This is Helen Moise, Chair of the Community and Neighborhood Development Committee. I'm now calling the Community and Neighborhood Development Meeting to order at 1001. Dolores Anderson, will you please read each member's name so we can confirm there with us on the call? Ms. Moise. President. there with us on the call. Miss Moe. President. Dr. For our Myers. Present. Mr. Saadhan. Present. Dr. Nunez. Present. Thank you, Dee. Before we begin, I'm going to ask Dolores Anderson to explain the format we are using in the layout of some housekeeping rules. Dolores? Thank you, Ms. Moeys. My name is Dolores Anderson, and I will be assisting with the technical aspects of this meeting. I want to mention a few items just before we begin. This meeting has been held by telephone so that we can advance the public health goal of minimizing face-to-face meetings, also known as social distancing, to solve the spread of COVID-19. 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Presentations and other materials for this meeting are posted online as a part of the agenda for this meeting. The agenda may be found on the city's website at www.olingtontx.gov by clicking on Agendas. For the members of the community and neighborhood development committee, please ensure that you're in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed during this call. Back around the list can be very challenging in a meeting like this, so everyone has been muted. If you wish to speak, please unmute yourself and you will be called on. If any members of the community and neighborhood development committee must leave the call for whatever reason, you are requested to identify yourself at the time you leave the call as well as the time you join back on. Anyone have any questions? Hearing none. Thank you Dolores. So can you please tell me how many people we have on the call in addition to committee members and staff? I see a total of 15 people. All right. So all of those who have joined the call, thank you for being here. We appreciate your participation. We will now begin the meeting for each item that is discussed or presented. I will call on the presenter for that item. Once the presentation is completed, I will ask if each committee member has comments by calling your name, so that you may speak one at a time. Following these comments, I will ask if anyone has any additional comments and we will move on to the next item. Does anyone have any questions about the procedures today? Okay, the item is on the agenda for our new business. First is the CARES Act funding update emergency solutions grant CV and community development block grant CV by Cheryl Kenny office of strategic initiatives Sherry Cheryl good morning. Good morning everyone and this again is Cheryl Kenny grants manager with Strategic Initiatives. And I'm going to take you through the 14 slides that are in your packet and we're posted online for the update on the emergency solutions grant and community development block grant under the CARES Act. And this is additional funding that the city is receiving to directly respond to the COVID-19 breakout break. So if you'll go to slide two, it's introduction. As you know, the CARES Act is the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act that was signed into law, March 27th. The city is receiving some federal funding to address the impacts of COVID-19. And so this morning I'm going to talk to you about two different grant types. One is the Community Development Fund, which is based on the Community Development Block Grant formula and framework. And the second one is the Homeless Assistance Grant or Emergency Solution's Grant. And it's important to remember on these grants that we are being very strategic and coordinating with not duplicating other federal funding programs. There is a lot of funding coming down from various sources. We have been in coordination with the Tarrant County Continuum of Care for the homeless programs as well as the City of Fort Worth and Tarrant County and other partners to make sure that we are not duplicating these funds. So if you go to slide three you can see I think you've seen this slide before in a council meeting but this is just the highlighting of the two types we're going to talk about this morning. You'll see in the first two bars the community development block, we will typically receive in this year we did receive 3.4 million. We are receiving an additional allocation under cares for CDBG of two, two, little over two million dollars. On the emergency solutions grant side, our typical allocation in this year year our allocation is 287,000, but we are receiving quite a bit more under the CARES Act close to a million, 991,000. So if you'll go to slide four, I want to focus now on the emergency solutions grant, which is focused on serving families who are homeless or receiving homeless assistance or those that may be at risk of homelessness. So this specific grant is tied to 100% homeless services and to those who have been impacted by COVID-19 to keep. Make sure that people in the shelters are safe, those that may be unsheltered are safe and get connected to the appropriate services as well as helping those that might be at imminent risk of homelessness. HUD has provided some waivers and some flexibility so that we can get this money out quickly. One thing that is not on the slide that I wanted to mention is typically there is a one-to-one match for this program. That has been waived because HUD knows that communities are struggling right now, so that's one good flexibility that we are using. Rental assistance can also be provided to families with incomes under 50% of area median income. Typically