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All right, we are going to get started. This is the staff meeting of the Hamilton County Commission. April, it's tax day, April 15th, how do we not know that? April 15th, 2025. We have a lot on our agenda today and I want to thank you all for being here. This is a really important meeting. We're going to talk about a number of things and really we're going to talk about the work of the county.

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And I was just telling someone whether you're a county employee or in partnership with the county.

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You are the ones doing the work for the county and serving the citizens.

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So I really, really appreciate you taking the time to be here.

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It's a really important conversation.

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And so we're going to get to that second.

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First we have a proclamation and recognition.

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So we're recognizing national public safety telecommunication workers week.

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But before we get to the proclamation, there you are, Andy Nap, Andy is a director of communications here at the county.

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I do want to recognize that Andy and his team are getting an award from the answer to the call foundation, which was named for Kyle Plush.

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It's for positive changes made to the communications center, and they're being honored at the Cincinnati Reds game tomorrow in honor of their work.

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And so I just want to make sure that people understand the good work you're doing.

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I did highlight some of the work at the state of the county.

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I know others have done the same.

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So whether it's delivering a baby or saving someone's life or responding

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to a tragedy, the work that you all do is so important to this community.

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People that call 911, I don't think recognize the stress that could happen on that

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other.

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Who knows what call you just came off of?

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And people need to know that someone cares and someone has the expertise to

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take care of that call.

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So thank you so much for what you do.

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Commissioner, before we read the Proclamation,

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I'm going to offer it to you to have any comments

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and then we'll launch into the Proclamation.

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You said it all.

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I mean, what could we do without all of you?

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So you're so important to us.

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So this, again, is a Proclamation recognizing

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National Public Safety Telecommunicator's Week,

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where, as public safety telecommunicators,

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answer emergency and non-emergency calls for service 24 hours a day,

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365 days a year, sacrificing weekends, holidays, birthdays, and other special events.

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And whereas public safety telecommunicators are required to work overtime, adapt to shift

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work schedules, report to work during hazardous weather conditions, national disasters,

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and worldwide pandemics. And whereas in 2024 telecommunicators at Hamlet Accounting

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and the City of Cincinnati answered more than 591,000, 911 calls impacting thousands of lives

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and working diligently to save people and property, and whereas public safety telecommunicators

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are highly trained and committed to responding properly with compassion and professionalism

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to meet the ever-changing needs of citizens, police, fire, and medical personnel, and whereas

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public safety telecommunicators must stay calm while collecting vital location information quickly

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determine the severity of the situation and send their proper dispatch response, advise

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callers, how to remain safe and provide live saving medical instructions over the telephone.

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And whereas the public safety telecommunicators of the Hamilton County Communications Center

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are perpetually on duty to serve can be identified by their voices alone

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as they are rarely seen.

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Now, therefore, be a proclaim that the Board of County Commissioners of Hamilton County

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does give due recognition to the women and men of Hamilton County Communications Center

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for their unwavering commitment to the safety and security of our citizens and first responders

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having served our county since 1949 and hereby proclaiming April 13th through April 19, 2025

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as national public safety telecommunicators week.

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Thank

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you, Andy.

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My President, thank you very much for the recognition for the remarks and I'm

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quite proud of the staff that we have on duty and I marked this year as a year

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progress.

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We continue this slow steady progress of rebuilding our workforce just like everyone

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else did through the pandemic as we lost so many employees we continue to

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rebuilding. I'm pleased to report to by the end of April. We have the only three vacancies within

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the dispatcher ranks, which is a market improvement compared to where we have been in the

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last several years. The women who are with me here today represent some of our training team.

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In fact, these are the folks that are digging us out of the trenches. They have been nonstop training

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new employees. As you can imagine, when you start taking 911 calls, unlike in a police and fire

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service, where you have people that are backing you up, and you always have a trainer with you,

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and you always have someone overseeing what you're doing.

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When you answer the call as a 911 operator,

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your live, your on-front street from day one,

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the same thing with when you start working

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on the radio system and your radio dispatching both

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please and fire, and he's very high profile,

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high intensity events that are going on.

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You are alone on the radio and on the microphone

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on the telephone and despite having someone back there

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behind you watching you, you have to align your training,

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you have to align your expertise

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and the experience that you get through our training program and these folks are accelerating

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that as quickly as they can because again from day one you don't know if the novel one

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calls about a parking complaint, a an animal complaint or is it someone having a heart attack

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or is it someone involved in a massive auto accident or is it a plane crash and literally you

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can have a range of those types of calls within your single shift. So I'm quite thankful for the

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the staff that we have, the people that are behind the scenes, they're the ones that truly

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work hard 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And as a resolution reflects, we have partnered

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with the city since today very closely to continue to improve the service of 911 throughout

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the entire county. And we have a very good, very stable relationship with the folks at the Cincinnati

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the ECC. I'm proud of the work that they do. I'm proud of the work that we

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We do, and I'm very thankful for the support that this commission, this board has given us over the years. We are enjoying our last public safety telecommunicator week in our current building from the 1970s, and this time next year, I'll be pleased to report to you about the bright shining new building that we have, because of the work that this board has done to get us into a much, much nicer environment. One that will attract people a little stay for their career.

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made a career out of this myself, it is a very pleasant rewarding career and we still are looking

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for career oriented people to help us fill our ranks. Nonetheless, very joyous occasion for us.

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We thank you for the recognition and we'll continue to make you proud and the best we can.

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Thank you again for coming in. Thank all of you for coming in and congratulations again

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on the Andy Pleasure Award. It's just a recognition of what we already know

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is that you're saving lives in this community and working 24-7 to do it.

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So thanks again for all of that.

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We would like to get a photo.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Safety people that are here, so they could stand with us or back here, I think it's a lot

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of it.

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How many people get in there?

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Three.

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Yes.

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All right.

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Before we get any further, we're going to introduce to us on the day

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starting with Christy.

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Christy, you're racial, assistive class.

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Leslie, herbie, clerk to the board.

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Stephanie, summer will be a miscommissioner.

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Hamilton County Commissioner, Alicia Reese.

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Jeff, a little county administrator.

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After crossing a system, prosecuting attorney.

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I'm county commissioner, Denise Reyes.

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All right, we're going to move on to item number two.

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This is the federal funding discussion.

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The reason so many of you are in the room.

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And again, thank you for being here.

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I'm aunts and Charlie.

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He's Hamilton County Deputy Assistant County

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administrator is going to offer power points and a report regarding this, but before we get

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to that, let me just say that we three had asked for this report to give us a better understanding

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of how federal funding impacts, not only our budget, but also the services that we provide

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to the citizens of the county. And so we ask the aunts and it's been a little while ago to

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provide that report to help us better understand that it took a while because there are so

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many impacts to so many agencies in Hamilton County related to the partnership we have with

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the federal government. And so the top line number of impact is 346 over $346 million and

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active federal funding awarded between fiscal year 2020 and 2025.

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So as you can see, that is a tremendous impact to many, many organizations on which we rely

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to provide important services to the county.

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So, and so I'm going to turn it over to you to go through your PowerPoint and help better

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define the conversation and then we will, I appreciate, again, everybody being here,

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there are many in the room that can answer questions regarding the funding that they receive.

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And so I appreciate you gathering everyone together and providing us with the opportunity to ask

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those questions.

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All right.

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A President of the House, the Vice President, Summer O'Donnell and Commissioner Rees.

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Before I begin, I'd just like to recognize some of those in the room, because as you mentioned

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this report, it's a collaboration.

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And once who helped all of the department, their agency and staff, they were more than

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helpful.

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But I know in the room today, we have a Megan Guthrie from Addiction Response.

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We've got director Leah Schneider and Neil Townsend and Ryan Braun, who were from DDS.

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We have our EMA director Nick Crosley.

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We've got the county's engineer Eric Beck and Lisa Durger.

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We also have from environmental services, Brad Johnson and Ali Codedat.

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I think I get that right.

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For facilities, we have our director Bert Watson from Jobs and Family Services.

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we have Michael Patton and we also have John Nelson. Planning and development, James Noise

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this year and then from the Sheriff's office we have Kevin Horan and of course chief

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Kevin. So I'd like to thank them because without them this report would not be possible.

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So if you could up, flip the power point.

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So as you mentioned, President Dree House,

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we have about $346 million total federal funding that flows into the county and that's

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active federal funding. And this report is going to categorize the total funding according to

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the different buckets that we put it in. Grants, you know, congressionally directed spending.

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It's also going to highlight which departments receive the most federal funding. And then

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after it identifies those departments, we'll talk about the broad service categories under which

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that federal funding falls. Of course, as you mentioned, this federal funding is just not to supplement

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the county budget. We actually accomplished goals that help to enhance our residents' lives.

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So as we understand where these funds are allocated, we're going to see how they align

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with county priorities. So first, we're going to start with the overview.

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There we go.

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So as you mentioned, department and agencies reported over $340 million in active federal funding.

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Now this includes one-time grants, recurring operational funds, pass through funding,

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It excludes closed grants and expanded grants, so let me explain that.

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One time grants were the easiest to classify, because these were grants that were granted

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for a specific project.

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They only happened one time, and then once that project was completed, it wasn't something

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that required.

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So I did not include those in operational expenditures.

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Now, recurring operational funds, they may have been grants with their grants that happened

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every year, and the department heads, the agencies, their agency heads are here, and they

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can talk about that more detail, but I included those grants and operational funds because they

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were key to the operating of the county or in accomplishing our priorities in our mission.

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And then there's pass through funding, so I don't want to get confused with funding that

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passes through the state. Federal funding comes in two forms, basically. Well, more than that,

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but two forms, indirect and direct funding. So there's direct funding that the federal government

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gives directly to the county, and there's indirect funding that comes through the state.

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However, that indirect funding, if the federal government were to lessen that funding, it would

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affect our operations.

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So I included that pass through funding funding that passes through the state as an operational

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funds.

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When I mentioned pass through funding, I'm talking about funds and different departments that

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we don't really hold, we get it, and we pass it directly that department so they can work

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with one of our third parties who deal with housing,

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you know, some of the non-profits.

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But it doesn't affect the operation of the county

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because it doesn't go to support staff

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or any of our development.

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So does that make sense?

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All right.

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And then of course, Congressually directed spending

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our earmarks.

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And those came back, I believe, in fiscal year 2020,

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we have received millions of dollars in those.

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Those are generally one-time funds that are given to us,

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but they also form an important part of meeting the priorities that we have.

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Now, this report excludes closed grants. So in other words, if an apartment or an agency

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got a grant, spent all of the money and that's closed, I did not include that in the $346

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million number for obvious reasons.

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All right, let's see how that breaks down into those categories. So

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One-time grants, $59.8 million, operational funding, which is the vast majority of our federal funding, is $175.6 million.

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And then Pastor funding is about $5 million.

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So you can see, as you mentioned, the President's Rehouse, that federal funding forms, we use that money to perform the core priorities, the core functions of our county, and it's very important.

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It's the vast majority of what we use our federal funding for.

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Now the top funding recipients are the Department of Disability Services at 162.9 million.

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Jobs and family services at 80.6 million and I'm going to skip the public health and I'll explain that in a reason.

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About 20.9 million dollars. If you can see those top funding recipients, they deal with our health and human services.

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So, they serve the county in ways that affect the ones who are the most vulnerable amongst us.

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Now, the MSD, this is an anticipated investment tax credit.

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So, we have a project that we are completing that if we meet all of the criteria of that project,

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the county can be refunded up to $40 million once that project is complete.

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So, it's kind of a one-off, but $40 million is nothing to sneeze at, right?

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So that's why I concluded that, it's part of our top federal funding.

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So then, how does this federal funding align with our core principles, the way that we serve?

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I was reading an article on one of the trade journals and it said that the primary responsibility of any government

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is to create conditions that enable its residents to thrive.

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And I know that each of the commissioners are dedicated to that principle.

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I know that all of the department and agency heads and everyone who works with the county are dedicated to that.

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So we're going to talk about areas in which this funding is used in order to do that and to meet that priority.

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So first is health and human services.

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And if you think about the work that developmental disabilities does, jobs and family services, public health,

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they affect those who are most at need, those who are most vulnerable.

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And again, we have the directors of these departments here that can go into more detail on the programs,

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but this is vital in order to meet our four priorities and to help in the meeting the operational objectives of the county.

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And of course, we have emergency in public safety.

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We know we just experienced a flood.

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In order to prepare for respond to and recover from emergencies,

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It is necessary to have that federal partner.

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I mean, we don't want to minimize how much our federal partners are in doing or in helping

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us meet those needs, along with, of course, the Hamilton County Sheriff and the coroner's

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office.

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And then infrastructure and environment, I mean, we want to drive on safe roads, we want

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to have safe bridges, the environmental services department helps us with our air.

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And then, as mentioned that one of the project, the Metropolitan Sewer District, I'm going to

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take a quick break in Grabba, a underwater.

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I thought that was a reference to MSD.

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I'm like, what are we talking about?

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Okay, sorry.

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Carry on.

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Ah, thank you.

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All right.

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And then we get down to the heart of it when we talk about community and economic development.

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I'm not going to go into detail here because we just had a wonderful presentation done by our director and the staff of planning and development.

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They talked about the block grants that we have, the home investment partnerships and the emergency solutions grant,

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and how that helps with affordable housing and how it helps serve the 49 different jurisdictions throughout the county.

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So again, we can create the conditions that enable our community to thrive.

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So, in conclusion, I forgot to mention, this isn't going to be a brief presentation.

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In conclusion, we actively manage about $346 million in federal funding.

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It supports a broad range of functions that serve our community, disability services, jobs

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and family support, public health and infrastructure, public safety, helping us to respond

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to floods, keeping our community safe, and also developing their economies as our community

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communities can thrive. Most of these funds, most of them, are in programs that directly affect

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the community or they operate in order to support the county so that we can directly affect

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and enhance the lives of our residents. Again, I can't emphasize enough that this is just,

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this is not pork barrel money, this is money that we send out into the community so that we

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can make Hamilton County a better place to live.

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And it comes with a caveat, no, this is no secret.

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We're living in a changing federal policy landscape.

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If we want to be successful as we navigate this landscape,

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we're going to have to monitor what's

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happening at the federal level, but then also adapt

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to the changes that we see.

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And that's why meetings like this are important,

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but this can't be a one-time thing.

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This has to be an ongoing conversation.

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And as we see those changes, we can have to work as one Hamilton County in order to navigate

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this landscape.

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Because remember, and you all know that principle of foundation, we're here to create

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conditions so that we can let our residents enable them to thrive.

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So with that, if there are any questions, specific questions, I would defer to the agency department

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heads we're here about programs.

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But that concludes our presentation. Thank you so much, Hansen. Really appreciate it. I agree with the idea that we are all here to help citizens thrive. So thank you for emphasizing that.

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I think this exercise is incredibly important so that there's a common understanding about where the intersection is between the federal funding and the our ability to do the work here in Hamilton County.

