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          THANK YOU GUYS 
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SO MUCH. 
          THE TIME NOW, 
          [CALL TO ORDER]
UH, IS 6 53 AND, UM, THIS IS IN FACT THE JUNE MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. 
          AND THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMISSION IS TO PRO, UH, UM, IS OF THE BOARD, IS TO ADVISE THE COUNCIL IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO SERVE THE POOR AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS. WITH THAT BEING OUR PURPOSE, WE CALL SUPPORT. 
          AND WE DO 
          [PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL]
HAVE OUR, UH, PUBLIC COMMUNICATION GENERAL PERIOD, UH, WHERE WE WILL CALL ON TWO OF OUR CITIZENS THAT HAVE COME FORWARD AND WE WANT TO INVITE THEM TO COME TO THE FRONT AND THE TABLE THERE WE HAVE MS. MONTOYA. 
          UM, THAT IS MS. ALICIA, AND WE WANT TO HEAR FROM HER AND ACADEMIC THANK HER. 
          WE'RE GONNA HEAR FROM MS. MONICA HALE. 
          WE APPRECIATE THEIR PRESENCE AND  THEIR COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU COMMISSIONER ERS. 
          UM, MY NAME IS . 
          I'M A RESIDENT OF MISS , UH, DATED UH, SIX GENERATIONS. 
          I'M AN ELDER AND HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AT AGE 70. 
          I STILL HAVE FAMILY AT HOME. 
          I RESIDE AT 2008 HASCO STREET AUSTIN. 
          AND THE REASON I'M HERE, UH, I JUST WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, I WAS REAL EXCITED TO HAVE THE MEETING HERE BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN FOR A LONG TIME. 
          WE, FOR, I'M OLD SCHOOL, WE USED TO COME HERE A LOT TO, HAD A LOT OF PARTICIPATION FOR THE COMMUNITY 'CAUSE IT WAS EASIER TO ACCESS AND THEN TO PUBLIC COMMUNICATION. 
          I MEAN, UH, SPEAKING, BUT I'M ALSO HERE BECAUSE I HAVE SOME CONCERNS, UM, ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          AND, UH, THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH, UH, OUT THERE THAT'S NOT GETTING THE, THE MESSAGE TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE'RE NOT ACCESSING IT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE, UH, THE, THE NEEDS OR THE FUNDS TO, TO GET THESE PROGRAMS, YOU KNOW, COMING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND, AND UH, GETTING OUR FAMILIES, UH, IN PLACE. 
          UM, AND WHAT I SEE IS THAT, YEAH, THERE IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT COMES BUILT IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF TOWN, BUT IT'S FOR OUTCOMES THAT ARE, I MEAN, UH, PEOPLE ARE COMING IN FROM DIFFERENT STATES. 
          AND WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE HERE THAT HAVE BEEN IN AND WAITING THIS AND I MEAN, FOR YEARS THEY DON'T ACT WHEN THEY'RE ABLE TO AND THEY COME TO US. 
          I'M A NEIGHBORHOOD, ALSO A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, UM, VICE CHAIR FOR EAST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND THEY CALL ME TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY AVAILABILITY THEY WANT RESOURCING. 
          AND UNFORTUNATELY, UM, WE'RE VERY LIMITED TO, TO, YOU KNOW, TO DO OUTREACH BETWEEN JUST A SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION THAT BEEN IN EXISTENCE IN BACK IN THE SEVENTIES. 
          UH, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF STUFF COMING IN GENERAL, UH, UM, A LOT OF, UH, PEOPLE COMING IN AND THAT DISRESPECT TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NATIVES 'CAUSE WE ALSO WANT AN OPPORTUNITY, OUR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO DEAL ON THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING INSTEAD OF BEING PUSHED OUT TO WAY DE VALLEY WAY OUT THERE WITH NO VEHICLES AND WAY OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          THE CHILDREN THAT, THAT OUR SCHOOLS WERE BEING CLOSED ALREADY HERE IN THE AREA. 
          UH, AND THERE BEEN SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT THAT WE HAVE THIS COMMUNITY, UH, BACK IN THE DAYS IT WAS VERY ACTIVE WITH COMMISSIONERS. 
          THEY DID OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY AND WE WERE ALSO, UH, NOTIFIED FOR WHAT THEY HAD AVAILABLE, LIKE  PROGRAMS, UH, PROGRAMS TO HELP ASSIST SOME OF THE FAMILIES THAT WANT TO BUY IN A HOME AND TAKE FOR SO MANY YEARS. 
          AND, AND THEY'RE STILL AWAY. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT THIS BOARD GETS REALLY ACTIVE ON THAT AND CONTINUE TO REACH OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY, UH, INDEED A HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          AND ALSO WORKING WITH THE FEDERAL AGENCIES WHERE THE, UH, FEDERAL INCOME GUIDELINES, THE SOLUTION. 
          I THINK NEVER, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THAT, BUT SOME OF THESE FAMILIES DON'T MAKE THE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY INTO HOMES BECAUSE THEY'RE, THE GUIDELINES ARE HIGH. 
          SO ANYBODY THAT COMES FROM OUTSIDE WHO WOULD SAY TO AUSTIN, WELL, THEY'VE ALREADY HAD A HOUSE WHEREVER THEY WENT, THEY SOLD IT. 
          AND THEY'VE COME IN WITH MONEY AND THEY'RE BUYING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE HERE 
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ON THE EAST SIDE OR WHEREVER AREAS THEY'RE AT, UM, THAT ARE AUSTIN. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE FROM GENERATIONS. 
          THEY FAMILIES FROM GENERATIONS. 
          I AM ONE OF THEM. 
          I STILL HOLDING DOWN TO EVERYBODY WANTS TO BUY MY HOUSE, BUT I STILL HOLDING DOWN PLACE. 
          I SAID, WHERE, WHERE ARE YOU GONNA SEND ME? YOU'RE NOT SENDING ME TO POWELL OR TO ADE VALLEY. 
          THIS IS MY HOME. 
          AND, UH, I MEAN, I, I LIKE TOITY ALSO AND THESE FAMILIES THAT ARE STILL HERE, , WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR YEARS TO PRESERVE THE SERVICE, OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND UH, YOU MAY SEE ME OUT THERE AND BERTHA, COMMISSIONER BERTHA IS MY DAUGHTER. 
          SO WE, WE TRY TO REPLACE FAMILIES AND PEOPLE INVOLVED. 
          I'VE BEEN INVOLVED FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT, AND DIFFERENT ISSUES, NOT ONLY HOUSING, BUT OUR FAMILIES. 
          UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, SEAT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          WE HAVE MS. MONICA HALE. 
          UM, CAN YOU ALL CONFIRM, STEPH THAT THE MICROPHONE IS WORKING? I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR CITIZENS ARE BEING HEARD. 
          IT STILL LOOKS LIKE IT'S RED. 
          SO THE MICROPHONE NOT FOR THE ROOM, IT'S FOR THE RECORDING. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, BUT THE FACT THAT IT'S RED MEANS THAT IT IS RECORDED? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE 'CAUSE I WAS WAITING FOR IT TO MAKE SURE THAT, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS  S RECORD. 
          THANK, UH, GOOD EVENING. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          MY NAME IS MONICA HALE AND I THINK YOU ALL MAY GET A KICK OUT OF THIS, BUT I THINK I SIGNED THAT FORM BY ACCIDENT. 
          I THINK , I THOUGHT I WAS JUST SIGNING IN THAT I WAS ATTENDING THE MEETING, BUT SINCE MY AND I FRIENDS, WE'VE BEEN SHARING AND VISITING ALREADY, SO I GUESS I CAN'T NOT SPEAK NOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT I AM, UM, FROM THE AREA AGENCY ON AGING, I, WE ALSO, THE AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER, UH, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW DEPARTMENTS. 
          OUR MAIN UMBRELLA IS THE CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, IF YOU'VE HEARD OF THE CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. 
          UM, THIS IS MY FIRST MEETING, UH, PART OF MY DUTIES AT THE, UM, AREA AGENCY ON AGING IS HOUSING NAVIGATOR. 
          SO I AM ED WITH GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, ATTENDING MEETINGS, FINDING OUT WHAT THE, UM, AREA IS DOING FOR LOW INCOME HOUSING, TAX, CREDIT HOUSING. 
          UM, WE GET CALLS FROM, WE SERVE 10 DIFFERENT COUNTIES, BUT TRAVIS WILLIAMSON, ANO, VERN, I'M NOT GONNA NAME ALL OF 'EM, BUT WE GET LOTS OF CALLS SOMETIMES FROM, UM, OUR MAIN FOCUS ARE SENIORS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. 
          BUT WE'LL SERVE ANYBODY THAT CALLS US. 
          SO, UM, WE GET A LOT OF REFERRALS. 
          WE GIVE OUT A LOT OF RESOURCES FOR, UM, CAREGIVING. 
          SO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. 
          SO I THOUGHT I WOULD JUST COME UP AND KIND OF INTRODUCE MYSELF AND TELL YOU WHERE I'M FROM AND, UH, I'M EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT WHAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN DOING. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER CITIZENS THAT MAY HAVE ARRIVED? BEGIN, UM, TO SPEAK? UH, THIS IS OUR PUBLIC, UM, COMMUNICATIONS GENERAL AREA AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL, UM, CITIZENS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHAIR. 
          YOU HAVE TO SIGN ME. 
          I DO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ED, CAN YOU HEAR ME, ED? YES I CAN. 
          OKAY. 
          HI, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT. 
          UM, THIS, UM, MY LAPTOP IS RECORDING EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THINGS NOT RECORDING BECAUSE I'M CHECKING CHECKING IT HERE AND IT'S FINE. 
          OKAY. 
          I WAS USING MY CELL PHONE JUST IN CASE. 
          I WAS GONNA MAKE SURE WE GOT THIS RECORDING. 
          . 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANKS. 
          ONE ON STREAM. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT, WE ARE THIS, I DO THINK WE HAVE ONE MORE, UH, 
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SPEAKER FROM OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, THIS IS NOVIA. 
          JOSEPH IS HERE TO SPEAK AGAINST TIME WEEKEND. 
          THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 
          THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR JOSEPH, MY FIRST COMMENT IS ABOUT THE LOCATION. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHY YOU MOVED THE MEETING HERE. 
          I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS NOT CONVENIENT FOR PEOPLE WHO RIDE TRANSIT. 
          WANT TO UNDERSTAND IF YOU'RE TRAVELING FROM NORTH OF US, 180 3, YOU HAVE TO TAKE AT LEAST THREE BUSES AND IF YOU MISS THE TRANSFER TO GET TO THIS SIDE OF TOWN IS ANOTHER 15, 20 MINUTES OR SO. 
          BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOU TAKING MY COMMENTS. 
          CAPITAL METRO HAS A BOARD MEETING TOMORROW, JUNE 11TH, 2024. 
          IT'S NOON. 
          THAT IS THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE LEANDER PICKUP SERVICE AT 1230. 
          THEY THEN HAVE THEIR OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING AT ABOUT 10 O'CLOCK OR SO. 
          IT'S WHEN THEY HAVE A FINANCE MEETING. 
          WHAT I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT MY COMMENTS, AS THEY ALWAYS ARE IN THE CONTEXT OF TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AND THE LEANDER PICKUP SERVICE HAS BEEN TWEAKED AT LEAST FIVE TIMES. 
          HOWEVER, WHEN CAPITAL METRO, THE LORD LEANDER IS GETTING THE PICKUP SERVICE, THEY DID NOT CHARGE THEM FOR THAT SERVICE. 
          AND SO IT'S DISCRIMINATORY BECAUSE WHEN YOU CALL, IF YOU'RE IN NORTHEAST AUSTIN FOR THAT SERVICE, YOU'RE ON HOLD FROM FIVE TO 60 MINUTES. 
          BUT THE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE IS MEASURED BY THE TIME THEY PICK UP UNTIL THE TIME THEY GET YOU TO YOUR DESTINATION. 
          BUT IT IS BRANDED AS THOUGH IT'S UBER. 
          AND IT'S NOT UBER BECAUSE YOU'RE WAITING 60 MINUTES PLUS THE TIME IT TAKES FOR YOU TO GET FROM YOUR DESTINATION. 
          SO I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE FOUR PEOPLE THAT THIS COMMISSIONER IS SUPPOSED TO SERVE NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE PROACTIVE AS IT RELATES TO THE TRANSPORTATION. 
          I KNOW YOU'LL HAVE ON YOUR AGENDA THE PUBLIC HEARINGS LATER, BUT I DO WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT I'VE SAID THIS A WO I EVEN WENT BACK AND LISTENED TO MY OWN TESTIMONY BEFORE THIS COMMISSION BEFORE YOU WERE THERE. 
          AND I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S JUST CYCLICAL. 
          AND BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT THE INFORMATION IS GIVEN TO THIS COMMISSION. 
          THE STAFF CONTINUES TO DO THEIR UNILATERAL DECISIONS AND THEN NOTHING CHANGES. 
          AND I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE, AND I SAID IT BEFORE, THE PEOPLE AT COMMUNITY FIRST VILLAGE WHO ARE HOMELESS ARE WAITING 60 MINUTES PLUS 60 MORE TWO HOURS FOR THE BUS IN WHEELCHAIRS. 
          AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THE ROUTE IS 60 MINUTE HEADWAY, WHICH MEANS IT RUNS ONCE AN HOUR AND IF A DRIVER HAPPENS TO CANCEL OR IF THERE'S NOT ANY TYPE OF PERSON TO PICK 'EM UP LIKE A SUPERVISOR, THEN THEY'RE SITTING THERE TWO HOURS. 
          AND I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE JUST HOW HOT IT'S BEEN LIKE THIS. 
          SO IF YOU'RE WAITING FOR THE ONCE AN HOUR BUS, YOU'RE PROBABLY GETTING THERE A FEW MINUTES EARLY. 
          SO THEN WE SIT ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND WE REALIZE IT'S NOT COMING. 
          AND SO IT'S AN EQUITABLE, AND THAT'S ROUTE 2 37, WHICH IS INTERLINE WITH ROUTE 3 39, WHICH GOES OVER TO CRAIG WOOD BLACKS. 
          AND IT ALSO SERVES THE AREA WHERE COLONY PARK IS. 
          AND SO I WOULD JUST LASTLY SAY AS IT RELATES TO COLONY PARKS, SPECIFICALLY, THAT BUS 2 33 HAS BEEN 60 MINUTES FOR QUITE SOME TIME. 
          AND IF YOU NEED A POINT OF REFERENCE, IT'S NOVEMBER 3RD, 2017, WHICH IS THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE. 
          AND YOU WILL SEE WHERE CAPITAL METRO ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT EVERY PLAN HAS CERTAIN CASUALTIES. 
          IN THIS CASE, THE CASUALTIES ARE THE AFRICAN AMERICANS. 
          AND ON JUNE 10TH, 2020, THEY ACTUALLY PASSED THE RESOLUTION. 
          AND I BELIEVE THE RESOLUTION NUMBER WAS A ONE DASH 2 0 2 DASH 2 2 9 7. 
          AND THAT IS ACTUALLY THE RESOLUTION THAT ACTUALLY MAINTAINS THIS DISCRIMINATORY SYSTEM. 
          BUT IT IS CALLED EQUITABLE 'CAUSE IT UNDERGIRDS PROJECT CONNECT. 
          AND AS A POINT OF REFERENCE FOR THE CITY, I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT ON APRIL 11TH, 2019, THAT'S WHEN THEY PASSED THE ALSO STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN AND IS UNDERGIRDED BY CONNECTIONS 2025, WHICH WAS REBRANDED CAB REMA JUNE 3RD, 2018. 
          SO THE SYSTEM IS DISCRIMINATORY. 
          THE PLANS WORK TOGETHER AND IF YOU NEED A POINT OF REFERENCE FOR THAT, THERE'S A MAP. 
          AND I DID SEND THE INFORMATION TO, UM, MR. BLAKE, SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN YOUR MAILBOX, I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO CHECK IT. 
          DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I I ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME. 
          THANKS. 
          DO THANK YOU. 
          TWO SECONDS BELOW. 
          I CAN FILL IT IF YOU WANT ME TO AT EASTON AT CAT METRO ORG. 
          IF YOU NEED TO CONTACT TOMORROW. 
          IF WE DID AFFORD ALL OF THE CITIZENS AND ADDITIONAL HOUR AND 15 TO UH, 15 SECOND. 
          UM, BECAUSE INITIALLY A TIMER RESOLVED, WE WANTED TO BE  ALL CITIZENS. 
          AND SO EVERYONE, THE FOUR MINUTES  PLACE JUST WORKS WELL. 
          ALRIGHT. 
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ALRIGHT. 
          [APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
WE HAVE THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, UM, IS OUR NEXT ITEM, UM, FISHER ISSUES WE, YOU BELIEVE WE HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO THEY CAN KEEP AT THE TENANTS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN OUR PACKET FROM OUR MAIN MEETING. 
          AND IF THERE ANY THINGS THAT JUMPS OUT. 
          ALL RIGHT, ANY, UH, CHANGES IN THOUGHT WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD AND ACCEPT? UM, UM, CAN I HEAR A MOTION REGARDING THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES? COUNCIL CHAIR, . 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER COBERG HAS MADE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM LAST MONTH. 
          WE'LL SECOND THAT. 
          ALRIGHT, PERFECT. 
          UH, CO-CHAIR ALIAS HAS ALSO, UM, UH, SECONDED THAT MOTIONS. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, AS WE GET READY TO GO FOR OUR BRIEFINGS, WE DO HAVE A BRIEFING FROM THE, UM, HOUSING STAFF REGARDING OUR ANNUAL INTERNAL REVIEW AND UM, I WILL INVITE THEM TO COME UP TO THE . 
          WAS IT ABOVE? OH, I'M SORRY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I DO RECALL I DIDN'T, UM, WE HAD THE MOTION. 
          WE HAVE THE SECOND. 
          UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ACCEPTING THE MINUTES, UH, INDICATE BY SAYING RAISE YOUR HAND AND SAY A, A THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          MOVING 
          [2. Briefing on the CDC Annual Internal Review (Housing Staff)]
ON. 
          WE ARE AT OUR BRIEFING FOR THE CDC ANNUAL INTERNAL REVIEW  STAFF. 
          THAT'S ANOTHER SPEAK THAT HERE INSTEAD MEETING. 
          OH YES, I'LL BE, WE DO HAVE TO PUT THE ANNUAL  AGENDA. 
          UM, CHAIR, YOU AND I SPOKE ABOUT THIS AND WE WORKED ON IT LAST YEAR. 
          SO BASICALLY IT SAME, SO THAT SAME FORM. 
          UM, AND YOU HAVE TO THE END OF JULY OKAY. 
          JULY 30TH OF THE DAY THAT YOU HAVE. 
          SO, BUT I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU AND MAKE SURE WE GET, YOU CAN, IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A WORKING GROUP WITH THE, THE CAC MEMBERS TO HELP YOU WITH IT OR ASSIST AND, AND WITH THE WORK REVIEW IN THE REPORT, THAT'S LEADING UP TO ME. 
          UM, AND I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH THAT'S ABOUT ITSELF. 
          CAN I ADD ONE THING? YES, PLEASE. 
          I, THE, I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT AS A SUMMARY OF ALL THE MINUTES. 
          SO IF YOU GO BACK TO THE MINUTES BY ONE AND GRAB THE ACTIONS, THE WORKING GROUPS AND THE FEW OTHER THINGS THAT ARE IN THE TEMPLATE, IT'S, THAT'S ALL IT REALLY IS. 
          SO A WORKING GROUP MAY OR MAY NOT BE HELPFUL. 
          IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT DATA LABOR HAS, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANTED TO ADD THAT'S NOT IN THE MINUTES, BUT THERE'S THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MS. RODRIGUEZ ON THAT. 
          NO, I WAS, UM, LAST, LAST YEAR I DID IT WITH THE HELP OF MR. BLAKE AND IT, UM, IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT, UH, REQUIRED ADDITIONAL INPUT. 
          UM, HE HAD A  FOR ME IN WHICH TO LOOK AT AND I PRESUME WE'RE GONNA DO THE SAME THIS YEAR. 
          UM, AND WHAT THAT MEANS, UM, COMMISSIONERS, IS WE BASICALLY SUMMARIZE WHAT ALL OF OUR MEETINGS AND DECISIONS AND ACTIONS THAT WERE TAKING OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR AND IT'S JUST, UH, CONVINCED INTO A SUMMARY. 
          SO, UM, I JUST WANNA LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT THAT'S AN ACCOUNTABILITY ITEM ON PRESS AS THE COMMISSIONER ASK ME AS CHAIR FOR ME TO, UH, ENSURE THAT WE GET THOSE, UM, REPORTS IN TO THE CITY. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK WE DO SEND THAT OUT TO COMMISSION. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          APPRECIATE THAT ALL. 
