[0:10] All right. All right. Okay. Good evening, Davidson. I'm Autumn Ryerson, Michael, and I'm stepping

[0:21] in for Mayor Knox, who's out of the office tonight. So we're glad that you're here or that you're

[0:27] watching. We'd like to call the meeting to order.

[0:33] I can't help it. Those are American 8250 bells.

[0:36] And if there are any announcements, would I call up communications specialist Summer Allen for any announcements tonight?

[0:47] Hi.

[0:48] Welcome.

[0:48] Thank you.

[0:49] All right.

[0:50] I have just a couple announcements for us.

[0:53] On Friday, July 17th, Andrew Celio, the town arborist announced that the town of Davidson was approved as an accredited Arboretum by ArbNet Arboretum.

[1:03] Arboretum accreditation program, which is the only global initiative to officially recognize Arboretum

[1:09] at various levels of development,

[1:11] capacity, and professionalism.

[1:13] You can't help it.

[1:13] There's our American $8,250.

[1:16] And if there are any announcements,

[1:17] we'd like to call up communications specialists.

[1:22] I was like, whoa, she's throwing her voice.

[1:29] We're doing great.

[1:30] We're doing great without us.

[1:32] We got it.

[1:36] All right.

[1:37] So the town of Davidson's strategic plan, goal of sustainability and natural assets aims

[1:44] to preserve Davidson's natural assets and develop, implement, and actively encourage

[1:49] innovative solutions to environmental, energy, and climate-based challenges.

[1:54] The ArbNet Arboretum accreditation program also incorporates goals from the town's urban

[1:59] community forestry plan and the climate action plan.

[2:02] This is very exciting. We're giving signs. On Monday, August 3rd, the NC DOT installed

[2:11] temporary three-way stop signs at the intersections of Pot Street, Kataba Avenue and South Main Street

[2:17] Kataba Avenue as part of an effort to improve safety for motorists and pedestrians due to

[2:23] increased traffic volume as a result of the Town of Cornelius NC 115 Pot Street Round-O-Out

[2:29] project. Motors are encouraged to use extra caution, obey all posted signs and

[2:34] pavement markings and allow additional travel time as drivers adjust to the

[2:38] new intersection controls. There are still opportunities before the summer ends

[2:43] to support South Main Street businesses impacted by the NCDOT construction on

[2:47] South Main. Upcoming events include Wine Down Wednesday on August 12th at

[2:52] Table in Board and Habibi Lebanon, Family Fun Day at Whits on August 22nd at

[2:58] and live music at the crazy pig on August 29th at 6 p.m.

[3:04] Vendor applications for Christmas and Davidson 2026 are now open.

[3:09] Christmas and Davidson will return this year on Thursday, December 3rd through Saturday, December 5th

[3:14] from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. nightly.

[3:16] Those interested in participating as a food vendor, artisan vendor or entertainment can fill out an application

[3:22] on the town of Davidson website and applications close on October 1st at 5 p.m.

[3:28] Join the town of Davidson Parks and Recreation Department and National Lions on Mental

[3:32] Illness for de-stressed Davidson's Zinnd of the Summer edition.

[3:38] This special de-stress event will focus on general movement, relaxation, and activities

[3:43] designed to promote calm and well-being.

[3:45] The community is invited to drop in any time on August 15th at Davidson Town Hall and Community

[3:50] Center between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for hands-on activities and a chance to unwind.

[3:55] participation is free. All supplies will be provided and light refreshments will be available,

[4:00] come, relax, recharge, and enjoy some time to distress. For more fall programming,

[4:05] you can visit the town of Davidson Parks and Recreation website. And that's all I have for you.

[4:10] Wonderful, thank you so much.

[4:13] Mayor, I do want to have one announcement.

[4:15] Yeah. We've had, as you all know, a few organizational changes in the last 30 days

[4:20] And one of the changes that I wanted to bring to your attention tonight is Jason Bredett,

[4:29] our Planning Director, has taken on an expanded role, and he will now be the Director

[4:34] of Planning and Housing Initiatives.