that's 30 percent so they have loosened that requirement. And funds can also reimburse eligible expenses that occurred or were incurred to address the COVID-19 before the CARES Act was signed. So we have that flexibility as well. We also have up to 10 percent for administrative costs. So if you'll go to slide five, we'll talk a little bit more about what the funding can be used for homeless services. We mentioned that and most at risk. And we also talked about coordinating. We do have weekly calls with Fort Worth, Tarant County and the Tarant County homeless coalition to make sure that we are working extra hard to make sure we fill those gaps in need. We've got a funding spreadsheet that we are working on that will overview all the funding that's coming in and the various services that are that those funding sources are supporting. We also wanted to let you know that this particular grant, the invitation to apply since it is focused on homelessness, was extended to only current ESG subrecipients as well as the Arlington Housing Authority for rental assistance. So if you'll go to the next slide, slide six, it will overview the different categories of services that this funding source can support. The first one is the homeless shelter support system. And here in Arlington, as you know, we have three shelters. So in order to keep residents safe in those shelters, this funding is available to them, the homeless shelter providers. It's also available for rapid rehousing for persons who are at high risk of COVID-19. So for example, persons over 65 years of age, those with underlying health or medical conditions. It can also be used for targeted homeless prevention that kind of the same high risk population we can use to keep people in their homes if they may be received an eviction notice or are at imminent risk of eviction. As I mentioned 10% on administration, we also will be tracking this as a separate grant in the homeless management information system. As far as street outreach goes that's also eligible but we've been told by the Tarant County continuum of care that that funding for street outreach will be provided by the state emergency solutions grant. Some of that money will be coming to Tarant County and Arlington as well. So if you'll go to slide seven, what we did when we issued the request for proposals, we estimated based on continuum of care, their model and their recommendations from their board, how much funding we would allocate per category of service. And this again was just an estimate. And so, for administration, 10%, shelter in supports, about 40% rapid rehousing, about 30% prevention under slightly under 20% and then a little bit for the maintenance management system. So you'll see on the next slide slide 8 the proposals that we received we received proposals from all three shelters in addition to proposals for rapid rehousing and prevention. And it was a really good mix of applications pretty much falling in line to what we had what we had estimated. So we were very pleased to see that we had sufficient applications. The total funding requests were more than we have available. But we'll talk I'll talk a little bit about what we are recommending in terms of the draft recommendations. So fortunately we do have sufficient funding to fund each of those that applied maybe not to their full full request, but we we feel like these recommendations are sufficient to but we feel like these recommendations are sufficient to respond to COVID, to keep people safe, and to make sure that there are rental assistance resources in the community. So we can go through those one by one, the life shelter applied for 167,500. As you know, they will be moving into their new facility, which is 24-7, we'll be operating 24-7 here in the next week or two. And so this funding they are requesting for some additional staff for extra cleaning for making sure that they have the staff support 24-7 and they are proposing to serve 11,100 persons with that additional assistance. Salvation Army was requesting for shelter 206,000. Typically, they receive about 25,000 each year from this grant source. And they are proposing to serve 35 households at their facility. So we are trying on the draft award to make sure that the funding is in line with their capacity. And on that case, we're recommending 93,500 for some additional staff, food, cleaning, and that type of thing. Safe Haven requested 95,000. We're recommending full funding there. They're also wanting some staff support and they're also wanting an isolation trailer and some additional cleaning and other items related to to making sure their their residents are safe. Housing Authority partnered with Center for Transforming Lives to provide two different types of service. One is rapid rehousing and the second is prevention. So when you see Arlington Housing and Center for Transforming Lives, they would have a memorandum of understanding where Center for Transforming Lives would provide the case management and the Housing Authority would provide the rental assistance and inspection and intake. So the recommendations there, since there was only one application for rapid rehousing, and that is a definite need, is recommending to fund that up to over what they requested, but with that, they would be able to serve more people that were at risk at 229,000. And then the other prevention proposal was from Arlington Urban Ministries. They do have a solid prevention program, so we're recommending 100,000 there. And then on down the line you'll see Arlington Housing is also proposing prevention in coordination with Center for Transforming Lives. So it seems like we did have quite a few