All right, we'll try this again. All this meeting to order. It is Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 631 PM. This is a community grants and advisory commission. First off, public comments on agenda items. Do we have anyone from the public that wants to make any comments? If not, we can move on to the consent items. Item 25-2766, the minutes of community grants advisory commission, meeting of April 24th, 2025. Did everyone have a chance to see the minutes? Did anyone have any questions, concerns, updates? If not, we need a motion for approval. I'll make a motion to move forward. Big danger filled with the motion. Do we have a second? You'll Campbell, I second it. Tammy Beachy to it. Some say Tammy with a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. As for the regular agenda items, we have 25-2767, fiscal year 2025, 2026 public hearings, consolidated grants application process. We'll allow you to wrap. Thank you. I am Shaleigh Tabas, Community Services Administ administrator for the city of McKinney. We are opening this process for the 2025-2026 consolidated application process, which includes the grants of community services, support grant, CDBG, community development block grant grant, and also city-supported services. With the applicants, we are asking all applicants to come here before the podium to present just a summary of the applications that they submitted by the deadline of April 3rd. Each application applicant will have at least three minutes to give a summary of their presentation. We will be timed once that is done they will hear a bell and that means that they will have to conclude. It will be louder than that but they will have to conclude comments. If you are in the middle of your comment you will still have to end and then one of the commissioners will allow you to finish and continue in that process. If they have any questions, they will ask. If there are not any questions, they will not. It doesn't mean that there's anything on with your application. It simply means that they don't have any questions. If there is an organization that has more than one application, you will be required again to stay at the beginning of your name, your organization, the proposal, and then you will move forward with the process. The timing will not begin for any applicant until you make your introduction of your name the organization and the project. And that concludes the instructions that we have for this process. At first up, we have today Allen Community Outreach Emergency Financial Assistance Program. Hello, and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Janet Smith and I'm the Director of Income Support and Emergency Services for all community outreach for ACO. This year, ACO was proudly celebrating its 40th year of service in Colin County. Since 1985, we've been committed to preventing hunger and homelessness, helping families stay in their homes, feed their children, and work toward lasting financial stability. In 2019, we updated our name from Allen Community Outreach to all community outreach to better reflect the growing and diverse communities we serve. While we began in Allen today, we're proud to serve more families and McKinney than ever before and that number continues to grow. In 2024, we provided financial assistance to 301 families in McKinney, totaling over $100,000. So far this year, we've helped 137 families with rent and utility payments, which is more than $55,000 in support to keep them safely housed. In fact, 29% of our total assistance last year went to McKinney residents. Clients can apply for assistance by completing our application online at acokers.org. For those who may not be comfortable using the website, we offer in-person support in our on-site computer app where staff are available to help every step of the way. These services are more than numbers. They are lifelines. Despite generous support from government grants, utility programs, foundations, and individual donors, the need and McKinney continues to rise in resources remain limited. That's why your continued support is so vital. With additional funding, ACO can expand our services to reach even more families in crisis, providing not just emergency aid, but also the long-term tools they need to become self-sufficient. As we mark 40 years of impact, we are reminded that our success has always come through strong community partnerships like the one we share with the City of McKinney. Thank you for standing with ACO for believing in our mission and for investing in the future of McKinney residents. Together we can make our 40th year the most impactful yet. Great. Thank you. Do you want to have any questions? My name is Sylvia Scamia. I was wondering is there a time limit? I mean, like how many times they can come to you or? It's primarily once, depending on the funding that we have available. Thank you. Within a 12 month period. Any walls? All right, great. Thank you. The next organization, Assistance League of Greater Colin County, Program Operations School Bill. Hello, I'm Charlotte Grim, testing out from my phone, so it's loud. And I'm a member grant writer for Assistant's League of Greater Colin County, which is the Colin County chapter of the National Philanthropic 501C3 Assistant League. Presently we have 54 members who raise all of our funds while we provide the services for our five programs, the largest of which is Operation School Bell. We all volunteers, no paid staff. We're requesting $10,000 for Operation School Bell, which provides new clothing to elementary school students in McKinney, ISD. Imagine not having the clothes to dress appropriately for an ordinary school day. It's not a great picture. Now imagine what a gift it would be to shop for and purchase your very own new school clothing. That is what will happen for 100 plus resident elementary school students in McKinney ISD in fiscal year 2526. With clothing valuing $125 for each student because of operation school bill retail, the sub-program. New clothing has the power to elevate self-esteem, encourage school attendance, and improve academic performance. We're providing far more than just a new wardrobe. We're empowering young students to reach their full potential. We received a letter from a counselor in one of our schools, say, and she said, studies show that children learn and adapt better when they are confident in themselves. Our students are excited about their new clothes. When they saw me in the hallway, they would let me know that they had on their new clothes. Our goal is to continue to cloth children in need in Cullen County and not turn any child away because of the lack of funding. Last fall, we clothed 117 McKinney ISD resident children. At our weekend clothing experience in October at JC Penny Stonebrier. Our operations school bell retail committee is planning a fall 25 shopping experience with JC Penny and we will be in contact with the McKinney ISD staff in July or August and August to work out details for scheduling shopping events. elementary school principals, counselors and teachers refer to our children that they see not coming to school on a regular basis because their parents are having problems with money and they can't buy appropriate clothes. In addition to our retail program and McKinney ISD, our warm feeling sub program works with middle school campus liaisons. Great. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions? If not, if you'd like to finish your statement. Thank you. I did want to tell you that we also have another subprogram that provides clean underwear, new the school. Thank you. Does anyone follow up questions? Are there any live one? I'm sorry. Any particular schools? Are there the whole- Well, we we close children from from all of the schools. The title one schools are the ones that we get more referrals from, but it's surprising in neighborhoods with the economy what it is. We get them from fairly, you know, affluent neighborhoods, but the most of them do come from Title I and the underwear only goes to Title I schools. That's another sub program we're asking for retail. I have a question Andrea Hervey Rogers. You say that you do the shopping at JC Penny I'm assuming JC Penny- The children- Right. Does JC Penny help with the grants on that at all or they are participating or just- Yeah they give us a discount on the clothes. They have been very helpful. We've gotten, rounding up monies from them, since we've, which is, I guess maybe a couple of years, we've been with them three or four years. And they're very helpful with the children. The, the cash registers don't charge us tax, don't charge us tax because we are 501C3. We can't pay tax. So they've been very helpful. And we always hit it right when there are lots of sales. I see parents coming out with, you know, a couple of bags full of clothes. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much. Our next presenter is the organization bind. I will allow them to share with you the acronym and the program is Brain Injury Club House Program. Good evening. I'm Diana Diaz, Executive Director for the Brain Injury Network. Find respectfully Request $23,715 in grant funding support for our Clubhouse program, which benefits McKinney residents who are survivors of acquired brain injury or ABI. These adults, 18 and up, are navigating life with the profound and sudden impact of brain injury, often losing connections to work, socialize, and even their sense of self. Our clubhouse offers a vital lifeline through what we call therapy by doing. Members engage in meaningful tasks that support the clubhouse operations, fostering relationships, and rediscovering purpose through peer support. Sadly, the prevalence of brain injuries isn't decreasing. The long-term effects are severe, and as McKinney grows, so does the number of residents living with ABI. Our program provides a unique, free recovery support system. The only brain injury clubhouse program in Texas. In 2024, we expanded our capacity by opening our Fort Worth Clubhouse to five days a week. We also recently earned accreditation from Carf International, demonstrating our commitment to quality. Bind is the key post rehab resource in North Texas. Annually, approximately 10% of our members are McKinney residents. They actively contribute by volunteering in the work order day by participating in outreach and advocacy, supporting the medical community through support groups and speaking engagements, and giving back to other McKinney nonprofits like Mission Reagan. This year we are also focusing on engaging the veteran community affected by brain injuries. The $23,715 we requested will directly support the eight current and kidney residents five under the grant, helping to fund the dedicated staff who make our program possible, including partial salaries for our program director, Plano program director, Unit Coordinator, Executive Director, and Development Director. To illustrate the impact of your support, I want to share the story of a former buying member. Imagine a vibrant 28-year-old living in Chicago, a successful office manager and marathon runner, suddenly silenced and unable to walk following a massive stroke. Her rehabilitation journey led her to Texas and eventually to bind. They're surrounded by understanding peers. She rebuilt her confidence and skills. She helped other share their stories by publishing a book, leads a Spanish support group, and became a co-host of our member run podcast bindways. 15 months ago, she took a courageous step in return to school and is now ready to apply to speech therapy programs. Her success and the success of other McKinney residents like her was significantly impacted by your continued financial support of bind. Thank you for this opportunity and for your continued support. Great. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions? questions, follow-ups? I'm Tammy, how many people you have on staff? We have three in programs and then a development and a development director and an executive director. And then we separate from the grant we have two staff and four worth. So that's not under the grant that we applied for. So the ones that are on the grant is up by? Yes. Actually four. One of them is hired under a completely different grant. Thank you. Anybody else? Great. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Great. Thank you. The next organization is the Boys and Girls Club of Collin County, the program Academic Success. Hello again. Good evening. My name is Shawn Willes and I have the honor of serving as the CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of Colin County. I'm presenting today on behalf of Boys and Girls Clubs with the requested support our academic success program. Boys and Girls Clubs of Colin County has been a valuable resource in the McKinney community since 1969. In fact, our first club was the McKinney club and it's still there located in the French Park area right across the street from French Park. Our mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Our service model is afterschool programming and summer camp for ages, youth ages five through 18. We operate on the school year calendar, which means our afterschool programs run August through May from 2.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. In our summer camps, which we're preparing for now, they run June and July for eight weeks. 730 am to 6 pm also Monday through Friday. In our summer camps, which we're preparing for now, they run June and July for eight weeks. 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. also Monday through Friday. Our programs are based on the nationally accredited programs which are designed by boys and girls clubs of America under the pillars of academic success, healthy lifestyles, sports and recreation, character and leadership and workforce readiness. We currently operate in 13 sites across Cullen County, picking up from over 50 schools across the county and bringing the youth back to one of our standard loan clubs in Plano, Frisco, and McKinney. Each of these locations have both a traditional club for the K through 8th grade as well as a teen center. In addition to our standard loan clubs, we provide after school programming as six elementary schools in Princeton and one middle school as well as within three middle schools in Plano. Today I'm requesting funds to support our academic success program which is designed with the ultimate goal of ensuring that our club members graduate from high school on time ready for post-secondary education and a 21st century career. This strategy is based on research demonstrating students do much better when they are involved during their non-school hours involved in fund academically beneficial activities. For these reasons, our academic success programs include Power Hour, which is an hour dedicated solely for homework assistance or if a child doesn't have homework it is an educational activity. We also provide individualized tutoring and partnership with Sylvan Learning Center, group tutoring, STEM programming, eSports, robotics, many matters and diplomas to degrees. Those who just a few of the programs in our academic success. In addition to the program, our McKinney branch provides one hot meal and a snack to every child who comes through our doors. We provide assistance that includes after-school transportation to the club at no additional cost to the parents or the families. Our goal is to serve all youth no matter their race, age, financial situation, or zip code. So no child is ever turned away as we offer scholarships for our families. In fact, in this past March, our McKinney branch had 30 youth who were on full scholarship and seven who were on partial scholarship with equates to $3,350 which we did not receive from those families but we still provided those programs. In 2024, our McKinney Club had a total of 463 registered members and we anticipate 470 this year for academic success. Thank you so much. Could you repeat those last numbers? Okay, in 2024 our McKinney Club had 463 register club members. This year we are anticipating 470 registered members. And this is only through the academic success. This doesn't include the summer programs. Thank you. It won't have any more questions or follow-ups. Yes, I do. Hi, Ms. Wallace, my name is Nick Dangerfield. The funds that you're requesting today will go towards just the success program, right? More McKinney. Yes, this is, yes. Okay. Academic success program in McKinney. So it includes program supplies, our transportation, picking the kids up, field trips, our education director, branch director, anything related to executing the academic success program at the McKinney branch. It also helps to cover those scholarships that I talked about, those kids and families who aren't able to pay anything. Okay, and those ages are grades range from... K through 12. K through 12? Yes. Okay. Okay. I heard you say earlier K through eighth and then teenage. So, okay. And I'm sorry for Miss Under Sandy, but if go to the McKinney branch, you'll see the main building, which is K through eighth. And then there's a separate teen center, which is connected, but it's a totally different building because we don't want to mix the teen programming with the elementary middle school. So it's for all of the kids but I was just trying to separate that. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification. Anybody else? All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. The next organization that we have is Caffe Charities of Dallas Incorporated, the Program Community Health Center. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to present in front. I'm Steve Worm. I'm the Director of Health Management Services for Catholic Charities, which part of is the Community Health Clinic. To start off with the Community Health Clinic has been in McKinney for 21 years. Two years ago, April 2023, we partnered and created a strategic alliance with Catholic Charities, allowing us the opportunity to have more resources to help the patients and individuals in our community that need help and since then some great things have taken place. We serve individuals, families, low income, uninsured, providing quality health care. 85% of our patients suffer with chronic illness. So imagine having a chronic illness, low income, no insurance. We do not charge anything. Our patients do have an opportunity to pay $20 if they want as a contribution to the clinic. Recently as a partnership with catheteris, we've have grown and a kind of focus on that. A month ago, the need has continued to grow. The health care disparity out there is challenging. There is the need is probably larger than what we can even handle. In April, we took our clinic from and expanded our days and hours were open from 830 to 430. We have two paid nurse practitioners who see a patient's and then were supplemented by between 15 and 20 volunteer medical professionals. We are very fortunate we have about three or four specialty doctors, our patients have access to. For example, a rheumatologist, we have a GI, we have a cardiologist, and then we have some internal doctors that come provider. We also are supplemented by volunteer RNs and nurses that help out in a great team of volunteer in our office area. So when our patients come in here they're getting a lot. Not only get to see our average patients come in to see a medical provider three times a year. Some four, we have partnerships and work with all the hospitals here. We're probably one of the key contacts when a patient needs to be released from the emergency room. They have no insurance, they have no money, but they need to have a provider. We're able to now with our expansion of our hours in that. We can see that patient within two to three days, or before we had a challenge of getting them in. Usually if you're out of the emergency room, you want to be able to see your provider within seven days. We also offer a women's health. We've created a partnership with Monk Reef out of Fort Worth. We're able to bring the mobile midi van here in McKinney and provide milligrams for our females. We're able to expand our women's health program, which again is a big need out there. Our patients have the opportunity for free medications. We have a prescription assistance program. We work with St. Vincent de Baal, which is free. Medications actually either delivered to our office or to the home. We know our patients have challenges struggling. Funding here is to really to continue to support our nurse practitioners and our expanded hours in there to can we're over 400 some patients right here in McKinney area. Thank you so much. Do you have any questions or follow-ups? You mentioned over 400 patients here in McKinney. Do you have any, I'm saying more specific, but more, McKinney specific numbers. Yeah, so you're looking at over 30% of that here is in 75069. You meant, I'm sorry. Go ahead. You mentioned three to four times a year. So are those four of your patients you're seeing them multiple times a year? Yes. If you have a chronic condition, typically you're going to become in three, four times. Our patients, because of the demographics, really struggle to be able to maintain their health. We're there to help them educate how to become healthy, how to use your medicine, and how to take care of your chronic condition. So typically you're coming in three times a year. We also provide the counseling that's available for our patients and obviously that is something that continues to increase I'm so this can be out on Where's your location? We are right now in the professional building right next to a medical city McKinney hospital Right up 75 and 121 or as you approach into five coming into the city here. Anybody else? Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate time. The next organization that we have is Common Good Medical. The program is primarily, excuse me, primary health care for LMI residents, the LMI stands for low to moderate income. Good evening commissioners and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Daniel Moreno and I'm the director of development at Common Good Medical. Common Good Medical, formerly Hope Clinic McKinney, is a nonprofit clinic based right here in McKinney that provides free, high quality medical vision and mental health care to uninsured adults across Cullen County. Our mission is to share the love of the Christ by offering compassionate care to those who would go otherwise go without. Every day, we served neighbors who fall into the Medicaid gap. People who work hard was still kind of for insurance. In fact, before coming to us, 63% of our patients weren't receiving any treatment. Recently, one of our patients finished her appointment and as she was checking out, we asked how it went. She smiled and she said, it was good. Very good. I didn't think I could feel like this again. I've been battling depression and that given up and I thought this was just how life was supposed to be. I stopped trying and then I found you. It's so wonderful. The only thing bothering me today is a cold. That's what sets us apart. We don't just treat symptoms, we just store hope. We're not just a clinic, we're a community-wide care network. This grant would help us cover 97 appointments for McKinney residents, funding the provider portion for each visit. Our per appointment cost is $260, and that includes provider time, lab work, medication access, and patient follow-up. The $10,000 we requested would fund the provider portion calculated at $103.50. That means 97 chances to prevent an ER visit, stabilize a chronic illness, or even save life right here in McKinney. We're located just off downtown square within walking distance for many of the residents we serve. Last year we provided 4,200 visits to nearly 1,000 patients. More than 800 of whom live right here in McKinney. We're projecting over 5,300 visits in 2025. We verify income, we track patient outcomes, report quarterly to our board, and we're building long-term sustainability through volunteerism, a growing referral network, and a planned social enterprise and a thrift store that will reduce our need on grant funding. Our dependence on grant funding. We're not asking for the City of McKinney to fund our entire operation. We're asking you to come alongside it, to invest in a model of care that is creative, that is collaborative, and deeply sustainable. We're not just filling a gap, we're building a bridge to a better health for McKinney. We're here for your residence, and we would be honored to see you as a resource that makes your city stronger. Great, thank you. It wouldn't have any questions or follow-up. I have a question. How many times can they come to your facility? On average, we see our patients four and a half times a year. And we do not require any sort of clientele fee. But in fact, our patients give on average about $20 to donate towards another patient's care. And so that is not required. And so that we will never turn any way because if they can't afford to pay for it, visit. Hi, my name is Nick Dangerfeld. I'm just curious how does the community, those ones that live in the community know about your organization? That's a really great question. A great tool is a Google Ads grant. And in fact, we have a marketing agency that works alongside us. And we build targeted ads to reach the communities that we serve, and specifically in 75069, as well as East Plano, and as well as the community in Farmersville, where we have our second clinic that is open. So that's one way. We also, we do not believe in any enemies. And our goal is to build relationships with any community partner that we can. Because the reality is, and as I think everyone would hear at a test, the individuals that we serve, oftentimes are not just facing one issue. So the more people that know about us, the better. In the 2024, how many patients did you see? Did you have those? That's a great question. 992 unduplicated patients in last year. Thank you. Sir. Okay. many patients usually do you have a question we had 992 unduplicated patients in last year thank you hi Barbara Kelly one quick question for you and how long have you all been in operation we were founded in 2016 but we saw our first patient in 2017 okay and how is we have the experience growth over time is I'm sure word of mouth must be your number one so we. So we have seen a 20 to 30% increase year over year in patient visits and that we are at the moment where we are experiencing incredible growth and not on the precipice of even further growth just because there is such a great need in our community. Thank you. Question, how many medical professionals do you have on staff? That's a great question. And I'll answer that twofold. We are a staff-led volunteer-supported organization. And so on staff, we have a ER doctor that is our medical director. We have two nurse practitioners. We have an RN and we have a medical assistant, or also hiring for another CMA, as well as a certified nurse assistant. And so, and then on top of that, we have a plethora of volunteers that come alongside us. In fact, last year we had 124 volunteers that provided us over 4800 hours of volunteer service. And that is a mixture of both medical professional as well as support. and then we have also instituted within the last few years a new referral network that we call the Common Good Network. This is a way for us to provide care for our patients beyond our walls and so we currently have 46 providers ranging from an OBGYN to an ultrasound, a provider that helps us provide ultrasounds. We have six dentists that recently just jumped on board, which we're so excited about. And we have quite a few others that make up that list. Thank you, sir. Great. Thank you so much. Next we have the organization community food pantry talking about two applications, which includes the food pantry operation staff, which allows the food pantryantry to run, and then they have another application that will take place regarding building infrastructure. Prior to their participation, all agencies that submitted applications are required to submit a report for allowance of review for a conflict of interest. We have found one conflict of interest with one of the members of our community grants advisory commission. Therefore, they will not be allowed to be in the area while the two proposals are being presented. So we will ask that member to state their name first before they take their exit. Andrea Harvey Rogers. Thank