1 00:00:10,670 --> 00:00:21,190 All right. All right. Okay. Good evening, Davidson. I'm Autumn Ryerson, Michael, and I'm stepping 2 00:00:21,190 --> 00:00:27,870 in for Mayor Knox, who's out of the office tonight. So we're glad that you're here or that you're 3 00:00:27,870 --> 00:00:29,850 watching. We'd like to call the meeting to order. 4 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,300 I can't help it. Those are American 8250 bells. 5 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:43,180 And if there are any announcements, would I call up communications specialist Summer Allen for any announcements tonight? 6 00:00:47,510 --> 00:00:47,730 Hi. 7 00:00:48,090 --> 00:00:48,170 Welcome. 8 00:00:48,390 --> 00:00:49,530 Thank you. 9 00:00:49,890 --> 00:00:50,690 All right. 10 00:00:50,790 --> 00:00:52,670 I have just a couple announcements for us. 11 00:00:53,450 --> 00:01:03,330 On Friday, July 17th, Andrew Celio, the town arborist announced that the town of Davidson was approved as an accredited Arboretum by ArbNet Arboretum. 12 00:01:03,550 --> 00:01:09,590 Arboretum accreditation program, which is the only global initiative to officially recognize Arboretum 13 00:01:09,590 --> 00:01:11,070 at various levels of development, 14 00:01:11,590 --> 00:01:13,210 capacity, and professionalism. 15 00:01:13,210 --> 00:01:13,750 You can't help it. 16 00:01:13,830 --> 00:01:15,210 There's our American $8,250. 17 00:01:16,270 --> 00:01:17,730 And if there are any announcements, 18 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:19,810 we'd like to call up communications specialists. 19 00:01:22,470 --> 00:01:25,670 I was like, whoa, she's throwing her voice. 20 00:01:29,530 --> 00:01:30,470 We're doing great. 21 00:01:30,610 --> 00:01:31,810 We're doing great without us. 22 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:33,670 We got it. 23 00:01:36,090 --> 00:01:37,050 All right. 24 00:01:37,050 --> 00:01:44,570 So the town of Davidson's strategic plan, goal of sustainability and natural assets aims 25 00:01:44,570 --> 00:01:49,210 to preserve Davidson's natural assets and develop, implement, and actively encourage 26 00:01:49,210 --> 00:01:54,250 innovative solutions to environmental, energy, and climate-based challenges. 27 00:01:54,710 --> 00:01:59,770 The ArbNet Arboretum accreditation program also incorporates goals from the town's urban 28 00:01:59,770 --> 00:02:02,610 community forestry plan and the climate action plan. 29 00:02:02,610 --> 00:02:11,370 This is very exciting. We're giving signs. On Monday, August 3rd, the NC DOT installed 30 00:02:11,370 --> 00:02:17,970 temporary three-way stop signs at the intersections of Pot Street, Kataba Avenue and South Main Street 31 00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:23,850 Kataba Avenue as part of an effort to improve safety for motorists and pedestrians due to 32 00:02:23,850 --> 00:02:29,610 increased traffic volume as a result of the Town of Cornelius NC 115 Pot Street Round-O-Out 33 00:02:29,610 --> 00:02:34,750 project. Motors are encouraged to use extra caution, obey all posted signs and 34 00:02:34,750 --> 00:02:38,410 pavement markings and allow additional travel time as drivers adjust to the 35 00:02:38,410 --> 00:02:43,130 new intersection controls. There are still opportunities before the summer ends 36 00:02:43,130 --> 00:02:47,770 to support South Main Street businesses impacted by the NCDOT construction on 37 00:02:47,770 --> 00:02:52,910 South Main. Upcoming events include Wine Down Wednesday on August 12th at 38 00:02:52,910 --> 00:02:58,110 Table in Board and Habibi Lebanon, Family Fun Day at Whits on August 22nd at 39 00:02:58,110 --> 00:03:02,890 and live music at the crazy pig on August 29th at 6 p.m. 40 00:03:04,210 --> 00:03:08,830 Vendor applications for Christmas and Davidson 2026 are now open. 41 00:03:09,530 --> 00:03:14,190 Christmas and Davidson will return this year on Thursday, December 3rd through Saturday, December 5th 42 00:03:14,190 --> 00:03:15,850 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. nightly. 43 00:03:16,450 --> 00:03:22,030 Those interested in participating as a food vendor, artisan vendor or entertainment can fill out an application 44 00:03:22,030 --> 00:03:26,930 on the town of Davidson website and applications close on October 1st at 5 p.m. 45 00:03:28,090 --> 00:03:32,810 Join the town of Davidson Parks and Recreation Department and National Lions on Mental 46 00:03:32,810 --> 00:03:37,690 Illness for de-stressed Davidson's Zinnd of the Summer edition. 47 00:03:38,310 --> 00:03:43,030 This special de-stress event will focus on general movement, relaxation, and activities 48 00:03:43,030 --> 00:03:45,350 designed to promote calm and well-being. 49 00:03:45,950 --> 00:03:50,530 The community is invited to drop in any time on August 15th at Davidson Town Hall and Community 50 00:03:50,530 --> 00:03:55,250 Center between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for hands-on activities and a chance to unwind. 51 00:03:55,250 --> 00:04:00,310 participation is free. All supplies will be provided and light refreshments will be available, 52 00:04:00,630 --> 00:04:05,130 come, relax, recharge, and enjoy some time to distress. For more fall programming, 53 00:04:05,470 --> 00:04:09,810 you can visit the town of Davidson Parks and Recreation website. And that's all I have for you. 54 00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:12,910 Wonderful, thank you so much. 55 00:04:13,010 --> 00:04:15,210 Mayor, I do want to have one announcement. 56 00:04:15,390 --> 00:04:20,470 Yeah. We've had, as you all know, a few organizational changes in the last 30 days 57 00:04:20,470 --> 00:04:29,010 And one of the changes that I wanted to bring to your attention tonight is Jason Bredett, 58 00:04:29,110 --> 00:04:34,010 our Planning Director, has taken on an expanded role, and he will now be the Director 59 00:04:34,010 --> 00:04:35,630 of Planning and Housing Initiatives. 60 00:04:36,310 --> 00:04:40,290 And in this expanded role, Jason will continue to lead the town's Planning Department 61 00:04:40,290 --> 00:04:43,950 while providing strategic leadership for Davidson's Housing Initiatives. 62 00:04:44,410 --> 00:04:48,770 His responsibilities will include developing and implementing affordable housing strategies, 63 00:04:48,770 --> 00:04:53,690 these identifying housing needs, market trends, advancing housing related policies and programs. 64 00:04:54,290 --> 00:04:57,570 Lots of other stuff as you'll know, affordable housing is very complex. 