Nov 14, 2023 Community Development Commission

YOU CAN FORWARD IT TO US ALL.

BUT, UH, THIS TIME, MS. JOSEPH, IT'S GONNA BE, YOU'RE SPEAKING TO ANYTHING THAT'S NOT ON OUR AGENDA.

UH, WHEN WE DO GET TO ITEM TWO, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, IS THAT CORRECT, THEN WE WILL.

SO YOU CAN STAY PUT.

BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA, THEN WE'LL MOVE FORWARD AND THEN YOU'LL BE READY FOR OUR ITEM TWO ITEM.

IS THAT FAIR? THAT'S FAIR.

I'LL GO AHEAD AND SPEAK MADAM CHAIR TO AN ITEM THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA.

SPECIFICALLY THE HOMELESS, SINCE YOU'RE, THIS IS THE POOR PEOPLE'S COMMISSION IS HOW I ACCOUNT IT.

AND SPECIFICALLY MY CONCERN IS ABOUT THE MONTOPOLIS AREA.

, WHERE THE MAYOR IS ACTUALLY CONCENTRATING POVERTY.

SO AS YOU MAY RECALL, JULY 27TH, 2023 IS WHEN THE MAYOR ACTUALLY ANNOUNCED RECEIVING $65 MILLION FROM TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

AND SPECIFICALLY WHAT HE HAS DONE IS THERE WAS A DEAL THAT WAS MADE WITH THE GOVERNOR.

SO HE WANTS TO PUT 700 MORE INDIVIDUALS NEXT TO CAMP ESPERANZA, WHICH ALREADY HAS 200, UH, HOMELESS PEOPLE THERE, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE FROM THE MARSHALLING YARD, WHICH HAS 300 INDIVIDUALS THERE.

AND ABOUT 0.2 MILES FROM THERE IS ACTUALLY WHERE THERE'S THIS HUGE ENCAMPMENT.

ACTUALLY SPECIFIED FROM APRIL 13TH IS THE EXACT AMOUNT THAT WAS AMENDED IN JULY OF 20 JULY 27TH, 2023.

SO WHEN YOU DO THE MATH, THERE'S OVER 1000 INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL BE CONCENTRATED IN THE AREA OFF OF US 180 3.

AND SO I HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THAT BECAUSE SPECIFICALLY IT'S APRIL 13TH, 2023 WHEN THERE WAS ACTUALLY A TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MEETING.

AND IT WAS NOT TRANSPARENTLY DISCUSSED AS TO WHAT WAS BEING AMENDED.

SO IT'S HO HOME, H-O-M-E-A-R-P, THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN.

SO THIS IS ACTUALLY FEDERAL FUNDS THAT THEY'RE USING TO CONCENTRATE POVERTY.

AND WHAT MAKES IT TRICKY IS BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE THAT ACTUALLY HAS A SLIDE FOR THE, UH, HIGHWAY EXPANSION I 35.

AND SO IT IS BEING COUCHED AS MITIGATION THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU RECOGNIZE THAT I 35 AND US 180 3 IN THE ONTOP, THIS AREA REALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE I 35 EXPANSION.

BUT IF YOU GO TO THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING FOR SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2023, THAT IS WHERE YOU WILL SEE IT ON THE SLIDE.

SO MY RECOMMENDATION TO THIS COMMISSION IS FOR YOU TO ACTUALLY PUT A STATEMENT OUT TO COUNCIL TO ASK FOR AN UPDATE PERHAPS FROM STAFF SO THAT THEY CAN BRIEF YOU ON THIS TEXT OUT EXPANSION.

AND HOW IS IT THAT THE LAND THAT IS BEING GIVEN TO THE CITY IS FOR THAT MITIGATION? AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, IT ACTUALLY IS THE, THE OTHER ONE'S FOUNDATION AND DOWNTOWN AUSTIN ALLIANCE WHO ARE ACTUALLY GETTING THE FUNDING TO DO THIS EXPANSION.

AND LASTLY, WHAT IS TRICKY ABOUT THAT IS IN THE BACKUP MATERIALS FOR TEXAS APARTMENT HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS IS A LIST OF THE DIFFERENT NONPROFITS THAT WERE ACTUALLY ASKED FOR INPUT.

AND NEITHER ONE OF THESE TWO NONPROFITS, AS BEST I COULD TELL, WERE ACTUALLY LISTED THERE.

AND THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT IS

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SO THAT'S A WHOLE LOT.

BUT I JUST HAVE A, A CONCERN BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, IT IS CONCENTRATING POVERTY.

THIS IS NOT AFFIRMATIVELY FUR FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING.

AND SO IT APPEARS TO ME THAT IT WOULD VIOLATE TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, COLOR, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN.

AND I SPECIFICALLY SAY THAT BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT AFRICAN AMERICANS BEING OVER SIX TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HOMELESS THAN THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS, THAN WHEN YOU CONCENTRATE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS, THEN YOU BASICALLY ARE RE CODIFYING THE 1928 CITY PLAN.

, THAT'S IT IN A NUTSHELL.

BUT THAT IS WHAT MY CONCERN IS AS IT RELATES TO POOR PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT, MS. JOSEPH.

ALWAYS, UM, FULL OF KNOWLEDGE.

MM.

UH, HOLD ON ONE SECOND.

WHAT IS THAT? NO.

COMMISSIONERS, DO WE HAVE ANY, UM, ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT? CAN I GO AHEAD AND HAVE MY COM THE COMMISSIONERS GO AHEAD AND ASK QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER IIS HAS A QUESTION.

GO AHEAD.

, TURN YOURSELF GREEN AND TALK.

ALL RIGHT, .

ACTUALLY LEADS THAT PARTICULAR COMMITTEE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING TODAY.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

WHAT IS THE TIMELINE ON YOUR REQUEST FOR A STATEMENT FROM THE COMMISSION? I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE PERHAPS IN THE NEXT MEETING.

AND THE REASON I SAY IT IS BECAUSE AS IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING THE MARSHALING YARD AND YOU'RE FOLLOWING WHAT THE COUNCIL IS DOING, THE MAYOR IS WORKING PRETTY EXPEDITIOUSLY.

AND THIS STARTED, AS I MENTIONED, IN APRIL, THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE JULY.

AND THE MARSHALING YARD IS ACTUALLY IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW.

AND SO I THINK THAT BEFORE THE EXPANSION OCCURS, THEN THERE NEEDS TO AT LEAST BE A PAUSE, OR YOU NEED AT LEAST AN UPDATE SO THAT YOU CAN STATE WHAT YOUR CONCERNS ARE AND THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING AS WELL.

AND SO THAT WILL ACTUALLY PUSH YOUR TIMELINE.

SO THE SOONER YOU CAN GET A STATEMENT TO COUNCIL, THE BETTER.

AND CAN I ASK IF, AND SOMEONE SOMETIME WILL TELL ME IF I'M ASKING THAT ARE OUT OF ORDER? NO, NO, YOU'RE NOT.

KEEP GOING.

UM, SO IF WE WERE TO, SO WOULD THAT BE HANDLED IN AN AGENDA ITEM WE WOULD PUT ON THE NEXT MEETING? MM-HMM.

AND OR AS A SMALL WORK GROUP IN THE INTERIM, A A FEASIBLE OR RECOMMENDED IT WOULD PRO IT WOULD PROBABLY BE SOMETHING ON THE NEXT AGENDA.

AND, UM, WE DO HAVE A WORK GROUP, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT WORK GROUP IS DEALING WITH, UM, WITH, WITH THAT, UM, PARTICULAR ITEM.

SO, UM, IT WOULD BE, BUT WE COULD MOVE TOWARDS A WORK GROUP GOING FORWARD.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS WONDERING.

AND SO WE DON'T DO AD HOC, LIKE SHORT TERM WORK GROUPS FOR, FOR THINGS LIKE THIS TO DISCUSS AND COME WITH A RECOMMENDATION TO THE NEXT.

I, AGAIN, LEARNING NO, NO, YOU'RE FINE.

THIS, THIS, THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.

I ASSURE YOU.

THAT'S EXACTLY, UM, COMMISSIONER ELLIOTS LOOKS LIKE HE IS ABOUT TO CHIME IN ON SOMETHING, SO I'LL LET HIM CHIME IN.

'CAUSE HE MORE THAN LIKELY HAS SOMETHING THAT WILL SATISFY WHAT YOU'RE ASKING.

SO, UM, YES, I'M WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEER FOR THAT WORK WITH MS. JOSEPH AND ANYBODY, ANY OTHER COMMISSIONER? I MEAN, UM, I REPRESENT THE METROPOLIS AREA, AND SO I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M WILLING TO DO THAT.

UM, IF WE, IF WE FEEL LIKE WE NEED A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL, WE CAN DRAFT THAT.

BUT I THINK A DIFFERENT ITEM WOULD ALSO BE AN UPDATE FROM, DID YOU SAY THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT? SO THE CITY HAS A COM, A MOBILITY COMMITTEE, UH, PAGE ELLIS, THE MAYOR PRO TEAM, YES.

AND SO IF YOU GO BACK TO THEIR MEETING MINUTES, AND THERE'S ACTUALLY A TECH DOT BRIEFING, GIVING THEM AN UPDATE ON THE I 35 EXPANSION.

AND THAT IS WHERE I ACTUALLY SAW CAMP ESPERANZA EXPANSION.

AND THEN IF YOU FAST FORWARD, IF YOU GO TO TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, UM, THE JULY 27TH, 2023 BOARD DISCUSSION MENTIONS THAT THE, THE GOVERNOR WAS INVOLVED WITH THE CITY, BUT THERE WAS NO TRANSPARENT DISCUSSION.

SO I PUT AN OPEN RECORDS REQUEST AND CLARIFIED THAT ON FRIDAY.

SO IT, I'LL GLADLY SHARE THE INFORMATION ONCE I GET IT.

BUT IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT BECAUSE, UH, THERE'S A THANK YOU TO STAFF.

AND THE CLARIFICATION THAT I WAS ASKED FOR WAS WHAT STAFF? AND I COULDN'T TELL THEM BECAUSE THE MEDIA DIDN'T SAY WHO THE MAYOR HAD BEEN WORKING WITH ALL THIS TIME.

SO IT'S PRETTY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT'S AN INDUSTRIAL AREA AND THERE IS, UH, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST NO INFORMATION.

AND I WOULD JUST LASTLY CLOSE AND TELL YOU THAT THE PROJECT CONNECT JUNE 6TH, UH, OR, OR THE NOVEMBER 6TH, UH, 2023, UM, LAWSUIT THAT WAS FILED, ACTUALLY MENTIONS THE MOBIL MOBILITY.

THE, THE HUB FOR THE TRAINS WILL

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BE IN, IN THE MONTOPOLIS AREA.

SO INDUSTRIAL, ONCE AGAIN, CENTER BARRIER UNTIL BROUGHT THAT POINT UP THAT IT IS PROBLEMATIC.

SO IT ENCOMPASSES MORE THAN JUST PUTTING PEOPLE THERE.

IT'S LIKE STICKING 'EM OUTTA SIGHT, OUTTA MIND, MUCH LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AT COMMUNITY FIRST VILLAGE, UNFORTUNATELY.

DOES THAT ADDRESS WHAT YOU NEED? I THINK SO.

FOLLOW UP, FOLLOW UP IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

AND SO THE, HOW, HOW DO WE DECIDE IF WE PUT THINGS ON THE, WHAT DID, I WILL FOLLOW.

COMMISSIONER S'S LEAD ON THIS.

COMMISSIONER S HAS SAID THAT HE'S GOING, HE'S WILLING TO, UM, TAKE THE LEAD ON SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

SO, UM, WE'LL GET TO, UM, WE GET TO OUR WORKING GROUP COMMITTEE UPDATES.

UH, AFTER THAT POINT, WE CAN, UM, DISCUSS PUTTING TOGETHER A COMMITTEE THAT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES, UM, WHAT IT IS THAT MS. JOSEPH IS BRINGING TO THE TABLE.

SHE ALWAYS HAS, UM, SOME REALLY, REALLY, UM, GOOD INFORMATION FOR US.

AND SO WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE YOU BEING OUT IN THE FIELD AND REPORTING BACK.

SO, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

COMMISSIONER BROWN, GO AHEAD.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE HEAR YOU.

COME ON.

SO UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S CONCENTRATING POVERTY.

I HAD A QUESTION FOR MS. JOSEPH.

UM, I WAS JUST CURIOUS IN, IN YOUR RESEARCH AND FINDINGS, UM, IS THERE ANY CAMPS OR, UM, RESOURCES OR COMMUNITIES BEING DEVELOPED, UM, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH? I MEAN, AND YOU'LL FIND IS, DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT'S ALL BEEN PUSHED EAST AND, UH, CRAMMED DOWN THE COMMUNITY, UH, THE EAST AUSTIN COMMUNITY TO TAKE CARE OF THIS? THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BROWN.

I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION.

UH, AND RESPECTFULLY, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THE PRO HOUSING GRANT APPLICATION ACTUALLY MENTIONS THAT LESS THAN 10 AFFORDABLE HOMES WERE BUILT IN WEST AUSTIN.

SO THAT, UM, IS A PRETTY, UH, CLEAR INDICATION THAT IT'S, UH, BEING CONCENTRATED ONCE AGAIN IN SOUTHEAST AND NORTHEAST AUSTIN, UH, WHERE THERE'S NO TRANSIT OR THERE'S A LACK OF TRANSPORTATION, 60 MINUTE BUS ROUTES IN NORTHEAST AUSTIN OR IN THE MONTOPOLIS AREA WHERE THE HOMELESS ARE.

IT'S JUST THREE VANS THAT, UH, ARE AT THE MARSHALING YARD.

BUT IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO WORK, THAT'S NOT A RELIABLE WAY TO GET TO WORK EVERY DAY.

AND I WOULD ASK YOU TO TAKE A LOOK, ESPECIALLY AT THE AREA MEDIA INCOME, BECAUSE THAT WILL TELL YOU AS WELL, IF IT'S EAST OF I 35, IT'S 60% AREA MEDIAN INCOME ARE BELOW PREDOMINANTLY.

AND IF IT'S ON THE RAIL LINE, I KNOW ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS MENTIONED THE RAIL LINE EARLIER.

UH, BUT THE HIGHLAND VILLAGE, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY $65,000, BUT THE CITY'S OWN STUDY FROM 2020 SPECIFIES THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS EARN APPROXIMATELY 42,000 AND HISPANICS EARN ABOUT 50,000.

SO, GIVE OR TAKE, THAT NUMBER HAS FLIP FLOPPED.

AT ONE TIME IT WAS AFRICAN AMERICANS 50 AND HISPANICS 40 SOMETHING, BUT IT HAS NEVER REALLY REACHED BEYOND THAT $50,000 THRESHOLD.

SO, UM, THAT IS JUST ANOTHER, UM, INDICATOR THAT SAYS, IF YOU DON'T EARN ENOUGH MONEY, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE IN THE CONCENTRATION, THE CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY.

AND I WILL LASTLY JUST TELL YOU THAT THERE'S A, IN THE LUBY'S AREA IN NORTHWEST AUSTIN, THERE'S ACTUALLY A PRIVATE RESTRICTIVE COVENANT, UM, FROM OCTOBER 14TH ON OR ABOUT 2021, THAT ACTUALLY STATES 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME.

SO SOURCE OF INCOME DISCRIMINATION IS REALLY JUST A PROXY FOR RACE DISCRIMINATION.

SO TO YOUR QUESTION, UH, COMMISSIONER, UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE JUST RE CODIFYING A 1928 PLAN.

AND I CALL IT EQUITY ITIS BECAUSE THE CITY HAS NO PROBLEM SAYING EQUITY ALL THE TIME.

SO I JUST SAY IT'S LIKE INFLAMMATION OF THE MOUTH FROM SAYING EQUITY TOO MUCH.

THANKS FOR THE QUESTION.

ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS COME ON, COMMISSIONER DELGADO .

THANK YOU, MS. JOSEPH.

UM, SO CAN YOU HEAR ME? ARE THESE NEW MICS? MM-HMM MM-HMM.

HMM.

, I'M FEELING A LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE.

UM, SO YOU ANALYZED IT PERFECTLY.

I I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ELSE COULD HAVE, HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER THAN YOU DID.

ABOUT THE MAYOR, WERE YOU TALKING ABOUT, UH, THE NEW LEADERSHIP MAYOR THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW? OR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAYOR ADLER? 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF COUNCIL AND LEADER NOW.

UM, AND SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THE WORK YOU'RE DOING OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY.

UM, I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE WHOLE I 35 EXPANSION AND THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.

AND SO, UM, I DID WANT TO ASK YOU, UH, SINCE YOU ARE FOLLOWING AND, AND YOU'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE UP TO PAR THAN WE ARE, 'CAUSE SOME OF US ARE TRYING, IT'S JUST VERY HARD.

WE HAVE PROJECT CONNECT I 35 EXPANSION, AND THEN, UH, ON TOP OF THAT, EVERYTHING ELSE, UH, WE'RE JUST LOSING EVERY DAY.

UH, THERE'S EITHER A HOUSE OR A BUILDING LOST DAILY.

UM, YOU MENTIONED

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SO WHEN, WHEN YOU SAID THAT, WERE YOU ADDRESSING OUR CURRENT MAYOR? RIGHT.

AND I, I WILL CLARIFY.

SO DECEMBER 8TH, 2022, THAT'S MAYOR ADLER.

SO, UH, THAT'S, THAT WAS HIS LAST MEETING, IF YOU WILL.

AND THAT, UM, SPECIFICALLY TO YOUR QUESTION, THAT IS WHEN COUNCIL ACTUALLY EXERCISED THE EMINENT DOMAIN FOR EAST BREAKER, WHICH IS BEHIND SAMSUNG.

SO, UH, WE JUST VOTED, UH, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THE COUNTY'S BOND, THERE'S ARTERIAL A, WHICH WILL ACTUALLY CONNECT TO THE EAST BREAKER LANE AREA.

SO THAT'S THE OLD MAYOR THAT ACTUALLY EXERCISED THE IMMINENT DOMAIN.

BUT MOVING FORWARD, UH, THE NEW MAYOR, ME OR OUR MAYOR, WHO'S BACK AGAIN, MAYOR KURT WATSON.

, UM, HAS EXERCISED IMMINENT DOMAIN AS WELL, UM, IN THE AREA OFF OF NORTH LAMAR, WHERE THERE'S A, THE, THERE'S A BURGER PLACE ON THE CORNER THERE, WHATABURGER.

SO THAT WAS AN AREA, UM, THAT EXERCISED THEM IN A DOMAIN.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEY USE TRANSIT AS A REASON, A JUSTIFICATION TO EXPAND TRANSIT.

BUT THEY ELIMINATED TWO 40 RUTLAND, WHICH IS RIGHT ADJACENT TO WHERE THIS PARTICULAR WHATABURGER IS.

UM, BUT TO YOUR POINT, AS IT RELATES TO TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR CURRENT MAYOR, UH, WHO ACTUALLY MADE THE DEAL WITH THE GOVERNOR, UM, TO ACTUALLY GET THE $65 MILLION, WHICH WAS NEVER PUBLICLY DISCUSSED.

AND IF YOU LOOK, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ARTICLES.

KXAN HAS AN ARTICLE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT ACTUALLY, UM, WHERE MAYOR KIRK WATSON ACTUALLY THANKS THE STAFF OF TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

AND HE ACTUALLY, IN HIS OWN WORDS, UH, DISCLOSED THAT HE WANTED TO PUT 700 MORE UNITS IN THAT AREA NEXT TO CAMP ESPERANZA.

UH, WHICH IS PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, IT'S AN INDUSTRIAL ZONED AREA.

SO THERE'S NO FOOD, THERE'S JUST THE JDS OR SOMETHING ON A RIVERSIDE, WHICH IS NOT GOING TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE THERE.

BUT THIS IS ALL UNDER OUR CURRENT MAYOR, THE CURRENT REGIME.

UM, AND, AND PART OF THAT IS ACTUALLY MENTIONED IN THE LAWSUIT THAT WAS FILED BY BILL CHAR ON NOVEMBER 6TH, 2023 FOR PROJECT CONNECT, UH, BECAUSE OF THE MISSTATEMENTS TO VOTERS OF AUSTIN.

UM, SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.

THANKS FOR THE QUESTION.

I HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT MM-HMM.

, WE'RE DEALING WITH TWO MAYORAL REGIMES.

AND THE, THE FORMER MAYOR, JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND, UH, THE CONTEXT, THERE'S ACTUALLY A AUSTIN CHRONICLE ARTICLE THAT CALLS PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE MAYORAL BFF.

SO PART OF THAT, UM, INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP, THE FRIENDSHIP AND ALL OF THAT ACTUALLY, IS WHY YOU, YOU MAY WONDER SOMETIMES WHY DOES THE MONEY KEEP FLOWING TO AUSTIN IF IT'S SO BAD? AND PART OF IT IS BECAUSE OF FRIENDSHIPS.

UH, THE COLLEGIALITY, IF YOU WILL, BETWEEN THE FORMER MAYOR ADLER AND PETE BUTTIGIEG, AND ALSO FORMER, UH, CEO OF CAPITAL METRO, RANDY CLARK WAS FRIENDS WITH THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATOR, URI FERNANDEZ.