          WE'RE 
          [3. Presentation and discussion of input heard during the 2024 Community Needs Assessment (Julie
Smith, Community Engagement Specialist, Housing Department)]
MOVING ON TO, WE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION ITEMS. WE DO HAVE THE SMITH, THE STUDENT SMITH FROM OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, WITH 
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THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND SHE'S STILL, AND TALK ABOUT, UM, THE INPUT THAT WE RECEIVED FROM OUR 2024, UH, FOR YOU NEEDS US. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND, AND IT'S ALSO CONDITIONERS IF IN OUR PACKET. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          I HAVE A PICTURE COPY OF THE ERS CAN REVIEW TONIGHT. 
          WE'RE EXCITED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE'VE HEARD OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS DURING THE CONSOLIDATED AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          SO, SO I'D LIKE TO ALWAYS BEGIN WITH SETTING A PURPOSE AND INTENTION. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN GATHERING WITH GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS THAT ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE GATHER, AGAIN TO REVIEW ALL THAT, THAT WE GATHER PROCESS THAT IT NEEDS AND HOW WE'RE USING IT, UM, HOW WE SHOULD BE DOING. 
          SO I WILL QUICKLY, BRIEFLY BUT UM, EFFICIENTLY GO THROUGH THE APPROACH THAT WE TOOK FOR  ENGAGEMENT PHASE THIS YEAR. 
          I'LL TALK THROUGH WHAT WE LEARNED IN OUR CONSULTATIONS WITH MEMBERS, WHAT WE LEARNED THROUGH THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY. 
          UM, AND AN IMPACT THAT INVOICES ARE ALREADY HAVING, UM, WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON WHAT WE DO. 
          SO KNOWING THAT HUB REQUIRED US TO DO CERTAIN THINGS ON OUR, WE RECEIVE OUR FEDERAL FUNDING, UM, WE EMBARK ON OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT EACH YEAR AND SOME OF THOSE ACTIONS CAN DO A LITTLE BIT CHECKBOXY CHANGE DO IN ORDER TO APPLY FOR THAT FUNDING AND THEN TO GET THAT FUNDING. 
          SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO US THIS YEAR, UM, I DON'T, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE HEARD TO SAY THIS, IS THAT WE REALLY, UM, AS WE CONSULTED WITH THE COMMUNITY, HAD MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE THAT HAD A BROADER RANGE OF IMPACT THAN JUST THE, JUST THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN. 
          UM, AND THAT, THAT WAS FOLLOWED WAS REALLY INTENTIONAL FOLLOW UP. 
          SO THIS ONE FIRST SAID IT'S NOT FOLLOW UP. 
          UM, AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO REMEMBER THAT THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, UM, IS A TIME FOR US TO REALLY PAUSE, TO BUILD THAT DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY GUIDE, HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS TO HUMANIZE OUR WORK AND REALLY HELP US REFINE HOW WE DO, HOW WE ENGAGE. 
          SO NOT ONLY HOW DO WE WANNA SPEND THIS FUNDING AS THE COMMUNITY OF THAT. 
          AND SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SPECTRUM OF ENGAGEMENT THAT THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION PARTICIPATION, UM, GUIDE US WITH THIS. 
          UM, THIS PROCESS FALLS PRIMARILY IN THAT CONSULT RANGE. 
          IF YOU'RE HAVEN SEEN THIS, UM, THE SPECTRUM BEFORE, WE, YOU FROM INFORM ON ONE SIDE ALL THE WAY OVER TO EMPOWER FOR THE COMMUNITY'S HELPING US MAKE DECISIONS. 
          THIS IS A PROCESS THAT FALLS REALLY IN THE CONSULTING CATEGORY, LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE FOUND THAT THERE'S A GOOD AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT WE GET DURING THIS PROCESS AS WELL. 
          UM, SO A LOT OF INFORMING AS WELL AND HOPEFULLY MOVING US INTO A SAFE WORLD WHERE WE'RE INVOLVING THE HUMAN END OF DECISIONS. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, PRIMARILY IN THAT CONSULTING CATEGORY. 
          AND I'M, 
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CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? BUT WE'RE NOT HEARING THE MICROPHONE THAT'S IN THE ROOM WITH THEM. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          DID YOU, UM, COMMISSIONER ORTIZ, DID YOU TRY LOGGING OFF AND COMING BACK IN? I NOTICED YOU WERE ALSO I DID NOT, 
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BUT I CAN DEFINITELY TRY IT. 
          IT WOULD A WHI I MEAN THAT'S LIKE THE GO-TO FIRST THING TO TRY. 
          IT WAS WORKING FINE BEFORE, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          YEP. 
          OH, I WONDER IF IT'S MY LAPTOP ACTING UP. 
          'CAUSE IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO CONNECT UP IN THE ROOM WHERE THEY ARE. 
          MM-HMM. 
           BUT IT DIDN'T, SO I HAD TO COME AND HARD WIRE IT AT MY DESK. 
          YEAH, LET ME LOG OFF AND BACK ON AND SEE IF IT, IF IT HELPS. 
          OKAY, THANKS. 
          I CAN TRY THE SAME. 
          YEAH, YOU MIGHT AS WELL. 
          IT CAN'T HURT, RIGHT? OKAY. 
          I SEE YOU . 
          OKAY. 
          LISA, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. 
          CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? LISA? SHE, I THINK SHE'S, YES, I CAN HEAR YOU. 
          UM, COULD YOU HEAR ME THAT WHOLE TIME? YES. 
          YES. 
          YOU'RE SPEAKING . 
          I'M SORRY. 
          OH MAN. 
          UM, SO THEY'RE BOTH LOGGING OFF AND LOGGING BACK IN AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INTERRUPTION. 
          NO WORRIES. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT, I'LL ZOOM THE TIME. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          MISS JULIE ZOOM SIX MINUTES AND 18 SECONDS LAST MINUTE. 
          UH, SO POLICY AND PROCESS INNOVATION. 
          THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, HOW DO WE SOLVE THESE COMPLEX PROBLEMS WITH INNOVATIVE WAYS? UM, AND WE HEAR THEIR WORD LEVERAGE A LOT IN THESE CONVERSATIONS. 
          WE LEVERAGE FUNDS, UM, AND REALLY TOGETHER , , UH, OH. 
          THEY CAN HEAR SOMETHING WENT RIGHT. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S, SHE GOT THE MUTE. 
          YEAH, BUT SHE HAS TO HEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M SEEING HEADS NODDING. 
          SO YOU ONLY TO MUTE YOURSELF. 
          PETE, DO YOU KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES? THANK YOU. 
          OSCAR. 
          SHE MEANS NO, YOU CAN . 
          I THINK THAT'S WHEN I CAN, THERE WE HOPEFULLY OUR NEW OUR, OUR OUR CITY COUNCIL DIGS WON'T BE UNDER INSTRUCTION. 
          WE'LL BE BACK READY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          AGAIN, GOING AGAIN. 
          ALL. 
          SO THEIR GOVERNMENT PARTNERS, UM, PROBABLY LESS ABOUT NEEDS AND MORE ABOUT KIND OF THE EXPERIENCES THAT WE'RE ALL HAVING, UM, ABOUT GROWTH CHALLENGES, LAND ACQUISITION, THAT NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE RESOURCES THAT OFTEN, UM, COLLABORATE ACROSS THE REGION TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THESE PROBLEMS. AGAIN, GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEPARTMENTS ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE COLLABORATED AND OUR SILOS. 
          A LOT OF QUESTIONS THERE ABOUT THE USE OF FUNDING AND SOME OF THE PROGRAMS FOR OTHER DEPARTMENTS. 
          WE WERE ALL VERY MUCH WANTING THIS, UH, BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FULL SAFETY SERVICES THAT ARE AVAILABLE ACROSS THE CITY. 
          UH, SO WE DON'T UNDERSTAND KIND THE COMMUNITY GOING, UH, A LOT OF INTERSECTION WITH POVERTY NEEDS. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, MANY OF THESE DEPARTMENTS TRAINING, UM, THEIR STAFF READ THEIR STAFF OF MATERIALS. 
          SO WHEN THEY OUT THE COMMUNITY AND HEARING PUBLIC HOUSING NEEDS THAT THEY AT THEIR FINGERTIPS, UM, HAVE RESOURCES THAT THEY CAN PROVIDE. 
          THEN, UH, KIND OF SHEER CHALLENGES AND, AND CALLS FOR, FOR MORE EQUITY AND ACCESS. 
          SO WE LOOK AT THE, THE SURVEY RESPONSES. 
          UM, RIGHT HERE YOU'LL SEE ON THE, ON THE LEFT IS CURRENT. 
          SO UP THROUGH LAST WEEK, UM, PERCENTAGES ARE, UH, THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT PUT THAT IN THEIR FIVE. 
          SO NOT NECESSARILY THE RANKED ONE THROUGH FIVE, BUT THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT LISTED THESE NEEDS IN THEIR TOP FIVE IN THE RIGHT IS WHAT WE FOUND FIVE YEARS AGO. 
          UM, SO YOU'LL SEE BY AND LARGE PRIMARILY THE SAME RANKING. 
          ONE OF THE BIG THINGS TO NOTE THAT CAME UP IN WHAT THEIR HEART CONSULTATIONS AND IN THE SURVEY IS THAT THE CHILDCARE, THE NEED FOR CHILDCARE . 
          WE ALSO RECEIVED ALMOST 400 COMMENTS IN OUR SURVEY. 
          AND SO WE PUSHED THROUGH ALL THOSE COMMENTS AND CATEGORIZED THEM, UM, SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE NEED THROUGH THESE HUMAN EXPERIENCES. 
          SOME OF THESE SHOULD LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU. 
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WE BROUGHT THESE TO THE COMMUNITY TO SAY, UM, HERE'S WHAT WE UNDERSTAND. 
          THE TWO ONES THAT ARE CIRCLED UP THERE, TWO NEW CATEGORIES THAT CAME UP THROUGH OUR CONSULTATIONS. 
          WE DO THE SURVEY. 
          UM, SO A LOT OF FEAR AND INK ABOUT HOW DO WE PROVIDE, HOW DO WE FOCUS ON OUR LONG TERM MOST VULNERABLE, BUT ALL INCOME BE A PLACE THAT IS FOR EVERYONE. 
          SO A LOT OF THINGS FALL INTO THAT, COORDINATE THAT CATEGORY AND THIS NEW CATEGORY OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          SO AS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, WE'LL, WHICH YOU'LL SEE REFLECTED ON SOME OF OUR FUNDING CHANGES. 
          SO IN YOUR OWN IN THE REPORT, UM, YOU'LL SEE EACH OF THE CATEGORIES BY, UM, EACH OF THE NEEDS ABOUT CATEGORIES. 
          AND SO OUR STAFF IS ALREADY GOING THROUGH THESE TO REALLY FILL OUT BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROGRAMS AND FUNDING OF THOSE NEEDS. 
          SO WE CAN GO BACK WITH THAT MORE IN DEPTH INFORMATION SOON. 
          SO WE REFLECT ON THESE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE HAVE CLARITY. 
          THERE'S CLARITY THAT COMES WITH A NEEDS ASSESSMENT LIKE THIS. 
          UM, AND WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME IN THIS PROCESS IS THAT EVEN IN WHAT WE FOUND IN OUR SURVEY THAT SHOWS US THAT, THAT THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE ARE STILL IN NEED, EVEN IF THE NEEDS SEEM OBVIOUS THAT PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCE WITH THEM ARE NOT SO IMPACTED  EITHER. 
          HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STOPPING AND REALLY UNDERSTANDING, UH, THE COMPLEXITY IN THESE ISSUES AS WE MAKE, UM, IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR PROCESSES AND OUR PROGRAMS. SO THE IMPACT OF YOUR FEEDBACK FROM IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PROCESS THAT ENHANCED EVALUATION DATA AND REPORTING. 
          WE HAVE BRAND NEW POLICY AND DATA ANALYTICS TEAM GET YOU YEARS OF, OF, OF THIS NEED BEING EXPRESSED. 
          AND SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO COME BACK, UM, AS SOON AS LATER THIS YEAR WITH IMPROVEMENT YEAR AFTER YEAR WITH THE DATA, ESPECIALLY BY LOT OF THE COMMISSIONS. 
          UM, THE, THE, THE MESSAGING WE PUT AROUND OUR FEDERAL FUNDING WILL EXPAND THAT SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND ALL OF OUR, OUR FUNDING SOURCES THAT'S ALREADY IN PROCESS. 
          SO EXPANDING THAT, WE'RE SHIFTING TOWARD ONGOING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS SO THAT WE'RE NOT ASSESSING ALL OF THE COMMUNITY NEEDS IN SIX WEEKS, UM, EVERY YEAR. 
          AND THEN AGAIN, EVERY FIVE YEARS WITH THIS AN INTENSITY, UM, WHERE I'M ADVOCATING FOR, FOR PAID ENGAGEMENT, UM, OR COMMUNITY LED ENGAGEMENT, UH, WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL FUNDING CAPACITY. 
          UM, SO THAT WE CAN REALLY EXPLORE PATHWAYS TO BETTER PROGRAM ACCESSIBILITY. 
          WE ALREADY HAVE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE PILOTING  PREVENTION NAVIGATORS, LOOKING INTO HOW TO EXPAND, UM, UM, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          WE'LL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE WHERE WE HAVE FUNDING GAPS AND HOW WE SUPPORT THE, THE NEEDS OF OUR MOST, MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          THAT'S AN ONGOING, THAT'S FINE. 
          WHAT WAS, THAT'S, UM, SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THE FEEDBACK, WE SEE SHIFTS IN FEDERAL FUNDING, AGAIN, CONSIDERATION OF LOCAL DOLLARS, WHICH, WHICH WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND THIS HELPS, UH, MAKE DECISIONS AND WE HAVE REDUCED FUNDING. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE, SO THIS IS THE FUNDING CHART WE SHARED AS WE MET WITH ALL OF THESE GROUPS ABOUT ALL THE WAYS THAT THE FEDERAL DOLLARS, UM, GUIDE OUR PROGRAMS. THE RED CIRCLES INDICATE WHERE YOU'LL SEE CHANGES. 
          SO ARCHITECTURAL BARRIER REMOVAL AND TENANT RIGHT WILL NO LONGER BE  FEDERAL DOLLARS, REMOVING TENANTS RIGHTS ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL DOLLARS, UH, WHICH HELPS OUR PROGRAM TEAM TO MORE EFFICIENT IN THE WAY THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO EXECUTE THOSE DOLLARS. 
          WE'RE ABLE TO MOVE THAT FUNDING INTO, UM, MORE FUNDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH  THE PRIMARY  NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          UM, WE'VE ALSO SEEN A DECREASE IN OUR ALLOTMENT FOR HOME. 
          AND THAT WILL BE AN EVENLY DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN TENANT BASE RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE. 
          UM, AND QUESTION WE BE IN THE ROOM AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING TO THAT. 
          AND, UM, MAYO AND OUR DIRECTOR OF THE CONFLICT DEPARTMENT, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          JULIE, THAT WAS JUST A GREAT OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE'VE HEARD AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THAT INFORMATION, WHICH IS ALL WRAPPED INTO A VERY  RAF PLAN. 
          SO HAPPY TO CONCERN ANY SPECIFIC WESTERN. 
          UM, I DO WANNA ECHO MRS. UM, THE S UM, COMMENT. 
          JULIE, THAT WAS WELL DONE. 
          THANK 
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YOU SO MUCH FOR PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION TO, UM, COMMISSIONER, DO YOU ALL HAVE, UM, AROUND THE ROOM, WE KNOW OUR ROUND  STYLE. 
          ANYONE HAS QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR THAT THEY MAY HAVE HEARD FROM OTHER CONSTITUENTS, ET CETERA, AND WE MOVED FROM BYE FIVE AT THE THREE MINUTE. 
          I'M NOT GONNA STEAL YOU PRIVATE, BUT SAY SOMETHING. 
          WE, WE, MY NEXT ONE. 
          SO WHO WANTS TO BEGIN? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          UM, I, UH, I GUESS TWO COMMENTS THAT THE QUESTION, THE FIRST IS KIND OF THINKING BACK TO, UH, THE LANGUAGE THAT WE'RE USING THINK AROUND, UH,  ASSESSMENT. 
          ONE THING THAT CAME UP FOR ME IS INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE TAKEN THE SURVEY EXPRESS AROUND CHANGING AUSTIN. 
          IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS ALSO THIS THEME AROUND WANTING AN AUSTIN RECOVERY ONE. 
          AND I, I WONDER IF WHAT COMES UP TO MIND FOR ME THERE IS, ARE WE REALLY THINKING ALSO FOR EVERYONE OR IS THAT MORE TEAM MORE DIRECTLY STATING THAT WE ARE TRYING TO, UM, HELP THOSE THAT ARE POST HISTORICALLY AND SYSTEMICALLY FORCED RIGHT. 
          UM, TO DEAL WITH THE BARRIERS, RIGHT? THAT ARE, THAT ARE IN THE CITY. 
          I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, WE'RE SAYING WHAT WE NEED WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WHO NEEDS THE MOST ASSISTANCE OR WHO WANTS AUSTIN TO BE FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY THINK SOMETIMES WHEN EVERYONE OF ALL CAN GET REALLY CONVOLUTED AND TAKES US AWAY FROM OUR MISSION, ESPECIALLY THE, UM, SO I WILL, I WILL SAY THIS, MAYBE WE CAN HELP AND  CONVERSATION ABOUT  ARE IN THAT THEME IS ALSO WE'VE HEARD IT SO MANY  LEVELS THAT PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING. 
          AND SO THAT THEME FOR THE NEED TO PROTECT THOSE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE AND CONSIDER THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING IN THAT MIDDLE INCOME RANGE, PERHAPS. 
          I MEAN, WHAT I'M HEARING 2D DEFINITELY, I I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THOSE TWO CATEGORIES BE, WOULD HELP US UNDERSTAND WHO'S REALLY ASKING FOR THAT SUPPORT. 
          THAT'S, SO THAT'S TRICKY. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, I ALSO SAW THAT, DON'T KNOW IF WE WERE ABLE TO DIG INTO IT, BUT I THINK DEMOGRAPHIC'S REALLY IMPORTANT AND I JUST WANTED TO MAYBE HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THOSE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GET CAPTURED IN THE SURVEY. 
          WE GOT AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF THOSE THAT ARE SEEKING AND LEADING CITY SERVICES. 
          UM, AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION I HAD WAS, IF YOU COULD DIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO, UM, WHAT'S NOT GOING BE FUNDED IN TERMS OF, UM, MATERIAL ASSISTANCE OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HOUSING AND WENT THROUGH THE C MONEY AND WHERE THAT SURE. 
          I'LL ASK YOU YOUR FIRST QUESTION FIRST. 
          I'LL BRING THIS BACK UP. 
          I GRABBED THE, UH, RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS AND INCOME FOR THIS, THE, THOSE WHO FILLED OUT THE ONLINE SURVEY. 
          UM, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES HERE IS WE ASKED FOR HOUSEHOLD INCOME, BUT WE DIDN'T ASK FOR SIZE. 
          SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD TO TELL LIKE WHERE THESE FOLKS FALL WITHIN MEETING FAMILY INCOME. 
          SO LESSONS LEARNED THERE. 
          IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS PROBABLY TOOK THE SURVEY BECAUSE THE INCOME, BUT THERE'S A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN, UM, THAN THOSE WHO ARE DIRECTLY IMPACTED. 
          SO I WOULD SAY OPPORTUNITY FOR  TO BETTER MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE IMPACTED. 
          JUST, JUST THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PROVID THEIR SERVICES. 
          OH, SURE. 
          UM, AND I'LL LET AMANDA YOU ANSWER THAT. 
          SURE. 
          UM, I WAS, UH, A A COUPLE OF THINGS YOU HAD MENTIONED, UH, BEING MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT WHO, WHAT THE, WHO WE HEARD FROM AND THEN WHO WE'RE SERVING, KIND OF SEPARATING THOSE THINGS OUT. 
          I DO JUST WANNA REITERATE THAT WHO WE SERVE WITH OUR FEDERAL FUNDS, REALLY WITH ALL OF OUR DOLLARS ARE LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FOLKS WITH A PRIORITY ON FOLKS AT OR BELOW 50% MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT ALL OF OUR SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE, SOME OF OUR HOME OWNERSHIP PROGRAMS, WE DO SERVE FOLKS BETWEEN 60 AND 80% MEDIA INCOME. 
          BUT WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU KNEW THAT. 
          AND THEN REGARDING SOME OF THE CHANGES, JULIE, IF YOU CAN GET THAT CHEAT SHEET, I THINK IT WAS THE LAST, UM, WE AS STAFF, BASED ON WHAT WE HEARD, DID A DEEP DIVE IN HOW WE HISTORICALLY HAVE BEEN FUNDING USING OUR FEDERAL FUNDS. 
          UM, JULIE MENTIONED, UH, TENANTS RIGHT ASSISTANCE, WHICH WAS A LONG-TERM CONTRACT WITH AN ORGANIZATION CALLED AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL. 
          IT, UM, ULTIMATELY MERGED WITH TEXAS RARE GRANDE LEGAL AID. 
          UM, WE 
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DETERMINED THAT THE FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WE USED, WHICH WAS CBBG, WAS NOT, UM, THE APPROPRIATE SOURCE FOR A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT REASONS. 
          WE'RE JUST SWITCHING IT TO LOCAL FUNDING. 
