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From YouTube: Board of Commissioners Meeting (April 21, 2015) Part 2
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B
Good
afternoon,
chairman
Gant
commissioners,
thank
you
for
this
awesome
opportunity
to
be
before
you
ego,
Market,
Streets,
Development
Corporation
is
an
economic
engine
that
develops
people,
property
and
businesses,
and
we're
here
today
asking
for
a
fifty-thousand-dollar
requests
for
our
workforce
development
program.
Block
by
block
industries
block
by
block
meets
the
county's
objective
for
job
creation
and
workforce
development.
The
things
I
would
most
like
you
to
know
about
blunt.
My
block
is
that
it
creates
great
jobs
such
as
CAD
design,
quality
management,
technical
operational
skills
and
leadership
development.
B
B
A
D
Commissioner
grant
commissioners,
thank
you
again
for
for
having
us
up
here.
Just
wanted
to
again
say
thank
you
for
the
helping.
The
constant
support
with
everything
plan
does
but
I,
don't
think,
there's
a
program
that
we
have
it
Evelyn
charities
that
we're
that
were
more
proud
if
it
has
more
of
an
impact
in
this
community,
both
with
lives
and
economic
impact.
D
A
lot
of
times
is
based
on
whether
or
not
they
have
to
go
to
work,
whether
or
not
they
have
the
right
clothes
to
wear
whether
or
not
they
even
have
a
pair
of
glasses,
and
that's
one
of
the
things
that
Evelyn
does
with
the
graduation
initiative
and
with
seeing
a
forty-nine
percent
reduction
in
dropout
rate
in
the
past
seven
years
is
just
phenomenal
and
again.
Thank
you
all
so
much
for
that.
Okay,
thank.
E
You
Bill
I,
won't
spend
time
talking
about
our
numerous
programs,
but
obviously
the
graduation
initiative
focuses
on
working
with
students
that
are
at
risk
of
dropping
out
of
school
and
we
do
whatever
it
takes
to
reach
those
students
and
their
families
and
work
with
them
and
help
them
reach
that
goal
of
graduation.
You
should
have
received
a
packet
of
information
for
your
purview
that
focuses
on
the
impact
of
your
investment
in
the
past,
the
impact
of
that
investment
on
our
community,
so
I
want
to
focus
on
that.
E
You
know
in
the
time
that's
left
in
terms
of
our
bukem
County
Schools,
four-year
cohort
graduation
rate,
and
that
includes
students
who
enter
as
ninth
graders
and
in
four
years,
complete
the
requirements
for
graduation
and
receive
a
diploma.
During
the
inception
of
the
graduation
initiative
program
and
funding
from
the
county
commissioners,
we've
seen
a
ten-point
increase
in
that
rate
from
73.4
to
the
83.2
that
we
realized
in
the
year,
2013
2014
as
bill
said
we're
very
proud
of
that
improvement
in
terms
of
actual
students.
E
If
you
look
at
the
next
chart,
it
points
out
that
in
2006-7
we
lost
452
students
in
bogan
County
as
a
result
of
dropping
out
of
school.
That's
a
hard
economic
impact
in
terms
of
negativity
for
bochum
County
during
the
term
and
the
work
of
the
graduation
initiative
program,
and
certainly
we
don't
do
this
alone,
but
I
do
think.
We
spearhead
the
the
effort
to
reduce
that
number
of
students
and
in
2014
2013
that
year
of
graduation,
we
saw
a
forty-nine
percent
decrease
down
to
two
hundred
and
twenty
nine
students.
E
That's
229,
two
students
too
many,
unfortunately,
because
of
our
success.
We
don't
often
qualify
for
those
large
corporate
grants
that
focus
on
communities
who
have
very
high
dropout
rates,
so
your
investment
and
the
grant
that
you
provide
allows
us
to
continue
to
work
toward
what
we
want
to
reach,
which
is
a
ninety
percent
graduation
rate
for
buckham
County
Schools.
Thank
you.
Thank.
A
F
Thank
you
all
so
much
for
having
us
here
today,
I'm
Kendra
Hamlin,
the
interim
executive
director
for
green
opportunities.
We
are
so
appreciative
of
all
the
vital
pass
and
continued
support
that
Buncombe
County
provides
us
which
allow
us
to
have
our
really
incredible
and
impactful
programs.