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So I want to just mention a couple of things because my guess is that not everyone that is here will come up to speak.

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But I do want to highlight some of the breadth of where these dollars go and some of the impacts.

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So I'm just very briefly and you've provided us with a report that details not only the dollar amounts per agency, but also some of the programming per agency that is impacted by federal dollars.

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So, I'm briefly going to pop through some of these just to put a further emphasis on what

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you're talking about.

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So, under addition response, we've got, and these are all departments, summaries that are

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impacted by federal funding or receive federal funding for the programs.

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Additionally, Sponsored, Adult Court, Drug Court, Opioid Effective Youth.

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We've got reentry work going on.

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The coroner's office is doing DNA capacity and he has been for backlog, reduction grants,

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DDS is impacted through child nutrition and early intervention supports.

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EMA is impacted through the first responder equipment and training to local communities.

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The engineer's office has a multitude of road and bridge projects that are being funded through federal money.

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Environmental services does work through air quality control pollution reduction and climate change mitigation

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that apartment of facilities is doing energy efficient upgrades.

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Jobs and family services, the impacts are very numerous to numerous, but it's safe to say that this is the safety net.

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And many children and families depend on these federal dollars.

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JV court is impacted through the anti-human trafficking grant, the Girls Court grant,

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$800,000 annually going to foster care.

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You mentioned MSD and some of the flood prevention were trying to do there, planning and development

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is impacted through affordable housing work, neighborhood improvements and addressing homelessness.

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The public defender is impacted through the JuVow Indigent Defense Program, and public

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health is doing work related to some unexpected infant death, maternal health, child health

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services and led has heard reduction, and that is to name a few, it is certainly not to

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name all even all the agencies or all the programs that are impacted.

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So I just wanted to put a finer point on what we're talking about and you mentioned also

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kind of the different categories of impact of including public health, impact in the most vulnerable,

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especially children and families, infrastructure work, public safety works through the

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work that we're doing planning and development. So there is just a wide breadth of impacts here

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related to these federal partnerships. So I just wanted to call a couple of people up or

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commissioners, is that all right? Do you mind if I call before comments or would you rather?

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We go to commissioner comments and then we can ask a couple of folks that are in the audience to come

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up and respond to questions. I have some questions for this presentation. Okay, well that's

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Let's see that. All right, we'll go to questions for Anson first and then call up some

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individuals that represent some of these organizations that are impacted. So, Commissioner

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Sam Rodimus. That's right. Yeah. So, I just want to ask a question, Anson, as you

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you indicated at top high funding recipients, which leaves emergency public safety, and it also leaves

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many active economic development, and I just would like not now, just to break down.

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So I total 264 million for the top funding recipients.

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If you could just break down those environmental and emergency public safety funding

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I would like to also know that because they're of course extremely important. That was only question that I had.

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Great. Thank you. Commissioner Reese. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. This presentation is huge today because we finally get to have an understanding of the dollars that flow through here.

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the dollars that we control and some of them that you've indicated that are one time

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dollars and over 300 million dollars is nothing to sneeze it.

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I wanted to ask you though, you said active federal funding, FY20 through 25, have we broken out these that are,

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I'm trying to find out what's effective this year because obviously if we've already,

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If we have gotten those funds, the ones that are most at risk would be under this new administration.

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And so, I don't know if you have the answer today, but I'd like to know, pulling out was at risk today.

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And then if there's something that was approved, and maybe you could talk about that.

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There's projects or things that were approved, but we didn't get the paperwork.

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But if we got the paperwork, we're supposed to have the money.

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And the way that Washington is running now,

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I'd love for them to go ahead and cash out into us,

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because they seem to be changing every day.

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Can you explain that difference between

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if there's some things that are in the pipeline

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and some things that are not necessarily safe?

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So I can explain it from the point of view of the process,

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the historical process for let's say grant funding. So grant funding you would apply for

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and we're talking about competitive grants here. You would apply for the grant. You would submit

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your application and they would notify if you were awarded that application. Usually they would

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contact you again and they would ask for more information, which means that you pretty much

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been selected to receive the grant. Once you provide that information, you would be notified that

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were awarded the grant but then you would have to have a signed grant agreement. Now some grants

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are reimbursement and some they give you the money upfront. So of course if they give you

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the money upfront it would be technically safer than those that are reimbursable.

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As I mentioned we're in a changing policy environment so it's important to monitor grants whether

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we have a signed agreement now grants that you and money that we've expended part of them.

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we have to monitor pretty much all the federal funds because of this changing environment.

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So when you say safe, that's really a speculation. I really can't say what's safe, what's not.

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But I can get you a breakdown on what we have agreements for and then the agency and department

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heads who are here can possibly give you the information of what has been expended and what has

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I'll give you an example with this Sheriff's Grant, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Grant.

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It's a grant for VR training for officers, I think it's a de-escalation training.

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I listed the award of the total grant, but they have spent most of that money down,

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and they can give an update on how much is left in that fund.

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But it was easier to list the total award because the spend down is constantly changing.

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So any report that I would give you would be out of date by the time that I typed it up

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and send it through the email.

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But it's like I said, as far as safest concerned,

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again, we're living in a changing federal policy environment.

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And we just have to monitor everything

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and then react accordingly.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, that's what I wanted to really ask.

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Because I know, like you said, you know, 346 million,

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but some of it may have been, we've gotten

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or used it, and some we don't.

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And for me, it would be helpful to know

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What is that risk in 25 because I think and I know originally we're asking for the total

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But what would be at risk at 25 and I think that

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You have an I appreciate you putting in the one time

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Components now. Let me actually this in here is just strictly federal right, so

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Joss family services would not include the

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the levy dollars that this is only federal money.

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Okay, I wanted to make sure that that was identified.

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And I wanted to also say that when we look at this,

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the 346 million that we're bringing in from the federal component

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into our portfolio without these federal dollars,

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because this is hitting everybody from mom, dead, grandma,

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grandkids, use new name it, people with disabilities have if we don't have that then it

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hits to a point of something that I'm not supportive of which is taxes could go up because

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these are services that we're able to get from the federal government and that's why these

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dollars are so important. Sure, very true. I would like to also emphasize that if a grant was

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granted even during this period, if the money's been totally expended, I did not include that

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the staff report. So these are only open grants. They may not have the full amount awarded

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amount right now, but they're still open. There's still money left in them that needs to be

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spent. Gotcha. And then some of these grants where there are people hired to expend the grants,

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you know, sometimes you have a grant program five years, six years, what have you, and the people

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have to administer them and you're saying, you know, if they were to, because it could affect

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jobs, right. So that's true. Usually grants will include an administrative portion and we

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have hired individuals who administer those grants and oversee them. Even for programs, there

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are people who, the grants fund their employment to carry out the operations, daily operations.

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Again, for details on that, I can refer to the Department of Agency heads. But yes, staff is

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involved in part of this 346 million.

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Well, thank you very much.

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I wanted to ask those questions, because I think

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was different.

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It's usually when you finally get a government grant.

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It's supposed to be, you know, you could take it to the bank

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and it's supposed to be able to be cashed.

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And we're living in a time that even though you went through all

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of it, got the paper, we're got the grant,

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and you're planning on it, we're at a point now

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where it might say, it's a sufficient funds because of the leadership

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that's happening for Washington. So this is different and I appreciate the report.

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Thank you. I just I want to again put some finer points on something. So it's striking that

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this 346 million are active federal grants. As you say, it doesn't take into account grants that

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have been expended during this period of time. So this is a smaller portion of those partnership

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So I did want to emphasize that I think it's really important to note that and you know

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goes without saying that we are here today because there is a shift happening at the federal government

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and that's why we thought it important to do this exercise to have this conversation to make sure that we

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collectively understand where these dollars go, what they're used for here in Hamilton County.

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So Commissioner, some of the ministers did you have one last thing?

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Yes, I just want to apologize for asking you for information for you to get for me because I was looking at the PowerPoint, but the attachment that you gave us, the summary has everything that I asked for. So thank you. Appreciate it.

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You're welcome. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Sure thing. Just real quick one for the words information. I think for those of you that follow, there's watching maybe following County government closely, the one thing that you will note that does not

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appear in here that might be noticeable by its exclusion is our profonding, which is just

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north of 150 million. Those dollars also, as Anson said, we're specifically not included

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in here because we have obligated all of those funds by the obligation deadline under the law,

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which was the end of 2024 and we're about 77% spent through that with an expenditure deadline

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of December of 2026, but they weren't included here in here because we did meet that obligation

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deadline.

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So just if commissioners were looking for it, that's why it was not included in your

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as well.

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We're glad that it's not included, Jennifer.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for the clarity.

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Thank you, Hansen.

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So I just wanted to call a couple of folks up because again, the impact here is human services.

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It is related to the work we do through JFS.

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It's related to the roads and bridges that we built.

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It's related to emergency risk.

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It's just all over the map.

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And so I think it might be helpful to hear.

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It's Michael Patton in the room.

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There you are.

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Michael, you know, and as we look through this list

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of those that receive significant portions of this funding,

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you are near the top of the list over at JFS.

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And so I just wanted to have you

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expand just a little bit on what these numbers represent.

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Yeah, for us, I think it's good to know

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right now we're going through the budget process at the state. So right now we haven't seen any

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indication that the allocations that we get to administer services in Hamilton County are going to be

441
00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:09,900
significantly impacted. Again, as Hanson mentioned and has been discussed here for earlier, you never know.

442
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:17,160
And so as it stands now, all of the funding allocations we get for children services, actually that has

443
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:22,880
been slightly increased at the state level for services that we provide to children and care,

444
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:28,640
our child's board allocation and our ten-of-allocations are going to remain flat, but a lot of

445
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:34,400
that figure that you looked at is administration but also passed through dollars for families who

446
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:40,100
received direct services through our programming, SNAP benefits, obviously Medicaid benefits,

447
00:44:40,620 --> 00:44:47,680
any adjustments, any changes to eligibility for those families will have an impact on the citizens

448
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:52,460
of Ham and Accounting. If the thresholds for eligibility change, families will be impacted by

449
00:44:52,460 --> 00:44:57,520
that. Any cost-saving measure associated with the programs that we serve as an administer

450
00:44:58,060 --> 00:44:58,700
have a real end.

451
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:11,980
In fact, on a family's and every aspect of the program that we provide in the county. And so, as we stand here today, we feel relatively good about what we're seeing.

452
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:19,480
The state legislature and all of our associations are monitoring this really closely along with the directors of the county, job and family services.

453
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:24,600
We get we owe funding as well that we need to make sure we keep keep an eye on.

454
00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:27,460
But as that stands, we're looking relatively good.

455
00:45:27,780 --> 00:45:31,660
But just want to make sure that you all know and the people watching at home understand

456
00:45:31,660 --> 00:45:36,500
any adjustments and the eligibility criteria, any adjustments in the funding that we get

457
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:43,640
to administer the programs that we provide in Hamilton County, have real impact on real families.

458
00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:49,200
It can reduce our ability to keep kids safe if there's a change in the allocation

459
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:56,920
we get for children services department. It can impact the levels of stat benefits we provide for

460
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:03,740
example for families who are in need of food benefits. It can impact eligibility for Medicaid,

461
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:10,120
expanded eligibility for Medicaid if that changes. There would be a phase in process if that were

462
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:15,240
to change and we would deny people eligibility that currently have eligibility. So those are some

463
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:21,880
things that I see as it that could be significant impacts locally for a family as a

464
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,640
Heavenly County through our program.

465
00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:24,400
Thanks, Michael.

466
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:25,980
We put just one.

467
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:34,100
Yeah, I had a kind of a, so you were I wrote down relatively good with a, for me, I

468
00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:40,580
can't be out because it is relatively good because they maintained, they haven't decreased

469
00:46:40,580 --> 00:46:48,160
But as we've talked, the last few weeks at the services for vendors and for children has gone way up.

470
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,240
So we're looking good because they haven't taken anything away.

471
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:59,220
But we just don't want people to think that we don't need more because they're more children in the system.

472
00:46:59,620 --> 00:47:01,320
And the vendors are asked them for more.

473
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:02,720
So we're good right now.

474
00:47:03,380 --> 00:47:04,620
So let's make sure we...

475
00:47:04,620 --> 00:47:07,400
As far as that allocation is concerned in child welfare, exactly.

476
00:47:07,820 --> 00:47:11,120
The local funding for the levees is a different animal altogether.

477
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,020
We're talking federal funding today.

478
00:47:13,420 --> 00:47:16,960
The local levee funding is exactly what you just mentioned.

479
00:47:17,140 --> 00:47:18,980
Possible care is increasing.

480
00:47:19,860 --> 00:47:22,800
A cutewede of needs of kids and care is increasing.

481
00:47:23,860 --> 00:47:29,860
And so we are looking at that closely over the next two years to make sure that we are able

482
00:47:29,860 --> 00:47:31,180
to continue to meet that need locally.

483
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:32,320
Thank you.

484
00:47:32,420 --> 00:47:33,260
Thank you for the clarity.

485
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:48,700
Yes, thank you. I was looking on this chart here and it indicated from the federal funding component you have over a little over eighty million dollars.

486
00:47:48,820 --> 00:47:51,600
What's the total budget of JFS?

487
00:47:51,600 --> 00:48:06,680
I know that's the federal, is that the federal want to say to federal alone is 80 million, but total with all the sources of funding is 250 million.

488
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:16,400
So 80 million dollars and then you indicated that right now you don't see any changes, I've been hearing a lot about Medicaid.

489
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:22,820
That not been changed because I mean I think there's some there have been some discussions about

490
00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:24,460
the expanded Medicare

491
00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:27,360
Population that gets currently is eligible for

492
00:48:28,140 --> 00:48:32,200
Medicare based on income that going away that change you're going to be in reduce

493
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:37,240
Would impact a number of folks in the county if that were to change or if that were to be reduced

494
00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:43,080
I had that has not come to pass yet and so we continue to advocate through our associations to keep things where they are

495
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:44,660
because expanded Medicaid

496
00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:52,780
is a huge, I think, cost for all of us locally, as well as state and nationally, and so

497
00:48:52,780 --> 00:48:58,460
any modification or change to the folks that would be currently eligible to receive Medicaid.

498
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,360
If that were the change and they were no longer eligible to receive Medicaid, that would be a huge

499
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:08,140
impact on local hospitals and healthcare providers in our area to continue to provide that service

500
00:49:08,140 --> 00:49:09,840
to those individuals and families.

501
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:16,200
Okay, so you're saying Medicaid or Medicaid, those who are Medicare could get cut as well.

502
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:20,540
Well, Medicare is a federal program, so that we don't administer, so I want to make sure

503
00:49:20,540 --> 00:49:26,060
we don't administer Medicare locally, we just administer Medicaid, so that could be a change as well

504
00:49:26,060 --> 00:49:31,420
from the federal perspective in terms of Medicare beneficiaries, their eligibility, et cetera.