UH, AND SO THEY LOBBIED, UH, THESE INDIVIDUALS BEFORE PROJECT CONNECT, EVEN PAST, UM, SO THAT'S SORT OF THE BACKSTORY, IF YOU WILL, TO WHY SOME OF THE FUNDING CONTINUES TO FLOW.

AND SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO, TO FIGHT IT BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP.

UM, BUT THE ONE THING I WILL TELL YOU THAT IS CONCRETE IS THAT CAPITAL METRO DID PAY ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS TO BLANK ROME, WHICH IS A LOBBYING FOR FIRM, UH, WHICH ACTUALLY VIOLATES THE CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT.

SO IF YOU REALLY WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING CONCRETE TO POINT TO, YOU COULD ACTUALLY POINT TO, UH, THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR THE LOBBYIST.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. JOSEPH.

YOU'RE THANK YOU'RE WELCOME.

THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

REALLY QUICK CHAIR.

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A WORK GROUP, WE JUST, WE JUST NEED TWO COMMISSIONERS TO VOLUNTEER AND YOU CAN NAME IT.

Y'ALL CAN NAME IT WHATEVER YOU WANT WANT, BUT, OKAY.

UM, AND YOU CAN DO, WE WANNA WAIT, WANNA WAIT TILL YOU GET TO OUR WORKING GROUP, UM, CONVERSATION.

I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW.

JUST NEEDED TWO VOLUNTEERS.

VERY GOOD.

DIRECTLY INTO APPROVAL OF OUR MINUTES FROM OUR OCTOBER 10TH MEETING.

DO I HAVE ANYONE ELSE THAT SIGNED UP ON THE, UM, TO SPEAK? ALL RIGHT.

MOVING FORWARD, THEN WE'RE GONNA GO

[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]

THE ME MINUTES ARE ATTACHED IN OUR PACKET COMMISSIONERS, IF YOU WOULD PERUSE THEM, SEE IF ANYTHING JUMPS OUT AT YOU.

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NOW.

I'M, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING, MEETING MINUTES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND FOR THAT? I SECOND.

UH, COMMISSIONER GARCIA? YEAH.

COMMISSIONER DELGADO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SECONDING.

UM, WITH THAT BEING CASE, WE'LL MOVE FORWARD OUR, LET'S VOTE ON OUR, UM, APPROVAL OF OUR MINUTES.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR HAND OR THOSE ON SCREENS.

IS COMMISSIONER GARCIA GOOD? WE, WE NEED HER CAMERA ON.

YEAH, WE NEED YOUR CAMERA ON.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, .

I SEE HANDS, UH, UNANIMOUS.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS.

ITEMS. ITEM NUMBER TWO, MS. JOSEPH, I THINK WILL BE HERE.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND, AND COMMISSIONER BROWN.

[2. Presentation on the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood Services Unit, Austin Public Health)]

WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY, UM, SERVICES BLOCK GRANT ON, HELL, WE'LL BE PRESENTING, OF COURSE, UH, IF YOU WOULD, UH, COME ON UP.

WHERE IS ON HILL? THERE HE IS.

ALL MM-HMM.

UH, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.

AND WELCOME TO, UH, COMMISSIONER ACHILLES.

I HAVE NOT MET YOU IN PERSON BEFORE.

AM I GOOD? WE JUST LOST QUORUM FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES.

SHE HAS AN EMERGENCY.

COMMISSIONER BROWN AND COMMISSIONER GARCIA, JUST SO THAT YOU KNOW, WE LOST QUORUM JUST FOR A SECOND.

FOR ABOUT, UM, ANYWHERE FROM THREE TO FIVE MINUTES.

UM, WE HOPE TO HAVE BACK MOMENTARILY.

SO AT THIS TIME, WE CAN TAKE A MOMENT AND PERUSE YOUR PACKET.

HELLO.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? THANK YOU.

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QUESTION ABOUT FUTURE BUSINESS OR, I DON'T THINK WE CAN TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YET.

I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THOUGH.

WHAT'S MY TIME CHAIR? UM, WE'RE GONNA GO ON A QUICK RECESS BECAUSE THERE'S STILL BROADCASTING RIGHT NOW ON, UM, ATX IN, RIGHT? YEAH.

SO, WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS, UM, I WAS LOOKING AT THE TIME BECAUSE I WAS ABOUT TO CALL US IN THREE MINUTES.

BECAUSE REALLY GUYS, REALLY, WE, WE, WE, WE, WE, WE JUST CAN'T CONTINUE TO OPERATE LIKE THIS.

WE REALLY CAN'T.

I'M, I'M GETTING WAY TOO OLD FOR THIS.

UM, COME UP HERE AND BE THIS CLOSE THAT IF SOMEONE HAS TO EXCUSE THEMSELVES, WE ALL HAVE HUMAN BODIES.

I'M DOWN WITH THAT.

I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HERE DOES NOT HAVE A NON-HUMAN BODY,

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I DON'T THINK.

BUT THAT'S A, A MOTION TO DO THAT.

OR IS THAT JUST KIND OF THE, THE PROTOCOL OF THE MEETING.

BUT I DO THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ALL NEED TO BE RESPECTFUL OF THE TIME AND, AND GET BACK TO OUR QUALITY OF LIFE.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF GOOD WORK HERE.

SO, YOU KNOW, I DO, I DO WANNA, I WAS HOPING WE CAN GET TO THE HOME INITIATIVE YES.

SO THAT WE REALLY YES.

UH, RECOMMENDATION TO POSTPONE THINGS.

BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN JUST EMAIL.

I MEAN, IF WE CAN READ AND SEND RECOMMENDATIONS IN AN EMAIL AND STILL SEND THAT LETTER, UM, THAT RECOMMENDATION, UH, IMMEDIATELY.

BUT I DO THINK THAT IT, YOU KNOW, IN A MINUTE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET SOME ANSWERS.

I, I THINK THIS IS A LITTLE OKAY.

SO MR. BLAKE, DO WE NEED TO DO AN OFFICIAL RECESS? AND HOW LONG ARE WE DOING THIS RECESS FOR? UM, I WOULD SAY FIVE MINUTES.

SHE'S BEEN GONE FOR WHAT, 10 OR SO? IT'S JUST SO WE CAN STOP THE RECORDING.

UH, 'CAUSE IT'S JUST RECORDING IT, UH, SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW AND NO, NO BUSINESS IS ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, SO, ALRIGHT.

DO I NEED TO MAKE, DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION OR DO YOU CAN DO THAT.

I THINK YOU CAN.

IT'S TOTALLY PREROGATIVE.

WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANT.

YOU WANT ME TO CALL A RECESS OR JUST FOR FIVE MINUTES? YES, PLEASE DO.

OKAY, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE HAVE QUORUM AGAIN, SO, ALL RIGHT.

I'M SORRY.

YES, PLEASE DO RECESS FOR FIVE MINUTES.

RECESS FOR FIVE MINUTES.

I'M SORRY.

MM-HMM, .

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UH, HEL PLEASE.

UM, ITEM NUMBER TWO I THINK IS WHERE YOU ARE.

UH, YES.

CAN YOU HEAR ME BETTER NOW? WE DO.

OKAY, AWESOME.

WELL, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.

UM, IT'S GONNA BE PRETTY SIMPLE REPORT, UH, THIS MONTH.

I'LL JUST START WITH OUR MISSION.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT IMPROVES THE LIVES AND HEALTH OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING POVERTY BY PROVIDING PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES, AND CONNECTING RESIDENTS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY TO COMMUNITY COMMUNITY RESOURCES.

WE ARE ONE OF MANY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES IN TEXAS.

UH, WE PROVIDE BASIC NEEDS SERVICES, PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE SERVICES, CASE MANAGEMENT, AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE ONE, IT'S WHERE OUR BUDGET IS, UH, SO FAR EXPENDITURES TO DATE.

THIS, UH, CONTRACT GOES THROUGH MARCH 31ST, 2024.

IF YOU GO TO PAGE TWO AT THE TOP LAST MONTH, I REPORTED, UH, WE HAD NINE TRANSITIONS.

THAT'S INDIVIDUALS.

WE TRANSITIONED OUT OF POVERTY.

OUR GOAL IS 43.

UH, WE ARE UP TO 18, SO WE'VE GOT NINE MORE.

UH, SINCE I MET WITH YOU ALL, IF YOU GO FURTHER DOWN ON THIS PAGE, OUR COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN AND SOME OF OUR TARGETS THAT ARE FEDERALLY MANDATED, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT TO NUMBER FOUR E.

OUR TARGET WAS 400 HOUSEHOLDS AVOIDING EVICTION FOR THE YEAR.

UH, WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE TO THAT GOAL.

WE DID RUN OUT OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDS FOR A LITTLE WHILE.

UH, SO WE WERE NOT ABLE TO HELP OTHERS.

BUT WE ARE WORKING ON, UH, PROCURING MORE RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDS THROUGH ERA TWO FUNDING.

AND MORE TO COME ON THAT.

I ALSO WANNA FOCUS ON FIVE J AND J OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION.

AGAIN, EVERY MONTH I COME HERE, I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT DUE TO INFLATION AND ALL KINDS OF ISSUES, UNEMPLOYMENT, JUST THE COST OF LIVING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

WE SERVE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK.

SO FAR THIS YEAR, ALMOST 56,230 FOLKS HAVE BEEN ASSISTED OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENTS.

SEVEN, EIGHT IS OUR CASE MANAGEMENT.

134 PEOPLE ARE BEING SERVED TRYING TO REENTER THE WORLD OF WORK, OFFERING COUNSELING SUPPORTS, UM, HELPING THEM WITH CONNECTING THEM TO PLACES LIKE SCALE POINT OR ACC CERTIFICATES FOR EDUCATION.

OUR NURSES ARE BACK AND THEY'RE DOING IMMUNIZATIONS.

I WILL PROVIDE MORE NEXT MONTH.

THEY HAD A NEW NUMBER OF OCTOBER FLU HUBS AT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS.

THOSE ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

UM, EMERGENCY CLOTHING.

WE HAVE A FEW MORE CLOTHING CLOSETS AT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS.

IT SHOWS HERE THAT IT IS A NEED FOR SOME FOLKS.

OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE SERVED AT THOSE, UM, CENTERS, AND A LOT MORE VOLUNTEERS.

AGAIN, KIND OF POST COVID AND LIKE, I'M REALLY HAPPY TO REPORT ALMOST 1300 HOURS OF VOLUNTEER TIME, WHICH IS REALLY HELPFUL FOR US.

AND I THINK ON, IT WAS ON THE NEWS THIS MORNING THAT THE FOOD BANK IS ALSO HURTING FOR VOLUNTEERS.

SO THEY REALLY DEPEND ON VOLUNTEERS AND WE DO TOO TO HELP, UM, PROVIDE SOME OF THESE SERVICES.

AT THE VERY BOTTOM IS THE PROGRAM OUT OF UPDATE.

THIS IS ALWAYS HERE, JUST WHAT WE DO.

FOR SOME OF YOU WHO ARE NEWER, WE OFFER BASIC NEEDS SERVICES, INCLUDING FOOD HELP, EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND COLLABORATION WITH CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, WHO IS OUR FISCAL AGENT.

UH, UTILITY ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE PLUS ONE PROGRAM.

THERE'S MORE ON THE NEXT PAGE ON THAT.

CASE.

MANAGEMENT SERVICES, BUS PASSES, HEALTH SCREENINGS, SEASONAL EVENTS, ET CETERA.

IF YOU CLICK OVER TO PAGE NUMBER THREE, AGAIN, THIS MONTH IS JUST, UH, THE USUAL.

WE DO OUR FRESH FOOD FOR FAMILIES EVENTS.

THEY'VE BEEN VERY WELL ATTENDED.

I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT MARKET NEXT MONTH.

IT'S MORE OF OUR KIND OF FOOD RECOVERY, UH, PROGRAM.

WE'VE SEEN THE NUMBERS REALLY EXPLODE IN THAT AS WELL.

SO PEOPLE GET MORE OF, UH, YOU KNOW, PRODUCE AND FRUITS AND LESS CANNED GOODS.

THAT'S BEEN A REALLY GOOD PROGRAM.

THE HOME DELIVERY PROGRAM CONTINUES TO BE REALLY ROBUST.

I'M REALLY PROUD OF THAT PROGRAM.

IN COLLABORATION WITH, UH, AMAZON AND THE CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK, WE ARE ABLE

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TO DELIVER FOOD TO PEOPLE'S HOMES.

UH, WE JUST KIND OF WENT THROUGH AND STARTED, YOU KNOW, REACHING OUT TO THE FOLKS WHO ARE IN THE PROGRAM IF THEY STILL NEEDED IT OR NOT.

SOME DON'T ANYMORE.

SO THEY'VE BEEN REMOVED AND WE'VE ADDED NEW FOLKS.

SO LAST MONTH, I THINK WE ADDED 90 FAMILIES TO THAT PROGRAM.

UH, COA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, UH, HELPS PEOPLE STAY HOUSED.

UH, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ASSIST 257 PEOPLE THROUGH THAT PROGRAM.

AGAIN, NOT A LOT OF FUNDING, BUT ENOUGH TO HELP THOSE MANY PEOPLE STAY HOUSED.

OUR AUSTIN ENERGY PLUS ONE PROGRAM IS GOING WELL.

WE'RE APPLYING FOR FISCAL YEAR 25 FUNDING ALREADY.

UH, WE'RE HOPING THAT FISCAL YEAR 24 TO HELP A LOT OF FOLKS, UH, KEEP THEIR LIGHTS ON.

AND, UH, NUMBER SEVEN IS SHOUT OUT TO OUR PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING.

THEY PROVIDE A LOT OF FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS, EDUCATION, REFERRALS TO OTHER PROVIDERS, OR FINDING MEDICAL HOMES FOR PEOPLE.

UH, WE'RE REALLY CLOSE TO STANDING UP OUR DIABETES CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SO WE CAN KIND OF TACKLE THAT, UH, RIGHT ON THE GROUND WITH OUR CLIENTS.

AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, REALLY EMPOWERING THEM TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR HEALTH, UH, WITH SOME HELP FROM US.

AND NUMBER EIGHT, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT THE SELF-SUFFICIENCY CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

WE HAVE, UH, SOCIAL WORKERS WHO ARE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT HELPING OUR FOLKS EITHER MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT OR FIND EMPLOYMENT.

WE'RE STARTING TO WORK, UH, AGAIN WITH A SCALE POINT, ACC AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH HARVEST AS A PROGRAM OUT OF THEIR BUILDING.

THAT ALSO HELPS A LOT OF FOLKS, UH, GET CERTIFICATES OR TRAININGS.

THEY'RE REALLY MOTIVATED TO FIND EMPLOYMENT OR TO MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT.

SO WE'RE HOPING TO TAP INTO THOSE PROGRAMS AND HELP THOSE FOLKS TRANSITION OUT OF POVERTY IN 2024.

I THINK THAT'S IT.

WE'RE DOING A LOT OF GOOD WORK.

WE'RE DOING A LOT OF THANKSGIVING EVENTS AS WELL.

UM, UH, CAR SEAT EVENTS, THOSE ARE FREE FOR FAMILIES TO QUALIFY.

WE ARE PILOTING A INFANT CAR SEAT PROGRAM AS WELL WITH ST.

DAVID'S AND SETON.

UH, FOR MOTHERS WHO ARE HOSPITAL HIGH, HAVING BABIES BUT CAN'T AFFORD THE CAR SEAT, THEY CAN'T BE DISCHARGED.

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT UNTIL I WAS RESEARCHING THIS POSSIBILITY FOR US.

SO WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HELP SOME MOMS WHO NEEDED THE CAR SEAT TO BE ABLE TO BE DISCHARGED AND NEEDED DE EDUCATION TO BE ABLE TO PUT IT INCORRECTLY, UM, TO BECOME A SAFE CAR SEAT TECHNICIAN IN 40 HOURS OF TRAINING.

I HAD NO IDEA WHEN I HAD MY CHILDREN, I JUST PUT IT BACK THERE AND THAT WAS ALL.

BUT IT JUST SHOWS YOU THAT IT, IT'S AMAZING WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CAR SEAT SAFETY.

AND WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT FOR YOUNG MOMS AND DADS AND FAMILIES.

SO, HEY, UH, AND THIS COMMISSIONER BROWN, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE HEAR YOU.

I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION.

UM, WHEN Y'ALL DISPERSE RESOURCES LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOOD AND CLOTHES AND, UM, DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY, IS IT MOSTLY DONE WITH CITY STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS FROM THE CITY STAFF? OR IS IT PARTNERED WITH THROUGH NONPROFITS? UM, ARE Y'ALL, UM, IS, IS Y'ALL'S DEPARTMENT FUNDING NONPROFITS DIRECTLY? OR AGAIN, IS IT DONE WITH CITY STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

UM, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT IS CITY STAFF.

SO WE HAVE THOSE SIX NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS AROUND AUSTIN.

LOOKING BACK WHEN THEY WERE BUILT IN THE SEVENTIES, THEY PROBABLY FELT REALLY KIND OF SPREAD OUT.

BUT AS THE CITY GREW, THEIR PRETTY MUCH IN A VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER.

UM, AND IT'S CITY STAFF WHO DO THE WORK, AND WE HAVE VOLUNTEERS WHO HELP US.

UM, DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YEAH, YEAH.

I MEAN, BECAUSE I, I JUST KNOW, LIKE AT GIBBONS RECENTLY, WE JUST HAD A, UH, WE JUST HAD A THANKSGIVING DINNER AND TURKEY GIVE OUT.

AND, AND A LOT OF THE, THE RESOURCES THAT ARE DONE AT GIBBONS IS, IS KIND OF DONE BY NONPROFITS AND, AND THEY RARELY GET FUNDING, UM, THROUGH THE CITY.

UH, SO IF THERE IS TAXPAYER DOLLARS THAT ARE ALREADY DOING THAT WORK OR THAT ARE, UM, I JUST THINK WE, WE MIGHT NEED TO ALIGN THE CITY WITH, YOU KNOW, FACILITY FACILITIES LIKE GIVENS OR MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THOSE NONPROFITS, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A WAY FOR FOR Y'ALL TO HELP THEM OR, AND, AND THEY HELP Y'ALL ACCOMPLISH THAT MISSION, I THINK THAT THAT JUST MIGHT BE, UH, SOMETHING WE NEED TO LOOK INTO.

SO I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR AND SEE, MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE INCLUDING GIVENS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW.

ALL THE CITY OF AUSTIN PARKS AND RECS, UM, THEIR FUNDINGS DO COME FROM, UH, PRIVATE AND DONORS, BUT EVERY RECREATION CENTER ACROSS THE CITY HAS A BUDGET FUNDING FOR EVERY HOLIDAY.

THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.

COMMISSIONER DETA, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING? UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN, I JUST WANTED TO DO A LITTLE CLARIFICATION.

UH, GIVENS, UH, IS, UH, PARKS AND REC.

AND SO THE THANKSGIVING DINNERS THAT THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW,

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SO WE JUST DID OURS AT METS, UH, OR RUDY RODOLFO MENEZ REC NOW 'CAUSE THEY CHANGED THE NAME.

UM, AND DOVE SPRINGS IS DOING THEIR TURKEY DISTRIBUTION AND PAN AM IS DOING THEIRS THIS SATURDAY.

BUT JUST SO YOU'LL KNOW, THAT IS, COMES OUT OF THE PARK'S BUDGET, NOT AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH, JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT.

OH YEAH, NO, I, I'M, I'M FAMILIAR, BUT I, I DON'T THINK, I MEAN, THE, THE GIVENS DIDN'T, DIDN'T PAY FOR ANYTHING.

I MEAN, THESE WERE NONPROFITS THAT CAME IN AND, AND USED THE FACILITY TO, TO DISPERSE, YOU KNOW, FOOD AND, AND RESOURCES.

BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING AGAIN, IF THE CITY HAS ACTUAL FUNDS AND, AND DIFFERENT THINGS AVAILABLE OR PROGRAMS AVAILABLE AND GETTING THEM AT GIBBONS WOULD, WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT I LIKE TO SEE.

BUT NO, I DON'T GIVENS IN THE, THE BUDGET.

THEY DIDN'T SPEND ANY MONEY.

THAT'S NICE TO KNOW.

THANKS.

ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS? YES.

COMMISSIONER ELLIOTS.

CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE CAR SEAT PROGRAM AND HOW THAT WORKS? UM, DO, DO YOU WORK WITHIN THE HOSPITAL OR DO, DO PEOPLE CALL AND ASK FOR THAT SERVICE? OR I CAN SEND YOU ALL THE FLYER FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER CAR SEAT.

WE HAVE EIGHT A YEAR, SO ONE OF EVERY MONTH EXCEPT FOR PERFORMANCE.

AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS.

SO THERE'S GONNA BE ONE ON FRIDAY AT, UM, MAYBE SOUTH, BUT IT'S ALREADY BOOKED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CALL.

BUT I'LL SEND YOU THE INFORMATION AND IF YOU HAVE CONSTITUENTS OR YOU WANNA SPREAD THE WORD, UH, WE HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES.

BUT DEFINITELY THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT.

AND HOW ABOUT THE PROGRAM WITH, UH, THE NEW MOTHERS? THAT'S THROUGH FAMILY CONNECT.

SO THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC.

YOU HAVE SOMETHING ONED.

THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT.