you very much. You will be able to wait in our lovely lobby. And then we will contact you at the time when everything is completed. Thank you. Organization may step forward. Good evening. My name is Melody Crill and I'm proud to serve as the executive director of the community food pantry of McKinney. We have been serving McKinney for nearly five decades and are honored to be the oldest food pantry in the city. Tonight I'm here to request a grant of $47,776 to help cover critical operational expenses, including support for our operations manager and assistant operations manager and $3,000 to wrap our pantry van. These two staff positions are essential to the daily success of our pantry, which is led by an incredible army of dedicated volunteers. Together we serve our neighbors with compassion and respect. We call them by name. We welcome every person with open arms and without judgment. We provide hope and never let anyone feel embarrassed about their situation. Our operations manager oversees more than 30 volunteers every day, Monday through Wednesday from 9 to 4 p.m., Thursdays from until 7 p.m. and Fridays until 1 p.m. She ensures ourselves, refrigerators and freezers are fully stocked by coordinating daily tasks, unloading pallets from our grocery store partners and the North Texas Food Bank and organizing food drives. She also manages our volunteer McKinney account to ensure we have enough support. Handles our main pantry email, verifies court ordered service hours, attends networking events and oversees the volunteer who managers are in take position and 32 person waiting room. Ensuring the process is smooth and efficient for every neighbor who walks through our doors. Our assistant operations manager is led, is our lead driver for retail pickups. He supports floor operations, assist with all the heavy lifting, and supervises the volunteer bagging area. 43% of the food we distribute comes directly from our retail partners, and 27% of the food we distribute is fresh produce the number of people who are in the community. The number of people who are in the community is the number of people who are in the community. The number of people who are in the community is the number of people who are in the community. The number of people who are in the community is the number of people who are in the community. The pantry van with vibrant images of fruits and veggies along with the QR code linking to volunteer opportunities, contact information, social media, and ways to get involved. It will also include a note of thanks to North Texas Food Bank and our grocery store partners. According to the North Texas Food Bank, we are the largest client choice pantry in McKinney, making the greatest impact in our community. This grant will ensure we continue meeting growing needs with heart, efficiency, and dignity. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Great, thank you. See, we don't have any questions. Oh, Nick, that you feel. Miss feel Miss the Crow? Yes. Could you repeat the number of citizens that you're helping the day? It ranges from 600 to 800 a day. And they get to come shop once a week. I made that change because it was every other week and it just wasn't enough. I prefer Kelly that's what I was going to ask about frequency but also I assume you welcome anyone regardless of whether or not they live in McKinney is that correct so we serve about 63% of McKinney residents but they have to be in McKinney or the surrounding areas. Yes Yes, yes, man.. I'm so ashamed. How do you keep track of the McKinney residents? Well, we have a program we use from North Texas Food Bank, so it keeps track of everyone as we check them in. And we do follow North Texas Food Bank income guidelines, but if somebody is in a crisis situation, we don't turn anyone away. Yeah, it's hard today. Okay, any other questions? All right. Thank you, on to the next one. Okay, here we go. My name is Melody Krillin. I'm the executive director of the community food pantry of McKinney. For nearly five decades, we have stood as a pillar in this community, serving our neighbors with compassion, dignity, and hope. Today I'm here to request a $500,000 infrastructure grant that we are calling making room for more. This funding would allow us to expand our physical space and grow with the overwhelming need we are seeing every day. We are seeking support for three critical areas. A much needed expansion of our waiting room, the addition of 15 to 20 new parking spaces on land we already own in the back of our building, and the construction of a 2,000 square foot climate controlled warehouse with a walk and freezer and electric pallet lift. Our current waiting room only holds 32 chairs yet our neighbors begin lining up for help hours before we open. Often standing for long periods of time without shelter or seating and in inclement weather. We want to enclose our current patio which already has cement, flooring and electricity so we can expand our waiting area significantly. This renovation would include heating, cooling, new walls, and space for two private cubicles, one for intake and one for our onsite SNAP representative. This will provide a more private and dignified experience, allowing us to better understand and meet the needs of our neighbors with respect and confidentiality. Right now our check-in process isn't a big waiting room and it's in front of everyone so there's no privacy to really coach them and help them and provide those resources that they might need. Right now the patio is open air surrounded by a gated fence to transform it will need to build around it and move one wall to make an extension of our current waiting room. Parking has become another major barrier. We currently have only 14 spots, including just two for handy cap to access. This shortage pushes overflow into neighboring businesses, some of which have threatened to tow our client's vehicles. The good news is we own the property behind our building, and we have room to add 15 to 20 additional spaces, easing traffic and improving safety and accessibility. Lastly, our existing stock room is far too small. It can't even fit a pallet jack, making unloading deliveries extremely difficult. We often don't have enough room to store all the food we receive limiting our ability to serve efficiently. A new climate control 2000 square foot warehouse with a walk-in freezer and electric pallet lift will allow us to receive store and distribute food more effectively as our numbers continue to grow. And those numbers are staggering. In January 2024, we were serving about 100 individuals a month. Today we are serving anywhere from 600 to 800 individuals every single day. And over 10,000 people every month. According to the North Texas Food Bank, we are now the largest client choice pantry, making the biggest impact in McKinney. Help us with this expansion so we can continue our mission. So, right on time, I practice. So, I just want to say like today, every Wednesday, we get North Texas food bank deliveries. We had 12,000 pounds of food. And I'm not just the executive director that sits behind a desk. I'm out there unloading pallets when they need me. So that's all I'd like to say. Thank you for your consideration. Oh. Great. Thank you. I have at least one quick question. Do you have roughly how much like the waiting room, the parking lot and the warehouse construction costs just kind of break down just the whole part of it? So it's going to be about 100,000 for the parking lot. And it will be about 80,000 for the waiting room. And then everything else we just kind of three together. Any other questions? Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. I have one last question. Yes, Ms. Barbrigan. Where are you located? We're at 307 Smith Street, right across the street, practically. That's right. I live on church. Oh, you often come for a tour anytime. And I'm Tammy Chew. I have one question. You said in January of 2024, how many you were serving? A hundred individuals a day. A day? I started that month And then... It made some changes. And now you're serving. 