Buncombe
County
strengthens
quality
of
life
in
our
community
by
taking
fiscally
and
socially
responsible
actions
to
ensure
the
prosperity
of
future
generations
and
green
opportunities
shares
this
mission.
F
We
support
this
mission
by
helping
youth
and
adults
living
in
poverty,
get
and
keep
jobs
that
support
their
families
and
improve
community
and
environmental
health.
Specifically,
the
go
kitchen
ready.
Training
program
is
designed
to
prepare
low-income
unemployed
and
underemployed.
Buncombe
County
residents
for
jobs
in
local
restaurant
and
hospitality
industry.
G
Hello,
my
name
is
chef,
Liam
and
I
run
kitchen
ready
program.
I
want
to
repeat
the
gratitude
for
the
county
commissioners
for
their
time
today
in
their
continued
support
of
go
and
the
editon
center.
That's
our
permanent
location.
I
was
there
day
one
of
kitchen
ready
and
I'm
proud
to
stand
here,
two
and
a
half
years
later.
Currently
we
were
serving
61
people
a
year
in
training,
but
we
were
serving
hundreds
of
people
in
our
thriving
commercial
kitchen.
G
We
are
fifty
cents
over
our
projected
outcomes
of
graduate
wage,
getting
good
jobs
for
our
graduates
that
pay
10,
75
or
more.
We
have
our
first
two
graduates
enrolled
in
a
BTech
culinary
program.
We
have
the
strongest
curriculum
ever
including
a
life
skills
curriculum
and
chefs
tuesdays.
It
actually
brings
local
chefs
to
the
center
to
work
with
students
directly.
We
serve
lunch
daily
to
65,
to
80
people
or
more
and
many
of
which
do
not
have
access
to
healthy
food.
These
people
receive
free
meals
that
are
coerced
and
emphasized
nutrition
locally.
G
Produced
food
and
scratch-made
ingredients
and
all
the
money
generated
in
that
kitchen
goes
right
to
the
students
that
are
in
the
program.
We
have
placed
eighty
percent
of
our
last
class
and
jobs
and
they
got
those
jobs
because
they
knew
what
they
were
doing.
Kitchen
ready
is
working.
I,
really
believe
that
kitchen
ready
is
aligns
with
the
goals
of
the
county,
because
we
provide
robust
job
training
in
the
food
industry
that
is
exploding.
G
We
identify
or
reduce
barriers
to
helping
people
get
and
keep
jobs
that
they
deserve,
and
we
have
increased
the
availability
of
education
and
locally
produced
foods
to
low-income
individuals
by
creating
a
one-of-a-kind
kitchen
that
is
based
in
the
practices
of
community
service
and
integrity.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
H
Only
just
a
few
minutes,
my
name
is
Hernan
Shabazz
and
I
just
like
to
say
thank
you
for
all
the
help
that
you
have
given
us
and
for
those
of
you
have
who
have
come
to
our
kitchen
and
enjoyed
our
meals.
It
is
fantastic.
Our
kitchen
ready
program
is
provides
food
every
day
and
we'd
like
for
each
and
every
one
of
you
to
come
and
see
for
yourself
exactly
what
we
do.
H
A
J
A
K
Good
afternoon
and
thank
you-
my
name
is
Cindy
threlkeld
I'm,
the
executive
director
of
manna,
Food
Bank,
and
we
do
have
two
proposals
to
present
today.
One
is
on
food
distribution
and
the
second
is
for
our
FNS
food
stamp
outreach
program.
Both
of
these
programs
are
strategies
to
address
food
insecurity
in
Buncombe
County,
one
in
seven
people
in
the
county
live
in
a
household
where
they
don't
have
continuous
access
to
the
food
that
they
need
for
a
healthy
life.
K
Twenty-Five
percent
of
those,
our
children-
that
obviously
can
impact
both
their
attention
in
school,
and
it
can
also
create
permanent
cognitive
development
problems.
But
let
me
talk
first,
about
food
distribution
manner
works
through
a
network
of
110
organizations
to
distribute
food
throughout
the
county.
Many
of
those
are
names
that
you
would
recognize.