65 00:04:57,950 --> 00:05:02,150 Jason's been involved for a while, and we really appreciate his leadership and willingness 66 00:05:02,150 --> 00:05:03,530 to step up into this role. 67 00:05:04,530 --> 00:05:05,050 Awesome. 68 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:10,500 That's a great fit, Jason. 69 00:05:10,860 --> 00:05:11,640 Thank you for doing them. 70 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:13,300 Great. 71 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,940 Madam, manager, is there, are there any changes to the agenda tonight? 72 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:20,560 No change. 73 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:30,760 Okay, so moving on to item four business items to discuss proposed joint use agreement with CMS Charlotte Mecklenburg schools. I'd like to welcome. 74 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:32,200 Oh, we didn't stop. 75 00:05:33,060 --> 00:05:34,600 Well, Gina, you hold tight. 76 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:40,880 And a motion to adopt the agenda tonight with no changes. 77 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:51,180 So move. No second or second. No second. Okay, all those in favor of adopting the agenda tonight. 78 00:05:51,180 --> 00:06:01,340 Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. All right. Motion agenda adopted. I know, truly. This is really our first time. 79 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:04,660 Welcome. Welcome. I did you get me twice tonight. 80 00:06:08,710 --> 00:06:12,010 Good evening, Mayor Pro Tim and commissioners. 81 00:06:13,750 --> 00:06:20,870 I am here to briefly introduce the proposed joint use agreement between the town of Davidson and 82 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:24,230 in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools for the use of Davidson Elementary. 83 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:28,390 So why are we here? 84 00:06:28,950 --> 00:06:31,210 The main reason for this agreement is simple. 85 00:06:31,370 --> 00:06:36,250 We need dependable indoor space to support our recreation programs. 86 00:06:37,090 --> 00:06:40,610 As programming continues to grow, our available town 87 00:06:40,610 --> 00:06:42,590 on recreation space is limited. 88 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:45,850 As you all know, we just opened our first indoor recreation space, 89 00:06:46,190 --> 00:06:48,330 our dedicated parks and rec indoor space. 90 00:06:49,450 --> 00:06:54,510 This agreement also will give us more reliable options for indoor programming rather than having 91 00:06:54,510 --> 00:07:00,810 to find space on a program basis and all of the other things that are up there. 92 00:07:02,690 --> 00:07:08,490 And it will also build on the talents existing relationship with CMS and create a more consistent 93 00:07:08,490 --> 00:07:12,710 way for the community to benefit from facilities that already exist. 94 00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:22,160 some past challenges. Historically, one of the challenges we've had with using the school facilities has been consistency. 95 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,280 I don't know if any of you all see me during basketball season, you see I'm typically stressed. 96 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:34,540 And so we typically had issues with CMS not communicating with the school to let us get access. 97 00:07:35,460 --> 00:07:40,800 And so we've had to wait outside to be letting and hopefully this joint use agreement will 98 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:49,260 will set some clear expectations, scheduling procedures, things like that, and hopefully 99 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:53,340 we will, it will be more consistent, excess will be more consistent. 100 00:07:57,020 --> 00:08:03,520 Benefits, it eliminates the need to spend around $5,000 annually, which is what we currently 101 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:03,880 do. 102 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,440 We have to rent the gym space out at Davidson Elementary. 103 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:15,660 I mean, at the cost depending on how often we use it, I'm in around $5,000 for the basketball season. 104 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:26,940 And so, instead, those funds can be used and directed toward programming and services or other programming and services for our residents. 105 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:36,120 Having consistent access makes it much easier for us to plan programs, establish schedules and communicate those opportunities to the community. 106 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:42,300 this also directly ties to our 2024 Parks and Recumaster Plan which 107 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:46,280 identified expansion of programming as a key priority and because we will 108 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:51,820 have more space that means we'll be able to provide more programming. Most 109 00:08:51,820 --> 00:08:55,220 importantly it allows us to expand use adult and community programming without 110 00:08:55,220 --> 00:08:58,020 making significant capital investment in another facility 111 00:09:01,260 --> 00:09:04,620 and is that are there any 112 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:05,240 questions. 113 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,360 Haven't we had joint use agreements in the past? 114 00:09:10,060 --> 00:09:11,180 We have a long time ago. 115 00:09:11,340 --> 00:09:11,580 Yes. 116 00:09:11,740 --> 00:09:12,400 A long time ago. 117 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:13,480 Not since I've been. 118 00:09:13,620 --> 00:09:14,560 Oh, I've been a while. 119 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:15,040 I think. 120 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:15,600 Yes. 121 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:24,260 And I want to say when I first came on staff here, the staff was not on board and I think now 122 00:09:24,260 --> 00:09:28,180 the staff is on board and so we were able to, we were able to work through this. 123 00:09:28,740 --> 00:09:34,660 Gina, could you just say for everybody else's benefit a little bit of like how does the traffic 124 00:09:34,660 --> 00:09:36,620 garden fit into this whole conversation? 