505
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,520
But locally, we manage and maintain and administer Medicaid, state Medicaid.

506
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,460
Right, right, that is what you said, both, so I'm sorry.

507
00:49:38,460 --> 00:49:42,140
the medicare medicate so i just i'm sorry i'm at the medicate

508
00:49:42,140 --> 00:49:43,020
so i can medicate

509
00:49:43,020 --> 00:49:44,460
we're talking medicate cry

510
00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:48,980
okay the other thing i was important to be because

511
00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:52,480
as a therapist is the safety net

512
00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:58,080
and with unemployment uh...

513
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,860
you know hitting some people

514
00:50:00,540 --> 00:50:04,460
some people federal workers and lost their jobs and for people's losing their jobs

515
00:50:04,460 --> 00:50:18,500
people are cutting back and we get the 80 million, right now you don't see a problem on the system of the 80 million that we're getting.

516
00:50:18,980 --> 00:50:23,800
It won't impact that is what I'm asking, or do you see a possible impact coming up?

517
00:50:23,820 --> 00:50:26,820
In terms of unemployment employment and everything that's going up.

518
00:50:26,820 --> 00:50:27,640
Yes, absolutely.

519
00:50:27,820 --> 00:50:28,660
What should we need, Jay?

520
00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:28,940
Sure.

521
00:50:29,140 --> 00:50:29,860
Now we'll need you.

522
00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:30,200
Absolutely.

523
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:36,860
There's a possibility that due to loss of income, loss of employment, there might

524
00:50:36,860 --> 00:50:40,940
be an increase in the community for people who want and need to apply for a public

525
00:50:40,940 --> 00:50:45,680
benefits either to Anna, or Medicaid, or SNAT benefits.

526
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:51,000
We also operate the Ohio Means Job Center, so we're involved directly with that service

527
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,100
from a GFS contract to perspective.

528
00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:57,020
we're the contracted operator for the Ohio one stop or the

529
00:50:57,020 --> 00:51:00,600
and one kind of one stop. So there could be an impact certainly there for

530
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:06,360
dislocated workers that come in to receive services through Weola. So if that

531
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:11,800
funding changes, there could be certainly some impact there as well. Yes. And then on

532
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,760
snap, because people are, you know, they're watching all this stuff and you know,

533
00:51:15,980 --> 00:51:20,470
President, he's an executive orders like crazy. And we're hearing snap, we're

534
00:51:21,610 --> 00:51:25,930
medical care. We're hearing all these things. And you said,

535
00:51:26,150 --> 00:51:29,290
SNAP has not been affected right now. There's not been a change for our

536
00:51:29,290 --> 00:51:35,270
allocation proposed in the state budget. Got you. Okay. Well, that's what I

537
00:51:35,270 --> 00:51:39,590
wanted to get out there because there's a lot of information. They seem to

538
00:51:39,590 --> 00:51:43,030
sign an executive order in 30 days later. Don't hear anything else. And then

539
00:51:43,030 --> 00:51:47,650
all of a sudden it's not what they see it. So that's good to know. $80 million

540
00:51:47,650 --> 00:51:50,050
There's right now you don't anticipate any problems.

541
00:51:50,130 --> 00:51:55,190
We haven't seen through the current budget process, any modification to change is to what

542
00:51:55,190 --> 00:51:57,270
is going to be allocated to us.

543
00:51:57,530 --> 00:52:01,490
There was slightly, like I said, sliding creases in our child welfare allocation through

544
00:52:01,490 --> 00:52:05,830
the Department of Children and Youth, some modifications and changes to adult protective

545
00:52:05,830 --> 00:52:11,430
services which was an increase to services for adults, older adults, no significant decreases

546
00:52:11,430 --> 00:52:15,510
cuts. It was a big hit and helped. Thank you. Thank you.

547
00:52:15,770 --> 00:52:17,590
Thank you.

548
00:52:19,700 --> 00:52:23,440
So commissioners, another component that I want to kind of add as well the 80 million

549
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:29,660
dollars that we receive here locally mostly goes towards like operations and some amount

550
00:52:29,660 --> 00:52:34,400
of payments to the public, but also there's a good number of our programs that generate

551
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:39,420
state payments. So we do the eligibility here, but the payments come from the state.

552
00:52:39,420 --> 00:52:49,580
So three programs that come to my mind immediately is Medicaid and child care as well as food and

553
00:52:49,580 --> 00:52:56,360
cash assistance. Those are paid from the state and last year we brought in about 2.3 billion dollars

554
00:52:56,360 --> 00:53:04,620
in assistance from the state. So those were money that our local county JFS doesn't see, but our residents receive

555
00:53:04,620 --> 00:53:08,640
through the eligibility work that we do for them here as well.

556
00:53:09,260 --> 00:53:10,380
Thanks for the clarity.

557
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:12,080
Thank you for that.

558
00:53:12,820 --> 00:53:14,920
The other one that's a very large amount.

559
00:53:15,140 --> 00:53:15,820
It's the largest amount.

560
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,900
It's the Department of Disability Services at 162 million.

561
00:53:20,460 --> 00:53:22,020
And the latest nighter is here.

562
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:32,240
Leah, could you just ask you for you to help us with an understanding of the impact of these federal dollars to the work that you do?

563
00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:40,160
So one of the things that I do want to clarify about that number because when you look at that number it's larger than our total budget

564
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:49,160
but the reason that we included that is because it's very vital in terms of how our budget dollars are spent. The largest line item in our budget is Medicaid waiver match.

565
00:53:49,780 --> 00:53:57,580
And so that federal portion doesn't come through our agency but we use our local match and pull down those federal dollars.

566
00:53:57,580 --> 00:54:04,940
And so that is the largest line item that you see that we receive in terms of federal funds.

567
00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:09,780
The one thing that I want to talk about a little bit is what Medicaid match actually means.

568
00:54:11,380 --> 00:54:18,000
So we're talking about impact a budget but really in everyday life what that looks like is personal care for people with disabilities.

569
00:54:18,620 --> 00:54:22,640
Things like help with bathing, eating, preparing meals.

570
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:27,960
It could also include things like transportation, help to find jobs, and keep jobs.

571
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:36,000
It includes things like respite care for families and parents, so really things that help people live their everyday life in the community.

572
00:54:36,460 --> 00:54:40,000
And so that really is the biggest impact or potential impact that we see.

573
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:44,820
Now I do want to be very clear that at this point there haven't been cuts to that Medicaid match.

574
00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:49,040
But that is something that is receiving a lot of federal discussion right now.

575
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:55,120
And that is probably where we see the largest potential risk because as I said that federal

576
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:59,780
match really provides those services in the community along with our local dollars that we

577
00:54:59,780 --> 00:55:00,320
contribute.

578
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:06,380
And some of the things that we're hearing that our under consideration are things like changing

579
00:55:06,380 --> 00:55:12,120
that federal match percentage, so how much the federal government contributes, right now they

580
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:16,080
pay about 65% of the Medicaid cost.

581
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:31,680
And so we've done the math and even just a 1% change in that federal match would be at least two and a half million dollars annually for us, and so if you start talking about a 5% at 10% adjustment, that's obviously a significant impact to those direct services that I mentioned.

582
00:55:32,340 --> 00:55:42,300
We do have some other areas that are Medicaid related funding to support case managers who help monitor services and authorize those services for people.

583
00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:55,440
Early intervention services are supported through grant funding, that helps babies and toddlers and their families navigate services when their child is born with the disability or delay.

584
00:55:55,860 --> 00:55:57,560
So those are really the key impacts.

585
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:02,800
But what we're watching the most closely is those Medicaid fund that support the direct services.

586
00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:05,140
Yes, thank you. Thank you. We've heard that not twice.

587
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:10,600
So thank you for the clarity. Appreciate it. Thanks for what you all do. Any questions for Leah?

588
00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:18,580
Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. I just want to call a couple others up. I do have a question.

589
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:25,320
I'm sorry. I apologize. Thank you. I appreciate the clarification.

590
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:32,100
There's been a lot of, like you said, a lot of news reports on people with disabilities.

591
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:38,760
Are there any other components? I know that you talked about your get your eye on it.

592
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:46,940
But are there any temporary, I thought I saw one of, I don't know how many executive orders

593
00:56:46,940 --> 00:56:52,160
that were signed, but something that would impact people with disabilities, is that affecting

594
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:57,900
that affect us because people are going to need the funding and then secondly I heard

595
00:56:57,900 --> 00:57:07,560
that it from a person who would get approval for disability and I understand it's been changed.

596
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:11,280
You could go in the computer, I don't know if they changed it back, because again, it's a 30-day

597
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,820
window when he signs these executive orders.

598
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:18,960
But my understanding, they go in and for years, they were filling it out.

599
00:57:19,900 --> 00:57:23,060
And one of the people were in our, and one of those homes that LAD put together.

600
00:57:23,620 --> 00:57:26,500
But they were filling it out every year, no problem.

601
00:57:26,580 --> 00:57:29,060
But this time it said, you can't fill it out.

602
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:30,240
You had to call a number.

603
00:57:30,620 --> 00:57:36,220
And he said, it indicated to me that they said it would be like 200 hours before they could

604
00:57:36,220 --> 00:57:49,440
get back to you. It has that been changed or have you heard from that? Is that effect us because obviously people if so they would need to stop get some funding to continue as they're waiting to get approved again.

605
00:57:49,860 --> 00:57:53,300
Yeah. So there are two things that come to mind that may be what they're talking about.

606
00:57:53,680 --> 00:58:04,040
The Medicaid or the Medicaid eligibility process in the past there have been some people with lifelong disabilities that have had been able to forego some of the steps that somebody that maybe has a temporary disability

607
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:08,640
has been able to do. There have been some changes in terms of how that re-determination

608
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:13,180
happens on a regular basis. And so we do have a benefits team that's helping people

609
00:58:13,180 --> 00:58:17,280
with that. The other area is social security because a lot of the people that we serve

610
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:25,200
also are able to receive social security benefits and SSDI's disability benefits. And so

611
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:30,020
there have been some modifications. We don't know if those will be temporary yet or not,

612
00:58:30,020 --> 00:58:34,120
but, you know, not having the ability to do things by phone.

613
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,040
So they have to be done online or in person.

614
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,080
The timeline to get an in-person appointment

615
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,740
because they don't accept walk-ins

616
00:58:41,740 --> 00:58:44,900
is very, very lengthy and seems to be getting much longer

617
00:58:45,420 --> 00:58:46,040
all the time.

618
00:58:46,060 --> 00:58:48,160
That was something that I just heard from our team recently

619
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,440
is that the appointments are so far out there

620
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,700
that people are really asking a lot of questions about that.

621
00:58:54,860 --> 00:58:57,060
So we are trying to take steps on our end

622
00:58:57,060 --> 00:59:03,040
as well to try to help people navigate that process, to help them navigate the online system

623
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:07,340
because that can be very complicated and difficult, but that is something that I think

624
00:59:07,340 --> 00:59:11,880
is having an impact on people now that we are working through and trying to provide support

625
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:12,240
around.

626
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:18,720
I want to keep an eye on that because while we're talking about the funds which is very important,

627
00:59:19,020 --> 00:59:26,140
what we have now, which is not guaranteed now, but there's another component on process that

628
00:59:26,140 --> 00:59:32,360
to impact because if we have people with disabilities and they can't get, you know,

629
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:38,360
re-certified if you will, now there's a gap time and they've got gas electric, rent

630
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:44,540
or mortgage or all these other things, doctors' appointments, they have all this cost adding

631
00:59:44,540 --> 00:59:50,820
up and they're going to need someone on the ground locally and that impacts us if we don't

632
00:59:50,820 --> 00:59:54,960
have additional funds, because we didn't have to deal with that at first.

633
00:59:55,580 --> 00:59:58,700
So I do want, as we, at the context of the obviously, the...

634
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:25,200
Discussion today is that the change of process, the freezing of funds, the freezing of programs, the put on hold, if you will, the bills are not on hold, the bills are still coming. And that can affect even the funds that we, we've been approved of because we got approved under an older system, where we didn't have this bottleneck. And this is serious business.

635
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:30,240
And I've never seen such an attack on people with disabilities.

636
01:00:30,660 --> 01:00:33,420
I mean, I just never heard of that in senior citizens.

637
01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:38,220
So I wanted to bring that up because, like you said, you've got this and we're hoping to hold

638
01:00:38,220 --> 01:00:38,960
it on to this.

639
01:00:39,260 --> 01:00:46,560
But then there's a whole lot of processes, new systems, if you will, bottlenecks systems,

640
01:00:46,980 --> 01:00:53,440
that's affecting people with disabilities who just may not know what to do because the

641
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,000
the bills and things are powered up on them.

642
01:00:56,220 --> 01:00:58,200
So I wanted to bring that out because that's something

643
01:00:58,200 --> 01:00:59,820
that was brought to my attention as well.

644
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:01,660
Yeah, thank you and we will stay on top of that

645
01:01:01,660 --> 01:01:03,540
and happy to provide other updates as well.

646
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,320
Thank you, yeah, please keep us in the loop.

647
01:01:05,660 --> 01:01:07,140
Thank you.

648
01:01:07,660 --> 01:01:10,880
I'm going to ask Eric Beck, our county engineer

649
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,820
to come up real quick, if you could be brief, Eric.

650
01:01:14,220 --> 01:01:17,420
In your presentation, you're generally very good about that.

651
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,980
But yeah, we've heard a couple of human services

652
01:01:20,980 --> 01:01:28,180
related impacts talk to us about Rosen Bridges. Sure for Rosen Bridges you know as you're

653
01:01:28,180 --> 01:01:34,780
aware the county engineers office has restricted funds so our budget is stagnant and yet construction

654
01:01:34,780 --> 01:01:42,000
cost have gone up about 30% in the last five years. So we rely heavily on all sorts of grants.

655
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:50,380
In the next five years we're anticipating $12 million in grants so that's about 25% more money

656
01:01:50,380 --> 01:01:52,620
that we can use in our road improvement projects.

657
01:01:53,500 --> 01:01:55,140
These are all competitive grants.

658
01:01:55,700 --> 01:01:59,680
We apply for grants through any source we can get them.

659
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,260
We have about a 10% success rate.

660
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,240
So it is competitive.

661
01:02:04,340 --> 01:02:06,980
We put a lot of work into getting these grants.

662
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:13,920
We have nine, 10 projects right now for the next five years

663
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,460
that it about $12.4 million

664
01:02:17,780 --> 01:02:23,760
that we are moving forward with assuming that these projects will get done.

665
01:02:24,500 --> 01:02:28,660
They are all pastries, so we're working through the Ohio Department of Transportation on these.

666
01:02:29,260 --> 01:02:31,980
We're not sure if the feds will actually come through with the money or not.

667
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:37,480
So if they don't, probably 50% of those projects would be postponed,

668
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,600
because we just do not have the funds to do them.