I DID WANNA, UH, ASK YOU A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

UM, SO FOR THANKSGIVING THROUGH AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH, THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, WHICH ARE NOT THE RECS, BUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, ROSEWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, UH, OSA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, UM, I THINK THERE'S A EAST, EAST SECOND NEIGHBORHOOD.

UH, ARE ANY OF THOSE GONNA BE GIVEN OUT TURKEYS, UH, DISTRIBUTION BOXES FOR FAMILIES TO TAKE THAT HOME? UH, ARE Y'ALL GONNA BE DOING ANY TURKEY DRIVES? YES.

YOU ARE? OKAY.

HAS THAT ALREADY BEEN PUT OUT THERE? THAT'S ALREADY BEEN PUT OUT THERE.

THROUGH THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALSO THROUGH LISTERV.

I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.

SO IF YOU COULD, I'LL SEND, YOU COULD SEND IT TO US SO WE CAN DISTRIBUTE THAT.

'CAUSE LIKE I SAID, I ONLY FOLLOW WHAT THE PARKS DO.

AS FAR AS DISTRIBUTION, UM, AND PRIVATE AND NONPROFITS.

BUT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH.

, I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU ALL WERE DOING THAT FOR THIS CASE.

I'LL SEND IT TO ALL OF YOU.

THERE'S GONNA BE ONE ON SATURDAY AT ROSE.

SOME PEOPLE EAT TURKEYS.

ANOTHER QUESTION WAS, UM, FOR THE COATS FOR KIDS, I SEE THAT THE DRIVE IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DONATING.

ARE YOU ALL GONNA PARTNER WITH THEM OR HOW ARE Y'ALL GONNA, ARE Y'ALL GONNA HAVE YOUR OWN COATS FOR KIDS AT THESE CENTERS? 'CAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A BIG NEED FOR COATS.

THOSE ARE TWO QUESTIONS.

GOOD QUESTION TOO.

THAT WE DO PARTNER WITH COATS FOR KIDS.

SO WHAT WE DO IS THEY DO THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND THEN WE GO AND PICK UP SOME OF THAT SELECTION AND BRING IT BACK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS AND THEN ADVERTISE.

SO ONCE WE GET THAT GOING, I CAN SEND THAT TO YOU TOO.

OH, AND ONE MORE QUESTION.

BROWN SANTA AND BLUE SANTA, DO THEY COME TO THE REC, I MEAN THE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OR DO Y'ALL HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT? WE USED TO, BUT THEN THEY WENT ON THEIR OWN YEAH.

TO THEIR OWN PORTAL AND IT ALREADY CLOSED.

SO THEY WERE OPEN TILL ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

AND THEN BLUE SANTA AT LEAST, UH, IS DONE TAKING APPLICATIONS.

SO BLUE SANTA'S CURRENTLY TAKING APPLICATIONS? IT'S NOT, OH, THEY STOPPED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

SO NO BROWN SANTA'S TAKING APPS? I DON'T KNOW ABOUT BROWN SANTA, BUT BLUE SANTA'S NOT.

UM, I'M GONNA FOLLOW UP ON THAT QUESTION ABOUT THE TURKEYS.

IS THAT AN EVENT OR IS THAT A SIGN UP AND PEOPLE PICK UP? THE ONE SATURDAY IS AN EVENT.

SO THAT WAS PUT OUT ON THE LIST OF TODAY.

I'LL SEND IT TO YOU TOO.

SO THAT IS ANYBODY CAN COME MM-HMM.

AS YOU KNOW, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST OKAY.

KIND OF THING.

IN, IN WHAT CENTER WILL THAT BE? OR IS THAT GONNA BE AT ALL DISTRIBUTION CENTERS? THAT WILL BE AT THE ROSA OSA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ON 2,800 WEAVERVILLE ROAD ON SATURDAY.

BUT I'LL SEND YOU ALL THE INFORMATION AFTER THIS MEETING OR TOMORROW MORNING.

SATURDAY IS THREE THINGS HAPPENING, UH, IN AUSTIN.

SATURDAY WE HAVE THREE.

SO JUST SO YOU KNOW, THIS

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WE HAVE A TURKEY DISTRIBUTION AT THE DOVE SPRINGS, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER.

OUR PARKS CENTER, I DON'T KNOW, THEY'RE LIKE COMBINED IN ONE.

AND THEN IT'S SAYS SUPPLIES LAST.

DRIVE-THROUGH PANAM.

YOU GET A FREE HOT MEAL, UH, ONE, ONE MEAL PER, UM, PERSON NO.

TO GO PLATES.

UM, AT PAN AM ON EAST THIRD STREET, AND THEN NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE AT SARATA.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE OTHER TWO.

ANYTHING ELSE? COMMISSIONERS.

ON HILL.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REPORT.

UM, YOU ARE, UM, EXCUSED.

WE HAVE UP NEXT IS OUR MEALS ON WHEELS.

I DO BELIEVE.

MR. BRIAN SYKES, THANK YOU FOR, FOR BEING HERE.

AND WE DO HAVE YOUR INFORMATION IN OUR PACKET COMMISSIONERS.

THERE IS SOME INFORMATION THAT IS INCLUDED IN OUR PACKET.

PLEASE PROCEED.

GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR COUNSEL.

GOOD EVENING.

AS YOU KNOW, I'M BRIAN SYKES, UH, THE VP FOR HOME REPAIR AT MILLS AND WHEELS, CENTRAL TEXAS.

OH, UM, HOLD ON ONE MOMENT.

DID I HAVE MS. JOSEPH ON ITEM ON ITEM TWO? YEAH.

I JUST REALIZED, I'M SORRY, Y'ALL, I'M SORRY.

I HAD MS. JOSEPH ON ITEM TWO.

MS. JOSEPH, DID YOU NEED TO COME COMMENT ON THE, THE BLOCK GRANT? UH, STAY STAY THERE MR. BRIAN.

I'M SORRY, MS. JOSEPH.

THAT'S MY APOLOGY.

UM, PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY.

THAT'S MY BAD.

I WAS TRYING TO RUN THROUGH THE AGENDA.

YOU HAVE YOUR CLASSIC THREE MINUTES FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO, PLEASE.

MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS.

I'M OPIA JOSEPH, I WILL JUST READ FROM THE SCREEN, UH, BECAUSE IT'S THE US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY INFORMATION.

AND ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT I HAVE IS ON UH, NOVEMBER 2ND, ITEM 20 COUNCIL ACTUALLY RECEIVED $4.37 MILLION, SPECIFICALLY ALLOCATED TO THE AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS FOR EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE.

AND THE US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY SPECIFIES FOR ERA ONE TREASURY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES GRANTEES TO PROVIDE AN OPTION FOR TENANTS TO APPLY DIRECTLY FOR FUNDING RATHER THAN ONLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE FROM LANDLORDS AND OWNERS OF DWELLINGS.

AND THEN FOR ERA TWO, EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE, TWO GRANTEES ARE REQUIRED TO ALLOW TENANTS TO APPLY DIRECTLY FOR ASSISTANCE EVEN IF THE LANDLORD OR OWNER CHOOSES NOT TO PARTICIPATE CONSISTENT WITH THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENT FOR THE FUNDS TO BE USED TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS.

AND SO THAT IS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE WAY THAT THE INDIVIDUALS GET RENTAL ASSISTANCE NOW IS YOU CALL ON MONDAY, AS I'VE EXPLAINED BEFORE, MM-HMM.

AND YOU MAY OR MAY NOT GET THROUGH.

AND EVEN IF YOU DO GET THROUGH, AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH HAS NOT ACTUALLY AMENDED THEIR RULES TO ENSURE THAT THE TENANT CAN GET THE MONEY.

AND THEY ARE USING EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING FROM US TREASURY.

IT'S SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN THE BACKUP MATERIAL.

AND SO I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT, UM, THE, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU COULD MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL AND USE THE LANGUAGE, UM, FROM TREASURY.

THIS IS QUESTION 12 AND QUESTION 30.

AND THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND SPECIFICALLY ASK THEM TO AMEND THE RULES.

BECAUSE IF YOU'RE IN A CONTENTIOUS BATTLE WITH A LANDLORD WHO DOES NOT WANT TO RECEIVE THE RENT, IT ACTUALLY WILL FORECLOSE INDIVIDUALS' RIGHTS TO ACTUALLY, UM, GO THROUGH THE EVICTION PROCESS AS IT RELATES TO THE APPEALS.

BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T GET THE MONEY AND THE LANDLORD REFUSES TO TAKE IT, THEN THAT INDIVIDUAL WILL END UP HOMELESS.

MAYBE YEARS AGO, IT WAS GRASS AND THAT WAS NORTH OF THE CITY.

BUT THE TREASURY RECOGNIZES THAT AS A BARRIER.

UH, THE OTHER BARRIER THAT I WOULD MENTION, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT TRANSPORTATION IS MENTIONED IN BASIC NEEDS, ON PAGE ONE OF FOUR IN THE PRESENTATION YOU JUST RECEIVED, I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT LAKELINE STATION, IT IS APPROXIMATELY ONE AND A HALF HOURS TO GET JUST TO NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER.

AND THAT'S IF THE BUS IS RUNNING ON TIME WITH NO DELAYS, THAT DOES NOT COUNT THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT YOU'RE WAITING AT THE BUS STOP.

SO YOU REALLY HAVE TO CONSIDER THAT'S A TWO HOUR TRICK.

AND THEN THE PERSON HAS TO TRANSFER TWICE TO THE 8 0 1 OR THE ONE, AND THEN THEY HAVE TO TRANSFER TO THE 300, WHICH SOMETIMES RUNS 15 MINUTES AND SOMETIMES IT'S 30 MINUTES.

AND THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF EXCUSES THAT CAPITAL METRO GIVES.

BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THE BARRIER AND THE NEED FOR THERE TO BE SOME TYPE OF SATELLITE.

UM, EITHER A CENTER OR SOMETHING NORTH OF US.

180 3, AS A**L MENTIONED, UM, DURING THIS PRESENTATION,

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BUT NOW IT IS A BARRIER, UM, TO EVEN GET THE TURKEY, UM, JUST TO GET BASIC NEEDS, UM, IF YOU LIVE NORTH OF US 180 3, BECAUSE THE CLOSEST SITE IS ACTUALLY ST.

JOHN'S.

AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GO AHEAD AND ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME.

UM, ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER? OFF THE TOP.

EVERYTHING.

UM, MS. JOSEPH, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

UM, YOU, THAT'S WAS THE INFORMATION THAT WAS SENT TO US AS WELL.

CORRECT? SO THE ONE PAGE JUST HAS THAT LANGUAGE FROM TREASURY AND I REFERENCED THE THREE STAFF MEMBERS THAT I ACTUALLY SPOKE WITH, UH, JUANITA JACKSON.

THEN THERE WAS, UH, THE LA FUENTE IS HER NAME.

LAURA, WHO'S THE ASSISTANT, UH, DIRECTOR OF AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH.

AND THEN THERE'S ONE OTHER LADY, UM, AND I DON'T KNOW HER PERSONALLY, BUT, UH, SARAH ROBERTSON MM-HMM.

WHO MENTIONED THAT THE FUNDING WOULD BE AVAILABLE THIS PAST YESTERDAY.

SO MONDAY MM-HMM.

UM, BUT IT'S NOT.

AND SO I JUST THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, EXPEDIENCE, IF YOU WILL, TO GETTING PEOPLE, UM, TO REMAIN HOUSED BECAUSE THE FUNDING IS IN FACT THERE.

BU SAMARI HAS THE FUNDING AS WELL.

HOWEVER, YOU HAVE TO HAVE LEGAL AID.

THEY'RE THE FISCAL AGENT.

THE URBAN LEAGUE IS THE FISCAL AGENT.

AND SO IT, THE INDIVIDUALS CAN'T JUST GO AND, AND APPLY FOR THESE FUNDS, BUT THE MONEY IS THERE.

AND, UM, I WOULD JUST, I, MY LAST COMMENT, MADAM CHAIR, JUST SO YOU KNOW, WHERE I'M COMING FROM, IS THAT THERE WAS A $2.9 MILLION SOLE SOURCE NO BID CONTRACT GIVEN A JOYCE JAMES FOR EQUITY.

UM, AND I JUST USE THAT AS A, AN EXAMPLE TO SAY, WHEN COUNCIL WANTS TO GIVE MONEY, THEY GIVE IT.

AND FOR THE MUSICIANS DURING THE PANDEMIC, THEY GAVE $2,000 GRANTS.

AND SO THIS, THESE ARE A BUNCH OF HOOPS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO PAY THE RENT LESS THAN $2,000.

AND SO IF WE'RE GOING TO BE THAT WAY FOR MUSICIANS, THEN UM, I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO ADVOCATE FOR THE POOR FOR $1,500 IS PROBABLY THE AVERAGE THAT MANY OF THESE FAMILIES NEED LESS THAN 2000.

SO JUST TO BE FAIR AND EQUITABLE.

TO PULL YOU, UM, JERK YOUR CHAIN LIKE THAT.

, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I APPRECIATE IT.

I'M SORRY THAT I DIDN'T CALL ON YOU UP ON HILL, WAS THERE, BUT I'LL, WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH THAT.

NO PROBLEM.

THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR FOR A LONG THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH.

UM, MR. SYKES, I'M SORRY

[3. Presentation and discussion from Meals on Wheels & More, Inc. (Bryan Sykes) ]

MY APOLOGIES.

THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

GOOD EVENING.

UM, AGAIN, I'M BRIAN SYKES.

I'M THE VP FOR HOME REPAIR AT MILLS ON WHEELS, CENTRAL TEXAS, UM, IN FRONT OF YOU.

I GUESS YOU MIGHT WANT TO, IT'S ACTUALLY ON SCREEN.

I'M SORRY, IT'S ON SCREEN.

UM, WELL, I WAS GONNA SEE IF YOU CAN GO TO THE SECOND PAGE, BUT ON THE SECOND PAGE, YOU CAN SEE WE'VE ADMINISTERED NINE PROGRAMS, UH, FIVE OF WHICH THE CITY, THE CITY GO REPAIR CITY, ABR CITY PRIVATE LATERAL PROGRAM, THE CITY PLUMBING AND THE, AND THE NEW CITY MINOR HOME REPAIR, WHICH WE JUST RECEIVED THIS FISCAL YEAR.

WE ALSO HAVE THE TEXAS VETERAN COMMISSION, THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION, UH, AREA AGENCY ON AGING.

AND THE STATE ABR PROGRAM.

TO THE RIGHT OF THAT IS THE, IS THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE COMPLETED WITH THESE PROGRAMS SINCE, UH, FISCAL YEARS 22.

UH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TVC.

THAT ONE ACTUALLY STARTED.

IT'S, IT'S A FUNNY FISCAL YEAR.

IT GOES FROM JULY TO JUNE.

SO THAT ONE WILL BE GOING ON ON THROUGH THIS COMING JUNE.

UM, AND THEN TO THE RIGHT OF THAT, Y'ALL, WE HAVE OUR WAITING LIST, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE PROGRAMS THAT WE ADMINISTER.

AND THEN THERE'S THE, YOU KNOW, THE PAGES BEHIND THAT IS JUST SOME OF THE PICTURES OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, UM, AND WITH OUR VETERAN PROGRAMS, YOU KNOW, WITH TVC, WE CAN GO AROUND, I THINK THE SURROUNDING SEVEN COUNTIES, HDF WILL ALLOW US TO GO PRETTY MUCH STATEWIDE.

UH, WE HAVE DONE WORK IN CORPUS.

I DID JUST FINISHED A JOB IN RAYMONDVILLE.

UH, WE TRY TO AVOID THAT, YOU KNOW, IT JUST KIND OF MAKES IT DIFFICULT.

BUT, UH, BUT WE HAVE, WELL, MR. SYKES, WE DO APPRECIATE YOU COMING.

I DO BELIEVE COMMISSIONER DEL GALLO, YOU HAD A CUS QUESTION OR TWO REGARDING THE MILLS ON WHEELS.

UM, MM-HMM.

UM, THANK YOU FOR COMING AND, AND GIVING US THIS PRESENTATION.

UM, HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE Y'ALL COME TO OUR COMMISSION? DO YOU RECALL?

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OH GOSH.

UM, I KNOW CHARLES WOULD DO 'EM PREVIOUSLY, BUT I CAN HONESTLY SAY IT'S PROBABLY BEEN SINCE BEFORE COVID.

I THINK IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WHILE.

UM, SO JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, CHARLES, UH, KLOTMAN MM-HMM.

, UH, WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY LEADER YES.

AT MILLS ON WHEELS, AND HE'S VERY, VERY MISSED.

UM, I DON'T KNOW WHO TOOK HIS POSITION.

I DID.

SO, UH, WELCOME.

THANK YOU TO THE POSITION.

I, I DO WANT, UH, JUST TO KIND OF ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PARTNERSHIP WITH MILLS ON WHEELS WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY, AND, AND I'LL JUST SPEAK OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, AND I KNOW YOU ARE DOING GREAT WORK ACROSS THE STATE AND THANK Y'ALL FOR ALL THAT WORK.

UM, BUT I KNOW THAT THIS COMMISSION IS, IS ONLY, UM, RESPONSIBLE AND HERE TO, UM, TO OVERSIGHT AUSTIN.

RIGHT.

UM, SO I KNOW IN THE PAST, MEALS ON WHEELS WAS VERY, VERY PROACTIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF CHARLES.

I KNOW, UH, ESPECIALLY IN MY DISTRICT AND IN MY AREA.

UM, THE DEMOGRAPHIC AREA OF 7 8, 7 0 2, UH, WE'RE MILLS AND WILLS IS HOUSED.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

WE DO A LOT OF WORK THERE.

WE STILL DO.

SO, UM, I DID GET A LOT OF CONCERNS, A LOT OF CALLS, UM, AND I WANNA SAY IT'S BEEN ABOUT A YEAR I'VE BEEN TRYING TO BRING SOME OF MY, UM, CONCERNS TO THE BOARD AND BRING THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE RECEIVING FEDERAL FUNDS AND FUNDING FROM OUR CITY, UM, THAT OVERSEES ANY TYPE OF HOUSING GRANTS OR ANYTHING TO COME TO US AND GIVE US AN UPDATE AND LET, LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

SO I'M NOT HERE TO JUST PICK ON MILLS AND WHEELS.

I'VE BEEN DOING THIS TO EVERY AGENCY, UM, THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM IN A WHILE.

UM, THE CONCERNS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP, UH, FROM CONSTITUENTS OF MILLS ON WHEELS WAS A LONG WAITING LIST.

UM, AND I, I HADN'T, YOU KNOW, REALLY FOLLOWED UP WITH YOU ALL ON WHAT TYPE OF RELIEF YOU ARE, ARE GIVING, UH, PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE WAITING LIST AND HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN ON THE WAITING LIST.

UH, SO THAT'S A, A QUESTION THAT I HAVE FOR YOU TODAY.

ANOTHER QUESTION I HAVE FOR YOU IS, PEOPLE THAT HAVE RECEIVED HOME REPAIR FUNDS IN THE PAST THROUGH MILLS ON WHEELS, UM, WHERE IS THE, THE, UM, I GUESS YOU CAN SAY, WHERE IS IT WHERE I CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE ONLY ALLOWED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FUNDING PER HOME? UH, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF YEARS? UH, IT IS, IT, IT, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL CITY PROGRAMS OR CITY GRANTS.

UM, IF, IF THEY WERE THERE THIS PAST YEAR, THEN WE CAN'T GO STARTING, IT'D BE WHAT, JANUARY OF 2027, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

IT CAN'T GO BACK FOR THREE YEARS.

AND IT'S THE MAX, YOU KNOW, THE MAX IS PER GRANT, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHAT IT IS, 20, 20,000 FOR GO REPAIR, I THINK 20,000 FOR CITY ABR.

BUT THERE IS A, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING WHERE YOU FALL AT IN THAT FISCAL YEAR, THE CLOCK DOESN'T START TILL OCTOBER, ONE OF THAT FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR, THREE YEARS.

AND SO IT, IT COULD BE A LITTLE, SO IT'S EVERY THREE YEAR THEY'RE ABLE TO GET GRANT MONEY.

BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.

AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SERVED SO MANY CLIENTS IN THE OH TWO ZIP CODE THAT, I MEAN, WE PUT CLOSE TO 60, 70 GRAND IN A LOT OF THESE HOUSES AND BACK.

WE USED TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK EVERY YEAR.

UM, AND SO WE DO, WE HAVE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF PUSHBACK BECAUSE THEY, A LOT OF 'EM BECOME REGULARS AND, UH, WHICH I HATE TO USE THAT WORD, BUT THERE'S STILL SO MANY CLIENTS THAT WE HAVE NOT SERVED, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES WE WOULD LIKE TO SERVE.

UM, FIRST, YOU KNOW, SO YOU ALL DO WHAT, WHAT, SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE CLARIFYING THIS SO WE CAN ALL KNOW.

SO IT'S A EVERY THREE YEAR THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO REAPPLY CORRECT.

FOR SERVICES AFTER THEY RECEIVE SERVICES AND THEY'RE ELIGIBLE.

UM, NUMBER TWO, UH, YOU ALL ARE PRIORITIZING THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN SERVED.

UH, COMPARED TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SERVED.

UM, ANOTHER QUESTION IS, WHEN, WHEN IT COMES TO HOME REPAIRS, WHAT IS YOUR MAXIMUM THAT YOU'RE HELPING THESE INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR HOMES? WE'D LIKE TO TAKE THE HOLISTIC APPROACH, JUST LIKE CHARLES.