          WE'RE NOT GETTING RID OF THE PROGRAM. 
          WE THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT PROGRAM. 
          UH, IT'S LANDLORD TENANT COUNSELING AND WE REALLY ARE COMMITTED TO EVICTION PREVENTION, KEEPING FOLKS IN THEIR APARTMENTS, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 
          SO LOCAL FUNDING TRANSITIONING THAT JULIE MENTIONS UP AT HOME, OUR HISTORIC FUNDING FOR HOME DECREASE THIS YEAR. 
          WE JUST GOT OUR ALLOCATIONS FROM HUD. 
          WE DON'T CONTROL THOSE. 
          IT'S AN ALGORITHM THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES AND THEY SAY, CONGRATULATIONS. 
          HERE'S YOUR CDBG, HERE'S YOUR HOME. 
           AND E-S-G-C-D-B-G HAS BEEN PRETTY STEADY. 
          HOME WENT DOWN, NOT INSIGNIFICANT. 
          IT WAS A LITTLE BIT SURPRISING. 
          HAWA WENT UP AND ESG WAS PRETTY STEADY. 
          UM, SO WE RECOGNIZED THAT THE HOME FUNDING WENT DOWN. 
          AS A RESULT, WE'RE TAKING OUR TWO MAJOR HOME FUNDED PROGRAMS, WHICH ARE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE FOR, UM, LOW TO MODERATE INCOME HOME BUYERS AND TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE, WHICH IS FOCUSED ON PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          IT'S ALMOST EVENLY DIVIDED OR REDUCING THOSE, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE POTENTIALLY COULD SUPPLEMENT, UM, BOTH OUR IMPORTANT PROGRAMS POTENTIALLY SUPPLEMENT WITH, UM, LOCAL FUNDS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THOSE TWO PROGRAMS WE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY. 
          WE'VE ALSO HEARD FROM OUR CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDCARE. 
          UM, I DO WANT, WITH RESPECT TO CHILDCARE, KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE LIMITED. 
          THESE ARE FEDERAL REGS. 
          WE'RE LIMITED TO 15% OR MORE THAN 15% OF OUR CDBG ALLOCATION CAN BE SPENT ON WHAT'S CALLED PUBLIC SERVICES. 
          SO WE DO CHILDCARE, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND SENIOR SERVICES, ALL OF WHICH ARE IMPORTANT. 
          BUT WHAT WE DID, BECAUSE WE TOOK, UM, UH, TENANT'S RIGHTS AND TRANSFERRED IT OVER TO LOCAL FUNDING, WE TOOK THAT BUMP, WHICH WAS ABOUT $300,000 A YEAR WORKING WITH US IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AND THEY'RE GONNA INCREASE THEIR SUPPORT OF CHILDCARE. 
          ALSO WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT IS TAKING ALL OF OUR CHILDCARE PROGRAMS TO FOCUS. 
          THEY'RE BEING A LITTLE BIT REFOCUSED ON, UM, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND CHILDCARE. 
          TWO THINGS THAT GO HAND IN HAND. 
          UM, SO, UH, THAT IS EXCITING. 
          AND THEN INFRASTRUCTURE, THIS IS AN ONGOING NEED IN LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS ARE FOCUSED IMMEDIATELY WILL BE ON COLONY PARK, UM, THE, THE, UH, REDEVELOPMENT THAT IS OCCURRING AND FALLEN IN PARK. 
          SO INFRASTRUCTURE, REALLY WE'RE TALKING ROADS, UM, UH, SIDEWALKS, ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT AS PART OF THE COLON, UM, PARK, UH, PLAN, WHICH WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT KICKING OFF, BUT IT'LL ALL BE FOCUSED IN LOW, MODERATE INCOME AREAS, UM, THAT ARE UNDERGOING SOME SORT OF CITY INVESTMENT OR PLANNING PROCESS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT LOT. 
          IT WAS GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, OTHER COMMISSIONERS. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          . 
          UM, SO JUST A COUPLE THINGS ON THIS SENATE, IT'S ALSO KIND OF THE PAPER TO THEY TRY TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE THIS IS INFORMING THAT AND VICE VERSA. 
          JUST THE STATE FOR THE RECORD, I CAN GET SOME CITIZEN FEEDBACK. 
          I HAVE ALREADY HAD A CONVERSATION WITH JULIE ABOUT IT. 
          TWO OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY ROSE TO THE TOP, OR WAS IT, DOES THE EQUITY OFFICE PARTICIPATE? AND YOU SHOWED US HOW THEY, THAT THEY ARE ONE OF YOU, YOU SHOWED THAT IN THE SLIDES. 
          AND THEN JUST THE OTHER, AND I KNOW IT DIDN'T COME UP IN THE COMMUNICATION, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT A SYSTEM DID BRING UP, UM, CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE AS, AND ME, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA AFFECT A LOT OF THESE AREAS. 
          SO JUST PUTTING THOSE THINGS ON THE RECORD, BUT OWN COMMENTS ARE, AND I KNOW I'M, WE'RE STILL TALKING AND I'M LEARNING HOW TO FIND THE BEST WAYS TO, TO LEARN ABOUT THE PLAN. 
          I STRUGGLED TO FIND CLEAR WAYS TO SHARE PAPER WITH THE PUBLIC, TO GET THE PUBLIC TO COME TODAY. 
          UM, I THINK THAT THIS, THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED, BUT LIKE THE NEW ONE, UM, LIKE THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE IT'S A, IT'S A LOT OF PAGES AND I AM SUPPOSED TO READ IT, BUT LIKE THE PUBLIC ISN'T NECESSARILY SO HELPING IT BE CLEAR. 
          SO BOOK WOULD KNOW WHAT THEY'RE COMMENTING ON. 
          TRUE. 
          AND I THINK THAT THE CITIZEN CAN A FAVORITE, BUT THESE SLIDES ARE VERY EASY TO DIGEST. 
          AND SO LIKE THAT KIND OF EASY TO DIGEST, DIGEST AS THE MAD TOO. 
          I KNOW THE FEDERAL, I KNOW THE PLANET ITSELF HAS TO BE WHAT THE FEDS ARE ASKING FOR. 
          LIKE, I'M NOT SAYING THAT I JUST A WAY FOR ME TO TALK WHEN I'M ON LINKEDIN. 
          I CAN'T BE LIKE, HERE'S THE REPORT, PLEASE READ IT AND THEN COME COMMENT. 
          UM, SO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT HELPS SHOW. 
          AND THEN, AND I KNOW THERE'S THE SUMMARY, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A SUMMARY LIKE THIS, RIGHT? LIKE THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND. 
          AND THEN, AND THEN JUST A VERY, VERY CLEAR, VERY, 
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VERY SHORT SUMMARY OF WHAT CHANGED AND WHY. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO LIKE AS IT RELATES TO THE CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT, RIGHT? SO LIKE YOU JUST WENT THROUGH A GREAT PRESENTATION OF HOW YOU HEARD, YOU ADDED, YOU CHANGED. 
          AND SO JUST, JUST A REALLY, REALLY LIKE ONE PAGER. 
          'CAUSE I CAN GET A ONE PAGER TO FOLKS AND THEN ASK THEM TO COME BACK AND, AND TALK TO US ABOUT IT. 
          UM, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. 
          I KNOW THIS IS MAYBE A QUESTION FOR FIVE YEARS FROM NOW AND WE GO AGAIN. 
          I DON'T KNOW, BUT JUST THAT WAS WHERE I WAS AT THIS WEEK. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          SO I THINK I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN, IN OUR COMMUNITY PEOPLE I THINK IT, IT'S, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS COMMISSIONERS, UM, TO GIVE OUT THE INFORMATION, ENCOURAGE OUR CITIZENS TO COME. 
          IT'S ALSO VERY DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING THAT I JUST STATED RIGHT NOW. 
          HOW HARD IT'S TO GET SOMEBODY TO UNDERSTAND THAT 300 PAGES OF, OF INFORMATION'S HARD TO DIGEST. 
          AND YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE RESIDENTS ASKED ME, MAYBE GET PAID, HOW DO WE PUT ALL THIS RESEARCH, YOU KNOW, AND BE ABLE TO, UM, CONTAIN IT ALL AND THEN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO, TO SIMULATE IT TO THE COMMUNITY. 
          YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THOUSANDS OF  RESIDENTS, EVERY DISTRICT, EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC AREA. 
          SO THE PRESSURES ON US, YOU KNOW, AS . 
          AND SO I THINK THE OUTREACH IS FAIRLY POORLY IN  AS STAFF. 
          UM, I THINK THAT CITY HAS A RESPONSIBILITY, UH, TO DO THEIR JOB. 
          AND THEIR JOB IS TO FIGURE OUT A WAY, UH, TO OUTREACH AND TO FIND IT, UH, YOU KNOW, A WAY THAT IS EQUITABLE. 
          IT'S SERVING AT ALL, UM, LEVELS OF NOT JUST, UH,  PUT IN THAT CATEGORY. 
          NOT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN POVERTY GUIDELINES RIGHT NOW. 
          SO MANY OF US ARE. 
          UM, AND I THINK THAT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE UNDERREPRESENTED, UH, FROM THE CITY. 
          UM, AND SO THE BOARD AND THE COMMISSION HAS DONE THE BEST THEY CAN DO BY HOLDING YOU ALL ACCOUNTABLE OF YOUR ACTIONS AND YOUR WORK, BRINGING YOU ALL BACK. 
          YOU KNOW, I'M VERY GRATEFUL THAT OUR CHAIR HAS DID WAS , BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, HE ONLY HAVE TWO SPEAKERS, THREE SPEAKERS, YOU KNOW, IN A CITY OF TWO . 
          UM, THAT'S POOR BOARD IN MY, SO I'M NOT HAPPY TODAY BECAUSE THIS IS WITH A FIVE YEAR PLAN. 
          UH, AND PEOPLE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. 
          UM, AND THEN WHEN YOU TELL US RIGHT NOW THAT THE WHOLE BUYER SYSTEM PROGRAM IS BEING, YOU KNOW, TAKEN AWAY, MONEYS ARE NOT  HELP PEOPLE BUY HOMES, PEOPLE THAT REALLY NEED THAT SYSTEM, THAT NEED THAT HELP TO PURCHASE A HOME WITH THEIR PARTNER, WITH THEIR CHILD OR GRANDPARENT OR WHOEVER. 
          NOBODY CAN BUY A HOUSE BY THEMSELVES. 
          THEY'RE NOT BUILDING HERE. 
          BUT YOU KNOW, IT GAVE AN OP, THERE WAS AT LEAST AN OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR THEM. 
          AND NOW THE OPPORTUNITY IS NOT THERE. 
          MEAN I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A CHILDCARE CRISIS, WE HAVE A HOUSING CRISIS, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE NOT IN A CHILDCARE BUSINESS. 
          WE'RE IN THE HOUSING BUSINESS. 
          SO TO TAKE 300,000 AWAY FROM TWO ONE PROGRAM, ANOTHER 300,000 AWAY FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM FORWARD INTO UH, I THINK Y'ALL SAID CHILDCARE AND SOMETHING OUT. 
          I MEAN I FOUND, YOU KNOW, US NOT EVEN KNOWING THAT YOU'RE GONNA DO THAT, I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HEARING YOU SAY ARE GONNA TAKE HOME FIRE TO THE  THAT THE NATURE HOUSING THAT'S BEEN A PART OF THIS, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING FOR A LONG TIME. 
          SO, SO US NOT KNOWING THAT AND JUST BEING TOLD BACK THE DATA WE HAVE  THAT MONEY THAT I'M LOOKING AT IT, THERE'S NOTHING THERE. 
          THERE'S NOTHING THERE. 
          AND THEN IT SAYS THAT THE HOME ASSISTANCE IS GOING TO BE, I GUESS GIVING MONEY TO SHORT TERM RENTAL MORTGAGE AND UTILITIES. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS. 
          IF I CAN GET AN EXPLANATION ON THAT. 
          SO YEAH. 
          UM, WE REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE TODAY BUT TO, YOU KNOW, HEAR YOU AND GIVE OUR CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS AND, UM, IT GETS APPROVED TO DATE HAS TO, BUT I JUST FEEL THAT, 
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UM, YOU KNOW, THIS ASSESSMENT AND THAT WAY IT WAS DONE THIS TIME AROUND WASN'T, DIDN'T BE MY SATISFACTION AS A COMMISSIONER. 
          UM, ALSO ON THE LIST THAT YOU GAVE, THAT THE GROUPS THAT PARTICIPATED, UM, IT ALSO, I DIDN'T SEE ANY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, ANY CONTACT ME. 
          UM, I I DIDN'T SEE ANY, UM, ANYTHING THAT, THAT I, I THOUGHT WOULD'VE, WOULD'VE BEEN BENEFICIAL, UM, FOR THE PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE, THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING DISPLACED. 
          UM, AND SO YEAH, THAT, THAT'S MY, MY COMMENTS TODAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND CLARIFY ONE THING 'CAUSE I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO WALK AWAY THINKING WE'RE CUTTING OUR DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 
          WE'RE NOT, WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE'LL SERVE THE SAME NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE HISTORICALLY BY LEVERAGING ADDITIONAL LOCAL RESOURCES. 
          SO THE WHAT WE ANTICIPATED LEVEL FUNDING IS THAT 3.6 MILLION IN HOME DOLLARS. 
          WE FOUND OUT LESS THAN A MONTH AGO, WE GOT OUR ALLOCATION. 
          WE'RE NEVER QUITE SURE WHEN WE'RE GONNA GET THE ALLOCATION. 
          IT'S A LITTLE OVER $3 MILLION. 
          SO WE HAD TO SCALE DOWN OUR FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THOSE PROGRAMS ACCORDINGLY. 
          BUT OUR DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS NOT GOING AWAY. 
          IT'S AN IMPORTANT PROGRAM. 
          WE SERVE ABOUT 30 PEOPLE IN YEAR. 
          WE'RE GONNA SEE HOW WE CAN ACTUALLY INCREASE THAT NUMBER OF FOLKS. 
          'CAUSE WE ARE VERY COMMITTED TO GETTING LOAN PEOPLE INTO HOME MEMBERSHIP. 
          SO I DID JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THE TENANT RIGHT'S NOT GOING TO BE EITHER JUST SHIFTING, SHIFTING FUNDING, SHIFTING FUNDING. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK. 
          IT HELPS US, HELPS ME ADVOCATE FOR MORE RESOURCES. 
          I HELPS YOU NEED MORE RESOURCES TO DO BETTER JOB AND YOUR SAME TIME. 
          WHAT ELSE WAS NEXT ON QUESTION ? I GOT A QUESTIONS WITH WHAT DID WE HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY  I READING AVAILABLE OF HOUSING THAT FEELS AFFORDABLE TO UH, I'M GOING TO PUT THIS BY UNDERSTANDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS ALL IN THE APARTMENTS THAT'S BEING BUILT AND YOU'RE NOT BUILDING NO MORE HOUSES HERE IN AUSTIN, BUT THEY'RE TRYING TO BUY UP PEOPLE'S HOMES THAT'S STILL LIVING. 
          AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE I'M GETTING CALLS TWO, THREE TIMES A DAY. 
          I HAVE A CLIENT THAT WOULD LIKE TO BUY YOU A HOUSE. 
          I SELL MY HOUSE WHERE I'M GOING. 
          BUT THE POINT THAT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS HOW COME THERE'S NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ANYMORE? I CAN REMEMBER AFFORDABLE HOUSING FROM 19 50, 19 60, 19 70, 19 80, 19 9. 
          THAT'S TELLING YOU HOW OLD I'VE BEEN HERE ON THIS EARTH AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY IS UH, NO FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          NOW I SEE YOU DRIVING DOWN THE STREET EVERY DAY. 
          YOU GOT THESE WHITE COATS, TAKE THAT MONEY AND PUT IT ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          YOU SEE THESE BIG OLD SIGNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. 
          PEDESTRIAN. 
          SOME OF THE PEOPLE DON'T USE THOSE WALKWAYS. 
          THEY WERE PRETTY UH, JAYWALK IN A MINUTE. 
          I HAD TWO GUYS JAYWALK IN FRONT OF ME ON MY WAY OVER HERE AND I HAD TO STOP. 
          HOPEFULLY THE GUY IN THE BACK OF IT UNDERSTOOD TO STOP. 
          BUT THE POINT I'M GETTING AT, WHY IS IT THERE'S NO  AFFORDABLE HOUSING? NOW MY UNDERSTANDING IS HOOD WANTS TO DO SOME, OKAY, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CHALMERS, THAT'S NOT CHALMERS, BUT THE ROSEWOOD PROJECT IS BEHIND AND UH, I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S OPEN FOR THE ONES THAT USED TO LIVE THERE CAN COME BACK. 
          BUT I'M HEARING OTHER STORES. 
          SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US, UH, THE HOUSING FINANCE LOOK INTO WHERE THEY CAN GET SOME MORE MONEY FOR ALL THE PROGRAMS THAT SHE GOT UP THERE. 
          ESPECIALLY THAT'S MY RESIDE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE. 
          YES MA'AM. 
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NOW NO APARTMENTS BECAUSE I GOT BY SIX OF 'EM. 
          I'M SURROUNDED BY APARTMENTS. 
          IN OTHER WORDS, I GO TO MY HOUSE AND GOT CARS TRYING TO COME OUT IN FRONT OF ME. 
          IT'S DANGEROUS OUT THERE. 
          WE ALL THESE APARTMENTS 'CAUSE PEOPLE DON'T CARE. 
          THANK YOU . 
          UM, ANYONE ELSE? WHO, ANYBODY ELSE? IT'S STILL, YEAH, SO YEAH, SO I'M GONNA ECHO THE THINGS THAT  THE WAY TO, FOR US TO PRESENT THIS TO OUR COMMUNITY WAS VERY DIFFICULT. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE IT BY THE RESPONSE RESPONSE COMMISSIONER, ACTUALLY I THINK YOU SHOWED THAT  FOR 28% FOR HIGH INCOME. 
          SO THAT MEANS THAT VERY LOW INCOME PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE ANY. 
          AND THEN WE CAN SEE ABOUT COMMUNICATION TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS PROGRAM. 
          IT'S AVAILABLE OUT THERE BUILDING HOUSING THAT'S AFFORDABLE TO  PEOPLE, PEOPLE THAT WANT STAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          UM, SO YEAH, SO AGAIN, MEDICAL THAT, YEAH, IT'S DISAPPOINTING THAT WE DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB THAT SOMEBODY ELSE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FIVE YEARS DO THIS AGAIN. 
          SO WE DON'T, WE DON'T THINK. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          ANYONE ELSE?  AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON. 
          UM, OH, I'M SORRY. 
          I'M SO SORRY. 
          IS THERE ANY, LIKE ANYTHING IN THE PLANE SO THAT IT'S FAVORED LIKE THE ASSISTANCE IS FAVORED TOWARDS RESIDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ESTABLISHED AMOUNT OF TIME FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE BORN IT THE CITY BALTIMORE, DO YOU HAVE A ? UM, SO WE DID HAVE PILOTED WHAT'S CALLED A PREFERENCE POLICY, UM, WHICH IS UM, HAS BEEN USED IN OTHER COMMUNITIES AND HAS SURVIVED LEGAL CHALLENGES THUS FAR. 
          BUT WE PILOTED IT ON OUR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST HOMES. 
          AND THE IDEA IS TO, UM, IT HAS TO BE GROUNDED IN DATA. 
          SO WE USE UT'S UPROOTED REPORT THAT SHOWED GENTRIFYING AREAS. 
          YOU HAD TO BE ABLE TO TIE BACK TO AN AREA THAT WAS EXPERIENCING DISPLACEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION. 
          UM, WE'VE USED IT ON A SMALL SAMPLE 'CAUSE IT REALLY IS JUST OUR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST AND WE HAVEN'T DONE THE EVALUATION YET, BUT IT HAS, WE'VE NOTICED, UM, AN INCREASE IN FOLKS WITH HISTORICAL TIES TO AREAS THAT ARE EXPERIENCING DISPLACEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION. 
          BUT WE CAN'T PRECLUDE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FROM HERE FROM ACCESSING SUPPORT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, UM, ANYONE ELSE REGARD WHO I WANNA DO THE LAST ITEM MR. JUST MENTIONED IN REFERENCE TO ORIGINAL QUARTER. 
          SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, THAT ANSWER IS NO, WE ARE NOT, UM, WE DO NOT HAVE A PROGRAM THAT IS HERE SPECIFICALLY FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT CAN DEMONSTRATE, UH, CONNECTIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY . 
          THAT IS CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          OTHER THAN THE VERY LIMITED, RIGHT? GENERALLY SPEAKING, THAT IS NOT WHAT'S NOT PRIORITY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR. 
          UH, IT IT IS WHAT IT IS. 
          I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR WITH ALL THE, WITH ALL THE CONVERSATION AND THIS WAS LIKE, LET ME BE CLEAR ON THAT. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UH, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. 
          UM, I DO SAY THAT I DO BELIEVE IN MY PART, I DO BELIEVE THAT THE INTENT WAS FOUND AND THAT THE INTENT, THE EFFORT THAT YOU ALL PUT FORTH, UM, WAS, IS ROOTED IN THE DESIRE TO GET FEEDBACK. 