125 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:43,620 Yes, so that would also include so right now we use the traffic guarding for some education 126 00:09:44,220 --> 00:09:50,280 programs and we have to pay for that even though I think we are the ones who provided that facility. 127 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,320 So right now, yes, so this will eliminate that as well. 128 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:03,330 Thank you, and is this a yearly deal or is it a multi-year deal? 129 00:10:03,890 --> 00:10:06,150 As far as I know, I believe it's a multi-year ad, 130 00:10:11,070 --> 00:10:17,730 it's not a year-to-year date, and it's a 12-month per year date, I mean, even during the summer. 131 00:10:20,010 --> 00:10:25,770 Yes, that's going to school schedule and availability, so we would have access to July, August. 132 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:31,680 Any other questions? 133 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:45,680 Okay, so this is an item for discussion only and the board will be asked to approve the joint use agreement on the consent agenda at our next meeting on August 25th. 134 00:10:46,940 --> 00:11:01,660 Item B is to discuss fiscal year 2027 nonprofit grant recommendations and, okay, and Gina will stay with us as operations manager and joining her is re-sculpting chair of the livability board. 135 00:11:01,660 --> 00:11:02,320 Thank you. 136 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,040 All right. 137 00:11:12,180 --> 00:11:13,180 Good evening again. 138 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:19,820 Tonight, Reese and I are here to present the fiscal year 2027 nonprofit grant recommendations. 139 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:26,820 And this is just a brief overview of the nonprofit grant. 140 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,380 Of course, $50,000 available for the nonprofit grant program. 141 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:40,600 And then I will walk you through the application, this year's application process and recommendation. 142 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:50,680 So this year's application opened June 15 and closed July 17 and then final recommendations 143 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:56,360 were made and approved by the Livability Board at a special July 28 board meeting. 144 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:07,040 We had to re-schedule and make sure that we were able to approve that in time so that was going on July 28th, which July 24th was our regular meeting. 145 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:18,660 The livability board is recommending allocating the $50,000 to 18 of the 22 total applicants. 146 00:12:18,660 --> 00:12:27,140 I mean, as a reminder, this year, the change we made last year, they were either able to apply for 5,000 or 2,500. 147 00:12:29,910 --> 00:12:34,790 And I will pass it off to Reese to go over the recommendation. 148 00:12:35,830 --> 00:12:36,930 Well, good evening. 149 00:12:37,490 --> 00:12:39,930 Again, I'm riskolation on the chair of the Liberty Board. 150 00:12:40,270 --> 00:12:45,010 It's my absolute pleasure to be here to share with you our recommendations that, quite frankly, 151 00:12:46,310 --> 00:12:52,370 the liability board takes very seriously and we look forward to this time on our calendar 152 00:12:52,950 --> 00:12:58,590 every year and this year it was no different. So I'll just go through the organizations 153 00:12:58,590 --> 00:13:04,190 that we made the recommendations for and I'll give you a little background on each one. 154 00:13:04,850 --> 00:13:11,190 The 2.1.0 collective is and many of these organizations are so near and dear to us. Some of these 155 00:13:11,190 --> 00:13:15,690 were the easiest decisions we made. 2-1-0 collective is one of them. They work with 156 00:13:15,690 --> 00:13:21,370 developmentally disabled and intellectually disabled local residents, providing outreach, 157 00:13:21,690 --> 00:13:26,770 services, job training, and the like. They've been doing good work in the community for a long 158 00:13:26,770 --> 00:13:33,030 time. This one was kind of a no-brainer for us. The affordable housing for the Carolinas. Yeah, 159 00:13:33,830 --> 00:13:42,130 working to help seniors stay in their homes. A lot of people my age and 160 00:13:42,130 --> 00:13:45,710 around my age find themselves in that sandwich generation trying to take 161 00:13:45,710 --> 00:13:49,730 care of seniors will also still having kids at home. This is an organization 162 00:13:49,730 --> 00:13:54,590 that does a lot of good and heavy lifting to ensure that seniors who can remain 163 00:13:54,590 --> 00:13:59,950 in their home have the things that they need. They coordinate with with AARP 164 00:13:59,950 --> 00:14:07,030 home-fit program and we thought that this was a worthwhile endeavor to steer our funds to. 165 00:14:07,650 --> 00:14:15,990 The Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center, they work with in early childhood education 166 00:14:15,990 --> 00:14:23,690 and care. They also provide educational materials. They say to maintain compliance with North Carolina 167 00:14:23,690 --> 00:14:29,310 Pathways and five star license standards. It's essentially early childhood education and anything 168 00:14:29,310 --> 00:14:34,610 that helps young people, especially the little, get a jump is okay with us. 169 00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:41,570 And in that same vein, I squalita is a local school that really is, this was also a no-brainer. 170 00:14:41,950 --> 00:14:49,150 On top of addressing early childhood education, it addresses a segment of our community, the Latino 171 00:14:49,150 --> 00:14:52,250 community that needs as much support as they can get. 172 00:14:53,110 --> 00:14:58,550 Children who go up in Latino households are around Spanish language speakers all the time. 173 00:14:58,550 --> 00:14:59,910 They play a lot 174 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:29,260 That have catch up when they go into school environments. They're essentially learning in two languages. Last Holytah does a lot of heavy lifting to help them acclimate to English language learning. They were an easy yes for us last year. They were an even easier yes for us this year. The Ada Jeket Center, you know, it's one of our local partners. They're a great organization. They are specifically asked for funds to cover. 