to our human

2065
00:58:24,758 --> 00:58:26,861
services needs assessments to

2066
00:58:26,861 --> 00:58:28,663
the, um, as you mentioned, the

2067
00:58:28,663 --> 00:58:32,466
rising need that we see in the

2068
00:58:32,466 --> 00:58:34,468
community, and, um, our hope is

2069
00:58:34,468 --> 00:58:35,436
that the valuation criteria and

2070
00:58:35,436 --> 00:58:36,403
the application would allow

2071
00:58:36,403 --> 00:58:37,404
organizations to really tell us

2072
00:58:37,404 --> 00:58:40,307
how are they measuring. Success.

2073
00:58:40,307 --> 00:58:41,175
So are they measuring it

2074
00:58:41,175 --> 00:58:41,909
because they

2075
00:58:41,909 --> 00:58:43,110
re looking at

2076
00:58:43,110 --> 00:58:43,544
household stability and they

2077
00:58:43,544 --> 00:58:45,450
re

2078
00:58:45,450 --> 00:58:46,647
really measuring each

2079
00:58:46,647 --> 00:58:48,415
individual customer, how that

2080
00:58:48,415 --> 00:58:49,416
household is, you know,

2081
00:58:49,416 --> 00:58:51,418
benefiting from getting access

2082
00:58:51,418 --> 00:58:51,518
to food, or maybe they

2083
00:58:51,518 --> 00:58:53,153
re

2084
00:58:53,153 --> 00:58:55,155
measuring more, um, the effect

2085
00:58:55,155 --> 00:58:55,623
of like a healthcare fair and

2086
00:58:55,623 --> 00:58:57,524
how they

2087
00:58:57,524 --> 00:58:59,930
re helping connect

2088
00:58:59,930 --> 00:58:59,327
clients to more services, um,

2089
00:58:59,327 --> 00:58:59,894
as they

2090
00:58:59,894 --> 00:59:01,795
re continuing to engage

2091
00:59:01,795 --> 00:59:03,230
with the same client, and I, I

2092
00:59:03,230 --> 00:59:04,665
hope that maybe that example

2093
00:59:04,665 --> 00:59:06,600
would illustrate where we, we

2094
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:07,569
see them still fitting into

2095
00:59:07,569 --> 00:59:10,569
this framework. Yeah, because I

2096
00:59:10,638 --> 00:59:11,338
did hear Shorthand from

2097
00:59:11,338 --> 00:59:13,174
household stability to housing

2098
00:59:13,174 --> 00:59:14,608
stability, and I could see that

2099
00:59:14,608 --> 00:59:15,643
happening, but if you look

2100
00:59:15,643 --> 00:59:17,411
under here, cause I, as I was

2101
00:59:17,411 --> 00:59:18,112
reading it, I thought

2102
00:59:18,112 --> 00:59:19,813
healthcare was included in that,

2103
00:59:19,813 --> 00:59:20,314
but then I heard housing

2104
00:59:20,314 --> 00:59:20,781
stability. So I

2105
00:59:20,781 --> 00:59:22,449
m wondering,

2106
00:59:22,449 --> 00:59:23,684
should the name be Community

2107
00:59:23,684 --> 00:59:25,586
Stability, or are we really,

2108
00:59:25,586 --> 00:59:26,254
you know, calling out one area

2109
00:59:26,254 --> 00:59:26,687
of the social determinants of

2110
00:59:26,687 --> 00:59:27,588
health that you

2111
00:59:27,588 --> 00:59:28,956
re trying to

2112
00:59:28,956 --> 00:59:30,250
support for stability, so that,

2113
00:59:30,250 --> 00:59:33,327
that did give me pause because

2114
00:59:33,327 --> 00:59:35,162
I did hear that shorthand used

2115
00:59:35,162 --> 00:59:37,980
and maybe it is broader so that

2116
00:59:37,980 --> 00:59:37,765
that food and healthcare does

2117
00:59:37,765 --> 00:59:37,866
stand out a bit more, that

2118
00:59:37,866 --> 00:59:39,833
s

2119
00:59:39,833 --> 00:59:41,135
just One of the, one of the

2120
00:59:41,135 --> 00:59:43,771
areas that I wanted to flag

2121
00:59:43,771 --> 00:59:45,105
because I did, I did hear um

2122
00:59:45,105 --> 00:59:47,541
that focus, um, narrowed down a

2123
00:59:47,541 --> 00:59:50,277
little bit and, and some of the

2124
00:59:50,277 --> 00:59:53,277
commentary. Um, the other thing

2125
00:59:53,881 --> 00:59:55,149
I wanted to ask about is, um,

2126
00:59:55,149 --> 00:59:57,518
are these areas used for

2127
00:59:57,518 --> 00:59:59,420
criteria, so for example, I

2128
00:59:59,420 --> 01:00:02,289
heard from a grantee, uh, that

2129
01:00:02,289 --> 01:00:04,225
said, well, if I, do I have to

2130
01:00:04,225 --> 01:00:05,693
hit x number of these focus

2131
01:00:05,693 --> 01:00:06,328
areas to be able to make my

2132
01:00:06,328 --> 01:00:06,594
application stronger. I don

2133
01:00:06,594 --> 01:00:06,894
t

2134
01:00:06,894 --> 01:00:07,161
think that

2135
01:00:07,161 --> 01:00:07,461
s what

2136
01:00:07,461 --> 01:00:07,628
s intended,

2137
01:00:07,628 --> 01:00:08,196
you

2138
01:00:08,196 --> 01:00:11,196
re allowing people to pick

2139
01:00:11,198 --> 01:00:11,699
one. They MAY have an overlap,

2140
01:00:11,699 --> 01:00:13,634
but that

2141
01:00:13,634 --> 01:00:14,536
s not like going to,

2142
01:00:14,536 --> 01:00:16,404
um, be a challenge for them,

2143
01:00:16,404 --> 01:00:18,539
for example, if the Science

2144
01:00:18,539 --> 01:00:19,407
Center, uh, is really focusing

2145
01:00:19,407 --> 01:00:19,807
on community enrichment and

2146
01:00:19,807 --> 01:00:21,742
belonging. They

2147
01:00:21,742 --> 01:00:23,277
re not going to

2148
01:00:23,277 --> 01:00:23,477
be dinged necessarily because

2149
01:00:23,477 --> 01:00:25,412
they

2150
01:00:25,412 --> 01:00:26,460
re not doing, um, economic

2151
01:00:26,460 --> 01:00:27,983
mobility, for example, which

2152
01:00:27,983 --> 01:00:29,517
they, it might, but I just, I

2153
01:00:29,517 --> 01:00:30,517
just wanted to to get that

2154
01:00:30,517 --> 01:00:33,517
clarity for nonprofits who MAY

2155
01:00:33,654 --> 01:00:33,754
be watching. Yes, that

2156
01:00:33,754 --> 01:00:35,723
s

2157
01:00:35,723 --> 01:00:38,123
correct, in the evaluation

2158
01:00:39,193 --> 01:00:40,694
criteria, it would not Give

2159
01:00:40,694 --> 01:00:42,620
more points for achieving more

2160
01:00:42,620 --> 01:00:43,264
impact focus areas, it would

2161
01:00:43,264 --> 01:00:46,133
measure how well it aligns with

2162
01:00:46,133 --> 01:00:47,935
one or more. Ok, thank you. And

2163
01:00:47,935 --> 01:00:49,870
what is your thought on the

2164
01:00:49,870 --> 01:00:51,305
naming, um, for household

2165
01:00:51,305 --> 01:00:54,742
stability, I, I think what you

2166
01:00:54,742 --> 01:00:56,343
mean is the whole family, food

2167
01:00:56,343 --> 01:00:58,712
secure, housing secure, should

2168
01:00:58,712 --> 01:01:00,214
that be community stability? Or

2169
01:01:00,214 --> 01:01:01,480
do you really mean to say

2170
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:01,649
housing stability, cause I

2171
01:01:01,649 --> 01:01:03,184
think there

2172
01:01:03,184 --> 01:01:03,984
s, there

2173
01:01:03,984 --> 01:01:04,585
s housing

2174
01:01:04,585 --> 01:01:05,386
stability in community

2175
01:01:05,386 --> 01:01:06,854
stability, but I just wanna

2176
01:01:06,854 --> 01:01:07,354
make sure that we

2177
01:01:07,354 --> 01:01:08,289
re not

2178
01:01:08,289 --> 01:01:08,956
inadvertently turning people

2179
01:01:08,956 --> 01:01:09,323
away from that category cause

2180
01:01:09,323 --> 01:01:09,690
they don

2181
01:01:09,690 --> 01:01:11,690
t see themselves

2182
01:01:16,230 --> 01:01:16,330
fitting in that. I mean, it

2183
01:01:16,330 --> 01:01:17,731
s

2184
01:01:17,731 --> 01:01:19,166
really up to the body if you

2185
01:01:19,166 --> 01:01:19,267
guys wanna change it, that

2186
01:01:19,267 --> 01:01:20,201
s

2187
01:01:20,201 --> 01:01:21,769
the recommendation that we came

2188
01:01:21,769 --> 01:01:22,102
up with. We think it

2189
01:01:22,102 --> 01:01:22,736
s holistic

2190
01:01:22,736 --> 01:01:22,970
enough from here, but it

2191
01:01:22,970 --> 01:01:24,805
s up

2192
01:01:24,805 --> 01:01:26,340
to the body if you guys want us

2193
01:01:26,340 --> 01:01:26,540
to change the, the focus areas,

2194
01:01:26,540 --> 01:01:26,874
that

2195
01:01:26,874 --> 01:01:27,509
s, that

2196
01:01:27,509 --> 01:01:29,509
s certainly your

2197
01:01:29,744 --> 01:01:31,412
pride of, thank you. Thank you.

2198
01:01:31,412 --> 01:01:32,680
Yeah, I, I did hear it narrowed

2199
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,949
down, so I just, I, I think

2200
01:01:34,949 --> 01:01:35,950
either we have to be very clear

2201
01:01:35,950 --> 01:01:38,786
in our description or make it

2202
01:01:38,786 --> 01:01:39,854
more about comm cause I do want

2203
01:01:39,854 --> 01:01:40,222
the the food support that we

2204
01:01:40,222 --> 01:01:42,122
ve

2205
01:01:42,122 --> 01:01:43,900
been providing is huge, uh, as

2206
01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:44,693
well as the healthcare in

2207
01:01:44,693 --> 01:01:47,828
addition to the housing, so, um,

2208
01:01:47,828 --> 01:01:49,163
I Do like economic mobility, I

2209
01:01:49,163 --> 01:01:49,630
like, I like the categories. I

2210
01:01:49,630 --> 01:01:50,764
just, that

2211
01:01:50,764 --> 01:01:53,167
s the only one that

2212
01:01:53,167 --> 01:01:53,702
was, um Maybe I didn

2213
01:01:53,702 --> 01:01:55,636
t see as

2214
01:01:55,636 --> 01:01:56,704
inclusive as some of the, the

2215
01:01:56,704 --> 01:01:59,704
stability and safety areas we

2216
01:02:00,410 --> 01:02:01,275
previously funded. Um, in terms

2217
01:02:01,275 --> 01:02:03,711
of prioritizing one of the

2218
01:02:03,711 --> 01:02:05,512
impact focus areas. Uh, so, One

2219
01:02:05,512 --> 01:02:06,513
of the things that has come to

2220
01:02:06,513 --> 01:02:10,451
that I was thinking about is in

2221
01:02:10,451 --> 01:02:11,986
the past, we did separate out

2222
01:02:11,986 --> 01:02:13,721
caregiver from non caregiver

2223
01:02:13,721 --> 01:02:13,821
grants, I do think that we

2224
01:02:13,821 --> 01:02:15,122
ve

2225
01:02:15,122 --> 01:02:17,725
seen social service needs grow

2226
01:02:17,725 --> 01:02:19,930
and we have a, uh, you know, we

2227
01:02:19,930 --> 01:02:20,940
have increased funding to

2228
01:02:20,940 --> 01:02:22,396
nonprofits to try to be

2229
01:02:22,396 --> 01:02:25,432
responsive to the needs of our

2230
01:02:25,432 --> 01:02:26,767
community and the caregiver

2231
01:02:26,767 --> 01:02:26,934
without trying to, um, say we

2232
01:02:26,934 --> 01:02:27,868
don

2233
01:02:27,868 --> 01:02:28,802
t support arts and culture,

2234
01:02:28,802 --> 01:02:29,637
you know, so I think we

2235
01:02:29,637 --> 01:02:29,803
ve,

2236
01:02:29,803 --> 01:02:30,304
we

2237
01:02:30,304 --> 01:02:30,471
ve been balancing and say

2238
01:02:30,471 --> 01:02:31,972
we

2239
01:02:31,972 --> 01:02:32,506
re going to continue to

2240
01:02:32,506 --> 01:02:34,506
support these important

2241
01:02:34,575 --> 01:02:35,776
programmatic areas that are you

2242
01:02:35,776 --> 01:02:38,445
know, are vital for our

2243
01:02:38,445 --> 01:02:40,514
community, uh, and, and to

2244
01:02:40,514 --> 01:02:42,449
thrive, we have sometimes

2245
01:02:42,449 --> 01:02:43,851
expanded pots and the caregiver

2246
01:02:43,851 --> 01:02:45,185
area because of social safety

2247
01:02:45,185 --> 01:02:47,688
needs that we have seen have

2248
01:02:47,688 --> 01:02:47,888
needed to be increased. So, um,

2249
01:02:47,888 --> 01:02:49,156
that

2250
01:02:49,156 --> 01:02:51,425
s the one that gives me

2251
01:02:51,425 --> 01:02:52,860
pause because we, we have

2252
01:02:52,860 --> 01:02:54,762
responded to issues that are

2253
01:02:54,762 --> 01:02:54,995
happening in our society, and I

2254
01:02:54,995 --> 01:02:55,496
wouldn

2255
01:02:55,496 --> 01:02:58,132
t want to hurt one or

2256
01:02:58,132 --> 01:02:59,233
the other, but at times we have

2257
01:02:59,233 --> 01:02:59,567
said, my gosh, there

2258
01:02:59,567 --> 01:03:01,567
s

2259
01:03:01,569 --> 01:03:02,603
something going on here in the

2260
01:03:02,603 --> 01:03:05,603
universe to help our community,

2261
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:07,341
you know. We, we have at times

2262
01:03:07,341 --> 01:03:09,843
put some more funding in

2263
01:03:09,843 --> 01:03:11,111
caregiver, so I, I, I do, I do

2264
01:03:11,111 --> 01:03:12,846
like the way we had it

2265
01:03:12,846 --> 01:03:14,883
separated in a way so that we

2266
01:03:14,883 --> 01:03:17,151
had some pots, uh, to be able

2267
01:03:17,151 --> 01:03:18,285
to work with, uh, without

2268
01:03:18,285 --> 01:03:20,121
hurting the ongoing needs we

2269
01:03:20,121 --> 01:03:22,523
need for programs in arts and

2270
01:03:22,523 --> 01:03:23,858
culture. So I

2271
01:03:23,858 --> 01:03:24,825
m not necessarily,

2272
01:03:24,825 --> 01:03:25,793
uh, to the comments of my

2273
01:03:25,793 --> 01:03:27,294
colleagues saying that we

2274
01:03:27,294 --> 01:03:28,796
should, um, go in this

2275
01:03:28,796 --> 01:03:29,230
direction because I wouldn

2276
01:03:29,230 --> 01:03:29,831
t

2277
01:03:29,831 --> 01:03:32,166
want those ongoing programs

2278
01:03:32,166 --> 01:03:32,867
that we do need to support to

2279
01:03:32,867 --> 01:03:35,603
get impacted, but we MAY want

2280
01:03:35,603 --> 01:03:35,936
to say uh, as we increase

2281
01:03:35,936 --> 01:03:37,538
funding, we

2282
01:03:37,538 --> 01:03:39,506
re gonna put some

2283
01:03:39,506 --> 01:03:39,707
additional caregiver, so I,

2284
01:03:39,707 --> 01:03:39,874
that

2285
01:03:39,874 --> 01:03:40,875
s, it

2286
01:03:40,875 --> 01:03:41,410
s not saying that

2287
01:03:41,410 --> 01:03:41,609
we

2288
01:03:41,609 --> 01:03:44,311
re prioritizing, but we, I

2289
01:03:44,311 --> 01:03:45,346
think we have a prerogative to

2290
01:03:45,346 --> 01:03:46,280
say caregiver MAY need

2291
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:46,747
additional support at times

2292
01:03:46,747 --> 01:03:47,810
given what

2293
01:03:47,810 --> 01:03:49,481
s going on in

2294
01:03:50,170 --> 01:03:51,180
society. Um, and I really

2295
01:03:51,180 --> 01:03:51,619
appreciate the streamlined

2296
01:03:51,619 --> 01:03:51,719
renewal pathway that you

2297
01:03:51,719 --> 01:03:53,487
ve

2298
01:03:53,487 --> 01:03:54,822
been talking about for the

2299
01:03:54,822 --> 01:03:56,123
high-performing programs. Some

2300
01:03:56,123 --> 01:03:57,825
of those high-performance

2301
01:03:57,825 --> 01:03:59,394
programs are really, um,

2302
01:03:59,394 --> 01:04:00,861
hitting core areas, uh, and,

2303
01:04:00,861 --> 01:04:02,663
you know, as you said, it takes

2304
01:04:02,663 --> 01:04:04,640
more than 1 year to see the

2305
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,902
results, uh, so I think that

2306
01:04:06,902 --> 01:04:07,801
would really help, uh, with the

2307
01:04:07,801 --> 01:04:09,703
burden of the application

2308
01:04:09,703 --> 01:04:10,804
process, but still having the

2309
01:04:10,804 --> 01:04:12,740
accountability and still having

2310
01:04:12,740 --> 01:04:14,508
site staff go in and do the

2311
01:04:14,508 --> 01:04:14,675
site visits to make sure that

2312
01:04:14,675 --> 01:04:16,675
we

2313
01:04:17,244 --> 01:04:20,800
re, um, having high outcome

2314
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:22,160
programs um. I had a couple

2315
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,180
other, uh, questions, so we

2316
01:04:24,180 --> 01:04:24,552
have youth and Family Services.

2317
01:04:24,552 --> 01:04:24,919
One thing I

2318
01:04:24,919 --> 01:04:26,453
m, I

2319
01:04:26,453 --> 01:04:27,421
m hoping that

2320
01:04:27,421 --> 01:04:28,355
we can convey just because

2321
01:04:28,355 --> 01:04:28,590
there is a special need and I

2322
01:04:28,590 --> 01:04:29,290
know we

2323
01:04:29,290 --> 01:04:31,593
re gonna have a work

2324
01:04:31,593 --> 01:04:34,280
session on this in the future

2325
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:35,229
is, um, services for at-risk

2326
01:04:35,229 --> 01:04:36,530
youth, we haven

2327
01:04:36,530 --> 01:04:37,598
t seen as many

2328
01:04:37,598 --> 01:04:39,998
grants coming forward to

2329
01:04:40,467 --> 01:04:41,735
support risk who are at, uh,

2330
01:04:41,735 --> 01:04:42,670
who are underrepresented or at

2331
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:44,238
risk or experiencing

2332
01:04:44,238 --> 01:04:44,338
disparities in an area, so I

2333
01:04:44,338 --> 01:04:45,706
m

2334
01:04:45,706 --> 01:04:46,942
hopeful that as you look at the

2335
01:04:46,942 --> 01:04:48,742
program descriptions, we can

2336
01:04:48,742 --> 01:04:49,810
specifically call that out. So

2337
01:04:49,810 --> 01:04:51,460
that we can make sure that

2338
01:04:51,460 --> 01:04:52,180
people are seeing this is an

2339
01:04:52,180 --> 01:04:56,380
area that we are trying to, to

2340
01:04:56,450 --> 01:04:57,752
elevate. As they already a plan

2341
01:04:57,752 --> 01:04:58,586
to do that, or is that

2342
01:04:58,586 --> 01:05:00,986
something you need direction

2343
01:05:02,624 --> 01:05:03,240
from us on? I think, I think I

2344
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:03,490
hear what you

2345
01:05:03,490 --> 01:05:05,125
re saying, and I

2346
01:05:05,125 --> 01:05:05,326
think of all the categories,

2347
01:05:05,326 --> 01:05:05,860
that

2348
01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:07,294
s absolutely where we

2349
01:05:07,294 --> 01:05:08,462
would put it, Nick, if you

2350
01:05:08,462 --> 01:05:10,331
disagree, let me know, but

2351
01:05:10,331 --> 01:05:12,132
Mayor, I think you, um,

2352
01:05:12,132 --> 01:05:12,233
foreshadowed something, we

2353
01:05:12,233 --> 01:05:14,100
re

2354
01:05:14,100 --> 01:05:14,970
gonna start working on doing an

2355
01:05:14,970 --> 01:05:16,437
assessment of at-risk youth

2356
01:05:16,437 --> 01:05:18,380
programs in the region and just

2357
01:05:18,380 --> 01:05:19,340
see where those gaps are. And

2358
01:05:19,340 --> 01:05:20,875
once you identify those gaps,

2359
01:05:20,875 --> 01:05:21,343
then, then in future grant

2360
01:05:21,343 --> 01:05:21,710
cycles, that

2361
01:05:21,710 --> 01:05:23,143
s absolutely an

2362
01:05:23,143 --> 01:05:24,612
area that we could highlight

2363
01:05:24,612 --> 01:05:25,145
more, but as of right now, I

2364
01:05:25,145 --> 01:05:25,447
think where you

2365
01:05:25,447 --> 01:05:27,349
ve identified

2366
01:05:27,349 --> 01:05:29,116
it is where we went to. Thank

2367
01:05:29,116 --> 01:05:31,520
you, Nick, do you have anything

2368
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:31,585
to add? No, thank you. Thank