600 to 800 a day. Yes. We tired. And we're busting up the seams and I've outgrown it.grown it. Yes, it's a lot. Thank you. Perfect, anyone else? Nope, awesome, thank you. Thank you. Before we begin, again, we will have our person who had to make an due to conflict of good interest to come back and take receipt. No rush. Not just you. You're good. Okay. All right. The next organization that we have is Community Lifeline Center with two proposals. First proposal is the Food Program, second proposal, one month away program. Good evening everyone and thank you so much for the opportunity. My name is Wendy McMullan. I'm with Community Lifeline Center, fairly new to the organization just joined in December. And I helped run the pantry and also assisted with writing these grants. So be gentle. For those of you not familiar with CLC, we've been around since 1989, serving neighbors in McKinney and the surrounding communities. We do so in three ways. We do food assistance. We provide short-term financial assistance and we also do extensive referrals to other organizations if we find that we can't assist that individual directly. So our first grant proposal for this evening is for our food program and that runs primarily out of our food pantry and Waddle Street. So we actually have the two pantries very close to each other right in the midst of the food desert here in McKinney. And that has evolved very rapidly a couple of years ago. That was a box of food that got handed to clients through a window. And it expanded to they could actually choose what was in the box to the very first kind of grocery store-style food pantry and actually just as of yesterday we doubled our shopping space of our ribbon cutting with a very generous grant from Albert Sins. They gave us some of their refrigerators and freezers and some shelving. So the need is immense as Melody was just saying and so we could probably have a dozen food pantries and mechanics still not have enough. We went from about 25,000 people that we served over the course of the year in 2022 that doubled to 23, doubled again to 24 to over 100,000 people. And we're seeing so far this year it's continuing to trend upwards just doesn't stop. The clients come to shop at our food pantry. If they have not registered with us before they go through a brief intake process, they do need to meet some basic requirements, although we don't turn anyone away. If they don't qualify to shop in our grocery store, we actually will give them a dry box of food and refer them to another food pantry. But we use the North Texas Food Bank system as well. So someone needs to either participate in a program like Snap or Wick or even Social Security or Medicare to shop with us, have income below a certain threshold for their family size or be experiencing an emergency like a sudden job loss or unexpected bill. They then register for us. They may shop with us once a week and go through our food pantry and choose exactly what they want off of the shelves. They can take things that their family will actually eat. And what we're asking for in terms of funding is to actually help fund another person in the pantry. Yet we're all in the same position of unloading those palettes when the NTFB dotations come in. And while NTFB does consider us in extended hours pantry, we'd like to do even better. And so what we'd like to do is bring another person in to help manage the pantry and to help us do more extended hours to permit our McKinney neighbors to come by after they've picked up their kids from school or returned home from work. As of last year, this is the grant year, unduplicated McKinney households just over 5,000 and we anticipate that to be 11,500 for this coming year. Great, thank you. Could you repeat those last numbers? Yes, of course. Yeah, right at the bell, of course. For the current grant year, we're so far we've done 5,000, I'm sorry, 5,751, unduplicated, and that's households, that's not individuals. So if you multiply by people in those households, it gets a lot bigger. And then for the next grant year, 11,500. It's double. All right. Yes. Great. Anyone questions or follow-ups? Awesome. Thank you. On to your next one. My next one. Okay. So our other grant proposal is for our one month away program. We are one of very few organizations within Colin County that will provide short term financial support for people who are otherwise at risk of having their utilities shut off or lose their home, not be able to pay their rent. So all community outreach spoke earlier, they're one of them, we're one of the others. We cannot even come close to meeting the need. We are each month able to do, you know, 60 to 70 households so far this year in McKinney series, I shouple my numbers around. We did 175 in McKinney so far this year, this grant year. We get 200 applications a month from people who need assistance or in a day-d job having their lights go out or get kicked out of their homes. So they apply to us online. We have an online application that is open 24-7. They can go in and fill out that information. We do ask them to provide documentation proving that this is truly a short term situation. So they need to show that income is going to be coming in, that be able to meet that need on a long-term basis. If it is going to be something long-term, we'll actually refer them to another provider. We actually have one of the, one of just five people in all of County and Cal and County that can enter people into that, into the CAS system. So actually get them into the pipeline for longer term assistance for housing. But if we can help them out then we'll make sure that they're not getting duplicate coverage from another organization. We'll ask to get their actual bill from their utility or their register from their from their landlord. We'll make sure that there is another money coming in from another from another source will make sure that they can meet that need on an ongoing basis and we can actually work with that person once every 12 to 18 months if they do have another emergency arise in the future. As I mentioned so far this grant year for McKinney we've served 175 unduplicated McKinney households. We project that for the coming grant year that'll be 550. The majority of the grant the funds that we're requesting would go directly to our neighbors. So the largest proportion of what we're requesting would go directly to those grants and we have a limit of a thousand dollars with them also paying into that. So they've got some some skin in the game as well. But the average is about 500 when you consider whether it's utilities or rent average for person is about 500 dollars. That time. You're good. You're good. And we have any questions to follow up. Hi, Barbara Kelly. Just one quick question. What does short term look like? Is that like three months? Yeah, it's we do a one a one-time payment, so it is it is extremely short term. I see. Mm-hmm. Great. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, sorry, go ahead. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah any other Campbell. All those residents are here in McKinney. Is that correct? Those numbers that I just quoted are exclusively McKinney correct. And we work, we'll work with anyone who will work with us in terms of housing. As you might imagine some of the lower income kind of targeted complexes are the ones that we will work with most frequently, but any landlord, Lord who's willing to work with us will do that. We also get grant funds directly from a number of utilities, including the City of McKinney Water District, that can actually be used to defray costs for those particular customers for specific utilities. Wonderful. Thank you so much. My pleasure. Thank you so much. My pleasure. Thank you so much. At this time we have the organization CAFA known as Court Appointed Special Advocates of Colin County. On the Community Grants Advisory Commission we do have one person who is, who has a potential or actual conflict of interest, and is also the chair. So I need you to stay your name. Aaron Schmetz, your cues in myself. We will give Aaron time to leave the room. Our co-chair, and with a few wood state, your name, Tammy Chiu will had to put the code on. I was trying to look professional but then I started getting cold. But good evening. My name is Jessica Dunn and I'm the chief philanthropy officer for Coss of Collin County. And Coss of Collin County, Coss of Stann- but then I start getting cold. But good evening. I see you're right. I'm like, oh, so my name is Jessica Dunn, and I'm the chief philanthropy officer for Casa of Collin County. And Casa of Collin County, Casa stands for Quarter Point and Special Advocates. And what that means is when a child is removed from their home due to abuse and neglect, they are then placed in the Collin County courts, and we are assigned as the guardian ad-lite them. And so that means that our advocates that we train are then the main person to work with these children through the duration of their case, which could be 12 to 18 months. So just alone in last year, we served 85 children just for McKinney. And so overall, we served 316 unduplicated children that were removed from their homes due to horrific things of abuse and neglect. And so once they do that, our advocates that we train are then walking with them through the duration of it, of their case, as I mentioned. So they are beating with every single person that touched that child's life. They are going to every family member. They're going to the schools, the doctors, the therapists, and everyone to get a good overall picture of what's the life of this child and what is the best case scenario for them. And then they go to the courts and they give their neutral representation to say, this is what the best interest for the child, this is what we recommend. So our grant, we're humbly asking for $55,000 to be able to provide funding for salaries for our volunteer coordinators. Our volunteer coordinators are staff members that are social workers and are trained counselors and they work with our advocates. So our advocates are volunteers, but they go through up to 40 hours of training just to be certified. They go through FBI background checking. They go through all the different standards to be checked because they're things that they're dealing with. We don't want them to be re-traumatized and we don't want them re-traumatizing those children. And so these coordinators work with them so they're going to the home visits. They're going to the court cases and doing all these things. So we anticipate with the growth of Colin County, unfortunately being one of the fastest growing counties in the country, which are like, yay, great. But no, all the other things that you hear from our other partner agencies, the food insecurities, the insecurities of income, the food deserts, all these things, those affect our families, and sadly that freckles