I, I'VE HAD THE LUXURY OF WORKING BEHIND CHARLES FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.

10 PLUS.

WELL, HE RETIRED OCTOBER ONE OF LET, AND HE TAUGHT YOU.

WELL, THANK YOU.

ABLE TO RECEIVE PER HOME IS 50,000? NOT, NO.

WELL, IT'S NOT QUITE 10 YEARS, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I I'VE BEEN IN HIS FOOTSTEPS OF, YOU KNOW, FOR A LONG TIME AND, AND, AND EVERYTHING THAT CHARLES WAS ABOUT, I BELIEVE IN.

AND I WILL, I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO CONTINUE THAT WITH CHARLES.

I GET EMOTIONAL TALKING ABOUT CHARLES.

I LOVE HIM.

I LOVE HIM TOO.

BUT, UM, BUT YEAH, THAT'S OUR GOAL.

WE WANT TO, WE WANT TO KEEP IT HERE AND HELP OUR PEOPLE IN TOWN.

SO THE MAXIMUM OF FUNDING THAT THEY'RE

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IF THEY, IF THEY QUALIFY FOR ALL OF THESE, I CAN PUT, I MEAN, I CAN GO UP TO 20,000 WITH HDFI CAN GO WITH 20,000.

SO I CAN PUT A HUNDRED PLUS THOUSAND IF THEY QUALIFY FOR EVERYTHING.

JUST, JUST WANTING, JUST GETTING QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

UM, ANOTHER, ANOTHER QUESTION IS, UM, BECAUSE THE HOME REPAIR PROGRAM IS SO MUCH NEEDED, HOW ARE YOU ALL, UH, OFFICIATING, UH, AGE, UM, HOMEOWNERS THAT HAVE BEEN LONGTIME NATIVES? UM, INCOME BRACKET? MM-HMM.

, UM, AS WELL AS FAMILIES.

SO HOW DO, I DON'T SEE THAT LIKE IN, IN THIS PRESENTATION, BUT I KNOW YOU ALL KEEP TRACK OF LIKE, OH, WE'RE SERVING, YOU KNOW, UH, AGES, UH, ELDERS FROM THE AGE OF 55, 70.

I WOULD SAY, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY 80% OF OUR CLIENTS ARE, OR 60 PLUS.

WE, WE, WE DON'T SEE A WHOLE LOT OF YOUNGER LOW INCOME FAMILIES.

UM, YOU KNOW, I HATE TO SAY THAT UNFORTUNATELY, BUT MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD THING, YOU KNOW.

UM, BUT YEAH, I WOULD SAY AT LEAST 80% OF OUR CLIENTS ARE ELDERLY.

AND THEN ALSO NATIVES OF AUSTIN FOR SURE.

ARE Y'ALL WORKING ON HOMES THAT ARE NOT NEW HOMES? THAT ARE HOMES THAT ARE, THAT NEED HABITAT, THAT NEED RESTORATION? RIGHT.

WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO GO IN AND REMODEL JUST TO, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE THE COLOR OF SOMETHING.

THESE ARE, THESE ARE OLDER HOMES.

UH, YEAH.

WE, I I WOULD SAY 80, YOU KNOW, PRE 1980 OR 1980S OR BELOW.

IT'S, IT'S VERY SELDOM WE SEE ANY FROM 19, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE TWO THOUSANDS OR ANYTHING NEWER LIKE THAT.

UM, THERE ARE A FEW.

UM, BUT YOU KNOW, EVEN IN 1990 OR 2000, THAT'S A 20 PLUS YEAR OLD HOME AND THEY HAVE TO QUALIFY.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

OH, FOR SURE.

WHAT'S THE INCOME BRACKET? 80% BRACKET.

BRACKET, MFI.

SO THEY GOTTA MAKE 80,000 FOR ONE OR TWO, I THINK.

I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT HIGH.

IT'S LIKE 60, I THINK 65.

HE, HE MEANT HE MEANT 80%.

OH, MFI, MFI.

MEDIUM FAMILY COMPANY.

SO, UM, YOU HAVE A BRACKET OF FOR SURE OF FAMILIES OF HOUSEHOLDS, RIGHT? CORRECT.

OF HOW MANY CAN, AND THEN YOU ALL QUALIFY THEM.

AND, AND, AND IT JUST REALLY INTERESTS ME BECAUSE IN MY AREA WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF HOUSE FLIPPING RIGHT NOW.

UM, AND THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, PEOPLE THAT NEED HOME REPAIRS.

UH, ESPECIALLY IN THE MONTAS AREA.

UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO SEE EXACTLY HOW YOU ARE, ARE PRIORITIZING THOSE HOME.

WELL, WE TRY TO AVOID THOSE AT ALL COSTS REALLY.

'CAUSE THE LAST THING I WANNA DO IS NO PRI I I'M ASKING PRIORITIZE THE HOMES THAT ARE NEEDED VERSUS THE HOMES THAT ARE NOT NEEDED.

I I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE JUST APPLY, UM, BECAUSE THEY WANT A NEW ROOF AND, YOU KNOW, THEY THINK THEY'RE GONNA GET IT VERSUS SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN ON THE WAITING LIST.

HOW DO YOU, I MEAN, DO YOU WELL, THE, THE WAITING LIST IS KIND OF, KIND OF TOUGH BECAUSE IT ALSO IS A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE TYPE DEAL.

UM, YOU KNOW, AS, AS MUCH AS WE TRY TO GET, YOU KNOW, OUR CLIENTS TO TURN IN THINGS FASTER, IT STILL TAKES 'EM A WHILE.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL HAVE LOOKED AT THE CITY OF AUSTIN APPLICATION FOR HOME REPAIR.

IT'S REALLY NOT THAT BAD, BUT IT'S PRETTY THICK AND IT CAN GET, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SCARE SOME PEOPLE.

UM, YOU KNOW, AND SO WHEN, WHEN THEY SEE THAT THICK PACKET, YOU KNOW, SO, BUT WE TOO, I DO TRY TO GET MY, MY INTAKE TEAM OR MY QUAL UM, UH, PROGRAM MANAGERS TO, TO GO OUT AND HELP, BUT IT'S STILL, THEY STILL GOTTA FIND THE BANK STATEMENTS OR, OR, YOU KNOW, UH, SOCIAL SECURITY AWARD LETTERS STILL, STUFF LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, SO IT, IT TAKES TIME.

AND SO, AND WE CAN'T JUST LOG ONTO THEIR ACCOUNTS AND PULL THAT INFORMATION.

SO WE REALLY NEED THEM TO KIND OF DO THEIR THING TO GET THAT FOR US.

AND YOU HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THAT, OR SOMEBODY GOING OUT TO THE HOME YES.

AND ASSISTING? WE, YES.

WE TRY.

BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT THAT WAS ALWAYS A BARRIER, UM, WITH ELDERS, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE THAT WERE COMPUTER ILLITERATE.

RIGHT.

PEOPLE THAT WERE, DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET A BANK STATEMENT FROM ONLINE.

ESPECIALLY IN MY DAYS, IT'S PRETTY HARD.

AND SO I DID NOTICE THAT THERE WAS A GAP, AND, AND I DID SEE CHARLES TRYING TO FIX THAT BEFORE HE LEFT.

FOR I THINK SIX MONTHS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT I, I DON'T SEE MILL, I MEAN, MILLS ON WHEELS COMES AND DELIVERS MY DAD MILL, YOU KNOW? RIGHT.

SO YOU'RE DOING GREAT WITH DELIVERING MILLS, BUT I JUST HADN'T REALLY SEEN THE HOME REPAIR ACTUALLY COME OUT TO NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS OR, YOU KNOW, UM, EVENTS OR, YOU KNOW, POP UP AND SAY, HEY, I'M MILLS ON WHEELS.

WE'RE DOING A GO REPAIR.

I HAVEN'T REALLY SEEN THAT.

WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S MY FAULT, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T REALLY SEEN ANY OF THAT ACROSS, COME ACROSS LIKE MY EMAIL OR ANYTHING SENT TO ME PERSONALLY.

I DO NOT RECEIVE, I'VE ONLY, YOU KNOW, I ONLY RECEIVED CHARLES' EMAILS

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AND SO, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, I WOULD LOVE TO, OR ED CAN SHARE MY EMAIL ADDRESS IN CASE THINGS LIKE THAT DO POP UP TO WHERE WE CAN GET MORE INVOLVED.

BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M, I WAS NOT AWARE OF THEM THAT, THAT OR ANY THAT WE'VE MISSED.

SO I DO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.

I JUST, UM, UH, ONE OF MY BIGGEST THING IS THAT, IS I SEE THAT YOU HAVE A, A BIG NEED.

IT, IT SHOWS HERE IS THAT 236 PEOPLE WAITING.

AND, AND THAT KIND OF SCARES ME THAT PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR LIKE A ROOF OR PLUMBING OR THINGS LIKE THAT.

EXACTLY.

BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO DO IT, YOU KNOW? WELL, LAST YEAR WE DIDN'T RECEIVE FUNDING UNTIL, I THINK IT WAS THE END OF THIS PAST MARCH, AND I WANNA SAY BY JULY, THE MONEY WAS ALL ALLOCATED AND PRETTY MUCH SPENT UP.

SO IT TURNED A 12 MONTH PROGRAM INTO A FIVE MONTH PROGRAM.

SO WITHOUT EXTRA FUNDING TO HELP US CONTINUE TO MAKE IT A 12 MONTH PROGRAM, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT'S A BIG PROBLEM THERE TOO.

HOW COULD WE ASSIST WITH THAT OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, WELL, PRIME EXAMPLE, I THINK LAST YEAR WE ACTUALLY HAD THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF $7 MILLION AND WE, THAT WAS SPENT BY ALL ROUGHLY SEVEN NONPROFITS WITHIN THAT TIMEFRAME.

THIS YEAR IT'S ONLY GONNA BE 5 MILLION.

SO I'M REALLY WORRIED ABOUT HOW SHORTER THAT PRO IT'S GONNA BE BEFORE WE RUN OUTTA MONEY.

UM, I THINK THAT'S REALLY, I THINK ONE MORE QUESTION, AND I'M DONE.

IF ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS, UM, YEAH.

HO HOLD ON.

I I GOT YOU IN JUST ONE SECOND.

UH, THE LAST QUESTION WAS, THE LAST QUESTION WAS, UM, THE PEOPLE THAT DID RECEIVE HOME REPAIRS BEFORE, ARE THOSE HOME REPAIRS, UH, INSURED AS IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THOSE HOME REPAIRS? AS FAR AS LIKE THEY DID, YOU DID A ROOF JOB, PAID, YOU KNOW, 10,000 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE ROOF CAVED IN 'CAUSE OF THE HELL.

DO Y'ALL ENSURE THAT TO COME BACK AND FIX? NO, I MEAN, THAT'S A HOMEOWNER POLICY THERE.

I MEAN, WE CAN, WE WARRANTY EVERY SINGLE JOB THAT WE DO FOR, FOR 12 MONTHS FROM THE DAY WE FINISH.

BUT IT'S ONLY FOR 12 MONTHS.

RIGHT? CORRECT.

I MEAN, WE CAN'T MM-HMM.

AFFORD TO OWN THE HOME AFTER THE FACT.

YOU KNOW, IT, YOU KNOW, I WISH WE COULD.

YOU KNOW, BUT, ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU COMMISSIONER, UH, DELGADO, COMMISSIONER BROWN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

YEAH, JUST, JUST A COUPLE QUICK QUESTIONS.

I KNOW WE, WE KIND OF RUNNING ON TIME, BUT, UM, DO SO JUST THE WORK, GET CLARITY, THE WORKFLOW IS MEALS ON WHEELS.

THEY APPLY FOR GRANTS OR FUNDING WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, AND THEN THEY GO OUT AND DO THIS WORK, THIS HOME REPAIR WORK.

'CAUSE AGAIN, I KNOW Y'ALL DO FOOD DELIVERY, BUT, UM, HOME REPAIR, THIS IS, THIS IS A, A GREAT THING THAT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT Y'ALL REALLY DID, BUT, SO IS THAT THE WORKFLOW? AND IF SO, DO YOU HAVE, DO Y'ALL SERVE PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF MEALS ON WHEEL THAT ARE GETTING THE MEALS? IS THAT KIND OF WHERE Y'ALL'S WORK LIST COME FROM? FIRST WHEN WE, WHEN WE FIRST ARE THEY APPLY THAT WAY? OR WHEN, WHEN WE FIRST STARTED OUT, OUR, OUR MAIN GOAL, YOU KNOW, WHEN CHARLES STARTED THE HOME REPAIR PROGRAM, OUR MEALS ON WHEELS CLIENTS WERE OUR FIRST CONSTITUENTS.

UM, THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS MORE FUNDING AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO BROADEN THAT AND, AND WE DO SERVE OUR, OUR MEALS ON WHEELS CLIENTS.

UM, I MEAN THAT, THAT DO RECEIVE MEALS, BUT IT, THEY'RE, I WOULDN'T SAY THEY'RE FIRST PRIORITY.

IT, LIKE I SAID, IT, IT, IT IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE WHO, YOU KNOW.

'CAUSE WE DO KNOW THAT THE MONEY IS NOT GONNA LAST.

SO WE WANT TO TRY TO GET EVERY APPLICATION IN AS FAST AS WE CAN AND GET THE JOB STARTED AND GET THEM HELP THAT THEY NEED.

SO IT'S FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE.

YOU DON'T GIVE ANY SPECIAL RECOMMENDATION IF THERE ARE MEALS ON WHEELS CONSTITUENT YOU, IT IS JUST FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.

THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARITY.

NO, NO PROBLEM.

THANK Y'ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.

I ECHO WHAT, UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN AND COMMISSIONER DELGADO SAYS, IN REFERENCE TO THE WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING, AND IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT, UM, THERE SEEMS TO BE SUCH A GREATER NEED THAN THERE IS, UM, FUNDING, UH, TO GO AROUND.

SO OF COURSE, THAT IS OF A CONCERN.

UM, AND SO FORTH.

UM, COMMISSIONERS, ANYTHING ELSE FOR MR. SYKES HERE REPRESENTING AND SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE MILLS ON WHEELS PROGRAM? ARE WE GOOD? OKAY.

MR. SYKES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING.

UH, WE DO WANT TO, UH, IF YOU WOULD PUT US ON YOUR SCHEDULE, UM, PROBABLY AT LEAST EVERY SIX MONTHS OR SO.

ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, MOVING

AT LEAST CHECK IN WITH US.

UM, SO WE WILL BE CIRCLING BACK TO YOU, BUT IF YOU WOULD KIND OF, SORT OF KEEP US IN MIND AS WELL, THAT'LL BE HELPFUL.

AND THAT WAY YOU'LL BE ALREADY READY.

YOU ALREADY KNOW SOME OF THE KIND OF QUESTIONS WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING, UH, THAT WE'LL BE ASKING.

AND THAT WAY YOU'LL BE READY FOR US AS WELL.

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ON.

WE DO HAVE CHRIS DURAN.

THERE HE IS, MAN OF THE HOUR.

I THINK YOU'RE GONNA HAVE ITEM NUMBER FOUR AND FIVE ARE YOURS, CHRIS.

SO, UM, YOU'RE GONNA BE PRESENTING

[4. Presentation and discussion on the FY 22-23 Consolidated Annual Performance & Evaluation Report (CAPER) process and document. (Chris Duran, Senior Research Analyst, Housing Department) ]

WITH OUR CONSOLIDATED, OUR CAPER CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT.

AND THEN YOU, UM, WE'LL GO RIGHT INTO THAT, TO THE AMENDMENT ONE.

I THINK WE HAVE, OH, ONE OF 'EM IS FOR 22, 23, AND THEN 24 THROUGH 29.

OOH.

IS THAT A TYPO? .

OH, WOW.

ALL RIGHT, CHRIS, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

OKAY, GREAT.

UM, WELL, UM, MY NAME'S CHRIS DURAN.

I, UM, AM GRATEFUL TO BE HERE AND FOR YOUR TIME.

I AM GLAD TO BE HERE IN PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I, MM-HMM, .

AM I NOT ON? THERE YOU GO.

ALRIGHTYY.

HOW'S THAT? THAT'S BETTER.

UM, AGAIN, MY NAME'S CHRIS DURAN.

UM, I AM A, OUR, OUR SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST ON THE HUD REGULATORY TEAM IN THE FINANCE DIVISION OF THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.

I'M GONNA LEAN TOWARDS BEING MORE ON THE BRIEF SIDE, GIVEN THE HOUR TODAY.

IT'S JUST REALLY PERSONALLY APPRECIATED.

UM, BUT DO KNOW THAT I WILL BE BACK MANY TIMES ON THESE TOPICS.

TONIGHT IS NOT THE ONLY TIME I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT, UM, THE FEDERAL REPORTING PROCESSES AND THE GRANTS THAT I'M HERE TO, UM, BRIEF YOU ON TONIGHT AND TO DISCUSS WITH YOU.

UM, I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TIME, AND I VERY QUICKLY JUST WANTED TO GIVE A PERSONAL NOTE OF THANKS.

UM, I GREW UP HERE IN AUSTIN.

I'M ACTUALLY BLESSED TO BE LIVING HERE WITH FOUR GENERATIONS OF FAMILY.

AND SO I JUST REALLY PERSONALLY APPRECIATE Y'ALL'S TIME BEING HERE AND CONTRIBUTING TO YOUR COMMUNITY.

SO, THANK YOU.

UM, DO WE HAVE, UH, THE PRESENTATION THAT WE CAN PULL UP? .

WE CAN GET, JUST GET TO THE BEGINNING OF IT.

I THINK THAT'S THE LAST, THERE YOU GO.

THERE WE GO.

ALRIGHTY.

SO, LIKE I SAID, I'LL, I'LL LEAN TOWARDS BEING.

I'LL LEAN TOWARDS BEING BRIEF THIS EVENING BECAUSE OF THE TIME, BUT, UM, I ALSO WANT TO STRESS TOO, THAT I'M AVAILABLE ALWAYS FOR QUESTIONS AND TO DISCUSS WITH YOU ALL, NOT JUST TODAY, BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS REACH OUT TO ME THROUGH EMAIL STAFF CAN CONNECT YOU TO, TO ME.

AND I'M AVAILABLE NOT ONLY, UM, TO ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM OUR HOUSING DEPARTMENT, BUT, UM, I KIND OF ACT AS A BIT OF A LIAISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT OUR GRANTS WORK WITH.

SO, UM, BASICALLY JUST THE POINT IS, UH, OF WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME AND I'LL FIND THE PERSON THAT CAN ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.

SO, THE FIRST AGENDA ITEM I'M HERE TO DISCUSS TODAY IS THE CAPER.

AND I'M GONNA BE SPELLING OUT A LOT OF THE ACRONYMS THAT I COULD TALK ABOUT TODAY.

'CAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW, OR SOME NEW COMMISSIONERS.

AND SO TO THE COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE MORE EXPERIENCED, I MAY BE KIND OF GIVING YOU A BIT OF AN UPDATE OR REHASH ON THINGS YOU ALREADY KNOW.

UM, SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, BUT HOPEFULLY IT'S A GOOD UPDATE.

BUT, UM, EVERY YEAR WE, UM, AT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT RECEIVE A NUMBER OF GRANTS FROM HUD, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

THAT'S, UM, WHO I'M REFERRING TO WHEN I SAY HUD, THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

AND WE GO THROUGH A FEDERAL REPORTING PROCESS, WHICH I AM TRYING TO SHOW ON YOUR SCREEN.

UM, AND THE FIRST, SO THE FIRST ITEM THAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT, UM, IS THE CAPER, THE CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT.

AND I THOUGHT BEFORE ZEROING IN ON THE CAPER, I'D GIVE YOU ALL A, A VERY BRIEF KIND OF OVERVIEW OR 1 0 1 ON OUR, UH, FEDERAL REPORTING PROCESS.

SO YOU KIND OF KNOW HOW THE CAPER FITS INTO THE WIDER STRUCTURE AND KIND OF THE PURPOSE OF ME COMING AND TALKING TO YOU ABOUT IT.

SO, WE RECEIVE GRANTS EVERY YEAR FROM THE DEPART OR FROM HUD, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

AND ALL JURISDICTIONS ACROSS THE, UM, THE COUNTRY THAT RECEIVE THESE GRANTS ARE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH THE FEDERAL REPORTING PROCESS THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN.

AND SO WE ARE APPROACHING OUR NEXT FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN.

THAT'S WHY IT WASN'T A TYPO, WHAT YOU SAW.

FIVE YEAR PLAN IS JUST SUCH A, AN EFFORT THAT WE START A BIT EARLIER.

FFY 24 THROUGH 29.

UM, AND THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN IS BASICALLY YOUR FIVE YEAR MASTER PLAN.

UM, IT'S A HUGE DOCUMENT.

IT'S BETWEEN THREE AND 400 PAGES.

IT'S VERY COMPREHENSIVE.

AND REALLY, UM, IT'S, IT'S GONNA COVER, UM, WHAT ARE WE FUNDING, HOW ARE WE FUNDING IT, WHAT ARE THE PROGRAM POLICIES, HOW ARE WE GONNA BE ADMINISTERING THOSE GRANTS.