669
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:49,720
So, for the engineer's office, grant money, especially federal grant money, is our life blood,

670
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:56,800
because it's our only opportunity to get more funds to help repair our infrastructure

671
01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:02,560
and keep it in good working order, so that all the citizens of the county can travel safely.

672
01:03:03,740 --> 01:03:04,520
Yes, thank you.

673
01:03:04,860 --> 01:03:05,700
Appreciate that.

674
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:07,100
I wish there was any questions for you.

675
01:03:07,740 --> 01:03:13,120
I just wanted to commend you because one of the things was, we were going to be more aggressive

676
01:03:13,740 --> 01:03:15,620
and trying to get these federal funds.

677
01:03:16,180 --> 01:03:22,320
Today is Tax Day, and they've taken money from taxpayers of Hamilton County and it goes

678
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:23,100
up to Washington.

679
01:03:24,140 --> 01:03:28,740
And what we're trying to do is say, hey, we want some of the money back from Washington back

680
01:03:28,740 --> 01:03:34,180
here to fix our roads and fix our bridges to help what our safety net, to help grandma, help

681
01:03:34,180 --> 01:03:39,140
Well, we have announced that they don't take out money, and they got our stuff on hold.

682
01:03:39,860 --> 01:03:44,340
And so you just indicated, we got more people saying, hey, we got old aging infrastructure.

683
01:03:45,140 --> 01:03:49,380
We're trying to get our bridges, not just the Brent Spence Bridge, but other bridges throughout

684
01:03:49,380 --> 01:03:50,160
Hamilton County.

685
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:51,400
We want to be safe.

686
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,080
People mad about pot holes and all those different things.

687
01:03:54,620 --> 01:03:59,200
And we tried to be aggressive in getting, and the people that are in this room were very

688
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:02,920
aggressive to compete with everybody across the United States of America.

689
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:07,220
But today we had to put our taxes up and we don't send them up the Washington.

690
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:13,300
And we're saying we got to get our fair share back down here to help us be able to survive.

691
01:04:13,700 --> 01:04:17,560
So I want to thank you because your office got really aggressive with trying to get these grants.

692
01:04:18,140 --> 01:04:21,820
And that's why we're here today is that we did what we're supposed to do.

693
01:04:22,180 --> 01:04:28,080
We went through a competitive bid and now it's time to pay up and now we're in limbo.

694
01:04:28,700 --> 01:04:30,140
But we're not in limbo right now.

695
01:04:30,180 --> 01:04:31,720
We're sending those taxes up the Washington.

696
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:37,000
So I just wanted to highlight and thank you for that and what you know.

697
01:04:37,460 --> 01:04:37,880
Thanks.

698
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:38,440
Thank you.

699
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:42,280
Just two more EMA, Nick Crosley is here.

700
01:04:42,540 --> 01:04:47,200
Nick, you know, you are Homeland Security, you are preparedness, your emergency management,

701
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:53,020
and so could you briefly just highlight some of the potential impacts here.

702
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:53,860
Sure.

703
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:58,920
So we are agency on behalf of the countywide,

704
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:03,720
manages all homeland security grants. So we get what's called the urban area security initiative.

705
01:05:04,140 --> 01:05:12,280
That's about a little over 1.4 million a year. That funding is spent supporting mainly a lot of

706
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:18,960
our specialty operations teams. So from a law enforcement it's the bomb squad, it's the SWAT teams,

707
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:25,480
the dive team. We also support a civil response unit, urban, urban search and rescue has materials teams.

708
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:33,260
So, we've held that funding so that all the reimbursements have come under increased scrutiny

709
01:05:33,260 --> 01:05:39,700
and they're basically delayed and so we have about a million dollars waiting for reimbursement right now

710
01:05:39,700 --> 01:05:47,860
or the county does. And so we've slowed down the purchasing process just to make sure that the reimbursement is made.

711
01:05:49,300 --> 01:05:53,080
And so going forward, we're not sure what they're going to do, they pass the continuing

712
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:58,240
resolution for 25, as you know, conceivably in the past that has met the programs that

713
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,940
you had in place the previous year would continue at the same funding levels, however we

714
01:06:01,940 --> 01:06:03,060
don't know that for sure.

715
01:06:03,980 --> 01:06:08,040
And so we anticipate, I think they have about five or six weeks left to get out guidance

716
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:12,380
if they're going to do the programs, same program, same level through FEMA and DHS.

717
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:17,820
So we're waiting to hear from that to see if we should be awarded FY25 funds at that level.

718
01:06:18,340 --> 01:06:25,020
And then we also have the emergency management performance grant, which is also both of these programs come through the state of Ohio emergency management agency.

719
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:36,700
So that's a reimbursement grant as well that helps offset about 15% of our staff costs 20% so that's a 50-50 grant and requires a dollar for dollar match and multi-county matches that's 61.

720
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:45,280
With their emergency management agency. So those funds are, I don't know if they're at risk, so we're just being cautious as we move forward.

721
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:51,500
but it puts it risk. As I explained to you, our congressional representative recently, when I met with them,

722
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:59,320
yes, you help fund some of the equipment that these teams use that protect our residents and can respond and help them in

723
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:05,420
their times of their greatest need. However, the true investment comes in the local communities who maintain the

724
01:07:05,420 --> 01:07:10,060
equipment, who fund the staff to take care of them. We house several of these specialty teams at our

725
01:07:10,060 --> 01:07:15,420
at our public safety warehouse that you're familiar with, so they are part of the system that

726
01:07:15,420 --> 01:07:20,000
helps fund the overall response, but the real cost is at the local level and funded by local

727
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:20,420
governments.

728
01:07:21,260 --> 01:07:21,280
Great.

729
01:07:21,380 --> 01:07:22,060
Thank you.

730
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:22,520
Thank you.

731
01:07:22,660 --> 01:07:23,340
Any questions for Nick?

732
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:24,980
I've got a question.

733
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:35,280
You mentioned the word reimbursement and the ones that are going to be reimbursed or supposed to

734
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:35,640
be reimbursed.

735
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:45,340
And I want to commend you as well, because you're very aggressive at going and get these grants to try to bring back our fair share of the tax money that we pay to

736
01:07:45,340 --> 01:07:53,540
want to live that being said, they put us on a reimbursement program, and that's where we got to put up some money, right?

737
01:07:53,860 --> 01:08:03,880
And then we show receipts in my or to get back to us, and with that, have we started on things that we got to prove for how we started

738
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:08,920
spending the money in hopes of being reimbursed or are we waiting?

739
01:08:09,940 --> 01:08:14,940
So it's always worked like this and there's never, never been an issue getting reimbursed

740
01:08:14,940 --> 01:08:16,060
in a timely fashion.

741
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:25,140
So with the recent executive orders and the guidance to put the grants under the reimbursments

742
01:08:25,140 --> 01:08:29,940
under greater scrutiny based on the criteria that the federal government has, we currently

743
01:08:29,940 --> 01:08:38,640
have been waiting a month on about a million dollars and so to ensure that we limit the exposure

744
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:43,840
of the county. So basically the way it works is the county fronts the money. We purchased

745
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:48,200
the equipment once we receive it and we send it to the state who then can usually quickly

746
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:54,140
process the reimbursement but so I just want to make sure that we get reimbursed for that

747
01:08:54,140 --> 01:09:00,040
and dollars before we continue to spend. But we have, I think, about $3 million and basically

748
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:06,700
great agreements we already have in place. I've stopped spending on just to ensure that the

749
01:09:06,700 --> 01:09:13,520
funding, now they've sent a Marino's office reached out to FEMA. They said the money would be reimbursed.

750
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:19,320
We're just waiting to see that money get reimbursed. So have we spent any money and we're waiting

751
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:23,760
Yes, the money. Yes, I mean a little under a million dollars. I don't under a million dollars

752
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:30,380
I think this is critical because it's hard for people to change the game after you've

753
01:09:30,380 --> 01:09:36,820
followed the all of the things that you had to follow high scrutiny as you've indicated

754
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:41,520
In the past we have gotten reimbursed, but this is dangerous because

755
01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:48,000
Had Nick you said wait a minute hold up the county would be on the hook because it's like going to the store

756
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:52,560
They said, go on to the mall and buy the outfit and I'll reimburse you.

757
01:09:52,780 --> 01:09:54,880
And you go to the mall and you buy the outfit.

758
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:56,560
And they said, well, where's the reimbursement?

759
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:58,260
Well, you know, I changed my mind now.

760
01:09:58,260 --> 01:09:59,760
We don't spend money on something else.

761
01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:03,920
Well, now you're out of money that you thought you were going to get reimbursed for.

762
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:08,800
So I wanted to highlight that some of these grants are reimbursable grants.

763
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:13,060
And that meant a lot of people don't front at the money or we front at the money.

764
01:10:13,500 --> 01:10:16,380
And if you change the game in the middle,

765
01:10:16,380 --> 01:10:23,600
You know, that, and you, he breached the contract, then the county, we on the hook, which

766
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:24,740
they're not on the hook.

767
01:10:25,180 --> 01:10:28,760
So I wanted to highlight what you see it, which is very important.

768
01:10:28,780 --> 01:10:34,880
We haven't had problems in the past, but we didn't have people changing the goalposts and

769
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:36,540
changing the rules in a middle.

770
01:10:36,860 --> 01:10:41,220
Once you get a contract, you usually can take it to the bank and say, I got a contract.

771
01:10:41,220 --> 01:10:47,020
But now the way that Washington has moved and they have devalued the contract

772
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:53,340
So reimbursement is very important glad that you told us about there if there's any others in here

773
01:10:54,160 --> 01:11:01,240
Mr. Ludo or answer truly that is a reimbursable program that I like to know what we put out and

774
01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:07,960
What we haven't gotten yet and what might be at risk of you know getting the money and I think you've done the right thing

775
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:12,000
we might have to do that with others. We might have already done that, Mr. Ludo. We had to

776
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:18,040
ran lightly on the reimbursable plane because we weren't keeping their word on something.

777
01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:23,740
And just to clarify, we should be okay. It's just a pause while they basically what they've done

778
01:11:23,740 --> 01:11:29,620
as they've sent some grants all the way to DHS used to go to the state. January would go ahead and

779
01:11:29,620 --> 01:11:37,940
prove it. It was a less complicated process. Now they're taking some of the grants like the

780
01:11:37,940 --> 01:11:48,800
to review what we, how we spent the funds and, and, and, and ensure it aligns with the administration's priorities, and then so I don't see any issue with that.

781
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:55,000
I'm just waiting to, to ensure, it also gives me an idea of how long are we going to have to wait once the project is finished.

782
01:11:55,860 --> 01:11:59,280
So again, just being cognizant of the county's financial exposure.

783
01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:05,340
I just want to appreciate you talking about the county's financial exposure, like you said,

784
01:12:05,460 --> 01:12:09,960
you don't anticipate any problem, but I didn't anticipate these executive orders, federal

785
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:12,400
workers didn't anticipate they were going to lose their jobs.

786
01:12:13,180 --> 01:12:17,660
So we're in a different time, and I appreciate you moving with caution, caution rather

787
01:12:17,660 --> 01:12:22,140
because once we put our money out and we hope we're going to get it back, and we don't get

788
01:12:22,140 --> 01:12:26,720
it back, then that impacts our budgeting as well.

789
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:31,120
So I appreciate that, and now like I said, there may be others dealing on a reimbursable

790
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:33,500
plan, and I'd like to know who they are.

791
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:37,680
And if we need to look into that, I'm sure Mr. Loodle is looking into that already.

792
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:38,660
So thank you.

793
01:12:39,100 --> 01:12:39,860
Thank you, Nick.

794
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:40,480
Appreciate you here.

795
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:43,600
And lastly, I want to call forward a Megan Guthrie.

796
01:12:44,940 --> 01:12:48,520
So Megan's budget is smaller than some of the previous speakers.

797
01:12:49,100 --> 01:12:51,920
However, the vast majority of the budget does come from the federal government.

798
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:56,680
And so the work that we are doing related to addiction response, the numbers are

799
01:12:56,680 --> 01:13:02,960
spending down here in Hamilton County, and so this funding is critical to that work.

800
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:07,340
So Megan, could you briefly highlight just a couple of the impacts here?

801
01:13:08,180 --> 01:13:11,040
So as you mentioned, yeah, we are a small but mighty department.

802
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,220
I would say about 90% of our funding comes from federal grants.

803
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:22,280
So since 2020 of the active grants that we still have, we have $8.5 million funded.

804
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:28,000
we have about five million remaining to spend down on those grants. I know Commissioner

805
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:32,300
Reese, you would ask, you know, are there any staff that have been hired specifically under federal

806
01:13:32,300 --> 01:13:37,560
grant funding? That's my entire department. So there's about 15 staff, not including five

807
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:44,560
officers that are that are that we can contract with as part of our sub awards for those projects,

808
01:13:44,700 --> 01:13:49,720
but I would say the biggest program that would be impacted would be the quicker response team

809
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:54,100
And that would include things like peer support on our safe services van.

810
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:58,400
That's our services program, peer support on the 513 relief bus.

811
01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:03,140
We've got some proactive outreach and hotspot outreach that we do in our most

812
01:14:03,140 --> 01:14:07,800
high-risk kind of communities, so that's our holistic outreach for priority people project

813
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:09,760
that we do in price hill.

814
01:14:09,860 --> 01:14:13,180
We've expanded that to district four as well as the downtown district.

815
01:14:13,180 --> 01:14:19,560
We provide peer support in seven of the court documents, the specialty court documents.

816
01:14:19,940 --> 01:14:23,000
This would also include our African American outreach team.

817
01:14:23,660 --> 01:14:28,500
So from 2019 to 2020, we saw a 35% increase in the number of overdose and overdose

818
01:14:28,500 --> 01:14:30,220
deaths for African Americans in our community.

819
01:14:30,740 --> 01:14:35,880
And we have since hired a team specifically to do that post overdose response and proactive

820
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:37,100
outreach in our community.

821
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:41,600
This would include all of our harm reduction, distribution, so in the lock zone, fentanyl

822
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:48,620
test strips. Silesane test strips, hygiene kits, really essential things there, as well as

823
01:14:48,620 --> 01:14:52,960
some of our drug treatment and recovery programs, provide recovery housing for people

824
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:58,700
for their first 90 days, as well as transportation. We also provide that.

825
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:05,700
Under our QRT grants as well as our drug court grants as well to try to get people to and from their appointments or treatment.

826
01:15:07,020 --> 01:15:12,200
So those are just a high level of some of the things that would be impacted by our work.

827
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:19,940
But again, we also have drug court grants. We have some jail-based programming that we do with the sheriff's office as well as some school-based programming, just to name a few.

828
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:23,960
Yeah, just to draw the distinction between the question that was asked in your response.