          THE MISSION. 
          HOWEVER, ALMOST A YEAR AGO, OR IT MAY, AND DON'T QUOTE ME ON THE TIME, BUT 
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PREVIOUSLY INDICATED THAT THE PLAN THAT WE WERE SEEING WAS NOT GOING, WE DID NOT, WE WEREN'T CONFIDENT THAT IT WAS GOING TO REACH THE INDIVIDUALS THAT IT NEEDED TO REACH. 
          I REMEMBER THAT SAYING THAT THE SPEAK OF AUSTIN REALLY MEANS THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE A COMPUTER AND KEYBOARD. 
          IT'S REALLY KEYBOARD AUSTIN NOT SPEAK UP AUSTIN. 
          AND SO WHEN WE, UM, MOVING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, IT IS ABOUT TRYING TO DO BETTER. 
          UM, BUT MOVING FORWARD, I THINK, YOU KNOW, HAVING, UM, SIGNIFICANT, UH, FORMS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COMMUNITIES, UH, IN THE AREAS, THE, THE, THE DOCTOR'S OFFICES IN THOSE, THE CLINICS IN THOSE AREAS, UM, WE, WE COULD DEFINITELY DO A BETTER JOB. 
          UM, AND THE FACT THAT THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE INDIVIDUALS ON THE SURVEY SEEM TO BE TECH SAVVY OF SOME SORT AND OR HAVE THE RESOURCES TO ACTUALLY, UH, BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY, UM, PRETTY MUCH PROVES OUT WHAT WE WERE ACTUALLY REJECTING. 
          SO IT DOESN'T MAKE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, OH I, THAT WAS NO, LIKE I KIND OF BECOME EXPECTED THAT. 
          AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE MOVE FORWARD THAT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT LISTENS TO THE COMMISSION. 
          WE TRULY HEARS US. 
          WE, WE ARE CONNECTED TO THE, IF, IF WE'RE GONNA BE TRUTHFUL ABOUT IT AND NOT REALLY JUST DO THE CHECK THE BOXES, THEN LISTEN TO US. 
          UH, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE FIVE YEARS, BUT I, I WILL SAY MOVING ON, UM, I SHIFTING BECAUSE MY TIME IS UP IS THE ONE PAGER THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT. 
          UM, I DO LIKE THE INFOGRAPHICS. 
          WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO WHAT I WAS, UH, TALKING ABOUT ALMOST, UM, A YEAR AGO LOOKING FOR INFOGRAPHICS. 
          SOMETHING THAT CAN BE CONSUMED, UM, PRETTY MUCH ON A ONE PAGE, YOU KNOW, UM, SOMETHING THAT CAN REALLY TELL 'EM, WE CAN GET EVEN MORE CREATIVE AND DO LITTLE, UM, SHORT CLIP VIDEO ANIMATIONS OR SOMETHING. 
          UM, INDIVIDUALS ARE REALLY QUICK. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT, WHATEVER IT IS, WE'RE GONNA GET THE MESSAGE OUT. 
          WE HAVE TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT IN A FORM IN WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE GONNA CONSUME AND SO THAT WE CAN GET THE FEEDBACK. 
          UM, BUT I DO, UM, WANT SAY I REALLY DO ACKNOWLEDGE EFFORT AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT I DO  THAT. 
          UM, AND THE LAST THING I SAID, WE DO THE INFOMERCIAL, BUT THE INFOGRAPHIC, THE IDEA OF WHY, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU SAID US, YOU'RE TELLING US WHY. 
          BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD FOR, UM, AVERAGE CITIZEN TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHY FUNDING IS, YOU KNOW, THAT OH, WE GOT LESS MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT. 
          I MEAN THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT OTHERWISE WE ARE LEFT TO SPECULATE AND ONCE WE START SPECULATING AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY AND WHY IT SHIFTED, THAT'S, THAT'S THE SOURCE OF A LOT OF, UM, ANG TO THE COMMUNITY AND DISTRUST. 
          SO WE WANNA BE MINDFUL. 
          ALRIGHT, UM, WITH THAT, UM, WE ARE  ARE WE, WE ARE FINISHING UP WITH THIS DISCUSSION ITEM. 
          UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND WE WILL MOVE FORWARD TO WE HAVE TWO ONE INSTEAD BE WITH THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN. 
          THAT'S THE FIVE YEAR PLAN OF WHICH YOU KIND OF SORT OF INTRODUCED TO US TO THANK YOU. 
          AND UM, WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM ANY CITIZENS IN REFERENCE TO THAT ITEM MATTER. 
          THREE MINUTES. 
          UH, WISH TO EXPRESS ANY, HAVE ANY, UM, OH, I HAVE ONE WHERE, ALRIGHT, WHAT'S THE CERTIFICATE? . 
          THANK YOU MR. THAT FOR YOUR, UM, PATIENCE 
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WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE. 
          SO, UH, WE WILL HAVE THE THREE MINUTES, UM, TO SHARE WITH US ABOUT THE UM, FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN, UM, THAT WILL BE BEING SUBMITTED TO THE UH, I TO START. 
          THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS. 
          I'M ENOVIA JOSEPH. 
          MY COMMENTS ARE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE PROCESS. 
          I JUST WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND SPECIFICALLY THAT CHANGING THE MEETING TO HERE IN YOUR BACKUP MATERIAL, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THE CITY OF AUSTIN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AS WHAT WAS ADVERTISED. 
          SO PART OF IT IS A POSTING ISSUE, UH, FOR ME, BUT I WOULD JUST SAY THAT YOU'RE JUST CHECKING THE BOX TONIGHT. 
          AND ONE OF THE REASONS IS BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAY 30TH ITEMS ON COUNCIL'S AGENDA FOR THE ACTUAL, THE THE PUBLIC HEARING, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THERE ARE TWO DOCUMENTS ON ITEM 1 34 AND 1 35. 
          THAT WAS TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR HUD. 
          IT SAYS 1 34. 
          AND THEN ANOTHER DOCUMENT WHICH SAYS THE SAME THING IS POSTED AS ITEM 1 21, ITEM 1 35 HAS A SECOND DOCUMENT IS POSTED AS 1 22. 
          NEITHER ONE OF THOSE ITEMS, HOWEVER, LINKED TO THE DOCUMENTS THAT ARE IN YOUR BACKUP TONIGHT. 
          SO TO COMMISSIONER ACHILLES' POINT AS IT RELATES TO WHAT THE PUBLIC WAS ACTUALLY COMMENTING ON, I SIGNED UP, BUT I DIDN'T MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON THE RECORD. 
          I JUST HAD MY NAME WRITTEN INTO THE RECORD THAT I REGISTERED BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING IN BACKUP, THERE WAS NO LINK. 
          AND SO IT'S PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE MR. DURAN HEARD THOSE SAME COMMENTS FROM ME WHEN I TESTIFIED BEFORE THE COMMISSION HERE AND NOTHING CHANGED. 
          THERE WAS NOTHING ADDITIONAL. 
          THERE WAS NOTHING AS RELATED TO EITHER MY COMMENTS OR ANYONE ELSE. 
          AND SO I JUST FIND IT REALLY PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE I HAVE TESTIFIED ON THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IN THE PAST IN THE ANNUAL UPDATE. 
          I GET IT, IT'S A STRATEGIC PLAN AND ALL OF THAT. 
          BUT MANDY DE MAYO IS THE ONE WHO SAID, WELL WE'LL WAIT. 
          AND THE STAFF SAYS, WE'LL WAIT UNTIL WE GET THE FIVE YEAR PLAN BECAUSE WE'RE ALMOST THERE. 
          SO THE QUESTION BECOMES WHEN DO YOU ACTUALLY PUT THE COMMENTS THAT THE PUBLIC ACTUALLY MAKES THESE SUMMARIES AND THE COMMENTS THAT ARE ON SPEAK OF AUSTIN, THAT'S ONLY PART OF THE COMMENT. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER THING THAT'S PROBLEMATIC IS I SEE THE SPOT ON PAGE 23 OF 28 IN THE BOARD PACKET FROM THE FIRST PRESENTATION YOU RECEIVED FOR K-A-Z-I-I GET IT WITH THE SPOT, BUT K-A-Z-I-I SAID BEFORE FIVE DAYS A WEEK, THEY ACTUALLY SPEAK TO THE PUBLIC. 
          THEY HAVE NONPROFITS, IT DOESN'T COST ANY MONEY, BUT THERE WAS NO OUTREACH. 
          SO I'M NOT SURE WHEN THAT SPOT RAN. 
          I IMAGINE IT RAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS. 
          I DO KNOW THEY HAVE A $600,000 CONTRACT WITH THE CITY FOR THESE COUNCIL MEETINGS. 
          SO WHEN THEY WANNA REACH BLACK PEOPLE, THEY KNOW HOW TO REACH. 
          WHEN THEY HAD THE PROJECT CONNECT PROPAGANDA GOING, IT PLAYED ABOUT 550 TIMES WHEN I WAS AWAKEN COUNTY. 
          AND SO IT IS DISTURBING TO BE HERE AND HAVE STAFF READ CHECKLISTS AND TELL YOU WHAT YOUR PRIORITIES ARE. 
          AND IT'S EVEN MORE DISTURBING TO HEAR ABOUT THIS CHILDCARE BECAUSE IT WAS OCTOBER 25TH, 2022 WHEN TAMARA ATKINSON FROM WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS TOLD COMMISSIONER'S COURT, TRAVIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT, THAT THEY RECEIVED $54 MILLION OF AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDING. 
          SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A MILLION OR 2 MILLION TO MOVE FROM 65 0 5 AIRPORT BOULEVARD AND NOW THEY GOT SIX ALL THIS MONEY FROM ARPA. 
          WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE THAT LITTLE BIT OF $300,000, WHICH IS THE LOT FOR SOME OTHER PROGRAM? WHY THEN DO YOU HAVE TO ALLOCATE THAT TO CHILDCARE? I THINK WHAT YOU NEED IS A LIST OF ALL OF THE CHILDCARE RESOLUTIONS AND THE FUNDING THUS FAR FOR CHILDCARE BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY AGREE TO ALLOCATE THAT MONEY THERE. 
          AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME, BUT IS DEEPLY DISTURBING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T EVEN GET TO WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS NORTH ON THE BUS LINE. 
          YOU HAVE TO WALK UP THERE. 
          YOU ARE WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH MS. JOSEPH. 
          YES MA'AM. 
          I DEFINITELY APPRECIATE YOU. 
          THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SAY HERE. 
          YES MA'AM. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER YES, PLEASE. 
          YES, PLEASE. 
          BY THE COMMUNITY HERE. 
          [01:15:02]
OKAY. 
          KEVIN , ALEX NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. 
          I SHARED THAT THE REASON I WANTED TO COMMENT TO THIS, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY 'CAUSE IT'S OUT, LOOKING ON WHAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR THE FIVE YEARS. 
          I SAW SOME, SOME CONCERNS WERE SHOWED, UH, THE DAYCARE ONE, THE OTHER ONE ON THE MOVING OF SOME MONIES WITHOUT COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHERE, UH, THIS WAS ADDRESSED AT WHICH COMMUNITIES. 
          AND THE OTHER ONE WAS THAT I, I ECHO WHAT VERY SAID, YOU KNOW, THAT VERY CRITICAL AT THIS POINT AND DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE, YOU KNOW, AND MONIES ARE BEING FUNNELED HERE AND THERE WITHOUT REALLY TO THE TARGETING THE RIGHT ISSUES ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND FOR THE NEEDING, UH, DISPLACEMENT OF FAMILY. 
          THOSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. 
          THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT. 
          UH, THEY, TO ME IS NOT, UH, NOTHING TO DO WITH . 
          IT'S MORE OF A, YOU KNOW, UH, IT IS A NECESSITY OR DOWNTOWN OR, OR SCHOOL OR WHATEVER. 
          BUT, UM, THE, THE PORTABLE HOUSING IS GREATLY NEEDED. 
          UH, PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, OUT THERE REACHING OUT TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND DIFFERENT, UH, ADVOCATES TO TRY TO GET HELP. 
          AND SOME OF THE DOORS ARE STILL BEING CLOSED. 
          AND SO WE NEED, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT. 
          KEEP, KEEP HAMMERING, WE'RE GONNA DO FIVE YEAR PLANNING. 
          I HAVE SOME MONEY THERE FOR THOSE AND NOT JUST GIVE IT AWAY TO, THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE THAT SAID SHORT TERM RENTALS. 
          UM, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANT, WHY MONEY WAS GETTING SHORT TERM RENTALS. 
          THEY HAD BAD ACTORS AT SHORT TERM RENTALS. 
          THEY SHOULD, THEY NOT PAID THEIR, THEIR, THEIR FIRST STATUS TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND THEIR, UH, UH, LY SHORT TERM RENTAL AND ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE OR UTILITY. 
          BUT I, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S SHORT TERM RENTALS THAT I SEE IN DR. 
          VILLAGE. 
          UH, I, I'M SURROUNDED BY TUR RENTALS AND ONLY MY STREET. 
          THERE ARE ABOUT FIVE OF THEM. 
          WE GET PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE STATE AND THEY, THEY'RE NEVER, THEY'RE NEVER, UH, PEACEFUL. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC. 
          THERE'S ALL KINDS OF ERS THAT THEY LIVE. 
          THERE ARE REALLY THAT, SO I THOUGHT THERE WAS GONNA BE A CHANGE IN THAT, YOU KNOW, SLOW DOWN THE, THE PROCESS OF MORE RENTALS IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          YOU, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, GETTING DOWNGRADE BY THAT FACILITY. 
          WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S COMING IN AND OUR KIDS AND OUR GRANDKIDS ARE WANNA COME TO SEE THE GRANDPARENTS OR WHO LIVE IN THE AREA, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 
          AND THEN THERE WOULD BEEN GENTRIFICATION AND THERE HAVE TO BE GENTRIFICATION, NEW GEN GENERATIONS THAT ARE COMING IN FOR YOUTH. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE NOT EVEN BEING , GET ASSISTANCE FOR THEM OR HAVE, HAVE FAMILIES THAT ARE IN THE COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW. 
          LOW INCOME FAMILIES THAT ARE PROVIDING, UH, HOUSING FOR THEIR KIDS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE OUT HERE. 
          COMMUNITY AND THANK AMERICA. 
          THANK YOU MR. CHAIR. 
          OH YES. 
          JUST ONE THING. 
          SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          I WANNA CLEAR UP, UM, AND OUR FAULT REGARDING SHORT TERM RENTAL. 
          UM, ON THERE, IT IS NOT ABOUT SHORT TERM RENTALS. 
          IT IS UNDER THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS, WHICH PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WITH HIV AND AIDS. 
          AND IT WAS MEANT TO SAY, PROVIDING SHORT-TERM RENTAL ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WITH AIDS AND HIV. 
          WE ARE NOT PROVIDING ANY FUNDING FEDERAL OR LOCAL, TO SHORT-TERM RENTALS. 
          I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          , I JUST CLEARED THAT UP. 
          PERFECT. 
          , ANY OTHER CITIZENS FOR THE PUBLIC? NUMBER FOUR AGENDA HEARING DONE. 
          MOVING 
          [4. Conduct a public hearing to receive comment on community needs for the City's Fiscal Year2025-2029 Consolidated Plan that will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment as part of the City's application for federal funding.]
ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE ON OUR PUBLIC THEORY. 
          THIS ONE IS REGARDING OUR, UM, THE REVIVE, THE CITY'S REVIVED CITIZEN REPUTATION PLAN FOR THE SAME FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN OF 20 25, 20 29. 
          PROCESS OF THAT SECURES OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE CITY, UM, UH, FROM CLUB. 
          DO I HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS REGARDING THAT SPECIFIC FUND? 
          [01:20:04]
IT , MS. JESSICA, IT'S NOT, YOU'RE READY TO GO. 
          THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS. 
          I'M  JOSEPH, AS IT RELATES TO THE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, I WOULD JUST CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT ON THE FIRST PAGE AND THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT, IT MENTIONS FAIR HOUSING. 
          AND I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN, IT SAYS, DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ACCESS TO THE JOBS. 
          AND I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEY ARE NOT COMMITTED TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING. 
          AND I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT ON THE RAIL LINES SPECIFICALLY, IT'S 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME AND ABOVE. 
          AND THE CITY'S OWN DATA IN 2020 SAID THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS EARN APPROXIMATELY $42,000 AND HISPANICS EARN APPROXIMATELY $50,000. 
          SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DATA, WE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, THEN WE RECOGNIZE THAT 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME IS $65,000 AND ABOVE. 
          AND ORION PROJECT, WHICH IS THAT CRESTVIEW STATION SPECIFICALLY HAS 80% OF THOSE 300 UNITS AT 80% TO 120% AREA MEDIAN INCOME. 
          I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT HIGHLAND VILLAGE IS ALSO 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME. 
          I CAN TAKE YOU ALL THE WAY DOWN THE RAIL LINE AND YOU WILL NOT SEE AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT'S DEEPLY AFFORDABLE ON THOSE LINES. 
          I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND SPECIFICALLY THAT THE FAIR HOUSING ACT IS NOT SAYING THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO CONSOLIDATE ALL THESE, UH, THE LOW INCOME PEOPLE IN ONE AREA, THE CONCENTRATIONS OF POVERTY, WHICH IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SOUTHEAST AUSTIN, THE MARSHALING YARD. 
          AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THAT AREA WHERE YOU HAVE THE 12TH, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER ONE'S FOUNDATION AND THE $65 MILLION DEAL THAT THE MAYOR DID WITH OUR GOVERNOR FOR THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDING. 
          SO IT IS PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE MANDY DE MAYO GAVE YOU THE PRESENTATION OCTOBER, 2023, THE $10 MILLION HUD APPLICATION FOR THE PRO HOUSING GRANT SPECIFICALLY SAID THAT YOU HAD LESS THAN 10 UNITS OF LESS THAN 10 AFFORDABLE HOUSES IN WEST AUSTIN. 
          SO IF YOU KNOW IT AND YOU KEEP SAYING IT, THEN YOU, THIS COMMISSION CAN'T HAVE AS ITS GOAL FOCUSED ON LOW AND MODERATE INCOME, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE ARE NOT REFLECTING THAT. 
          AND SO I'M REALLY UPSET BECAUSE IT'S JUST PROBLEMATIC. 
          WE'RE JUST GOING IN CIRCLES AND IT, AND SO MUCH MORE COULD BE DONE. 
          BUT I AM OPPOSED, UM, TO THIS PLAN BECAUSE IT'S NOT A FORMATIVE AND FURTHER AND FAIR HOUSING. 
          AND I WOULD JUST LAST AND SAY AS IT RELATES TO TRANSPORTATION, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BUS TO GET YOU TO THE JOB, AND IT WAS COUNCIL AND CAPITOL METRO ON JULY 27TH, 2020, THAT ELIMINATED THE THREE METRO RAPIDS THAT WOULD'VE SERVED THE MINORITY POPULATION, SAMSUNG, THE APPLE DECORATOR DOWNTOWN AND OL TO AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE HIGHLAND. 
          SO IT'S PROBLEMATIC. 
          THE 2014 PROJECT CONNECT, LOCALLY PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE STUDY TOLD THEM THAT 58% OF THE JOBS WOULD BE IN THE NORTH CORRIDOR BY 2035. 
          AND THEN THEY UNILATERALLY ELIMINATED IT. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE THE STAFF THAT SAYS WE WANT A COMPACT AND CONNECTED COMMUNITY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S IN IMAGINE AUSTIN 2012. 
          BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT MARCH 4TH, 2021 AFTER THE GEORGE FLOYD MURDER, THAT'S WHEN THEY APOLOGIZED TO BLACK PEOPLE. 
          AND SO YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. 
          YOU APOLOGIZE TO US FOR THE INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION AND THEN YOU WANT US TO BELIEVE NOW YOU WANNA COMPACT AND CONNECT IT, STEVE, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. 
          EITHER THE APOLOGY WAS YOUR HOT AIR OR WHAT THEY'RE SAYING NOW IS TRUE. 
          AND WE KNOW IT'S DISCRIMINATORY SINCE 1889 AND HYDE PARK, WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING BECAUSE, AND I'LL END ON THIS. 
          MARCH 12TH, 2020 IS WHEN COUNCIL PAID $3.7 MILLION FOR THE DETENTION POND RIGHT OVER THERE AT THE BAKER SCHOOL. 
          THEY ACTUALLY KILLED AFFORDABLE HOUSING RIGHT AT THE RAIL TERMINUS. 
          AND SO IT'S ALL A FARCE. 
          AND SO I SENT MR. DURAN MY COMMENTS THAT I WOULD JUST FORWARD TO THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE AND INSPECTOR GENERAL BECAUSE THIS IS A FARCE AND IT IS DEFRAUDING THE TAXPAYER. 
          AND I WOULD JUST SAY THAT FRAUD IS TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OF VALUE THROUGH WILLFUL MISREPRESENTATION. 
          AND THAT'S THE DEFINITION FROM THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE. 
          AND SHAME ON THE CITY OF AUSTIN FOR PERPETUATING THE DISCRIMINATION THAT WE SEE AND MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO STOP IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU. 
          IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY ANSWERED THE METHODS. 
          YES, YOU YOU'RE WELCOME, 
          [01:25:03]
CITIZENS. 
          YEAH. 
          NO, BUT WE  THE FUTURE OF THE DI UM, THANK YOU. 
          UM, WE ARE GOING TO RESUME OUR DISCUSSION ITEMS. I'M SIX OH OH COVER. 
          OH, THANK YOU FOR, UM, WE ARE, THAT IS THE END OF OUR PUBLIC HEARING PORTION. 
          UM, SO ITEMS NUMBER FOUR AND NUMBER FIVE HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED IN OUR PUBLIC HEARING AND, UH, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. 
          THAT THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MR. BLAKE. 
          UM, MOVING 
          [5. Presentation and discussion regarding outcomes for Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) forApril 2024 (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood Services Unit, Austin Public Health)]
ON TO OUR DISCUSSION ITEM NUMBER SIX. 
          UM, WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY BLOCK GRANT OR COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT FOR OUR APRIL I GOING TO PRESENT OUR APRIL . 
          ARE YOU NOT PRESENTING THE MAY INFORMATION? ALWAYS. 
          IT'S ALWAYS. 
          BYE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. 
           MANAGER AS YOU . 
          WE HAVE A SIX  CENTERS CITY OF BOSTON THAT PROVIDE BASIC  MISSION. 
          UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT IMPROVED THE LICENSE, HELP THE PEOPLE EXPERIENCING POVERTY, PROVIDING PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES, CONNECTED RESIDENTS OFTEN  WHAT WE CAN'T DO IN HOUSE FOR VERY, UH, PROVIDED ONE THING POSSIBLE. 
          AGAIN, WE PROVIDE BASIC NEEDS. 
          PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE, NURSING SERVICES, CASE MANAGEMENT, PATIENT SEEKING WORK, PAIN, EMPLOYMENT, UH, LICENSE COUNSEL IN TERMS OF NAVIGATING, UH,  REPORTS THAT YOU SAID. 
          BOTTOM OF PAGE ONE, UH, IN YOUR BACKUP  FROM 2024, WE JUST GOT OUR FINAL, UH, CSBG ALLOCATION. 
          WE'RE GONNA GET A LITTLE BIT OVER A MILLION DOLLARS FOR. 
          WE HAVE SOME 2023 PERSONAL SAVINGS AND WE TO UH, EXTEND OUR 23 INTO 24. 
          RIGHT NOW OUR BUDGET LOCATION NUMBER TWO, WE, WE ARE ON. 
          UM, IT'S NOT, WE DON'T WE'RE . 
          YEAH, WE DON'T HAVE THE REST. 
          IT'S SMALL. 
          YEAH, WE HAD THE FIRST CARD THEN WE CAN THE MINUTE. 
          OKAY. 
          NO, IT SHOULD BE POSTED ONLINE. 
          ALTHOUGH I HEARD SOME FOLKS HAVE TROUBLE. 
          SO. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU FOR, UM, IT  UPDATE. 
          IT IS POSTED ON ONLINE. 
          I CHECKED EARLIER TODAY AND, UH, BE IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS. 
          UH, I WANT GO BACK TO EARLIER, GO TO PAGE TWO, MORE OF THE, UH, OUTCOMES AND SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE. 
          I'LL BE PRETTY BRIEF TODAY. 
          WE CONTINUE TO HAVE, UM, SOME RENTAL ASSESSMENT FUNDS. 
          NOT A LOT. 
          VERY LIMITED SO FAR THIS YEAR WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HELP 513 ALSO  TO OUR PROGRAM. 
          SAY A HUNDRED. 
          DEFINITELY. 
          UM, IF YOU GO BACK DOWN TO THREE, OH, UH, SERVICE AND CUSTOMER OPERATION PROGRAM OUT ROSEWOOD, HIGHLIGHT THAT. 
          WE DON'T DO A LOT OF THAT IN THE MISSION COMMUNITY, BUT MORE . 
          WE HAVE THAT ONE PROGRAM ON SIDE SIDE SIX THAT THIS  LAST YEAR. 
           , UH, FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIP WITH . 
          THE NUMBERS HERE THAT WE, A HIGH DEMAND USED TO, UH, SEEMS 43,000 NUMBER SERVED. 
          SO 
          [01:30:01]
PROJECT THIS YEAR WE HAD A YEAR AGO, UH, 25,000. 
          WE YEAR PERCENT. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO US IN FOLKS HERE PRESENT ON OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO , BOTTOM OF PAGE TWO. 
          SOME PROGRAMMATIC ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE FOR NUMBER ONE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, UH, THE THOUGHT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER CLOSED FOR MAJOR HVAC RENOVATIONS. 
          THEY'VE BEEN DISPERSED TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS THAT ARE HELPING FOCUS THERE AT THAT CENTER. 
          WILL REOPEN IN JANUARY OR STARTED VERY OPEN LATE 1970S. 
          INTEREST . 
          UH, NUMBER TWO, THE, UH, PROCESS BLACK NOMINATION SELECTION UPDATE, WHICH HAD ASKED ME ABOUT THINK I, YOU KNOW, PRESS WITH THAT AGAIN AND TRYING TO CREATE MORE EFFICIENCY THROUGH THE NOMINATION SELECTION PROCESS. 
          PEOPLE REQUEST BOSTON TO  BYLAWS, HOPEFULLY END THOSE BYLAWS. 
          AND WE HAVE TO HAVE THE VERY CUMBERSOME AND REALLY  A BARRIER QUICKLY. 
          THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DOES IT DIFFERENTLY. 
          SO IT'S, IF THEY DO IT DIFFERENTLY, THEN LET SEE THE STATE. 
          SEE WHAT I CAN MAYBE TOLD I CAN, I FOUND OUT THE NORTH AUSTIN TEAM, THEY HELP YOU SEE HAS STEPPED DOWN. 
          AND LUCKILY WITH THAT, THAT RESPONSIVE ORGANIZATION IS STILL ACTIVE. 
          UH, POSITIVE VOICES TALK TO THEM. 
          SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO KIND OF MOVE . 
          THAT WILL HAPPEN. 
          , I'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. 
          SO THAT WE REQUEST, LET'S FOCUS ON NUMBER FOUR. 
          THE HOME DELIVERY PROGRAM GOING VERY WELL. 
          THE EVENT WILL GIVE A REALLY ROBUST UPDATE IN A FEW MINUTES. 
          UH, THEY NEED TO RESORT OVER 2000 HOUSEHOLDS, WHICH IMPACTED ABOUT 6,120 TWOS. 
          WE RECEIVED THESE BOXES OF, UH, SHELF TABLE SUIT. 
          YOU CHANGE HERE. 
          INSTEAD, WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE THREE BANK, ADDING 10 POUNDS OF FRESH CODERS TO THE BOXES, GETTING CLOSER TO BECOMING A REALITY  LOGISTIC CHALLENGES. 
          . 
          UH, NUMBER FIVE, THE COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          WHAT ARE THE MEDICAL TOWARDS CONSULTING ? GIVE GIVE LAB ON OUR OWN ASSESS. 
          , AGAIN, IT'S A STATE REQUIREMENT OF STRATEGIC PLAN SERVICES. 
          UH, NUMBER 16, EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING. 
          UH, FROM FEBRUARY 26TH THROUGH MAY 30TH, WE ASSISTED 503 PEOPLE AND SEVEN HOUSEHOLD FUNDS. 
          THESE WERE, UH, WE ARE TWO FUNDS, THANK YOU TO THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT THAT MADE THESE ONES AVAILABLE TO US. 
          WE HELP SET OVER, UH, UM,  TOTAL AMOUNT, AL SYSTEM FROM US POINT WAS 447, HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. 
          WE'RE PRETTY QUICKLY. 
          GUYS KNOW AND DISCUSSED AND SPEAKER TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          DEFINITELY A CHALLENGE. 
           THAT WE'RE DOING OUR PART IN  NUMBER SEVEN, WE STOOD UP OUR FINANCIAL STABILITY RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING JUST IS FROM, UH, CITY LOST FUNDS. 
          AND SO FAR, UH, FROM JANUARY THROUGH TODAY, WE'VE ASSISTED 273 PEOPLE IN 95 HOUSEHOLD EDUCATION. 
          WE PROCESSED ABOUT HUNDRED 21,000 PAYMENTS FOR BOTH THESE PROGRAMS. THE, UH, THE AVERAGE PAYMENT SPEND FIGURE AROUND 23 TO 20 $1,200. 
          TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 
          SOME ARE MUCH HIGHER. 
          SOME PEOPLE 90 $10,000 BILL ONE TESTING. 
          UM, KIND OF HAVE, SURE WE HAVE A, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ALSO HAVE SOME 
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SET UP BALANCE. 
          NUMBER NINE, OUR NC PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM WHO STRONG, I KNOW THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN REPORTING ON THE F AND PI FIVE B. 
          WE'RE STANDING UP THAT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM DIABETES, BUT, UH, ZERO ZERO HERE. 
          WE, BEFORE DATA THIS MORNING TARGET, WE JUST ENROLL 10 PEOPLE IN THAT PROGRAM. 
          WE GET  COMING BACK. 
          WE'RE STARTING SLOW AND WE'RE DOING MORE OF THE HUBS AND THE SCREENINGS. 
          WE JUST GENERAL PUBLIC INDIVIDUALIZED CARE FOR SOME OF THEIR WORK. 
          BUT WE'VE ALREADY ENROLLED 46 PEOPLE IN THAT PROGRAM IN 19. 
          OUT OF THOSE 46 THIS YEAR HAVE, UH, BENEFITED PHYSICAL. 
          AGAIN, THESE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE LINKED AREAS, CHALLENGES LITTLE ACCESS TO WORK AS WELL. 
          SO THAT THOSE NUMBERS BE GOOD START. 
          AND NOT ONLY DO THEY GET THOSE SERVICES, THEY AND THEY GET A WARM SYSTEMS CLOSET AND PARTNER WITH  CARE. 
          UM, TAXES REALLY A ROBUST UNIT THAT WE HAVE. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. 
          IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW. 
          SIR, ANY QUESTIONS? LEMME JUST, I HAD QUESTION. 
          OH, UM, TO, I WON'T BE ABLE TO TAKE A . 
          OKAY, NO PROBLEM. 
          . 
          UM, I DID WANT TO TAKE ONE. 
          YOU TALK ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, HELPING, UH, 46 PEOPLE OR 49 PEOPLE OR 19 OR SOMETHING. 
          I THINK WHERE  I AM. 
          UM, WE, WE DO HEAR THESE NUMBERS, BUT I, AT ONE OF THESE ONES COMING UP SOON, I'M GONNA BE INTERESTED, UM, LET'S SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND OCTOBER,  GOING MORE ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF, WE GET THAT NEXT MONTH. 
          OKAY. 
          WORK FOR A MONTH AND A HALF. 
          IT'S NOT EASY TO KIND OF, OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          AND THE, UM, OTHER, I I DID WANT TO SAY, UM, IN REFERENCE TO, YOU MENTIONED THE, UH, POSITION THAT YOU'RE WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM LEGAL IN REFERENCE TO WHETHER OR NOT WE'LL BE ABLE TO GO ABOUT GETTING SOME THE ROAD THERE GO SO BLACK, UM, AREA DONE DIFFERENTLY. 
          WHAT IS THE TIMELINE THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN THE THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT? ARE THEY GONNA JUST STRIP US OUT FROM, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WHAT IS THE TIMELINE? IS THERE A TIMELINE? ASK THEM TO HAVE THAT TO US BY JULY 17TH OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          WHAT, JUNE 30TH IN SOME MANY SMALL POTATOES, THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE WATER REQUEST. 
          BUT I DID GIVE TO JUNE 30 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE NEXT STEPS OF STATE. 
          THE WALLET MOVING. 
          THERE IS A DEADLINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY ADHERE TO IT. 
          BUT IT REALLY, ALL THAT WAS ALL I HAD. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I  OH YES, YOU CAN YOU REMIND OR CAN YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT AUSTIN VOICES PLEASE? YEAH. 
          AUSTIN VOICES IS THE RESPONSIVE ORGANIZATION THAT WAS, UH, APPROVED BY COUNCIL FOR BY CLIENT. 
          SO EACH OF THESE DEMOGRAPHIC GEOGRAPHIC AREAS AS A RESPONSIVE ORGANIZATION IN THE BYLAWS. 
          AND BASICALLY WHAT, HOW THEY DID IT THEN WAS THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS KIND LIKE THE MIDDLE PEOPLE, THEY WERE ACTIVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND GO INTO CODE THEY THEORETICALLY KNEW HAD THE FOLKS ON, ON THE GROUND, RIGHT? MAYBE  HAVE THEIR OWN BYLAWS. 
          THEY UNDERSTAND, THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF THE , BUT THE CITY, THEY THOUGHT, OKAY, WE HAVE THESE ORGANIZATIONS HELP US FACILITATE THE ELECTIONS. 
          THEN THE CITY JUST COMES IN AND PROVIDES THEIR GUIDANCE IN THE PROCESS AND THEY SORT, THEY RUN THE ELECTIONS IN. 
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WELL, THE PROBLEM IS THAT I'M FINDING OUT AS I'M NEW IN THIS SOMEBODY, THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE CHANGING OUT OR THEY'RE NOT VERY ACTIVE ANYMORE. 
          THEY MIGHT NEED MORE SUPPORT ORDER OR THEY MIGHT BE PICNIC. 
          THAT'S NOT THE THRESHOLD OF THE CITY POST ON THAT. 
          IN TERMS , I SEE BARRIER NOW WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT. 
          I  AND KIND OF AGE GAP. 
          WE WERE TO FIND A NEW ORGANIZATION, WHICH I TRIED TO DO WAS GREAT CHALLENGE BUT MIGHT LIKE 50. 
          BUT BOTH OF THEM IN THAT. 
          SO WHEN I WENT TO LEGAL AND I SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WHY DO WE DO, IF I DO FIND AN ORGANIZATION TODAY, , IT STILL HAS TO GO THROUGH ALL THIS PROCESSES, THE COUNSEL TO GET APPROVED AND THEN AMEND IT INTO THE BYLAWS. 
          AND BY THE TIME HAPPENS, LEGAL SAID THAT COULD BE LIKE , JUST SO . 
          SO WHEN I CONSULTED WITH THE STATE, THEY SAID, WELL, EMPLOYEE THAT DON'T HAVE THIS RESPONSIBILITY, THEY LET THE CITY FACILITATE THE ELECTION. 
          WE FACILITATED, WE ADVERTISED, WE GET THE WORD OUT. 
          WE HELPED, YOU GUYS HELPED LOT GET THE WORD OUT. 
          THEY HAD REGULAR ELECTION , YOU COULD DO IT. 
          . 
          I KNOW SOMEBODY READING THE BOOK , I THINK STATE OF, I WAS JUST GONNA ASK REAL QUICK, UM, IN TERMS OF CAN YOU FIND WHICH ORGANIZATIONS WE'RE WORKING WITH TO DISTRIBUTE DIRECTIONAL ASSISTANCE THAT'S SCHEDULED THROUGH THE BLOCK GRANT FUNDING? UH, WE'RE, OUR FISCAL AGENT IS THE, UH, A U THAT'S THE, THE HOSPITAL AND WE WORK WITH SOLELY THEN OR DO WE WORK WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS? JUST SOLELY THEM, BUT THEY ONLY CUT THE, WE DO ALL THE SCREENING AND  AND UM, I JUST WANTED TO JUST, UM, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA LOSE THE NEIGHBORHOOD APPOINTS. 
          RIGHT. 
          EVEN IF THIS IS THE NEW PROCESS THAT WE'RE SPEAKING, WE'RE STILL GONNA HAVE, UM, ELECTED ELECTION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          OH, OF COURSE. 
          OKAY. 
          YOU WERE IN THE MIDDLE MAN. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, 
          [6. Presentation and discussion on the Home Delivery Program provided by Central Texas Food Bank
(Beth Corbett and Juliana Gonzales, Central Texas Food Bank)]
WE DO HAVE UP NEXT, UH, NEXT DISCUSSION ITEM. 
          IT'S GONNA BE BY HOME DELIVERY PROGRAM. 
          AND I DO THINK THAT BETH  AND JULIANA AND BETH AND JULIANA, WE ORIGINALLY HAD A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME ALLOW FOR YOU ALL, BUT, UH, TIME AND WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMISSION HAVE ONE THING. 
          THANKS. 
          UM, UM, WE'RE GONNA REDUCE THAT TO THE 10 MINUTES FOR YOU ALL. 
          SO THAT ALLOWS TIME FOR THE COMMISSIONER. 
          SO YOU THINK, UM, DO WE HAVE ACCESS TO THIS RECORDED? THAT THAT'S IT IS IS, UM, ON THE CITY WEBSITE? YES, IT'S ON CITY. 
          WEBSITE. 
          WEBSITE. 
          SO, UH, DO ONLY THE HIGH POINTS ONLY BECAUSE WE WON'T BE ABLE TO, UM, ABSORB IT ALL TODAY. 
          YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          UH, SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE. 
          UM, BE . 
          I'M OUR VP OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS AND ADVOCACY. 
          THIS IS MY FIRST TIME BEFORE ALL OF YOU. 
          AND IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE WERE REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE, WE ALSO BROUGHT AN ENTOURAGE IN THE BACK OF OUR STAFFERS AND JUST TRY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. 
          UM, I DON'T KNOW THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE WITH, UH, WITH THE COMMISSION, BUT REALLY APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US. 
          UM, I WILL PROBABLY SKIPPED MOST OF MY PART ACTUALLY, SO JULIANA CAN GET INTO THE MEAT OF THE PROGRAM. 
          BUT IF WE WANNA, JUST FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH THE FOOD BANK, UM, WE SERVE A 21 COUNTY REGION. 
          SO OUR HEADQUARTERS IS HERE IN AUSTIN. 
          UH, OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THE WORK WE DO IS HERE IN TRAVIS COUNTY AND AUSTIN. 
          BUT, UM, YOU CAN GO UP, UP, UP. 
          WE'VE BEEN AROUND 40 YEARS. 
          THAT IS OUR FOOTPRINT. 
          UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THE BREADTH OF WHAT WE DO. 
          AND THEN DO, DO, DO WANNA BE VERY MINDFUL OF YOUR TIME, WE CAN JUMP UP ONE MORE , UH, WE CAN JUMP UP 
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AGAIN. 
          AND JUST SO Y'ALL CAN SEE THE WAY THAT FOOD BANKS ARE JUST DIFFERENTIATED FROM, LET'S SAY A TRADITIONAL FOOD PANTRY, RIGHT, OR A SOUP KITCHEN, IS REALLY THE SCOPE OF, OF OUR OPERATION. 
          WE BOTH, UH, SOURCE FOOD FROM ALL KINDS OF PLACES. 
          IT'S GOVERNMENT, IT'S GROWERS, DIRECTLY RANCHERS, FARMERS, RETAILERS AND COMMUNITY FOOD DRIVES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 
          UM, AND THEN MANAGED TO WORK OUR MAGIC INTERNALLY DISTRIBUTED UP TO THE COMMUNITY, BOTH THROUGH PROGRAMS THAT WE OPERATE, BUT ALSO THROUGH A NETWORK OF ABOUT 250 PROGRAM AGENCIES. 
          SO THOSE ARE THOSE FOOD PANTRIES, SO KITCHENS, ET CETERA. 
          WE CAN JUMP, JUMP, JUMP. 
          THOSE ARE THE STATS. 
          Y'ALL CAN SEE THAT LATER. 
          JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, . 
          AND THEN THIS IS A GREAT OVERVIEW IF YOU ALL REVIEW LATER OF ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT WE OFFER THAT WANNA GET INTO THIS. 
          NOW JULIANA'S GONNA FOCUS ON ONE OF THEM IN PARTICULAR, UM, THAT'S RELEVANT FOR YOU ALL. 
          UH, BUT THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF, OF THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE ARE PROVIDING IN THE COMMUNITY DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR, OUR STAFF AND OUR PROGRAMMING. 
          WE CAN JUMP, WE CAN JUMP. 
          THAT'S JUST ME, , JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP. 
          UM, AND THEN THE LAST THING I WOULD FOCUS ON IS, I THINK THIS ONE IS GREAT FOR Y'ALL TO KEEP IN MIND, UM, BE RECOGNIZED THAT FOOD BANK, THE CHARITABLE PART OF WHAT WE DO AND FOOD ACCESS IS REALLY ONE PIECE, RIGHT? IT IS, UH, IT'S SEPARATE FROM THE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE FOOD SYSTEM IS BROKEN. 
          FOLKS ARE NEEDING TO COME TO US, TO OUR PARTNERS TO ACCESS SUPPORT AND NUTRITION ASSISTANCE. 
          WE REALLY STARTED TO RETHINK ABOUT HOW WE LOOK AT OUR WORK AND RECOGNIZE THAT CHARITABLE RESPONSE, THAT DOWNSTREAM SOLUTION IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. 