UM, THE FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN, WE'RE CURRENTLY IN YEAR FIVE OF THAT PLAN, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE ALREADY COMING TO YOU TO KIND OF BRIEF YOU ON THAT.

USUALLY, UM, WITH THE ACTION PLANS, THOSE ONE YEAR PLANS, WE WOULDN'T BE COMING ALREADY.

BUT THE

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SO WE'VE GOT THOSE FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED MASTER STRATEGIC PLANS, AND THEN WE'VE GOT THE ONE YEAR ACTION PLANS, EXCUSE ME, I'LL NEED SOME WATER.

IT'S KIND OF LATE .

WE'VE GOT THE ONE YEAR ACTION PLANS, THOSE FOLD INTO THE CONSOLIDATED PLANS.

AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS, UM, THEY'RE CONGRUENT WITH THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN.

THEY FOLLOWED THE SAME, UH, STRATEGIC PLANNING THAT'S OUTLINED.

UM, HOWEVER THEY GET INTO A BIT MORE GRANULAR DETAIL AS FAR AS THE SPEC, UH, SPECIFICS FOR THAT YEAR.

AND THEN, UM, ON THE BACKEND, WE'RE REQUIRED AS WELL TO DO THE CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT, THE CAPER.

AND, UM, I THINK THAT'S A PARTICULARLY HELPFUL DOCUMENT FOR YOU ALL AS A COMMISSION, BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY OUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.

IT'S OUR REPORT CARD OF THE YEAR.

YOU SEE, UH, A LOT OF DATA, WHICH I'M KNEE DEEP IN RIGHT NOW, ABOUT WHAT PERCENTAGE DO WE MEET OUR GOALS, YOU KNOW, WHERE DID WE MEET THE GOALS, AND, UH, WHERE DID WE EXCEED THEM? IF WE EXCEEDED THEM, WHAT DID WE, WHAT WENT WELL? AND HOW ARE WE GONNA REPLICATE THAT IN THE FUTURE FOR THE PROGRAMS WHERE WE DID NOT MEET THE GOALS? , WHY, WHY IS THAT? AND, UH, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO, UH, TO, UH, IMPROVE THAT GOING FORWARD? SO THIS AGENDA ITEM IS ABOUT THE CAPER, AND THAT'S KIND OF THE CONTEXT IN WHICH, UM, I'M COMING TO YOU ON THAT DOCUMENT.

I WANTED TO JUST QUICKLY OUTLINE THE GRANTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN, UM, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FEDERAL REPORTING, THESE ARE THE FOUR GRANTS THAT WE RECEIVE ANNUALLY.

AND AGAIN, I'LL JUST TRY TO BE BRIEF.

UM, AND YOU'LL HAVE THESE SLIDES AND WE CAN ALWAYS FOLLOW UP WITH QUESTIONS.

BUT, UM, THE, I'LL JUST QUICKLY, UM, KIND OF OUTLINE THOSE TWO TOP TWO GRANTS THAT YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT AND HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS.

THOSE FOR THE, FOR THE MOST PART, ARE RECEIVED BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.

AND THEN WE ALSO ADMINISTER A LOT OF THE PROGRAMMING, WHEREAS THOSE BOTTOM TWO GRANTS, HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS, HOPWA, AND EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANTS, THOSE ARE RECEIVED BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.

BUT WE FUNNEL THOSE, UH, FUNDS THROUGH TO AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH, BEING THAT THEY HISTORICALLY DO AND CURRENTLY HAVE MORE OF THE EXPERTISE TO ADMINISTER, UH, THE, THAT KIND OF PROGRAMMING, UH, BOTH WITH THE HOMELESS AND, UM, WITH, UH, OUR COMMUNITY, UH, LIVING WITH HIV AIDS.

UM, SO THESE ARE THE FOUR GRANTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN I COME FORWARD, UH, COME TO Y'ALL WITH, UH, DIFFERENT STRATEGIC PLANS OR DIFFERENT, UH, REPORT CARDS.

IT'S HOW DID WE SPEND THE FUNDS IN THESE FOUR GRANTS ON VARIOUS DIFFERENT PROGRAMS? AND I THINK THAT'S MY LAST SLIDE FOR THIS PRESENTATION BECAUSE, UM, UH, I WILL, I WILL GO BACK, UH, TO A PRESENTATION FOR THE NEXT, UH, THE SLIDES FOR THE NEXT, UH, AGENDA ITEM.

BUT WHAT I WANTED TO BRIEF YOU ALL ON, UM, THIS EVENING WAS THAT THE CAPER IS CURRENTLY, UM, UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND IT'S IN OUR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN FOR ME TO COME NEXT MONTH FOR ME TO PRESENT THE CAPER TO Y'ALL.

AND I WANTED TO COME A MONTH EARLY JUST TO GIVE Y'ALL A BIT OF A BRIEFING.

AND ALSO, UM, I'M MAKING A REALLY STRONG EFFORT TO, UM, AND, AND THAT, UM, THAT IS FOR OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM.

SO I'LL JUST HERE IF WE CAN, AND WE CAN TAKE THAT, JUST TAKE THAT ONE DOWN.

REPORTING EXPERIENCE IN THIS ROLE.

THERE, UM, I WANTED TO PROMOTE TO Y'ALL THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WHERE WE PUT OUT A FIRST DRAFT OF THE CAPER THAT I JUST DESCRIBED, UM, BEGINNING, UM, THIS COMING MONDAY, UM, NOVEMBER 20TH THROUGH DECEMBER 5TH.

SO, UM, SOME WAYS THAT WE'VE BEEN PROMOTING THAT.

WE HAD A PUBLIC NOTICE IN SPANISH IN THE MUNDO NEWSPAPER.

WE HAD A BI BILINGUAL, UM, PUBLIC NOTICE RUN IN AUSTIN, AMERICAN STATESMEN.

AND WE'LL BE DOING A PRESS RELEASE THIS COMING MONDAY THAT WILL GO OUT TO LOCAL MEDIA.

AND, AND WE'VE GOT, UM, OUR COMMS TEAM WORKING TO GENERATE SOME EXTRA MEDIA THERE.

AND IT'LL ALSO BE ON OUR WEBSITE.

AND I WANTED TO PROMOTE THAT TO YOU ALL, UM, BECAUSE I HAVE, I SPECULATE THAT, YOU KNOW, BEING IN THE, ON THIS COMMISSION, A LOT OF YOU HAVE DIVERSE CONNECTIONS AROUND THE COMMUNITY.

AND SO IF YOU YOURSELVES, OR ANYONE YOU KNOW, WOULD BE INTERESTED IN TAKING PART, UM, IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, UM, WHERE YOU CAN VIEW THE DRAFT CAPER, UM, LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOW WE DID, UM, THE DOCUMENT ITSELF.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IN THAT ANNUAL REPORT CARD THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HUD DOESN'T REQUIRE US TO HAVE IT IN THERE, BUT, UH, WE COULD, WE CAN ALWAYS HAVE ATTACHMENTS, .

SO, UM, THERE'S, UH, DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE ACTION PLAN, THAT WAS MY FIRST FEDERAL

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AND, UM, THERE COULD, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF DISAPPOINTMENT INTERNALLY AND, AND EXTERNALLY ON, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT GETTING, UH, A LOT OF PUBLIC COMMENTS IN OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIODS.

SO WE'RE REALLY PUSHING TO, UH, TRY TO, YOU KNOW, UH, AT LEAST, AT LEAST GET A LITTLE BIT OF PUBLIC INPUT.

UM, I KNOW IT'S NOT TOO EXCITING WHEN PEOPLE ARE, YOU'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE, UH, IN THEIR TIME TO COMMENT ON FEDERAL REPORTING, BUT, UH, WE REALLY, UH, WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT.

AND, UM, I AM HOPING TO COME BACK IN DECEMBER AND LET YOU KNOW THAT WE GOT, UM, SOME PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, ON THE CAPER.

AND THAT, UH, AT THAT POINT I'LL BE, I'LL BE HERE KIND OF PRESENTING THE ACTUAL NEAR FINISHED DOCUMENT TO YOU AND KIND OF GIVING YOU HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR.

SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M HERE FOR ON THAT AGENDA ITEM.

AND I'M DEFINITELY, UH, HERE FOR ANY QUESTION OR DISCUSSIONS.

GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER ECKLES.

UM, TWO QUICK QUESTIONS.

SO YEAH, WE WOULD GO, UM, AND THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS PROBABLY KNOW THIS.

WHERE WILL WE GO TO FIND THAT DRAFT WHEN YOU POST IT ON FRIDAY? I SHOULD, I SHOULD HAVE SAID WE'RE GONNA, UM, SEND ALL THE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU.

YOU'LL HAVE A COPY OF THE PRESS RELEASE AND THE OKAY.

THE PUBLIC NOTICE.

OH, YEAH, YEAH.

WELL, SO WE'LL SEND YOU A COPY OF THE PRESS RELEASE THAT'S GOING LIVE SOON.

YOU'LL GET IT BEFORE, UH, IT'S LIVE.

JUST 'CAUSE I WANT Y'ALL TO, YOU KNOW, TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT.

BUT, UH, THAT'LL HAVE, UH, ALL THE INFORMATION I'LL JUST SHARE QUICKLY TOO.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THE PLATFORM SPEAKUP AUSTIN? YES.

BUT WE'LL HAVE A SPEAKUP AUSTIN PAGE, SPEAKUP AUSTIN.COM/CAPER.

UM, THAT, THAT'S, UH, WE'LL HAVE BILINGUAL COPY ON THERE, AND THEN, UH, PEOPLE CAN ALSO EMAIL DIRECTLY TO THE DEPARTMENT.

AND THEN ACTUALLY, BECAUSE OF SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT HAPPENED HERE, I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE, BUT I'M ALWAYS WATCHING.

UM, I MAY, I'VE MADE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN, I BELIEVE IT WAS REQUESTED, PEOPLE CAN CALL IN DIRECTLY TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR, SO I SPEAK UP PART YEAH, YEAH.

, IF THEY WANNA SPEAK.

UH, YEAH, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WAS MENTIONED AND SO, UM, I'M, I'VE MADE SURE THAT, UM, IT MIGHT TAKE A SECOND.

THEY GOTTA GET ROUTED THROUGH TO ME, BUT THEY CAN CALL AND LEAVE COMMENTS AS WELL.

SO, YEAH.

AWESOME.

ONE OTHER QUICK QUESTION.

AND THE, UM, SO THE 2122 VERSION THAT WE SAW THAT WE HAD IN OUR PACKET WAS JUST FOR REFERENCE.

YES, EXACTLY.

THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AT THE BACKUP, UM, YES.

I THINK THAT CONFUSE SOME PEOPLE.

AND, UM, THEY DID .

YES, YES, YES.

THAT WAS JUST BECAUSE THAT'S THE MOST RECENT COMPLETED CAPER WE HAVE.

AND SO I KNOW IT'S WEIRD.

I'M COMING UP, I'M TALKING ABOUT 24 29, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT 21, 22, BUT THAT'S THE MOST COMPLETED CAPER WE HAVE.

SO I JUST SHOWED YOU THAT FOR REFERENCE.

AND THIS MAY BE AN INAPPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME, AND AGAIN, NEWBIE, PLEASE TELL ME, IT WOULD BE SUPER HELPFUL TO HAVE CONTEXT, BECAUSE I SAW THAT AND WAS LIKE, I, LIKE, I THOUGHT I HAD 600 PAGES TO READ FOR TODAY.

OH, WOW.

AND WHEN I PULLED IT UP 48 HOURS AGO, I ALMOST LOST IT .

I WAS LIKE, I CAN'T SLEEP.

UM, SO IT JUST WOULD BE REALLY, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO GET A LITTLE BIT OF DIRECTION ABOUT LIKE, WHAT'S, LIKE, THIS IS FOR REFERENCE, YOU DON'T NEED TO READ IT, VERSUS THIS NEXT ONE.

AND I KNOW AT THIS MEETING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT, SO I KNOW TO READ ALL OF THE PAGES OF THAT ONE FOR OUR NEXT MEETING.

UM, BUT I HAD WATCHED THE, UM, THE MEETING AND IT HADN'T MENTIONED 600 PAGES I NEEDED TO READ, SO I WAS JUST SURPRISED.

SO I DON'T KNOW, AND THIS MAY BE THE ONLY TIME THAT EVER HAPPENS, SO IT'S TOTALLY FINE.

AND I'LL GET THE RHYTHM I JUST WANTED TO THROW OUT THERE THAT THAT WAS A SHOCK.

AND IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO GET A HEADS UP SOMEHOW THAT THIS IS JUST FYI, YOU DON'T NEED TO READ IT, THAT'D BE GREAT.

, I THINK THAT'S, YEAH, I THINK I'LL READ THE NEXT ONE FOR THE NEXT TIME FOR SURE.

I'M SURE THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD, WE CAN FIGURE OUT MAYBE EVEN HAVING A LABEL ON, YOU KNOW, FOR REFERENCE VERSUS, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL.

READ THIS IN DEPTH.

YEAH, THAT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL.

I, I WILL SAY IT WAS, IT'S GREAT AS A MAYBE TO HAVE THAT 400 PAGE DOCUMENT BECAUSE THAT WILL, THAT DOES HELP ORIENT ME AND I LOVE IT.

UM, FOR REFERENCE , YES.

FOR REFERENCE.

AND PLEASE DON'T PRINT IT.

I, I'LL MAKE SURE I'LL LABEL IT NEXT.

I ALSO NOW REALIZE I COULD HAVE EMAILED AND ASKED, I AM JUST LEARNING.

SO.

WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.

NO, THAT'S FINE.

I THINK, YEAH, WE'RE ALL, WE'RE ALL LEARNING COMMISSIONERS.

ANYONE ELSE? ALRIGHT, CHRIS,

[5. Presentation and discussion on the upcoming FY 24-29 Consolidated Plan process (Chris Duran, Senior Research Analyst, Housing Department) ]

LET YOU GO AHEAD AND IN ON THAT ONE.

SO IT'S, UM, IT IS RELATED.

UM, IT'S THE NEXT, IT'S THE OTHER HERE.

WE CAN JUST, YEAH, IT STARTS THERE.

YEAH, THAT'S IT.

STARTING AT THE BEGINNING.

IT'S THE SAME SLIDES AND THEN I GO INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

I THINK WE HAVE THAT ONE IN THERE.

THAT ONE.

SO IT'S THE SAME SLIDE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THIS UP BECAUSE NOW I'M PIVOTING OVER TOWARDS THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND, UM, I HOPE Y'ALL CAN HEAR ME.

SO, UM, JUST TO MOVE FOR, UH, TO KIND OF PIVOT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE, WE'RE LOOKING BACK, I'LL BE HERE NEXT MONTH TO TALK ABOUT, TO PRESENT THE FINAL

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CAPER.

UM, BUT NOW WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD.

AND SO USUALLY I WOULDN'T BE HERE THIS EARLY, UM, AND CONSOLIDATE IN PLANNING, YOU KNOW, ACTION PLAN, I'D BE HERE, UH, MAYBE IN THE SPRING, BUT IN THE, FOR THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, UM, WE'RE ALREADY KIND OF RAMPING UP AND HAVING SOME, YOU KNOW, REALLY PLANNING.

AND SO, UM, I WANTED TO COME, ROSIE TOLD ME THAT I TOLD Y'ALL WE'D BE HERE BRIEFING YOU AS EARLY AS THE FALL.

AND I THOUGHT A GREAT WAY TO INVOLVE Y'ALL KIND OF AS WE GO FORWARD BE, WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE AWARE AHEAD OF TIME THAT WE DO EXECUTE A COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT EVERY YEAR.

WE DID THAT THIS YEAR FOR THE AN, UH, THE ACTION PLAN.

AND WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW IS, UH, WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE, SCHEDULE-WISE, THE GROUPS.

AND, UM, OH YEAH, WE, WE DID PRINT OUT THE ONE PAGE, UM, FOR Y'ALL TO REVIEW AND TO HAVE.

UM, AND SO I'LL BE BACK NEXT, UM, NEXT MONTH TO TALK ABOUT THE CAPER.

AND WHEN I COME BACK, I WOULD SO APPRECIATE IF Y'ALL WANT TO TAKE THE NEXT MONTH TO REVIEW WHAT, UH, ED IS PASSING OUT RIGHT NOW.

UM, I REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET Y'ALL'S THOUGHTS ON WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS LIST FOR OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND KIND OF GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON, YOU KNOW, UH, ARE, ARE, ARE WE MISSING ANY GAPS? YOU KNOW, ARE THERE ANY CLEAR, UH, ARE THERE ANY CLEAR GAPS ON HERE THAT WE'RE MISSING AS FAR AS GETTING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND GETTING INPUT FOR THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE'RE SERVING FOR VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES? YOU'LL SEE IT'S PRETTY DIVERSE AND IT'S PRETTY INTENSIVE.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO ADD, YOU KNOW, TOO, TOO MANY MORE MEETINGS, BUT BECAUSE IT'S A CONSOLIDATED PLAN YEAR, WE DEFINITELY WILL LEAN IN AND ADD MEETINGS.

AND SO IF Y'ALL WANT TO REVIEW THIS, YOU KNOW, JUST TO GO OVER IT QUICKLY, YOU'LL SEE, UM, SOME OF 'EM ARE CITY COMMISSIONS, LIKE, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, ASIAN AMERICAN QUALITY OF LIFE ADVISORY COMMISSION, OR THE SAME FOR HISPANIC LATINO QUALITY OF LIFE.

UM, BUT WE'RE ALSO MEETING WITH SOME OF OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS LIKE CARITAS, UM, YOU KNOW, ECHOES ON THERE.

WE HAVE, UH, HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN.

SO WE TRY TO REACH, UM, AND, AND WE, WE TRY TO REACH A DIVERSE KIND OF PRIVATE, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, ET CETERA.

UM, AND THIS IS ALSO, UM, KIND OF DICTATED BY THE HUD REGULATIONS.

THEY KIND OF MAP OUT, OKAY, WELL, YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT NEEDS TO INCLUDE THESE, UH, COMPONENTS OF YOUR COMMUNITY.

AND THEN SOMETIMES THEY JUST HAVE IN THE REGULATIONS, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE ENCOURAGED FOR YOU TO HAVE THESE TOO.

AND SO WE TRY TO, TO DO THAT.

UM, BUT YEAH, I DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T WANT TO GO ON, I KNOW IT'S LATE, BUT OVER THE NEXT MONTH, I'D SO APPRECIATE IF Y'ALL HAVE THE TIME TO LOOK AT THIS.

AND I MEAN, REALLY, YOU CAN BE FRANK, IF YOU SEE ANY REDUNDANCIES HERE, UM, YOU CAN LET ME KNOW IF YOU SEE ANY GAPS.

YOU KNOW, I REALLY THINK YOU NEED TO BE MEETING WITH THIS GROUP OR THAT GROUP.

UH, WE CAN TAKE THAT TOWN AND KIND OF PARTNER, UM, AS A CITY IN THIS COMMISSION IN KIND OF, UH, MAKING THIS UPCOMING COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT REALLY, REALLY ROBUST.

UM, IT'S GOING TO BE HELD, UH, THROUGHOUT FEBRUARY AND EARLY MARCH.

UM, AND YOU'LL GET, OF COURSE, ALL THE, THE SPECIFIC DATES AND ALL THE DETAILS AS WE GET CLOSER TO THAT.

UM, BUT THAT, I, I DO THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT, UM, AN IMPORTANT THING BECAUSE OF COURSE, WHILE E EVERY YEAR TAKING IN, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, COMMUNITY INPUT FOR THE ANNUAL ACTION PLAN IS IMPORTANT, THIS WILL BE OUR NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN.

UM, AND WE, WE'LL REALLY BE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE MIGHT NEED TO, TO REASSESS.

SO, UM, YEAH, IF, IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER 'EM.

UM, JUST LOOKING AT THE LIST I WAS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF EDUCATION.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU, DO YOU PARTNER WITH AISD AT ALL OR ANY OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS? SO, SO I DO KNOW THAT, UH, I THINK THAT FIRST, UM, THAT FIRST ONE YOU SEE ON THERE, EARLY CHILDHOOD COULD COUNCIL MM-HMM.

, THERE ARE REPRESENTATIVES FROM AISD THERE, BUT, UM, NO, THAT, YEAH.

UH, DEFINITELY SOMETHING MORE EDUCATION, AISD, UH, CENTRIC IS, IS KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT.

ALREADY GETTING INPUT .

OUT OF OUR PERSONAL LIFE, ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE IN THE PUBLIC EYE, UH, YOU HAVE TO, THIS IS NOT A JOB THAT'S JUST FOUR HOURS A MONTH.

NOW YOU GO ON.

UM, FIRST OF ALL, I, CHRIS, UH, THANK YOU FOR COMING.

I, I'VE ONLY SEEN YOU ON, UH, THE SCREEN, AND SO IT'S REALLY GOOD TO SEE YOU IN PERSON.

AND, AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING, UH, HOW YOU APPRECIATE, UH, THE WORK, THE VOLUNTEER WORK THAT, UH, THESE COMMISSIONERS THAT WE DO.

AND, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE DON'T SEE THAT WE ARE UNPAID, UH, WE ARE NOT A PAID, UH, COMMISSIONERS.

AND THAT THIS DOES, UH, TAKE A LOT OF TIME

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UM, YOU'RE ACTUALLY GETTING CALLS AND HAVING TO DEAL WITH CONSTITUENTS, UH, THROUGHOUT YOUR DAILY LIFE.