[4:36] And in this expanded role, Jason will continue to lead the town's Planning Department

[4:40] while providing strategic leadership for Davidson's Housing Initiatives.

[4:44] His responsibilities will include developing and implementing affordable housing strategies,

[4:48] these identifying housing needs, market trends, advancing housing related policies and programs.

[4:54] Lots of other stuff as you'll know, affordable housing is very complex.

[4:57] Jason's been involved for a while, and we really appreciate his leadership and willingness

[5:02] to step up into this role.

[5:04] Awesome.

[5:09] That's a great fit, Jason.

[5:10] Thank you for doing them.

[5:13] Great.

[5:15] Madam, manager, is there, are there any changes to the agenda tonight?

[5:20] No change.

[5:20] 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.

[5:31] Oh, we didn't stop.

[5:33] Well, Gina, you hold tight.

[5:37] And a motion to adopt the agenda tonight with no changes.

[5:43] So move. No second or second. No second. Okay, all those in favor of adopting the agenda tonight.

[5:51] Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. All right. Motion agenda adopted. I know, truly. This is really our first time.

[6:01] Welcome. Welcome. I did you get me twice tonight.

[6:08] Good evening, Mayor Pro Tim and commissioners.

[6:13] I am here to briefly introduce the proposed joint use agreement between the town of Davidson and

[6:20] in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools for the use of Davidson Elementary.

[6:26] So why are we here?

[6:28] The main reason for this agreement is simple.

[6:31] We need dependable indoor space to support our recreation programs.

[6:37] As programming continues to grow, our available town

[6:40] on recreation space is limited.

[6:42] As you all know, we just opened our first indoor recreation space,

[6:46] our dedicated parks and rec indoor space.

[6:49] This agreement also will give us more reliable options for indoor programming rather than having

[6:54] to find space on a program basis and all of the other things that are up there.

[7:02] And it will also build on the talents existing relationship with CMS and create a more consistent

[7:08] way for the community to benefit from facilities that already exist.

[7:15] some past challenges. Historically, one of the challenges we've had with using the school facilities has been consistency.

[7:23] I don't know if any of you all see me during basketball season, you see I'm typically stressed.

[7:29] And so we typically had issues with CMS not communicating with the school to let us get access.

[7:35] And so we've had to wait outside to be letting and hopefully this joint use agreement will

[7:40] will set some clear expectations, scheduling procedures, things like that, and hopefully

[7:49] we will, it will be more consistent, excess will be more consistent.

[7:57] Benefits, it eliminates the need to spend around $5,000 annually, which is what we currently

[8:03] do.

[8:04] We have to rent the gym space out at Davidson Elementary.

[8:07] I mean, at the cost depending on how often we use it, I'm in around $5,000 for the basketball season.

[8:18] And so, instead, those funds can be used and directed toward programming and services or other programming and services for our residents.

[8:28] Having consistent access makes it much easier for us to plan programs, establish schedules and communicate those opportunities to the community.

[8:36] this also directly ties to our 2024 Parks and Recumaster Plan which

[8:42] identified expansion of programming as a key priority and because we will

[8:46] have more space that means we'll be able to provide more programming. Most

[8:51] importantly it allows us to expand use adult and community programming without

[8:55] making significant capital investment in another facility

[9:01] and is that are there any

[9:04] questions.

[9:05] Haven't we had joint use agreements in the past?

[9:10] We have a long time ago.

[9:11] Yes.

[9:11] A long time ago.

[9:12] Not since I've been.

[9:13] Oh, I've been a while.

[9:14] I think.

[9:15] Yes.

[9:16] And I want to say when I first came on staff here, the staff was not on board and I think now

[9:24] the staff is on board and so we were able to, we were able to work through this.

[9:28] Gina, could you just say for everybody else's benefit a little bit of like how does the traffic

[9:34] garden fit into this whole conversation?