          BUT WE REALLY WANNA START INVESTING IN MORE UPSTREAM SOLUTIONS AND LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN, THROUGH THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE DO THROUGH OUR OPERATIONS, START TO BOLSTER THE FOOD SYSTEM TO HELP FOLKS. 
          BECAUSE THEN HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T NEED TO BE IN LINE WITH US WITH ONE OF OUR PARTNERS. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO JULIANA. 
          LET'S TALK ABOUT RIGHT OF THAT, TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT I THINK IS A GREAT, AGAIN, GATEWAY FOR US INTO THOSE, UH, LARGER UP UPSTREAM SOLUTIONS AND INVESTMENTS. 
          THANK YOU BEN. 
          YEAH, AND WE WERE PRETTY DELIBERATE ABOUT PUTTING LOTS INTO THE SLIDE DECK 'CAUSE WE KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE IT ON THE RECORD. 
          UM, IT'S NOT OUR INTENTION TO READ ANY OF THIS OUT LOUD TO YOU, SO FEEL FREE TO PER IT LATER. 
          UM, Y'ALL, I'M JULIANA GONZALEZ. 
          I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF CLIENT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AT FOOD BANK. 
          UM, WHICH MEANS, UM, THAT THE STAFF I WORK WITH, UM, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN HALF OF THE, THE 30 PROGRAMS THAT YOU SAW ON THAT SLIDE. 
          UM, SO AT THE FOOD BANK HAS NUMEROUS PROGRAMS THAT ARE GOING TO TOUCH THE PEOPLE THAT YOU WORK WITH. 
          UM, AND GLAD TO SPEAK WITH YOU ABOUT ANY OR ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU MIGHT WANNA TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF FOOD ACCESS OR FOOD INSECURITY AND YOUR COMING. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WE'RE JUST HERE TO TALK ABOUT ONE PROGRAM TODAY, AND THAT'S CALLED HOME DELIVERY. 
          IT'S A GROCERY BOX. 
          UM, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ON HEALTH SHOWS UP HERE EVERY MONTH AND TELLS YOU ABOUT THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE IT'S VERY DEEPLY SUPPORTED, UM, BY A NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, JUST AS A VERY SHORT OVERVIEW, WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING FOR THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, UM, SINCE 2021, IS THAT, UM, TRAVIS COUNTY HAS BEEN SUPPORTING THIS PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND IT'S IMPLEMENTED IN BOTH TRAVIS AND WILLIAMSON COUNTY. 
          UM, TRAVIS COUNTY SUPPORTS THIS PART. 
          THERE'S SUPPORT IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY. 
          UH, WE SERVE SOMETHING LIKE 2,500 HOUSEHOLDS EVERY MONTH. 
          UM, AND WE SEND A 30 POUND POUND BOX OF FOOD. 
          UM, UP UNTIL THIS POINT IT HAS BEEN ENTIRELY DRUG SHELF STABLE STUFF, RIGHT? UM, AND IT'S BEEN A REAL MIX OF PRODUCTS. 
          UM, THESE ARE THE ONLY PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY DEFINITIONS, UM, THAT WE'RE CREATED BY THE COUNTY WHEN THEY CONTRACTED US TO PROVIDE THIS PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE LIMITATIONS TO THE WAY THAT THIS PROGRAM WAS BUILT. 
          UM, ONE OF THE OBVIOUS ONES THAT I THINK HAVE BEEN UNDER DISCUSSION IN THIS GROUP FOR A WHILE IS, UM, THE TYPE OF FOOD THAT'S , RIGHT? UM, SO WE, WE KNOW THAT 30 POUNDS OF FOOD MAY OR MAY NOT BE ENOUGH TO FEED A HOUSEHOLD OF VARIOUS SIZES FOR A MONTH. 
          UM, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT THE NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION THAT A HOUSEHOLD NEEDS FOR PROVIDE. 
          UM, AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE CITY AND PARTICULARLY NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES TO, UM, ADD A 10 POUND BAG OF PRODUCE EACH MONTH, UM, TO THE FOOD, FOOD THAT'S COMING. 
          . 
          UM, LET'S LOOK AT THE NEXT, UH, OKAY. 
          ONE MORE. 
          YES. 
          I THINK WHAT I MISSED SAYING HERE BEFORE I JUMPED AHEAD WAS THAT, UM, THIS HAPPENS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COUNTY WHO IS CURRENTLY THE FUNDER HAPPENS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT AND ONE OF OUR PARTNERS IN  COUNTY. 
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SO WE FEEL A SCREENING INTAKE, ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION OF REFERRAL. 
          UM, THE CASE MANAGEMENT SIDE, UM, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT ALSO POSTS OUR 300 BOXES A MONTH THAT SHOW UP IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AND THEN GET DISPERSED BY AMAZON DRAFT. 
          UM, AND AMAZON IS, UM, AND FIND PARTNER SERVICE BUILDING. 
          MM-HMM, . 
          SO THEY ARE SHOWING UP IN OUR COMMUNITY TO BRING THIS FOOD TO PEOPLE'S LIVES EVERY DAY. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WHERE ARE WE GOING IN THE FUTURE? THAT'S REALLY WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT. 
          UH, LET'S LOOK AT THE NEXT ONE. 
          UM, OH GOODNESS. 
          SEE, I GOT SO EXCITED. 
          I DON'T WANNA SKIP THIS. 
          WE RECENTLY DID A STUDY, A SURVEY OF, UM, THE FOLKS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ON THE PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND WE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF FEEDBACK, GOT RESPONSES FROM 135 FOLKS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, FOR A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SURVEY, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, UM, IT'S NOT A LOT, BUT IT'S, IT'S KIND OF MORE THAN WE EXPECTED. 
          UM, AND WHAT WE FOUND OUT IS THAT ALMOST 90% ARE PRETTY SATISFIED WITH THIS PROGRAM. 
          UM, IT WAS AN ANONYMOUS SURVEY. 
          UM, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT BECAUSE, UM, OFTEN WHEN THE FOOD BANK ASKS CLIENTS TO THEIR FACE, HOW HAPPY ARE YOU WITH THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVED FROM US TODAY? THE CLIENT SAYS, 100% HAPPY, A PLUS GOLD STAR, PLEASE DON'T STOP GIVING ME. 
          RIGHT? UM, SO HAVING AN ANONYMOUS SURVEY MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO SEE AN 89% SATISFACTION RATE WHEN I SEE A HUNDRED PERCENT SATISFACTION RATE, EXCUSE ME FOR SAYING IT'S ON THE RECORD, BUT . 
          YEAH. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, THIS TELLS ME THAT WE ARE GETTING REAL ANSWERS. 
          UM, 71% ARE SATISFIED CURRENTLY WITH THE VARIETY OF FOOD OFFERED IN THE PROGRAM. 
          AND WE DUG INTO THE DETAILS OF THIS TODAY WITH NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. 
          UM, THERE IS AN ENORMOUS CALL FOR MORE FRUITS AND . 
          UM, 90% AGREE THAT THE PROGRAM HELPED MEET THEIR IMMEDIATE HUNGER, INCLUDING ME. 
          SO IS THIS A RESPONSE TO FOOD INSECURE? YES. 
          AND 70 CLINIC REPORTED A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THEIR HEALTH, A GOOD DEAL OF DATA IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT MEANS, MEANS. 
          AND WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT CLINICAL OUTCOMES HERE. 
          SO WE CAN'T SAY LIKE, UM, FROM A CLINICAL STANDPOINT, YOUR DIABETES, UM, BUT WE CAN SAY THAT PEOPLE ARE SELF-REPORTING AND IMPROVE, FEEL BETTER. 
          THEIR PHYSICIAN TOLD THEM THAT THEY'RE DOING BETTER, THEY HAVE MORE ENERGY. 
          OKAY, LET'S SEE. 
          LET'S SEE WHERE I'M GOING. 
          THANKS. 
          OKAY, SO HERE'S WHERE WE'RE HEADED. 
          WE'RE GONNA MAKE A COUPLE CHANGES STARTING, UM, IN OCTOBER. 
          AND, UH, I REALLY WANNA CREDIT NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES WITH CHAMPIONING GUESTS. 
          UM, SO AS THE TRAVIS COUNTY FUNDING ENDS, UM, THE CITY OF BOSTON IS STEPPING IN TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM FINANCIALLY. 
          CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, THAT MONEY IS COMING FROM, UM, ARPA FUNDS AND THAT SURPLUS ARTS FUNDS ARE, ARE REMAINING AR FUNDS. 
          AND, UM, AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH MONEY FOCUSED ON FOOD FRESH FOODS, RIGHT? UM, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          WHERE IS THAT MONEY COMING FROM? BECAUSE THE THING I WANNA RAISE TO YOUR ATTENTION ABOUT THAT FUNDING IS THAT IT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. 
          IT'S NOT RUN FROM FUNDING. 
          WE GOT ANOTHER YEAR. 
          UM, THE CITY IS STEPPING FORWARD WITH ABOUT A LITTLE MORE THAN HALF THE PROGRAM LOST. 
          THE FOOD BANK IS STEPPING UP WITH THE OTHER PORTION TO MAKE THE PROGRAM RUN. 
          UM, AND, UH, AFTER THIS YEAR, WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER SUSTAINABLE FUNDING SOURCE IN PLACE. 
          PUT THAT IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND. 
          LET'S TALK AGAIN IN SIX MONTHS. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WE'RE GOING TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT PROGRAM, ABOUT ELIGIBILITY. 
          I'M NOT SURE IF YOU SAW THAT PREVIOUS SLIDE THAT LISTS THE ELIGIBILITY. 
          UM, BUT IT BASICALLY LISTS A NUMBER OF POPULATIONS, UM, WITHOUT A LOT OF CLARITY ON HOW THOSE POPULATIONS MIGHT, SHOULD BE IMPACTED BY THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM VERSUS OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS OF PROGRAMS THAT , RIGHT? SO WE'RE GONNA MAKE MORE CLEAR IN TERMS OF THIS PROGRAM. 
          WHAT IS IT THAT QUALIFIES YOU FOR THIS PROGRAM? HOW DO YOU GET WHAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO GET A BOX OF FOOD DROPPED OFF ON YOUR DOORSTEP VERSUS ACCESSING SCHOOL PANTRY? A COMMUNITY DISTRIBUTION OF NEW PRESCRIPTION CLINIC, THAT CLINIC, RIGHT? WHO IS THE RIGHT FIT FOR THIS? UM, AND FOR US SO FAR, THE ANSWER TO THAT HAS BEEN FOLKS WITH MOBILITY OR TRANSPORTATION LIMITATIONS, RIGHT? REGARDLESS OF, SO WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE TO BE OVER 65 VIA FAMILY WITH CHILDREN AND BE A VETERAN, BE A DISABLED PERSON. 
          UM, SO LONG AS YOU HAVE A, A NEED FOR A FOOD INSECURITY NEED AND A LIMITATION IN YOUR TRANSPORTATION OF . 
          UM, WE'RE DEFINING THAT VERY BROADLY. 
          UH, IT'S OUR EXPERIENCE AS WE DO RESEARCH AND SPEAK WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT, UM, IT IS NOT JUST HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT 
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CARS THAT, THAT HAVE TRANSPORTATION LIMITATIONS. 
          IT'S NOT JUST FOLKS WITH DISABILITY OR MOBILITY LIMITATIONS THAT HAVE DEEP LIMITATIONS. 
          IT'S ALSO FOLKS WHO MAYBE HAVE A CAR IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD, BUT THE PERSON WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING FOOD INTO THE HOME DOESN'T HAVE ACCESS TO THAT CAR ALL DAY BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE TAKES IT TO WORK. 
          OKAY? SO OUR DEFINITION IS VERY BROAD CIRCUMSTANCES AND MOST EXCITING. 
          UM, WE'RE CHANGING THE PROGRAM DESIGN A LITTLE BIT STARTING ON OCTOBER WHEN, SO WE'LL BE CUTTING FROM FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
          UM, IT'S VERY TRICKY LOGISTICALLY, AS AND ALLUDED TO. 
          UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA DO IT TOGETHER AND AMAZON'S GONNA HELP. 
          UM, THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE DOING THAT'S KIND OF COOL IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FROM AMAZON FLEX TO AMAZON TRUCKS, WHICH BASICALLY MEANS THAT INSTEAD OF, UH, CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK DRIVING 600 BOXES IN A TRUCK TO A NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, WHERE THEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER STAFF DISTRIBUTE THOSE BOXES TO AMAZON FLEX DRIVERS AND TO THEIR PERSONAL VEHICLES TO DELIVER TO THE FOOD. 
          INSTEAD, AMAZON STAFF WILL COME TO THE FOOD BANK, PICK UP THE BOXES, AND THEY'RE DISTRIBUTING THEM JUST THE WAY OTHER STUFF TO BE RESPONSIBLE. 
          SO YOU CAN IMAGINE, UM, THE EFFICIENCY THAT COMES WITH THAT, THE REDUCTION IN IMPACT ON NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES STAFF, UM, MORE EFFICIENT FOOD BANK AS WELL, GIVES US A SLIGHTLY BIGGER GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINTS ALLOWING US TO EXPAND INTO OUTLYING COUNTIES. 
          UM, AND IT ALLOWS US TO DO, UM, TAILORED DELIVERIES SO THAT WE CAN, UM, MOVE INTO THIS PRODUCE EDITION AND LOOK FORWARD IN THE FUTURE TO, UM, DELIVERING THIS DIFFERENT BOXES TO DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLDS BASED ON THEIR, FOR EXAMPLE, MEDICAL NEED OR  RESTRICTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          HOW DO WE DO? JUST TURN ANOTHER SLIDE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT'S THE AGE BRACKET? I SAW MY AGE UP THERE. 
           CURRENTLY, UH, UNTIL, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30. 
          UH, THE POPULATIONS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE INCLUDE SENIORS. 
          SO FOLKS THAT ARE OVER 65, UM, WHO HAVE A TRANSPORTATION LIMITATION, HAVE MOBILITY CHALLENGE, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES VETERANS, FAMILY, DISABLED FOLKS. 
          I FEEL I WAS WATCHING THAT YOU HAD ZERO 17 FAMILY OF ONE, FAMILY TWO, AND IT CAME DOWN TO SENIORS. 
          SO IN OTHER WORDS, IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, TELL MY SENIORS TO CONTACT, HAVE TO AREA FOOD BANK AND LET THEM GET IN CONTACT WITH THEM. 
          YEP. 
          SO, UM, SO THIS IS CURRENTLY FOLKS WHO CAN ENROLL IN THE PROGRAM, FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN, CHILDREN WHO ARE AGED ZERO TO 17, AND SORT OF STATING, YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE RIGHT? OLDER ADULTS OVER 60, EXCUSE ME, I SAID 65. 
          THAT WASN'T RIGHT. 
          VETERANS, ACTIVE MILITARY AND INDIVIDUALS WITH A DISABILITY. 
          AND THESE, THESE POPULATIONS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM MUST ALSO HAVE A TRANSPORTATION ON MOBILITY. 
          TRANSPORTATION. 
          THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME REASON THEY CAN'T GO INTO THE COMMUNITY, TO A PANTRY TO, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR OWN TRANSPORTATION. 
          YOU, UM, YOU CANNOT, IN OTHER WORDS, THIS PROGRAM IS FOR FOLKS WHO CAN'T LEAVE HOME. 
          OKAY? AND SO, YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO CONVEY TO YOUR FOLKS, UM, THAT THIS IS AVAILABLE TO THEM, THERE'S A FORM ON OUR WEBSITE, CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK CALLED FROM DELIVERY. 
          THEY CAN JUST GO ON, PUT THEIR INFORMATION IN AND, UM, SOMEBODY RIGHT BACK THERE WILL RESPOND TO THEM PERSONALLY AND DIRECTLY. 
          , SHE SAID YES. 
          B . 
          OKAY. 
          HEY, AI, Y'ALL, UM, MAY I INTRODUCE BELLA KIRSHNER, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS, SAMANTHA LEWIS, HEALTH DELIVERY COORDINATOR AND HEY, UH, CLIENT MEALS PROGRAM MANAGER. 
          THOSE ARE THE FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY MAKE THE COME TO OUR THANK Y'ALL AND THANKS FOR BRINGING YOUR VOTE. 
          YES. 
          UM, WELL THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. 
          I JUST WANNA PERSONALLY TELL YOU ALL I I'M TOTALLY A PART OF, I'M A BIG ADVOCATE OF YOU ALL AND I I'M TOTALLY A PART OF THE DISTRIBUTION OUT THERE IN OUR COMMUNITIES FOR SEVERAL THINGS. 
          Y'ALL HAVE ALWAYS STEPPED UP FOR AUSTIN. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE TIMES WHERE PEOPLE, UH, WERE IN NEED, Y'ALL WERE ALWAYS THERE. 
          OUR THANKSGIVING DRIVES. 
          Y'ALL DO A LARGE AMOUNT OF DONATIONS TO THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, UH, FOR THE RECREATIONS TO HELP, UH, WITH, YOU KNOW, DURING THE PANDEMIC WITH THOSE TURKEYS AND ALL OF 
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THAT. 
          AND, AND  HAS DONE A GREAT JOB WITH REPRESENTING THE NATIVE CENTERS AND THE PARTNERSHIP Y'ALL CREATED TODAY IS JUST, IT'S ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. 
          THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT'S GIVEN ME A SMILE THIS EVENING. 
          , UH, Y'ALL HAVE BROUGHT LIGHT TO OUR COMMISSION TODAY. 
          UM, AND I, I WANNA THANK Y'ALL FOR THAT. 
          I, I DO WANT TO ALSO HOPE THAT, UH, IN THE FUTURE WE CAN HAVE A PARTNERSHIP. 
          UM, THAT, THAT I REALLY AM WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND SOME ORGANIZERS AND WANTING TO BRING FARMERS' MARKETS, UH, BACK. 
          UH, I KNOW THAT THAT WAS A BIG THING AT ONE TIME BEFORE THE PANDEMIC AND IT REALLY WORKED WELL. 
          AND I KNOW WE'RE DOING GREAT DISTRIBUTIONS, UH, WITH, YOU KNOW, UH, NONPROFITS OUT THERE CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WE HAVE SOME IN OUR, OUR PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE SUFFERING FROM POVERTY. 
          WE HAVE THESE NONPROFITS THAT YOU ALL WORK WITH AND THEY DO A GREAT DISTRIBUTION ONCE A WEEK. 
          SO I WATCH ALL OF THAT. 
          UM, AND I, AND I WANNA HOPE THAT WE CAN PARTNER IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          UM, ESPECIALLY THE NEIGHBORHOOD I REPRESENT IN EAST OF AUSTIN. 
          UH, WE HAVE PLAZA , UH, WE HAVE OTHER AREAS THAT WE CAN OPEN UP A FARMER'S MARKET AND START GIVING OUT, UH, FREE VEGETABLES, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO I HOPE TO WORK WITH YOU ON THE FUTURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT, GREAT. 
          IF YOU, THE SLIDE I JUMPED OVER QUICKLY. 
          PART OF OUR OTHER ACRONYM WE USE IS ALSO FRESH, F-R-E-S-H. 
          UM, THAT'S FOOD ACCESS RESEARCH, ECONOMIC STABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH. 
          I'VE SAID THAT SO MANY TIMES I'VE GOT IT DOWN. 
          UM, BUT PRODUCE ACCESS TO THOSE FRESH, HEALTHY FOODS IS REALLY A KEY COMPONENT OF, OF WHAT WE'RE FOCUSING NOW, CERTAINLY MOVING FORWARD. 
          SO GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT IT. 
          WE'RE HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT. 
          GREAT. 
          AND I SHOULD ALSO SAY WE'RE HAPPY TO HOST ANY OF Y'ALL THAT WANNA COME TAKE A TOUR, LOVE TO HAVE YOU VOLUNTEER. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, PLEASE DO LET US KNOW. 
          ANYBODY ELSE PLACES. 
          YEAH. 
          ONE QUESTION BEFORE WE EMILY, UM, I HAVE , WHAT'S THE PERCENTAGE OF THE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE REJECTED? SO IF ANYBODY APPLIES, IS IT PRETTY MUCH IF, IF THEY APPLY, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE REASONABLY QUALIFIED, DO THEY PAY SERVICES, RECEIVE SERVICES OR YEAH, I CAN TELL YOU MY SORT OF LIKE BIRD EYE LEVEL ANSWER THAT. 
          BUT GET A, UM, I  OVERSEE BASICALLY ALL PARTS OF THE PROGRAM UHHUH. 
          UM, AND I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE THAT THE AMOUNT OF SCIENCE THAT I VERY CLIENTS OUTSIDE OF OUR SERVICE AREA, SO IF THEY APPLY BEEN KYLE OR THEY  LIKE THAT IN DALLAS,  SIMPLY CANNOT SERVICE THEM OF THAT PROGRAM. 
          THEN THERE'S, OTHER THAN THAT, WE SHOULD FIND THEM SOME SORT OF RESOURCE. 
          EVEN IF IT PAY A DELIVERY, OFFER THEM THE LOCATION OF OUR FOOD PANTRY. 
          'CAUSE THAT DISTRIBUTIONS ACCESS TO OUR BBS TEAM FOR BENEFITS, WHATEVER THEY WANT. 