UH, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

AND THEY KNOW YOU'RE A COMMISSIONER.

DON'T LIVE IN THAT SAME COMPLEX, SO THEY WILL BE AT YOUR DOOR.

UM, SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR, FOR BEING HERE.

AND, UM, I REALLY SEE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT, UH, WITH THE WORK THAT Y'ALL DOING.

UH, I, I THINK WE USED TO GO, UH, BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU ALL, UM, IN THE YEARS, AND I FELT LIKE WE WERE ALWAYS SCOLDING YOU ALL, Y'ALL GOTTA DO THIS, Y'ALL GOTTA DO THAT.

AND, AND I SEE THAT THE COMMUNITY AT NEEDS ASSESSMENT HAS GOTTEN SO MUCH BETTER.

UM, AND, AND THAT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT TOOL, UH, FOR THE CITY, AND I THINK THAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE THAT.

UM, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF FEEDBACK ON YOUR, UH, YOUR ENGAGEMENT HERE.

, UH, I, I DON'T THINK I, TELL ME IF MY GLASSES ARE, ARE DIRTY, BUT I DIDN'T SEE GABA ON HERE.

UM, AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT GABA, UM, THEY ARE ALSO A NONPROFIT AND THEY, THEY DO A LOT OF WORK IN THE SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY IN DOVE SPRINGS AREA.

UH, CARMEN, WHICH IS A FORMER, UH, PLANNING COMMISSIONER, IS THE FOUNDER.

UM, UM, THEY HAVE A LOT OF GREAT ADVOCATES THERE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A LOT OF GREAT DATA AND TOOLS THAT WOULD HELP YOU CONNECT, UH, TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN NEED.

UM, SO IF WE CAN, WE CAN DO THAT.

IF WE CAN INCLUDE THEM IN OUR FUTURE ASSESSMENT IN THE YEAR TO COME.

UM, MM-HMM.

AND YEAH, JUST GREAT JOB, UH, AGAIN, AND, AND WE'RE HERE FOR YOU AND, AND THE TEAM IF YOU ALL NEED US.

AND, AND I HOPE TO SEE US PROGRESS IN THE FUTURE.

GREAT.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.

ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS? ALL RIGHT.

UM, CHRIS, I HAVE A QUESTION.

HELP ME UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE, THE MONEY THAT WE'RE HAVING TO GIVE BACK.

I DON'T LIKE GIVING BACK MONEY, BUT, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE HUD IS GONNA BE TAKEN BACK ALMOST $500,000 FROM OUR ESG, UM, CV FUNDING.

THAT MUST HAVE BEEN OUR, FROM OUR COVID FUNDING.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN, WHAT WAS THAT FROM? OH, MANDY, MANDY DE MAYO DEPUTY DIRECTOR AT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.

THANK YOU FOR NOTICING THAT.

UM, THOSE WERE CV COVID RELATED FUNDS.

, UH, THAT WERE ADMINISTERED THROUGH AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH.

UM, AND YOU ARE CORRECT, WE ARE GIVING BACK, UH, SOME FUNDING THAT NONPROFITS WERE UNABLE TO DEPLOY THROUGH, UM, RAPID REHOUSING CONTRACTS BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO PLACE PEOPLE, THERE WASN'T SUFFICIENT HOUSING, UM, FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, UH, TO ACCESS, UH, HOUSING UNITS.

AND SO WE DID HAVE TO READJUST, UH, OUR FUNDING APPROACH.

AND NOW THE FUNDS ARE BEING TARGETED TOWARD BOTH OUR NORTH BRIDGE AND SOUTH BRIDGE SHELTER, WHICH YOU MAY KNOW.

UM, ONE LOCATED ON SOUTH I 35, NEAR I 35 AND OLTORF AND ONE NORTH I 30 WEST OF I 35, UM, SOUTH OF ST.

JOHN'S.

UM, AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO OPEN UP SOME BEDS IN THOSE, UM, PROPERTIES.

AND WE ARE TARGETING OUR FUNDING TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS CAN FIND, UM, BRIDGE SHELTER HOUSING THERE.

SO WHAT I HEAR YOU TO BE SAYING IS THAT WAS KIND OF SORT OF A ONE-OFF KIND OF JUST, UM, I DON'T WANNA CALL IT A FLUKE, BUT IT, IT, YOU ARE CORRECT.

IT, IT IS A ONE-OFF, AND IT REALLY IS A FUNCTION OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT HOUSING UNITS IN THE COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS TO BE ABLE TO LIVE IN.

UM, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT THROUGH OUR HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM.

UM, BUT IN THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, WE HAD TO S SPEND OUR CV COVID RELATED FUNDING.

THIS WAS JUST FOR ESG, I SHOULD SAY.

THE, UM, EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT, THE ESG, SO THIS WAS FUNDING ON TOP OF OUR TRADITIONAL ESG FUNDING.

THAT FOR OUR OTHER COVID RELATED FUNDS, WE WERE EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL AND ACTUALLY AWARDED ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR OUR RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

UM, BUT FOR THIS SPECIFIC POPULATION, IT WAS PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TO PLACE PEOPLE IN HOUSING.

AND SINCE WE STILL HAVE THAT SHORTAGE THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING OF FOR THE HOUSING, DO YOU ANTICIPATE US HAVING THIS ISSUE AGAIN? UH, I KNOW WE WON'T HAVE THE COVID PRAISE GOD.

RIGHT? WE WON'T HAVE THAT.

BUT THE, JUST THE, THE GRANT,

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AND SO BECAUSE OF THE EXTRA FUNDS, WE DO NOT HAVE PROBLEMS SPENDING OUR ESG OR OUR TRADITIONAL BLOCK GRANT FUNDING.

AS CHRIS MENTIONED, WE HAVE FOUR BLOCK GRANTS.

, WE SPEND THOSE FUNDS, THEY ARE PROGRAMMED, THE COVID FUNDS REALLY WERE KIND OF A ONETIME, OR IN THIS MM-HMM.

CASE, IT WAS PROBABLY A TWO TIME, UH, DEAL.

UM, AND IN, IN THAT PARTICULAR CASE, UM, THAT PROGRAMMING THROUGH NONPROFITS, THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO SPEND THE FUNDS.

AND PRIOR TO COVID, HAD WE HAD ANY CHALLENGES SPENDING OUR MONEY, OR HAVE WE BEEN, HAVE WE GIVEN BACK MONEY BEFORE? I CANNOT OFF THE TOP OF, I DO NOT BELIEVE SO.

WILL SAY.

BUT JUST GENERALLY SPEAKING, I DO NOT BELIEVE SO.

UM, WITH ALL OF OUR OTHER FEDERAL FUNDS, IF FOR SOME REASON WE'RE UNABLE TO SPEND, UH, FUNDS IN ONE YEAR, WE CARRY FORWARD AND REPROGRAM THOSE DOLLARS.

USING IT, TARGETING IT TOWARD AREAS WHERE WE ARE ABLE TO SPEND THE FUNDS.

THAT WAS WHAT I WAS, THAT WAS, THANK YOU.

YOU, UM, FOLLOWED.

WE DO NOT GIVE MONEY BACK.

I DON'T WANNA, OR WE DON'T DO IT EASILY.

I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT I DON'T WANNA GIVE MONEY BACK.

AND I, AND DEFINITELY IF WE HAVE AREAS THAT WE CAN REALLOCATE IT TO SOMETHING ELSE IF WE HAVE A GREATER NEED.

UM, UM, AND I GUESS, CHRIS, THIS WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR YOU.

SO IF WE COME UP WITH WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE, HOW FLEXIBLE ARE, IS THAT FUNDING AND SO FORTH, IF WE REALIZE IN YEAR THREE THAT WE REALLY DON'T NEED AS MUCH IN THIS PARTICULAR LINE HERE THAT WE THOUGHT, BUT WE HAVE A GREATER NEED ELSEWHERE.

SO IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, I KNOW CHRIS HAS THINGS TO SAY AND I DO, I DON'T CARE WHO ANSWERS.

NO, I, I WANNA HEAR WHAT CHRIS HAS TO SAY.

, I WANNA SAY THAT, UM, WE HAVE BEEN FACED WITH SITUATIONS BECAUSE THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN IS A FIVE YEAR PLAN.

AND I DON'T REALLY, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE, I THINK I HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN YEAR THREE.

, UM, WE HAVE FACED SITUATIONS IN WHICH WE DO NEED TO REPROGRAM DOLLARS.

, WE'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO BE A LITTLE MORE NIMBLE.

UM, AND SO WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU ALL, UM, AS PART OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, LOOKING AT THIS IS A HUD REQUIREMENTS CALLED THE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN.

HOW WE CAN RE UM, IF WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH THE YEAR AND WE'RE JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T SPEND THE MONEY IN, UM, PUBLIC SERVICES AND, AND I CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, BUT WE REALLY NEED THE MONEY IN HOME REPAIR.

THAT WE'RE ABLE TO, WITHOUT GOING THROUGH A COMPLICATED, WHAT WE CALL A SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT MM-HMM.

THAT WE'RE ABLE TO TALK TO YOU ALL, TALK TO THE COMMUNITY AND PIVOT AND MAKE THOSE CHANGES SO WE CAN REACT A LITTLE BIT MORE NIMBLY TO MARKET CONDITIONS.

SO THAT'S OUR GOAL GOING FORWARD.

AND I APOLOGIZE, CHRIS, I KNOW YOU HAD THINGS, BUT I WAS JUST LIKE, THAT'S TOP OF MIND.

I MEAN, NO YOU'S, YOU SAID BASICALLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY AND YOU SAID IT BETTER THAN I PROBABLY WOULD'VE, SO IT'S GOOD.

I WAS BASICALLY AT THE RISK OF REPEATING WHAT YOU SAID, I WAS GONNA ZERO IN ON THAT FACT THAT RIGHT NOW WE'RE UNDER THAT CURRENT, UM, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, WHICH, YOU KNOW, UNDER WHICH WE'RE NOT AS NIMBLE MM-HMM.

BUT WE STILL HAVE A DEGREE OF, OF NIMBLENESS .

AND WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M BASICALLY TRYING TO GET AT IS THERE'S AMENDMENTS AND THERE'S SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS AND WE COULD MAKE AMENDMENTS QUITE EASILY.

WE DO WANT MOVE TO, UM, BEING ABLE TO MAKE EVEN SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS MORE EASILY.

UM, BUT EVEN RIGHT NOW, THERE IS THE ABILITY.

ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, Y'ALL GOOD? ALRIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, MUCH.

ALRIGHT, LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE.

WE'RE ABOUT TO WRAP IT ON, BRINGING IT ON HOME AND MORE WORRIES THAN WANT TURN.

ALL RIGHTY.

WE'RE MOVING ON.

UM, WE'RE FINISHED WITH OUR YES.

REALLY QUICK.

WE FORGOT TO CALL MS. JOSEPH FOR, UM, NUMBER FIVE.

OH, SHE HAD SOMETHING FOR NUMBER FIVE.

SHE SIGNED UP FOR ALL THE ITEMS. OH, DID SHE? OH, OKAY.

COME ON.

COME ON, COME ON, MS. JOSEPH.

UM, MR. BLAKE, I DIDN'T REALIZE SHE HAD SOMETHING FOR NUMBER FIVE.

THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS.

I'M ENOVIA JOSEPH.

QUESTION AND SEGREGATION IS MENTIONED 10 TIMES IS WHAT IS REALLY THE PLAN TO INTEGRATE IN PEOPLE OF COLOR WEST OF I I 35 LOOP ONE MOPAC.

, MY CONCERN, MADAM CHAIR, IS THAT ANALYSIS TO IMPEDIMENTS OF FAIR HOUSING IS MENTIONED, UH, MANY TIMES IN THE DOCUMENT FAIR HOUSING IS MENTIONED AT LEAST 50 TO 59 TIMES IN THIS DOCUMENT, 378 PAGES.

AND SO WHILE I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO OUTREACH AND IT'LL BE DIVERSE, UH, THE, THE

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IS THERE EVEN A, A CITY OWNED FACILITY WHERE THEY COULD ACTUALLY PUT SOME OF THE HOMELESS? AND SO I THINK THAT THAT DISCUSSION NEEDS TO BE HAD BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE CONTINUE TO CONCENTRATE POVERTY, CONTINUE TO GO TO THE MINORITY GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND ASK FOR THEIR INPUT.

AND SO I WOULD JUST SAY, RATHER THAN SIMPLY ASKING US OUR INPUT, AGAIN, COME TO US AND TELL US WHAT YOU DID WITH THE INPUT YOU GOT THE LAST TIME.

AND THEN IF YOU NEED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, WE CAN SHARE THAT WITH YOU.

BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE.

AND SO THAT IS MY BIGGEST CONCERN, IS THAT I SEE FAIR HOUSING.

I KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING HERE IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN.

THERE'S RESEARCH THAT SAYS AUSTIN IS THE MOST ECONOMICALLY SEGREGATED METRO AREA FROM FLORIDA AND MELLINGER 2015.

IT'S ALSO IN THE TEXAS TRIBUNE IN 2015.

AND SO I JUST AM CONCERNED THAT WE CONTINUE TO SAY THESE THINGS, BUT THAT THE STRATEGY AND THE PLANNING TO GET US TO INTEGRATE IS NOT THERE.

AND I, I HAVE USED THIS EXAMPLE BEFORE, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE METRO RAIL LINES, THE LIGHT RAIL LINES SPECIFICALLY HYDE PARK, WHERE THE LIGHT RAIL IS SUPPOSED TO MO MANEUVER NOW JUNE 6TH, 2020 THIRD, 2023, UH, SPECIFICALLY $3.8 MILLION FOR ONE ACRE KILLED THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT WOULD'VE BEEN IN HYDE PARK FOR PEOPLE MAKING ABOUT $96,000.

AND SO YOU DON'T WANT 'EM THERE.

YOU DON'T, YOU HAVE THE 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME ON WHAT WOULD'VE BEEN THE GOLD LINE AT HIGHLAND.

AND THEN OVER ON RIVERSIDE, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, OCTOBER 17TH, 2019 IS WHEN COUNCIL REZONED 1,308 UNITS.

AND THEN THE DEVELOPER CAME AND WANTED TO SET ASIDE THE UNITS FOR PEOPLE EARNING 80% TO 120% AREA MEANING INCOME.

AND AT PLAZA SALTILLO, THEY DIDN'T EVEN WANNA PUT SIX TWO BEDROOM UNITS ON OR ABOUT MAY 2ND, 2017.

SO THE QUESTION IS, AT WHAT POINT WILL WE HAVE A HONEST DISCUSSION ABOUT MAINTAINING SEGREGATION AS OPPOSED TO INTEGRATING OUR COMMUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING AS OPPOSED TO PEPPERING DOCUMENTS WITH THE BUZZ WORDS THAT HUD WOULD LIKE TO SEE .

AND SO THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME.

UM, I DON'T NEED A QUESTION FOR YOU.

THANK YOU MR. JOSEPH.

CHAIR, YOU STATE FOOT, UM, MS. DEMAL, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU, CAN YOU SHARE WITH US, UM, IN THE, TO, UH, AT LEAST ADDRESS, NOT FULLY? 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FULLY ADDRESS WHAT MS. JOSEPH BRINGS UP, BUT WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR GOING WEST? AND ALSO WHAT HAVE WE DONE WITH THE PREVIOUS INFORMATION WE'VE GOTTEN FROM THE COMMUNITY? OH MY GOODNESS.

THERE IS MANDY DE MAYO DEPUTY DIRECTOR.

THERE'S SO MUCH INFORMATION TO SHARE.

I DO WANNA ADDRESS MS. JOSEPH, AND SHE'S BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE ABOUT, UH, PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

UM, AND WEST OF I 35 AND WEST OF MOPAC.

AND I DO WANNA LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT, UM, WE CURRENTLY HAVE, UM, IN OUR PORTFOLIO OF HOUSING SPECIFICALLY FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

WE HAVE TWO BRIDGE SHELTERS, WHICH I MENTIONED.

UM, THOSE ARE TRANSITIONAL.

AND THOSE ARE BOTH ON I 35 1 JUST EAST OF I 35, 1, JUST WEST OF I 35.

WE THEN HAVE THREE HOTELS THAT ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CONVERTED TO PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

ONE IS OUT NEAR LAKELINE MALL, UM, SO FAR WEST OF MOPAC.

ONE IS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF MOPAC ON, UM, IN THE ARBORETUM AREA.

SO IN, UH, WE HAVE DISTRICT SIX, DISTRICT 10, AND THEN ONE IS IN DISTRICT SEVEN, AND THAT IS JUST EAST OF MOPAC.

UM, AND THAT IS BUNGALOWS HOTEL.

UM, THOSE ARE GONNA BE OPERATED BY THREE DIFFERENT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

ONE IS FAMILY ELDER CARE, ONE IS INTEGRAL CARE, WHICH IS OUR MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY, AND ONE IS FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES.

BETWEEN THOSE THREE HOTELS ALL WEST OF I 35, SOME FAR WEST OF I 35, UM, THAT WILL REPRESENT HUNDREDS OF UNITS OF HOUSING, UM, FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

I DO WANNA SAY AT A HIGH LEVEL, UM, WE ARE VERY COMMITTED TO FAIR HOUSING PRINCIPLES.

UM, WE ARE CONSTANTLY BALANCING CREATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND REALLY HARDER TO CREATE AFFORDABLE

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HOUSING AREAS.

UM, HIGHER OPPORTUNITY AREAS, WELL-RESOURCED AREAS WITH MITIGATING DISPLACEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION INSUR, ENSURING THAT ALL COMMUNITIES ARE WHAT WE CALL COMPLETE COMMUNITIES.

SO WE'RE DOING A MIX OF DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT IN THE EASTERN CRESCENT, UM, UH, HIGH PRIORITY IN ALIGNING OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITH THE PROJECT CONNECT VISION PLAN.

SO BOTH HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSIT, UM, AS WELL AS, UM, ALONG THE BLUE AND ORANGE LINES, THE FIRST PHASE OF THE BLUE AND ORANGE LINES.

WE'RE DOING A MIX OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENT FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS TO FAMILIES, TO SENIORS.

WE HAVE PURCHASED, UH, UTILIZING OUR 2018 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, UM, USING A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN 60 ACRES OF VACANT LAND THAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT FOR SOLICITATION.

UM, WE ARE ON, WHERE IS THAT? I'M SORRY.

ALL OVER.

I'D BE HAPPY TO BRING OH, OKAY.

UM, WE'VE DONE NOW FIVE SOLICITATIONS.

UM, WE'VE PRIORITIZED, UH, PROPERTIES THAT ARE, UM, WELL, THEY RANGE, UM, BUT PROPERTIES THAT HAVE BEEN IN OUR PORTFOLIO LONGER, UM, OFTEN IN CENTRAL EAST AUSTIN, WE HAVE HOUSING FOR FAMILIES.

WE HAVE HOUSING FOR HOMELESS.

UM, AND THEN WE HAVE OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, A MIX SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT.

UM, I, I'M HAPPY TO BRING THE DATA ABOUT WHERE WE'RE WORKING, UM, FOR OUR LAND OPPORTUNITIES.

I WILL SAY IT'S IN ALMOST EVERY CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT.

UM, AND, AND WE DO, WE DO STRUGGLE, UM, WITH, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE IN THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE, UM, MORE DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP IN PARTICULARLY DISTRICT EIGHT.

WE WORK CLOSELY WITH MAYOR PRO TEM ELLIS.

WE HAVE SOME VACANT LAND IN DISTRICT EIGHT.

WE'RE VERY PLEASED WITH, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A SOLICITATION.

WE'RE WORKING WITH HER OFFICE ON A VARIETY OF OTHER PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WOULD RESULT IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.

'CAUSE IT'S RAPIDLY GENTRIFYING.

UM, YEAH, I HAVE YOUR, I, I, I GOT YOU.

SORRY.

UH, MR. UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN HOLD TYPE.

UM, HAVE YOUR INFORMATION READY NEXT TIME.

YOU DON'T NECESSARILY, BUT YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO CIRCLE BACK TO.

ABSOLUTELY.

AND MS. JOSEPH HAS BROUGHT IT UP MORE THAN ONCE.

AND, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE DON'T JUST BE GIVEN LIP SERVICE.

I THINK I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE.

ABSOLUTELY.

I'M STARTING TO SOUND LIKE I'M HEARING MY OWN SELF.

NO.

SAYING THAT WE DON'T WANNA JUST BE DOING LIP SERVICE.

UM, IF IN FACT WE CAN HAVE IMPACT, WE EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

UM, YOU KNOW, UNDER THE, THE, THE, THE FRAMEWORK THAT WE DO HAVE IN WORKING TOGETHER AS A, AS IN, IN PARTNERSHIP, I APPRECIATE THAT.

I WOULD LOVE TO COME BACK WITH A FULLER PRESENTATION OR MAYBE HAVE OUR, OUR REAL ESTATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT TEAM DO THAT.

UM, HAPPY TO SUPPORT THAT IN ANY WAY WITH ALL OF THE DATA.

UM, BUT I, I, I DO WANT TO, WE TAKE ALL OF THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK SERIOUSLY, AND WE HEAR FROM A VARIETY OF PEOPLE.

WE HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO SAY, WE SHOULD ONLY BE INVESTING IN CENTRAL EAST AUSTIN.