applications for prevention, salvation, army did as well, but they have never provided that here in Arlington and it did not score well with the evaluation group. So we're not recommending that they be funded for prevention since we have that covered with the other experts in that area. All right. So I'm wondering if I need... Let's talk about the timeline and then maybe we can pause there to see if there are any questions, but let me just go through the timeline quickly and let you know that obviously this is a compressed timeline to try to get this out as quickly as possible. We have our meeting today and then after your input today, we would publish the draft funding plan for comment. That's been compressed to a five day public comment period. We would then be negotiating contracts to prepare for city council review on June 9th. We would submit our substantial amendment with this program first since we're in a hurry to get this out to HUD June 15th and anticipating by the end of June to have those contracts signed. So I think I'll pause there and see if there any questions about. the time line. I'm going to go ahead and share the questions about. Yes, G. Cheryl, this is Helen real quick. Yesterday when we looked at this, there was a timeline slide in our packet and I just looked at both transmittals. Does anybody out there have a timeline slide? It's just blank. Any of the other council members to see that. We talked at length yesterday about the timeline. And even though it's going to take until about June the 30th. While we wait on council's next meeting, staff is going to be putting all of this together because I want to stress everyone. If you have any questions or objections to this, since it needs to move rather quickly, we need for you to ask your questions today, because we don't want to hold the stuff when it gets to Council. Is that a pretty fair assessment, Cheryl? Yes. So are you want to keep going on this or do you want me to give council members a chance to ask questions on this one? Are you ready to go back to the presentation? It's up to you all. Chair, Marvin's up. Yeah. Yeah, just a quick question on the rent assistance. I know it's, there would income under a 50% AMI. I guess my concern is people that made above the 50% threshold really didn't get $1200 stimulus check and if they're in a really bond, a bond trying to make ends meet and pay rent. What other resources do they go to? Because they're class out of this particular grant. Is that correct? Yes, this grant has a narrow or focus, but we do have multiple other resources available for rental assistance. And you will see one of those resources in the reprogramming on the seedings agenda under the consolidated plan and action plan. One of those resources is reprogramming $260,000 right away from the Housing Rehab Program to rental assistance and that income level goes up to 80% area meeting income and if people have lost their jobs they would likely qualify. There's also under the home program some tenant-based rental assistance that that can be used. I think Mindy's going to talk about that a little bit under her her presentation but yes there are other resources and at base rental assistance that can be used. I think Mindy's gonna talk about that a little bit under her presentation, but yes, there are other resources available. This is just a one slice of what's available. And a follow up now, ran assistant that it also applies to mortgage assistance as well. Not in the emergency solutions grant program. And on the mortgage assistance, that one's a little bit more complicated because most mortgages are, you know, are able to, you know, they're not going to be foreclosed upon for for several months. So that's kind of a different, that's a different tack for this grant mortgage assistance is not an eligible activity. All right, thank you. Helen, this is Victoria. I have a question. Great. Victoria, go ahead. Okay. First of all, I want to commend staff Arlington Housing Authority to working with the Center for Transforming Lives and both the Rapid Rehousing and Prevention. I think that's a fantastic Opportunity for us to maximize resources. So I just want to commend staff for doing that That's my comment my question just for the sake of I've had a lot of inquiry on this how many How many potential evictions are we looking at now that the that we're seeing the court start to start to process those. I know there's been a lot of work and effort working with our housing providers as well as our apartment associations just for the sake of the public and for those that have been acquiring could staff comment on that? Thank you. I'm going to let Mindy comment on that. I know she's going to talk about that in her presentation. But let me turn that question to Mindy. Sure. There were 275 active pending evictions when the courts shut down on March 27th. And since then, about almost 30, a little over 30 evictions have been filed since April 1st, eight just yesterday. So I think that's going to start picking back up again. Thank you very much for that clarification. I appreciate it. And thank you for all your hard work in tracking those and working along with our apartment association as well. Thank you, Helen. I appreciate the opportunity for a call question. I'll ask one item if that's okay. And I did hear this morning that the courts are going to not be scheduling any settings until June 1st or actually they're going to send those letters out around June 1st. So there won't be any court proceedings increasing to at least until about mid-June. So we do still have some time to work with our landlords. So in other words, we have time for this. I'm