          EVEN IF THEY CAN'T GET DELIVERY THEY CAN GET. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SAID I DO WANT, THANK YOU BETH AND JULIANA, YOU HAVE, UH, JULIANA, MS. GONZALEZ, THANK YOU BOTH FOR, UM, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU SHARED WITH US. 
          AND I DO BELIEVE AND SAID HE'S GONNA MAKE SURE THAT WE GET YOUR SLIDE THAT UM, SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT, UM, LITTLE BIT, UH, THOROUGHLY. 
          UM, AGAIN, I EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION FOR WHAT IT IS YOU ALL DO TO OUR COMMUNITY FOR, TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY AND ESPECIALLY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR STAFF AND FOR ALL THAT YOU DO AND, AND FOR, UH, ADHERING TO OUR RESTRICTED TIME TODAY. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK Y'ALL FOR HAVING A RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          MIGHT GET, I'LL READ THAT FIVE . 
          ALRIGHT, 
          [7. Presentation and discussion regarding Project Connect Anti-displacement funding and strategies(Susan Watkins, Division Managers, Housing Department)]
THAT MOVE ON A, UM, ON DISCUSSION ITEMS, INTROVERT, WE HAVE THE PROJECT THAT DISPLACEMENT, HOW, HOW DOES THAT HAVE SOMETHING? WE DON'T HAVE IT THREE TIMES. 
          SO, SO WHAT IS IT THAT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS? I HAVE PROJECT, SO YOU, WE ALL HAVE 10 ITEMS ALL TOGETHER. 
          WE GET DOWN TO . 
          NO. 
          SO Y'ALL GET NINE AND WE HAVE 
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FUNCTION FROM CAN I HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION AT THE END THE PHONE? THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UM, YEAH, THEY ACTUALLY CALLED ME TO REMOVE THAT FROM THE, AND I APPROVED IT AND THEN THERE IT MUST HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BACK FOR WE'RE MOVING ON THEN WE REALLY ARE ABOUT, GET BACK ON. 
          UM, UM, MOVING 
          [8. Presentation by Woollard Nichols Torres Consulting (Kelly Nichols, WNTC) and approval of theCSBG Neighborhood Services Unit (NSU) Community Needs Assessment]
ON THEN TO OUR, UH, WOODLAND. 
          IS IT ARD? BULLARD. 
          OKAY. 
          WOODLAND NICHOLS. 
          UM, AND THAT IS GONNA BE . 
          YES. 
          AND SHE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE CSB GS NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, UM, THE COMMUNITY WITH NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND UM, OKAY MS. FOR WE HAVE 15 MINUTES FOR YOU. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, IN SHAVING OFF AS MUCH TIME WE GOING TO . 
          OKAY, NO PROBLEM. 
          MUCH I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK EVENING COMMISSIONERS. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE. 
          I'M KELLY NICHOLS WITH ER NICHOLS TORE CONSULTING. 
          I WAS WITH YOU ALL BACK IN JANUARY. 
          UM, VIRTUALLY, UH, AND SO I'M BACK 'CAUSE WE HAVE MADE IT THROUGH. 
          I THIS IS LIKE MEANS AND SOUNDS AN EVENING FOR YOU ALL. 
          INTERESTING TIMING THAT THEY ALL KIND OF PILED UP LIKE THIS THE DAY EVENING. 
          I KNOW, I THINK I WAS TALKING TO  RECENTLY AND SHE WAS TELLING ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR RETREAT THAT, THAT Y'ALL HAD THIS SPRING AND UM, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE COMMISSION WAS TALKING ABOUT THOSE FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES. 
          UM, BECAUSE I KNEW IN JANUARY THAT KIND OF CAME UP. 
          WHY WE DOING ALL THESE NEEDS ASSESSMENTS, RIGHT. 
          AND SO, UM, I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT NEEDS ASSESSMENTS. 
          SO ON HEALTH PROGRAM, UM, CSBG OUT OF BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH THAT SUPPORTS THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS AND THEN AND THE FEDERALLY. 
          AND THIS MONEY COMES THROUGH THE FEDERAL, YOU KNOW, HELPING HUMAN SERVICES THROUGH THE STATE, RIGHT. 
          TO, UM, OUR COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY. 
          AND SO IT IS A DIFFERENT NEEDS NECESS. 
          JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I CLARIFY THAT. 
          . 
          UM, OKAY, SO I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA REALLY, UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          UM, UM, I'M GONNA FLY THROUGH THE METHODOLOGY AND THE OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES BECAUSE IT'S REALLY THE SAME THING I PRESENTED AND WE TALKED ABOUT IN JANUARY. 
          UM, SO THAT I CAN GET TO THE NEEDS, UM, WHAT WE HEARD, UM, AND, AND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE OUTREACH, UM, THAT WE DID TOO. 
          'CAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL SAID THAT, UM, ENDING UP WITH GAPS AND SERVICES AND BARRIERS AND THEN TIME, TIME GRANT YOU ALL TO ASK THE QUESTIONS, UM, THAT, THAT YOU HAVE. 
          SO NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, AGAIN, UM, I JUST MENTIONED, UM, THAT TOP, SO, AND  MENTIONED THIS AS WELL. 
          THIS IS, THIS IS REQUIRED EVERY THREE YEARS. 
          UM, AND THE IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW THERE IS THAT, UH, AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH IS REQUIRED TO, UM, YOU ALL ARE REQUIRED, UM, TO, YOU KNOW, CDC IS THE DESIGNATED, UM, BOARD, UM, TO APPROVE, TO ACCEPT AND APPROVE THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT PLAN, UM, AND THE FINAL ASSESSMENT. 
          AND THEN, UM, THEN REALLY THE OUTCOME OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT MUST BE INCORPORATED INTO THE PLANNING, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR THE, UM, FOR THE, UH, THE, THE PROGRAM. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, THIS, UM, IS, UM, AGAIN, WE, WE TALKED, YOU KNOW, I'VE KIND OF COVERED THIS. 
          AND AGAIN, I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT IT INFOR, IT INFORMS AN OUTCOME BASED AND ANTI-POVERTY FOCUSED COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN. 
          UM, I THINK, I THINK Y'ALL KNOW THIS, BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION EXISTS, RIGHT? IS, IS FOR THIS VERY FUNDING. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THAT STARTED ALMOST FOUR DECADES AGO. 
          OKAY? UM, KEEP GOING, KEEP GOING. 
          WE'RE GONNA MOVE FAST THROUGH THESE, THESE ARE THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER LOCATIONS, WHICH YOU ALL KNOW, I'LL, I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE OUTREACH WE DID, WHICH LARGELY FOCUSED AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS THEMSELVES. 
          UM, THIS WAS OUR, AGAIN, THIS IS A VERY PRESCRIBED, YOU KNOW, I USED TO WORK IN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND I WORKED ON THE CONSOLIDATED PLANNING. 
          AND I THINK THIS, UM, IS ACTUALLY HAS, UH, THE, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT ARE ACTUALLY MORE, THERE'S LESS CREATIVITY, UM, ALLOWED, IF YOU WILL. 
          SO IT'S PRETTY PRESCRIBED WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. 
          QUANTITATIVE DATA, QUALITATIVE DATA. 
          THEN WE ANALYZE THAT AND WE PUT IT ALL IN A BIG REPORT. 
          UM, SO THAT QUANTITATIVE DATA, UM, IS, I DON'T LOVE THE WAY THEY TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT ESSENTIALLY THEY'RE SAYING GET CENSUS DATA, GET OTHER PLACES WHERE WE KNOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE COLLECTING DATA IN THE COMMUNITY AND LOOK AT THOSE. 
          SO IT'S REALLY SECONDARY DATA. 
          AND COLLECT PRIMARY DATA, TALK TO PEOPLE AND PARTICULARLY CLIENTS OF THE 
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SERVICES THAT CSBG IS FUNDING, UM, HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY AND THEN INCORPORATE ALL OF THAT INTO THE FINDINGS. 
          UM, AND IT'S DUE AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. 
          OKAY, SO THIS IS WHAT I REALLY WANT TO, YOU KNOW, SPEND A FEW MINUTES TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE I, UM, 'CAUSE Y'ALL GAVE ME SOME VERY IMPORTANT ADVICE BACK IN, IN JANUARY AND WHAT I, WHAT I HEARD WAS MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN PERSON IN THE COMMUNITY TALKING TO FOLKS. 
          AND SO WE DID THAT. 
          SO, UM, SO I WANTED TO START THERE. 
          WE SPENT TIME, UM, I HAVE A, A WONDERFUL COLLEAGUE, ANJU WHO, WHO DID, UM, ALL OF THIS WORK AND SHE SPENT TIME AT EACH COMMUNITY CENTER OR WORKED WITH THE DIRECTOR TO MAKE SURE WE WERE THERE ON THE DAY WHEN WE KNEW WE WERE GONNA HIT A CRITICAL MASS OF FOLKS. 
          UM, WE THEN, UM, WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE, YOU KNOW, HITTING A COUPLE OF THOSE OTHER TARGET AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER. 
          SO WE SHOWED UP AT THE FOOD DISTRIBUTION, UM, UH, DOVE SPRINGS. 
          WE ALSO COORDINATED, UM, UH, WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, UM, BECAUSE WE THOUGHT, OH, THE DISPLACING DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION NAVIGATOR PROGRAM WOULD BE ANOTHER WAY TO, UM, CONNECT THERE. 
          SO, UM, SO REALLY, REALLY FOCUSED ON  TALKING TO PURCHASE A CENTERS. 
          UH, WE ALSO DID DIGITAL, UM, OUTREACH. 
          UM, THE, IT'S ACTUALLY THROUGH THE FOOD BANK AS I UNDERSTAND IT. 
          THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS HAVE ACCESS TO A TEXTING OASIS, WHICH IS A TEXT, UM, UH, SURVEY PROGRAM. 
          AND THAT WAS QUITE EFFECTIVE FOR US. 
          SO WE GOT GOOD ENGAGEMENT FROM FOLKS, YOU KNOW, MOSTLY PROBABLY ON THEIR PHONES. 
          IT WAS A PRETTY SHORT SURVEY, RIGHT? UM, AND, UM, THROUGH OTHER PLATFORMS AS WELL. 
          BUT I REALLY THINK THAT TEXTING, UM, A PLATFORM WAS, WAS OUR PRIMARY, UM, MECHANISM THERE. 
          WE ENGAGED SERVICE PROVIDERS AS WELL. 
          THE RIGHT SAY WE NEED TO DO THAT. 
          UM, AND WE TALKED TO SOME OF YOU ALL. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SPEAK WITH US AS WELL AS YOUR, OUR KEY INFORMANTS. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE. 
          THIS IS, UM, THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE WAY THE REGS TELL US WE GET, WE SHOULD WRITE THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
          SO THAT'S JUST AN OVERVIEW OF REALLY EVERYTHING THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, IN THE 122 PAGE REPORT. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, JUST, UH, WANTED TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, I THINK ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS I DO THINK THE, THE REQUIREMENTS, UM, DO WELL IS TO SAY THEY DO GIVE US LEEWAY TO INCLUDE, UM, COMMUNITY REPORTS, OTHER REPORTS THAT ARE GIVING US GOOD INFORMATION AND WE KNOW WE HAVE MET IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO IN ADDITION, THE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP DATA HUB IS, UH, THE, IT PULLS IN THE CENSUS DATA AND MAKES IT EASY FOR US, RELATIVELY EASY FOR US TO USE, BUT THEN WE GET DISCRETION TO SAY WHAT OTHER REPORTS IN OUR COMMUNITY, UM, DO WE NEED TO BE REFERENCING? SO HOW, YOU KNOW, IN THE HOUSING WORLD, THE AUSTIN HOUSING BLUEPRINT, THE, UM, ASSESSMENT OF FAIR HOUSING ECHO ECHOES INFORMATION, UM, THE COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT NETWORK CENTRAL HEALTH HAS STARTED DOING A DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT THAT MANY OF YOU ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THAT HAS SOME REALLY GOOD DATA IN THERE. 
          UM, THERE'S A, UM, THERE'S A ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND OTHER DRUGS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, EARLY CHILDHOOD DATA TWO AND 2 1 1 DATA. 
          UM, ALL OF THOSE ARE REALLY IMPORTANT AND HELP US TELL THE STORY. 
          SO THAT'S SOMEONE PUT THE QUANTITATIVE DATA, THE, THE SECONDARY DATA THAT WE USE. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO, SO HERE'S WHERE IT PANNED OUT. 
          UM, WE HAD, UM, 680 TOTAL SURVEY RESPONSES. 
          410 OF THOSE WERE WERE ONLINE. 
          UH, 303 IN ENGLISH, 107 IN SPANISH, AND THEN 270 PAPER SURVEYS COMPLETED BY CLIENTS IN PERSON, UM, INCLUDING 132 IN ENGLISH. 
          AND ACTUALLY MORE THAN THAT, 138 IN SPANISH. 
          UM, THEY REPRESENT 2026 ZIP CODES. 
          SO LARGELY ALL THE ZIP CODES, UM, IN TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          AND JUST FOR COMPARISON'S SAKE, YOU KNOW, THE LAST TIME WE DID THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, WILL NICHOLS SUPPORTED AS WELL BACK IN 2021. 
          OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, STILL VERY MUCH, YOU KNOW, IN PANDEMIC TIMES, SO NOT EXACTLY APPLES TO APPLES, BUT WE, WE HAD ABOUT 200 RESPONSES. 
          UM, SO I, I DO FEEL LIKE THIS IS, YOU KNOW, MUCH MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF, YOU KNOW, SORT OF MORE NORMAL TIMES, RIGHT? AND THE KIND OF, UM, THE KIND OF RESPONSE THAT WE POST. 
          UM, SO DRUM WORLD, PLEASE, RIGHT? HONESTLY, Y'ALL KNOW, I MEAN, I I I RANKING THE NEEDS IS A STRANGE EXERCISE TO SAY THE LEAST, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE MAKING TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN THESE THINGS THAT IF YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH, IF YOUR COST BURDEN, THEN YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR FOOD, RIGHT? SO IT, IT ALWAYS FEELS LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF ODD EXERCISE. 
          THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I'VE HELPED US IN PUBLIC HEALTH WITH THIS, UM, WITH THIS ASSESSMENT. 
          BUT IT, IT'S WHAT WE WERE ASKED TO DO. 
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UM, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST THIS IS NOT TOO FAR OFF OF LAST TIME. 
          HOUSING IS STILL THE NUMBER ONE NEED. 
          BIG SURPRISE, RIGHT? UM, BUT QUITE CLOSE BEHIND IS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE AND, UM, AND BASIC NEEDS. 
          NOW, I DO THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY. 
          'CAUSE WE'RE TALKING TO A LOT OF CLIENTS, RIGHT? AND SO THEY ARE, MANY OF THEM ARE RECEIVING THOSE SERVICES AND THEY WANT TO, THEY NEED TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THEM. 
          BUT I THINK IT ALSO REALLY SPEAKS TO, I MEAN, A LOT OF WHAT Y'ALL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS, RIGHT? THAT THOSE BASIC NEEDS, UM, ARE, ARE, ARE RISING AND, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, THAT, UM, THERE ARE SOME GAPS AND FUNDING AND, AND PROGRAMS, RIGHT? SO BY FAR AND AWAY HOUSING AND BASIC NEEDS ARE, YOU KNOW, THE TOP TWO NEEDS, UM, THAT ARE COMING ACROSS. 
          UM, THEN, THEN WE HAVE EMPLOYMENT NEEDS FOLLOWED BY HEALTH AND WELLNESS, FOLLOWED BY, UM, INCOME AND FINANCIAL, WHICH WAS SORT OF A NEW CATEGORY WE PULLED OUT ON ITS OWN, UM, THIS YEAR, WHICH HAS TO DO WITH HOW PEOPLE MANAGE THEIR MONEY, DO THEY NEED HELP WITH DEBT, FINANCIAL LITERACY, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, FOLLOWED BY CHILDCARE, UM, ASSISTANCE FOLLOWED BY EDUCATION. 
          SO THOSE ARE SEVEN. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDES. 
          I'M GONNA MOVE THIS. 
          I KNOW YOU CAN'T READ, I REALLY JUST THREW THIS UP HERE AS MUCH FOR YOU TO SEE THAT THERE ARE MANY OTHER NEEDS THAT FOLKS ARE TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? UM, SO YES, THEY HAVE NEEDS IN, IN, UM, IN THOSE CATEGORIES THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT. 
          I'LL, UM, I PROBABLY WON'T GO INTO A LOT OF DETAIL IN THE NEXT SLIDES, BUT YOU HAVE IT THERE FOR YOUR INFORMATION, BUT PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER NEEDS TOO. 
          UM, JUST ONE THAT STRUCK ME, I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING IT BEFORE, IS ACCESS TO WATER, ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMERTIME. 
          I MEAN, WE KNOW THAT, AND YET, LIKE IT, I, I HADN'T SEEN THAT IN THE DATA BEFORE. 
          SO I THINK THIS IS A, AN IMPORTANT, UM, LENS FOR YOU ALL TO SEE WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE OTHER THINGS YOUR FOLKS TALKING ABOUT. 
          SOME OF THEM ARE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF IN THE WEEDS AND SOME OF THEM ARE NOT. 
          LIKE WHAT? UM, NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THESE, SO BASICALLY THESE NEXT SEVEN SLIDES, WHICH I THINK FOR TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR TIME'S SAKE, I'M NOT GONNA WALK THROUGH, BUT YOU HAVE THEM. 
          I JUXTAPOSE, I KNOW IT'S A LOT, UM, ON A SLIDE, BUT JUST SO YOU HAVE, I'VE JUXTAPOSED A, THE, SOME QUOTES, SO IN THE DIRECT WORDS OF THE CLIENTS OR THE RESIDENTS WITH, UM, THE DATA, WHAT WE HEARD ON THEIR NEEDS WITHIN THIS CATEGORY. 
          SO YOU'LL GET A SENSE OF, ACTUALLY SCROLL DOWN MAYBE THE VERY LAST ONE. 
          UM, ED, AND I'LL JUST SHOW FOLKS MOST OF THEM, HONESTLY, LARGELY THE SAME THEMES, UH, HANG ON. 
          YEAH, THAT ONE. 
          UM, THE SAME THEMES FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING CLIENTS, SPANISH SPEAKING CLIENTS AND, AND RESIDENTS. 
          RESIDENTS WOULD BE FOLKS WHO ARE UNAFFILIATED WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE NOT RECEIVING CFPG SERVICES. 
          UM, AND LARGELY I THINK GENERALLY FOLKS ARE LARGELY SAYING THE SAME THING IN A COUPLE OF THE CATEGORIES. 
          WE'RE SEEING, UM, SOME, SOME DIFFERENCES. 
          SO THIS ONE I JUST HAPPEN TO REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, SPANISH SPEAKING CLIENTS PROBABLY SOMEWHAT UNSURPRISINGLY, ARE CITING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES AS A PRIMARY NEED IN, IN THE AGITATION. 
          UM, NOT SOMETHING WE'RE SEEING IN THE OTHER CATEGORIES. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, IT, THERE'S SOME CONTEXT AMONG THOSE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. 
          THERE. 
          LAST TWO SLIDES, UM, ARE, UH, OH, THIS IS JUST, UM, AGAIN, I WANNA CALL OUT AS IN THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, SERVICE PROVIDERS HAVE AN IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE. 
          I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO TALK WITH 'EM. 
          SO I, I DON'T THINK WE HEARD ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM SERVICE PROVIDERS. 
          I THINK THEY LARGELY, UM, ECHO, UM, THE SAME THEMES WE ARE HEARING FROM DIRECTLY IMPACTED FOLKS. 
          UM, BUT SOMETIMES YOU GET A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT NUANCE, UM, THE QUOTE ON THE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT, UM, BARRIERS FOLKS ARE SEEING WHEN THEY HAVE CRIMINAL BACKGROUNDS, UM, AND CREDIT, UM, HISTORY CHALLENGES IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. 
          SO A LITTLE BIT OF NUANCE ON THE SERVICE PROVIDER FEEDBACK. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, THESE LAST TWO SLIDES, AGAIN, ARE A LOT, BUT I KIND OF WANNA JUST PROMOTE THEM. 
          I THINK FOR, AS, AS YOU ALL CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT THESE, YOU KNOW, THESE SYSTEM ISSUES, THESE FUNDING ISSUES, DOING THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AS A COMMISSION, WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY, UH, GAPS IN SERVICES AND BARRIERS AS ONE OF THE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS IN THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT UNDER HERE, BUT YOU KNOW, REALLY WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THAT FOR ALMOST ALL OF THE NEEDS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, YES, WE'RE A BIG CITY. 
          YES, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS AND THEY DON'T GO, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S THE SAME THING. 
          WE KNOW, RIGHT? THERE ARE GAPS IN SERVICES, YOU KNOW, BOTH IN TERMS OF FUNDING AND, AND OTHER POTENTIAL BARRIERS. 
          SO WE'VE, YOU KNOW, OUTLINED THOSE, AGAIN, MANY OF THE ISSUES THAT EVEN JUST THIS EVENING, YOU KNOW, HAVE COME UP IN CONVERSATION. 