WE HEAR PEOPLE, WE SHOULD ONLY BE, UH, IN, YOU KNOW, CHEAPER AREAS WHERE YOU CAN GET MORE UNITS.

YOU SHOULD ONLY BE IN WEST AUSTIN.

WE HEAR IT ALL.

AND WE TRY TO BALANCE THAT OUT.

SO WE MAKE SURE TO HIT SOME KEY CITY PRIORITIES AND LEVERAGE OUR PUBLIC DOLLARS AS, AS STRATEGICALLY AS WE CAN.

THAT'LL BE GOOD BECAUSE, AND THE ONE THING THAT I'LL SAY, UM, BEFORE I YIELD TO COMMISSIONER BROWN IS THAT, UM, THE BE MINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT OUR CITIZENS, THE, THE CITIZENS AMONG US THAT MAY NOT LIKE YOU SAY YOU HEAR FROM A LOT MM-HMM.

AND I GET THAT.

AND CHRIS, I KNOW YOU HEAR FROM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE SPEAK UP, YOU'RE ALLOWING US TO SPEAK VERSUS JUST TYPE UP AUSTIN, WE HEARD YOU .

STEWARDS OF THE MONEY AND SO FORTH, AND MS. MS. JOSEPH IS GONNA BE RIGHT HERE MAKING SURE SHE'S HOLDING ALL OF US ACCOUNTABLE.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

UM, THAT BEING THE CASE, I WANT THERE TO, UM, IIII, I SUGGEST OR I WANT US TO CONSIDER THE FACT THAT SOMETIMES IN THIS EQUITY THAT WE SPEAK ABOUT, THAT IT MAY REQUIRE YOU ALL AS, UM, AS, AS THE PROFESSIONALS WITH THIS TO BE MINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT THOSE THAT ARE IMPOVERISHED AND WHO MAY BE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SPEAK UP AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TO SPEAK UP.

SOMETIMES THAT WHEN YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE SPEAKING UP, IS JUST NOT LIKE A PRIORITY.

LET'S GUYS ABSOLUTELY.

IS GOING ON HERE.

IT'S JUST NOT A PRIORITY.

SO ALL I'M SAYING IS IF YOU ALL WOULD BE GOOD

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AND THE THING ABOUT IT IS, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHEN EACH TIME YOU SPEAK, THAT IT'S NOT JUST LIP SERVICE.

ABSOLUTELY.

IF, IF WE CAN.

AND I, AND I HAVEN'T FELT THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT, BUT I DO WANNA BE ON RECORD OF SAYING THAT AGAIN, WE HAVE TO BE ABOUT WHO WE'RE HERE TO SERVE.

AND I, I WILL SAY, UH, SHOUT OUT TO CHRIS DURAN.

, UM, FOR PUTTING TOGETHER THE COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

AND THIS YEAR WE REALLY EXPANDED WHO WE ARE TALKING TO.

UM, I THINK BASED ON OUR KIND OF REQUIREMENTS, WE HAVE TO GO TO A VARIETY OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, WHICH IS FANTASTIC.

BUT WE'VE REALLY TRIED TO REACH OUT TO ORGANIZATIONS AND WE HEARD TONIGHT WE HEARD GAVA, WE HEARD AISD MM-HMM.

UM, BUT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE SERVING LOW INCOME PEOPLE TO REALLY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING MORE DIRECT ONE-ON-ONE INPUT MM-HMM.

, UM, FROM ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WE WANT TO REACH.

WE APPRECIATE THAT FOLKS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.

I JUST WANTED TO GET CLARITY, UM, TO THE SPEAKER.

WITH THE SPEAKER.

UM, ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU DISAGREE THAT A LOT OF THE BURDEN IN REGARDS TO HOMELESSNESS BEING PLACED IN EAST AUSTIN AND UM, UH, LOWER INCOME, UH, SECTIONS DO, ARE YOU AGREEING THAT THAT'S NOT A FAIR PUBLIC OPINION? 'CAUSE WHEN I, AND I TALK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND I LIVE IN EAST AUSTIN, I MEAN, LIKE YOU SAID, MS. MS. JOSEPH TALKED ABOUT THE MARSHALING YARDS.

SHE TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THE BURDEN THAT THAT IS BEING PLACED ON EAST AUSTIN AND THE CONCENTRATION OF P POVERTY.

SO DO YOU DISAGREE WITH THAT? UM, PUBLIC OPINION AND, AND, AND, AND THE PATTERNS AND THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SAYING.

SO WHEN YOU MENTIONED BRINGING DATA, WILL THE DATA SHOW THAT IT, UM, THAT IT IS SPREAD EQUALLY? OR WOULD YOU, WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THAT YOU DO AGREE THAT, THAT THE BURDEN HAS BEEN PLACED A LOT IN THESE LOWER ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES? I AM NOT HERE TO AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE PUBLIC OPINION, UM, OR THE FOLKS YOU'RE HEARING FROM.

I MEAN, THAT IS, THAT IS A FACT.

WHAT I DO WANT TO SAY IS PROVIDE INFORMATION ON WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHERE WE ARE SERVING SPECIFICALLY PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, WHERE WE ARE INVESTING OUR DOLLARS, AND HOW WE ARE MINDFUL.

UM, AND I THINK IT MAY BE HELPFUL ALSO TO BRING IN, UM, SOMEBODY FROM HOUSING WORKS WHO DOES OUR BLUEPRINT SCORECARD, WHICH LOOKS AT CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT, UM, PROGRESS TOWARD MEETING AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOALS.

I THINK YOU'VE SEEN THAT IT'S ON, I THINK THEY'VE PRESENTED BEFORE.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.

I CAN'T REMEMBER.

UM, MS. JOSEPH, UH, REFERENCED, UH, SOME DATA THAT WAS IN THE PRO HOUSING GRANT THAT TOLD PART OF A STORY.

WE SPECIFICALLY INCLUDED THAT IN THE PRO HOUSING GRANT BECAUSE IT CALLED OUT SOME CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT HAD NOT ADDED, I THINK IT WAS 10 UNITS OVER THE LAST YEAR.

BUT THE OTHER PART OF THE STORY WAS THE NUMBER OF UNITS WHICH WAS IN EXCESS OF A THOUSAND THAT ARE IN THE PIPELINE.

THEY'RE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

SO A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, THERE'S A LAG TIME.

WE HAVE MADE THE COMMITMENT THROUGH THE STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT, WHICH WAS ADOPTED IN 2017.

WE ESTABLISHED CITY COUNCIL GOALS IN 2019.

THAT'S FOUR YEARS NOW THAT WE'VE STARTED TO START TRACKING WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR CITY COUNCIL GOALS.

ONE OF THE GOALS OF BOTH IMAGINE AUSTIN AND THE STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT IS DISPERSION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACROSS THE CITY OF AUSTIN.

AND SO I JUST, I WANNA REITERATE THAT COMMITMENT.

WELL, IT JUST SOUNDS, IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETIMES THERE'S A LAG TIME FOR THINGS IN, IN EAST AND OTHER OR WEST AND OTHER COMMUNITIES, BUT, AND IN EAST AUSTIN, WHEN THERE'S THINGS THAT WE REALLY NEED, WE GET THE LAG TIME, BUT WHEN IT'S THE CITY NEEDING TO EXPEDITE, UH, THE CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY, THAT SEEMS TO BE DONE PRETTY QUICKLY IN OTHER COMMUNITIES, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LAG TIME.

THAT'S JUST MY OPINION.

BUT WOULD YOUR, DO YOUR, DOES YOUR DATA STATE THAT, THAT IT IS BEING SPREAD OUT EQUITABLY RIGHT NOW? SO I, I WILL COME BACK, OUR TEAM WILL COME BACK WITH THE DATA ABOUT WHERE OUR HOUSING INVESTMENTS ARE IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, WHAT THE PRIORITIES WERE IN TERMS OF COUNCIL PRIORITIES, WHERE WE ARE GOING TO INVEST, WHICH INCLUDE HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREAS AND GENTRIFYING AREAS AND ALIGNMENT WITH PROJECT CONNECT.

OH, WE HAVE THE DATA, WE HAVE DASHBOARDS, WE HAVE DATA.

SO AT THAT'S, SO AT THIS'S POINT, YOU, YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW.

SO THAT'S WHY Y'ALL ARE COMING BACK, IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

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I'M HAPPY TO BRING IT BACK.

MM-HMM, .

BUT YOU CAN'T STATE RIGHT NOW WHAT THE DATA STAY IS OR, OR LET US KNOW WHAT THE DATA SAYS IN REGARDS TO THERE IS, THERE IS OR IS NOT.

UM, IT, IT IS OR IS NOT BEING SPREAD EQUALLY RIGHT NOW, I HEAR YOU SAYING YOU'RE COMING BACK AND I'M, I'M, I WELCOME THAT QUESTION.

I AM NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO TELL YOU EVEN IF I COME BACK, BECAUSE YOUR DEFINITION OF SPREAD EQUALLY MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM YOUR COLLEAGUE'S DEFINITION OF SPREAD EQUALLY.

UM, ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS EXACTLY WHAT THE DATA SAYS, WHERE THE UNITS ARE LOCATED, WHERE THE LAND FOR FUTURE DISPOSITION IS LOCATED, WHERE THE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS LOCATED, WHERE WE ARE MAKING THOSE INVESTMENTS.

AND THEN COMPARING THAT TO CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES AND GOALS, UH, FOR HOUSING.

WOULD IT BE REASONABLE TO HAVE THAT PRESENTATION MAYBE IN FEBRUARY? SURE.

I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S EXISTING DATA THAT WOULD BE BE GREAT.

BUT I WOULD LIKE, AND I'M NOT INTERESTED IN, UM, AND, UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN, I, I, I HOPE YOU WOULD AGREE THAT I'M NOT INTERESTED IN, UH, SOME LARGE DOCUMENT NO.

WITH ALL THE DATA I'M LOOKING, I'M INTERESTED IN SOMETHING THAT IS PRETTY REALLY, UH, ALMOST A ONE-PAGER OF SOME SORT AND, UM, THAT ALLOW US TO BE ABLE TO LIKE, UH, UH, INFO, INFO, NOT AN INFOMERCIAL, BUT A, UM, INFOGRAPHICS.

A GRAPHIC, YEAH.

AN INFOGRAPHIC.

SOMETHING THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE ASKING, FEBRUARY WOULD BE GREAT.

AND WE WILL PROVIDE AND ACTUALLY HAVE ALREADY PREPARED INFOGRAPHICS.

WHERE DIFFERENT INVESTMENTS ARE LOCATED.

UH, SHOWING YOU BY CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT, THE FULL CITY OKAY.

YEAH, THAT'D BE FINE.

WOULD THAT, WOULD THE COMMISSIONER BROWN, WOULD THAT WORK FOR, THAT GIVES US OUT OF THE HOLIDAY, THE DECEMBER MEETING.

UM, AND THEN I PUT IT FOR THE FEBRUARY MEETING, BUT IF WE WANNA DO JANUARY, LET'S SAY YOU COMMISSIONER BROWN, UH, I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S FINE WITH ME.

I JUST, UH, YEAH, I, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO, TO SEE THAT.

'CAUSE I MEAN, I DON'T THINK WHAT MS. JOSEPH IS SAYING AND WHAT A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS IS SAYING IS, IS, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT, THAT FAR OFF.

SO I DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT.

, MS. JOSEPH, IT'S FEBRUARY.

IS THAT A REASONABLE TIME? UH, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR FOR ASKING.

I I THINK THAT'S REASONABLE.

I WOULD JUST ASK AS WELL THAT YOU ACTUALLY ASK FOR DENSITY SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE INVESTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

I WILL, UH, YOU KNOW, I CAN SEE THAT THAT IS TRUE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT CANDLEWOOD SUITES, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WAS LESS THAN A HUNDRED UNITS.

BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT AS FERAL RUTLAND, THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT 51 A PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS, AND THEN IT WENT FROM 51 TO 101 OF THE 171 WHERE CAPITAL METRO ELIMINATED TWO 40 RUTLAND THE BUS.

SO LOOKING AT WHERE THE INVESTMENTS ARE IS JUST NOT ENOUGH.

AND I WOULD ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE AS WELL THAT YOU HAVE THE REAL, FOR EXAMPLE, PROPERTY, BUT THAT'S FAMILY ELDER CARE NEAR THE RAIL LINE.

MLK AND CANDLEWOOD SUITES IS FAMILY ELDER CARE AS WELL.

SO IT, IT FEELS, THIS IS JUST ANECDOTAL, UM, THAT WHERE THE, THE NICE AMENITIES ARE AND IN THE AREAS, UM, WHERE NORTHWEST, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT POPULATION CHANGED WITHOUT A TRANSPARENT DISCUSSION, IT WAS GONNA BE THE WOMEN, IT WAS GOING, YOU KNOW, NOT SINGLE.

SO IT, IT, YES, IT, FEBRUARY IS PLENTY OF TIME, BUT I THINK YOU ALSO NEED TO KNOW THE DENSITY.

YOU NEED TO KNOW THE POPULATION.

AND I THINK IF YOU HAVE A MAP OVERLAY, YOU CAN GET AT SOME OF WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR SUCCINCTLY.

MS. DE MAY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT? WE ALREADY, WE HAVE THAT DATA.

SHOWING A HEAT MAP THAT'LL SHOW THE DENSITY OF UNITS AND ITS PROXIMITY TO PROJECT CONNECT.

THAT IS ALL, UM, CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.

I WILL EXPECT YOU TO BE HERE AT THAT TIME AS WELL.

SO YES MA'AM TOO.

UH, COMMISSIONER WOODS.

UM, YES, I, I DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO SEE A MAP, NOT JUST WITH, LIKE YOU SAY, THE HEAT MAP FEATURING THE DENSITY FEATURING TRANSIT CORRIDORS INCLUDE THE ETOS, UM, THAT ARE UNDER DISCUSSION FOR PROJECT CONNECT.

AND, UM, IF YOU CAN FOLD IN THE AVAILABILITY OF AMENITIES, LIKE OKAY, HEALTHCARE, FOOD, UM, THINGS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE.

UM, I KNOW THIS IS A LOT OF DATA, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT Y'ALL HAVE IT, OR SOMEONE DOES, I BELIEVE THEY DO TOO.

, I'M SURE WE HAVE THE DATA.

I'M JUST THINKING THROUGH HOW WE WOULD PRESENT THAT.

UM, BUT WE HAVE ALL, WE HAVE ALL OF THAT IN DIFFERENT LAYERS THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON AND CLICK OFF.

AND WE'LL CERTAINLY PROVIDE YOU, UM, LOVE MAP ONE PAGER, LOVEABLE MAP WITH COLORS.

UM, BUT IT WON'T BE A ONE PAGER, BUT WE WILL DO A, A PRESENTATION

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THAT ONE YOU CAN TURN ON AND ON.

SOMETHING THAT WE CAN INFO INFOGRAPHICS.

SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO, UH, WE DON'T WANT TO FOR YOU TO BE, AND I, I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, PULL THE WOOL OVER OUR LIVES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THAT'S NOT, BUT IT DOES NEED TO BE SOMETHING WITH SOME CLARITY SO THAT AS, AS, AS LONG AS EVERYBODY IS ON THE UP AND UP, THERE IS NO PROBLEM.

AND SO I BELIEVE I'M GONNA BE IN GOOD FAITH AND SAY I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING.

AND I'M GONNA BE ASKING FOR, UH, JUST AS COMMISSIONER WOODS AND, UH, MS. JOSEPH AND COMMISSIONER BROWN, UM, HAVE, UM, ASKED FOR, AND I KNOW THAT YOU CAN PUT PULL IT OFF.

SURE.

WE'RE HAPPY TO TOGETHER AND WE'LL AIM FOR FEBRUARY.

THAT GIVES EVERYBODY TIME TO PUT TOGETHER IT DOWN IN THE WAY THAT WE GOT, WON'T GET MM-HMM, .

THAT'S PERFECT.

OKIE DOKIE.

MADAM CHAIR.

JUST ONE LAST THING, VERY LAST THING, SISTER.

YES, MA'AM.

THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT THOUGH, UM, TO INCLUDE THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME.

FOR TRANSPARENCY'S SAKE, I JUST WANT YOU TO, TO BE CLEAR THAT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN EAST PUBLIC FACILITY CORPORATION DEALS THAT THEY'VE MADE WITH THE DEVELOPER FROM SAN FRANCISCO, OFTEN 60 TO 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME IS IN THE WEST SIDE.

SO I JUST WANT YOU TO BE CLEAR THAT THAT IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR TO LOOK AT AS WELL.

AND LASTLY, I WOULD JUST SAY, UM, THE RESERVE AT SPRINGDALE, WHICH WAS A HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN PROPERTY.

NOVEMBER 1ST, 2017, IS WHEN CAPITOL METRO HAD THEIR PUBLIC HEARING.

AND EVEN THOUGH THE BUS STOP WAS THERE, THE 300 ROUTE AND THE DEVELOPER RYAN COMPANIES ACTUALLY ASKED THEM TO LEAVE IT THERE SO THEY COULD HAVE SOME TYPE OF MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT.

THEY HAD A LITTLE CAFE.

HE SAID, IF YOU MOVE THE STOPS, IT WILL KILL THE MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT.

AND SO THE CITY DID NOT STEP UP AND THAT WAS THAT BUS STOP WAS MOVED AND THE BLACK PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE PREDOMINANTLY HAD TO WALK A HALF A MILE TO 51ST STREET.

AND THE PEOPLE AT BLANTON ELEMENTARY HAD TO WALK A MILE BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO SERVE THE WHITES THAT HAD MILLION DOLLAR HOMES IN MUELLER.

SO I JUST WANT YOU TO BE CLEAR ABOUT NOT JUST PROJECT CONNECT, BUT WHAT, WHAT THE HISTORY IS FOR CONTEXT.

AND SO I JUST, I APPRECIATE YOU ALLOWING ME TO SAY THAT AS WELL.

WELL, I'M KEEP YOU, YOU GONNA BE NEARBY TO, TO BE LOOKING AT THIS SO YOU UNDERSTAND YOU AND YOU CAN ANTICIPATE THOSE OTHER THINGS.

MS. MANDY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR ALL.

UH, OUR HOUR IS LATE, UM, COMMISSION, SO WE'RE GONNA KEEP ROLLING.

UH, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT I NEED TO ADHERE TO MR. BLAKE? 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE OUTTA HERE IN 10 MINUTES OR LESS.

LET'S ROCK, ROCK.

ROCK AND ROLL.

ALRIGHT, WE'RE READY FOR YOU.

UM, TURN THIS ON.

TO CITY COUNCIL REGARDING THE HOME INITIATIVE.

SO I HAVE A RECOMMENDATION

[6. Approve a recommendation regarding the HOME Initiative (Vice Chair Elias)]

UM, DO YOU HAVE THAT TO SHARE OR PROJECT? I THOUGHT YOU DID A GOOD JOB, WASN'T IT? THANK YOU.

THERE IS.

YEP.

SO WE, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PUBLIC, UM, COMMENT, PUBLIC INPUT PART OF THE HOME INITIATIVE, UH, ACTUALLY GOING ON ACROSS THE, THE HALLWAY AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION NOW, UM, DECEMBER 7TH IS WHEN THE CITY COUNCIL WILL HEAR IT.

UM, SO IF YOU SEE THE, THE WHERE AS, UM, UH, GIVES US HISTORY, UM, SHOWING US THE UPROOTED REPORT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IDENTIFYING, UH, ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS, MOSTLY MOST OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE EASTERN CRESCENT AS, UH, BEING VULNERABLE TO DISPLACEMENT AND IN NEED OF ANTI-DISPLACEMENT INTERVENTION.

UM, AND THEN I PULLED FROM THE ACTUAL HOME INITIATIVE REPORT ON THE IMPACT STATEMENT, UH, WHICH STATES THAT WITH THIS, UH, HOME INITIATIVE, UM, HOLD ON, THAT UPSELLING, UH, HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED NEIGHBORHOODS LEADS TO DISPLACEMENT AS WE KNOW THAT ALSO DISPLAY DISPLACEMENT PRESSURES FROM PROPERTY TAXES MAY INCREASE, UH, DUE TO THE HOME INITIATIVE.

AND THAT PARTIES WITH MORE RESOURCES MAY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NEW REGULATORY LANDSCAPE, WHILE THOSE WITH FEWEST RESOURCES WILL EXPERIENCE AN INCREASE IN PRECARITY.

UM, I ALSO INCLUDED, UM, THE LAST, ONE OF THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS ON, ON THIS, WHICH WAS ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, UH, TO BE BUILT ON SINGLE FAMILY LOTS.

UM, I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER TOBO ASKED TO ADD SOMETHING WHICH WAS, UH, EXPLORING LOANS AND CREATIVE FINANCE FINANCING SO THAT MIDDLE AND LOW INCOME PROPERTY OWNERS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE CHANGES.

UM, AND SO IN THE,

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IN THE REST, IN THE ASKS, I GUESS, UM, THOSE THINGS ARE, ARE ADDRESSED.

UH, SO THE FIRST ONE WOULD BE THAT, UH, WE WOULD NEED AN EQUITY ANALYSIS, UH, TO BE PERFORMED, WHICH WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, THAT PEOPLE LIVING IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE, HOW ARE THEY IMPACTED? I KNOW THAT THEY TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT IN THE IMPACT STATEMENT, BUT I WOULD, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT, UM, MORE THAT IMPACT.