sorry, Mendy, go ahead. Now, this is Helen. This is Helen. And yesterday, part of what we talked about is, you know, very often evictions are filed and over time. And they sort of accumulate because people work on things, and they delay their hearings because they got part of the rent. So one of the things I asked yesterday is to clarify, you know, if we had 275 filed at the end of March, first of all, those can't even be heard until we open the courts on June 1st. But I have a feeling a lot of those will be settled and go away and never be heard. So I think what we're seeing is the 30 for the month of April is probably more realistic. But let's see. And I think there are a lot of multi-family owners and particularly single family owners who own single homes who are working hard to try to take care of their tenants during this. So I'm concerned, but I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is that over time, I think this will kind of wash out a little bit, because I'm hoping people have big hearts in this, and that we're not going to see this number of evictions. So let's see, let's try to keep tabs of this report is what I'm saying. and that we're not going to see this number of evictions. So let's see, let's try to keep tabs of this report is what I'm saying so we can have better information over time, and especially after this opens up on June 1. There's just so many resources that we just have to get the word out to people, where to get rental assistance so that they don't have to suffer an eviction. Not right now. Helen this is Victoria. May I follow up? Yeah. You're sure can. The point of my question and the reason why I was asking for the information is to make sure that our estimated timeline for review and providing of these grants because I think it's important as you just articulated that we provide the information to all community members and everyone involved in these processes so that appropriate expectations can be set for for example I know the Department Association many of the managers just want to know when they might be able to see rectification of this so I just want to make sure as we do our timeline for review that we also make sure that message is clear that help is coming and that that money will be provided and have what dates so that we can make sure that we manage those expectations. Thank you very much. the discussion we had yesterday when I first looked at this about the timeline. Was there any way to speed this up so we could get money out to apartment owners to cover some of these defaults as early as maybe mid-June and we simply can't get there. But I think they would know that the money's coming and you know, these things just even with a short timeline for funding this, it just still takes some time for all the paperwork. So yeah, I think the multi-family owners need to be communicated with even single-family homeowners who rent homes to people. We just need to really get the word out to both the tenant and the landlords that their funds coming. Anyway, thank you everybody. Sure. Dr. Nid yes, do you have any questions? He may have forgotten he muted. Sure, it's Marvin Sutton. Can I ask? Yes, you sure can. Since this additional funding is for COVID-related expenditures, do we know in a normal course, the number of evictions that occur in each month and anything outside of that, would that be a safe assessment of saying those are COVID-related? assessment of saying those are COVID related? I think that can go back to what many was going to try to research with the county court. How staff is what? What was already in the pipeline and I think that's a good way of putting it. What's the norm? I mean, do we normally see a hundred evictions and a month, 200? Is this 275 really, really unaligned because the 30 doesn't tell us much because all the owners know everything's been put on hold. So the one thing that surprises me is that the number didn't keep growing faster and it's not higher than 30 because all of the owners know that they can't be heard in a court, but they can still file for eviction so they secure their place in the line for court hearing. And I don't see a lot of that. So I'm hoping that the owners are really, really working with their tenants. I think that's a good signal. Thank you. Does anybody else have any questions? Yeah, I tell you what, Mindy, if you would pull together that history and kind of what's maybe just for the past six months on evictions and just send it to the committee members, that would be a big help. I sure will. Thank you. So have do we have any other questions on this item? I do have this is Cheryl again. I do have about four more slides. Yes. Related to community development block grant for COVID. Similar process with a five-day public comment period and virtual public hearings are allowed. One of the nice flexibilities is that it does remove the 15% cap on public services which is the typical rule for CDBG but this allows us to do things like direct response for transportation, food, meal delivery, childcare, and other related services. We can also use a category. We've never used this before as long as I've been with the city, but it's called urgent need, which will allow you to serve people impacted by the virus, but it would not be income-based. So we are exploring that to see if that's an option that we can get HUD approval on. So on slide 11, you'll see we've had three phases of the response under Community Development Block Grant. The first phase allows us with reprogramming of funds. Our consolidated plan allows us to reprogram up to $149,000 to meet the urgent needs of COVID, and this would not rise to the level of a substantial