2369
01:05:31,585 --> 01:05:33,585
you, ma

2370
01:05:33,921 --> 01:05:35,456
am. Thank you. So I

2371
01:05:35,456 --> 01:05:37,291
believe looking at the brief

2372
01:05:37,291 --> 01:05:38,225
book that arts and culture

2373
01:05:38,225 --> 01:05:38,893
would go under community

2374
01:05:38,893 --> 01:05:41,293
enrichment belonging, is that

2375
01:05:43,197 --> 01:05:45,597
right? Yeah, I think

2376
01:05:45,599 --> 01:05:47,999
importantly, this allows the

2377
01:05:49,103 --> 01:05:50,404
organization to make that, um,

2378
01:05:50,404 --> 01:05:52,973
connection to where they see

2379
01:05:52,973 --> 01:05:55,377
the impact of their program, we

2380
01:05:55,377 --> 01:05:57,646
do anticipate many of our arts

2381
01:05:57,646 --> 01:05:58,780
and cultural programs would see

2382
01:05:58,780 --> 01:05:59,680
themselves in community

2383
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:01,482
enrichment and belonging, um,

2384
01:06:01,482 --> 01:06:03,551
so I, I will note, uh, you know,

2385
01:06:03,551 --> 01:06:05,786
for example, on this chart, um,

2386
01:06:05,786 --> 01:06:08,188
we think that, um, given what

2387
01:06:08,188 --> 01:06:09,423
we have seen many of those

2388
01:06:09,423 --> 01:06:09,591
programs measure and where

2389
01:06:09,591 --> 01:06:10,900
we

2390
01:06:10,900 --> 01:06:12,490
ve seen needs assessments

2391
01:06:13,227 --> 01:06:15,162
identified If I need, you know,

2392
01:06:15,162 --> 01:06:16,263
having arts and cultural

2393
01:06:16,263 --> 01:06:18,132
programs that increase

2394
01:06:18,132 --> 01:06:20,532
belonging that reduce social

2395
01:06:20,901 --> 01:06:22,403
isolation, um, that improve

2396
01:06:22,403 --> 01:06:24,238
access for Rockville residents,

2397
01:06:24,238 --> 01:06:24,805
those are likely to align with

2398
01:06:24,805 --> 01:06:26,273
community richment and

2399
01:06:26,273 --> 01:06:28,609
belonging, but I do want to

2400
01:06:28,609 --> 01:06:30,440
note that some of our arts and

2401
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:32,112
culture grantees, um, for

2402
01:06:32,112 --> 01:06:34,512
instance, they are really

2403
01:06:34,548 --> 01:06:36,283
thoughtful about tying resource

2404
01:06:36,283 --> 01:06:38,285
fairs into their, um, events or

2405
01:06:38,285 --> 01:06:39,521
programs, so they MAY also

2406
01:06:39,521 --> 01:06:40,154
highlight that they have an

2407
01:06:40,154 --> 01:06:42,790
impact on service access and

2408
01:06:42,790 --> 01:06:43,190
navigation Crucially, it

2409
01:06:43,190 --> 01:06:44,658
ll be

2410
01:06:44,658 --> 01:06:44,925
up to them to say whether or

2411
01:06:44,925 --> 01:06:45,860
not that

2412
01:06:45,860 --> 01:06:46,930
s something they

2413
01:06:46,930 --> 01:06:47,995
re

2414
01:06:47,995 --> 01:06:50,398
gonna measure as an outcome for

2415
01:06:50,398 --> 01:06:51,832
their program, but yes, we do

2416
01:06:51,832 --> 01:06:53,300
anticipate that arts and

2417
01:06:53,300 --> 01:06:54,735
culture programs should see

2418
01:06:54,735 --> 01:06:55,669
themselves at minimum in the

2419
01:06:55,669 --> 01:06:57,669
community enrichment and

2420
01:06:57,838 --> 01:06:59,206
belonging category. Thank you

2421
01:06:59,206 --> 01:07:00,674
for that background. Uh, you

2422
01:07:00,674 --> 01:07:01,610
reminded me another, another

2423
01:07:01,610 --> 01:07:03,644
question about the categories

2424
01:07:03,644 --> 01:07:04,511
that we have. So as an

2425
01:07:04,511 --> 01:07:05,120
applicant, and I

2426
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:05,679
ve known this,

2427
01:07:05,679 --> 01:07:06,981
I know that I

2428
01:07:06,981 --> 01:07:07,715
ve worked on a

2429
01:07:07,715 --> 01:07:08,816
couple of federal programs,

2430
01:07:08,816 --> 01:07:10,417
people are trying to say, where

2431
01:07:10,417 --> 01:07:11,353
am I most likely to have

2432
01:07:11,353 --> 01:07:12,686
success. You

2433
01:07:12,686 --> 01:07:13,955
re not dividing

2434
01:07:13,955 --> 01:07:14,655
the funding by these categories,

2435
01:07:14,655 --> 01:07:15,556
correct? So they

2436
01:07:15,556 --> 01:07:15,756
re like, if

2437
01:07:15,756 --> 01:07:16,357
there

2438
01:07:16,357 --> 01:07:17,240
s a lot of applications

2439
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:17,925
in this area, I

2440
01:07:17,925 --> 01:07:19,460
m gonna try to

2441
01:07:19,460 --> 01:07:20,461
make my, my application in the

2442
01:07:20,461 --> 01:07:20,828
other area, that

2443
01:07:20,828 --> 01:07:22,329
s not the

2444
01:07:22,329 --> 01:07:23,931
focus, is that correct? You are

2445
01:07:23,931 --> 01:07:25,132
correct, that is not the focus.

2446
01:07:25,132 --> 01:07:25,733
Ok, so I want to make sure that

2447
01:07:25,733 --> 01:07:27,802
nonprofit, because I have

2448
01:07:27,802 --> 01:07:29,837
actually heard that question.

2449
01:07:29,837 --> 01:07:31,138
And, um, and as people were

2450
01:07:31,138 --> 01:07:33,410
looking at our, uh, brief

2451
01:07:33,410 --> 01:07:34,175
material. So thank you for

2452
01:07:34,175 --> 01:07:35,543
clarifying that. In terms of

2453
01:07:35,543 --> 01:07:38,445
arts and culture, I, I would

2454
01:07:38,445 --> 01:07:40,748
say arts, history and culture,

2455
01:07:40,748 --> 01:07:42,750
uh, I, I do, um, have some

2456
01:07:42,750 --> 01:07:45,520
feedback that in terms of the

2457
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,588
application process on that one.

2458
01:07:47,588 --> 01:07:48,923
So some of our arts and culture

2459
01:07:48,923 --> 01:07:49,524
events, arts, history and

2460
01:07:49,524 --> 01:07:50,570
cultural events. I

2461
01:07:50,570 --> 01:07:51,892
m thinking

2462
01:07:51,892 --> 01:07:53,427
about, for instance, the

2463
01:07:53,427 --> 01:07:53,694
restscoes, um, I

2464
01:07:53,694 --> 01:07:55,196
m thinking

2465
01:07:55,196 --> 01:07:55,963
about, uh, Rockville Sister

2466
01:07:55,963 --> 01:07:58,332
City. Part of the goal of some

2467
01:07:58,332 --> 01:08:00,668
of the Those programs is to be

2468
01:08:00,668 --> 01:08:02,636
a draw for our Rockville

2469
01:08:02,636 --> 01:08:05,539
residents, but also they bring

2470
01:08:05,539 --> 01:08:07,700
in people, uh, from the outside

2471
01:08:07,700 --> 01:08:10,700
into Rockville and supports our

2472
01:08:10,478 --> 01:08:11,879
tourism, our, um, you know, Our

2473
01:08:11,879 --> 01:08:14,248
community, uh, for instance,

2474
01:08:14,248 --> 01:08:16,317
the Taiwan bubble tea Festival

2475
01:08:16,317 --> 01:08:17,651
brings in 12,000 people, uh,

2476
01:08:17,651 --> 01:08:21,251
into our town center, which is,

2477
01:08:22,389 --> 01:08:24,358
is, which is fantastic, um, but

2478
01:08:24,358 --> 01:08:25,860
the application process itself

2479
01:08:25,860 --> 01:08:26,327
really focuses on how many,

2480
01:08:26,327 --> 01:08:28,327
because because it

2481
01:08:28,696 --> 01:08:30,130
s focused in

2482
01:08:30,130 --> 01:08:31,565
the caregiver lens on how many

2483
01:08:31,565 --> 01:08:33,000
Rockville residents do you

2484
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:33,968
serve versus how many are you

2485
01:08:33,968 --> 01:08:35,402
bringing into our community to

2486
01:08:35,402 --> 01:08:37,872
support other arts and culture

2487
01:08:37,872 --> 01:08:38,439
and tourism needs. So I was

2488
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:38,540
just curious about if you

2489
01:08:38,540 --> 01:08:40,540
re

2490
01:08:40,875 --> 01:08:41,575
thinking also about The

2491
01:08:41,575 --> 01:08:43,310
application and how you collect

2492
01:08:43,310 --> 01:08:45,312
data because I do want to know,

2493
01:08:45,312 --> 01:08:46,814
and I think my colleagues would

2494
01:08:46,814 --> 01:08:48,582
be interested in how many

2495
01:08:48,582 --> 01:08:50,982
Rockville residents you are

2496
01:08:51,485 --> 01:08:52,453
serving for sure, but also that

2497
01:08:52,453 --> 01:08:53,855
bigger number is important for

2498
01:08:53,855 --> 01:08:55,357
some of those events that are

2499
01:08:55,357 --> 01:08:56,230
designed to be draws, the f.

2500
01:08:56,230 --> 01:08:56,657
Scott Fitzgerald Literary

2501
01:08:56,657 --> 01:08:59,657
Festival is another one of

2502
01:09:00,928 --> 01:09:01,730
those. Yeah, I really

2503
01:09:01,730 --> 01:09:02,162
appreciate this question. It

2504
01:09:02,162 --> 01:09:04,980
s

2505
01:09:04,980 --> 01:09:05,566
one of the things that Sarah

2506
01:09:05,566 --> 01:09:07,434
and I have done a lot of

2507
01:09:07,434 --> 01:09:09,837
thinking about in terms of how

2508
01:09:09,837 --> 01:09:11,272
to really measure the community

2509
01:09:11,272 --> 01:09:13,672
enrichment impact of those

2510
01:09:14,208 --> 01:09:16,110
programs, uh, so our hope is in

2511
01:09:16,110 --> 01:09:17,144
some of the application

2512
01:09:17,144 --> 01:09:18,450
materials we

2513
01:09:18,450 --> 01:09:20,450
ve provided some

2514
01:09:20,415 --> 01:09:22,349
examples of logic models that

2515
01:09:22,349 --> 01:09:24,351
show the impact of these kinds

2516
01:09:24,351 --> 01:09:27,155
of festivals, these kinds of

2517
01:09:27,155 --> 01:09:27,821
events, and, um, our hope would

2518
01:09:27,821 --> 01:09:30,791
be that organizations that are

2519
01:09:30,791 --> 01:09:32,660
seeking funding. Where they MAY

2520
01:09:32,660 --> 01:09:33,294
already be telling us in the

2521
01:09:33,294 --> 01:09:33,561
application that they

2522
01:09:33,561 --> 01:09:35,561
re

2523
01:09:35,596 --> 01:09:37,431
reaching this many people at

2524
01:09:37,431 --> 01:09:38,599
the festival that they would

2525
01:09:38,599 --> 01:09:41,335
also identify an outcome, for

2526
01:09:41,335 --> 01:09:43,271
instance, as one of their major

2527
01:09:43,271 --> 01:09:45,172
impacts might be tourism or it

2528
01:09:45,172 --> 01:09:47,740
might be connecting with

2529
01:09:47,740 --> 01:09:49,944
businesses in the vicinity of

2530
01:09:49,944 --> 01:09:51,110
the event, um, or it might be

2531
01:09:51,110 --> 01:09:52,479
welcoming organizations to come

2532
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:54,281
to that festival, and those are

2533
01:09:54,281 --> 01:09:55,716
things importantly that can be

2534
01:09:55,716 --> 01:09:57,452
in the application, and they

2535
01:09:57,452 --> 01:10:00,452
can measure those, they can

2536
01:10:00,721 --> 01:10:03,123
submit that as a, as Sign of

2537
01:10:03,123 --> 01:10:04,625
program success that can be

2538
01:10:04,625 --> 01:10:06,961
evaluated by the community

2539
01:10:06,961 --> 01:10:09,363
panels. So, um, our hope is

2540
01:10:09,363 --> 01:10:11,799
that there will be more

2541
01:10:11,799 --> 01:10:13,201
opportunities for them to

2542
01:10:13,201 --> 01:10:14,268
identify what the impact is of

2543
01:10:14,268 --> 01:10:15,703
those kind of programs and to

2544
01:10:15,703 --> 01:10:17,171
include in the application. I

2545
01:10:17,171 --> 01:10:19,600
saw Sarah is going to chime in,

2546
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:21,909
the only thing I wanted to say

2547
01:10:21,909 --> 01:10:23,878
too is that our current

2548
01:10:23,878 --> 01:10:25,713
application and our reporting,

2549
01:10:25,713 --> 01:10:27,147
um, has a space for nonpro

2550
01:10:27,147 --> 01:10:27,882
profits that receive grants to

2551
01:10:27,882 --> 01:10:31,218
tell us how many people overall.

2552
01:10:31,218 --> 01:10:33,120
Reaching as well so it is true

2553
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:33,954
that we, we ask them to tell us

2554
01:10:33,954 --> 01:10:34,155
how many Rockville residents

2555
01:10:34,155 --> 01:10:35,222
they

2556
01:10:35,222 --> 01:10:35,522
re reaching, but it

2557
01:10:35,522 --> 01:10:36,490
s

2558
01:10:36,490 --> 01:10:37,893
another metric that they

2559
01:10:37,893 --> 01:10:38,920
provide of how many people

2560
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:39,460
they

2561
01:10:39,460 --> 01:10:41,860
re reaching overall. Sarah,

2562
01:10:43,630 --> 01:10:45,299
please, yeah. Thank you, Nick.

2563
01:10:45,299 --> 01:10:46,300
Yeah, I just wanted to

2564
01:10:46,300 --> 01:10:48,636
reiterate an echo what Nick was

2565
01:10:48,636 --> 01:10:50,938
saying, but I think throughout

2566
01:10:50,938 --> 01:10:54,909
all of the work that Nick and I

2567
01:10:54,909 --> 01:10:57,411
were like thinking about In

2568
01:10:57,411 --> 01:10:57,845
this grant restructuring, um,

2569
01:10:57,845 --> 01:10:58,646
something that we

2570
01:10:58,646 --> 01:11:00,114
ve really

2571
01:11:00,114 --> 01:11:01,515
pride ourselves in with working

2572
01:11:01,515 --> 01:11:03,918
with all the nonprofits that

2573
01:11:03,918 --> 01:11:05,352
are incoming, especially with

2574
01:11:05,352 --> 01:11:07,288
the matrix piece is the

2575
01:11:07,288 --> 01:11:09,256
importance of just like data

2576
01:11:09,256 --> 01:11:11,692
telling stories, not just for

2577
01:11:11,692 --> 01:11:14,529
the city of Rockville, but to

2578
01:11:14,529 --> 01:11:17,640
in an effort to help these

2579
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:19,464
organizations, um, seek funding

2580
01:11:19,934 --> 01:11:21,303
outside of the city as well, um,

2581
01:11:21,303 --> 01:11:24,471
and how important it is for an

2582
01:11:24,471 --> 01:11:26,307
organization to Have metrics

2583
01:11:26,307 --> 01:11:28,342
for their organization, period,

2584
01:11:28,342 --> 01:11:30,678
to have logic models for their

2585
01:11:30,678 --> 01:11:33,678
programs and how that can

2586
01:11:36,550 --> 01:11:38,486
really be a, um trajectory into

2587
01:11:38,486 --> 01:11:39,420
a whole other opportunity of

2588
01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:41,820
funding opportunities. So I

2589
01:11:43,324 --> 01:11:46,924
just wanted to echo that piece.

2590
01:11:47,127 --> 01:11:48,662
Thank you, and the total number

2591
01:11:48,662 --> 01:11:49,630
of participants would be both

2592
01:11:49,630 --> 01:11:50,965
in the application, or

2593
01:11:50,965 --> 01:11:52,660
anticipated, both in the

2594
01:11:52,660 --> 01:11:54,768
application and both in and and

2595
01:11:54,768 --> 01:11:54,869
reporting, correct? That

2596
01:11:54,869 --> 01:11:56,637
s

2597
01:11:56,637 --> 01:11:58,472
correct. Excellent. Thank you

2598
01:11:58,472 --> 01:12:00,908
for clarifying that. Um, I, the

2599
01:12:00,908 --> 01:12:02,409
other thing I was looking at

2600
01:12:02,409 --> 01:12:03,777
our current grants on about, I

2601
01:12:03,777 --> 01:12:05,212
was looking at some of the

2602
01:12:05,212 --> 01:12:06,647
services we were funding and

2603
01:12:06,647 --> 01:12:08,115
disability service has been a

2604
01:12:08,115 --> 01:12:11,352
part of that. Uh, I know they

2605
01:12:11,352 --> 01:12:13,621
would be able to, um Pick the

2606
01:12:13,621 --> 01:12:14,755
category, I just wanted to note

2607
01:12:14,755 --> 01:12:16,156
that, um, as we

2608
01:12:16,156 --> 01:12:18,156
re looking at

2609
01:12:18,225 --> 01:12:19,294
at-risk youth and immigrant

2610
01:12:19,294 --> 01:12:20,594
communities that somewhere on

2611
01:12:20,594 --> 01:12:20,762
our page, they can see that

2612
01:12:20,762 --> 01:12:22,960
we

2613
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:23,310
re continuing to support

2614
01:12:23,310 --> 01:12:25,399
disability services as one of

2615
01:12:25,399 --> 01:12:27,502
the, you know, sub areas of

2616
01:12:27,502 --> 01:12:28,769
support. I know that Rockville

2617
01:12:28,769 --> 01:12:30,738
has continued to grow to be

2618
01:12:30,738 --> 01:12:32,390
seen as a place where people

2619
01:12:32,390 --> 01:12:33,541
with differing abilities can

2620
01:12:33,541 --> 01:12:34,508
grow and thrive here, and I, I

2621
01:12:34,508 --> 01:12:34,909
just wanted to, didn

2622
01:12:34,909 --> 01:12:35,442
t want to

2623
01:12:35,442 --> 01:12:35,776
signal that we

2624
01:12:35,776 --> 01:12:36,911
re backing away

2625
01:12:36,911 --> 01:12:37,311
from that, we

2626
01:12:37,311 --> 01:12:38,380
re actually

2627
01:12:38,380 --> 01:12:39,280
leaning in and doing more, and

2628
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:41,916
I also want to thank you for

2629
01:12:41,916 --> 01:12:42,816
raising the importance of

2630
01:12:42,816 --> 01:12:44,885
helping people understand that

2631
01:12:44,885 --> 01:12:45,319
we do have a Jedi strategic

2632
01:12:45,319 --> 01:12:47,319
plan and we

2633
01:12:48,890 --> 01:12:49,560
re asking people to

2634
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:52,560
help align services with that

2635
01:12:52,159 --> 01:12:55,950
just to meet those needs. Um, I

2636
01:12:55,950 --> 01:12:57,565
had a couple other comments,

2637
01:12:57,565 --> 01:12:59,466
now shifting to the, uh Uh,

2638
01:12:59,466 --> 01:12:59,934
from, from, from people I

2639
01:12:59,934 --> 01:13:01,934
ve

2640
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:03,170
gotten feedback from the fire

2641
01:13:03,170 --> 01:13:03,404
safety, the public safety work

2642
01:13:03,404 --> 01:13:04,805
that we

2643
01:13:04,805 --> 01:13:06,173
ve been doing with the

2644
01:13:06,173 --> 01:13:07,675
fire department, do you see

2645
01:13:07,675 --> 01:13:09,440
that that would fit in one of

2646
01:13:09,440 --> 01:13:10,100
these categories, would that be

2647
01:13:10,100 --> 01:13:11,450
er it, I just wanna make sure

2648
01:13:11,450 --> 01:13:11,478
that we

2649
01:13:11,478 --> 01:13:13,380
re not losing anybody

2650
01:13:13,380 --> 01:13:14,140
in, in what we

2651
01:13:14,140 --> 01:13:16,140
ve put together

2652
01:13:16,317 --> 01:13:18,185
here. Yeah, thank you for that

2653
01:13:18,185 --> 01:13:21,155
question. I want to answer

2654
01:13:21,155 --> 01:13:22,690
about that question and also,

2655
01:13:22,690 --> 01:13:24,491
um, echo is something that, um,

2656
01:13:24,491 --> 01:13:25,926
was said earlier. So one is

2657
01:13:25,926 --> 01:13:29,496
that even if we do adopt these

2658
01:13:29,496 --> 01:13:30,998
5 proposed impact Focus areas

2659
01:13:30,998 --> 01:13:33,300
that evaluation criteria will

2660
01:13:33,300 --> 01:13:35,703
continue to measure more than

2661
01:13:35,703 --> 01:13:37,304
just alignment with these 5. So

2662
01:13:37,304 --> 01:13:39,390
part of the hope with these

2663
01:13:39,390 --> 01:13:41,750
impactfo focus areas is that it

2664
01:13:41,750 --> 01:13:43,811
will help those applications to

2665
01:13:43,811 --> 01:13:44,912
be most competitive, but it

2666
01:13:44,912 --> 01:13:46,714
would not exclude any

2667
01:13:46,714 --> 01:13:48,717
application that did not align

2668
01:13:48,717 --> 01:13:50,585
as long as the application is

2669
01:13:50,585 --> 01:13:52,553
eligible to be reviewed, there

2670
01:13:52,553 --> 01:13:53,787
will be other criteria that we

2671
01:13:53,787 --> 01:13:55,457
um have included in our

2672
01:13:55,457 --> 01:13:58,457
evaluation, and we do believe

2673
01:13:58,993 --> 01:14:01,862
that it will be possible for

2674
01:14:01,862 --> 01:14:04,331
Other applications to, um, to

2675
01:14:04,331 --> 01:14:06,333
qualify for funding and for the

2676
01:14:06,333 --> 01:14:07,134
community panel to identify, um,

2677
01:14:07,134 --> 01:14:08,569
grants that might not align

2678
01:14:08,569 --> 01:14:09,303
with one of these 5. So we

2679
01:14:09,303 --> 01:14:10,504
wanted to make sure there was

2680
01:14:10,504 --> 01:14:12,940
still room in the evaluation

2681
01:14:12,940 --> 01:14:15,644
for it to be flexible enough to

2682
01:14:15,644 --> 01:14:17,244
go beyond these 5, specifically

2683
01:14:17,244 --> 01:14:20,115
to the question of public

2684
01:14:20,115 --> 01:14:21,549
safety, of fire safety, we

2685
01:14:21,549 --> 01:14:23,949
definitely see service access

2686
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:25,419
as being one of the ways that

2687
01:14:25,419 --> 01:14:26,121
they could identify, um, you

2688
01:14:26,121 --> 01:14:29,721
know, and demonstrate a, a need

2689
01:14:29,924 --> 01:14:30,891
there. Um, also, um, many of

2690
01:14:30,891 --> 01:14:33,761
our public safety applicants, I

2691
01:14:33,761 --> 01:14:35,196
think, do look at, um, family

2692
01:14:35,196 --> 01:14:36,764
success and household stability,

2693
01:14:36,764 --> 01:14:37,565
but we think service access

2694
01:14:37,565 --> 01:14:39,965
would still encompass those

2695
01:14:40,335 --> 01:14:41,602
most clearly. Ok. And how would

2696
01:14:41,602 --> 01:14:43,370
the, how would the grant

2697
01:14:43,370 --> 01:14:44,472
committee, these are one of the

2698
01:14:44,472 --> 01:14:45,105
ones that I think the mayor and

2699
01:14:45,105 --> 01:14:45,574
council have said we

2700
01:14:45,574 --> 01:14:47,574
re trying

2701
01:14:49,410 --> 01:14:50,644
to stay within this range, uh,

2702
01:14:50,644 --> 01:14:50,945
so that we don

2703
01:14:50,945 --> 01:14:52,945
t necessarily

2704
01:14:53,881 --> 01:14:55,449
drop. Support to some, so I,

2705
01:14:55,449 --> 01:14:56,217
there are some that are, you

2706
01:14:56,217 --> 01:14:57,318
know, standard grants, and they

2707
01:14:57,318 --> 01:15:00,588
there are, there are other ones

2708
01:15:00,588 --> 01:15:01,188
that are sort of ongoing.