175 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:45,060 emergency to address emergency needs for to prevent homelessness for residents, things like covering rent utility payments for residents of Davidson that might be struggling and and facing facing an unhoused situation. 176 00:15:45,060 --> 00:15:46,520 and Ada Jenkins does a lot of good work. 177 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,660 I don't have to sing their praises too hard, 178 00:15:48,660 --> 00:15:52,740 but again, that was an easy yes for us. 179 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,700 Bags of Hope is such a wonderful organization. 180 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,520 They provide food to students 181 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,500 that they can have on the weekends. 182 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,600 A lot of kids struggling with food insecurity. 183 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:05,980 Sometimes they don't know where their meals 184 00:16:05,980 --> 00:16:07,100 are gonna come from on the weekends. 185 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,860 Bags of Hope reaches out to more than 900 students 186 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:13,840 at 35 schools across the Lake Norma area 187 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:20,840 that includes the Davidson area, and providing weekend food, everything from kindergarten 188 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:27,800 or 12th grade, again, seemed like a worthwhile endeavor that we could partner with them on. 189 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:39,280 Excuse me. Yes, Bridge of Hearts. Again, for young people experiencing poverty, homelessness, 190 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,240 housing and stability, and other hardships, they work with schools and counselors to provide 191 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:49,700 hygiene kits and snacks, emergency support, emergency support supplies, and most especially 192 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:54,960 birthday bags. You know, there's nothing worse than, you know, thinking no one's going to 193 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,820 remember your birthday when, where are we going to sleep tonight is a thing. So, Bridge of Hearts, 194 00:17:00,180 --> 00:17:07,320 they do the big work and remember the small things too. So, again, a really worthwhile organization. 195 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:35,800 I mean it when I say if they want to do that work, God bless them. The least we can do is say, sure, here's some scratch to help keep us from getting scratched by stray cats. I didn't even mean to do that. I was just thinking. 196 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,700 But now, again, if they want to do that work, go get them, Tiger. 197 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:41,880 We're glad to help them. 198 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:50,180 The DLC, most of the residents here know the good work that Davidson Land Conservancy 199 00:17:50,180 --> 00:17:50,420 does. 200 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:57,200 This is the one that we believe is going to be beneficial for every resident of Davidson 201 00:17:57,620 --> 00:18:02,600 that happens to drive by Roosevelt Wilson Park and along Sloan Street. 202 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:10,880 They're essentially talking about like sprucing up the joint and and especially after the the completion of the bypass connector 203 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,440 So so yeah, again, that was a you know, we love DLC 204 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:19,060 They they do a lot of good work and we really we zeroed in on yeah 205 00:18:19,060 --> 00:18:23,400 Anyone who drives by and looks at the park is gonna benefit from that that seemed like an easy decision 206 00:18:24,380 --> 00:18:27,520 Davidson learns it was founded in 2012 207 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:33,380 They offer adult life-loan learning opportunities and their spotlight events. 208 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:39,200 Anything that provides learning opportunities for adults, especially older folks, 209 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:48,660 it's an opportunity for seniors to remain engaged to intellectual, social, cultural life situations for adults, 210 00:18:48,660 --> 00:18:51,940 and they provide challenging, diverse, and relevant courses for them. 211 00:18:52,460 --> 00:18:54,460 It's sounding good to us. We hope it sounds good to you. 212 00:18:54,460 --> 00:19:01,700 music at St. Albans. They put on two Davidson library town concerts. Those are 213 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:06,820 virtual. They do, they partner with Ada Jenkins to do a learn, music, work, music, 214 00:19:06,980 --> 00:19:10,420 enrichment concert, and they also do a music thing for the kids at La 215 00:19:10,420 --> 00:19:18,900 squalita. They work with musicians to expose young people to jazz and and bring 216 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:23,800 them and do music games and the like. Music is such a great way to convey 217 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,360 information and learning, again, that seemed like a worthwhile thing to lend our support 218 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:29,660 to. 219 00:19:30,180 --> 00:19:37,280 The National Alliance for Mental Illness of Charlotte, some are earlier talked about 220 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,300 the Zen, what is the de-stress Davidson. 221 00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:47,200 Just thinking about it makes me feel less stressed. 222 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:53,060 When we read it, we all kind of universally thought, that sounds good, less stress and 223 00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:55,960 and again, if it's something that's already in place 224 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,580 and people seem to be using it and enjoying 225 00:19:58,580 --> 00:20:00,780 why wouldn't we want to help keep that going. 