829
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,480
So, the question was about folks that have been hired

830
01:15:27,480 --> 01:15:29,380
to administer the grants, I think.

831
01:15:29,700 --> 01:15:31,940
Your work is administering the grants,

832
01:15:32,540 --> 01:15:33,760
but actually doing the work, right?

833
01:15:34,180 --> 01:15:37,000
You're all the folks that all the programs you just mentioned,

834
01:15:37,420 --> 01:15:40,680
those staff people are being funded through the federal grants.

835
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:41,800
Right, right, okay.

836
01:15:42,580 --> 01:15:44,120
So, and I apologize for asking you to be,

837
01:15:44,220 --> 01:15:47,100
it's your entire department that's funded through the federal government.

838
01:15:47,100 --> 01:15:50,680
So, to have you, has one or two things is not reasonable

839
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:53,380
because you, so many of the touch points

840
01:15:53,380 --> 01:15:54,860
throughout your entire department.

841
01:15:55,660 --> 01:15:58,400
So thank you for the illumination, the quick response team,

842
01:15:58,940 --> 01:16:00,540
as everybody knows, a national model that

843
01:16:00,540 --> 01:16:02,920
started here in Cold Rain Township is critically important

844
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:04,760
to get folks into treatment along term recovery.

845
01:16:05,460 --> 01:16:08,180
So that would be a huge blow for us.

846
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:10,180
Commissioner, is any questions for Megan?

847
01:16:10,540 --> 01:16:11,660
I'm out for Megan, no.

848
01:16:11,860 --> 01:16:13,020
Yeah, I just wanted to clarify.

849
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:14,720
Maybe there was a different question.

850
01:16:14,820 --> 01:16:19,460
But my question was not the people to get the grant.

851
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:21,560
It was the people who we have grants.

852
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:28,200
we hire people to implement the grant and so that's definitely what you brought up so that's

853
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:34,800
what I was referring to because that affects people that were hired to administer and if you

854
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:39,340
get approved for a grant and you say well now I've got to I'm going to have these people in the

855
01:16:39,340 --> 01:16:44,720
grant you say I'm going to have these people hired you hired them and now Washington is saying

856
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:50,380
we don't know we in limbo we got to think about it the meantime we've hired people and

857
01:16:50,380 --> 01:16:54,380
have to pay them and then they're in limbo and am I going to have a job? What are we going

858
01:16:54,380 --> 01:17:02,200
to do? I don't think it's right if you're another example of going after the grants being

859
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:09,720
competitive and then we're ready to help the people but now Washington is we don't know if

860
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:14,500
they're going to pick up the phone and change their minds. So I just wanted to make sure

861
01:17:14,500 --> 01:17:21,500
We highlighted that and I concur what will say this would impact a lot of people's lives.

862
01:17:22,380 --> 01:17:23,080
Thank you, Megan.

863
01:17:23,700 --> 01:17:27,120
All right, so I just want to also recognize in case there are questions for the other

864
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:29,180
departments and organizations that are here.

865
01:17:29,540 --> 01:17:34,580
We also have in the room environmental services, facilities, JV court, landing and development

866
01:17:34,580 --> 01:17:37,120
probation, public defender in the sheriff's office.

867
01:17:37,580 --> 01:17:41,960
So commissioners, if there are any questions for any of the impacts in those different categories,

868
01:17:43,220 --> 01:17:49,640
happily entertain, you know, calling some folks up with some expertise or, you know, it's all

869
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:54,780
highlighted in the Anson, I don't know where Anson went, but thank you. The report you provided,

870
01:17:54,920 --> 01:18:00,720
the first report you provided was more of a high level, the second report you provided was detailed

871
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:06,060
each and every one of your departments, the impacts to your departments, the dollar amounts

872
01:18:06,060 --> 01:18:11,780
associated with that. So it is very thorough. I'm grateful for that that the chart is like a high

873
01:18:11,780 --> 01:18:14,240
And then you dig in to each and every one of them.

874
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:23,220
So, thank you, Wolfart, for participating in this really important exercise that we need to go through to understand what we're talking about here when it comes to federal funding.

875
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,340
So, commissioners, is there anything else before we move on to that?

876
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:27,220
Yeah, go ahead.

877
01:18:27,220 --> 01:18:28,140
What are you moving on to?

878
01:18:28,340 --> 01:18:29,120
They're the next item.

879
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:30,020
Yeah, definitely.

880
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:31,340
I have a couple of comments.

881
01:18:32,820 --> 01:18:37,420
And I just want people to know in the room that this is not a discussion of gloom and doom.

882
01:18:37,420 --> 01:18:40,700
But this is still dealing with reality.

883
01:18:42,140 --> 01:18:44,980
And so I also want to make a very clear

884
01:18:44,980 --> 01:18:48,680
that the county budget currently is in good shape.

885
01:18:49,940 --> 01:18:52,200
We're doing well, but we're being proactive.

886
01:18:53,300 --> 01:18:54,860
We're busy being proactive.

887
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:58,660
And we believe I know my eyes are wide open.

888
01:18:59,500 --> 01:19:03,640
We may be hit by something on the side or whatever

889
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:06,220
that we didn't see coming, but we're as a board

890
01:19:06,220 --> 01:19:12,620
being very proactive. If we have to slow walk, in other words, stop some of our projects,

891
01:19:13,020 --> 01:19:20,940
or stop some of our new initiatives, I will do so. I just want to let you know that right

892
01:19:20,940 --> 01:19:27,060
now we're looking okay, but we don't know what's coming down the pike. And lastly, I want

893
01:19:27,060 --> 01:19:34,460
to encourage all of us that if you see anything on the emails like I got CCAO is doing a great

894
01:19:34,460 --> 01:19:38,400
given us information of the legislature and how it's going.

895
01:19:38,740 --> 01:19:42,280
So, as I get it, I'll follow it out to DDS or JFS,

896
01:19:42,740 --> 01:19:44,340
or whoever else I can think of.

897
01:19:44,420 --> 01:19:48,460
So, if you're getting communication from Washington,

898
01:19:49,780 --> 01:19:52,840
pass it on, share it so we can all be armed and dangerous.

899
01:19:53,740 --> 01:19:57,280
Okay, so we have to be ready to move when we have to move.

900
01:19:57,460 --> 01:19:58,840
But right now, as a commissioner,

901
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,380
I'm staying on top of as much stuff as I can

902
01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:09,460
to make sure we're not hit by a foul ball, I guess I would say, so I just want to thank all of you

903
01:20:09,460 --> 01:20:16,040
for coming, I appreciate your input, and I will be working very hard to do what I can do to try

904
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:24,240
to advocate and lobby to maintain the money that you have. So we're looking, I'm looking very closely

905
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:30,260
at what we can do, so thank you for coming. Thank you, Commissioner Reese. Yes, I want to thank

906
01:20:30,260 --> 01:20:37,200
Everyone who is here for what you do on a day-to-day basis, you are on the ground, your people are on the ground,

907
01:20:37,580 --> 01:20:44,160
helping citizens of Hamilton County, and that's what makes us one Hamilton County.

908
01:20:44,700 --> 01:20:50,240
Today was very important because our board, we have been physically responsible. We, uh,

909
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:58,560
balance our budget is structurally balanced. However, in this budget, we had grants that were approved

910
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:02,860
that we had competed for different departments, different entities here.

911
01:21:03,460 --> 01:21:05,820
We did our part, you did it the right way.

912
01:21:06,260 --> 01:21:10,500
And then you got a response from the federal government saying,

913
01:21:10,940 --> 01:21:14,600
you have the one the award, get ready to go.

914
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,300
Some have said, go ahead, it's a reimbursement.

915
01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:22,420
Go ahead, start spending money because we are going to give you your money back.

916
01:21:22,900 --> 01:21:28,280
It is sad in a day and time when the federal government, when they send you your word,

917
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:30,460
you can't even stand on that word.

918
01:21:30,980 --> 01:21:36,420
That was the most guaranteed type of contract you could ever get.

919
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:40,220
I want to also remind people that we do pay taxes.

920
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:42,780
And our taxes just went up to Washington.

921
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,480
And all we're saying is, wait a minute, Washington.

922
01:21:46,100 --> 01:21:47,400
We've got to get our fair share.

923
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:50,200
We've got to get something down here to help people with disabilities.

924
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:54,180
We've got to get something down here to invest in the infrastructure and the roads.

925
01:21:54,380 --> 01:21:55,820
We've got to get something down here.

926
01:21:55,820 --> 01:21:58,960
So we have a Ohio River flood that we had.

927
01:21:59,820 --> 01:22:02,380
We can get it cleaned up.

928
01:22:02,380 --> 01:22:06,420
We've got to be down here and be able to invest in different neighborhoods.

929
01:22:06,700 --> 01:22:08,040
So people can buy a home.

930
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:09,960
We have to be able to have programs.

931
01:22:10,200 --> 01:22:12,260
So grandma and grandpa can hold on to their home.

932
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:13,880
We have to do these things.

933
01:22:14,860 --> 01:22:16,660
And that is what we're doing.

934
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:17,820
This is not a big.

935
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:18,940
This is not a handout.

936
01:22:19,020 --> 01:22:25,220
This is our money coming back home to be reinvested to help the citizens

937
01:22:25,220 --> 01:22:31,240
of our community. We also need to help those that are vulnerable. The snap benefits. They're

938
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:35,380
going to need to be able to get food. The food costs are still up high and they still got

939
01:22:35,380 --> 01:22:40,080
to be able to buy something. We're trying to get people from homelessness to be able to have

940
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:46,160
their own home. And we're being very creative. We did a heck of a job with the American Rescue

941
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:51,660
Money. We did helping people right now and then we came with something investing in the future.

942
01:22:51,660 --> 01:22:53,440
But when you start

943
01:22:53,440 --> 01:22:56,340
Chip it away at what was already lean

944
01:22:58,140 --> 01:23:05,420
It makes it very difficult and it makes it very difficult and it makes it very difficult when every day you're changing the rules

945
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:11,960
And it's hard to keep up when you're changing the rules and people out here trying to survive

946
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:14,800
So today was very important

947
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:22,220
for us and for Hamleton County because we were able now to put our arms around what money

948
01:23:22,220 --> 01:23:30,040
comes in from federal government what is a pass through what is a reimbursement what is guaranteed

949
01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:36,400
what is still out there at risk so that we could get our hands around it as things are moving

950
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:43,780
fast and I know it really was helpful to me so it's a truly thank you very much Mr. Ludo thank you

951
01:23:43,780 --> 01:23:50,220
much and I want you to know that our administration, we got to be on top of it, because this

952
01:23:50,220 --> 01:23:56,800
thing is moving so fast. It's affecting safety, shares the apartment, keeping the county safe,

953
01:23:57,260 --> 01:24:03,940
but when you cut the money, it's hard. We want to keep ourselves safe. So safety, vitality,

954
01:24:04,940 --> 01:24:13,760
future, right now is all at risk. And I think this is very good now. Now we have a base of

955
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:18,520
to where everything is and now we've got to keep our eyes as you said it could change.

956
01:24:18,700 --> 01:24:24,220
We can go to bed tonight and they'll run and get that impact and write some executive

957
01:24:24,220 --> 01:24:26,440
order that could change the game.

958
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:29,360
So thank you for this presentation.

959
01:24:30,100 --> 01:24:33,980
Thank you all for being here and know that we're all in this together.

960
01:24:34,060 --> 01:24:39,120
We hope the information that we're providing to you also could help you see where everything

961
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:45,600
is and we're we're trying to go and we can all be on the same page. So I think this was excellent.

962
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:53,280
We've got more to come, but at least we're equipped with the information and we'll have updates

963
01:24:53,280 --> 01:25:02,380
as Mr. Ludo and his team. I know we'll continue to keep us updated. Thank you. Thank you commissioners

964
01:25:02,380 --> 01:25:07,360
and just on that note, I do want to thank Hanson. This was a lot of work to pull together.

965
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:11,400
uh... so i want to thank you for all of his uh... hard work and in doing so

966
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:13,240
i want to thank all the departments who were

967
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:17,540
uh... very cooperative and uh... in terms of putting this this report together

968
01:25:17,540 --> 01:25:22,960
uh... as was just indicated we will follow up with the board this will as

969
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:26,940
antson said this will not be the the last we look at this will continue to stay in touch

970
01:25:26,940 --> 01:25:29,460
with the departments make sure that on a

971
01:25:29,460 --> 01:25:33,420
on an emergent basis we were following up with things that may happen

972
01:25:33,420 --> 01:25:36,860
uh... as commissioner reset tomorrow as well as planning some

973
01:25:36,860 --> 01:25:46,900
more regular touch points with the board on this issue down the road so the of course this year we have a good handle on how this issue is playing out.

974
01:25:47,540 --> 01:25:53,880
I do just very very quickly want to thank as the commissioners have all the people the individuals who are here today.

975
01:25:54,960 --> 01:26:01,620
Certainly all the people that are on the front lines programmatically, but a little bit of a special shout out to all those folks.

976
01:26:01,620 --> 01:26:06,900
whether they're in the room or not, they're involved with the finances of these federal grants,

977
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,420
and there's one thing to apply for the grants is another thing to track the grant and monitor it

978
01:26:11,420 --> 01:26:17,040
and keep the finances of it working. It's hard work, it's complicated work, it's a very unique skill set,

979
01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:22,380
but without the acumen of those individuals, these benefits don't make it to the street, these benefits don't

980
01:26:22,380 --> 01:26:29,040
happen in our community. So anyone who's out there that's involved with the financial or the grant-related

981
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:34,280
And Nusa, these I just want to let them know that there are services are very much appreciated.

982
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:36,740
Yes, we appreciate the financial people.

983
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:40,240
In addition to the people on the ground, yes, of course, of course, of course, of course.

984
01:26:40,660 --> 01:26:47,140
Sometimes we do lose track, so we'll look forward to ongoing updates as things change at the federal level.

985
01:26:47,300 --> 01:26:53,700
Hopefully we won't get any, but you never know and so that's what we're preparing for and we need to have the information in front of us.

986
01:26:53,700 --> 01:26:59,440
And a couple other things we do have budget meeting coming up.

987
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:04,320
So obviously all of this potentially impacts the budget, the county budget, it's a tight

988
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:05,460
budget this year.

989
01:27:05,940 --> 01:27:12,160
And so we will be keeping an eye on the impacts to our budget in addition to the budgets

990
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:13,220
of each and every department.

991
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:19,680
And the other thing I know, Nick, I think mentioned this, some of us have gone and lobbied

992
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:23,520
to our federal representatives to make sure that they too are in the loop,

993
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:28,080
related to the impacts to Hamilton County, and so, and so, and so I'm hopeful that this

994
01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:32,440
report that you have put together along with everybody else in the room will go out to

995
01:27:32,440 --> 01:27:37,300
our federal representatives, the House side and the Senate side are lobbyists to make sure

996
01:27:37,300 --> 01:27:42,660
that they too understand what the impacts are and will be part of our effort to keep these

997
01:27:42,660 --> 01:27:46,840
dollars here in this community to the benefit of the citizens. So, I just want to put that out

998
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:51,300
there. So, thank you all. You're welcome to say you don't have to. We won't hold it against you.