[9:37] Yes, so that would also include so right now we use the traffic guarding for some education

[9:44] programs and we have to pay for that even though I think we are the ones who provided that facility.

[9:50] So right now, yes, so this will eliminate that as well.

[9:56] Thank you, and is this a yearly deal or is it a multi-year deal?

[10:03] As far as I know, I believe it's a multi-year ad,

[10:11] it's not a year-to-year date, and it's a 12-month per year date, I mean, even during the summer.

[10:20] Yes, that's going to school schedule and availability, so we would have access to July, August.

[10:30] Any other questions?

[10:34] 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.

[10:46] 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.

[11:01] Thank you.

[11:10] All right.

[11:12] Good evening again.

[11:13] Tonight, Reese and I are here to present the fiscal year 2027 nonprofit grant recommendations.

[11:22] And this is just a brief overview of the nonprofit grant.

[11:28] Of course, $50,000 available for the nonprofit grant program.

[11:33] And then I will walk you through the application, this year's application process and recommendation.

[11:43] So this year's application opened June 15 and closed July 17 and then final recommendations

[11:50] were made and approved by the Livability Board at a special July 28 board meeting.

[11:57] 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.

[12:11] The livability board is recommending allocating the $50,000 to 18 of the 22 total applicants.

[12:18] 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.

[12:29] And I will pass it off to Reese to go over the recommendation.

[12:35] Well, good evening.

[12:37] Again, I'm riskolation on the chair of the Liberty Board.

[12:40] It's my absolute pleasure to be here to share with you our recommendations that, quite frankly,

[12:46] the liability board takes very seriously and we look forward to this time on our calendar

[12:52] every year and this year it was no different. So I'll just go through the organizations

[12:58] that we made the recommendations for and I'll give you a little background on each one.

[13:04] The 2.1.0 collective is and many of these organizations are so near and dear to us. Some of these

[13:11] were the easiest decisions we made. 2-1-0 collective is one of them. They work with

[13:15] developmentally disabled and intellectually disabled local residents, providing outreach,

[13:21] services, job training, and the like. They've been doing good work in the community for a long

[13:26] time. This one was kind of a no-brainer for us. The affordable housing for the Carolinas. Yeah,

[13:33] working to help seniors stay in their homes. A lot of people my age and

[13:42] around my age find themselves in that sandwich generation trying to take

[13:45] care of seniors will also still having kids at home. This is an organization

[13:49] that does a lot of good and heavy lifting to ensure that seniors who can remain

[13:54] in their home have the things that they need. They coordinate with with AARP

[13:59] home-fit program and we thought that this was a worthwhile endeavor to steer our funds to.

[14:07] The Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center, they work with in early childhood education

[14:15] and care. They also provide educational materials. They say to maintain compliance with North Carolina

[14:23] Pathways and five star license standards. It's essentially early childhood education and anything

[14:29] that helps young people, especially the little, get a jump is okay with us.

[14:35] And in that same vein, I squalita is a local school that really is, this was also a no-brainer.

[14:41] On top of addressing early childhood education, it addresses a segment of our community, the Latino

[14:49] community that needs as much support as they can get.

[14:53] Children who go up in Latino households are around Spanish language speakers all the time.

[14:58] They play a lot

[15:00] 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.

[15:29] 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.

[15:45] and Ada Jenkins does a lot of good work.

[15:46] I don't have to sing their praises too hard,

[15:48] but again, that was an easy yes for us.

[15:52] Bags of Hope is such a wonderful organization.

[15:55] They provide food to students

[15:58] that they can have on the weekends.

[16:01] A lot of kids struggling with food insecurity.

[16:05] Sometimes they don't know where their meals

[16:05] are gonna come from on the weekends.

[16:08] Bags of Hope reaches out to more than 900 students

[16:11] at 35 schools across the Lake Norma area

[16:13] that includes the Davidson area, and providing weekend food, everything from kindergarten

[16:20] or 12th grade, again, seemed like a worthwhile endeavor that we could partner with them on.