UH, THIS NEXT ONE WOULD BE, SORRY, I GOT LOST ON THIS ONE.

UM, OH YEAH.

TO PROPERLY ENGAGE, UH, LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS AND RENTERS IN AN EFFORT TO PRESERVE EXISTING AFFORDABLE HOMES, UM, WE, UH, WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN THE HOME INITIATIVE RIGHT NOW.

AND THEN IN THE HOME INITIATIVE REQUIRES, OH, ADD REQUIREMENTS OF AFFORDABILITY, PREVENTION, OF DEMOLITIONS, AND, UH, STEADY THE LOCALIZED FLOODING, UH, MITIGATION EFFORTS.

UM, THE LAST TWO SPEAK ON, OH, THE, THE SECOND TO THE LAST ONE, SORRY, UH, GOES WITH, WITH THE FIFTH, UH, UH, FIFTH PARAGRAPH, WHICH, UH, TALKS ABOUT THOSE WITH, WITH, UH, MORE RESOURCES CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NEW LANDSCAPE.

UM, ONE BIG CONCERN IS THAT, UM, FINDING LAND TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS, UH, VERY DIFFICULT IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN.

UH, WHETHER IT BE THE CITY TRYING TO FIND LAND, WHETHER THE CITY TRYING TO FIND LAND OR, UM, ENTITIES THAT BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

AND NOW THEY HAVE TO COMPETE, UH, WITH, UH, SPECULATORS, UH, PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO BUY THESE LOTS.

SO THE HOME INITIATIVE WILL, UM, INCREASE THAT INCREASE.

UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE COMPETITION FOR THESE LOTS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO USE TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR LIKE TO ACQUIRE, TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

I KNOW THAT, UH, SERVING ON THE PROJECT CONNECT, CAC, WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT THIS.

UH, WE ASK THEM, YOU KNOW, WHY CAN'T YOU BUY MORE LAND ALONG THE PROJECT CONNECT ROUTE? AND THEY SAY, WE ARE COMPETING AGAINST PRIVATE DEVELOPERS.

AND SO THE HOME INITIATIVE WILL INCREASE THAT COMPETITION.

AND FINALLY, UH, GOING BACK TO WHAT, UM, WHAT THEY DID IN 2021, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT THE HOME INITIATIVE INCLUDE EXPLORING GRANTS AND LOANS AND OTHER FINANCE OPTIONS TO HAVE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIDDLE AND LOW INCOME AUSTINITES TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS, UM, BUILDING.

AND ADU IS NOT CHEAP.

BUILDING ANOTHER UNIT IS NOT CHEAP.

SO PEOPLE WITH, UH, AGAIN, MIDDLE AND LOW INCOME, UM, INCOMES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

SO AGAIN, GOING BACK TO WHO'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, IT'S GOING TO BE PEOPLE WITH, WITH THE MONEY TO DO THAT.

SO, UM, IT'S, UH, PROJECTED.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT.

UH, YES, GO AHEAD NOW.

THIS LOOKS GOOD.

AND I'M, I'M HAPPY THAT WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION.

AND, UH, TAKING A VOTE HERE SOON.

BUT I WOULD LIKE TO POSS I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN, UH, A MOTION FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE SECTION THAT SPEAKS ABOUT ENGAGING, UH, HOMEOWNERS AND, UH, RENTAL, RENTAL, UH, PEOPLE THAT RENT MM-HMM.

, UH, IF, IF IT, IF I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO SEE IT, UH, OR ADD, UM, BLACK AND BROWN NONPROFITS THAT SERVE THESE LOW INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

SOMETIMES, UM, YOU KNOW, THE RENTERS OR, UM, HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS MAY NOT BE THERE, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF BLACK AND BROWN, UM, COMMUNITY, UH, ORGANIZATIONS THAT DO A LOT OF WORK WITH THESE, UH, HOMEOWNERS AND, AND RENTALS AND, AND EVEN SOME THAT HAVE THAT AREN'T IN AUSTIN ANYMORE.

BUT I JUST DON'T, I THINK THAT THEY, THEY DON'T DO A GOOD JOB.

UH, CITY COUNCIL DON'T DO A GOOD JOB OF LEANING ON THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO, TO, UH, HAVE IT HAVE THAT INPUT TOO.

BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO, TO ADD THAT IN THERE.

AND, AND I, I THINK THIS IS REALLY GOOD.

WHERE DO YOU UP, UM, YEAH, SO, SO IT CAN READ SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF PROPERLY ENGAGED LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS, RENTERS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK WITH, UM, WITH THESE, DID YOU WANT SPECIFICALLY, ARE YOU LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT COMMISSIONER BROWN TO HAVE BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES? I, I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO SAY BLACK AND BROWN.

NONPROFITS THAT, UM, THAT WORK IN THESE COMMUNITIES.

WORK WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES.

WITH, WITH THE COMMUNITIES.

TAKE A VOTE TO AMEND, UH, PROPERLY ENGAGED LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS, RENTERS AND BLACK AND BROWN, BLACK AND BROWN NONPROFITS THAT WORK WITH THESE COMMUNITIES TO PRESERVE EXISTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

UH, SO I CAN READ IT BACK.

AND DO WE NEED A VOTE TO AMEND? MM-HMM.

? YES, WE DO.

SO I'LL READ IT BACK AND THEN WE'LL

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DOES THAT SOUND CORRECT? CORRECT.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE, UM, FOR THE AMENDMENT.

UH, YES.

TO SECOND IT.

YOU WANNA SECOND IT? YEAH.

HOLD ON.

COMMISSIONER, UM, BROWN.

AND ALSO, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? YES.

UM, I PRINTED OFF A COPY AND OF COURSE I LET YOU KNOW .

SO, UM, DO WE HAVE A SPECIFIC ASK FOR A DELAY? I, I CAN'T HEAR.

YOU'RE FINE.

I'LL CONTINUE.

I'M SO SORRY.

UM, CAN WE ASK FOR A SPECIFIC, UM, SPECIFICALLY ASK FOR A DELAY IN VOTING ON EITHER PHASE ONE OR PHASE TWO OF THE HOME INITIATIVE? UM, BECAUSE COUNSEL HAS PUT THEIR, YOU KNOW, SCHEDULE, UH, VOTING IN EARLY DECEMBER AND THEN ANOTHER PHASE, UH, IN MARCH.

, THAT'S A RIDICULOUS TIMELINE.

IN MY OPINION.

UM, MM-HMM.

AND IF THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO DO ANY OF THIS STUFF, THEY WILL NEED TO, THEY HAVE NOT DONE THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH THAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO.

DEFINITELY.

UM, THANK YOU.

CAN, DO WE FINISH? CAN WE FINISH UP THE VOTE? YEAH, LET ME FINISH.

LET'S, LET'S DO THAT PARTNER.

WE'LL COME UP WITH THE FRIENDLY.

ALRIGHT, NO WORRIES.

I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT WAS ON THE TABLE.

UM, CAN WE MAKE A MOTION? UM, UM, COMMISSIONER BROWN, WE'RE GETTING YOUR AMENDMENT, UM, VOTED ON RIGHT NOW.

UH, CAN WE MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ARE GOING TO AMEND THE, UM, RESOLUTION AS PER COMMISSIONER BROWN'S REQUEST? DO I HAVE A MOTION? THINK YOU OKAY.

UH, COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER.

COMMISSIONER.

COMMISSIONER WOODS SECOND.

COMMISSIONER ES OKAY.

YEAH, I MOTION IN A SECOND.

MOTION COMMISSIONER SECOND.

YEAH, HE, YOU.

AND COMMISSIONER WOODS SECONDED.

AND THEN WE ARE ALSO GOING TO BE LOOKING TO DO, OH, LET'S DO THE VOTE.

LET'S DO THE VOTE.

LET AMENDMENT, UM, UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADDING THE AMENDMENT AS SO READ BY, UM, COMMISSIONER S LET ME SEE.

SHOW OF HANDS.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA, I KNOW YOU'RE HANGING IN THERE.

EVERYBODY WAS UNANIMOUS.

WE ALL ARE, ARE IN FAVOR OF, OKAY.

AND THEN, UM, THE NEW AMENDMENT TO ASK CITY COUNCIL, UM, TO, AND SO I, I, I GUESS I NEED SOME CLARIFICATION ON THAT.

UH, FROM COMMISSIONER WOODS, WOULD IT BE SETTING A TIMELINE OR SAYING DELAY THE VOTE ON PHASE ONE? AND CAN YOU CLARIFY A LITTLE BIT? I, UH, I'M OPEN TO ANY NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES OR SIMPLY JUST A ALERT TO REQUEST FOR A DELAY ON ANY VOTE BY COUNCIL.

SO RIGHT NOW IT SAYS, UH, BE IT RESOLVED AT THE AUSTIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, ADVISES THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL TO POSTPONE THE VOTE.

OH, WELL, THERE YOU ARE.

THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.

READ THAT.

I JUST, SO NO, NO AMENDMENT.

NO AMENDMENT NECESSARY.

HAD YOU WANTED TO CLARIFIED ONE AND TWO, UM, WHAT DO YOU THINK? SO POSTPONE THE VOTE ON PHASE ONE AND TWO.

ADD, YEAH, ADD THAT WE'RE POSTPONING IT TO WHEN JUST POSTPONE PERIOD.

IS IT AN INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT? WELL, UH, THEY ALL SAY UNTIL INEQUITY ANALYSIS CAN BE PERFORMED.

SO, UH, IS COMMISSIONER WOODS CONSIDERED MOTION MADE? UH, SOMEBODY SECOND.

IT'S A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT COMMISSIONER.

UH, DO, UM, COMMISSIONER WOODS HAS MADE A MOTION, A FRIENDLY, UM, AMENDMENT MOTION.

UM, DO WE HAVE A SECOND FOR THAT ONE? I, I SECOND.

COMMISSIONER BROWN IS GONNA, UH, RETURN THE FAVOR AND SECOND COMMISSIONER WOODS' AMENDMENT.

SO DO WE HAVE A VOTE, MS. REDDY? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.

, ANYTHING ELSE? WE, LET'S DO THE WHOLE THING.

NEED THE WHOLE THING? ALL RIGHT.

THOSE OF YOU ALL.

SO THERE WE'VE HAD TWO AMENDMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE ON IT.

LET'S, UM, DO I HEAR A MOTION OVERALL FOR THE ENTIRE RESOLUTION TO BE ADOPTED, UM, BY THE COMMISSION.

YOU WANNA MAKE A MOTION? I WILL MAKE THAT MOTION.

THAT WE, UH, VOTE ON THIS AMENDMENT, THIS RECOMMENDATION, UH, FOR THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE HOME INITIATIVE.

A SECOND FOR THIS? I'M SECOND.

DO I HAVE, UH,

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COMMISSIONER DELGADO SECONDS.

DO WE HAVE A VOTE? WE'RE READY FOR OUR VOTE.

IN FAVOR OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE RECOMMENDATION.

UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AND WE ARE, WE ARE.

[7. Update from the Austin Transit Partnership Community Advisory Committee (CAC) (Vice Chair Elias)]

ITEM BEFORE, UM, REALLY FAST.

WE HAVE OUR WORKING GROUP COMMITTEE UPDATE.

UM, COMMISSIONER ELLIS, YOU'RE GONNA GIVE US THAT AND THEN WE WILL END WITH CREATING A, UM, COMMITTEE FOR WITH YOU AND COMMISSIONER ES UM, MM-HMM.

SO, WE'LL, YOU GO ON AND DO YOUR REPORT AND THEN WE'LL DO THAT.

SO A, A QUICK REPORT ON THE PROJECT AND THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

UH, JUST TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS.

UH, ONE IS THE ANTI DISPLACEMENT FUNDING DASHBOARD IS GOING TO GO LIVE AND IT WILL SHOW, UM, WHERE THAT MONEY HAS GONE.

AND, UH, IT WILL SHOW HOW THEY'RE SPENDING IT.

SO THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT RECEIVED, UH, THE MONEY, UH, YOU CAN SEE ON THERE WHO RECEIVED IT AND HOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE SPENDING IT.

ALMOST LIKE WHAT HIL GIVES US WITH HOW MANY FAMILIES ARE AFFECTED, HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY REACHED OUT TO.

SO THAT'S ONE THING.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THE CAC, UH, THE COMMITTEE ITSELF, UH, IS RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS.

UM, PEOPLE, SOME MEMBERS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY ON THERE HAVE, UM, EITHER NEED TO, UH, REAPPLY MM-HMM.

, OR SOME OF THEM HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO REAPPLY, SO THEY NEED TO BE REPLACED.

SO YOU CAN GO TO THE PROJECT CONNECT WEBSITE AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY, UM, APPLY FOR A POSITION AND THERE'S, THERE'S A COMMITTEE OR THERE'S A WORKING GROUP, UH, THAT WILL WORK ON GOING THROUGH THE APPLICATIONS.

AND THEY ALSO GO THROUGH ATP AND THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL AS WELL.

SO IF ANYBODY'S, UH, INTERESTED IN THAT, UH, YOU CAN APPLY TO BE ON THE CAC.

THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.

UM, UM, MM-HMM? , I DO HAVE A QUESTION.

WHAT'S YOUR QUICK QUESTION? UM, I DO HAVE A QUESTION TO STAFF REGARDING, UM, THE, UH, FOUR VACANCIES THAT ARE OPEN.

THAT'S WHY WE'RE NOT MAKING CORN, RIGHT? MM-HMM.

, YOU KNOW, SO IF SOMEBODY'S RUNNING LATE MM-HMM.

LIKE ME SOMETIMES.

OR IF SOMEBODY'S ABSENT, THEN WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM.

WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, AND THEN EVERYBODY GETS UPSET, EVERYBODY GOES HOME AND WE LOSE A WHOLE MONTH OF WORK.

UM, CAN I ASK STAFF AND I DON'T KNOW WHO, WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS.

UH, HOW LONG HAS ROSEWOOD SARAGOSA BLACKLAND BEEN VACANT? AND THEN THAT'S ONE QUESTION.

THE NEXT ONE IS, WHEN ARE WE GONNA GET VACANCIES? THAT'S THE SECOND QUESTION.

FOR THE REST, THE STEP, WE ARE WORKING TO GET ALL OF THE VACANCIES FILLED.

I WISH ON HILL WAS HERE.

'CAUSE HE'S ACTUALLY THE ONE WORKING ON OSA BLACK LAND.

'CAUSE I THINK IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR TWO YEARS.

IT'S BEEN THAT LONG.

IT'S BEEN LONG.

I DON'T REMEMBER WHEN OUR COMMISSIONER, UH, DOTTED, WE HAD A, WE HAD A COMMISSIONER THAT SERVED FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

AND THEN WE DID MM-HMM.

FROM ROSEWOOD LAST YEAR? NO YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE THIS? THIS YEAR.

THIS YEAR.

BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR HER NAME 'CAUSE I WAS LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE.

OH, THAT'S THE ONE.

OH, OKAY.

NO, I WAS LOOKING FOR THE ONE.

SO WE WE DID HAVE A ROSEWOOD, UH, ELECTED.

UH, YES.

AND HE SERVED A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

AND YEAH, WE LOST HIM.

SO.

SO, YEAH.

I DO YOU KNOW WHY, WHY WE'RE, UH, I, UH, MANDY DE MAYO DEPUTY DIRECTOR? I WISH I HAD A GOOD ANSWER.

I WILL SAY THIS WHOLE TEAM HAS BEEN STRATEGIZING ABOUT HOW TO GET THOSE FILLED.

WE ARE NOT, SO SOME OF THESE ARE NOMINATED AND, UH, ON HOW ZAMBRANO HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE CENTERS, THE TWO CENTERS THAT YOU MENTIONED.

WE ALSO HAVE SOME CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEES.

WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE CITY COUNCIL OFFICES.

UM, AND WE'RE WORKING ON A COMMUNICATIONS THAT THEY CAN SEND OUT TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

UM, UH, WE'RE ALL FRUSTRATED.

DO, DO WE KNOW WHICH CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS NEED TO APPOINT? I BELIEVE THERE'S TWO, UH, CITY COUNCIL UH, OFFICES.

ONE IS COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON, AND THE OTHER IS COUNCIL MEMBER VELA.

UM, AND I KNOW THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME, BUT THEY, PEOPLE APPLY TO BE ON THE COMMISSIONS AND THEY WAIT.

AND, UM, WE HAVE TALKED TO THEM,

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UM, WOULD, WOULD THAT BE LIKE ADVISING CITY, THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO LOOK AT THOSE APPLICATIONS AND SEE IF I DID NOT KNOW THAT.

THAT IS GOOD TO KNOW.

AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCE RIGHT HERE.

PERMISSION .

JUST TALK ABOUT IT.

IF, IF I CAN SHARE, UM, I APPLIED IN APRIL, UM, AND I, I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE IN OCTOBER.

I JUST MM-HMM.

WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE THAT ONE, SO I REALLY APOLOGIZE.

UM, AND THEN WE DO HAVE A NEW COMMISSIONER IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

HE WAS JUST APPOINTED, UM, BY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON'S OFFICE.

UM, SO THE PRIVATE SECTOR APPOINTEE WAS CONFIRMED BY CITY COUNCIL.

IT'LL MAKE THINGS FUN 'CAUSE IT'S A COMMISSIONER DELGADO.

SO WE'LL HAVE TWO .

OH YEAH.

GREAT.

UM, BUT HE JUST HASN'T BEEN TRAINED, SO, 'CAUSE HE JUST GOT APPROVED.

AND SO, SO JUST A COUPLE THINGS TO SAY.

LIKE, I LIKE HAD PEOPLE, HE AND I BOTH HAD PEOPLE HELPING US AND IT TOOK US, ME SIX MONTHS, HIM EIGHT MONTHS.

UM, AND THAT WAS REACHING OUT TO FOLKS ASKING .

UM, AND, AND I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT I, AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN HE'LL GET TRAINED.

I DO KNOW IT CAN BE HARD TO MAKE THE TRAINING SCHEDULE AS WELL SOMETIMES 'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S A SHORT WINDOW.

UM, BUT JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE AND THEN, AND IT'S, IT ISN'T, IT'S NOT, I KNOW WE KEEP ASKING 'CAUSE IT ISN'T CLEAR HOW TO, HOW TO FOLLOW UP TO, SO LIKE I KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LOVE TO BE ON THE COMMISSION, UM, BUT I WOULDN'T KNOW WHO TO FOLLOW UP WITH.

AND SINCE I KNOW IT DOESN'T SEEM TO PROGRESS VERY QUICKLY WITHOUT FOLLOW UP, I JUST WOULD WANNA HELP HER FOLLOW UP.

UM, BUT IF, UM, IF JOSE IS, OR ACTUALLY NO, YOU, YOU DIDN'T SAY, YOU SAID VELA.

SO I'LL, I'LL, I WILL ENCOURAGE HER TO APPLY, UM, AND CAN HELP FOLLOW UP.

BUT I KNOW I'LL EMAIL IF YOU HAD TOLD ME TO EMAIL TO HELP FOLLOW UP.

SO IT SOUNDS LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, HARPER MADISON'S APPOINTEE HAS MADE IT THROUGH AT LEAST THE CITY COUNCIL PROCESS THAT YES.

SO WE WELL COULD HAVE PRIVATE ONE MORE COMMISSIONER.

THAT MEANS WE'RE DOWN THREE.

AND HIS NAME IS UP.

HE'S JUST NOT TRAINED, SO HE COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY.

THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.

'CAUSE UM, UM, AGAIN, I, I FEEL LIKE WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, FILLING UP THESE SEATS, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES FOREVER.

IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO ACCESS.

IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO FOLLOW UP.

SO I JUST, I HOPE THAT WE CAN DO BETTER AND TRYING TO GET THESE SEATS FILLED.

SO WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE CORN.

COMMISSIONER DELGADO.

UM, I DO BELIEVE, UM, AND I'VE ALREADY MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT WITH THE, UM, WORKING COMMITTEE.

THAT'S ALL THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE.

IS THAT CORRECT? ED? THE WORKING COMMITTEE BETWEEN, UM, COMMISSIONER S AND COMMISSIONER ES? THAT'S CORRECT.

WE JUST NEED TWO VOLUNTEERS FROM, UM, THE COMMISSIONERS AND, AND NAME IT WHEN Y'ALL CAN NAME IT.

WHAT YOU WANNA NAME IT.

DO THEY, DO WE NEED TO NAME IT TONIGHT? NO, WE DON'T.

THEY CAN NAME IT.

Y'ALL FIGURE OUT WHAT Y'ALL WANNA CALL IT AND WORK TOGETHER AND EXCHANGE CONTACT.

UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, UM, DO WE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN WE HAVE NOTHING ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. AND THE LAST THING WE HAVE IS OUR ADJOURNMENT.

BEFORE WE DO OUR ADJOURNMENT, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S HERE.

I KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU HAVE MADE A SPECIAL, UM, UH, COMMITMENT TO BEING HERE AND YOU WEREN'T FEELING WELL.

I DO APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, AND TO EVERYBODY ELSE WHO'S HERE FOR THE EXTRA TIME, UH, WITH THAT BEING THIS TIME, WHAT'S MY TIME? I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

WHAT IS IT? 9 21.

9 21 ON DECK.

THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

I KNOW YOU HUNG IN THERE.