2709
01:15:01,188 --> 01:15:01,289
Programmatic areas that we

2710
01:15:01,289 --> 01:15:02,523
re

2711
01:15:02,523 --> 01:15:04,892
trying to support as a city,

2712
01:15:04,892 --> 01:15:06,360
for example, we give the fire

2713
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:06,528
department a donation for water.

2714
01:15:06,528 --> 01:15:07,361
We

2715
01:15:07,361 --> 01:15:09,196
re not going to backtrack on

2716
01:15:09,196 --> 01:15:11,599
that, but the committee MAY not

2717
01:15:11,599 --> 01:15:12,199
know that, so how, how is that

2718
01:15:12,199 --> 01:15:14,599
being communicated to the

2719
01:15:19,273 --> 01:15:22,273
review committee? I can answer

2720
01:15:24,440 --> 01:15:26,981
that, yeah, so, um, we have, uh,

2721
01:15:26,981 --> 01:15:30,581
in the years past, our grantees

2722
01:15:30,684 --> 01:15:31,886
have asked for, um, either

2723
01:15:31,886 --> 01:15:32,753
reimbursements of city services,

2724
01:15:32,753 --> 01:15:33,153
or sometimes there

2725
01:15:33,153 --> 01:15:35,153
s an intra

2726
01:15:35,990 --> 01:15:37,892
fund transfer of a city service,

2727
01:15:37,892 --> 01:15:39,793
um, these have been included in

2728
01:15:39,793 --> 01:15:41,729
applications, we actually

2729
01:15:41,729 --> 01:15:42,464
proposed earlier this year to

2730
01:15:42,464 --> 01:15:45,599
cmo and finance and made sure

2731
01:15:45,599 --> 01:15:46,800
that it would be ok for us to,

2732
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,170
uh, move forward in this way,

2733
01:15:49,170 --> 01:15:51,105
um, we want to take those

2734
01:15:51,105 --> 01:15:52,941
requests for city service

2735
01:15:52,941 --> 01:15:53,941
funding and have actually a

2736
01:15:53,941 --> 01:15:55,876
specific community panel that

2737
01:15:55,876 --> 01:15:58,245
understands a little bit more,

2738
01:15:58,245 --> 01:16:00,415
um, what those needs are, what

2739
01:16:00,415 --> 01:16:02,284
those processes are to evaluate

2740
01:16:02,284 --> 01:16:03,551
those, so we would actually

2741
01:16:03,551 --> 01:16:05,352
pull those specific requests

2742
01:16:05,352 --> 01:16:06,887
out of this evaluation

2743
01:16:06,887 --> 01:16:08,856
framework and look at them more

2744
01:16:08,856 --> 01:16:09,790
from sort of a, are they

2745
01:16:09,790 --> 01:16:11,725
eligible or not criteria, so

2746
01:16:11,725 --> 01:16:12,394
they would still have to apply

2747
01:16:12,394 --> 01:16:13,961
through the application process

2748
01:16:13,961 --> 01:16:16,300
and we would still have

2749
01:16:16,300 --> 01:16:16,897
community, uh, a panel to

2750
01:16:16,897 --> 01:16:19,233
review those applications, but

2751
01:16:19,233 --> 01:16:22,360
to your point, um. Because they

2752
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,437
are a bit of outliers and we do

2753
01:16:23,437 --> 01:16:25,406
need to have a different kind

2754
01:16:25,406 --> 01:16:25,906
of criteria to evaluate them.

2755
01:16:25,906 --> 01:16:26,807
Um, we

2756
01:16:26,807 --> 01:16:28,807
ve specifically pulled

2757
01:16:28,843 --> 01:16:31,111
them out and are planning to

2758
01:16:31,111 --> 01:16:31,912
have a more tailored panel

2759
01:16:31,912 --> 01:16:33,800
evaluate those requests.

2760
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:34,548
Excellent, thank you. So I know

2761
01:16:34,548 --> 01:16:35,150
we do water and we

2762
01:16:35,150 --> 01:16:36,417
ve also

2763
01:16:36,417 --> 01:16:37,918
helped support, um, new safety

2764
01:16:37,918 --> 01:16:38,920
trucks because it is a

2765
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:39,286
volunteer department. They

2766
01:16:39,286 --> 01:16:40,754
ve

2767
01:16:40,754 --> 01:16:42,290
been relying on donations and

2768
01:16:42,290 --> 01:16:43,624
collaborations with the city on

2769
01:16:43,624 --> 01:16:43,792
that, so I appreciate that

2770
01:16:43,792 --> 01:16:45,125
you

2771
01:16:45,125 --> 01:16:48,125
re looking at that somewhat

2772
01:16:48,629 --> 01:16:50,640
differently. Um, ok, and then

2773
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,664
the other thing related to the,

2774
01:16:54,302 --> 01:16:55,703
um The, I think the returning

2775
01:16:55,703 --> 01:16:57,171
grants that you, the high

2776
01:16:57,171 --> 01:16:59,730
impact grants would, would

2777
01:16:59,730 --> 01:16:59,206
cover some of the feedback that

2778
01:16:59,206 --> 01:17:00,875
I

2779
01:17:00,875 --> 01:17:02,420
ve shared via the city

2780
01:17:02,420 --> 01:17:03,477
manager on the application

2781
01:17:03,477 --> 01:17:05,746
process, uh, because that would

2782
01:17:05,746 --> 01:17:08,382
streamline it and it would help

2783
01:17:08,382 --> 01:17:10,752
them on, on, um Being able to

2784
01:17:10,752 --> 01:17:11,318
to move forward, but also

2785
01:17:11,318 --> 01:17:11,685
making sure there

2786
01:17:11,685 --> 01:17:13,685
s

2787
01:17:13,787 --> 01:17:16,123
accountability on the reporting

2788
01:17:16,123 --> 01:17:16,323
side, um, I was hearing that

2789
01:17:16,323 --> 01:17:18,323
there

2790
01:17:18,392 --> 01:17:19,159
s quarterly reports plus

2791
01:17:19,159 --> 01:17:20,361
6-month reports, and those are

2792
01:17:20,361 --> 01:17:20,462
just some of the feedback we

2793
01:17:20,462 --> 01:17:22,396
re

2794
01:17:22,396 --> 01:17:24,131
getting, I know that I, I trust

2795
01:17:24,131 --> 01:17:25,799
that the team is going to make

2796
01:17:25,799 --> 01:17:27,101
sure that city dolls are being

2797
01:17:27,101 --> 01:17:28,102
used wisely, but is there any

2798
01:17:28,102 --> 01:17:30,400
other feedback like that or

2799
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:31,972
things that you might be

2800
01:17:31,972 --> 01:17:32,773
streamlining, um, to, to

2801
01:17:32,773 --> 01:17:32,940
address some of the feedback

2802
01:17:32,940 --> 01:17:34,940
we

2803
01:17:37,845 --> 01:17:39,280
ve received. Yeah, we do

2804
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:40,315
definitely cont plan to

2805
01:17:40,315 --> 01:17:42,183
continue to listen to

2806
01:17:42,183 --> 01:17:43,717
organizations as they give us

2807
01:17:43,717 --> 01:17:45,850
suggestions and feedback on how

2808
01:17:45,850 --> 01:17:45,252
we can streamline, importantly,

2809
01:17:45,252 --> 01:17:47,252
we

2810
01:17:47,454 --> 01:17:47,655
re also looking at the

2811
01:17:47,655 --> 01:17:49,356
city

2812
01:17:49,356 --> 01:17:50,891
s other processes we

2813
01:17:50,891 --> 01:17:52,294
collaborate with finance and

2814
01:17:52,294 --> 01:17:54,195
procurement on payments, so

2815
01:17:54,195 --> 01:17:55,763
some of the processes are from

2816
01:17:55,763 --> 01:17:58,320
outside of our department that

2817
01:17:58,320 --> 01:17:59,133
we align with, um, in In

2818
01:17:59,133 --> 01:18:01,435
particular with reporting, um,

2819
01:18:01,435 --> 01:18:02,436
that one might be worth us

2820
01:18:02,436 --> 01:18:03,300
following up with any

2821
01:18:03,300 --> 01:18:03,370
organization that you

2822
01:18:03,370 --> 01:18:04,710
ve heard

2823
01:18:04,710 --> 01:18:07,671
that from, um, we would wanna

2824
01:18:08,409 --> 01:18:10,245
just Clarify for them that the

2825
01:18:10,245 --> 01:18:11,312
6-month report is the quarter 2

2826
01:18:11,312 --> 01:18:11,812
report, so there

2827
01:18:11,812 --> 01:18:13,248
s, there

2828
01:18:13,248 --> 01:18:15,248
s 4,

2829
01:18:15,583 --> 01:18:17,170
just 4 quarterly reports that

2830
01:18:17,170 --> 01:18:18,419
they participate in, um, but I

2831
01:18:18,419 --> 01:18:19,887
hope that that answers the

2832
01:18:19,887 --> 01:18:21,922
question. It does. Thank you.

2833
01:18:21,922 --> 01:18:24,358
And then it notes that the, uh,

2834
01:18:24,358 --> 01:18:25,793
another piece of feedback, the

2835
01:18:25,793 --> 01:18:28,280
grant agreements require, um,

2836
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:29,530
that they submit the final

2837
01:18:29,530 --> 01:18:30,998
quarter report on JUNE 30th,

2838
01:18:30,998 --> 01:18:31,966
but they have to expand the

2839
01:18:31,966 --> 01:18:33,834
grant through JUNE 30th, so

2840
01:18:33,834 --> 01:18:35,870
they feel like the deadline is

2841
01:18:35,870 --> 01:18:37,906
challenging since On the end of

2842
01:18:37,906 --> 01:18:38,272
a quarter. And they don

2843
01:18:38,272 --> 01:18:39,808
t have

2844
01:18:39,808 --> 01:18:40,274
all the expenses and receipts

2845
01:18:40,274 --> 01:18:40,708
talent yet. I

2846
01:18:40,708 --> 01:18:40,808
m so, I

2847
01:18:40,808 --> 01:18:41,342
m

2848
01:18:41,342 --> 01:18:41,643
assuming that there

2849
01:18:41,643 --> 01:18:42,760
s a way

2850
01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:42,977
that you

2851
01:18:42,977 --> 01:18:44,440
ve addressed this with

2852
01:18:44,440 --> 01:18:47,440
other grantees, but just wanted

2853
01:18:51,190 --> 01:18:52,419
to share that as well. Sorry,

2854
01:18:52,419 --> 01:18:53,554
um, was there a question there

2855
01:18:53,554 --> 01:18:53,655
that you, right, so if we

2856
01:18:53,655 --> 01:18:54,889
re

2857
01:18:54,889 --> 01:18:56,390
telling them they have to

2858
01:18:56,390 --> 01:18:59,193
submit the final quarter report

2859
01:18:59,193 --> 01:19:00,261
on JUNE 30th, which is the end

2860
01:19:00,261 --> 01:19:00,362
of that cycle and they don

2861
01:19:00,362 --> 01:19:02,960
t

2862
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:04,565
have receipts yet, is there a

2863
01:19:04,565 --> 01:19:05,866
way that they can comply, uh,

2864
01:19:05,866 --> 01:19:06,735
they feel like that that

2865
01:19:06,735 --> 01:19:06,967
deadline can be challenging. I,

2866
01:19:06,967 --> 01:19:07,401
I don

2867
01:19:07,401 --> 01:19:07,801
t know if we

2868
01:19:07,801 --> 01:19:09,603
re making

2869
01:19:09,603 --> 01:19:09,770
any changes to that process as

2870
01:19:09,770 --> 01:19:11,606
you

2871
01:19:11,606 --> 01:19:13,475
re streamlining. Yeah,

2872
01:19:13,475 --> 01:19:15,876
thank you for that question. Uh,

2873
01:19:15,876 --> 01:19:16,845
so the end of your financial

2874
01:19:16,845 --> 01:19:18,546
deadlines actually come to us

2875
01:19:18,546 --> 01:19:20,848
from the this city, um, this

2876
01:19:20,848 --> 01:19:22,116
year, for instance, the

2877
01:19:22,116 --> 01:19:24,116
deadline to reimburse

2878
01:19:24,151 --> 01:19:26,453
organizations is AUGUST 5th, um,

2879
01:19:26,453 --> 01:19:27,988
the end of your reports were

2880
01:19:27,988 --> 01:19:29,390
actually due JULY 7th. We, we

2881
01:19:29,390 --> 01:19:29,890
make sure that we don

2882
01:19:29,890 --> 01:19:31,759
t have

2883
01:19:31,759 --> 01:19:34,628
the report due at the very end

2884
01:19:34,628 --> 01:19:36,130
of the grant period, um, and

2885
01:19:36,130 --> 01:19:37,665
then we ask organizations, I

2886
01:19:37,665 --> 01:19:39,433
think this year it was probably

2887
01:19:39,433 --> 01:19:40,267
early JUNE, Sarah might correct

2888
01:19:40,267 --> 01:19:43,137
me, um, to give us a heads up

2889
01:19:43,137 --> 01:19:44,205
if they need an extension. So

2890
01:19:44,205 --> 01:19:45,973
several of our organizations

2891
01:19:45,973 --> 01:19:47,408
did let us know in advance they

2892
01:19:47,408 --> 01:19:49,744
would be submitting their

2893
01:19:49,744 --> 01:19:51,145
materials JULY 15th, um, but we

2894
01:19:51,145 --> 01:19:51,712
are a bit constrained by just

2895
01:19:51,712 --> 01:19:52,780
the city

2896
01:19:52,780 --> 01:19:54,181
s kind of

2897
01:19:54,181 --> 01:19:55,950
reimbursement deadlines, um,

2898
01:19:55,950 --> 01:19:56,951
but hopefully that, that

2899
01:19:56,951 --> 01:19:58,353
organization that might have,

2900
01:19:58,353 --> 01:19:59,787
um, thought that they had to

2901
01:19:59,787 --> 01:20:01,756
have everything turned in by

2902
01:20:01,756 --> 01:20:03,657
JUNE 30th. Hopefully they, they

2903
01:20:03,657 --> 01:20:06,930
worked with us to, um, you know,

2904
01:20:06,930 --> 01:20:06,760
have it in by, by JULY 15th.

2905
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:07,528
Excellent, and I think you

2906
01:20:07,528 --> 01:20:08,463
re

2907
01:20:08,463 --> 01:20:09,965
gonna be doing some education

2908
01:20:09,965 --> 01:20:10,998
as you roll all of this out, uh,

2909
01:20:10,998 --> 01:20:13,998
because some of these These

2910
01:20:14,501 --> 01:20:15,436
groups are of Fairly large and

2911
01:20:15,436 --> 01:20:17,436
long-standing organizations,

2912
01:20:17,472 --> 01:20:18,606
but they still having some, um,

2913
01:20:18,606 --> 01:20:19,341
you know, challenges with

2914
01:20:19,341 --> 01:20:20,774
understanding how to, how to,

2915
01:20:20,774 --> 01:20:20,975
they want to comply, make sure

2916
01:20:20,975 --> 01:20:22,142
they

2917
01:20:22,142 --> 01:20:23,544
re doing everything right.

2918
01:20:23,544 --> 01:20:23,711
So so, uh, I appreciate that

2919
01:20:23,711 --> 01:20:25,145
you

2920
01:20:25,145 --> 01:20:26,448
re gonna be having, uh,

2921
01:20:26,448 --> 01:20:26,947
sessions and webinars to help

2922
01:20:26,947 --> 01:20:27,147
people understand what

2923
01:20:27,147 --> 01:20:27,681
s this

2924
01:20:27,681 --> 01:20:27,781
new approach and how we

2925
01:20:27,781 --> 01:20:29,450
re

2926
01:20:29,450 --> 01:20:30,885
going to make this work, uh,

2927
01:20:30,885 --> 01:20:30,985
and I, I will also say I won

2928
01:20:30,985 --> 01:20:32,720
t

2929
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,122
belabor this, but I, I have

2930
01:20:35,122 --> 01:20:36,590
heard that the payment process

2931
01:20:36,590 --> 01:20:38,125
change in the past few years,

2932
01:20:38,125 --> 01:20:39,930
um, which I know did not come

2933
01:20:39,930 --> 01:20:39,493
out of dhcd, but I

2934
01:20:39,493 --> 01:20:39,593
ve, I

2935
01:20:39,593 --> 01:20:41,161
ve

2936
01:20:41,161 --> 01:20:43,964
been hearing that some feedback

2937
01:20:43,964 --> 01:20:46,834
on that, especially given Some

2938
01:20:46,834 --> 01:20:48,302
of the nonprofits who have not

2939
01:20:48,302 --> 01:20:49,271
received timely timely funding

2940
01:20:49,271 --> 01:20:51,671
related to food insecurity,

2941
01:20:51,672 --> 01:20:53,173
health services, and housing,

2942
01:20:53,173 --> 01:20:55,900
in particular have been

2943
01:20:55,900 --> 01:20:55,276
challenging for them, uh, and I

2944
01:20:55,276 --> 01:20:55,610
know you

2945
01:20:55,610 --> 01:20:56,110
ve worked with

2946
01:20:56,110 --> 01:20:56,378
organizations, so I

2947
01:20:56,378 --> 01:20:57,846
ll just say

2948
01:20:57,846 --> 01:20:58,846
if you are a nonprofit

2949
01:20:58,846 --> 01:21:00,781
listening, please feel free to

2950
01:21:00,781 --> 01:21:02,216
reach out to your, uh, you know,

2951
01:21:02,216 --> 01:21:05,216
your program manager for help

2952
01:21:07,655 --> 01:21:10,791
if needed. Ok. Thank you so

2953
01:21:10,791 --> 01:21:10,925
much for this. I think we have,

2954
01:21:10,925 --> 01:21:11,759
I

2955
01:21:11,759 --> 01:21:13,195
ve answered these questions,

2956
01:21:13,195 --> 01:21:13,394
but if, uh, once we

2957
01:21:13,394 --> 01:21:15,950
re done

2958
01:21:15,950 --> 01:21:15,729
going through the line, if you

2959
01:21:15,729 --> 01:21:16,764
have any additional questions

2960
01:21:16,764 --> 01:21:17,164
for me in terms of the feedback

2961
01:21:17,164 --> 01:21:18,566
I provided, I

2962
01:21:18,566 --> 01:21:18,699
d be open to it.