          AND THEN THE LAST SLIDE, UM, I FIND 
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MAY MAYBE THE MOST INTERESTING EXERCISE, A LITTLE BIT ACADEMIC PERHAPS, BUT THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, UM, REQUIRES THAT WE IDENTIFY THE CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF POVERTY IN TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          YOU CAN TALK ABOUT A THESIS THAT NO ONE COULD WRITE, RIGHT? UM, SO I, I, I FIND IT A FRANKLY, A LITTLE BIT CHALLENGING, BUT, YOU KNOW, REALLY JUST SPEND A LOT OF TIME, YOU KNOW, DIGESTING, USING A LITTLE BIT OF, UM, CHAT GPT TO HELP KIND OF, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT DIFFERENT THEMES AND THINK ABOUT THIS. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE SEE COMING OUT OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS BOTH CAUSES OF POVERTY. 
          SO FACTORS THAT CAUSE OR IMPACT POVERTY, AS WELL AS, UM, THE CONDITIONS. 
          WHAT DOES POVERTY LOOK LIKE IN OUR COMMUNITY? WHAT DOES THE NEED LOOK LIKE? SO, UM, IF I WAS GONNA SAY LIKE, YOU KNOW, TAKE SOMETHING HOME AND MEDITATE ON IT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE PURPOSE OF WHAT THIS COMMISSION IS, I MIGHT, I, THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE I WOULD READ YOU WELL. 
          SO THAT'S WHY THERE, UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I HAVE FOR YOU, EXCUSE ME. 
          AND, UM, IN TERMS OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, AGAIN, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY, ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. 
          AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR APPROVAL, RIGHT? THIS IS THE ACTION ITEMS SAY YES. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UH, PARTICULARLY YOU WANNA, ANYTHING OF THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE MISSIONERS TO, TO GO OUT TO VISIT, UM, UM, WANTED TO ENSURE WE'RE MEETING THE MARKET FOR METHODOLOGY. 
          AND SO KUDOS TO, TO YOU AND , UM, COMMENT. 
          AND THEN ANOTHER COMMENT QUESTION. 
          I GUESS MY COMMENT HERE IS I WONDER IF WE'RE DOING THESE SURVEYS AT SIMILAR TIMES, UM, IF SOME OF THIS DATA MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL TO YOU ALL AND CAN INCORPORATE IT TO, TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND IN THE FUTURE, HOW WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAYBE DO THESE SURVEYS FOR TANNER IN THE FUTURE. 
          I I'M SURE THERE'S ALSO SURVEY FATIGUE, RIGHT? AND SO I I WOULD, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED THAT THAT'S ALSO WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED AS WE TRY TO GET A LOT OF  LITERAL, LISTEN, SAME TIME, UM, AS WE CONSIDER THE PROPOSAL I I BREATHING PARTICULARLY, I, I'D LOVE TO MAYBE HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM YOU ON ONE, LIKE WHAT, WHAT WAS MOST SURPRISING THAT CAME OUT OF THIS TWO, I KNOW THAT WE'VE DONE THIS REPORT FOR US COUPLE TIMES, LIKE WHAT'S HOLDING TRUE AND THE SAME? UM, AND BASED ON THAT, LIKE THINGS YOU MIGHT RECOMMEND THAT WE FOCUS ON EITHER. 
          SO GAPS. 
          SO ANYTHING YOU SEE IS KIND OF IN YOUR EXPERT ANALYSIS. 
          MM-HMM, , YEAH, GREAT QUESTIONS. 
          UM, I, I THINK WHAT ALWAYS TWO THINGS, TWO THINGS SURPRISED ME, OR MAYBE I'M GONNA GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL ACTUALLY. 
          LIKE, TOUCH ME, YOU LIKE, THINK PEOPLE WORDS, WHAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE A COUPLE, I MEAN, SOME PEOPLE, IT, IT'S ALMOST, UM,  FOR THAT. 
          I MEAN, SO YES, SURVEY FATIGUE IS REAL. 
          I DON'T WANNA, I DON'T WANNA DENY THAT. 
          AND FOR SOME PEOPLE IT'S A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME STUFF OFF THEIR CHEST, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, AND WHAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHARACTER LIMIT ON OR WAS REALLY, BUT I MEAN, I JUST REMEMBER ONE PERSON, I MEAN, THEY WROTE A NOVEL IN THERE, RIGHT? AND, AND IT EVEN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, THEY EVEN SAID LIKE, I'M SORRY IF THIS IS TOO LONG OR OFF TOPIC, BUT I REALLY JUST NEEDED TO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I FELT LIKE I JUST REALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE IN THAT PERSON'S SHOES, BUT WE THOUGHT A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERSTATEMENT, BUT THEY, THEY, THEY REALLY HATED A COMPELLING STORY. 
          AND SO, UM, I, YOU KNOW, THERE IS, UM, THERE IS SOME, THAT QUALITATIVE DATA I THINK ALWAYS SURPRISES ME, UM, IN SOME WAY BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST, IT'S THE STORIES, RIGHT? SO STORIES THAT ARE GOING ALONG WITH THE DATA. 
          UM, ALONG WITH THAT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT SLIDE I SHOWED WITH ALL OF THE DIFFERENT NEEDS, LIKE, THERE'S A LOT OF NUANCE IN THERE. 
          UM, THAT'S IMPORTANT. 
          YOU KNOW, LIKE, IF I REMEMBER RIGHT. 
          UM, ED, WOULD YOU MIND SCROLLING UP TO THE ONE THAT HAS ALL THE BOXES? THERE'S ONE OTHER THING. 
          I WAS JUST AS AN EXAMPLE. 
          SORRY. 
          SEE? UM, YEAH. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE STIPENDS WHILE ENROLLING, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A SENTIMENT OF I NEED TO GET PAID WHILE I'M IN A JOB TRAINING PROGRAM, SO I CAN'T COMPLETE THE JOB TRAINING. 
          I MEAN, IT'S KIND OF STUFF LIKE THAT THAT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOLKS, LIKE THE REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE OF FOLKS WHO WERE, YOU KNOW, WHO WERE LIVING IN POVERTY IS, YOU KNOW, COMES OUT. 
          AND SO I THINK THERE'S SOME, YOU KNOW, THERE'S REALLY SOME GOOD, UM, UH, THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ALWAYS I JUST LIKE, OH YEAH, I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. 
          RIGHT? LIKE, VERY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF KIND OF MICRO LEVEL, BUT IMPORTANT. 
          UM, I MEAN WHAT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME IS THE CONSISTENCY OF WHICH WE'RE SEEING THE NEEDS, RIGHT? I MEAN, JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT AGAIN, EVEN IN 
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THIS SOMEWHAT OUR EXERCISE OF HAVING TO LIKE THESE NEEDS AGAINST EACH OTHER. 
          YEAH. 
          WE KNOW HOUSING IS, IS THE PRIMARY NEED. 
          I KNOW THAT FROM EVERY COMMUNITY GROUP I ENGAGE WITH. 
          UM, AND THAT'S I THINK BEEN CONSISTENT FOR ME. 
          THE LESS, AT LEAST FOUR THESE ASSESSMENTS, UM, MR. MIGHT BE THE LAST OH YEAH. 
          JUST WHERE WE MIGHT NEED TO FOCUS ON THE FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHICH GAPS ARE NEEDS PROGRESS. 
          I KNOW YOU TALKING ABOUT HOUSING AND I KNOW WITHIN HOUSING CONSERVATION, LIKE THERE'S THESE DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          WONDER LIKE WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IN TERMS OF THOSE GAPS ABOUT ? YEAH, I MEAN I, YOU KNOW, I MEAN HAVING, HAVING DONE THIS AS NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, ON BEHALF OF THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, IT'S, IT'S, I I SEE THE COMPREHENSIVE NATURE, RIGHT? SO, UM, SO I, I'M NOT SURE I HAVE A, YOU KNOW, JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD ANSWER TO THAT. 
          UM, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I DO THINK WE WANNA HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA, WE, WE WANNA FOCUS, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE DON'T WANNA SPREAD OURSELVES TO AGENDA. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, HAVING, HAVING CLEAR PRIORITIES AS A COMMUNITY FEELS REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          AND I, I SEE THAT IN WHAT, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THAT RESPONSE BECAUSE I, I FEEL LIKE THAT THAT'S BEEN OUR, AS RECENTLY IS THIS IDEA THAT WE ARE KIND OF SPREADING OURSELVES. 
          THAT NOT SUPPOSED BE , THERE'S POVERTY, BUT THERE'S ALSO LIKE, UM,  THAT WE ALSO DO  AND IT SOMETIMES FEELS LIKE THAT. 
          REALLY, REALLY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANY OTHER WISHERS COMMENTS? I HAVE A COUPLE. 
          UM, AND I WILL TELL YOU, KELLY, WE CURRENTLY LOST FORM AT THE MOMENT. 
          SO, UM, I HAVE BEEN ADVISED THAT ALL THE LINES, WE DO HAVE TWO COMMISSIONERS IN ONLINE, UM, DUE TO THE TECHNOLOGY, WE ARE UNABLE TO SEE THEM RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THEY'RE ABLE TO HEAR US, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO SEE THEM IN THAT IS, AND WE COULD GET IT DONE THAT WE VOTE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE  UH, I WILL GO AHEAD AND SAY, UM, HOW DOES THE, THE DATA FRONT, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT COMMISSIONER  WAS SAYING IS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF SURVEYS THAT JUST KIND OF PULL INSIDE THIS TIME. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, UM, OR IF IT JUST WAS IN FACT, I JUST NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS OCCURRED THIS TIME, BUT IT, IT'S GOTTA BE INFORMATION THAT IS USABLE FOR ALL. 
          SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I, I WANT TO KEEP OUT THERE AND JUST LET'S TRY TO BE EFFICIENT. 
          UM, I DID DO A LITTLE CALCULATION, I'M NOT SURE OF THE DATA, UM, THAT I CALCULATED. 
          I THINK IT WAS 409, UM, 409 SURVEYS. 
          AND OF THOSE A HUNDRED AND NO, UH, 270 OF THEM WERE IN PERSON AT THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND SO FORTH. 
          AND SO THAT MEANT THAT WE WERE AT 65%. 
          SO THAT WAS THE BULK OF IT. 
          THAT WAS ACTUALLY A VERY POWERFUL RESOURCE, WHICH WAS TO BE IN THE COMMUNITIES, WHICH IS WHAT WE DID SAY. 
          AND YOU DID MAKE AN EFFORT, UH, IN BEING THERE. 
          AND SO THAT, THAT IS GOOD. 
          UH, AGAIN, WE JUST CANNOT EXPRESS ENOUGH IF, AGAIN,  REMINDED ABOUT WHAT JOSEPH SAYS, IF WE'RE REALLY GOING TO BE DOING THIS, WE HAVE TO BE GETTING THE INFORMATION FROM THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IMPACTED. 
          IT'S NOT JUST TO GET THE INFORMATION. 
          LIKE SPECIFIC QUESTION IS HOW DOES YOUR DATA IMPACT PROGRAM OBJECTIVES? NOW WHAT, SO WE HAVE THIS INFORMATION. 
          WHAT, WHAT IS WHAT? WHERE DOES THIS GO? I, AND THAT'S ON HELP. 
          OKAY? THAT GOES INTO THE COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN GUYS. 
          I WAS JUST THING. 
          AND SO IF THE DATA THAT YOU'RE SEEING THIS TIME AROUND YOU ARE LOOKING AS IF IT'S GOING TO, UM, ADJUST ANY OF THE OBJECTIVES THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS, WE'LL LOOK, UM, IF SOME , SEE 
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WE SAW THAT AGAIN, LEADER SCRIPTED BY THIS DATA, CAN WE KIND STICK TO WHAT WE ALREADY, ALREADY, STILL LOOK AT THIS ASSESSMENT SPECIFIC BEHALF? SO JUST, UM, I DON'T MEAN TO PUSH BACK. 
          UM, BUT I GUESS, UM, WHEN YOU SAY THE, WE CAN LOOK AT THIS DATA AND IT NEEDS TO FIT INTO WHAT WE ALWAYS, WHAT WE ALREADY DO. 
          I'M, I I, I JUST WANT TO CHALLENGE THAT BECAUSE MY OTHER THING WITHIN IS WELL, WELL, WHY ARE WE GONNA GET THE OTHER INFORMATION THAT WE, WE CAN'T USING? I MEAN, UM, AND  SOUNDS LIKE THE CHERRY PICKING, THE CHERRY PICKING DATA. 
          AND IF, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOOD THAT IT'S, TURNS OUT THAT HOUSE, IT WAS ONE OF THE LARGE ONES THAT WAS GOOD BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE, ANY OF US SUMMIT COMMISSION WILL PUSH BACK ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT I JUST, AGAIN, WE'RE DOING, YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT THE SURVEY FATIGUE. 
          I'M ASSESSMENT REPORTING FATIGUE BECAUSE I'M THINKING, AND WHAT, WHAT IS IT, WHAT IS IT GONNA, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO TO WITH THIS STUFF? I MEAN, WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE DOING? ARE WE JUST GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS TO GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS ASSISTANCE, UTILITY ASSISTANCE, BASIC FEES, FOOD INSECURITY AND AIRPORT, THEY HAVE TAXES. 
          UM, FOOD PANTRY, , CLOSET, WE, ALL THOSE THINGS ARE BASIC NEEDS THAT PEOPLE HAVE AND CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY FOR. 
          THAT WAS  TOKYO HAD COMMITTED NUMBER ONE OR TWO, THEN WE DIDN'T REALLY PIVOT, RIGHT? BECAUSE ALL OF A SUDDEN CHILDCARE TWO IS NEVER BEEN FIGHTING, THEN WE GET CREATED THAT CHILDCARE RESOURCES, BUT IT DID, IT, IT DIDN'T GET GROWN BY, UH, SO NUMBER, NUMBER SIX. 
          YEAH, SIX. 
          IT'S ALL GOOD. 
          THINK ABOUT UP. 
          IF MY BOSS, HONESTLY REALLY BIG CHILDCARE PASSION. 
          SO SHE'S GONNA LOOK AT THAT AND GO, OKAY, I GET NUMBER SIX. 
          SO THE ONE THAT CASE NUMBER I THINK, I THINK THAT'S KIND ON EDUCATION OFF. 
          SO NOW WE CAN LOOK IT UP. 
          TALKING PATIENTS FELL OFF FINANCIAL SERVICE THAT WHATEVER MORE DOSE WE CREATE AGENCIES THAT DO EDUCATION LITERACY. 
          SO THE LAST WOULD BE PART OF  NUMBER FIVE. 
          NOW FINANCIAL, RIGHT? SO MY, MY INCOME FINANCIAL WE TO DO, WHEN WE CREATED HERE FROM YOU REGARDING, UM, THE UTILIZE THIS INFORMATION, I'M GONNA BE LOOKING TO HEAR HOW WE CONNECT WHAT IS PER PLANNING GOING FORWARD TO THIS DATA SO THAT I CAN FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT THE DATA HAS PURPOSE. 
          NOT JUST TO DO THE DATA AND SAY, OH, WELL THOSE THINGS ARE TOP, LIKE WHAT WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE. 
          BECAUSE I'M NOT, I MEAN, I DEFINITELY BELIEVE IN, OF COURSE ASKING THE CITIZENS, BUT I THINK WE PROBABLY PUBLIC  BY OURSELVES. 
          I'M NOT REALLY SURE. 
          I DON'T THIS COUNTRY  IN THE NATION BY OURSELVES. 
          WELL, I'M JUST SAYING, I, I'M INTERESTED. 
          WE ALREADY KNOW. 
          YES. 
          I SORT OF HAVE GRACE SAYING, OKAY, WE COULD HAVE COME UP THE TOP FIVE. 
          THERE'S 3000 UNIVERSITIES RANKING OUT RESEARCH TELLING UPROOTED, YOU KNOW, PERFECT EXAMPLE. 
          WE DIDN'T 
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TAKE IT WELL. 
          I LIKE, I DO LIKE, UM, THE , I DO SAY THAT WAS GREAT. 
          UM, I LIKE THE FACT THAT 65% OF THE ONES WERE DONE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND ALSO THE, SOME THE CONVENIENCE OF THE TECH STATE SURVEY. 
          THAT WAS, THAT SOUNDED SO, ALRIGHT. 
          UM, UNLESS WE HAVE SOMETHING ELSE, YOU CAN SAY SOMETHING. 
          YOU HAVE SOMETHING OKAY TO NO, NO WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING'S. 
          I, I WOULD JUST BE INTERESTED IN LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANTED TO LIKE, BASED ON MAYBE WHAT DOESN'T MAKE THE ACTION OR WHAT WE THINK THAT MAYBE OUR OTHER FELLOW COMMISSIONERS AND OTHER COMMISSIONS OR YOU CAN COUNCIL NEEDS TO FOCUS ON. 
          MAYBE IT'S A WAY THAT DISSEMINATE PARTS OF THIS TO THEM TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT WE'VE SEEN AND WHAT ALSO WILL BE ADDITIONAL WORK ACROSS THE CITY. 
          TALK ABOUT, I MEAN THE COLLABORATION AND UTILIZE THIS GREAT ONE WE HAVE. 
          ANY EMOTIONS? I HAVE. 
          ANYBODY ELSE? ANY ANYBODY ELSE? MOTION. 
          MOTION. 
          UM, CHAIRMAN I WOULD MAKE THE ACCOMMODATE AS FAIR RECOMMENDATION CB SEE AS THE, I SECOND IT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UNDER, UH, COMMISSIONER TO THANK YOU MAKE THE MOTION AND WE COMMISSION . 
          UM, SECOND THAT WE, UH, ACCEPT AN APPROVED FEE, CSP NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT, THE NSU COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT TO VOTING. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 
          RAISE YOUR HAND, SAY AYE, OR JUST RAISE YOUR HAND AS FULL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE I SHOULD HAVE PATIENT OUR VERY LAST ITEM. 
          I DON'T THINK IT IS GONNA BE, UM, UM, THAT I JUST WANNA MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, POSTPONE TO THE NEXT MEETING. 
          UM, YOU CAN, IF WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          DO I, DO I NEED TO MAKE A A FORMAL MOTION ON THAT HEAD FOR I JUST PUT OUT THE AGENDA? THAT'S THE PRESERVATION THING. 
          IT'S CHANGE LAST MONTH. 
          IT WAS LAST MONTH, RIGHT. 
          IT MIGHT NOT COME BACK AT ALL. 
          YEAH, I PROBLEM. 
          THANK. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, THE FUTURE AGENDA 
          [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
ITEMS. I, I DO HAVE, UM, ONE OR TWO, ONE I DO WANT TO, I I DO WANT TO FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE INFORMATION THAT, UM, MS. JOSEPH CONTINUES TO BRING UP IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ARE OR ARE NOT DOING. 
          BUT, UM, UM, I I, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT SPEAK TO WHAT IT IS SHE BRINGS UP, BUT DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING, UM, SHE HAD ISSUE OUT OF ITEM THAT I FEEL ARE OF CONCERN AND I WANT THOSE TO, UM, I WANT US TO COME BACK. 
          AND THEN THE LAST, THE LAST THING I HAVE IS YES, SHE SENT ME EMAILS AND I'M GONNA FORWARD THEM TO STAFF. 
          YEAH. 
          ALSO, SHE SENT ME, I'M GONNA SEND 'EM OUT TO, AND I ACTUALLY, I I THINK SAME EMAIL BEFORE THAT'S FILED, WE HAVE NO RESPONSE. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
           THOUGH, WHICH IS, BUT TRANSPORTATION DOES GO TOWARDS, DOES GO TO THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IMPACTED BY LACK OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          YES. 
          THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WE SERVE. 
          THAT'S THE OF THE CORE AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. 
          I'M HAPPY TO THAT ALL AND SAY, I MEAN, IT'D BE FINE. 
          I'M NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE , THE FOLKS WHO ARE GOING OUT THE GOLF COURSE. 
          I REALLY NOT, BUT I AM CONCERNED IF, AND THEN, UH, HE, I DID GET A HIGH FLASH THAT JUST  THAT, THAT JUST KIND OF WHO, BUT UM, BUT THE CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE WITH THE KEITH, THEY KEEP TELLING US, BE REALLY HOT. 
          I JUST WANT THEM HERE AND SOMEBODY IN THE CITY AS TO WHAT THE COOLING, UM, STATIONS ARE ALL ABOUT. 
          WHAT, WHAT, HOW, HEAR ABOUT IT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          THE CITY JUST 
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PRODUCED IT. 
          OH, THEY RESILIENT PLAYBOOK GET THE, UM, SUSTAINABILITY. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          THEN I WOULD BE PROBABLY INTERESTED IN THAT. 
          UM, DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE Y'ALL BRING, MOVE THAT ITEM RIGHT IN? YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, YEAH, NOT EVEN THERE. 
          AND THEN THE PRESERVATION THAT, SO, UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, YOU ALL ALLOW, UH, THE INDULGING THE FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UM, TIME NOW IS 9 33. 
          UM, WE ARE IN FACT ADJOURN. 
          THANK YOU.
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