amendment. So what we're, we had proposed is getting the funding out quickly to five organizations that meet an urgent need need and this basically just extends or amends their current contract. So it's not, this is not CARES Act money. This is regular CDBG funding and that would go to five organizations, Arlington Charities, Boys and Girls Club for Food Drive Through and virtual learning center for transforming lives for child care services meals on wheels meal delivery and 60 and better and these contracts They're really modifications They would be allowed to be signed by the city manager and so that's really our phase one and let me get through these next two slides And then we can maybe go back for questions on those. So Cheryl. Yes. This is Jennifer Wickman. I just wanted to mention on those we want we would if you are all OK with the city manager signing we'd want to make sure you are OK with these amounts going to these groups and also that the council was if that could be if that's something that you all are interested in, Ms. Moise, if you could include that in your report out, that would be helpful for us to make sure we get clear direction from Council as to how you want us to handle those. Thank you, Jennifer. I'll make sure. Okay. So let's move on into phases two and three. phase two on slide 12 is the reallocation of the 260,000 from housing rehabilitation to short-term rental assistance. And that would be administered by the Arlington Housing Authority. And that is on your, that's included in the packet on your evening agenda for the Consolidated Plan and Action Plan at the meeting this evening. Arlington would be able to begin administering those funds following approval as the slide says at today's meeting. Phase 3-10 is the CARES Act, CDG. The extra additional 2 million that we are getting and focusing on urgent needs including things like rent, food, transportation, and childcare. There again, we were proposing 800,000 be set aside for short-term rental assistance, which would be added to the 260,000, but there are just two different funding sources. One is CARES, one is regular CDBG. And then we released a request for proposals to nonprofits and made a little over a million dollars available. Those are due back on Friday. You'll see on the timeline here in a minute on on the next last slide how how all of that will work together. So if you wanna go to slide 13, as I said, those proposals, they were released on May 7th, their due back on May 22nd, they will be under evaluation and will come back to the committee on June 9th for review. Again, five day condensed public comment timeframe and then full council review at the end of June. So so that's where we are on those two sources of CARES Act money and I'll be glad to take any questions. Can you hear me? This is Dr. Medias? Yes. Good. I'm sorry. I'm testing because I showed that I was immediately earlier in the conversation and no one could hear me. So I had to sign off and rejoin in case someone who's making a recording will note that. But I had earlier, I wanted to make a comment earlier because Helen asked me a question and I was unable to reply. I've listened to, I don't know this portion of the conversation, but the prior portion of the conversation, I have no issues with anything. I think you guys are doing a great job and I'm ready to move forward on both of these items. So thank you. Thank you, Dr. Nunez. Do we of these phase two or three allows household incomes to go up to 80% or do both of these. With CDBG, it's always up to 80%. All right. So that answers Marvin's earlier concern. Do we have any other questions? So we'll be seeing this later today. And it sounds like it's on the. Is it on the afternoon session or the evening session? Just the report comes out and then we won't have to actually vote on anything. We just raise the. When we report out, make sure all the councils in agreement with these items. And great job. I look at the amount of work you all are doing right now, and I'm just so impressed that so much is being done with your existing staff and and there's such a need. So thank you all for your really, really hard work and dedication during this really, really difficult time. Helen, if I could, Ms. Millie, some, excuse me. This is Jennifer Wickman. I just wanted to clarify. So in the report out, it would be helpful if you can talk about the phase one funding, which is on slide 11, to make sure that those allocations are OK with the full council to those five non-profits. This evening though there is an item on your agenda and that reallocates the 260,000 from housing rehab to short-term rental. And then in subsequent so there is one vote tonight on something that you have been briefed on. But then in future meetings you'll have opportunities to vote on different things. So. Right. Thank you. Sure. For that clarification. So do we have, let me see. The next item is emergency housing system of Mindy Conquered. The Allington Housing Authority. This is Mindy Conquered. I know that several of you have gotten requests about what we're going to housing authority. There this is this is Mindy Cochran. I know that several of you have gotten requests about what's available, what is the what's the city doing, what's the housing authority doing. And so I've been asked to provide you an update with some of the activities that we've been undertaking and preparing for. So on your second slide gives sort of an outline of some of the things that staff have been working on here at the Housing Authority. One is really an educational component for both of our tenants and for our landlords. Our message to our tenants is please work with