226 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:03,360 North Carolina youth orchestra, 227 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:06,920 band nerds need love too. 228 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:10,480 And the youth orchestra is going into its fourth year. 229 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,520 They do a three day intensive training program 230 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:14,500 at Davis and college. 231 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,020 And they basically, they provide scholarships, 232 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:20,900 tuition scholarships for kids to be able to participate. 233 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:27,800 You know, it's bad enough to have him to lug a cello, but to think you would be kept out of playing your cello, that's not cool. 234 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:30,580 So I thought we all thought that that would be a good thing to do. 235 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:35,640 Pharaoh's parenting, this one seems incredibly important. 236 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:45,720 In-home coaching and early intervention services that help strengthen families and prevent neglect and abuse, all too often young families. 237 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:54,660 They struggle with just the how-to, they repeat cycles of unfortunately violence and neglect. 238 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:03,520 Ferros made very clear that they have every intention of reaching out to families in Davidson 239 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:12,400 that could use the help in learning some better paths forward to strengthen families, especially 240 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,900 families with young children. 241 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:22,420 And Temple Cultiva is a local temple, and our friends there are continuing to do their 242 00:21:22,420 --> 00:21:29,260 work with seniors, providing activities tailored to the needs of their specific senior community. 243 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:36,060 The temple does a lot of good stuff, and quite frankly, the rabbi there, she just had her 244 00:21:36,060 --> 00:21:39,740 first baby, so any help she can get from us will probably be really appreciated. 245 00:21:40,060 --> 00:21:42,360 But another great organization, we're glad to help them out. 246 00:21:43,060 --> 00:21:48,360 Those were the, and oh, please forgive me, and senior community connections. 247 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,780 I knew I was going to forget one. 248 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:57,840 Help seniors, that's pretty good. 249 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,480 If you give me, there it is, please forgive me, senior community connections. 250 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:09,500 Yes, they were looking for help to renew their assisted rides, 251 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:15,560 license and expand membership and continue to fund their community programs 252 00:22:16,820 --> 00:22:23,340 basically helping to shut a seniors to organizations and things that they 253 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:30,120 need access to. Yes and I will speak on so I know you guys are probably 254 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:35,400 noticing that a lot of these folks requesting $5,000 and the Libby Libby Board 255 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:43,920 to recommend it. 25, 100. So they went through the process of, again, pain 256 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:51,300 secondly going through. You want to fund as many as you can, but also be mindful 257 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:57,900 that some of these folks aren't getting exactly what they requested. And I 258 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:01,980 believe there is a note in the application that asks if they're okay with not 259 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:08,180 being fully funded, so that will be addressed with those individual organizations. 260 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:13,220 We also spent a considerable amount of time examining organizations' budgets to see 261 00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:16,220 if it would have an adverse effect on their budget. 262 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:22,520 If we did alter the recommended amount, and as Gina said, they also put forth that they 263 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,060 would be amenable to receiving less if that's what was available. 264 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,920 And I know, as we see the example, with the North Carolina youth orchestra, they said that 265 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,540 that they offer scholarships to 10 Davidson residents. 266 00:23:32,740 --> 00:23:33,820 And so we took, we looked up, 267 00:23:33,860 --> 00:23:37,340 they looked up the cost of what it cost 268 00:23:37,340 --> 00:23:41,380 and the $2,500 recover those, those they did in advance. 269 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,980 So that's an example of how they made decisions. 270 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:51,800 All right, to get to the folks that are not being recommended, 271 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:53,820 I can speak a little bit on these, 272 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,760 cause a few of these, typically we will look through 273 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:03,820 and see if there's a way for us to offer in-kind support. 274 00:24:04,540 --> 00:24:07,440 And so specifically, with heart to harmony, 275 00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:12,600 workers of the Carolina, those two, 276 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:15,820 I know we said that we would, and I'm 277 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:18,400 consuming our economic development as hard 278 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,060 to reach out to me to schedule those concerts. 