2963
01:21:18,699 --> 01:21:19,935
I

2964
01:21:19,935 --> 01:21:23,535
m going to now move to

2965
01:21:23,971 --> 01:21:26,371
COUNCILMAN Valerie. He council

2966
01:21:29,843 --> 01:21:31,745
member shop. I think she MAY

2967
01:21:31,745 --> 01:21:34,480
need more time, uh. Are you

2968
01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:36,448
ready, Councilor Shaw? Ok,

2969
01:21:37,551 --> 01:21:40,187
perfect. Oh, thank you to it

2970
01:21:40,187 --> 01:21:42,556
for doing that. Um, and also I

2971
01:21:42,556 --> 01:21:44,858
just, uh, wanna echo my

2972
01:21:44,858 --> 01:21:47,194
colleagues and, um, thank you

2973
01:21:47,194 --> 01:21:49,296
for this presentation. Um, this

2974
01:21:49,296 --> 01:21:50,531
is a very thoughtful, uh,

2975
01:21:50,531 --> 01:21:51,432
redesign, and I appreciate all

2976
01:21:51,432 --> 01:21:55,320
the work that has gone into

2977
01:21:57,171 --> 01:22:00,507
this. Um, So I do have a few

2978
01:22:00,507 --> 01:22:02,509
questions when, when you shared,

2979
01:22:02,509 --> 01:22:04,578
uh, about the community panel

2980
01:22:04,578 --> 01:22:06,800
that does the evaluation, um,

2981
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:09,800
and makes the selection. Can

2982
01:22:09,617 --> 01:22:13,421
you share more about Uh, who is

2983
01:22:13,421 --> 01:22:14,488
that? How many people are these

2984
01:22:14,488 --> 01:22:15,923
real community fo folks like,

2985
01:22:15,923 --> 01:22:19,523
can you share some more details

2986
01:22:19,627 --> 01:22:22,960
on that? Yeah, thank you for

2987
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:23,864
this question. So yes, the

2988
01:22:23,864 --> 01:22:25,800
community panel is, um, a

2989
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:26,934
really important part of the

2990
01:22:26,934 --> 01:22:29,170
evaluation for both of these

2991
01:22:29,170 --> 01:22:30,604
grant programs, the mini grant

2992
01:22:30,604 --> 01:22:32,140
program and the Community

2993
01:22:32,140 --> 01:22:34,540
Services and Enrichment Grant

2994
01:22:35,376 --> 01:22:38,746
Program, we put out a call each

2995
01:22:38,746 --> 01:22:40,314
year to, um, both city

2996
01:22:40,314 --> 01:22:42,250
employees be commissions and

2997
01:22:42,250 --> 01:22:45,250
boards and then to the

2998
01:22:45,319 --> 01:22:46,453
community at large, um, asking

2999
01:22:46,453 --> 01:22:49,890
for interested people to serve

3000
01:22:49,890 --> 01:22:50,591
as panel reviewers. This past

3001
01:22:50,591 --> 01:22:52,590
year, I believe, and I can

3002
01:22:52,590 --> 01:22:54,428
follow up to make sure that

3003
01:22:54,428 --> 01:22:57,428
this number is correct. I

3004
01:22:57,464 --> 01:23:00,340
believe we had 28 panel members

3005
01:23:00,340 --> 01:23:01,602
that reviewed, um, something

3006
01:23:01,602 --> 01:23:03,537
like 51 applications, and as I

3007
01:23:03,537 --> 01:23:04,972
mentioned, 48 of the

3008
01:23:04,972 --> 01:23:06,540
applications were selected for

3009
01:23:06,540 --> 01:23:08,940
funding, um, those community

3010
01:23:10,110 --> 01:23:12,580
members. Um, they typically are

3011
01:23:12,580 --> 01:23:14,490
a mix of city staff from across

3012
01:23:14,490 --> 01:23:15,816
different departments, um,

3013
01:23:15,816 --> 01:23:18,186
about half of the 28 from

3014
01:23:18,186 --> 01:23:19,820
across, uh, departments, and

3015
01:23:19,820 --> 01:23:21,156
then the rest are Rockville

3016
01:23:21,156 --> 01:23:22,523
residents, some who serve on

3017
01:23:22,523 --> 01:23:23,958
boards and commissions and some

3018
01:23:23,958 --> 01:23:26,394
who are just serving as

3019
01:23:26,394 --> 01:23:28,562
volunteers from the community,

3020
01:23:28,562 --> 01:23:29,330
um, we do ask them to, um, make

3021
01:23:29,330 --> 01:23:30,264
sure that we don

3022
01:23:30,264 --> 01:23:31,298
t have any

3023
01:23:31,298 --> 01:23:31,398
conflicts of interest. They

3024
01:23:31,398 --> 01:23:33,100
re

3025
01:23:33,100 --> 01:23:34,636
not, for instance, board

3026
01:23:34,636 --> 01:23:35,300
members of a nonprofit that

3027
01:23:35,300 --> 01:23:36,403
s

3028
01:23:36,403 --> 01:23:39,730
asking for funding, uh, we

3029
01:23:39,730 --> 01:23:41,410
provided training for them. And

3030
01:23:41,410 --> 01:23:43,878
then they lead this process,

3031
01:23:43,878 --> 01:23:45,312
they each do an individual

3032
01:23:45,312 --> 01:23:47,712
review of every application

3033
01:23:47,781 --> 01:23:49,250
they come together in panels to

3034
01:23:49,250 --> 01:23:52,520
discuss those reviews and reach

3035
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:53,187
consensus, and then they make

3036
01:23:53,187 --> 01:23:54,922
recommendations on which grants

3037
01:23:54,922 --> 01:23:57,424
should be funded, and we make

3038
01:23:57,424 --> 01:23:58,926
an effort to recruit people who

3039
01:23:58,926 --> 01:24:00,728
have lived experience in some

3040
01:24:00,728 --> 01:24:02,697
of these services and

3041
01:24:02,697 --> 01:24:03,964
backgrounds as well as people

3042
01:24:03,964 --> 01:24:05,499
with maybe professional

3043
01:24:05,499 --> 01:24:06,166
expertise or um direct

3044
01:24:06,166 --> 01:24:09,166
expertise in the services as

3045
01:24:09,937 --> 01:24:13,700
well. Can you share a bit more

3046
01:24:13,700 --> 01:24:14,775
on how you are insuring, um,

3047
01:24:14,775 --> 01:24:16,310
that the residents that are

3048
01:24:16,310 --> 01:24:18,479
making the decisions on, on

3049
01:24:18,479 --> 01:24:20,915
these grants, um, have the

3050
01:24:20,915 --> 01:24:22,750
lived experience. Yeah, we can

3051
01:24:22,750 --> 01:24:25,219
share a copy of the interest

3052
01:24:25,219 --> 01:24:26,687
form, it actually asks them to

3053
01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:29,560
identify and why do they want

3054
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:30,358
to be a volunteer on the panel?

3055
01:24:30,358 --> 01:24:32,860
Do they have lived experience

3056
01:24:32,860 --> 01:24:35,429
in one or more of the areas, do

3057
01:24:35,429 --> 01:24:36,797
they have a background, um,

3058
01:24:36,797 --> 01:24:38,199
with professional expertise, um,

3059
01:24:38,199 --> 01:24:39,600
so we can certainly share the

3060
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:40,601
interest form that ask those

3061
01:24:40,601 --> 01:24:41,100
questions, and then it

3062
01:24:41,100 --> 01:24:43,100
s really

3063
01:24:43,404 --> 01:24:44,973
just a screening, we let people

3064
01:24:44,973 --> 01:24:46,307
as they are interested, we want

3065
01:24:46,307 --> 01:24:47,341
them to volunteer, we let them

3066
01:24:47,341 --> 01:24:48,542
volunteer, but we just want to

3067
01:24:48,542 --> 01:24:48,809
make sure that we

3068
01:24:48,809 --> 01:24:50,809
re screening

3069
01:24:50,946 --> 01:24:52,479
for, um, like I had those

3070
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,683
conflicts of interest to make

3071
01:24:54,683 --> 01:24:55,316
sure that, um, the panel

3072
01:24:55,316 --> 01:24:57,716
members are participating in

3073
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,920
that way. Um, I, I appreciate

3074
01:25:02,924 --> 01:25:05,859
that process, um, I think.

3075
01:25:05,859 --> 01:25:07,728
There are some barriers to

3076
01:25:07,728 --> 01:25:10,128
engagement that, uh, MAY

3077
01:25:10,130 --> 01:25:11,565
prevent some folks that have a

3078
01:25:11,565 --> 01:25:14,935
lot of lived experience to even

3079
01:25:14,935 --> 01:25:16,971
be able to know about this type

3080
01:25:16,971 --> 01:25:18,939
of opportunity, especially if

3081
01:25:18,939 --> 01:25:20,708
they are self-selecting, um,

3082
01:25:20,708 --> 01:25:21,175
and, uh, so I think it

3083
01:25:21,175 --> 01:25:23,175
s

3084
01:25:23,310 --> 01:25:25,713
important to just think about.

3085
01:25:25,713 --> 01:25:29,313
Equity in, in that sense, um,

3086
01:25:30,500 --> 01:25:32,553
and. That would be one area

3087
01:25:32,553 --> 01:25:33,687
where, um. It

3088
01:25:33,687 --> 01:25:35,900
s, I would like

3089
01:25:35,900 --> 01:25:35,256
to just learn a lot more. I

3090
01:25:35,256 --> 01:25:35,522
won

3091
01:25:35,522 --> 01:25:36,891
t, I won

3092
01:25:36,891 --> 01:25:38,792
t take up the

3093
01:25:38,792 --> 01:25:41,161
meeting to do that, um, but I,

3094
01:25:41,161 --> 01:25:44,640
I think, uh, being able to just

3095
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:45,967
make sure that, uh, this

3096
01:25:45,967 --> 01:25:48,967
opportunity is, is shared with

3097
01:25:49,403 --> 01:25:51,772
a broad, um, diverse amount of

3098
01:25:51,772 --> 01:25:52,600
people, um, and it

3099
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:54,600
s usually

3100
01:25:54,642 --> 01:25:55,710
our, um, boards and commissions,

3101
01:25:55,710 --> 01:25:57,770
the volunteers, they

3102
01:25:57,770 --> 01:25:59,770
re very,

3103
01:25:59,480 --> 01:26:00,916
very engaged and will usually,

3104
01:26:00,916 --> 01:26:03,951
uh, be the first to respond,

3105
01:26:03,951 --> 01:26:07,551
and, um, Just making sure that

3106
01:26:07,955 --> 01:26:09,423
we can also, um. Uh, make sure

3107
01:26:09,423 --> 01:26:11,992
that there is diversity among

3108
01:26:11,992 --> 01:26:13,561
the lived experience that is

3109
01:26:13,561 --> 01:26:15,961
shared or provide opportunity.

3110
01:26:20,434 --> 01:26:23,437
Um, The third question I had,

3111
01:26:23,437 --> 01:26:25,573
um, so I see youth and family

3112
01:26:25,573 --> 01:26:29,173
success, um, and I also know

3113
01:26:30,911 --> 01:26:32,413
that. Um, and I saw senior

3114
01:26:32,413 --> 01:26:32,846
services, um, lower down, I

3115
01:26:32,846 --> 01:26:34,583
m

3116
01:26:34,583 --> 01:26:34,748
one of the continued areas that

3117
01:26:34,748 --> 01:26:36,748
we

3118
01:26:37,418 --> 01:26:38,452
re focusing on. And I

3119
01:26:38,452 --> 01:26:38,552
m, I

3120
01:26:38,552 --> 01:26:40,552
m

3121
01:26:40,888 --> 01:26:43,157
just wondering if we could look

3122
01:26:43,157 --> 01:26:46,260
at adding seniors to the youth

3123
01:26:46,260 --> 01:26:47,494
and youth, seniors, and family

3124
01:26:47,494 --> 01:26:49,496
success, and why I would say

3125
01:26:49,496 --> 01:26:52,366
this is because I know that

3126
01:26:52,366 --> 01:26:53,200
seniors are among, uh, one of

3127
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:55,600
the growing like homeless

3128
01:26:56,170 --> 01:26:58,170
populations, uh, food

3129
01:26:58,672 --> 01:26:59,730
insecurity, um, also, it

3130
01:26:59,730 --> 01:27:01,800
s a

3131
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:03,377
growing renter population as

3132
01:27:03,377 --> 01:27:03,577
well, um, that, uh, you know,

3133
01:27:03,577 --> 01:27:04,879
there

3134
01:27:04,879 --> 01:27:07,883
s a lot of growing needs

3135
01:27:07,883 --> 01:27:08,415
among seniors. Um, and when we

3136
01:27:08,415 --> 01:27:10,415
say family, I

3137
01:27:11,510 --> 01:27:13,487
m not sure if Um,

3138
01:27:13,487 --> 01:27:15,789
You know, that that would cover,

3139
01:27:15,789 --> 01:27:17,725
but, uh, I would say since we

3140
01:27:17,725 --> 01:27:19,627
are calling out youth for a lot

3141
01:27:19,627 --> 01:27:22,630
of the same reasons, um, I

3142
01:27:22,630 --> 01:27:23,531
would also just suggest also,

3143
01:27:23,531 --> 01:27:27,131
um, also calling out seniors so

3144
01:27:28,903 --> 01:27:31,903
youth, seniors, and family. Um.

3145
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:34,508
And And I know that, uh, that,

3146
01:27:34,508 --> 01:27:35,643
you know, that is an area we

3147
01:27:35,643 --> 01:27:38,430
have certainly continuing to

3148
01:27:39,130 --> 01:27:40,581
work on, but, uh, just

3149
01:27:40,581 --> 01:27:40,748
Projecting the needs of seniors,

3150
01:27:40,748 --> 01:27:41,482
it

3151
01:27:41,482 --> 01:27:42,850
s just, it

3152
01:27:42,850 --> 01:27:45,250
s just a really

3153
01:27:45,252 --> 01:27:46,186
growing, um, issue that I think

3154
01:27:46,186 --> 01:27:47,488
that we should further invest

3155
01:27:47,488 --> 01:27:51,688
in or at least call out and

3156
01:27:54,328 --> 01:27:57,328
identify here. Uh, my fourth

3157
01:27:57,932 --> 01:28:00,100
question, uh, is. Um, I, I know

3158
01:28:00,100 --> 01:28:03,700
in the briefing book, we talked

3159
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:06,907
about, um. The Urban Institute.

3160
01:28:06,907 --> 01:28:08,475
The framework that the Urban

3161
01:28:08,475 --> 01:28:09,677
Institute uses. Can you share

3162
01:28:09,677 --> 01:28:12,913
some more details on that in

3163
01:28:12,913 --> 01:28:15,416
terms of mobility. And the

3164
01:28:15,416 --> 01:28:18,520
approach using that? Yes, so

3165
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:18,152
this is the Urban Institute

3166
01:28:18,152 --> 01:28:18,852
s

3167
01:28:18,852 --> 01:28:20,154
Economic Mobility, or I

3168
01:28:20,154 --> 01:28:22,154
m sorry,

3169
01:28:25,292 --> 01:28:26,260
upward mobility framework. Is

3170
01:28:26,260 --> 01:28:27,194
that what you

3171
01:28:27,194 --> 01:28:28,629
re referring to?

3172
01:28:28,629 --> 01:28:30,565
Sure, yeah, I can share a

3173
01:28:30,565 --> 01:28:31,599
little bit more about that in

3174
01:28:31,599 --> 01:28:32,499
the staff report too, there

3175
01:28:32,499 --> 01:28:34,368
s,

3176
01:28:34,368 --> 01:28:36,300
um, a little bit more

3177
01:28:36,300 --> 01:28:37,238
information about the upward

3178
01:28:37,238 --> 01:28:39,240
mobility framework, um, but

3179
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:41,760
this is, as you noted,

3180
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:43,110
something that was developed

3181
01:28:43,110 --> 01:28:45,790
through research with the Urban

3182
01:28:45,790 --> 01:28:45,512
Institute. It

3183
01:28:45,512 --> 01:28:46,113
s an

3184
01:28:46,113 --> 01:28:46,314
evidence-based foundation

3185
01:28:46,314 --> 01:28:48,314
that

3186
01:28:48,649 --> 01:28:50,649
s, um, identifying

3187
01:28:50,718 --> 01:28:52,987
strategies that have been shown

3188
01:28:52,987 --> 01:28:55,987
to support upward mobility and

3189
01:28:56,323 --> 01:28:59,323
racial equality, um, The city

3190
01:28:59,493 --> 01:29:00,961
has been participating in a few

3191
01:29:00,961 --> 01:29:03,361
different regional efforts that

3192
01:29:04,365 --> 01:29:06,400
are aiming to align us with the

3193
01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:07,501
upward mobility framework,

3194
01:29:07,501 --> 01:29:08,869
including, um, there

3195
01:29:08,869 --> 01:29:10,304
s been, um,

3196
01:29:10,304 --> 01:29:11,605
work through the, um, I

3197
01:29:11,605 --> 01:29:11,740
m sorry,

3198
01:29:11,740 --> 01:29:12,339
I

3199
01:29:12,339 --> 01:29:13,975
m thinking in acronyms right

3200
01:29:13,975 --> 01:29:16,760
now, and I usually try to spell

3201
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:17,978
those out, but cog and gear and

3202
01:29:17,978 --> 01:29:21,215
maybe someone could jump in and

3203
01:29:21,215 --> 01:29:22,850
provide them the more inclusive,

3204
01:29:22,850 --> 01:29:23,417
longer definitions of those two,

3205
01:29:23,417 --> 01:29:25,817
but the upward mobility

3206
01:29:27,321 --> 01:29:29,721
framework. Is that, um,

3207
01:29:29,990 --> 01:29:30,190
evidence-based, uh, framework

3208
01:29:30,190 --> 01:29:31,992
that

3209
01:29:31,992 --> 01:29:32,927
s trying to identify

3210
01:29:32,927 --> 01:29:33,994
specific strategies and

3211
01:29:33,994 --> 01:29:36,394
predictors that are showing

3212
01:29:38,766 --> 01:29:41,502
upward mobility. Ok. Um, yeah,

3213
01:29:41,502 --> 01:29:43,804
I would, I would, uh, maybe at

3214
01:29:43,804 --> 01:29:44,905
a later point would just like

3215
01:29:44,905 --> 01:29:45,706
to understand how that

3216
01:29:45,706 --> 01:29:47,706
s being

3217
01:29:48,108 --> 01:29:49,777
applied, um, to the decision

3218
01:29:49,777 --> 01:29:51,780
making. Um, I understand

3219
01:29:51,780 --> 01:29:52,147
generally what it is and the

3220
01:29:52,147 --> 01:29:54,348
concept, but I would just like

3221
01:29:54,348 --> 01:29:55,349
to learn how is it actually

3222
01:29:55,349 --> 01:29:56,317
being implemented and applied.

3223
01:29:56,317 --> 01:29:56,483
What are the results that

3224
01:29:56,483 --> 01:29:58,483
you

3225
01:30:00,421 --> 01:30:01,890
re getting? How is it, um.

3226
01:30:01,890 --> 01:30:02,560
Influencing the decisions that

3227
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:03,691
you

3228
01:30:03,691 --> 01:30:04,458
re making, um, just some

3229
01:30:04,458 --> 01:30:06,858
more detail on the

3230
01:30:10,465 --> 01:30:12,865
implementation. Um, and then.

3231
01:30:13,968 --> 01:30:15,737
Uh, I, I, I noticed that, um,

3232
01:30:15,737 --> 01:30:16,471
just like, uh, one of my

3233
01:30:16,471 --> 01:30:19,740
colleagues had stated that I

3234
01:30:19,740 --> 01:30:20,575
noticed that, uh, household

3235
01:30:20,575 --> 01:30:22,420
stability was being used and

3236
01:30:22,420 --> 01:30:23,510
then housing stability was

3237
01:30:23,510 --> 01:30:25,814
being used. Um, and so I

3238
01:30:25,814 --> 01:30:27,615
wondered a, a little bit about

3239
01:30:27,615 --> 01:30:30,551
the terminology, and I, I saw

3240
01:30:30,551 --> 01:30:32,820
that household. Um, I know that

3241
01:30:32,820 --> 01:30:35,656
housing stability, the way that

3242
01:30:35,656 --> 01:30:37,157
we have defined it, um, in

3243
01:30:37,157 --> 01:30:39,927
previous work sessions was one

3244
01:30:39,927 --> 01:30:41,395
way, and then I noticed housing,

3245
01:30:41,395 --> 01:30:43,795
household stability was used

3246
01:30:45,399 --> 01:30:47,334
here, which, um, which includes

3247
01:30:47,334 --> 01:30:49,270
utilities and includes, um,

3248
01:30:49,270 --> 01:30:51,380
food, um, some of the examples

3249
01:30:51,380 --> 01:30:53,674
that were provided, and so I

3250
01:30:53,674 --> 01:30:56,674
got the sense that household

3251
01:30:57,440 --> 01:30:59,346
stability was, um Like

3252
01:30:59,346 --> 01:31:01,715
financial stability for our,

3253
01:31:01,715 --> 01:31:03,651
our households, um, and I do, I

3254
01:31:03,651 --> 01:31:06,510
do think that community

3255
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:09,924
stability is a great term, uh,

3256
01:31:09,924 --> 01:31:12,826
I would, um, seeing here that

3257
01:31:12,826 --> 01:31:14,762
we use community enrichment and

3258
01:31:14,762 --> 01:31:16,564
Community belonging, um, as

3259
01:31:16,564 --> 01:31:19,733
well, so I, I just wonder if

3260
01:31:19,733 --> 01:31:21,101
there would be. I, I think

3261
01:31:21,101 --> 01:31:23,471
household stability is a very

3262
01:31:23,471 --> 01:31:24,471
clear word in terms of

3263
01:31:24,471 --> 01:31:26,774
household finances. Um, I would

3264
01:31:26,774 --> 01:31:27,908
just wonder if there would be

3265
01:31:27,908 --> 01:31:29,176
some confusion between

3266
01:31:29,176 --> 01:31:29,743
community stability and

3267
01:31:29,743 --> 01:31:30,811
community enrichment and

3268
01:31:30,811 --> 01:31:33,811
belonging, and I think, you

3269
01:31:35,349 --> 01:31:35,983
know, from Community members

3270
01:31:35,983 --> 01:31:37,785
oftentimes seeing community

3271
01:31:37,785 --> 01:31:39,154
belonging, connecting to their

3272
01:31:39,154 --> 01:31:39,420
housing stability, um, like if

3273
01:31:39,420 --> 01:31:40,655
you can

3274
01:31:40,655 --> 01:31:41,155
t afford to live here,

3275
01:31:41,155 --> 01:31:42,656
if you

3276
01:31:42,656 --> 01:31:45,125
re being priced out, um,

3277
01:31:45,125 --> 01:31:45,259
in a lot of ways, um, it

3278
01:31:45,259 --> 01:31:45,426
s,

3279
01:31:45,426 --> 01:31:46,460
it

3280
01:31:46,460 --> 01:31:46,894
s making folks feel like

3281
01:31:46,894 --> 01:31:47,895
they don

3282
01:31:47,895 --> 01:31:49,129
t belong and being

3283
01:31:49,129 --> 01:31:51,867
pushed out here in a, in a

3284
01:31:51,867 --> 01:31:53,834
broader sense. So I know there

3285
01:31:53,834 --> 01:31:55,903
is some confusion around that,

3286
01:31:55,903 --> 01:31:57,738
um, but, um, I would, I would

3287
01:31:57,738 --> 01:32:00,400
like to, you know, hear more

3288
01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:01,800
about that, the terminology

3289
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:03,310
around household stability, but

3290
01:32:03,310 --> 01:32:03,944
I did notice it was used

3291
01:32:03,944 --> 01:32:05,944
interchangeably with housing

3292
01:32:10,885 --> 01:32:13,153
stability. Um, You MAY wanna,

3293
01:32:13,153 --> 01:32:13,854
uh, well, could you give more

3294
01:32:13,854 --> 01:32:16,854
details on housing stability or.