your landlords. Work on repayment agreements with them. Use your stimulus payments wisely. When you start receiving your unemployment use those funds wisely and at the same time working with the Tarant County Department Association to encourage the landlords to do the same to work with their tenants and be patient many of them have applied for unemployment and they're just waiting to receive it. We're also making sure that tenants and landlords both are aware of the federal moratorium on evictions, which covers literally thousands of units in the city of Arlington. And those landlords can't file for eviction until late July, and when they do, they have to provide a 30-day notice to the tenants. So just because a tenant receives a notice to vacate from their landlord, this not mean that they legally have to vacate their unit and be homeless. And so we're trying to encourage them to use this time while the funding is becoming available and while there is a moratorium on evictions, just stay housed. We're also worked with the city's water department and we ran a report from all of the 3300 roughly families that we served through our housing choice voucher program to find out which had reported a decrease in their household income because of COVID. And based on that list, we're cross matching it with the city's water accounts to see if any of those have passed due water accounts so that we can direct them to Catholic charities who administers the city of Arlington's utility assistance for water bills. Like Cheryl said, we've been working really closely with other organizations, counties, city of Fort Worth, the homeless coalition. And that's why you see port of parties in hand washing stations in downtown Arlington. Huts best practices, encouraged making sure that there's a place for the unsheltered homeless to have sanitary conditions and where many of them could use the downtown library to wash their hands during the day. That's no longer available to them. We've also worked with Arlington Police Department to make sure that hygiene kits are available to the unsheltered homeless as well well as flyers to inform them about COVID, about what the best health practices are, and where they can get food and other resources during this time. We also worked with the local hospitals and city of Fort Worth to make sure that if we have any homeless that have been exposed or infected with COVID that are being discharged from a local hospital, that they're not discharged back to the street where they can continue to spread that. So they would be discharged and taken to the Convention Center in Fort Worth where they can be an isolation until that time passes. So a lot of outreach and a lot of great partners that we've been working with on that. We worked really closely if you go to slide three with the apartment association of Tarant County because the landlords are just as concerned about what's happening right now as the tenants are. So we created an online registration portal for our landlords where they can go on, they can let us know the owner name, the property manager, they can upload a W9 so that if they're tenants apply for rental assistance, we have most of the documentation on hand ready to go and we can really expedite getting those dollars out to them. I also want to make sure that I point out that when rental assistance is provided for a victim prevention, our payments go directly to the landlord in exchange for him or her agreeing to halt the eviction. They're made on behalf of the tenant, but the payments go directly to the landlord. So your slide shows that we have 114 registered, but since the slide was created, we're now up to 126 different landlords that have registered through the portal. On slide four, we also created a portal of sorts, almost a pre-application for tenants. So if somebody goes to ArlingtonHousing.us, there's a button that says Arlington cares just like on your slide. And tenants can click on that slide and they can provide us with basic information about what their current situation is. We had received 733 surveys through the time that this slide show was created, but we're up to 837 now. And so families are letting us know when they last paid their rent. So for example, if most of them last paid their rent in April, that helps us understand how much run assistance per household, how many months that we need our programs to be able to provide as we're creating these new programs. If on the next slide on slide five, you'll see some statistics about the results from the Arlington Cares. See, 26% have applied for unemployment. 64% have children in the household. I think it's interesting statistic on when they last paid their rent. Some paid their rent in May, which is great. They don't need as much back rent to get caught up. On average, the rent for the families that have applied through this portal is $1,027 a month. And to put it in perspective, if we paid one month of rent for all of the applicants that had applied, it would be a little over $350,000 just for one month. helpful that as families continue to receive their unemployment or go back to work that they're able to work with their landlords to create repayment agreements. If you turn to slide six, this is screenshot. Only of 7601.0 showing the apartment complexes that are subject to the federal eviction moratorium. So you can see that this is only a partial slide showing only 7601.0. So there's a tremendous amount of properties that are prevented from filing eviction and actually evicting their households right now. So we took on a little bit of a educational campaign and we sent correspondence to all multi-family developments in the