279 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,120 So that's how we determine that we wouldn't fund them, 280 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,600 but we would offer some in-kind support. 281 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:31,800 and then with heart to harmony, they actually also reached out with some support from the 282 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,600 Department Department to help with their late Norman Diwali. 283 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,620 And again, not a Davidson program, so it didn't make sense funding them. 284 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:49,920 Acting Academy Davidson, reasoning behind why they were not funded, it wasn't really a service 285 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:50,720 or program. 286 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:58,380 They were hoping you're asking for assistance with a build out of their space pretty much. 287 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,600 And so that's the reason why the living room we were decided. 288 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:08,100 And then with the came center, they asked last year as well. 289 00:25:08,260 --> 00:25:10,520 And we similarly did not fund them this year. 290 00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:16,320 Sloan and Stin, I'm going to rescue you again, then being out of more spill, more spill. 291 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:22,960 And then also the agenda memo that you guys had, it gives a list of what they said, their 292 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:31,260 strategic plan, what strategic plan goal are, which is really our core values they aligned 293 00:25:31,260 --> 00:25:31,560 with. 294 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,100 And it just didn't connect with the group with some of the other ones. 295 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:41,960 And then also the art science and cultural council, it really would just affect Davidson College 296 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,400 students. 297 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:47,280 And so we didn't think that this grant was appropriate to fund. 298 00:25:52,150 --> 00:25:57,630 And then I also gave you the total amount asked this year was 95,000. 299 00:25:57,670 --> 00:25:58,890 Of course, we only have 50. 300 00:26:00,830 --> 00:26:02,570 There we go. 301 00:26:02,750 --> 00:26:03,850 Any questions? 302 00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:06,730 Any questions? 303 00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:13,350 Of the 18 awardees, do you know how many were first time recipients? 304 00:26:13,350 --> 00:26:13,850 and some research. 305 00:26:15,390 --> 00:26:15,630 Our 306 00:26:25,610 --> 00:26:31,710 former applicants and our name association has changed. 307 00:26:32,170 --> 00:26:35,270 So the truly only new one is sterile parenting. 308 00:26:37,290 --> 00:26:40,770 Nami was, they've, they've been lifeline. 309 00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:46,010 And then music at St. Alvin, they haven't applied for the past couple of years. 310 00:26:46,890 --> 00:26:48,610 And Davidson learns as well. 311 00:26:48,870 --> 00:26:51,670 But the only true new one is sterile parenting. 312 00:26:51,670 --> 00:26:56,150 And affordable housing, the Carolina State did not apply last year. 313 00:26:56,170 --> 00:26:57,090 Yeah, that one is wrong. 314 00:26:57,790 --> 00:26:58,950 Yeah, no team, sorry. 315 00:27:02,460 --> 00:27:11,700 Well, few questions, the livability boards perception of the 5,02500 criteria, did the 316 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,820 board find that constraining are helpful or both are? 317 00:27:15,220 --> 00:27:24,180 Honestly, it put us in a place where we could have a discussion back and forth about how 318 00:27:24,180 --> 00:27:31,100 to spread the funds out to have more organizations get something that could contribute to what they 319 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:35,720 were looking for. So, I mean, we found it, we found it helpful. We didn't feel like it put 320 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,780 in a handcuffs on us. It was also the difference between this year and last year with having 321 00:27:41,780 --> 00:27:47,600 the specific denominations made it easy to just decide and determine the best way to cover as many 322 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:53,800 bases as we could. And I noticed a number of the grantees are based outside of Davidson and have 323 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,300 regional target populations, how the 324 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,720 livability board get assured of the 325 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,820 Davidson coverage. That's a great 326 00:28:02,820 --> 00:28:04,940 question. You know, with the ones 327 00:28:04,940 --> 00:28:10,160 that that are repeat requesters, we 328 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,120 just look to what they've done 329 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:15,900 previously. What also we have a pretty 330 00:28:16,270 --> 00:28:19,100 good track record of working with 331 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:20,700 organizations that serve the 332 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:23,640 community. Quite frankly, it 333 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,160 It would be terrible to fund something and then discover after we've given them the money 334 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,540 that Davidson residents didn't benefit as much. 335 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:37,920 But based on their applications, they were asked to be very specific on number of Davidson 336 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,780 residents that would be impacted, how they would be impacted. 337 00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:43,800 And we went on the basis of what they submitted to us. 338 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,480 And we took very seriously whether they were based in and around Davidson. 339 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:53,060 For example, the Diwali Festival sounds great, that's taking place in Huntersville. 