[16:30] Excuse me. Yes, Bridge of Hearts. Again, for young people experiencing poverty, homelessness,

[16:39] housing and stability, and other hardships, they work with schools and counselors to provide

[16:43] hygiene kits and snacks, emergency support, emergency support supplies, and most especially

[16:49] birthday bags. You know, there's nothing worse than, you know, thinking no one's going to

[16:54] remember your birthday when, where are we going to sleep tonight is a thing. So, Bridge of Hearts,

[17:00] they do the big work and remember the small things too. So, again, a really worthwhile organization.

[17:23] 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.

[17:36] But now, again, if they want to do that work, go get them, Tiger.

[17:40] We're glad to help them.

[17:42] The DLC, most of the residents here know the good work that Davidson Land Conservancy

[17:50] does.

[17:50] This is the one that we believe is going to be beneficial for every resident of Davidson

[17:57] that happens to drive by Roosevelt Wilson Park and along Sloan Street.

[18:02] They're essentially talking about like sprucing up the joint and and especially after the the completion of the bypass connector

[18:10] So so yeah, again, that was a you know, we love DLC

[18:14] They they do a lot of good work and we really we zeroed in on yeah

[18:19] Anyone who drives by and looks at the park is gonna benefit from that that seemed like an easy decision

[18:24] Davidson learns it was founded in 2012

[18:27] They offer adult life-loan learning opportunities and their spotlight events.

[18:33] Anything that provides learning opportunities for adults, especially older folks,

[18:39] it's an opportunity for seniors to remain engaged to intellectual, social, cultural life situations for adults,

[18:48] and they provide challenging, diverse, and relevant courses for them.

[18:52] It's sounding good to us. We hope it sounds good to you.

[18:54] music at St. Albans. They put on two Davidson library town concerts. Those are

[19:01] virtual. They do, they partner with Ada Jenkins to do a learn, music, work, music,

[19:06] enrichment concert, and they also do a music thing for the kids at La

[19:10] squalita. They work with musicians to expose young people to jazz and and bring

[19:18] them and do music games and the like. Music is such a great way to convey

[19:23] information and learning, again, that seemed like a worthwhile thing to lend our support

[19:29] to.

[19:30] The National Alliance for Mental Illness of Charlotte, some are earlier talked about

[19:37] the Zen, what is the de-stress Davidson.

[19:44] Just thinking about it makes me feel less stressed.

[19:47] When we read it, we all kind of universally thought, that sounds good, less stress and

[19:53] and again, if it's something that's already in place

[19:55] and people seem to be using it and enjoying

[19:58] why wouldn't we want to help keep that going.

[20:01] North Carolina youth orchestra,

[20:05] band nerds need love too.

[20:07] And the youth orchestra is going into its fourth year.

[20:10] They do a three day intensive training program

[20:13] at Davis and college.

[20:15] And they basically, they provide scholarships,

[20:18] tuition scholarships for kids to be able to participate.

[20:21] 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.

[20:28] So I thought we all thought that that would be a good thing to do.

[20:31] Pharaoh's parenting, this one seems incredibly important.

[20:36] In-home coaching and early intervention services that help strengthen families and prevent neglect and abuse, all too often young families.

[20:45] They struggle with just the how-to, they repeat cycles of unfortunately violence and neglect.

[20:55] Ferros made very clear that they have every intention of reaching out to families in Davidson

[21:03] that could use the help in learning some better paths forward to strengthen families, especially

[21:12] families with young children.

[21:13] And Temple Cultiva is a local temple, and our friends there are continuing to do their

[21:22] work with seniors, providing activities tailored to the needs of their specific senior community.

[21:29] The temple does a lot of good stuff, and quite frankly, the rabbi there, she just had her

[21:36] first baby, so any help she can get from us will probably be really appreciated.

[21:40] But another great organization, we're glad to help them out.

[21:43] Those were the, and oh, please forgive me, and senior community connections.

[21:51] I knew I was going to forget one.

[21:55] Help seniors, that's pretty good.