999
01:27:51,300 --> 01:27:56,440
Although our next presentation is, it folds right into this presentation.

1000
01:27:56,780 --> 01:28:00,600
So it's a federal funding discussion from the Human Services Chamber.

1001
01:28:00,900 --> 01:28:03,280
Mike Maraski is here to represent the chamber.

1002
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:07,720
Mike I'll ask you to give just a really brief overview of the Human Services Chamber.

1003
01:28:07,900 --> 01:28:09,560
I'll let everybody get out of here for it.

1004
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,460
And then the impacts to your members.

1005
01:28:11,660 --> 01:28:12,140
For sure.

1006
01:28:12,180 --> 01:28:12,880
Thank you all for being.

1007
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:14,540
Most of these people are in June for me anyway.

1008
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:15,640
They know what I'm going to say.

1009
01:28:19,500 --> 01:28:22,260
I will let you know, though, as they recovering elected official.

1010
01:28:22,260 --> 01:28:24,920
I know to make this free with us.

1011
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:27,380
I know the assignment.

1012
01:28:28,140 --> 01:28:29,620
Totally an hour and a half.

1013
01:28:29,820 --> 01:28:30,140
All

1014
01:28:32,980 --> 01:28:34,700
right.

1015
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:35,360
Thank you.

1016
01:28:36,820 --> 01:28:38,180
So I have a presentation.

1017
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:44,260
I am going to skip through some of it because I know you have really important work to do.

1018
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:45,740
We got to get up there because that's an air.

1019
01:28:45,900 --> 01:28:46,160
It's better.

1020
01:28:46,620 --> 01:28:48,560
It was freaking me out in my face up there.

1021
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:52,340
us presentry house vice president doing this commissioner east mr.

1022
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:57,540
room. That was an awesome presentation already sent it to the hundred plus member

1023
01:28:57,540 --> 01:29:02,140
human services chamber with the breakdown of the money and if this wasn't part of the

1024
01:29:02,140 --> 01:29:07,180
presentation ten minutes ago but it is now if I may appoint a personal privilege for

1025
01:29:07,180 --> 01:29:12,280
our virtual dive tie-hard even in recovery. Well I'll let you know if you have over

1026
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:20,880
steps your bans. Please, I need guardrails. It is extraordinarily meaningful to my members

1027
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:26,160
on the nonprofit sector. Human services chamber again, we're an advocacy based member agency

1028
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:32,040
representing over a hundred nonprofits in the county. Many of whom most of whom receive the

1029
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:36,860
levy dollars from here, a lot of whom work in tandem with the county, like the 30 million that

1030
01:29:36,860 --> 01:29:42,000
straight to strategies and homelessness that then supplements, you know, dollars with y'all.

1031
01:29:42,300 --> 01:29:45,700
It's been really hard for our folks and I'm going to go through that quickly,

1032
01:29:46,940 --> 01:29:50,880
but it's been doubly hard because, and I respect this, and all seriousness,

1033
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:55,560
is somebody who was overseeing a billion dollar budget for a while in the public sector.

1034
01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:58,700
It's extra hard when you can't get...

1035
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:11,500
Actual information from municipal leaders. And the state government is the state government. I'll leave that alone. And so it's meaningful to have numbers. It's my point. So thank you.

1036
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:23,640
And Mr. Ludo, Mr. Chair, thank you so much. He finally left. I'm out here. It's really helpful. So we can go ahead to the next one. I can do it. I was wondering.

1037
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:24,640
health there.

1038
01:30:25,420 --> 01:30:26,340
My name is Mike Moroski.

1039
01:30:26,440 --> 01:30:29,000
If you don't know me on the Human Services Chamber Executive Director.

1040
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:34,440
And the priorities of our Chamber that are voted upon by members, you can see on the

1041
01:30:34,440 --> 01:30:39,940
screen housing, older adults, disability, new Americans, mental health, education, workforce,

1042
01:30:40,440 --> 01:30:43,120
local government, that's largely funding issues and then policy.

1043
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:46,800
Mirror a lot of what we already heard today.

1044
01:30:47,660 --> 01:30:53,000
The cuts in health and human services, the 10,000 folks who are like go, plus the 10,000

1045
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:57,720
who are bought out. I think it's notable that of those 20,000, each one of them comes with

1046
01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:05,220
like 1.6 contractors. So 60,000 jobs lost. It's starting to impact some of the, I heard

1047
01:31:05,220 --> 01:31:09,000
a lot of questions that I'm going to try to answer as I go from Commissioner Reaster

1048
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:13,660
Gardening. Folks with disability, independent salines who used to be center for independent

1049
01:31:13,660 --> 01:31:20,280
living options. A lot of their, they promote independent living for adults for disabilities.

1050
01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:24,440
a lot of the folks who used to work in that department are now gone.

1051
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:30,620
And so while nothing has necessarily changed yet, Mr. Luton, I've talked with a lot of you

1052
01:31:30,620 --> 01:31:31,080
about this.

1053
01:31:31,820 --> 01:31:33,660
The hardest part about this is the confusion.

1054
01:31:33,980 --> 01:31:41,320
And of course, it's being so non-purpose and it's hard to relay the dire need in our sector

1055
01:31:41,320 --> 01:31:45,240
who, at least in our opinion, is part and parcel of your sector, providing basic services

1056
01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:46,880
that we heard a lot about.

1057
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:51,460
Nothing has maybe happened yet, but trying to plan for it on the horizon has been difficult.

1058
01:31:52,540 --> 01:31:55,400
Particularly regarding the health and human services in the area of disability.

1059
01:31:56,340 --> 01:31:58,840
So all I want to say today, honestly, we don't have an ask of you.

1060
01:31:58,980 --> 01:32:00,700
We know that the money is hard.

1061
01:32:01,100 --> 01:32:07,040
I've been working with our 100 plus membership for about two months on how we can best advocate as a sector as one.

1062
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:10,920
The business community, if I may, does it good job with that? They often come as one.

1063
01:32:11,540 --> 01:32:16,460
We don't always do the best job with that, but we want to do that and we want to come as one and tell you that.

1064
01:32:16,460 --> 01:32:17,800
We do believe we're in this together.

1065
01:32:18,420 --> 01:32:20,840
We do believe we extend government reach

1066
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:22,980
by serving the most under-resource residents

1067
01:32:22,980 --> 01:32:25,460
efficiently with whether it's community-based

1068
01:32:25,460 --> 01:32:27,420
neighborhood-based nonprofit-second-reach people

1069
01:32:27,420 --> 01:32:29,020
that government may not be able to.

1070
01:32:29,100 --> 01:32:32,340
We want you to know that we are here as we reimagine

1071
01:32:32,340 --> 01:32:33,260
how to move forward.

1072
01:32:34,180 --> 01:32:37,440
So the direct ask of the Human Services Chamber was

1073
01:32:37,440 --> 01:32:40,920
what is the current reality in our sector?

1074
01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:43,160
I can give you numbers, the potential

1075
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:47,860
doing gloom numbers that Vice President was referencing the trillion dollar numbers that are hard

1076
01:32:47,860 --> 01:32:52,860
to wrap our brains around. I am keeping track of the potential loss of all our members that

1077
01:32:52,860 --> 01:32:56,580
again, a lot of them were in the room, DDS as a member as well and job and family services.

1078
01:32:57,580 --> 01:33:01,740
There are associate members to different track. We don't need to get in all that. The only difference is

1079
01:33:01,740 --> 01:33:06,540
they don't have a vote on our policy priorities. But speaking for Greg Johnson at CMHA and he said

1080
01:33:06,540 --> 01:33:12,360
I can. It's helpful for him to be in our housing committee to hear of issues before they might arise elsewhere.

1081
01:33:13,160 --> 01:33:19,440
this is the best list I could come up with. It's the in all amounts to confusion, you know,

1082
01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:25,440
my Ricosis Jackson at Immigration Refugee Law Center is on my board and she'll get an order to

1083
01:33:25,440 --> 01:33:32,740
stop representing undocumented children who are residents of the United States and then four days later

1084
01:33:32,740 --> 01:33:40,940
she's told that she can again. She's told $500,000 is taken away and people scramble

1085
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:45,740
Foundations call the human services chamber how can we help and then she's told the money is there again

1086
01:33:45,740 --> 01:33:47,760
things that don't make the news

1087
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:52,520
The the immigration folks in DC keep changing the paperwork

1088
01:33:53,620 --> 01:33:54,700
things like

1089
01:33:54,700 --> 01:33:57,690
Might seem little but like check your gender for example and

1090
01:33:58,660 --> 01:34:03,460
So then they scramble at IRLC and they change everything and tell everyone and then the next day

1091
01:34:03,460 --> 01:34:05,700
They come back with something different

1092
01:34:05,700 --> 01:34:10,760
So that's a difficult the housing discrimination piece housing opportunities

1093
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:15,580
made equal on you may have seen the third of their budget was taken away by my

1094
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:20,260
flater. I say, well, you can do it again. And if I may, you know, the one thing

1095
01:34:20,260 --> 01:34:25,080
the folks who have the keys to the kingdom now are really, really good at is doing

1096
01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:30,240
things regardless if they're legal or not and getting what they want, regardless if

1097
01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:36,000
it's legal or not. And a lot of the adverse impacts are a sector that's happening.

1098
01:34:36,780 --> 01:34:40,480
It is happening because things are held up in court, whether it's board members of our

1099
01:34:40,480 --> 01:34:45,600
agencies that column self-imposed mandates, I'm going to steal it from Commissionaries.

1100
01:34:45,940 --> 01:34:49,320
So, you know, say, we can't have DEI statements on our website.

1101
01:34:49,380 --> 01:34:53,100
Well, that's not true, but maybe boards don't know that.

1102
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:55,200
And so we're doing a lot of educating a boards.

1103
01:34:55,780 --> 01:34:59,300
I'm working with pro bono partnership because it's a lot more powerful when an attorney from

1104
01:34:59,300 --> 01:35:02,900
Frostbrown Todd gives an opinion versus Mike Moroski.

1105
01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:06,340
So I'm trying to, you know, so our, my EVs can work with their boards.

1106
01:35:06,340 --> 01:35:11,040
There's no posting of anticipated or the typical grant opportunities.

1107
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:16,520
The HHS we already talked about, and then recently, and this didn't come up today, and

1108
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:24,260
I assume folks know it, but whatever Mr. Musk's job is, and whatever the doge is, they

1109
01:35:24,260 --> 01:35:29,620
took over a grant stock up, the administration of grants stock up, health and human services

1110
01:35:29,620 --> 01:35:30,780
typically did that.

1111
01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:35,020
And again, all of the grants have been said a number of times that my members receive are

1112
01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:37,280
reimbursement based.

1113
01:35:38,060 --> 01:35:40,540
Tansible example, YWCA, the only

1114
01:35:40,540 --> 01:35:42,160
battered women's shelter in the county.

1115
01:35:42,460 --> 01:35:43,600
They're bleeding money already.

1116
01:35:43,860 --> 01:35:45,800
Regardless, again, if any of this is legal,

1117
01:35:46,060 --> 01:35:47,220
because they're not getting reimbursed.

1118
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:50,540
And so, Raquel Howard Smith, who's my vice president,

1119
01:35:50,620 --> 01:35:53,040
and also the CEO over there, is working on you.

1120
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:57,060
What is the feasibility of 100% privately funded shelter?

1121
01:35:57,160 --> 01:35:58,980
But this just happened at the end of last week.

1122
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:03,000
And who knows, again, the answer to most questions,

1123
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:05,500
We don't know, but it doesn't feel good.

1124
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:08,640
The lack of knowledge about the fate of CDVG,

1125
01:36:08,740 --> 01:36:09,220
TAN of its center.

1126
01:36:09,260 --> 01:36:10,720
Thank you so much for this presentation.

1127
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:12,500
I already feel better about that one.

1128
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:14,280
So it's difficult to budget.

1129
01:36:15,300 --> 01:36:17,200
So I'll speed through the rest.

1130
01:36:23,620 --> 01:36:24,960
These are the four big buckets.

1131
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:27,720
I got to give a shout out to Blue Cardinal Village

1132
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:29,340
and Lauren Warley and Charlie Gerhard

1133
01:36:29,340 --> 01:36:31,840
who've been working with my debilitating

1134
01:36:31,840 --> 01:36:37,540
hold a part brain to try to dial down on what is it that we want to convey to leaders like

1135
01:36:37,540 --> 01:36:42,040
y'all or the business community. It's these four things. We believe it sounds like y'all do

1136
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:46,540
two based on what I just listened to the past hour and a half. We help provide essential support,

1137
01:36:46,700 --> 01:36:52,160
economic fuel, engagement, and trust, and empowerment for systems. That's a fancy way of saying

1138
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:59,260
addressing upstream items, but I needed a fourth E. As a former English teacher, I don't know if it's

1139
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:04,140
that means addressing upstream items that made me difficult for government.

1140
01:37:04,380 --> 01:37:10,700
Again, I say this with great humility, having been part of a massive system that self perpetuates in the public school district.

1141
01:37:11,060 --> 01:37:11,900
So it can be hard.

1142
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:14,220
I won't go through all this. You all know this.

1143
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:17,300
I do want to get a shout out. It's crossly still here. He's not.

1144
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,900
So I work with Nick Crossley in the county.

1145
01:37:20,560 --> 01:37:25,720
I was elected chair. The community organizations active in disaster, not because I know anything about disaster relief.

1146
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:31,880
But I think my value at is access to the agencies and so we work in partnership with y'all

1147
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:36,760
When I was not here, but Gina Marsh before me, of course, the distributing the PPEs

1148
01:37:38,100 --> 01:37:41,780
Also, you know, I think a good example of this essential support

1149
01:37:41,780 --> 01:37:44,940
I wanted to give it again to shout out to the community-based agencies

1150
01:37:44,940 --> 01:37:49,400
I think community matters in lower-price health. I can help deliver, you know, services quickly

1151
01:37:50,180 --> 01:37:55,780
efficiently. I'm not going to show my fancy video about send it to you. The economic fuel

1152
01:37:55,780 --> 01:38:01,140
piece, I think this is significant. We had $2.9 billion impact on the locally economy. That's

1153
01:38:01,140 --> 01:38:08,960
only 312 agencies. I wrote in a leadership council and one source for this and a Brad Evans

1154
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:19,380
over the director research at UC and I we just spoke yesterday and we're actually going to be

1155
01:38:19,380 --> 01:38:24,000
amplify your dollars. So the dollars we've been talking about all day that are now up for

1156
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:30,740
who knows. Say $1 goes to you, that's the community matters again. What does that then turn into

1157
01:38:30,740 --> 01:38:35,400
in the community? As a way to show how we're all sort of in this together. And so Brad and I are going to

1158
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:42,720
start working on that soon. And we're actually presenting on August, April 23rd about this impact report.