340 00:28:54,060 --> 00:28:57,640 And I live in Davidson, I drive to Huntersville all the time, but we didn't think it would 341 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:04,880 be appropriate to steer funds to an organization that was going to put something on in their 342 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:05,400 town square. 343 00:29:05,940 --> 00:29:12,960 So we use the information that was provided, but we also relied on the history of the organizations 344 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,400 that have asked before and provided what they said they did. 345 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:23,240 To affordable housing of the Carolina's you said was new, so the history is 346 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,300 Provided by them for what they've done in years before they were being funded 347 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,980 Which is there they stated in the adaptation how they've been the work they've been doing 348 00:29:33,980 --> 00:29:39,800 And then another another question 349 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:46,860 For this homelessness prevention sort of crisis fund of aided Jenkins and 350 00:29:46,860 --> 00:29:59,980 And you have a sense by their shared budget of what percentage 2,500 is for the total budget that they have set aside is this is it? 351 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:10,340 Uh, some tiny percentage of the overall or a significant one or, yeah, uh, there. So their budget was, uh, 352 00:30:15,250 --> 00:30:33,650 yeah. Yeah. Please forgive me. I'm going to try to find exactly what it's a small percentage. Yeah. Yeah. There are annual expense and income projections for the current year is 2.7 million. Uh, so to say that it's, it's not a drop in a bucket. 353 00:30:33,650 --> 00:30:43,450 It's a grain of sand, but they made the request and we gave it the due consideration despite what their budget is. 354 00:30:43,630 --> 00:30:48,450 I know it's been a debated delivery board in the past as to whether some of the large organizations, 355 00:30:48,450 --> 00:30:52,690 whether you're making a significant contribution with this grant to their effort. 356 00:30:53,690 --> 00:30:59,530 And so it is a bit of a hurdle for the large organizations to have $5,000 and $2,500 sort of limitations. 357 00:30:59,530 --> 00:31:02,950 because then I virtue of a percentage of their budget. 358 00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:06,550 It doesn't end up being a significant contribution 359 00:31:06,550 --> 00:31:09,470 to the program budget per se, 360 00:31:09,630 --> 00:31:14,890 but it's symbolic in some ways to support local nonprofits, 361 00:31:15,710 --> 00:31:16,790 no matter the size. 362 00:31:17,390 --> 00:31:21,110 I was this debated in a livability board again. 363 00:31:21,870 --> 00:31:22,890 Oh, absolutely. 364 00:31:23,290 --> 00:31:27,050 We talked about the opportunity to partner with operations 365 00:31:27,050 --> 00:31:31,650 like Ada Jenkins knowing what their budget is and knowing that like I said it would be kind of a 366 00:31:31,650 --> 00:31:37,150 grant of sand but it permits us the opportunity to be truthful when we say we lend our support 367 00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:45,920 to Ada Jenkins when they have programs like this one. Oh look to that is are they able to tell you 368 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:58,460 the average amount that is needed for emergency assistance so like basically that 2500 how many 369 00:31:58,740 --> 00:32:03,700 families with that help. They did not give specific examples. There are other 370 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:09,000 organizations that do you feel like us with the yeah they're with them specifically I don't believe 371 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,200 they gave a amount. In their application they mentioned that the funds would be only used 372 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:22,020 for residents of Davidson and they targeted helping as many as 500 residents with the program. 373 00:32:22,020 --> 00:32:33,560 Yes, yes, ma'am the emergency or overall they made it kind of a 50,000-foot 374 00:32:34,380 --> 00:32:39,900 explanation of how they would target specifically Davidson residents with 375 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:45,660 whatever funds they got from us and they project that approximately 500 376 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:51,460 Davidson residents would be served through their program can I add to I know 377 00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:57,120 from previous conversations with Harold about this that in their application last year, 378 00:32:57,180 --> 00:33:01,400 they were over 350 served last year to the 500 track. 379 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:07,000 And I think that is limited by funding and capacity. 380 00:33:07,260 --> 00:33:16,460 And they typically run out of crisis assistance funds quickly and then they fundraise and they 381 00:33:16,460 --> 00:33:17,420 might have a little bit more. 382 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:24,180 so but they do have historically and we can we can certainly get the percentage of them 383 00:33:24,180 --> 00:33:28,900 that the 5,000 representative of the total crisis assistance funding and we can 384 00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:33,920 ask them for the average amount needed. I'm sure they can provide that. 385 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:38,860 So the 350 that 500 was people receiving crisis assistance or people and 386 00:33:38,860 --> 00:33:40,200 David's in support by it. 387 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:56,440 I would like to find out how many people they serve, specifically for the emergency assistance. 