[21:59] If you give me, there it is, please forgive me, senior community connections.

[22:04] Yes, they were looking for help to renew their assisted rides,

[22:09] license and expand membership and continue to fund their community programs

[22:16] basically helping to shut a seniors to organizations and things that they

[22:23] need access to. Yes and I will speak on so I know you guys are probably

[22:30] noticing that a lot of these folks requesting $5,000 and the Libby Libby Board

[22:35] to recommend it. 25, 100. So they went through the process of, again, pain

[22:43] secondly going through. You want to fund as many as you can, but also be mindful

[22:51] that some of these folks aren't getting exactly what they requested. And I

[22:57] believe there is a note in the application that asks if they're okay with not

[23:01] being fully funded, so that will be addressed with those individual organizations.

[23:08] We also spent a considerable amount of time examining organizations' budgets to see

[23:13] if it would have an adverse effect on their budget.

[23:16] If we did alter the recommended amount, and as Gina said, they also put forth that they

[23:22] would be amenable to receiving less if that's what was available.

[23:25] And I know, as we see the example, with the North Carolina youth orchestra, they said that

[23:29] that they offer scholarships to 10 Davidson residents.

[23:32] And so we took, we looked up,

[23:33] they looked up the cost of what it cost

[23:37] and the $2,500 recover those, those they did in advance.

[23:42] So that's an example of how they made decisions.

[23:47] All right, to get to the folks that are not being recommended,

[23:52] I can speak a little bit on these,

[23:53] cause a few of these, typically we will look through

[23:57] and see if there's a way for us to offer in-kind support.

[24:04] And so specifically, with heart to harmony,

[24:08] workers of the Carolina, those two,

[24:13] I know we said that we would, and I'm

[24:16] consuming our economic development as hard

[24:18] to reach out to me to schedule those concerts.

[24:21] So that's how we determine that we wouldn't fund them,

[24:25] but we would offer some in-kind support.

[24:26] and then with heart to harmony, they actually also reached out with some support from the

[24:31] Department Department to help with their late Norman Diwali.

[24:36] And again, not a Davidson program, so it didn't make sense funding them.

[24:42] Acting Academy Davidson, reasoning behind why they were not funded, it wasn't really a service

[24:49] or program.

[24:50] They were hoping you're asking for assistance with a build out of their space pretty much.

[24:59] And so that's the reason why the living room we were decided.

[25:01] And then with the came center, they asked last year as well.

[25:08] And we similarly did not fund them this year.

[25:11] Sloan and Stin, I'm going to rescue you again, then being out of more spill, more spill.

[25:16] And then also the agenda memo that you guys had, it gives a list of what they said, their

[25:22] strategic plan, what strategic plan goal are, which is really our core values they aligned

[25:31] with.

[25:31] And it just didn't connect with the group with some of the other ones.

[25:36] And then also the art science and cultural council, it really would just affect Davidson College

[25:41] students.

[25:42] And so we didn't think that this grant was appropriate to fund.

[25:52] And then I also gave you the total amount asked this year was 95,000.

[25:57] Of course, we only have 50.

[26:00] There we go.

[26:02] Any questions?

[26:05] Any questions?

[26:08] Of the 18 awardees, do you know how many were first time recipients?

[26:13] and some research.

[26:15] Our

[26:25] former applicants and our name association has changed.

[26:32] So the truly only new one is sterile parenting.

[26:37] Nami was, they've, they've been lifeline.

[26:41] And then music at St. Alvin, they haven't applied for the past couple of years.

[26:46] And Davidson learns as well.

[26:48] But the only true new one is sterile parenting.

[26:51] And affordable housing, the Carolina State did not apply last year.

[26:56] Yeah, that one is wrong.

[26:57] Yeah, no team, sorry.

[27:02] Well, few questions, the livability boards perception of the 5,02500 criteria, did the

[27:11] board find that constraining are helpful or both are?