3295
01:32:16,857 --> 01:32:19,194
Why you decided to originally

3296
01:32:19,194 --> 01:32:20,427
use that term. Yeah, Nick, Nick,

3297
01:32:20,427 --> 01:32:22,620
maybe you could put up the

3298
01:32:22,620 --> 01:32:22,763
chart that kind of shows the

3299
01:32:22,763 --> 01:32:23,630
modifiers underneath it, and I

3300
01:32:23,630 --> 01:32:23,497
think that

3301
01:32:23,497 --> 01:32:24,799
ll be the best way

3302
01:32:24,799 --> 01:32:24,899
to walk through it if you don

3303
01:32:24,899 --> 01:32:26,899
t

3304
01:32:29,304 --> 01:32:30,771
mind me suggesting that. Yeah,

3305
01:32:30,771 --> 01:32:32,640
uh, definitely. Um, so thank

3306
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:35,400
you for this question,

3307
01:32:35,509 --> 01:32:36,610
COUNCILMAN Bashaw. Uh, you are

3308
01:32:36,610 --> 01:32:38,379
correct that housing stability

3309
01:32:38,379 --> 01:32:40,247
and household stability. We we

3310
01:32:40,247 --> 01:32:43,247
are trying to differentiate the

3311
01:32:44,118 --> 01:32:47,210
two here, um, for us housing

3312
01:32:47,210 --> 01:32:48,757
stability is one of the

3313
01:32:48,757 --> 01:32:50,424
strategies that could support

3314
01:32:50,424 --> 01:32:53,424
household stability, um, as we

3315
01:32:53,894 --> 01:32:55,960
look at this chart though, um,

3316
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:57,298
not just housing policies or

3317
01:32:57,298 --> 01:32:58,799
housing services, so not just

3318
01:32:58,799 --> 01:33:00,799
Pre-eviction or foreclosure

3319
01:33:00,834 --> 01:33:02,169
support or rapid rehousing, but

3320
01:33:02,169 --> 01:33:04,205
also financial assistance, for

3321
01:33:04,205 --> 01:33:07,108
example, our basic needs access,

3322
01:33:07,108 --> 01:33:09,843
so, um, when we look for

3323
01:33:09,843 --> 01:33:11,278
example at what the city is

3324
01:33:11,278 --> 01:33:13,678
doing around housing programs

3325
01:33:13,714 --> 01:33:15,583
and housing services, we have

3326
01:33:15,583 --> 01:33:17,218
some goals around housing

3327
01:33:17,218 --> 01:33:19,618
stability that are very

3328
01:33:19,821 --> 01:33:21,488
specific to, um, affordable

3329
01:33:21,488 --> 01:33:22,824
housing, housing access,

3330
01:33:22,824 --> 01:33:24,725
housing development, um, and

3331
01:33:24,725 --> 01:33:25,392
then when we would think about

3332
01:33:25,392 --> 01:33:28,329
the impact focus area and we

3333
01:33:28,329 --> 01:33:30,331
think about how Household

3334
01:33:30,331 --> 01:33:32,333
stability, um, I believe when

3335
01:33:32,333 --> 01:33:34,668
we, um, selected this term, we

3336
01:33:34,668 --> 01:33:36,570
were trained to look at what

3337
01:33:36,570 --> 01:33:38,405
our nonprofit organizations are

3338
01:33:38,405 --> 01:33:40,405
frequently already measuring,

3339
01:33:40,841 --> 01:33:41,675
and what are they connecting to

3340
01:33:41,675 --> 01:33:44,750
other regional efforts to

3341
01:33:44,678 --> 01:33:45,614
measure, and so they often

3342
01:33:45,614 --> 01:33:46,680
measure these financial

3343
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:48,515
assistance or basic needs

3344
01:33:48,515 --> 01:33:50,886
assistance, they often measure

3345
01:33:50,886 --> 01:33:52,887
it in households, and then have

3346
01:33:52,887 --> 01:33:53,954
some of their own performance

3347
01:33:53,954 --> 01:33:55,155
measures around household

3348
01:33:55,155 --> 01:33:56,924
stability, so our hope with

3349
01:33:56,924 --> 01:33:58,993
this was to align it with What

3350
01:33:58,993 --> 01:34:00,261
some of our current providers

3351
01:34:00,261 --> 01:34:01,696
and nonprofit partners are kind

3352
01:34:01,696 --> 01:34:03,631
of already measuring and

3353
01:34:03,631 --> 01:34:03,764
reporting on across the region,

3354
01:34:03,764 --> 01:34:05,764
I

3355
01:34:06,330 --> 01:34:07,635
m hoping that that would be

3356
01:34:07,635 --> 01:34:09,571
more recognizable to them, um,

3357
01:34:09,571 --> 01:34:11,305
and then, as you know, housing

3358
01:34:11,305 --> 01:34:13,574
stability itself is kind of a

3359
01:34:13,574 --> 01:34:15,643
more specific, um, strategy

3360
01:34:15,643 --> 01:34:17,111
that is, um, encompassed in

3361
01:34:17,111 --> 01:34:20,180
this. I hope that answers that

3362
01:34:20,180 --> 01:34:22,317
question. Yes, that, that is

3363
01:34:22,317 --> 01:34:25,317
very helpful. So the household

3364
01:34:25,519 --> 01:34:27,187
stability is more of like an

3365
01:34:27,187 --> 01:34:30,187
industry term used within the

3366
01:34:30,357 --> 01:34:31,892
nonprofit sector. Yeah, and I

3367
01:34:31,892 --> 01:34:34,195
wonder if Sarah could comment

3368
01:34:34,195 --> 01:34:36,597
on this at all. Um, she works a

3369
01:34:36,597 --> 01:34:37,565
lot with our organizations on

3370
01:34:37,565 --> 01:34:39,660
identifying those metrics and

3371
01:34:39,660 --> 01:34:40,968
as she noted, we

3372
01:34:40,968 --> 01:34:42,336
re trying to,

3373
01:34:42,336 --> 01:34:43,871
um, help ensure that what we

3374
01:34:43,871 --> 01:34:45,306
measure in our grants at the

3375
01:34:45,306 --> 01:34:45,706
city wherever possible, it

3376
01:34:45,706 --> 01:34:47,208
s

3377
01:34:47,208 --> 01:34:49,109
connecting to things across the

3378
01:34:49,109 --> 01:34:51,479
region, um, so for instance,

3379
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:53,480
with food, I know that like the

3380
01:34:53,480 --> 01:34:55,349
Montgomery County Office of

3381
01:34:55,349 --> 01:34:56,784
Food Resilience and the

3382
01:34:56,784 --> 01:34:57,510
Montgomery County Food Systems,

3383
01:34:57,510 --> 01:34:58,220
um, that

3384
01:34:58,220 --> 01:35:00,421
s kind of a coalition

3385
01:35:00,421 --> 01:35:00,521
of food providers. Um, they

3386
01:35:00,521 --> 01:35:02,521
re

3387
01:35:02,756 --> 01:35:04,658
measuring a lot in terms of

3388
01:35:04,658 --> 01:35:05,526
household served, household

3389
01:35:05,526 --> 01:35:07,294
stability, household access.

3390
01:35:07,294 --> 01:35:11,494
Sarah, did you want to speak to

3391
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:14,902
that any further? Um, no, not

3392
01:35:14,902 --> 01:35:16,700
really. I think like you

3393
01:35:16,700 --> 01:35:19,273
covered it, but, um, yeah, I

3394
01:35:19,273 --> 01:35:21,673
think Household stability is

3395
01:35:25,312 --> 01:35:25,980
Like. Just a word like we use

3396
01:35:25,980 --> 01:35:27,715
that I think encompasses a lot

3397
01:35:27,715 --> 01:35:28,480
of These things we

3398
01:35:28,480 --> 01:35:30,480
ve talked

3399
01:35:33,454 --> 01:35:34,855
about, but, uh I think there is

3400
01:35:34,855 --> 01:35:35,556
flexibility to maybe be a

3401
01:35:35,556 --> 01:35:35,723
little bit more encompassing. I

3402
01:35:35,723 --> 01:35:37,723
don

3403
01:35:37,758 --> 01:35:37,859
t know. Whereas we

3404
01:35:37,859 --> 01:35:39,693
re

3405
01:35:39,693 --> 01:35:41,630
hearing, perhaps making sure we,

3406
01:35:41,630 --> 01:35:43,630
we definitely define these in

3407
01:35:43,630 --> 01:35:45,650
our application and help

3408
01:35:45,650 --> 01:35:46,800
materials, um, I think that has

3409
01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:49,800
actually really helpful in this

3410
01:35:51,380 --> 01:35:52,907
new design to think about. Um,

3411
01:35:52,907 --> 01:35:53,942
Our partners and the

3412
01:35:53,942 --> 01:35:54,842
terminology that they

3413
01:35:54,842 --> 01:35:55,342
re using

3414
01:35:55,342 --> 01:35:56,343
and we

3415
01:35:56,343 --> 01:35:58,743
re reflecting that in

3416
01:35:59,146 --> 01:36:01,115
our process. I think that helps

3417
01:36:01,115 --> 01:36:02,490
to streamline it, um, so I, I

3418
01:36:02,490 --> 01:36:02,183
m,

3419
01:36:02,183 --> 01:36:04,183
I

3420
01:36:04,251 --> 01:36:06,186
m really happy that you, uh.

3421
01:36:06,186 --> 01:36:08,722
Are taking some of the terms

3422
01:36:08,722 --> 01:36:09,230
that the our partners are using,

3423
01:36:09,230 --> 01:36:11,230
um, and it

3424
01:36:13,930 --> 01:36:15,620
s reflected here. Um,

3425
01:36:15,620 --> 01:36:16,931
the The last point that I would

3426
01:36:16,931 --> 01:36:20,531
say is just going back to

3427
01:36:22,370 --> 01:36:25,370
evaluation. Um. It would be

3428
01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:28,209
helpful. Um, for us to get just

3429
01:36:28,209 --> 01:36:29,210
some of the broader data, like,

3430
01:36:29,210 --> 01:36:31,610
for example, economic stability

3431
01:36:33,648 --> 01:36:35,549
or Household stability, and I

3432
01:36:35,549 --> 01:36:37,451
know pre-eviction services was

3433
01:36:37,451 --> 01:36:39,954
one of the items, but also for

3434
01:36:39,954 --> 01:36:42,356
us to think about this in terms

3435
01:36:42,356 --> 01:36:43,958
of, um, just the general data

3436
01:36:43,958 --> 01:36:46,958
in in Brockville, like, for

3437
01:36:47,950 --> 01:36:48,529
example, I know that evictions

3438
01:36:48,529 --> 01:36:50,929
have increased for Rockville,

3439
01:36:50,931 --> 01:36:52,433
or, um, and to get some of the

3440
01:36:52,433 --> 01:36:54,833
background informa just like

3441
01:36:54,835 --> 01:36:56,704
the general data for that er

3442
01:36:56,704 --> 01:36:58,639
for that particular topic area,

3443
01:36:58,639 --> 01:37:02,643
i think is helpful for us to

3444
01:37:02,643 --> 01:37:04,440
make, um. Decisions around, uh,

3445
01:37:04,440 --> 01:37:06,347
the nonpro profits that were

3446
01:37:06,347 --> 01:37:07,848
giving grants to, and, um, just

3447
01:37:07,848 --> 01:37:09,250
to evaluate the work and the

3448
01:37:09,250 --> 01:37:09,617
services in general. And I

3449
01:37:09,617 --> 01:37:10,918
m

3450
01:37:10,918 --> 01:37:13,318
not saying nonprofits should.

3451
01:37:13,888 --> 01:37:15,122
Be able to fix all of our

3452
01:37:15,122 --> 01:37:15,389
problems because, um, that,

3453
01:37:15,389 --> 01:37:16,423
that won

3454
01:37:16,423 --> 01:37:18,826
t happen, but just to

3455
01:37:18,826 --> 01:37:20,928
have some of that broader

3456
01:37:20,928 --> 01:37:24,265
context, um, uh, just for us to

3457
01:37:24,265 --> 01:37:27,265
make decisions. But this is

3458
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:31,680
fantastic, and thank you. Thank

3459
01:37:31,372 --> 01:37:32,374
you. Uh, Councilor Burke, I, I,

3460
01:37:32,374 --> 01:37:34,742
uh, just wanted to flag, I know

3461
01:37:34,742 --> 01:37:36,343
MR. Mihali asked us to speak to

3462
01:37:36,343 --> 01:37:38,979
these 3 areas. I assume that

3463
01:37:38,979 --> 01:37:41,382
you are. Based on your feedback,

3464
01:37:41,382 --> 01:37:44,382
good with 1, but you want

3465
01:37:44,385 --> 01:37:45,219
people to look at the titles,

3466
01:37:45,219 --> 01:37:46,287
um, thank, thank you, MADAM

3467
01:37:46,287 --> 01:37:47,655
Mayor, and if it

3468
01:37:47,655 --> 01:37:49,256
s ok, I would,

3469
01:37:49,256 --> 01:37:50,224
I would like to also hear from

3470
01:37:50,224 --> 01:37:51,725
my colleagues because I know

3471
01:37:51,725 --> 01:37:53,460
that they MAY have some

3472
01:37:53,460 --> 01:37:54,395
questions and I can be a a bit

3473
01:37:54,395 --> 01:37:54,728
more informed if it

3474
01:37:54,728 --> 01:37:56,728
s ok to

3475
01:37:58,832 --> 01:37:58,999
circle back. Sure, yes, I think

3476
01:37:58,999 --> 01:38:00,301
he

3477
01:38:00,301 --> 01:38:02,336
s also looking for answers,

3478
01:38:02,336 --> 01:38:06,730
yes or no to 2 or 3, just, uh,

3479
01:38:06,730 --> 01:38:09,673
when we circle back. Thank you.

3480
01:38:14,148 --> 01:38:17,148
Ok, COUNCILMAN Valerie. Um Uh,

3481
01:38:17,418 --> 01:38:20,200
a massive thank you to, um, MS.

3482
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:23,230
Shushka MISS Maisel, um I know

3483
01:38:23,230 --> 01:38:24,458
as a, somebody working in the

3484
01:38:24,458 --> 01:38:26,727
nonprofit sector and has only

3485
01:38:26,727 --> 01:38:28,462
ever worked in the nonprofit

3486
01:38:28,462 --> 01:38:30,862
sector, um, exactly how

3487
01:38:31,565 --> 01:38:33,167
challenging it is. Um, and also

3488
01:38:33,167 --> 01:38:36,167
as liaison to the Human

3489
01:38:37,538 --> 01:38:39,173
Services Advisory. Commission.

3490
01:38:39,173 --> 01:38:42,543
I hear firsthand from so many

3491
01:38:42,543 --> 01:38:43,845
of our, uh, community, uh,

3492
01:38:43,845 --> 01:38:44,812
service providers. I hear about

3493
01:38:44,812 --> 01:38:46,180
their challenges and their

3494
01:38:46,180 --> 01:38:47,681
struggles, and I really

3495
01:38:47,681 --> 01:38:50,585
appreciate all the work that

3496
01:38:50,585 --> 01:38:52,720
the two of you, um do on a

3497
01:38:52,720 --> 01:38:52,987
daily basis, not only, um, on

3498
01:38:52,987 --> 01:38:53,587
what you

3499
01:38:53,587 --> 01:38:53,988
re looking at, what

3500
01:38:53,988 --> 01:38:55,189
What we

3501
01:38:55,189 --> 01:38:58,189
re looking at here, but,

3502
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:01,695
um As a whole, I think that um

3503
01:39:01,695 --> 01:39:02,997
our nonprofits and, uh,

3504
01:39:02,997 --> 01:39:05,399
yourselves are some of our

3505
01:39:05,399 --> 01:39:07,968
unsung, uh, heroes. So I wanna

3506
01:39:07,968 --> 01:39:10,604
say thank you sincerely, um

3507
01:39:10,604 --> 01:39:14,441
Yeah, I have a whole lot. To,

3508
01:39:14,441 --> 01:39:16,378
to ask, to say, to comments, I

3509
01:39:16,378 --> 01:39:17,378
will hopefully get to these 3,

3510
01:39:17,378 --> 01:39:18,279
but if not, I

3511
01:39:18,279 --> 01:39:19,748
m sure MADAM

3512
01:39:19,748 --> 01:39:21,249
Mayor will do like another,

3513
01:39:21,249 --> 01:39:21,348
like, hey, if you haven

3514
01:39:21,348 --> 01:39:22,983
t

3515
01:39:22,983 --> 01:39:25,983
answered the 3, you know, go

3516
01:39:27,421 --> 01:39:30,190
around the horn. Um, I wanna

3517
01:39:30,190 --> 01:39:31,525
first note that I think that

3518
01:39:31,525 --> 01:39:33,460
this is a significant enough

3519
01:39:33,460 --> 01:39:33,727
topic that I don

3520
01:39:33,727 --> 01:39:35,727
t want to

3521
01:39:37,965 --> 01:39:39,833
preclude Mm Forward progress,

3522
01:39:39,833 --> 01:39:41,335
but I think that it does

3523
01:39:41,335 --> 01:39:41,569
deserve a second work session.

3524
01:39:41,569 --> 01:39:43,170
We don

3525
01:39:43,170 --> 01:39:46,170
t have all of our

3526
01:39:46,507 --> 01:39:49,410
colleagues here. And one of our

3527
01:39:49,410 --> 01:39:50,911
colleagues, um, joined a little

3528
01:39:50,911 --> 01:39:52,746
bit into the discussion. I

3529
01:39:52,746 --> 01:39:56,250
think that, um, whether we have

3530
01:39:56,250 --> 01:39:57,218
it as part of our, uh,

3531
01:39:57,218 --> 01:39:58,519
strategic planning session, um,

3532
01:39:58,519 --> 01:39:59,386
as your city manager, I think

3533
01:39:59,386 --> 01:40:02,386
that this is significant enough.

3534
01:40:03,557 --> 01:40:07,157
That we should consider, uh, uh,

3535
01:40:07,262 --> 01:40:10,970
a second work session. Um, I do

3536
01:40:10,970 --> 01:40:10,397
wanna just to, uh, help the

3537
01:40:10,397 --> 01:40:11,665
member Shaw

3538
01:40:11,665 --> 01:40:13,665
s point, yes,

3539
01:40:14,340 --> 01:40:16,337
household is a term that the

3540
01:40:16,337 --> 01:40:17,805
nonprofit sector uses an

3541
01:40:17,805 --> 01:40:17,972
all-encompassing term when

3542
01:40:17,972 --> 01:40:19,406
you

3543
01:40:19,406 --> 01:40:21,806
re looking at, um,

3544
01:40:22,420 --> 01:40:22,409
different levels of, of service,

3545
01:40:22,409 --> 01:40:23,770
um, you haven

3546
01:40:23,770 --> 01:40:24,979
t community needs,

3547
01:40:24,979 --> 01:40:25,614
but you have household needs as

3548
01:40:25,614 --> 01:40:27,614
well. So it

3549
01:40:28,820 --> 01:40:29,884
s a very, uh,

3550
01:40:29,884 --> 01:40:31,180
easily identifiable by the

3551
01:40:31,180 --> 01:40:33,180
nonprofit or ngo,

3552
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:35,320
non-governmental organization.

3553
01:40:36,657 --> 01:40:39,657
Immunity. Well, on that point,

3554
01:40:40,562 --> 01:40:42,563
I, I throw out a, an idea. And

3555
01:40:42,563 --> 01:40:45,563
this also goes to something

3556
01:40:45,966 --> 01:40:47,801
that, um, that actually, uh,

3557
01:40:47,801 --> 01:40:49,236
you said MISS Shushka when you

3558
01:40:49,236 --> 01:40:51,636
very kindly answered the

3559
01:40:51,672 --> 01:40:53,707
question again, um, maybe we

3560
01:40:53,707 --> 01:40:55,442
call it community resiliency.

3561
01:40:55,442 --> 01:40:57,770
Because making sure that people

3562
01:40:57,770 --> 01:41:00,677
have, you know, safe and stable

3563
01:41:00,748 --> 01:41:02,783
housing. Access to health

3564
01:41:02,783 --> 01:41:05,783
services, access to food, these

3565
01:41:06,860 --> 01:41:08,589
are things that are kind of

3566
01:41:08,589 --> 01:41:10,591
essential to resiliency, um,

3567
01:41:10,591 --> 01:41:11,425
and resiliency is, is also part

3568
01:41:11,425 --> 01:41:11,792
of stability, so I

3569
01:41:11,792 --> 01:41:13,427
m just gonna

3570
01:41:13,427 --> 01:41:17,131
throw that out there as a As an

3571
01:41:17,131 --> 01:41:18,733
idea. Um, you can, you can run

3572
01:41:18,733 --> 01:41:19,166
with it, or you can ignore me.