388 00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:09,560 My other question in regards to how a commissioner just was saying about if art understands right, 389 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:16,500 like bridge of hearts is in Moore's bill, but they work with David and I want to make a 390 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:16,600 deal. 391 00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:24,180 And that was another thing that we really did. We had robust discussions about ensuring 392 00:34:24,180 --> 00:34:30,340 that if they weren't based in Davidson that they were very specifically going to serve Davidson 393 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:35,660 residents. The application even asks how many Davidson residents can be expected to. So yeah, 394 00:34:35,660 --> 00:34:38,620 Yeah, we spent a considerable amount of our time. 395 00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:40,380 It was a little bit of a good idea. 396 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:41,320 Yes, ma'am. 397 00:34:43,220 --> 00:34:45,260 Any other questions or comments? 398 00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:53,200 I really appreciate the breadth of organizations represented 399 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,280 here if that was part of your thought process 400 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,420 from children and young folks served to seniors, 401 00:35:02,740 --> 00:35:06,160 the music and youth orchestra, and that sort of animal welfare, 402 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:11,540 there, et cetera, that just there seems to be a great breadth of organization served. 403 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,880 So thank you for that as part of your process, ma'am. 404 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:22,460 Tina, do we have a history of the amount of total asks per year to see the trend? 405 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:22,720 Yes. 406 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:23,820 I can provide that. 407 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:30,340 I don't think we did yet, but I believe there's a link on the web page as well that provides 408 00:35:30,340 --> 00:35:30,880 the history. 409 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:34,620 All 410 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,800 right, thank you so much to both of you and to the. 411 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:43,520 Thank you. 412 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:44,580 Thank you. 413 00:35:44,860 --> 00:35:45,220 Thank you. 414 00:35:51,830 --> 00:35:54,170 And we'll be considering now on the consent agenda. 415 00:35:54,950 --> 00:35:55,450 Right. 416 00:35:55,670 --> 00:35:55,770 Yeah. 417 00:35:55,950 --> 00:35:57,550 At the August 25th meeting. 418 00:35:59,270 --> 00:35:59,790 Okay. 419 00:35:59,950 --> 00:36:01,490 Item C on our agenda. 420 00:36:01,650 --> 00:36:04,970 Consider approval resolution 2026-13. 421 00:36:05,590 --> 00:36:08,010 Administrative update to CRTPO. 422 00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:10,530 MOU or Memorandum of Understanding. 423 00:36:10,530 --> 00:36:15,470 And our presenter here is Madam Town Manager Austin there. 424 00:36:15,830 --> 00:36:17,070 I just like saying it. 425 00:36:17,230 --> 00:36:17,290 Madam. 426 00:36:17,810 --> 00:36:18,930 Thank you Madam Mayor. 427 00:36:19,090 --> 00:36:19,430 Good evening. 428 00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:22,490 So this is really straightforward. 429 00:36:22,610 --> 00:36:24,690 I don't even have a slide to talk about it. 430 00:36:24,770 --> 00:36:29,910 There's an existing MOU between the towns and their members 431 00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:34,470 and the CRTPO, the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning 432 00:36:34,470 --> 00:36:43,150 organization and with the MPTA replacing the MTC, that's all that this does. 433 00:36:43,410 --> 00:36:45,370 It's search and replace in the document. 434 00:36:45,530 --> 00:36:50,750 Everywhere it mentions Metropolitan Transit Commission, it now will say Metropolitan Public 435 00:36:50,750 --> 00:36:52,490 Transportation Authority. 436 00:36:53,090 --> 00:36:57,690 And the reason we are even talking about this and it's not a consent agenda item is because 437 00:36:57,690 --> 00:36:59,690 they need it by the 17th. 438 00:36:59,890 --> 00:37:02,610 So that's all I have. 439 00:37:02,610 --> 00:37:08,950 We just need a motion. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the resolution? 440 00:37:09,190 --> 00:37:15,970 So moved. Is there a second? Any questions? Any questions or comments? 441 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:24,360 Okay. All in favor of the motion to approve resolution 2026-13 authorizing 442 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,440 administrative changes to the MOU with CRTPO. Please say aye. 443 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:33,120 any opposed? Okay, so thank you 444 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,200 Austin. And can we summarize any 445 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,440 meeting, action items? We can. I 446 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,360 have that we will confirm the terms 447 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,960 of the joint use agreement. I'm 448 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,100 going to we're going to follow up 449 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,020 on the crisis assistance fund, the 450 00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:49,060 percentage that the $5,000 451 00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:51,800 rep. Represents of the total and then 452 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,260 the average amount per grant or per 453 00:37:55,260 --> 00:37:58,300 award. And then we're also going to 454 00:37:58,300 --> 00:38:03,180 get you the amount of total request for non-profit grants each year. 455 00:38:06,780 --> 00:38:07,880 All right. Any other questions, 456 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:17,860 comments? All right. We'll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. Dude, it's 640. All those in 457 00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:18,780 in favor say aye. 458 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:19,340 Aye. 459 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,060 Aye. 460 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:20,560 All right. 461 00:38:20,740 --> 00:38:21,460 Thanks so much. 462 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,320 Austin, we'll call some averages under 640 minute meetings. 463 00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:25,900 Underfit. 464 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:26,860 Let's screw it up.