[27:15] Honestly, it put us in a place where we could have a discussion back and forth about how

[27:24] to spread the funds out to have more organizations get something that could contribute to what they

[27:31] were looking for. So, I mean, we found it, we found it helpful. We didn't feel like it put

[27:35] in a handcuffs on us. It was also the difference between this year and last year with having

[27:41] the specific denominations made it easy to just decide and determine the best way to cover as many

[27:47] bases as we could. And I noticed a number of the grantees are based outside of Davidson and have

[27:53] regional target populations, how the

[27:57] livability board get assured of the

[27:59] Davidson coverage. That's a great

[28:02] question. You know, with the ones

[28:04] that that are repeat requesters, we

[28:10] just look to what they've done

[28:12] previously. What also we have a pretty

[28:16] good track record of working with

[28:19] organizations that serve the

[28:20] community. Quite frankly, it

[28:23] It would be terrible to fund something and then discover after we've given them the money

[28:28] that Davidson residents didn't benefit as much.

[28:30] But based on their applications, they were asked to be very specific on number of Davidson

[28:37] residents that would be impacted, how they would be impacted.

[28:41] And we went on the basis of what they submitted to us.

[28:44] And we took very seriously whether they were based in and around Davidson.

[28:49] For example, the Diwali Festival sounds great, that's taking place in Huntersville.

[28:54] And I live in Davidson, I drive to Huntersville all the time, but we didn't think it would

[28:57] be appropriate to steer funds to an organization that was going to put something on in their

[29:04] town square.

[29:05] So we use the information that was provided, but we also relied on the history of the organizations

[29:12] that have asked before and provided what they said they did.

[29:17] To affordable housing of the Carolina's you said was new, so the history is

[29:23] Provided by them for what they've done in years before they were being funded

[29:28] Which is there they stated in the adaptation how they've been the work they've been doing

[29:33] And then another another question

[29:40] For this homelessness prevention sort of crisis fund of aided Jenkins and

[29:46] 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?

[30:00] Uh, some tiny percentage of the overall or a significant one or, yeah, uh, there. So their budget was, uh,

[30:15] 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.

[30:33] It's a grain of sand, but they made the request and we gave it the due consideration despite what their budget is.

[30:43] I know it's been a debated delivery board in the past as to whether some of the large organizations,

[30:48] whether you're making a significant contribution with this grant to their effort.

[30:53] And so it is a bit of a hurdle for the large organizations to have $5,000 and $2,500 sort of limitations.

[30:59] because then I virtue of a percentage of their budget.

[31:03] It doesn't end up being a significant contribution

[31:06] to the program budget per se,

[31:09] but it's symbolic in some ways to support local nonprofits,

[31:15] no matter the size.

[31:17] I was this debated in a livability board again.

[31:21] Oh, absolutely.

[31:23] We talked about the opportunity to partner with operations

[31:27] like Ada Jenkins knowing what their budget is and knowing that like I said it would be kind of a

[31:31] grant of sand but it permits us the opportunity to be truthful when we say we lend our support

[31:37] to Ada Jenkins when they have programs like this one. Oh look to that is are they able to tell you

[31:45] the average amount that is needed for emergency assistance so like basically that 2500 how many

[31:58] families with that help. They did not give specific examples. There are other

[32:03] organizations that do you feel like us with the yeah they're with them specifically I don't believe

[32:09] they gave a amount. In their application they mentioned that the funds would be only used

[32:14] for residents of Davidson and they targeted helping as many as 500 residents with the program.

[32:22] Yes, yes, ma'am the emergency or overall they made it kind of a 50,000-foot

[32:34] explanation of how they would target specifically Davidson residents with

[32:39] whatever funds they got from us and they project that approximately 500

[32:45] Davidson residents would be served through their program can I add to I know

[32:51] from previous conversations with Harold about this that in their application last year,

[32:57] they were over 350 served last year to the 500 track.

[33:01] And I think that is limited by funding and capacity.

[33:07] And they typically run out of crisis assistance funds quickly and then they fundraise and they

[33:16] might have a little bit more.