city of Arlington to let them know about the eviction moratorium and several different websites that they can go to to see if their development is subject to the moratorium. We've continued that education campaign fairly frequently just to keep it in the forefront of everybody's mind. If you go to slide seven, you can see some of the housing authority internal changes that we're making because we have capacity in some programs right now. We've got some capacity in our voucher program. So we can do some shifting of program participants from various programs where we do have capacity to free up space in the shelters and to bring some of the uncheldred into the sheltered. So and the reason we can do that is because HUD is going to be able to provide a little bit more assistance through our voucher program. On slide A, just a few other changes that we've been making. We're still managing our housing rehab program, but we're currently focusing only on emergency repairs that are a threat to life or safety. And so we've, since we pause on our full housing rehabs, as Cheryl mentioned, we're reallocating $260,000 of housing rehab funds to use for eviction prevention for those families earning up to 80% of the area median income. Slide nine shows three general populations that we're focusing on. The first is low income families that are re-aziding an extended stay hotel. There are hundreds and hundreds of families that use extended stay hotels for their primary residence. And they also can be evicted. So we're trying to make sure that our outreach covers them as well as those living in apartments or single-family homes. Then of course focusing on low-income renters that are at risk of eviction because of economic circumstances related to COVID-19. And then again, as Cheryl mentioned, with the continuum of care, encouraging us to work to help people leave congregate living environments like shelters who have high risk whether it's their age or their health condition that makes them more at risk for severe complications if they were to contract COVID-19. And that's a challenging population. If you think of a person or a family that is currently living in a shelter, to bring them out of that shelter and their age 65 or older or they have these health conditions. And we need to get them stabilized. So this isn't three or six months of rental assistance that's generally going to be able to stabilize these families. It may be closer to 12 or 18 months to stabilize these families. And that's one of the reasons why we're partnering with the Center for Transforming Lives because they are so successful in working with these families with their case management. And then the last slide, slide 10, is just a summary of the various different new programs that are coming online that we're able to utilize to help various populations in our community. And I'm happy to take any questions. Do we have any questions for Mendy? Any comments? Ellen, this is Victoria. Do you have one question? Yes, Victoria, go ahead. Yes, Victoria, go ahead. Mindy, I just had one follow-up question. You talked about how if there's someone homeless who in Arlington who is COVID positive, I know we've been working along with the Convention Center over and for worth to transport them. Once there is obviously a plan now to decommission that convention center, do we have any plans in Arlington for what we might do for isolation if any of our homeless population presents itself either at risk or COVID positive? So I think Cheryl mentioned earlier that in Safe Haven's application for emergency solutions funding, they did request funds so that they would have a trailer to be on site nearby should they need to isolate somebody. And they're also going to work through the contract process with the other shelters to make sure that they're setting aside some funds to be able to isolate, whether that's in an extended state hotel or through a trailer that they bring on site as well, but just to make sure that they do have a plan for that isolation. And there'll be some other pieces of that puzzle that will need to work through transportation from hospitals to the shelter location, things of that nature. But we we work through all those when when this first hit to help have a solution for our COVID positive or exposed homeless folks to get to the Fort Worth Convention Center. And so I'm confident we can work through those little details here just within Arlington as well. The plan right now is for the Convention Center for Orph to close around June 19th. So that's the target that we're looking for. Okay. Thank you for the Convention Center for Warth to close around June 19th, so that's the target date that we're looking for. Okay, thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it. Sure. Any other comments from committee members? I just want to thank Cheryl and Mindy for excellent presentations. And again, as we go through this, I can tell how caring your group is and how hard you haven't had any downtime, I can tell. So I appreciate that. I know the city appreciates it. I know our residents appreciate it. And we do sincerely see the volume of work that's come through as a result of this. So if we don't have any other comments or questions, I think we're ready to adjourn for the day. All right. This is Jennifer. Thank you very much to the committee and Ms. Mowies for chairing. We appreciate Jill's attention on these topics. So the committee and neighborhood development committee stands adjourned at looks like it's 1049. It's a record, Helen. Yeah. Thank you for the update. I appreciate it. Thank you for the hard work. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.