down to the children. And it trickles down to those abuse and neglect and the children that don't have the clothing for schools and things like that. And so that's where we serve, and we're the only organization that does that. And so we've been serving, we're right here on the downtown historic square. We've been serving for 34 years. We've served over 13,000 kids in that time. And we're like most of the nonprofits here, we wish we didn't exist. We want ourselves to be out of business. And so when our founders, we're not founders, but the people who have said there's not a costy here in Colin County, they decided to make our office here in McKinney because they said it was the heart of Colin County. And so when they started trying to get the judges and cities and everybody involved with it and when kept saying, no, that doesn't happen here, that doesn't happen here. And here we are. And I will say we went, met with another city a couple of weeks ago and their mayor themselves said that doesn't happen here and we had to tell them no there's 13 children that were removed from your city because of horrific things and recently just last year in March 2024 the Save Texas privatized CPS. And they also changed the definition of neglect. To where as before if you walked into saw a child and you said oh my gosh let's remove them let's reassess the situation see what we need to do. Now is if you cannot at that immediate moment prove that they're an imminent danger of death you have to leave that child. So while we serve those children, they're more horrific cases where they're being left in situations where it should have never happened. So thank you. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Oh yeah. So we're just saying that it's even more. So now the cases, so we are volunteers. We had 188 volunteers last year that served in these cases and they drove over 156,000 miles. Because now we're the privatization, they can send children anywhere all over the country. So that could be where they're separating children and families and they could be in upstate New York at one foster home. They could be in South Texas at another one and our volunteers have to put eyes on the child once a month and talk to them weekly. So we're covering the cost for them to be able to travel because we want to make sure It's the best case situation for these children. Sorry. Okay. Bonnie, thank you. I don't think you have any questions. I do. Andrea Harvey Rogers. You said this grant was for salary for volunteer coordinators. How many volunteer coordinators do you have? Yes. So we have eight. Yes. Any other questions? No, thank you. Thank you for the consideration for the opportunity. We will give time for our chairperson to return before we move forward. Do you need to state also for record that with all of the organizations or city programs that are in participation under this process, they are not required to make presentations, they were only required for applications. If there is an organization that is not present during the time of these hearings, we will continue to move forward with the next process, and they are not penalized for this process. In manual labor is the next organization, Meow's forming station program. Moving to the next organization, family gateway, diversion program and sheltered families. We have representatives. Family promise of Collin County emergency rental utility assistance program. This is not planned. I do believe we had one person that had to step away so so they may be representative. And if they are returning back to this location, they will move to the very end of the presentation. There's so much to talk about. May you tell you which organization you're with? Housing sector. Okay. okay. Okay. You're good, not bad. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. The next organization that we have is Hope Restored Mission. The program is bridge to hope program. Hi, I'm Tamara Monroe, I'm found in CEO for Hope Restored Mission. I am here tonight to present to you our case for $80,000 for two case managers, the resources that we provide for the bridge to hope. And our new initiative program rise. I hope our start mission was founded in 2019. We were based here out of McKinney. We have been doing outreach every since then. Then we found a location that was in Plano. We have been serving the Colin County area since then. Our numbers have increased. We're currently serving over 3000 individuals throughout the Metro Plates in Colin County. In 2024, we have served 183 of McKinney 2025. 25 20 is now on the projection of already 225 and the projection for 26 is 275 to 30300. Our numbers have been steadily increasing because we provide a holistic approach for individuals that are experienced in homelessness. And so our goal is to build meaningful relationships with them so that they are empowered to be able to get meaningful jobs, housing, food, clothing, and shelter. The biggest thing for us is that we want to make that. The type of homelessness that they're experiencing as far and in between. I'm kind of not feeling so well, so that's why Dr. Randall standing up here to help me. So thank you. So Melvin Randall, again, I'm the board chair for, for hope restored missions. The biggest thing for McKinney is, and I know she mentioned numbers relatively quickly. So of the 3248 that we served in 2024, again, 225 were anticipated based on the fiscal year, kind of a little overlap our calendar year. We anticipated 275 as you'll see in the grant, but because of some of the economic factors that are going on now, the agreements we're making with Collin County Jail with the RISE program program. We're gonna see that increase to probably around 300 to 325 for 2025 to be 26 and that's generally because basically as they're coming out of the incarceration Manifact we had three last night that came to hope restored again didn't have anything to do Again, we gave him food give him a place to stay give a bus pass just kind of get him on their way for the night They'll come back today to the building even though we're here just kind of work through onboarding and so on. The biggest thing we're trying to do is make sure that although we don't have a physical presence. just kind of get them on their way for the night. They'll come back today to the building, even though we're here, just kind of work through onboarding and so on. The biggest thing we're trying to do is make sure that although we don't have a physical presence in a building because we are in Plano, we have worked with the city of McKinney to try to find some of the unused city facilities to try and build that presence back been a plumb in McKinney. We do service again every major county in the area, all 12 major counties of Dallas, Quilworth, Metroplex, and of course the four major ones. We provide not only service perhaps... We do service again every major county in the area, all 12 major counties of Dallas, Fort Worth, Metroplex, and of course the four major ones. We provide not only service for housing but the Ancillary Services for Holistic Approach. So in order for me to get an apartment or a home, I need an ID or a job in order to get that, I have to have a driver's license or birth certificate in order to have a social security number. It's a ripple effect that gets to the point where I can actually be in someone's housing typically or even long term. So again, we intend to continue to plan. We also work with the ISDs, McKinney ISD importantly for the McKinney Vento Act. So as students are identified as homeless, they do contact Plano S and down a Plano, and either they PD will bring them down, or we will send someone someone up to McKinney or Plano or Allen to actually work with that family to get them emergency housing. We do have agreements with local hotels that get them in there for a transition of one to two weeks that helps them with the paperwork process for housing for and so on. So again we're looking for 80,000 it is actually for two individuals half of each so 30,000, rent, as well as 10,000 to help with the documents, which that's huge for the state of, not just Texas, but it's any state that they're from, getting, again, birth certificate, so security cards, anything for minor records. Great, thank you. Was there anything else you wanted to, no, sorry about that, okay. Anyone questions follow-ups? You say you work with McKinney ISD. I'm Tammy Chulner. Yes, ma'am. McKinney ISD. On average, how many students do you see? So McKinney, we're covered with region 10. So all of the areas, the Melissa, the Anna, all of them. So we normally get anywhere from 10 to 15. We are a resource center so we provide the clothes we provide the food we provide everything that they need to get to sustainability so we work with all the community the liaison and the schools. And while we do provide emergency housing during the interimperage I mentioned we do provide food and hygiene kids daily for not just a student but for the family unit. The whole family. What would you say your success rating terms of, you know, I think about that moment, but then also do you have to stay with the kid or, you know, I mean how does- So in order to do the continuum of care with the holistic approach, we walk with them through the process. One of the challenges that we face is that housing inventory is short. I'm grateful that McKinney is getting more developments out here. So a lot of times the family do not want to go to where housing is available. So we