3573
01:41:19,166 --> 01:41:19,567
Either way, I

3574
01:41:19,567 --> 01:41:20,670
m all, I

3575
01:41:20,670 --> 01:41:22,670
m all

3576
01:41:23,804 --> 01:41:24,838
good, but I, I do like the idea

3577
01:41:24,838 --> 01:41:26,208
of resiliency and making sure

3578
01:41:26,208 --> 01:41:29,208
that our, all of our

3579
01:41:29,543 --> 01:41:30,778
communities can. Mhm. And not

3580
01:41:30,778 --> 01:41:33,881
only survive but can thrive. As

3581
01:41:33,881 --> 01:41:34,882
well. Um. I

3582
01:41:34,882 --> 01:41:35,316
m gonna, I

3583
01:41:35,316 --> 01:41:37,316
m gonna

3584
01:41:37,351 --> 01:41:40,120
take it a step back and not

3585
01:41:40,120 --> 01:41:42,623
only for, for all of us. Not

3586
01:41:42,623 --> 01:41:44,425
here, but for our folks

3587
01:41:44,425 --> 01:41:46,460
watching from home either now

3588
01:41:46,460 --> 01:41:49,230
or later, um, can you share a

3589
01:41:49,230 --> 01:41:49,930
little bit how is

3590
01:41:49,930 --> 01:41:52,330
prioritization determined as of

3591
01:41:53,834 --> 01:41:57,204
right now? So, you know, when

3592
01:41:57,204 --> 01:41:58,606
we go into this time period of

3593
01:41:58,606 --> 01:42:00,975
people applying, how do, how,

3594
01:42:00,975 --> 01:42:01,776
you know, how do we do

3595
01:42:01,776 --> 01:42:04,176
prioritization? How does the,

3596
01:42:06,914 --> 01:42:08,349
um Community panel review and

3597
01:42:08,349 --> 01:42:10,749
selection committee. How, how

3598
01:42:10,918 --> 01:42:12,119
do they define, you know, um,

3599
01:42:12,119 --> 01:42:15,119
the priorities of, of this,

3600
01:42:15,689 --> 01:42:18,525
this program right now. Yeah,

3601
01:42:18,525 --> 01:42:20,427
thank you for that question. Uh,

3602
01:42:20,427 --> 01:42:22,429
the primary driver of us

3603
01:42:22,429 --> 01:42:24,265
proposing this program design

3604
01:42:24,265 --> 01:42:27,701
change is because we do not

3605
01:42:27,701 --> 01:42:30,700
currently have a way of

3606
01:42:30,700 --> 01:42:32,700
evaluating prioritization among,

3607
01:42:32,907 --> 01:42:34,441
um, applications, we do have

3608
01:42:34,441 --> 01:42:36,441
standard evaluation criteria,

3609
01:42:37,244 --> 01:42:38,379
um, and as we noted, we are

3610
01:42:38,379 --> 01:42:39,246
receiving far more requests

3611
01:42:39,246 --> 01:42:41,246
than we

3612
01:42:42,490 --> 01:42:43,384
re able to fund, and it

3613
01:42:43,384 --> 01:42:46,587
has been a challenge for our

3614
01:42:46,587 --> 01:42:48,880
community panels to use the

3615
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:50,424
Current evaluation criteria to

3616
01:42:50,424 --> 01:42:52,826
prioritize, so we are hoping

3617
01:42:52,826 --> 01:42:54,261
that by adopting impact focus

3618
01:42:54,261 --> 01:42:56,197
areas and incorporating those

3619
01:42:56,197 --> 01:42:57,631
into the evaluation criteria of

3620
01:42:57,631 --> 01:43:00,568
will provide a tool for our

3621
01:43:00,568 --> 01:43:02,670
community panel to be able to,

3622
01:43:02,670 --> 01:43:03,971
to look more at applications

3623
01:43:03,971 --> 01:43:06,875
that align with, um, outcome

3624
01:43:06,875 --> 01:43:08,275
goals. Yeah. No, that, thank

3625
01:43:08,275 --> 01:43:09,743
you. I think that was very

3626
01:43:09,743 --> 01:43:10,177
helpful and I think that

3627
01:43:10,177 --> 01:43:11,612
hopefully that

3628
01:43:11,612 --> 01:43:14,120
s helpful to my

3629
01:43:14,114 --> 01:43:17,484
colleagues, um, as well. I, I

3630
01:43:17,484 --> 01:43:20,540
wanna make sure that You know,

3631
01:43:20,540 --> 01:43:21,488
obviously, we need focus. We

3632
01:43:21,488 --> 01:43:23,891
need focus, and we need focus

3633
01:43:23,891 --> 01:43:23,991
areas, right, when we

3634
01:43:23,991 --> 01:43:25,991
re

3635
01:43:27,628 --> 01:43:28,128
identifying the, the best

3636
01:43:28,128 --> 01:43:30,128
criteria to evaluate

3637
01:43:30,799 --> 01:43:32,433
applications and, uh, program

3638
01:43:32,433 --> 01:43:34,435
effectiveness, but I also think

3639
01:43:34,435 --> 01:43:38,939
that, um, there is a, a part of

3640
01:43:38,939 --> 01:43:41,375
it. That should also be

3641
01:43:41,375 --> 01:43:42,476
reflective of the mayor and

3642
01:43:42,476 --> 01:43:44,876
council priorities. So that,

3643
01:43:46,714 --> 01:43:49,150
you know, um You have kind of

3644
01:43:49,150 --> 01:43:49,583
set in criteria. But let

3645
01:43:49,583 --> 01:43:51,518
s say,

3646
01:43:51,518 --> 01:43:54,880
you know, um, actually, this is

3647
01:43:54,880 --> 01:43:56,690
a great example of it. This

3648
01:43:56,690 --> 01:43:59,900
mayor and council. Really

3649
01:44:01,662 --> 01:44:03,130
wanted to Step in, provide,

3650
01:44:03,130 --> 01:44:03,732
protect the community from the

3651
01:44:03,732 --> 01:44:06,132
decisions of the federal

3652
01:44:07,768 --> 01:44:09,236
government. Maybe not all, you

3653
01:44:09,236 --> 01:44:11,636
know, mayoral councils might,

3654
01:44:12,707 --> 01:44:15,343
might, you know, wanna do that.

3655
01:44:15,343 --> 01:44:17,378
Or see it differently, but we

3656
01:44:17,378 --> 01:44:20,378
obviously want You know, to

3657
01:44:21,615 --> 01:44:23,552
support. Applicants that are

3658
01:44:23,552 --> 01:44:24,251
filling a gap because of what

3659
01:44:24,251 --> 01:44:27,251
the federal government has done

3660
01:44:28,322 --> 01:44:29,723
right now. Um, so I, I, I hope

3661
01:44:29,723 --> 01:44:31,910
that, you know, um, maybe as

3662
01:44:31,910 --> 01:44:34,910
part of the community panel

3663
01:44:35,596 --> 01:44:36,797
review. Just in some way,

3664
01:44:36,797 --> 01:44:38,966
taking the, the discussions

3665
01:44:38,966 --> 01:44:40,568
that we have, like our

3666
01:44:40,568 --> 01:44:42,270
strategic priorities. We have

3667
01:44:42,270 --> 01:44:44,638
those sessions and, and maybe

3668
01:44:44,638 --> 01:44:46,741
in working with, um, MR. City

3669
01:44:46,741 --> 01:44:49,741
Manager working with that. To

3670
01:44:53,180 --> 01:44:54,148
help inform. Mm, uh, the, the,

3671
01:44:54,148 --> 01:44:56,517
the community panel review,

3672
01:44:56,517 --> 01:44:58,850
that this is something that the

3673
01:44:58,850 --> 01:45:00,255
mayor and council also find

3674
01:45:00,255 --> 01:45:02,256
these are also, um, priorities

3675
01:45:02,256 --> 01:45:02,457
as well. I think sometimes

3676
01:45:02,457 --> 01:45:03,290
that

3677
01:45:03,290 --> 01:45:05,259
s been the disconnect. I

3678
01:45:05,259 --> 01:45:05,392
know at least for me in that

3679
01:45:05,392 --> 01:45:07,392
I

3680
01:45:07,661 --> 01:45:08,463
m like, well, I thought we

3681
01:45:08,463 --> 01:45:10,970
were prioritizing this, and

3682
01:45:10,970 --> 01:45:11,466
then this kind of comes out of

3683
01:45:11,466 --> 01:45:11,932
nowhere, you know, I, I

3684
01:45:11,932 --> 01:45:12,320
m, I

3685
01:45:12,320 --> 01:45:13,434
m

3686
01:45:13,434 --> 01:45:16,170
trying to kinda, you know,

3687
01:45:16,170 --> 01:45:17,938
thread the needle between Here

3688
01:45:17,938 --> 01:45:20,374
are our values, these will

3689
01:45:20,374 --> 01:45:23,177
always be our values, and then,

3690
01:45:23,177 --> 01:45:25,813
you know, the focus of a

3691
01:45:25,813 --> 01:45:28,213
particular elected body. Um,

3692
01:45:28,816 --> 01:45:30,151
and being able to kinda, um,

3693
01:45:30,151 --> 01:45:30,751
nimble in that way. I

3694
01:45:30,751 --> 01:45:30,985
appreciate that you

3695
01:45:30,985 --> 01:45:32,985
re really

3696
01:45:34,188 --> 01:45:35,122
built in a lot of flexibility.

3697
01:45:35,122 --> 01:45:38,525
Into the, the process because I

3698
01:45:38,525 --> 01:45:42,531
think That is, uh, that is, um,

3699
01:45:42,531 --> 01:45:43,531
uh a good, um, indicator of a

3700
01:45:43,531 --> 01:45:45,867
very well-designed program is

3701
01:45:45,867 --> 01:45:48,736
that you do have that

3702
01:45:48,736 --> 01:45:52,336
flexibility. Um, I love a lot

3703
01:45:52,540 --> 01:45:53,941
of stuff that you proposed in

3704
01:45:53,941 --> 01:45:54,109
This, uh, a lot of things that

3705
01:45:54,109 --> 01:45:56,109
you

3706
01:45:56,644 --> 01:45:58,913
ve, uh, proposed, including,

3707
01:45:58,913 --> 01:45:59,280
and, you know, Maybe it

3708
01:45:59,280 --> 01:46:01,280
s just

3709
01:46:02,917 --> 01:46:05,886
me, um, but I, I really love

3710
01:46:05,886 --> 01:46:06,987
the, um I

3711
01:46:06,987 --> 01:46:09,387
m looking for it,

3712
01:46:09,723 --> 01:46:13,160
sorry, that there was a, a

3713
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:16,760
section in here that Um, would

3714
01:46:16,964 --> 01:46:18,866
allow for, um The modest cost

3715
01:46:18,866 --> 01:46:19,967
of service adjustments subject

3716
01:46:19,967 --> 01:46:20,234
to available funding. I think

3717
01:46:20,234 --> 01:46:22,234
that that

3718
01:46:23,837 --> 01:46:25,306
s Fantastic. Um,

3719
01:46:25,306 --> 01:46:26,740
speak again, speaking as

3720
01:46:26,740 --> 01:46:29,543
somebody who works at a

3721
01:46:29,543 --> 01:46:30,978
nonprofit, um, who has

3722
01:46:30,978 --> 01:46:32,713
submitted so many grant

3723
01:46:32,713 --> 01:46:35,713
applications and had to explain

3724
01:46:35,716 --> 01:46:35,849
ok, so this is why this year

3725
01:46:35,849 --> 01:46:36,785
I

3726
01:46:36,785 --> 01:46:37,685
m asking for a little bit

3727
01:46:37,685 --> 01:46:38,519
more, and it

3728
01:46:38,519 --> 01:46:39,920
s because x, y,

3729
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:42,823
and z, there definitely has to

3730
01:46:42,823 --> 01:46:44,259
be that kind of, uh, cost of

3731
01:46:44,259 --> 01:46:47,610
living adjustment in, in terms

3732
01:46:47,610 --> 01:46:49,763
of, of grants, so I really

3733
01:46:49,763 --> 01:46:51,999
appreciate that. Mhm. Also want

3734
01:46:51,999 --> 01:46:54,802
to note, we talked to a lot of

3735
01:46:54,802 --> 01:46:55,569
folks, a lot of my colleagues.

3736
01:46:55,569 --> 01:46:57,969
Talked about the economic

3737
01:47:00,875 --> 01:47:01,876
mobility. Um, Portion of the,

3738
01:47:01,876 --> 01:47:04,876
the impact priorities. I will

3739
01:47:05,913 --> 01:47:08,916
say, um, just as an fyi, um I

3740
01:47:08,916 --> 01:47:11,916
think myself and I believe

3741
01:47:12,353 --> 01:47:14,755
MADAM Mayor, also met, um,

3742
01:47:14,755 --> 01:47:15,823
representatives from the new,

3743
01:47:15,823 --> 01:47:17,926
uh, Maryland Department of

3744
01:47:17,926 --> 01:47:18,492
Social and Economic Mobility. I

3745
01:47:18,492 --> 01:47:18,926
think there

3746
01:47:18,926 --> 01:47:19,159
s, they

3747
01:47:19,159 --> 01:47:19,894
re really

3748
01:47:19,894 --> 01:47:20,494
trying, yeah, they

3749
01:47:20,494 --> 01:47:20,594
re, there

3750
01:47:20,594 --> 01:47:22,594
s

3751
01:47:22,963 --> 01:47:23,864
some great folks. And I think

3752
01:47:23,864 --> 01:47:25,199
that, you know, they

3753
01:47:25,199 --> 01:47:25,400
re,

3754
01:47:25,400 --> 01:47:27,400
they

3755
01:47:28,168 --> 01:47:30,400
re even closer to, um, the

3756
01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:31,605
community as well as than a

3757
01:47:31,605 --> 01:47:32,908
national entity, I think the

3758
01:47:32,908 --> 01:47:33,974
Urban Institute is, is

3759
01:47:33,974 --> 01:47:35,877
fantastic, but I would, I would

3760
01:47:35,877 --> 01:47:40,770
love to kind of see more, you

3761
01:47:40,581 --> 01:47:43,317
know, um leaning on our state

3762
01:47:43,317 --> 01:47:44,251
partners, um, for Their

3763
01:47:44,251 --> 01:47:45,220
perspectives and resources. I

3764
01:47:45,220 --> 01:47:46,755
know it

3765
01:47:46,755 --> 01:47:48,122
s a brand new, uh,

3766
01:47:48,122 --> 01:47:50,925
cabinet position, so like, no

3767
01:47:50,925 --> 01:47:51,125
pressure, but, um, I think

3768
01:47:51,125 --> 01:47:52,327
there

3769
01:47:52,327 --> 01:47:53,828
s an opportunity there to

3770
01:47:53,828 --> 01:47:56,828
really, um, get some good

3771
01:47:58,265 --> 01:47:59,233
information. Um, I, I

3772
01:47:59,233 --> 01:48:01,633
absolutely love the Impact

3773
01:48:03,103 --> 01:48:04,738
focus areas. I. At first I was

3774
01:48:04,738 --> 01:48:04,872
like, oh, this is in my mind.

3775
01:48:04,872 --> 01:48:06,507
I

3776
01:48:06,507 --> 01:48:08,175
m like, oh, this is missing,

3777
01:48:08,175 --> 01:48:11,175
this is missing, this is

3778
01:48:11,612 --> 01:48:11,712
missing. Um I, I don

3779
01:48:11,712 --> 01:48:13,712
t

3780
01:48:15,150 --> 01:48:18,150
necessarily Think that we need

3781
01:48:20,321 --> 01:48:22,721
to Discreetly outline Everybody

3782
01:48:23,891 --> 01:48:25,226
who makes up a family, right?

3783
01:48:25,226 --> 01:48:27,761
Everybody that makes up, you

3784
01:48:27,761 --> 01:48:29,230
know, you, I think that that

3785
01:48:29,230 --> 01:48:32,660
the, the devil is gonna be in

3786
01:48:32,660 --> 01:48:35,402
the details of how You know,

3787
01:48:35,402 --> 01:48:36,104
you define each of these

3788
01:48:36,104 --> 01:48:38,504
proposed impact focus areas,

3789
01:48:39,875 --> 01:48:41,343
and then That those kind of

3790
01:48:41,343 --> 01:48:43,310
shared definitions will also

3791
01:48:43,310 --> 01:48:46,910
help us to understand, I think,

3792
01:48:47,114 --> 01:48:49,383
as well, um, sort of having

3793
01:48:49,383 --> 01:48:50,584
very distinct, um, definitions

3794
01:48:50,584 --> 01:48:51,919
and I totally appreciate the

3795
01:48:51,919 --> 01:48:55,456
context of the chart. That was

3796
01:48:55,456 --> 01:48:57,958
really helpful. I think level

3797
01:48:57,958 --> 01:48:59,393
setting that we see economic

3798
01:48:59,393 --> 01:49:02,330
mobility as our desire to x, y,

3799
01:49:02,330 --> 01:49:03,163
and z. Um, that

3800
01:49:03,163 --> 01:49:05,163
ll help, I

3801
01:49:05,566 --> 01:49:07,670
think, maybe, um, uh, make

3802
01:49:07,670 --> 01:49:08,303
things a little bit more clear,

3803
01:49:08,303 --> 01:49:10,838
not only for us but for the

3804
01:49:10,838 --> 01:49:13,238
community. And for, um

3805
01:49:16,577 --> 01:49:17,177
potential Grantees. Um, I, I, I

3806
01:49:17,177 --> 01:49:19,177
think I

3807
01:49:20,514 --> 01:49:21,783
ve said this before,

3808
01:49:21,783 --> 01:49:24,285
but under community service and

3809
01:49:24,285 --> 01:49:25,686
empowerment grants. If we call

3810
01:49:25,686 --> 01:49:27,888
it senior services, can you

3811
01:49:27,888 --> 01:49:30,224
please call it Youth Services.

3812
01:49:30,224 --> 01:49:31,692
Um, you know, some of, some of

3813
01:49:31,692 --> 01:49:32,793
the youth that we really want

3814
01:49:32,793 --> 01:49:33,661
to work with, they

3815
01:49:33,661 --> 01:49:35,661
re already a

3816
01:49:35,696 --> 01:49:36,630
pretty developed. They

3817
01:49:36,630 --> 01:49:36,997
re

3818
01:49:36,997 --> 01:49:39,466
probably more empathetic than a

3819
01:49:39,466 --> 01:49:43,337
lot of, uh, adults that I know.

3820
01:49:43,337 --> 01:49:44,973
Um, and I think that youth

3821
01:49:44,973 --> 01:49:47,107
services is uh a more expansive

3822
01:49:47,107 --> 01:49:50,411
way of, of looking at their

3823
01:49:50,411 --> 01:49:51,879
needs. I wanna co-sign with my

3824
01:49:51,879 --> 01:49:55,830
With MADAM Mayor said that in

3825
01:49:55,830 --> 01:49:55,783
particular And to what MR. City

3826
01:49:55,783 --> 01:49:57,918
Manager talked about, I think

3827
01:49:57,918 --> 01:49:59,918
that We

3828
01:50:01,388 --> 01:50:03,230
ll have a lot more, um

3829
01:50:03,230 --> 01:50:03,457
Uh, information. Here

3830
01:50:03,457 --> 01:50:05,259
s another

3831
01:50:05,259 --> 01:50:07,659
great example of the

3832
01:50:07,661 --> 01:50:09,264
cross-pollination of Mar and

3833
01:50:09,264 --> 01:50:10,197
council priorities with, um,

3834
01:50:10,197 --> 01:50:11,310
our grant program is that we

3835
01:50:11,310 --> 01:50:12,733
re

3836
01:50:12,733 --> 01:50:14,468
gonna have work sessions

3837
01:50:14,468 --> 01:50:15,703
specifically on, on youth

3838
01:50:15,703 --> 01:50:17,304
programming in particular for

3839
01:50:17,304 --> 01:50:17,805
at-risk youth, and I

3840
01:50:17,805 --> 01:50:18,380
m hoping

3841
01:50:18,380 --> 01:50:20,380
that it

3842
01:50:20,541 --> 01:50:22,443
ll help to inform. Um,

3843
01:50:22,443 --> 01:50:26,430
our, our grant process as well

3844
01:50:26,547 --> 01:50:28,549
because we keep kinda Getting,

3845
01:50:28,549 --> 01:50:31,753
um, I think we can definitely

3846
01:50:31,753 --> 01:50:35,353
get some maybe, um Be not

3847
01:50:35,589 --> 01:50:36,557
better, um, more grantees or

3848
01:50:36,557 --> 01:50:38,957
potential grantees that would

3849
01:50:39,159 --> 01:50:40,561
be in those areas if We, you

3850
01:50:40,561 --> 01:50:40,661
know, kinda share that that

3851
01:50:40,661 --> 01:50:41,629
s

3852
01:50:41,629 --> 01:50:44,629
also a priority of marriage

3853
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:48,135
council. Um, None of these are

3854
01:50:48,135 --> 01:50:48,335
questions, by the way, so you

3855
01:50:48,335 --> 01:50:49,236
haven

3856
01:50:49,236 --> 01:50:50,271
t missed anything. This

3857
01:50:50,271 --> 01:50:52,273
is more of off the top of my

3858
01:50:52,273 --> 01:50:54,673
head, like Been thinking

3859
01:50:55,743 --> 01:50:59,113
through a lot of this. Mhm. I,

3860
01:50:59,113 --> 01:50:59,647
I, I also want to know that, um

3861
01:50:59,647 --> 01:51:00,514
You know, and if we

3862
01:51:00,514 --> 01:51:00,681
re, if

3863
01:51:00,681 --> 01:51:01,683
we

3864
01:51:01,683 --> 01:51:04,683
re looking at at-risk youth

3865
01:51:05,653 --> 01:51:08,653
programming. I will continue to,

3866
01:51:09,560 --> 01:51:10,925
to hope that we, as part of

3867
01:51:10,925 --> 01:51:12,726
community resiliency, um, could

3868
01:51:12,726 --> 01:51:16,264
look at, um, you know, uh,

3869
01:51:16,264 --> 01:51:18,264
encouraging Applications from

3870
01:51:18,632 --> 01:51:19,466
folks that work with in the

3871
01:51:19,466 --> 01:51:21,866
substance use or recovery

3872
01:51:22,670 --> 01:51:26,106
community space. As well as in

3873
01:51:26,106 --> 01:51:27,308
the veteran space. Um, in

3874
01:51:27,308 --> 01:51:30,770
particular, and I know that

3875
01:51:30,770 --> 01:51:33,414
sometimes a lot of people tend

3876
01:51:33,414 --> 01:51:34,782
to, um, assume, and I am also

3877
01:51:34,782 --> 01:51:36,851
defer to my colleague council

3878
01:51:36,851 --> 01:51:38,652
member DR. Miles. A lot of

3879
01:51:38,652 --> 01:51:41,210
people seem to think, oh, well,

3880
01:51:41,210 --> 01:51:43,424
the veterans go to va. Well,

3881
01:51:43,424 --> 01:51:45,326
the va has cut back on a lot of

3882
01:51:45,326 --> 01:51:45,693
programs right now too, so I

3883
01:51:45,693 --> 01:51:46,293
think if they

3884
01:51:46,293 --> 01:51:46,493
re, again, if

3885
01:51:46,493 --> 01:51:48,162
there

3886
01:51:48,162 --> 01:51:51,632
s a way that we can

3887
01:51:51,632 --> 01:51:52,666
Provide help. In any way to our

3888
01:51:52,666 --> 01:51:54,101
veteran community here in the

3889
01:51:54,101 --> 01:51:58,301
city. I, I really hope that we

3890
01:51:58,540 --> 01:52:00,374
do. Um, Let

3891
01:52:00,374 --> 01:52:03,277
s see. Do do do. I

3892
01:52:03,277 --> 01:52:05,677
already mentioned that. About

3893
01:52:07,916 --> 01:52:10,916
community resiliency. Uh, so I

3894
01:52:13,988 --> 01:52:18,188
will say, um I think that I

3895
01:52:20,228 --> 01:52:23,598
think generally. We are We are,

3896
01:52:23,598 --> 01:52:25,566
we as a city and, uh, your,

3897
01:52:25,566 --> 01:52:27,601
your team, uh, in particular,

3898
01:52:27,601 --> 01:52:29,837
MS. Shishka and MISS Mazel are

3899
01:52:29,837 --> 01:52:31,906
really good about kind of

3900
01:52:31,906 --> 01:52:33,307
applying the equity lens, um,

3901
01:52:33,307 --> 01:52:36,907
because you, you all work so

3902
01:52:40,114 --> 01:52:41,315
closely. Um, With, uh, uh Risks

3903
01:52:41,315 --> 01:52:43,315
and marginalized communities,

3904
01:52:43,751 --> 01:52:45,886
but, you know, Maybe it

3905
01:52:45,886 --> 01:52:47,886
s a, a

3906
01:52:50,391 --> 01:52:52,359
good approach for the Community

3907
01:52:52,359 --> 01:52:55,529
panel review if we had, you

3908
01:52:55,529 --> 01:52:58,132
know, um, our own internal city

3909
01:52:58,132 --> 01:53:00,534
equity focus areas. I tend to

3910
01:53:00,534 --> 01:53:01,468
always look to see, you know, I,

3911
01:53:01,468 --> 01:53:02,836
you want programs that serve

3912
01:53:02,836 --> 01:53:06,436
the city as a whole, absolutely.

