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1. CALL TO ORDER
The Human Services Committee meeting was called to order at 3:38 pm on Monday,
May 20th, 2024, via Zoom, Microsoft Teams and in person.
Committee Members present: Carmen Goers, Sue Miller, Suzanne Pak,
David Wright
Staff present: Kent Hay, Human Services Director
Jody Davison, CDBG Coordinator
TmAs
Absent: Erica Themes, Chair
2. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
3. PUBLIC INPUT, PUBLIC HEARINGS, AND CORRESPONDENCE
There was no public input or correspondence received.
4. OTHER BUSINESS—2025-2026 Grant Applications
a. Staff Presentation: Staff presented an application overview for the committee to
review. The City has received 110 applications with a total requested funding of
$4,193,901.
The committee'delegated the initial review and sorting of the applications to Kent
Hay, Human Services Director and his team. The proposed method he will use is to
sort the applicants into 3 tiers as follows: Tier 1 are the applications that were
complete, met the funding threshold of$10,000, had focused work in the City limits
and met the City priorities; Tier:2 are those applications that were complete, failed
to provide adequate information about their programs, met the threshold of$10,000
and met some of the City priorities; Tier 3, those applications that were incomplete
HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
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May 20, 2024
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did not meeting the $10,000 threshold, did not address the City priorities or that had
a service area focus outside of the City boundaries.
The Committee also requested analysis from prior years to determine program
impacts.
b. Proposed Scoring Criteria: The Committee reviewed the proposed scoring criteria
sheet and voted unanimously to remove the 2nd question, "Program has equitable
mechanism for service prioritization. The committee agreed that the phrasing of the
question let to subjectivity and did not provide a mechanism to assist in scoring.
As a reminder from the previous meeting: The committee reviewed the options
and selected a modified version of Option 1. Under this option Homelessness
Interventions and Housing Stability are combined into one category and Basic
Needs, Job Training and Education are combined into a second category.
Corresponding funding percentages are also combined so that 70% of funding is
directed into Homelessness Interventions/Housing Stability and 30% of funding is
directed into Basic Needs, Job Training and Education.
The committee voted unanimously in favor of the above-described action.
5. ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. The next regular meeting will be held June 24th, 2024.
6. ADJOURNMENT •
The meeting was adjourned at 4:52 p.m. .
APPROVED THE 21 day of Jt/NE . , 2024.
Tomes
Erica Thomas, Human Services Committee Chair:
Kent Hay, Human Services Director:
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