still work with them until we can procure them sustainability. So we also meet them in the hotels. Our case managers do street outreach. We are constantly here in mechanic with community life community garden kitchen in manual labor. We are partnered with them to build those relationships and collaborative efforts with all of those that are supposed to. And so for the students to your point, for the students, it's 100%. So again, we get them into a transition where all the districts are back in the school immediately. Now, as far as that point, we get them registered into the housing forward system. I mean, that again, as their system, their process, their housing partners, and so on. as far as getting them back into school immediately. Anyone that comes to us is back in the school within that week. Thank you. their process, their housing partners and so on. But as far as getting them back into school immediately, anyone that comes to us is back in the school within that week. Thank you. So let me, Nick Dangerfield, let me clarify something. I say students, your hope restorative is just not for students or is it just for students? No, no, no, that's just a segment. That's just a segment. Okay. When we work with students, it's through the McKinney Vento Act. And the ISDs will reach out to us. I think you tell that family unit. So we also utilize it from zero to 65 plus. We work with anyone. Yes. Everybody. Everybody. Thank you. Hi, Andrea Harvey Rogers. I have one more question. You said that 80,000 for two case managers, are those existing case managers we want to continue are you adding more case managers? So we had one case manager that was covering it and the numbers have been increasing so much. So we're divided her load because we also put in, we need one that focused mainly on the families because there was so much individual homelessness that was being addressed. We need the families to have that same undivided attention that she was getting pulled everywhere. So look at the grant. 60,000. So it's 60,000, but it's split blocks to individuals. I sure. So it's basically increasing the bandwidth for those two individuals that exist. Yes. I'm interested. Thank you. Yeah. Just let me clarify one more thing. Nick, Daniel Phil, I thought when you first came up you said 80,000 is it 80,000 or 60,000? It's 80,000 total so it's 60, first came up, you said 80,000. Is it 80,000 or 60,000? It's 80,000 total. So it's 60,000 per staffing for two individuals, 30,000 a piece. It's 10,000 for rent, and then 10,000 for the vital records. Yeah. Because we have to pay another state program. For anything we do for the state, we've got to get those in pay for that. Got you. Yes. OK. Any more questions? Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. The next organization that we have is Hope Store New Beginning Center. The program is Domestic Violence Victism Services Program. All right. Good evening, everybody. I don't think that's going to work. Technology. Hi, I'm Christina. I am the CEO of Hope Sorting Beginning Center. I have the amazing privilege of walking alongside 68 individuals that make up the employees of our organization and part-time positions and full-time positions and what they do is provide services to domestic violence victims escaping abuse. Very simply put, that is what we do do that is what we have been doing for 40 years in calling county We are an organization that provides safety Advocacy education prevention services and I'm I'm jumping around a little bit But our ask of you is to support specifically our services and access points for victims of domestic violence for bikini residents. What does that look like? That access point might be for our 24-hour hotline. We answer or we're projected to probably on beyond point to answer over 10,000 calls this year. Many of those that are seeking to flee domestic violence and that's a whole another presentation that we do not have time for. But how do we quantify that on a hotline that answers so many calls? What we are hearing for those seeking shelter and with our limited bed capacity, which is 55 beds across two shelters, is are you fleeing what's your danger assessment? We use evidence-based tools and what we're listening for is trying to prevent all of us from reading a headline about a homicide in our community, because quite simply put, it's the most dangerous time for victims is when they are fleeing. And so when someone simply asks, what are we doing? We are helping, well, oxalic, and someone to be safer. That next right step to safer. How do we do that? We do that through the hotline. We do that through the shelter. We do that with counseling services that provide that extra healing component. We provide that advocacy and outreach along case management. I don't want to use too much lingo, but really what it means is what resources do we need to activate of community partners in this room? What community resources do we only have access to as a family violence organization in regards to safe pathways for criminal justice solutions, civil justice solutions because we're interacting with a lot of systems for that what might be defined as victim safety for that person but that is individualized right and so we we really work to what is that safety plan what is that empowerment plan what is that stability plan whether that's shelter for so many survivors in our community that might have other resources, shelter may not be it. That will be their last resort. They would be in their car coming to Hope restored missions waiting for that apartment, but that may never come. And then they call us at the middle of the night when the police have left and they have 24 hours to figure out that next right step. So we are asking for support of a specifically counseling position. We provide services to all McKinney residents through all of our program areas. So their dosage is dependent on what safer means to them quite simply. So that may be through shelter, that may be counseling, that may be through legal services. We serve a little over 1,800 individuals are projected to by the time of this end of fiscal year. And what does that look like for McKinney? I think in our grant, we've projected for 75 or budgeted. 75. Thank you. Yeah, it goes fast. Do you have any other specific McKinney numbers? I probably do, but since I didn't glance at my notes, I know. Let's see what I got here. I believe statistically speaking kind of year over year we're on trend typically that about 4% of our overall client population is usually the McKinney and that identified McKinney residents, meaning that that's what their ID, that's where they've identified that this is not their McKinney because they're homeless in McKinney, right? This is, you know, that we also serve McKinney residents and this was an interesting question that somebody asked me to, can you quantify it, not in this room, but somebody else asked me how many employees do you serve that work in McQuinnney but may you know live somewhere else and I thought that was an ancient question and I'm like I don't know if we have enough employee data all the time you know because that status changes for so many at least our client population whether that's they have no work status at the moment that they start services or changes, we're not necessarily catching up. But I know that that's a dynamic, right? We have volunteers from McKinney, we have corporation representation on our board, you know, those types of things. So there's probably a lot more intersections, but from a client's services, it's about 4%. Thank you. And how much are you? 30,000. 30,000. And that's full one. Yeah, I mean, obviously that's not quite the equivalent of a full time salary, but for easy math in your head, you know, it kind of goes to support what already exists. exists because listening to questions previously, what already exists is a counseling position. And when I say that, that's a licensed professional counselor or licensed marriage family therapist or a licensed clinical. And how many of you have on-site? Well, totality or clinicians. Clinicians eight. And wonderful interns that don't get paid. How many interns? We can usually manage about 20 clinical interns depending on where they're at in their degree program or in their degree program and or their post clinical hours. Thank you. Yes. Good question. Anybody else? Awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. The next organization is Housing Connector, the program Housing for All. I made it, guys. Thank you all so much for your time. I really appreciate it. And thanks for your patience. I know it's been a long day. My name is Van Parker and I'm the managing director of housing connector. Looking at me now, you probably wouldn't assume that homelessness is something that I've experienced, but I have. And my story is really not that unique. Because every day, there are people that are trying to find a home, but they're often turned down because they don't meet the strenuous application criteria like needing to make three times the rent, having a credit score above 650, and basically having a perfect rental history. And that's really a problem, because that criteria ultimately becomes a barrier that keeps people unhoused. At Housing Connector, we believe that no unit should sit vacant while there are people in need of a home. And so our solution is to connect people to properties that are willing to reduce their application criteria. So that way more people have a place