1159
01:38:44,260 --> 01:38:48,580
Over view though, again, you all have copies of this and you've had a long meeting already.

1160
01:38:48,580 --> 01:38:52,560
So many used to sit in seven hour meetings where we'll get you out of here in time.

1161
01:38:53,240 --> 01:38:56,400
But just a brief overview of the 312 that are in the report.

1162
01:38:56,980 --> 01:38:59,640
Again, these are all services that county helps us provide.

1163
01:39:02,020 --> 01:39:04,920
But these are the significant numbers I think for the economic fuel piece.

1164
01:39:05,220 --> 01:39:09,660
And when I got with UCF log, I've long believed asking the right question to be a powerful advocacy tool.

1165
01:39:10,020 --> 01:39:12,300
And I wanted more than the 2.9 billion.

1166
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:14,980
I wanted to talk for the street speak.

1167
01:39:15,620 --> 01:39:17,500
And so I wanted earnings tax numbers.

1168
01:39:17,500 --> 01:39:22,680
And this is just our employees, this is to say nothing of the people our agencies in concert with

1169
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:27,840
levy dollars in y'all in public money help get to self-sustainable places so that they're

1170
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:28,640
participate in the time.

1171
01:39:28,660 --> 01:39:38,360
This is just our employees significant numbers engage even in trust we want to remind you I don't

1172
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:42,640
think we need to again after this presentation here today and thank you again for the invite.

1173
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:48,600
I didn't know what the content was going to be before this presentation, but it flowed perfectly

1174
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:51,020
just like Mr. Ludo and I planned.

1175
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:53,140
It works great.

1176
01:39:54,420 --> 01:39:59,000
You know, we try to build trust between public and local government to create more engaged

1177
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:03,940
connected neighborhoods, which we're going to need, because something, every impact is happening.

1178
01:40:04,200 --> 01:40:07,120
I'll say it if no one else wants to see on Liberty, too, because my members have said

1179
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:11,360
I can't, I mean, things aren't going to get harder, and we are going to have to reimagine

1180
01:40:11,360 --> 01:40:16,520
How we've done things in the past and we certainly will need your help. You know, there's no private money available

1181
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:19,660
That could cover even a tenth of

1182
01:40:20,480 --> 01:40:23,540
Projected financial loss in our sector. So

1183
01:40:24,740 --> 01:40:25,700
Last one

1184
01:40:25,700 --> 01:40:31,640
Yeah, this is the only the one I added the empower if you have a better E please let me know Kevin Finciller

1185
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:36,120
Smart of the mute being text me later, but uh, you know, we partner with the city

1186
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:41,340
You know most all the resource coordinators at CPS are our members every resource coordinator

1187
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:49,540
our members. The levy dollars coming to us, the city in some ways. So we're here. We want to help

1188
01:40:49,540 --> 01:40:55,420
as we figure out how this works. I don't necessarily have an ask like I said and we're kicking

1189
01:40:55,420 --> 01:40:59,520
around ideas in the Human Services Chamber, shared services with the nonprofit sector. That's

1190
01:40:59,520 --> 01:41:04,960
radical. I don't know. But we wanted to see Hamilton County thrive and at the least

1191
01:41:06,480 --> 01:41:11,280
protected from not becoming a bad place to live. So thanks again for the time. I can't take

1192
01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:18,460
questions. I do have specific numbers of potential loss, but I didn't feel like that was probably necessary appropriate right now.

1193
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:21,220
Thank you. And thank you to some of your members who are in the room.

1194
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:25,100
Appreciate the attendance and the our ability to ask questions of you.

1195
01:41:25,100 --> 01:41:30,520
So we, too, have talked about this whiplash that's coming from the federal government where something happens one day.

1196
01:41:30,660 --> 01:41:32,280
Then the next day it changes in the next day.

1197
01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:42,020
And it's destabilizing for private enterprise, it's destabilizing for nonprofits and destabilizing for government.

1198
01:41:42,700 --> 01:41:47,340
When we count on sources of funding that have been promised and then taken back against.

1199
01:41:47,820 --> 01:41:55,340
So we share that the head spinning whiplash that you have encountered as well, the same kind of thing.

1200
01:41:55,820 --> 01:42:00,440
But I think it's helpful to have your presentation after the county president.

1201
01:42:00,440 --> 01:42:18,540
And because now you've provided a broader landscape for what we're talking about because it's not only county agencies that are impacted by potential cuts, but rather all of the nonprofits that you represent and over a hundred years you say, but they too are delivering these essential services to the community.

1202
01:42:18,920 --> 01:42:30,420
So I think it helps us paint this broad picture of what we're looking at and really what the impacts are of the federal dollars and how they are helping people in this community in all these different ways that that you've outlined.

1203
01:42:30,420 --> 01:42:34,460
And so I appreciate that, and we're in partnership with so many of your members.

1204
01:42:34,460 --> 01:42:35,140
So many.

1205
01:42:35,420 --> 01:42:35,460
Yeah.

1206
01:42:35,460 --> 01:42:36,700
We're really, really grateful for that.

1207
01:42:36,780 --> 01:42:39,340
We are a partnership rich in Hamilton County.

1208
01:42:39,380 --> 01:42:40,780
Not everybody can brag.

1209
01:42:41,260 --> 01:42:45,920
The way we do, but man, are we lucky if we have so many really wonderful organizations.

1210
01:42:46,480 --> 01:42:48,100
But I want to ask you one question.

1211
01:42:49,020 --> 01:42:52,180
You mentioned at the end, but you also mentioned in the middle of what you were saying.

1212
01:42:53,240 --> 01:42:59,320
So work cuts to come, or rather funding to be either drawn back or not coming in the future.

1213
01:42:59,320 --> 01:43:02,020
What have you heard from your members?

1214
01:43:02,360 --> 01:43:08,700
You mentioned the YWN Raquel, Howard Smith talking about privately funding, a shelter.

1215
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:17,680
I mean, what is the capacity of your membership to bring in dollars to replace federal dollars?

1216
01:43:18,180 --> 01:43:23,040
I mean, you said at the end, if not near to the extent that you're getting federal dollars right now.

1217
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:28,960
I mean, it's just, in beyond that, you've got 100 agencies and my suspicion is that

1218
01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:35,080
people that donate to those organizations donate to more than one at a time, right? So that's going

1219
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:40,820
to dry up. So what are you hearing from folks? So yeah, and to paint the picture a little more

1220
01:43:40,820 --> 01:43:45,820
even bleakly, not that we need to maybe, but if you took every sense of every private community

1221
01:43:45,820 --> 01:43:51,940
foundation in the entire country and put it in one pot, it would cover 79 days of the federal

1222
01:43:51,940 --> 01:43:58,260
budget. That's how little money there is to, which is why we're not necessarily going after that

1223
01:43:58,260 --> 01:44:04,840
piece. So, you know, since he's, you know, here, you know, Kevin, it's starting to send homelessness.

1224
01:44:05,260 --> 01:44:11,520
We're talking 32 million dollars. Now, this is the ultimate 100% of what these folks in DC want.

1225
01:44:11,940 --> 01:44:19,640
Okay? So this is like, so we're talking 32 million, 90 plus percent of the budget, 12,000

1226
01:44:19,640 --> 01:44:27,000
individuals affected a year. It's CMHA to keep it to housing 26 million in public housing subsidy,

1227
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:32,160
100 million in half funding, 4 million in admin, so you all send 90% of the budget, which would

1228
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:39,320
affect 18,000 people, you're I seem so that might be a little bit overlap. And then other members

1229
01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:46,120
like, you know, found House Stacy Burge, who works with Kevin, you know, the 3 million. I so I don't

1230
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:52,200
duplicate found village, you know, Katie working with the kids in foster care, we're talking

1231
01:44:52,200 --> 01:44:58,300
to $200,000 community matters, $200,000,000 Council on Aging.

1232
01:45:00,700 --> 01:45:13,360
10.8 million dollars. So again, these are all like the ultimate doom and gloom, and I'm keeping track of these. And I have a buy advocacy area, and I'm working with the Northern Kentucky safety net alliance.

1233
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:18,160
they have you see so different over there we don't know you again but just so I'm going

1234
01:45:18,160 --> 01:45:22,540
to their meetings and air in their director is preview what we're talking about this

1235
01:45:22,540 --> 01:45:26,540
we have a better regional idea especially when we talk to the business chamber folks like

1236
01:45:26,540 --> 01:45:32,280
that and then Alicia Kittner at our 12 they're not members but again trying to have a more

1237
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:40,540
holistic picture so those are some numbers to throw out and again it's it's a hard thing

1238
01:45:40,540 --> 01:45:45,860
We convey not to y'all, but it's a hard thing to convey to business leaders some foundation

1239
01:45:45,860 --> 01:45:51,140
folks because everybody, the web is no complex so the money comes to you, goes to our

1240
01:45:51,140 --> 01:45:54,600
members and then the people we serve are on TANF, GDG and go through Ohio and means jobs

1241
01:45:54,600 --> 01:45:59,760
and it's, you word it as a whiplash, I say it's like a daily attack on our limbic systems

1242
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:07,040
which again is the goal and so I have to take an opportunity to say you know we've been really

1243
01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:11,680
received with our advocacy and again, I can't thank y'all enough for having us here.

1244
01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:15,880
You know, what we need, we need the business community to say something.

1245
01:46:16,060 --> 01:46:20,000
You know, because at the end of the day, if you mess with our sector, even a thousand

1246
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:24,240
of what they're talking about, you can throw counties and tire operating in, general

1247
01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:28,080
fund at basic services, and it's going to look like a different place.

1248
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:36,020
And so, I'll also come to the Reddy Cincinnati, which is great, and trying to get

1249
01:46:36,020 --> 01:46:48,040
And paradigm shift is a kind of a melodramatic thing, but it does feel like things are shifting and we're grateful that we have a meetable leaders like y'all to have these conversations because the money's not going to be there

1250
01:46:48,820 --> 01:46:52,380
So rethinking how we administer and I guess and we're here to help

1251
01:46:52,380 --> 01:46:58,280
My value at is I know the smart people so it's not me, but I can you we can you know help connect everything

1252
01:46:58,280 --> 01:47:01,900
Well, it's encouraging to know that you're engaging the private side, right?

1253
01:47:01,900 --> 01:47:07,640
So you are right that I don't think there's always an understanding of if your systems

1254
01:47:08,300 --> 01:47:12,480
don't have the ability to provide the services, if the county systems don't have the

1255
01:47:12,480 --> 01:47:18,040
ability to press sort of people are going to know it, right, that changes how we live

1256
01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:22,440
here and the impact to all these folks and so it's really important to engage.

1257
01:47:22,620 --> 01:47:28,380
So thank you for that work and please call on us to advocate with you as you engage with

1258
01:47:28,380 --> 01:47:31,780
the private sector because it will be an important conversation if these dollars and

1259
01:47:31,780 --> 01:47:33,980
call them the partnership dollars and the federal government.

1260
01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:36,860
Currently, they've always been partnerships from the federal government.

1261
01:47:37,480 --> 01:47:41,960
It's just that now they're potentially at risk and we need to understand this

1262
01:47:41,960 --> 01:47:42,240
impact.

1263
01:47:42,940 --> 01:47:44,020
So thank you for being here.

1264
01:47:44,040 --> 01:47:44,860
I really appreciate it.

1265
01:47:46,020 --> 01:47:47,060
Commissioner Semorodinus.

1266
01:47:47,800 --> 01:47:48,820
Thank you for your presentation.

1267
01:47:50,160 --> 01:47:55,200
I would say about a month ago, I gave a presentation as a release to nonprofits and I might

1268
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:59,340
send you the information that I share and it's no doubt about it.

1269
01:47:59,340 --> 01:48:02,860
will be dramatically impacted all our nonprofits.

1270
01:48:04,280 --> 01:48:09,620
And I also brought up at that time about if we don't have it, we have to go to the private

1271
01:48:09,620 --> 01:48:10,180
sector.

1272
01:48:10,760 --> 01:48:14,620
And so there are many, and I talked about the research we may have to do.

1273
01:48:14,760 --> 01:48:20,620
I know a couple private entities at Boys and Girls Club is very hard, so you reach out

1274
01:48:20,620 --> 01:48:21,160
to them.

1275
01:48:21,340 --> 01:48:22,640
Council on Aging, you reach out.

1276
01:48:22,640 --> 01:48:28,400
And I know Jeff, I've asked Jeff about looking into what private entities and it's gonna take

1277
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:35,000
of them. And not that they necessarily want to, but they'll be proud that they help to make

1278
01:48:35,000 --> 01:48:40,780
sure that this agency did not fall or falters. So I talked about that about a month ago,

1279
01:48:40,820 --> 01:48:49,520
so we're on the same, we're thinking the same way, that's scary. But anyway. But I decided as things

1280
01:48:49,520 --> 01:48:56,580
changed in Washington and as things around this change, stop trying to make sense out of nonsense.

1281
01:48:57,260 --> 01:49:08,760
And I realize that I have to be flatfooted and have a foundation flexible, but flatfooted and prepare for change, expect change.

1282
01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:11,640
Well, how do you deal with change when you don't know which way it's common?

1283
01:49:11,960 --> 01:49:20,000
As you said, whiplash, so that's what we're going to have to do, but what we have to make sure we don't do is not get stressed out,

1284
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:25,620
because we're not productive and continue to lead like we're doing up here and like you're

1285
01:49:25,620 --> 01:49:30,840
doing and like Kevin is doing, that we need to continue to lead and we need to reach out

1286
01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:37,140
and no matter how much it hurts to ask some of our billionaires to help the people here

1287
01:49:37,140 --> 01:49:38,700
we're going to have to do it.

1288
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:40,800
So thank you so much for your presentation.

1289
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:46,860
Thank you Vice President, I'm not surprised with your social work background that you get it.

1290
01:49:46,860 --> 01:49:51,980
If I may, with the billionaires, the millionaires, 100% yes, and I'll just say what I've

1291
01:49:51,980 --> 01:49:55,900
said publicly, a number of times are ready to some foundation heads that I said, how can

1292
01:49:55,900 --> 01:49:57,280
we maximize our impact?

1293
01:49:58,260 --> 01:50:00,040
And they're, of course, I'd all dollars, right?

1294
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:03,860
I'll give you a way to do without spending any money.

1295
01:50:04,160 --> 01:50:07,180
Talk to those people that you're in the room with.