3913
01:53:07,575 --> 01:53:08,809
We have sometimes seen, um,

3914
01:53:08,809 --> 01:53:11,209
programs that were, um,

3915
01:53:13,470 --> 01:53:16,550
centered in Areas that are, are,

3916
01:53:16,550 --> 01:53:18,419
are not in need. If I can, uh,

3917
01:53:18,419 --> 01:53:19,286
be kind about it, and so I

3918
01:53:19,286 --> 01:53:20,221
would love, and I

3919
01:53:20,221 --> 01:53:22,221
d love to

3920
01:53:24,558 --> 01:53:25,993
hear, hear your thought, um, on

3921
01:53:25,993 --> 01:53:28,393
developing equity of focus

3922
01:53:28,896 --> 01:53:30,865
areas that would then encourage,

3923
01:53:30,865 --> 01:53:33,901
um, you know, both the, the

3924
01:53:33,901 --> 01:53:36,301
community panel review. Folks

3925
01:53:37,238 --> 01:53:38,572
as well as applicants. From,

3926
01:53:38,572 --> 01:53:40,400
you know, uh, organizations

3927
01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:41,760
that would work in particular

3928
01:53:41,760 --> 01:53:42,911
in the communities that are

3929
01:53:42,911 --> 01:53:45,980
most in need. I would love to

3930
01:53:45,980 --> 01:53:47,548
hear your thoughts on that.

3931
01:53:47,548 --> 01:53:48,917
Yeah, thank you for the that

3932
01:53:48,917 --> 01:53:49,350
question. I think there

3933
01:53:49,350 --> 01:53:51,350
s a

3934
01:53:51,752 --> 01:53:52,253
real opportunity for it, the

3935
01:53:52,253 --> 01:53:54,155
grants application and

3936
01:53:54,155 --> 01:53:56,560
evaluation, and you mentioned

3937
01:53:56,560 --> 01:53:57,958
the community panel to align

3938
01:53:57,958 --> 01:53:58,525
with the Jedi strategic

3939
01:53:58,525 --> 01:53:59,590
priorities. I

3940
01:53:59,590 --> 01:54:00,361
m really looking

3941
01:54:00,361 --> 01:54:02,530
forward to working with the

3942
01:54:02,530 --> 01:54:05,266
Jedi team on that that recently

3943
01:54:05,266 --> 01:54:07,670
with, um, Jean Booth, of course,

3944
01:54:07,670 --> 01:54:08,536
um, looking at what was just

3945
01:54:08,536 --> 01:54:10,471
adopted and our year 1 work

3946
01:54:10,471 --> 01:54:10,671
ahead of us, and I think

3947
01:54:10,671 --> 01:54:12,671
there

3948
01:54:13,340 --> 01:54:14,708
s going to be so many

3949
01:54:14,708 --> 01:54:17,511
opportunities for us to, um,

3950
01:54:17,511 --> 01:54:17,878
extend That work that we

3951
01:54:17,878 --> 01:54:19,878
re

3952
01:54:20,381 --> 01:54:22,217
gonna do to adopt the 7

3953
01:54:22,217 --> 01:54:23,651
strategic priorities, um, into

3954
01:54:23,651 --> 01:54:26,200
our departments, into our

3955
01:54:26,200 --> 01:54:27,655
program, and then into the work

3956
01:54:27,655 --> 01:54:28,923
that we do through nonprofit

3957
01:54:28,923 --> 01:54:31,923
partnerships. So, I think that

3958
01:54:32,226 --> 01:54:32,793
that is a real opportunity.

3959
01:54:32,793 --> 01:54:33,294
Absolutely, and, and I

3960
01:54:33,294 --> 01:54:33,694
m, thank

3961
01:54:33,694 --> 01:54:34,628
you. I

3962
01:54:34,628 --> 01:54:36,163
m really looking forward

3963
01:54:36,163 --> 01:54:36,431
to it cause there

3964
01:54:36,431 --> 01:54:38,431
s so much

3965
01:54:39,700 --> 01:54:41,569
overlap, um So, so yeah, I

3966
01:54:41,569 --> 01:54:43,637
absolutely to go to the, the

3967
01:54:43,637 --> 01:54:46,370
questions, um, absolutely, we

3968
01:54:46,908 --> 01:54:50,344
need to adopt. Um, impact focus

3969
01:54:50,344 --> 01:54:51,212
areas. We don

3970
01:54:51,212 --> 01:54:52,914
t have focus

3971
01:54:52,914 --> 01:54:55,816
areas right now. We need to

3972
01:54:55,816 --> 01:55:00,160
make it, um, easier for our, uh,

3973
01:55:01,222 --> 01:55:03,622
community panel. Reviewers, um,

3974
01:55:03,657 --> 01:55:06,594
to be able to effectively, um

3975
01:55:06,594 --> 01:55:07,128
Select From pools of applicants,

3976
01:55:07,128 --> 01:55:08,529
I don

3977
01:55:08,529 --> 01:55:09,530
t know how else we would

3978
01:55:09,530 --> 01:55:10,598
do that if we don

3979
01:55:10,598 --> 01:55:12,998
t have a way

3980
01:55:13,835 --> 01:55:15,402
for prioritization. So for my

3981
01:55:15,402 --> 01:55:17,638
colleagues that are not, um,

3982
01:55:17,638 --> 01:55:18,973
who have shared already that

3983
01:55:18,973 --> 01:55:21,542
they, they kinda wanna defer on

3984
01:55:21,542 --> 01:55:23,477
this. I understand cause at

3985
01:55:23,477 --> 01:55:23,711
first I was the same way, but

3986
01:55:23,711 --> 01:55:25,711
now I

3987
01:55:27,214 --> 01:55:28,215
m realizing that we have

3988
01:55:28,215 --> 01:55:29,551
no distinct prioritization

3989
01:55:29,551 --> 01:55:32,887
matrix, then, then this is what

3990
01:55:32,887 --> 01:55:34,422
this would be. So, um,

3991
01:55:34,422 --> 01:55:36,822
absolutely, I support number 1.

3992
01:55:39,460 --> 01:55:42,563
Mhm. I think You know, I, I,

3993
01:55:42,563 --> 01:55:45,466
for num, for question number 2,

3994
01:55:45,466 --> 01:55:46,000
Should 1 or 2 be prioritized? I,

3995
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:47,568
I don

3996
01:55:47,568 --> 01:55:47,868
t know why we wouldn

3997
01:55:47,868 --> 01:55:49,868
t

3998
01:55:51,138 --> 01:55:52,940
prioritize all of them, but I

3999
01:55:52,940 --> 01:55:57,140
guess my answer is 1 or 2 is it

4000
01:55:57,979 --> 01:55:59,346
works, but If these are gonna

4001
01:55:59,346 --> 01:56:01,549
help with prioritization, um, I,

4002
01:56:01,549 --> 01:56:05,749
it would be really hard for me

4003
01:56:05,786 --> 01:56:06,754
to, to determine Which would be

4004
01:56:06,754 --> 01:56:06,921
prioritized over others. I

4005
01:56:06,921 --> 01:56:08,921
don

4006
01:56:09,189 --> 01:56:10,524
t think that we necessarily

4007
01:56:10,524 --> 01:56:14,124
need more data on this because

4008
01:56:14,228 --> 01:56:15,829
we already have. Decades of, of

4009
01:56:15,829 --> 01:56:18,829
data that fall into these,

4010
01:56:20,802 --> 01:56:24,305
these, uh, categories. Um, I, I

4011
01:56:24,305 --> 01:56:27,740
do agree, uh. We have high

4012
01:56:27,740 --> 01:56:29,411
performing programs. We have

4013
01:56:29,411 --> 01:56:30,946
some of our grantees who have

4014
01:56:30,946 --> 01:56:32,814
Received grants from the city

4015
01:56:32,814 --> 01:56:36,151
for over a decade, if not more.

4016
01:56:36,151 --> 01:56:39,320
And You know, it does beg the

4017
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:41,222
question for me. Twofold.

4018
01:56:41,222 --> 01:56:42,823
Absolutely, if, if the proven

4019
01:56:42,823 --> 01:56:43,958
program in the city, they

4020
01:56:43,958 --> 01:56:45,894
should absolutely have a

4021
01:56:45,894 --> 01:56:47,395
streamlined renewal pathway.

4022
01:56:47,395 --> 01:56:49,795
Checks and balances, guardrails,

4023
01:56:51,699 --> 01:56:53,968
of course. Um, you know, change

4024
01:56:53,968 --> 01:56:55,836
in nonprofit leadership,

4025
01:56:55,836 --> 01:56:55,970
ongoing site visits, I kinda, I,

4026
01:56:55,970 --> 01:56:56,371
I

4027
01:56:56,371 --> 01:56:56,470
ve definitely, I

4028
01:56:56,470 --> 01:56:58,470
ve

4029
01:56:58,739 --> 01:56:58,906
experienced all of that, so I

4030
01:56:58,906 --> 01:56:59,874
don

4031
01:56:59,874 --> 01:57:02,142
t think any nonprofits

4032
01:57:02,142 --> 01:57:04,579
would, would be upset with that,

4033
01:57:04,579 --> 01:57:07,147
but, you know, I also sit back

4034
01:57:07,147 --> 01:57:10,251
and I, I say, I think sometimes

4035
01:57:10,251 --> 01:57:12,319
at what point We as a city look

4036
01:57:12,319 --> 01:57:14,655
deeper at the services the city

4037
01:57:14,655 --> 01:57:15,756
has funded for 20 plus years,

4038
01:57:15,756 --> 01:57:17,240
right? Like, like we

4039
01:57:17,240 --> 01:57:18,859
re, we

4040
01:57:18,859 --> 01:57:21,228
have this ongoing relationship.

4041
01:57:21,228 --> 01:57:23,130
And are, are we just kind of

4042
01:57:23,130 --> 01:57:25,990
there, um, an extension of the

4043
01:57:25,990 --> 01:57:26,600
city at that point? Are they

4044
01:57:26,600 --> 01:57:26,700
serving more, less, I don

4045
01:57:26,700 --> 01:57:28,700
t

4046
01:57:29,537 --> 01:57:31,272
know, but, you know, we do have

4047
01:57:31,272 --> 01:57:33,240
long-standing, um, nonprofit

4048
01:57:33,240 --> 01:57:36,240
partners who are is providing

4049
01:57:36,610 --> 01:57:40,210
um Uh, amazing services. So I

4050
01:57:40,916 --> 01:57:41,982
do absolutely. Support a

4051
01:57:41,982 --> 01:57:43,982
streamlined renewal pathway

4052
01:57:44,285 --> 01:57:46,620
again with guardrails, um, and,

4053
01:57:46,620 --> 01:57:50,220
and site visits and all that.

4054
01:57:54,161 --> 01:57:55,629
Before I ok, um. 3 last points

4055
01:57:55,629 --> 01:57:59,829
and then I will pass it along.

4056
01:58:00,234 --> 01:58:00,434
Um, 122 other things I

4057
01:58:00,434 --> 01:58:01,168
ve been

4058
01:58:01,168 --> 01:58:01,669
challenged with when I

4059
01:58:01,669 --> 01:58:03,669
ve

4060
01:58:03,837 --> 01:58:05,839
looked at the community grants.

4061
01:58:05,839 --> 01:58:07,875
The first one is the funding of

4062
01:58:07,875 --> 01:58:11,475
programs. That are run by the

4063
01:58:11,712 --> 01:58:13,180
Montgomery County. And I

4064
01:58:13,180 --> 01:58:14,583
m

4065
01:58:14,583 --> 01:58:15,950
challenged by this because the

4066
01:58:15,950 --> 01:58:19,550
county has a much bigger budget

4067
01:58:19,853 --> 01:58:21,255
than we do. Yeah, absolutely

4068
01:58:21,255 --> 01:58:21,622
supportive of, of counting

4069
01:58:21,622 --> 01:58:23,490
programs. Don

4070
01:58:23,490 --> 01:58:25,890
t get me wrong.

4071
01:58:25,893 --> 01:58:30,930
But, um, it, it, to me, always

4072
01:58:30,598 --> 01:58:32,499
seems Little odd. At the county

4073
01:58:32,499 --> 01:58:35,436
with, with a lot more money

4074
01:58:35,436 --> 01:58:38,772
than we do is coming to us

4075
01:58:38,772 --> 01:58:40,742
asking for a grant to help a

4076
01:58:40,742 --> 01:58:41,408
program that they run,

4077
01:58:41,408 --> 01:58:43,408
obviously, Rockville residents

4078
01:58:44,378 --> 01:58:47,181
can get the benefits of the

4079
01:58:47,181 --> 01:58:48,150
program. But it, it

4080
01:58:48,150 --> 01:58:50,150
s a weird

4081
01:58:50,951 --> 01:58:51,185
imbalance in my brain, you know,

4082
01:58:51,185 --> 01:58:52,860
um, I

4083
01:58:52,860 --> 01:58:52,419
ll just, um, I

4084
01:58:52,419 --> 01:58:53,787
ll take

4085
01:58:53,787 --> 01:58:55,556
the case of like, you know, I

4086
01:58:55,556 --> 01:58:57,458
used to work for a local

4087
01:58:57,458 --> 01:59:00,895
chapter of a nonprofit. And it

4088
01:59:00,895 --> 01:59:02,329
would be like the national

4089
01:59:02,329 --> 01:59:04,298
headquarters saying to the

4090
01:59:04,298 --> 01:59:05,366
state chapter, um, yeah, you

4091
01:59:05,366 --> 01:59:07,134
gotta pony up some money so

4092
01:59:07,134 --> 01:59:08,168
that we can do this across the

4093
01:59:08,168 --> 01:59:08,569
United States and it

4094
01:59:08,569 --> 01:59:10,569
s like,

4095
01:59:11,439 --> 01:59:14,742
why are you coming to me? Like

4096
01:59:14,742 --> 01:59:15,609
I have no budget. So I, I, I am

4097
01:59:15,609 --> 01:59:18,900
definitely challenged by that.

4098
01:59:19,790 --> 01:59:20,681
Mm. The other thing, and I, one

4099
01:59:20,681 --> 01:59:22,483
of my colleagues mentioned, um,

4100
01:59:22,483 --> 01:59:24,285
this as well, and actually, MS.

4101
01:59:24,285 --> 01:59:27,285
Shosa, you mentioned this too.

4102
01:59:29,391 --> 01:59:31,992
Um In order to, um Really

4103
01:59:31,992 --> 01:59:34,194
connect of funding. An event

4104
01:59:34,194 --> 01:59:34,728
Opportunity I

4105
01:59:34,728 --> 01:59:36,728
m really, I

4106
01:59:37,265 --> 01:59:39,330
really got to see it connect

4107
01:59:39,330 --> 01:59:39,567
easily to, to Rockville

4108
01:59:39,567 --> 01:59:41,235
businesses. I think it

4109
01:59:41,235 --> 01:59:43,235
s great.

4110
01:59:44,138 --> 01:59:45,706
If, um, people come, you know,

4111
01:59:45,706 --> 01:59:49,306
to the city for something like,

4112
01:59:49,978 --> 01:59:51,779
um The f. Scott Fitzgerald

4113
01:59:51,779 --> 01:59:52,913
Literary Festival. But where is

4114
01:59:52,913 --> 01:59:55,913
the direct connection to a

4115
01:59:57,651 --> 01:59:59,220
Rockville business. I, I want,

4116
01:59:59,220 --> 02:00:02,523
I obviously want people to, to

4117
02:00:02,523 --> 02:00:04,960
come here and Spend their

4118
02:00:04,960 --> 02:00:05,626
economic dollars and, you know,

4119
02:00:05,626 --> 02:00:07,895
their businesses. I think we

4120
02:00:07,895 --> 02:00:08,863
all do. But it

4121
02:00:08,863 --> 02:00:11,263
s tough if the

4122
02:00:12,166 --> 02:00:14,635
programs are being held in

4123
02:00:14,635 --> 02:00:15,603
locations are not easily, um, a

4124
02:00:15,603 --> 02:00:18,205
few businesses are not easily

4125
02:00:18,205 --> 02:00:20,608
accessible. And I think can be,

4126
02:00:20,608 --> 02:00:22,443
um, um Kind of ignored, you

4127
02:00:22,443 --> 02:00:24,511
could kind of dip dip into an

4128
02:00:24,511 --> 02:00:25,881
event and dip out. So I just

4129
02:00:25,881 --> 02:00:26,460
wanted to share that that

4130
02:00:26,460 --> 02:00:26,648
s one

4131
02:00:26,648 --> 02:00:26,747
of the things that I

4132
02:00:26,747 --> 02:00:28,747
m

4133
02:00:29,550 --> 02:00:32,519
challenged with. Final thing is

4134
02:00:32,519 --> 02:00:33,388
a question and a comment. I

4135
02:00:33,388 --> 02:00:35,122
think probably more than

4136
02:00:35,122 --> 02:00:35,257
anything in the grant process,

4137
02:00:35,257 --> 02:00:37,257
I

4138
02:00:43,230 --> 02:00:44,698
ve really been Cha I, um The

4139
02:00:44,698 --> 02:00:48,898
lack of um clarity, at least to

4140
02:00:50,605 --> 02:00:52,806
me. Around, um, Grant recipient,

4141
02:00:52,806 --> 02:00:55,206
grant recipients. And the

4142
02:00:57,978 --> 02:00:58,612
lobbying of The city on, on

4143
02:00:58,612 --> 02:01:01,120
policy decisions or potential

4144
02:01:01,282 --> 02:01:03,284
decisions. I think that in no

4145
02:01:03,284 --> 02:01:06,884
way, shape or form does anybody

4146
02:01:08,289 --> 02:01:09,757
want to eliminate free speech.

4147
02:01:09,757 --> 02:01:09,857
I, I, that is not what I

4148
02:01:09,857 --> 02:01:11,857
m

4149
02:01:12,826 --> 02:01:14,128
saying. I also know that as a

4150
02:01:14,128 --> 02:01:17,728
Somebody who has been at the

4151
02:01:18,432 --> 02:01:19,533
grantee. I know that I had

4152
02:01:19,533 --> 02:01:20,634
guardrails and there were

4153
02:01:20,634 --> 02:01:23,470
bright lines between what I

4154
02:01:23,470 --> 02:01:24,572
could and could not do. In

4155
02:01:24,572 --> 02:01:27,572
terms of engagement with, with

4156
02:01:28,750 --> 02:01:32,275
the grant tour. Mm I, I think

4157
02:01:33,180 --> 02:01:34,215
that It is distressing to me.

4158
02:01:34,215 --> 02:01:37,215
We give essentially a general

4159
02:01:38,452 --> 02:01:41,322
grant. Do, you know, ensure

4160
02:01:41,322 --> 02:01:42,890
That a program continues or an

4161
02:01:42,890 --> 02:01:43,824
organization continues, and

4162
02:01:43,824 --> 02:01:47,424
that money then I turned around.

4163
02:01:47,494 --> 02:01:49,894
22 lobbyists on a particular

4164
02:01:50,664 --> 02:01:52,166
policy. I would really, and I

4165
02:01:52,166 --> 02:01:54,680
appreciate that we have a

4166
02:01:54,680 --> 02:01:56,103
conflict of interest, um, in

4167
02:01:56,103 --> 02:01:59,103
terms of the, uh Election

4168
02:01:59,874 --> 02:02:02,543
committee. I would really like

4169
02:02:02,543 --> 02:02:04,111
to see some, some ethical

4170
02:02:04,111 --> 02:02:07,111
language, maybe from the city

4171
02:02:07,615 --> 02:02:08,783
attorney office. Something

4172
02:02:08,783 --> 02:02:11,585
around that idea that everybody

4173
02:02:11,585 --> 02:02:12,786
can do anything they want as a

4174
02:02:12,786 --> 02:02:15,723
resident of of Rockville as a

4175
02:02:15,723 --> 02:02:16,490
resident of Montgomery County.