to call home. In short, we show four profit property owners that they can do well financially while so doing good for our community. The people in our program are seniors, their teachers, their single parents, their veterans, and they all have the means to pay their rent. They just need someone to give them a chance. And thanks to our partnership with Zolo, they're able to find properties that are willing to give them that chance because they're able to easily see properties in real time and actually see that reduced application criteria right there in the listing. And Housing Connectors is the only platform where people are able to see that information. We partner with other social service groups across McKinney and across DFW including Hope Resort missions who's doing a great job and we appreciate it so much because we've only been in Dallas for about two years but in that time we've been able to double our triple our impact and we've housed over 500 people just last year alone and over 750 people year to up since being here in 2023. So I'm asking for $75,000 to allow us to expand our efforts to McKinney because everyone wants to live in McKinney but they don't have the opportunity and Justice Tamron mentioned there really is opportunity for housing here in McKin, but they don't have the opportunity. And Justice Tamron mentioned, there really is opportunity for housing here in McKinney, but people don't have the opportunity because they can't meet the qualifications. And that's where housing connector comes in. And short, I tell the property we're like a free insurance package for them. So they can feel more comfortable and feel confident accepting someone that has a less than perfect rental industry. So we know that the solution to this housing crisis is collaboration and so we're looking to expand our efforts so that everyone wins the resident, the community and property owners and housing is foundational to building strong successful communities. Thanks so much. Thank you. One quick question. What's I would say majority going to multi-family single-family what's your kind of your split that one? Yeah that's a great question. So right now it's majority going to single-family residents because there are more of those out as we get to the suburbs and we are seeing more families that want to live in McKinney. I would say primarily our focus has been on multi-family units, but again, as we expand to the suburbs, and we are working with more families, we are looking at more single-family rentals. Nick Dangerfield, I'm his Parker. So could you please explain to me one more time, you have someone who doesn't meet the criteria for an application. How does, connector, how do you, how do you help the homeowner? What's the, yeah, that's great question. So the way that housing connector works is we negotiate reduced application criteria with that homeowner. So that way someone that ultimately wouldn't meet their general criteria can now be approved for this unit. Once someone that we have referred, once they move into the property, if life happens and they're unable to pay their rent, that's when housing connector steps in. So we'll pay up to three months in emergency rental assistance for anyone that's in our program, and then we'll also pay up to $5,000 in damage, like mitigation or property damage for that resident as well. So that basically is why I say a free insurance package for the property. So they feel more inclined to work with someone that they might be a little bit nervous about accepting. Okay, that's a good problem. Thank you. So is there a prerequisite, if you will, or maybe a training class that your clients go through before you just place them into a resident unit. That's a great question. So at the moment, there isn't through housing connector, but that's why we partner with other community partners that are doing that work upfront. So they understand that their client tell and then help them get guided to the right path so that way financially they're ready to move into a home. So these funds that you're asking for, a setting 5,000, are they more going to the fund to help for the insurance if you got it? If somebody claims to follow claim if you will. You got it. That's exactly right. So partially would be for our four Full-time employees and then the other part would be to house up to 40 households right here in McKinney Okay, and I heard you say you help maybe like 500 clients last year what are you projected to do in 2025? We are looking to house a thousand, yeah. Okay. In just my last question, what is your claim rate, I would say for last, let me go back 2024. How much did you pay out in claims last year? Yeah, that's a great question. I would say the number that I know for sure on averages that we pay out $750 per person that is in our program. So I always like to bring that up because a lot of times people think the stigma of well if they have it they know it's there they're going to use it but a lot of times they don't they just need a little help and that's where we can step in and help them. Any other questions? Great. Thank you so much. This concludes the nonprofit organizations that are submitting applications for either our CDBG or CSG program. At this time I will be providing a summary of the activities that we have for this process. As this is the first night of the community grants advisory commission to be able to review programs including our federal funding as well as our city funding. We anticipated that we would receive notice of our federal funding tomorrow which would have been May 15th. We were fortunate that we received our funding notice today. So today I will still continue with the requirement of what we have, which is the process of a summary. So for our CDBG program, we have been allocated, proposed $907,326. These funds will assist low-to-moder income persons and includes several programs that are eligible for CDBG. I will be providing more detail in a presentation tomorrow. We also have city programs which includes lift, which is a landlord family tenant program and the emergency water utility assistance program. These programs are funded through our general fund and we will be able to provide you with more detail on tomorrow May 15th. Under CDBG we also have programs that are city administered which includes housing rehabilitation program for repairs, for low to mild income persons those persons, those are city-wide, availability based on income, and then our grant administration, which we are required to use 20% which is a statutory cap to be able to manage our CBG program. I will also share with you that we have an allocation of our program known as home. These are also federal funds. This will be the second year that we are receiving these funds. And the total amount of that funding is $345,211. And 31 cents. We are required to include it exactly in that detail. it has been posted, it will be posted in legal notices for future and it will also be included in our budget. I will be able to include tonight as I have provided you with the summaries. Tomorrow night we will review the process not only including these funds but also that we are in our program year to update our consolidated plan for the 2025-2029 program years. Including the organizations that are here. You will have the hard task of making determinations known as deliberations. Once we conclude all of these public hearings, then you'll have the opportunity and the public will be able to learn your determinations which are only recommendations of which you will be providing to our council for us to review by the city and approve in August and September. And that's the summary of this process. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. With that, we have the board and manager comments. Does anyone have anything they'd like to add? I do, Erin. Andrea, Harvey Rogers, I just want to make a comment for those that listen back or those that are still here. The community support of each other is incredible and so heartwarming. And thank you for all that you do every day to support each other. I mean, people in this room already knew each other because you're already working together with clients and that's what we like to see. So I just want to come in to you on that. So, I'm glad to be here. Well, so thank you. Good. Yeah. And I also echo what she just said. That was one thing that I really enjoy hearing is the collaborations and how you all are working together to help the community. So I really commend you for that. I commend you guys for doing that. second meeting and market market market., the more you collaborate, and work together, the more you can help within a company. So I think that's really wonderful. Thank you. Great. So with that, we just need a motion for a German for our second meeting out in parking lot apparently. Drea Harvey Roger. So we'll start one more point work. For state of record, we cannot discuss anything related to this public hearing. So there will be no public parking or any kind of parking. Discussing. Thank you. My apologies. I was sarcasm and joke. May not come through in a written transcript. Let me re-motion for not parking lot, but I will move to adjourn. Jira, hard to be right. We have a motion for adjournment. Do we have a second? A second. Tammy, two with a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. And you oppose, say nay. Wonderful motion carries. It is 759 PM on May 14th, 2025. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you.