[33:17] so but they do have historically and we can we can certainly get the percentage of them

[33:24] that the 5,000 representative of the total crisis assistance funding and we can

[33:29] ask them for the average amount needed. I'm sure they can provide that.

[33:33] So the 350 that 500 was people receiving crisis assistance or people and

[33:38] David's in support by it.

[33:46] I would like to find out how many people they serve, specifically for the emergency assistance.

[34:00] My other question in regards to how a commissioner just was saying about if art understands right,

[34:09] like bridge of hearts is in Moore's bill, but they work with David and I want to make a

[34:16] deal.

[34:18] And that was another thing that we really did. We had robust discussions about ensuring

[34:24] that if they weren't based in Davidson that they were very specifically going to serve Davidson

[34:30] residents. The application even asks how many Davidson residents can be expected to. So yeah,

[34:35] Yeah, we spent a considerable amount of our time.

[34:38] It was a little bit of a good idea.

[34:40] Yes, ma'am.

[34:43] Any other questions or comments?

[34:46] I really appreciate the breadth of organizations represented

[34:53] here if that was part of your thought process

[34:56] from children and young folks served to seniors,

[35:02] the music and youth orchestra, and that sort of animal welfare,

[35:06] there, et cetera, that just there seems to be a great breadth of organization served.

[35:11] So thank you for that as part of your process, ma'am.

[35:16] Tina, do we have a history of the amount of total asks per year to see the trend?

[35:22] Yes.

[35:23] I can provide that.

[35:23] I don't think we did yet, but I believe there's a link on the web page as well that provides

[35:30] the history.

[35:34] All

[35:40] right, thank you so much to both of you and to the.

[35:43] Thank you.

[35:44] Thank you.

[35:51] And we'll be considering now on the consent agenda.

[35:54] Right.

[35:55] Yeah.

[35:55] At the August 25th meeting.

[35:59] Okay.

[35:59] Item C on our agenda.

[36:01] Consider approval resolution 2026-13.

[36:05] Administrative update to CRTPO.

[36:08] MOU or Memorandum of Understanding.

[36:10] And our presenter here is Madam Town Manager Austin there.

[36:15] I just like saying it.

[36:17] Madam.

[36:17] Thank you Madam Mayor.

[36:19] Good evening.

[36:20] So this is really straightforward.

[36:22] I don't even have a slide to talk about it.

[36:24] There's an existing MOU between the towns and their members

[36:29] and the CRTPO, the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning

[36:34] organization and with the MPTA replacing the MTC, that's all that this does.

[36:43] It's search and replace in the document.

[36:45] Everywhere it mentions Metropolitan Transit Commission, it now will say Metropolitan Public

[36:50] Transportation Authority.

[36:53] And the reason we are even talking about this and it's not a consent agenda item is because

[36:57] they need it by the 17th.

[36:59] So that's all I have.

[37:02] We just need a motion. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the resolution?

[37:09] So moved. Is there a second? Any questions? Any questions or comments?

[37:18] Okay. All in favor of the motion to approve resolution 2026-13 authorizing

[37:24] administrative changes to the MOU with CRTPO. Please say aye.

[37:28] any opposed? Okay, so thank you

[37:33] Austin. And can we summarize any

[37:36] meeting, action items? We can. I

[37:39] have that we will confirm the terms

[37:41] of the joint use agreement. I'm

[37:43] going to we're going to follow up

[37:45] on the crisis assistance fund, the

[37:47] percentage that the $5,000

[37:49] rep. Represents of the total and then

[37:51] the average amount per grant or per

[37:55] award. And then we're also going to

[37:58] get you the amount of total request for non-profit grants each year.

[38:06] All right. Any other questions,

[38:08] comments? All right. We'll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. Dude, it's 640. All those in

[38:17] in favor say aye.

[38:19] Aye.

[38:20] All right.

[38:20] Thanks so much.

[38:22] Austin, we'll call some averages under 640 minute meetings.

[38:25] Underfit.

[38:26] Let's screw it up.

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