4176
02:02:16,490 --> 02:02:19,490
Think that the challenges when

4177
02:02:20,227 --> 02:02:24,427
you Are the the head or an

4178
02:02:24,431 --> 02:02:25,533
employee of a grantee. There

4179
02:02:25,533 --> 02:02:27,933
are different conditions, um,

4180
02:02:28,603 --> 02:02:30,604
that, that do apply. And, um, I,

4181
02:02:30,604 --> 02:02:31,872
I would really wanna see some

4182
02:02:31,872 --> 02:02:34,272
bright lines, um, some

4183
02:02:34,508 --> 02:02:36,810
guardrails. So that we know

4184
02:02:36,810 --> 02:02:39,580
that the money that we are

4185
02:02:39,580 --> 02:02:41,150
investing in the nonprofit. Is

4186
02:02:41,150 --> 02:02:44,150
not being invested in lobbying

4187
02:02:44,752 --> 02:02:44,985
us. And that, um, that

4188
02:02:44,985 --> 02:02:46,985
s really

4189
02:02:48,389 --> 02:02:49,456
my point. So, um, I, I will end,

4190
02:02:49,456 --> 02:02:51,426
I will end there. I would love

4191
02:02:51,426 --> 02:02:51,525
to hear my, my colleague

4192
02:02:51,525 --> 02:02:53,525
s

4193
02:02:53,827 --> 02:02:54,862
thoughts on that as well. Um,

4194
02:02:54,862 --> 02:02:55,963
and really wanna, wanna thank

4195
02:02:55,963 --> 02:02:57,965
you all. I know how tough this

4196
02:02:57,965 --> 02:03:00,965
is, so. Appreciate it. Thank

4197
02:03:02,690 --> 02:03:05,690
you. Thank you very much,

4198
02:03:05,940 --> 02:03:08,876
Doctor Miles. Thank you, MADAM

4199
02:03:08,876 --> 02:03:11,178
Mayor, I want to echo my thanks

4200
02:03:11,178 --> 02:03:11,279
to the presenters on this. I

4201
02:03:11,279 --> 02:03:13,279
ll

4202
02:03:14,148 --> 02:03:14,415
keep it brief. After hearing my

4203
02:03:14,415 --> 02:03:16,415
colleague

4204
02:03:16,784 --> 02:03:19,184
s comments and Thank

4205
02:03:20,387 --> 02:03:23,958
you for those. In terms of

4206
02:03:23,958 --> 02:03:25,126
answering your questions.

4207
02:03:25,126 --> 02:03:28,126
Question 1, yes, uh, I think

4208
02:03:28,829 --> 02:03:30,931
that the 5 proposed impact

4209
02:03:30,931 --> 02:03:32,867
focus areas should be adopted.

4210
02:03:32,867 --> 02:03:33,901
There were 2, whether not any

4211
02:03:33,901 --> 02:03:34,902
should be prioritized, I

4212
02:03:34,902 --> 02:03:36,705
m not,

4213
02:03:36,705 --> 02:03:37,839
I think as was mentioned by a

4214
02:03:37,839 --> 02:03:38,500
couple of colleagues earlier, I

4215
02:03:38,500 --> 02:03:38,239
don

4216
02:03:38,239 --> 02:03:40,239
t think it

4217
02:03:41,108 --> 02:03:42,760
s necessary.

4218
02:03:42,760 --> 02:03:42,276
Prioritize 1 or 2, I think

4219
02:03:42,276 --> 02:03:44,276
they

4220
02:03:45,120 --> 02:03:47,114
re, they are all important,

4221
02:03:47,114 --> 02:03:48,820
um, if, however, there was

4222
02:03:48,820 --> 02:03:50,500
Movement among my colleagues,

4223
02:03:50,500 --> 02:03:52,190
like the majority said they

4224
02:03:52,190 --> 02:03:54,388
want to prioritize, uh, a bias

4225
02:03:54,388 --> 02:03:55,322
toward the youth family

4226
02:03:55,322 --> 02:03:56,724
services and household

4227
02:03:56,724 --> 02:03:59,124
stability, um, among others,

4228
02:03:59,460 --> 02:04:02,496
but again, I think all of them

4229
02:04:02,496 --> 02:04:03,430
are important, and then third.

4230
02:04:03,430 --> 02:04:05,830
The streamlined renewal process,

4231
02:04:05,933 --> 02:04:06,330
yes, I think, you know, I

4232
02:04:06,330 --> 02:04:06,600
d

4233
02:04:06,600 --> 02:04:06,834
like the caveats that I

4234
02:04:06,834 --> 02:04:08,369
ll put

4235
02:04:08,369 --> 02:04:11,969
in there that they must reapply

4236
02:04:12,139 --> 02:04:12,940
for 2 cycles. I think larger

4237
02:04:12,940 --> 02:04:15,900
organizations that are more

4238
02:04:15,900 --> 02:04:17,409
seasoned and polished. Have

4239
02:04:20,115 --> 02:04:22,515
oftentimes. Can, can. Be

4240
02:04:22,751 --> 02:04:24,919
somewhat advantaged in, uh, in

4241
02:04:24,919 --> 02:04:26,353
applying for these programs.

4242
02:04:26,353 --> 02:04:27,354
Relative to those who smaller

4243
02:04:27,354 --> 02:04:29,189
perhaps with less experience,

4244
02:04:29,189 --> 02:04:30,157
but I think the guardrails that

4245
02:04:30,157 --> 02:04:31,726
you all have outlined makes

4246
02:04:31,726 --> 02:04:32,260
sense to me and I can support

4247
02:04:32,260 --> 02:04:33,270
that. That

4248
02:04:33,270 --> 02:04:36,270
s all I have. Thank

4249
02:04:39,667 --> 02:04:40,834
you. Thank you very much. I am

4250
02:04:40,834 --> 02:04:42,536
just looking for additional

4251
02:04:42,536 --> 02:04:42,803
hands, Mississ City Manager, I

4252
02:04:42,803 --> 02:04:43,637
think we

4253
02:04:43,637 --> 02:04:46,370
ve answered all of

4254
02:04:46,440 --> 02:04:48,342
your key, you know, majority of

4255
02:04:48,342 --> 02:04:49,311
an your key questions. Uh, do

4256
02:04:49,311 --> 02:04:51,512
you have any followup questions

4257
02:04:51,512 --> 02:04:54,782
for us. I do not, I just want

4258
02:04:54,782 --> 02:04:55,849
to clarify, so I did hear a

4259
02:04:55,849 --> 02:04:58,185
majority support for the 5

4260
02:04:58,185 --> 02:04:58,619
Impact focus areas. I heard

4261
02:04:58,619 --> 02:05:00,155
some interest and

4262
02:05:00,155 --> 02:05:02,230
prioritization, maybe an

4263
02:05:02,230 --> 02:05:03,124
ongoing discussion, but not

4264
02:05:03,124 --> 02:05:05,524
necessarily picking 2 for next

4265
02:05:06,460 --> 02:05:08,429
year, and I absolutely heard

4266
02:05:08,429 --> 02:05:09,960
unanimous support for, um, the

4267
02:05:09,960 --> 02:05:09,763
streamlining of high-performing

4268
02:05:09,763 --> 02:05:10,632
programs. So I did get the

4269
02:05:10,632 --> 02:05:12,833
direction we needed. Thank you,

4270
02:05:12,833 --> 02:05:13,200
Mayor. Thank you, and I see

4271
02:05:13,200 --> 02:05:15,200
Councilor Shaw

4272
02:05:18,172 --> 02:05:19,506
s hand. Thank

4273
02:05:19,506 --> 02:05:20,140
you, MADAM Mayor. I did just

4274
02:05:20,140 --> 02:05:20,241
want to circle back. I can

4275
02:05:20,241 --> 02:05:21,542
t

4276
02:05:21,542 --> 02:05:25,142
hear you, can you please come

4277
02:05:25,846 --> 02:05:26,847
off mute? Can you hear me now?

4278
02:05:26,847 --> 02:05:28,349
Yes, thank you, yeah, I did

4279
02:05:28,349 --> 02:05:31,118
just want to circle back, um,

4280
02:05:31,118 --> 02:05:32,860
just as a member of the body to

4281
02:05:32,860 --> 02:05:34,521
share my feedback, um, and I

4282
02:05:34,521 --> 02:05:35,656
want to thank my colleagues for,

4283
02:05:35,656 --> 02:05:37,858
um, the really great questions

4284
02:05:37,858 --> 02:05:40,261
that they asked. Um, so should

4285
02:05:40,261 --> 02:05:43,261
the city adopt, uh, 5 proposed

4286
02:05:44,865 --> 02:05:47,368
impact focus areas, yes, um. Uh,

4287
02:05:47,368 --> 02:05:48,702
number 2, which I think, uh,

4288
02:05:48,702 --> 02:05:50,437
was slightly touched on by one

4289
02:05:50,437 --> 02:05:52,837
of my colleagues surrounding

4290
02:05:53,507 --> 02:05:55,409
data, um. Should 1 or 2 of

4291
02:05:55,409 --> 02:05:57,811
these impact focus areas be

4292
02:05:57,811 --> 02:05:59,847
prioritized. I still think that

4293
02:05:59,847 --> 02:06:01,649
we should have data and that

4294
02:06:01,649 --> 02:06:02,617
goes back to, um, like if we

4295
02:06:02,617 --> 02:06:05,617
wanna talk about equity, that

4296
02:06:06,210 --> 02:06:06,287
goes back to the equity process

4297
02:06:06,287 --> 02:06:07,540
where we

4298
02:06:07,540 --> 02:06:09,454
re sharing data to

4299
02:06:09,857 --> 02:06:11,825
figure out where the gaps are

4300
02:06:11,825 --> 02:06:12,927
in certain populations for to

4301
02:06:12,927 --> 02:06:14,662
inform our decisions, and that

4302
02:06:14,662 --> 02:06:14,828
data is not just for us, but

4303
02:06:14,828 --> 02:06:16,664
it

4304
02:06:16,664 --> 02:06:18,132
s also for the public to

4305
02:06:18,132 --> 02:06:22,236
make sure that when we say that

4306
02:06:22,236 --> 02:06:23,671
we are, um. Uh, advancing

4307
02:06:23,671 --> 02:06:24,772
equity that that aligns with

4308
02:06:24,772 --> 02:06:25,806
the metrics and the data. So I

4309
02:06:25,806 --> 02:06:29,176
would just need to see more

4310
02:06:29,176 --> 02:06:31,378
data, and then number 3, should

4311
02:06:31,378 --> 02:06:33,280
the city provide a streamlined

4312
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:34,782
renewal pathway for

4313
02:06:34,782 --> 02:06:36,782
high-performing programs, yes,

4314
02:06:37,151 --> 02:06:39,987
and I also think we need to be

4315
02:06:39,987 --> 02:06:42,890
careful, um, to make sure that

4316
02:06:42,890 --> 02:06:44,580
we are also providing

4317
02:06:44,580 --> 02:06:46,360
opportunities to support, um,

4318
02:06:46,360 --> 02:06:49,360
some of the smaller nonprofits,

4319
02:06:50,532 --> 02:06:52,933
um. As they grow, uh, so that

4320
02:06:52,933 --> 02:06:53,501
they can also become one of our

4321
02:06:53,501 --> 02:06:55,501
high performing programs

4322
02:06:55,936 --> 02:06:56,971
because a lot of, a lot of, uh,

4323
02:06:56,971 --> 02:06:58,639
our high performing programs

4324
02:06:58,639 --> 02:07:02,239
are from some of the larger

4325
02:07:02,610 --> 02:07:05,513
nonprofits, so thank you. Thank

4326
02:07:05,513 --> 02:07:06,615
you very much. I appreciate the

4327
02:07:06,615 --> 02:07:08,382
diversity of comments from my

4328
02:07:08,382 --> 02:07:08,916
colleagues. Uh, thank you for

4329
02:07:08,916 --> 02:07:09,483
answering the specific

4330
02:07:09,483 --> 02:07:09,817
questions. I think we

4331
02:07:09,817 --> 02:07:11,817
ve given

4332
02:07:12,419 --> 02:07:14,188
staff a lot to think about, um,

4333
02:07:14,188 --> 02:07:15,289
I will wrap with just, uh, in

4334
02:07:15,289 --> 02:07:17,625
terms of next steps, if you

4335
02:07:17,625 --> 02:07:19,927
could go back to that so that

4336
02:07:19,927 --> 02:07:22,330
we can take another look. I do

4337
02:07:22,330 --> 02:07:25,432
know that, um, the timing for

4338
02:07:25,432 --> 02:07:26,835
grants is coming up very soon.

4339
02:07:26,835 --> 02:07:26,934
Uh, so I believe that you

4340
02:07:26,934 --> 02:07:28,903
re

4341
02:07:28,903 --> 02:07:31,238
gonna have some of those, take

4342
02:07:31,238 --> 02:07:31,972
our feedback and then move to

4343
02:07:31,972 --> 02:07:33,841
open the application soon. Is

4344
02:07:33,841 --> 02:07:36,841
that correct? That is correct,

4345
02:07:37,845 --> 02:07:38,413
yes. So you typically do

4346
02:07:38,413 --> 02:07:40,413
information sessions in

4347
02:07:41,515 --> 02:07:43,350
SEPTEMBER. Uh, SEPTEMBER and

4348
02:07:43,350 --> 02:07:46,350
OCTOBER, yes. Ok. And the

4349
02:07:46,820 --> 02:07:49,220
deadline will be? OCTOBER 6,

4350
02:07:49,223 --> 02:07:49,890
yes, I believe OCTOBER 16th,

4351
02:07:49,890 --> 02:07:50,224
yeah, the only thing I

4352
02:07:50,224 --> 02:07:51,325
ll say

4353
02:07:51,325 --> 02:07:51,425
about that is given that we

4354
02:07:51,425 --> 02:07:52,994
re

4355
02:07:52,994 --> 02:07:54,929
making some changes, you MAY

4356
02:07:54,929 --> 02:07:55,997
want to look up that a little

4357
02:07:55,997 --> 02:07:57,866
bit just because people are

4358
02:07:57,866 --> 02:07:58,465
gonna have to revise their

4359
02:07:58,465 --> 02:08:00,465
application significantly,

4360
02:08:00,935 --> 02:08:03,304
wanna Maybe participate in 1 or

4361
02:08:03,304 --> 02:08:06,140
2 of the sessions that you have,

4362
02:08:06,140 --> 02:08:08,242
uh, we are moving from 9

4363
02:08:08,242 --> 02:08:11,145
categories to about 5, so I

4364
02:08:11,145 --> 02:08:11,478
just wanted to note that, um,

4365
02:08:11,478 --> 02:08:13,414
and I

4366
02:08:13,414 --> 02:08:14,815
ll just also say, um, I,

4367
02:08:14,815 --> 02:08:17,251
I think that one of the things

4368
02:08:17,251 --> 02:08:17,585
we saw with the last Grant

4369
02:08:17,585 --> 02:08:19,187
piece of it

4370
02:08:19,187 --> 02:08:20,754
s we, we were

4371
02:08:20,754 --> 02:08:22,223
trying to, um, spread a little

4372
02:08:22,223 --> 02:08:23,257
thin, so I just, I, to the

4373
02:08:23,257 --> 02:08:25,426
comments of my colleagues

4374
02:08:25,426 --> 02:08:26,927
looking at data, looking at

4375
02:08:26,927 --> 02:08:28,329
impact, and meeting the needs

4376
02:08:28,329 --> 02:08:29,597
of the community is very

4377
02:08:29,597 --> 02:08:31,699
important, so, um, thank you

4378
02:08:31,699 --> 02:08:34,702
for that. And then the last

4379
02:08:34,702 --> 02:08:36,170
thing is related to the um

4380
02:08:36,170 --> 02:08:37,104
microgrants, uh, the schedule

4381
02:08:37,104 --> 02:08:37,271
is slightly different for that.

4382
02:08:37,271 --> 02:08:38,772
We

4383
02:08:38,772 --> 02:08:38,939
ll just make sure that we

4384
02:08:38,939 --> 02:08:40,875
don

4385
02:08:40,875 --> 02:08:41,809
t inadvertently. Have an

4386
02:08:41,809 --> 02:08:42,576
issue with some of the

4387
02:08:42,576 --> 02:08:44,478
programming, right, because I

4388
02:08:44,478 --> 02:08:46,130
know the timing is gonna shift

4389
02:08:46,130 --> 02:08:47,381
to make sure that we, the ones

4390
02:08:47,381 --> 02:08:49,383
we have supported, will still

4391
02:08:49,383 --> 02:08:49,483
get their fr 27, and then we

4392
02:08:49,483 --> 02:08:51,386
ll

4393
02:08:51,386 --> 02:08:51,652
work to make sure that it

4394
02:08:51,652 --> 02:08:53,652
s in

4395
02:08:54,288 --> 02:08:54,389
time, given that That

4396
02:08:54,389 --> 02:08:55,289
s

4397
02:08:55,289 --> 02:08:56,423
shifting until MAY for the next

4398
02:08:56,423 --> 02:08:57,324
year, I just, I just want to

4399
02:08:57,324 --> 02:08:57,759
take a look at that and make

4400
02:08:57,759 --> 02:08:59,260
sure that we don

4401
02:08:59,260 --> 02:09:00,494
t cause any

4402
02:09:00,494 --> 02:09:01,996
issues there. Yes, absolutely.

4403
02:09:01,996 --> 02:09:04,833
We can definitely make sure

4404
02:09:04,833 --> 02:09:06,200
that those dates are lining up

4405
02:09:06,200 --> 02:09:08,369
and we support that continuity

4406
02:09:08,369 --> 02:09:10,472
of programming. Thank you, and

4407
02:09:10,472 --> 02:09:12,506
I wanted to just also chime on

4408
02:09:12,506 --> 02:09:13,374
other the, the comments on

4409
02:09:13,374 --> 02:09:14,708
community resiliency or that

4410
02:09:14,708 --> 02:09:15,476
word resiliency, I do love that

4411
02:09:15,476 --> 02:09:18,245
and I appreciate the, the

4412
02:09:18,245 --> 02:09:21,245
feedback. Of all of my

4413
02:09:21,815 --> 02:09:24,215
colleagues. Ok. Anything else

4414
02:09:29,890 --> 02:09:30,591
from your end? Ok. Thank you

4415
02:09:30,591 --> 02:09:30,758
very much, we appreciate it,

4416
02:09:30,758 --> 02:09:31,592
we

4417
02:09:31,592 --> 02:09:33,527
ll look forward to that, and

4418
02:09:33,527 --> 02:09:36,497
I know, um, information will be

4419
02:09:36,497 --> 02:09:37,831
going out to our grantees, uh,

4420
02:09:37,831 --> 02:09:38,999
end of AUGUST and SEPTEMBER so

4421
02:09:38,999 --> 02:09:41,101
that you can advertise those

4422
02:09:41,101 --> 02:09:43,501
information sessions. Thank you.

4423
02:09:53,882 --> 02:09:57,482
Ok. Pulling up my agenda here.

4424
02:09:57,718 --> 02:09:59,587
Oh jeez. Ok, so we had an lpt

4425
02:09:59,587 --> 02:10:01,989
meeting this morning to review

4426
02:10:01,989 --> 02:10:02,723
the mock agenda, uh, so we did

4427
02:10:02,723 --> 02:10:03,924
have a nice discussion on that,

4428
02:10:03,924 --> 02:10:04,992
just wanna want to pause and

4429
02:10:04,992 --> 02:10:08,592
see if anyone has anything else

4430
02:10:12,200 --> 02:10:13,133
to add on mock agenda. Ok, uh,

4431
02:10:13,133 --> 02:10:17,720
next, wanted to open up for all

4432
02:10:17,720 --> 02:10:18,305
new business. Ok. I just wanna

4433
02:10:18,305 --> 02:10:19,807
note that this is our virtual

4434
02:10:19,807 --> 02:10:20,875
meeting, Mayor and council is

4435
02:10:20,875 --> 02:10:22,142
on recess during the month of

4436
02:10:22,142 --> 02:10:24,645
AUGUST, there are still things

4437
02:10:24,645 --> 02:10:24,879
that the city is still running,

4438
02:10:24,879 --> 02:10:26,480
and we

4439
02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:28,515
re still supporting and,

4440
02:10:28,515 --> 02:10:29,850
and accessible, but please feel

4441
02:10:29,850 --> 02:10:31,418
free to reach out to us as you

4442
02:10:31,418 --> 02:10:32,920
need, we will not be having

4443
02:10:32,920 --> 02:10:35,222
meetings during the month of

4444
02:10:35,222 --> 02:10:36,790
AUGUST, uh, and thank all of

4445
02:10:36,790 --> 02:10:37,591
our team and our staff, I hope,

4446
02:10:37,591 --> 02:10:39,160
hopefully some of them get to

4447
02:10:39,160 --> 02:10:41,610
get a little bit of a break in

4448
02:10:41,610 --> 02:10:42,830
between, uh, we were back in

4449
02:10:42,830 --> 02:10:43,531
SEPTEMBER, uh, and continuing

4450
02:10:43,531 --> 02:10:47,131
to move forward to the business.

4451
02:10:47,968 --> 02:10:49,870
Do we have a motion to adjourn?

4452
02:10:49,870 --> 02:10:52,840
Motion to adjourn. Thank you,

4453
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:54,241
do we have a second? Second.

4454
02:10:54,241 --> 02:10:55,210
Excellent, uh, COUNCILMAN Brett

4455
02:10:55,210 --> 02:10:56,176
Jackson made the motion.

4456
02:10:56,176 --> 02:10:56,810
COUNCILMAN Van Grag seconded.

4457
02:10:56,810 --> 02:10:59,810
All those in favor, please

4458
02:11:00,810 --> 02:11:00,948
raise your hand and say aye.

4459
02:11:00,948 --> 02:11:03,348
Excellent. Have a wonderful

4460
02:11:03,684 --> 02:11:06,840
summer, everyone. Take care.