1296
01:50:07,680 --> 01:50:12,100
Because at the end of the day, and again, I can say this is an advocacy-based agency

1297
01:50:12,100 --> 01:50:20,340
wrap, the folks making these decisions don't even particularly like the folks my agency

1298
01:50:20,340 --> 01:50:26,320
serve and are going out of their way to hurt them. As such, they're not going to listen

1299
01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:30,760
to the people running agencies that are trying to help them. They probably may not even listen

1300
01:50:30,760 --> 01:50:37,700
to y'all or the city or anybody, but they will listen to those people. And that's how that's

1301
01:50:37,700 --> 01:50:43,300
So I tell you folks, you go to the cocktail parties, I don't have to say something, they need

1302
01:50:43,300 --> 01:50:43,980
to say something.

1303
01:50:44,980 --> 01:50:49,940
I imagine the folks that made all that money or smart people in our city, and they have

1304
01:50:49,940 --> 01:50:55,040
to know that if you keep chipping away at this stuff, Reddy's going to have a heck of a time

1305
01:50:55,040 --> 01:50:56,920
bringing jobs here.

1306
01:50:57,760 --> 01:50:58,140
Thank you.

1307
01:50:58,160 --> 01:50:58,860
Thank you, Commissioner.

1308
01:50:59,020 --> 01:51:07,360
Commissioner Reese, I just want to thank you for your work, Mike, and all of the agencies

1309
01:51:07,360 --> 01:51:16,000
that you represent. The word change has been brought up several times, just not in this moment,

1310
01:51:16,260 --> 01:51:24,380
but all over. And the trajectory is changing. A couple things that have come out of it. One

1311
01:51:24,380 --> 01:51:29,560
is we had a presentation today where you got the information, the people watching out the

1312
01:51:29,560 --> 01:51:35,060
information, we got the information. Hopefully we can get it online so people can see it in real

1313
01:51:35,060 --> 01:51:44,320
time, the things are changing, because it's totally sad. By the time we put this print, it probably

1314
01:51:44,320 --> 01:51:50,200
was something else. So we want to have a portal that we can all see and they can be changed

1315
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:55,200
as we're going. And people can see it at real time. But one of the good things that happened

1316
01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:59,660
out of this is that we now have our arms round. How much money are we really talking about?

1317
01:51:59,660 --> 01:52:01,380
that comes through Hamilton County,

1318
01:52:01,860 --> 01:52:05,980
that comes through our areas that we're over

1319
01:52:05,980 --> 01:52:09,100
that we oversee and what that impact is.

1320
01:52:09,420 --> 01:52:10,420
So I thought that was positive.

1321
01:52:10,420 --> 01:52:13,940
The other thing is I think, as you've indicated,

1322
01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:18,160
we've got to get the private sector to step up.

1323
01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:21,380
Now, there'll be some this step up willingly.

1324
01:52:22,580 --> 01:52:26,320
There will be others that will not step up.

1325
01:52:26,580 --> 01:52:29,080
And I just think as we look at our policies

1326
01:52:29,080 --> 01:52:33,500
and move forward something I want to look at is that we've got the leverage things, everything

1327
01:52:33,500 --> 01:52:40,400
we do. So we have to come and vote on something, whether it's a big project, everybody,

1328
01:52:40,580 --> 01:52:45,980
I want this, I want that and they say, well, the business community wants it. Well, we've

1329
01:52:45,980 --> 01:52:56,920
got to look at it and see a metrics. And I think we owe it to the taxpayers if we're going to

1330
01:52:56,920 --> 01:53:02,360
payers funds or use taxpayer debt services because really to tax payers have the debt.

1331
01:53:03,120 --> 01:53:10,520
Then we've got to be a little more bolder and try to leverage those major things that

1332
01:53:10,520 --> 01:53:10,700
come.

1333
01:53:10,780 --> 01:53:14,480
We just can't do one-offs and say, let's get to the next thing.

1334
01:53:14,580 --> 01:53:22,800
We've got to look at this thing to totality because when we take on a debt, grandma and

1335
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:28,440
Her grandkids are the ones that's taken on this particular debt.

1336
01:53:29,540 --> 01:53:36,180
We talk about right now, you know, obviously the hot topic is the stadium, pay course stadium,

1337
01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:39,920
well, I mean, I wasn't even in politics when they signed the lease.

1338
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:46,700
And now I'm tangled up along with my colleagues who were not commissioners at that time.

1339
01:53:46,980 --> 01:53:48,540
They did a 20-something year deal.

1340
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:50,100
They didn't do a 20-minute deal.

1341
01:53:50,100 --> 01:53:56,120
So, I think when we're looking at these things, I would ask Mr. Ludo and the administration

1342
01:53:56,740 --> 01:54:03,860
is Washington has changed. The world is changing. We got this look at our stuff, too.

1343
01:54:04,120 --> 01:54:10,860
And say, wait a minute, we only, who would are our tools? We got tax breaks, we've got debt

1344
01:54:10,860 --> 01:54:17,500
service, we've got restricted and non-restricted, we've got tax, let me, what do we have and

1345
01:54:17,500 --> 01:54:22,480
How do we make what we are asking the people to do, make a dollar out of 15 cents?

1346
01:54:23,200 --> 01:54:26,580
And looking at where we put our money, we put our money in banking.

1347
01:54:27,460 --> 01:54:30,840
And I know we had to vote on it when I first got here, I don't know, so many years.

1348
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:34,620
But as we work with the auditor, I don't want to put our money in no bank.

1349
01:54:35,340 --> 01:54:38,600
This is not for the citizens of able to count it.

1350
01:54:38,600 --> 01:54:43,400
Why would I take their money and put it in a bank that they can't even go get a loan?

1351
01:54:43,400 --> 01:54:49,580
or put it in a bank that's not speaking out that doesn't care about them because we

1352
01:54:49,580 --> 01:54:54,980
collect diverse tax money and it's amazing that today is the only day we're

1353
01:54:54,980 --> 01:55:00,000
equal all men up and saying everybody we don't have to handle diversity and they

1354
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:05,360
don't do the DIY money I mean I know discount for the idea I had to pay everybody

1355
01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:10,560
else had to pay they didn't have a problem taking the so-called DIY money you know

1356
01:55:10,560 --> 01:55:13,780
I don't go with acronyms because I'm bigger than a acronyms.

1357
01:55:14,340 --> 01:55:18,440
I'm when you're a child of God, we're bigger than acronyms, but they put a acronyms on us,

1358
01:55:18,700 --> 01:55:23,440
but you took the money, and I went to my taxes, they just said, wait a minute, Rhys.

1359
01:55:24,900 --> 01:55:26,560
You're a woman, you don't have to pay.

1360
01:55:27,560 --> 01:55:30,560
In a minute, you're happy to get American, we're not going to take your money.

1361
01:55:31,760 --> 01:55:35,360
Nobody stopped it, took my money, and everybody else's money.

1362
01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:37,580
Oh, you in the wheelchair, we're not going to take your money.

1363
01:55:37,580 --> 01:55:44,820
It's a garbism. Today, and then tomorrow, we back to saying that we're not going to

1364
01:55:44,820 --> 01:55:53,540
help American people. So what I wanted to say to you is that the silos are down. We can't

1365
01:55:53,540 --> 01:56:00,760
work in silos, and that we have a lot of companies that do good things, and there's some

1366
01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:07,560
out there that's got some more money that can be doing a whole lot more. And I like to, you know,

1367
01:56:07,560 --> 01:56:08,600
Everybody get a job.

1368
01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:10,280
Man, the business community wanted it.

1369
01:56:10,500 --> 01:56:15,820
I want to get the job of what the business community do to help us and some have and those

1370
01:56:15,820 --> 01:56:21,420
who have, I want to highlight them and those who have it, they may not want to come up

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01:56:21,420 --> 01:56:28,760
on a six-floor because we are not in a position that just gives and the people we are representing

1372
01:56:28,760 --> 01:56:35,260
their everyday taxpayer is out here on a shoe string trying to survive.

1373
01:56:35,880 --> 01:56:39,920
The last thing you talked about is your board training, and I appreciate that because what

1374
01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:45,660
we see a trend of, there's a signing over the executive order, and then 30 days later,

1375
01:56:46,660 --> 01:56:50,940
it's not what they see it, and you can't keep up.

1376
01:56:50,960 --> 01:56:54,860
And some people, as soon as they hear something, they run and take away.

1377
01:56:55,540 --> 01:57:00,200
Maybe there do need to be a 30-day grace period to see if this thing is still happening,

1378
01:57:00,380 --> 01:57:02,480
so I'm glad you're doing the training.

1379
01:57:02,480 --> 01:57:07,980
But the last thing I want to say is that they also are some people who never do it want to

1380
01:57:08,760 --> 01:57:10,340
Never do it want to be inclusive

1381
01:57:10,340 --> 01:57:16,940
Never do it want to help the seniors and help the veterans and but they were hiding

1382
01:57:17,640 --> 01:57:20,420
It couldn't they was hiding and

1383
01:57:20,420 --> 01:57:21,720
Because of our policies

1384
01:57:22,240 --> 01:57:24,660
You really couldn't hide in this

1385
01:57:25,280 --> 01:57:28,300
government that we're in right now two hundred thirty four years

1386
01:57:29,200 --> 01:57:35,600
go, you know, we couldn't be in this bill. I couldn't be in this bill. And we came to say,

1387
01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:40,580
hey, we're going to shake it up because we collect diverse tax money and we got to support

1388
01:57:40,580 --> 01:57:48,560
everybody. But there's some people who may have been inclusive because it was the popular. It was

1389
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:56,960
a fact. Some people never wanted to do anything. And now they got an excuse. Everything I'm going

1390
01:57:56,960 --> 01:58:03,280
say is not coming from the guy up in Washington. Some of the stuff people doing on the

1391
01:58:03,280 --> 01:58:07,660
old and hiding behind will he be the he didn't send you I just see your name on that

1392
01:58:07,660 --> 01:58:13,580
executive order. So I'm glad that you're figuring out who are the people that believe in

1393
01:58:13,580 --> 01:58:18,680
our fighters and who are the people going to use this as an excuse and well you know I

1394
01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:23,300
can't hire nobody because they what they doing up in Washington. And I never do what your

1395
01:58:24,660 --> 01:58:35,040
So I'm glad that we're able to siphole through those who are getting federal money and those who ain't got no federal money and the people ain't got no federal money.

1396
01:58:35,180 --> 01:58:44,680
You can't come and read some of them. They got your hands tied. Your hands ain't tied. You tied your hands and I think we need to know who those people are.

1397
01:58:45,060 --> 01:58:51,260
So I'm glad that you're doing that training with your board and giving them the legal counsel that they need.

1398
01:58:51,260 --> 01:59:01,460
So we can find out who's true to the cost and who is using this to not help the cost and we need to know who those people are.

1399
01:59:01,940 --> 01:59:07,520
So I know Mike Morowski is out there. He will you will get to the bottom and I appreciate it.

1400
01:59:07,520 --> 01:59:09,260
I do my best. Thank you so much.

1401
01:59:10,300 --> 01:59:16,280
And if I may just real quick in with the business community like, you know, we have no illusion that, you know, we need a thriving business community.

1402
01:59:16,280 --> 01:59:18,440
And I think when I talk about paradigm shifting

1403
01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:20,800
as in melodramatic as that may sound,

1404
01:59:21,260 --> 01:59:24,980
our sector is fairly accustomed to going to people

1405
01:59:24,980 --> 01:59:26,400
and asking for things.

1406
01:59:26,800 --> 01:59:29,540
It's the way it's kind of, you know, always been.

1407
01:59:29,540 --> 01:59:32,500
Regardless if we think we know it's actually going on

1408
01:59:32,500 --> 01:59:33,620
on the ground and can be helpful

1409
01:59:33,620 --> 01:59:35,680
and throughout the time there's been different leaders,

1410
01:59:35,780 --> 01:59:37,720
elected business otherwise that have latched onto that

1411
01:59:37,720 --> 01:59:39,040
idea more like, well, these people can tell me

1412
01:59:39,040 --> 01:59:40,220
what I need to know.

1413
01:59:40,500 --> 01:59:42,620
It's happening a lot more now, you know,

1414
01:59:42,700 --> 01:59:45,940
and figuring out how to codify that, create new systems,

1415
01:59:45,940 --> 01:59:54,160
Let no good crisis go and use as I think what we're trying to do and again grateful the county commission has been so

1416
01:59:54,160 --> 01:59:58,700
Unmetable to this conversation and more than anything with the business community and good kind

1417
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:29,980
Chamber, et cetera, is just we want to be part of this solution. We know we need a thriving business community. And we know it's going on. And I'll, Mike Moros, he himself. I take for granted the basic services that the sector I represent, health providers. I know I do. I don't know what it is, but I know I do. There's certainly something, but to your point president, you know, start chipping away to a different place to be. And so it's asked that they stand with us and appreciate the time. And I got to say one last point, a personal privilege, President.

1418
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:32,080
and you can send me out to room if you want,

1419
02:00:32,240 --> 02:00:35,140
but I have to give credit to the original executive director

1420
02:00:35,140 --> 02:00:37,820
of the Human Services Chamber, Mr. Andrew Chilters,

1421
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:40,140
sent down me at a coffee shop right across the street

1422
02:00:40,140 --> 02:00:42,220
and said, there's this idea for a thing.

1423
02:00:42,500 --> 02:00:44,200
And now, here we are, so thank you, Andrew.

1424
02:00:44,280 --> 02:00:45,800
Gina Gauders-Shotta, Andrew.

1425
02:00:46,180 --> 02:00:47,720
Andrew and Chilters is my son, by the way.

1426
02:00:47,920 --> 02:00:50,100
So in case, it's for those who don't know, I didn't know that.

1427
02:00:50,120 --> 02:00:52,260
I don't know, I don't know, I'm sure you didn't know that,

1428
02:00:52,460 --> 02:00:56,160
Mike, but yeah, yeah, it was the first ED.

1429
02:00:56,520 --> 02:00:57,760
He was the first CD.

1430
02:00:58,280 --> 02:00:59,800
Yeah, yeah, so anyway, thank you so much.

1431
02:00:59,800 --> 02:01:05,300
here. The work lives on. Yeah, thank you all. Appreciate it. All right. With no further,

1432
02:01:05,340 --> 02:01:10,120
yeah, with no further ado, I am going to make a couple of motions related to executive sessions.

1433
02:01:10,540 --> 02:01:17,600
The first one is a motion to move into executive session pursuant to ORC section 121.22G2.

1434
02:01:17,600 --> 02:01:23,140
You can serve the sale or disposition of property. The second is an executive session pursuant

1435
02:01:23,140 --> 02:01:29,400
to RC section 121.22G6 to discuss security arrangements and emergency protocols for the public

1436
02:01:29,400 --> 02:01:33,360
body. Second. Commissioner Dreehouse? Yes.

1437
02:01:33,540 --> 02:01:34,120
Commissioner Dreehouse? Yes.

1438
02:01:34,120 --> 02:01:34,720
Commissioner Dreehouse? Yes.

1439
02:01:35,080 --> 02:01:36,840
Commissioner Dreehouse. Thank you.