I
won't
mention
them,
because
I
think
you
received
a
handout
that
lists
those
for
you.
K
Last
year,
working
together
with
our
partners,
we
were
able
to
distribute
four
million
25,000
pounds
of
food
in
Buncombe
County
and
that's
the
equivalent
of
3.3
million
meals
for
people
in
that's
a
15-percent
increase
from
what
we
did
the
year
before.
Our
goal
is
not
just
to
distribute
more
food,
it's
to
distribute
more
healthy
food.
Seven
hundred
and
eighty
thousand
pounds
of
what
we
distributed
was
in
the
form
of
fresh
produce.
The
success
of
this
program
depends
on
collaboration.
K
We
have
over
7,000
volunteers
who
collectively
through
the
hours
they
contributed,
gave
the
equivalent
of
32
full
time
equivalents
last
year.
I
want
to
give
one
specific
example
of
collaboration.
That
I
really
think
is
quite
beautiful
and
that's
the
collaboration
that
we
have
with
the
Buncombe
County
Community
navigators.
It's
a
program
that
I
know
that
county
funds
and
supports-
and
it's
it's
the
reason
I
like
it
is
because
all
mana
has
to
do
is
provide
the
food.
K
The
community
navigators
come
to
mana,
they
select
the
produce
that
they
feel
is
going
to
go
best
in
their
neighborhood.
They
have
a
core
of
volunteers.
They
set
it
up
like
a
farmers
market
they
bring
in
outside
things
like
blood
pressure,
screening
and
other
services,
and
it
turns
that
community
into
a
health.
Fair.
K
That,
to
me,
I
think,
is
a
beautiful
example
of
what
collaboration
can
do
if
mannequins
strive
to
be
a
resource
to
the
community
by
procuring
as
much
food
as
we
possibly
can,
and
by
collaborating
with
organizations
like
that,
we
can
really
make
a
difference
in
our
community,
so
our
thirty
thousand
dollar
proposal
for
food
distribution
is
to
continue
and
expand
this
program.
Our
second
proposal
is
for
FNS
or
food
stamp
out
reach.
K
The
goal
of
this
work
is
to
assist
people
who
are
eligible
for
benefits,
but
who
may
either
have
barriers
to
being
able
to
apply
or
not
understand
that
they're
eligible?
If
we
can
make
that
connection
that
can
make
a
huge
difference
to
a
family
who's
struggling
to
get
by
in
a
low
pay,
job
or
part-time
work
or
who
may
not
be
able
to
find
employment
for
themselves.
K
Manickam
provide
the
support
man
I'm,
sorry
men.
It
cannot
provide
the
support
through
the
food
bank
to
fill
that
gap.
It's
just
not
possible
to
do
that
by
helping
people
get
onto
food
stamps
that
really
stretches
the
dollar
and
really
addresses
that
issue
of
food
insecurity.
Our
FNS
outreach
program
complements
the
work
of
the
Buncombe
County
Department
of
Social
Services,
and
we
work
in
very
close
relationship
with
them.
K
We're
able
to
send
outreach
workers
and
trained
volunteers
into
pantries
and
commune
organizations
and
meal
programs
locations,
or
they
can
come
into
contact
with
people
who
may
be
because
a
mountain
pride
or
because
they
don't
understand
the
application
process
or
reluctant
to
step
forward,
can
help
connect
them
to
the
services
that
they
really
urgently
need,
especially
if
they
have
children
in
the
household.
Those
completed
applications
then
go
to
the
Department
of
Social
Services
for
the
official
review
and
approval
process,
so
we're
working
in
conjunction
with,
rather
than
duplicating
what
they
do.
K
It's
going
to
be
a
great
help
to
seniors
with
mobility
problems
and
for
others
who
are
having
challenges
accessing
those
sorts
of
benefits
this
year.
With
the
help
of
the
requested
twenty
thousand
dollars
in
funds
from
Buncombe
County,
we
anticipate
that
mana
will
be
able
to
assist
1400
people
with
applications
for
benefits
that
they're
eligible
to
receive.
We
appreciate
your
consideration
of
both
of
our
proposals
and
for
your
support
last
year
for
the
food
distribution
program,
and
we
look
forward
to
our
continued
work
together.
Thank
you.
A
L
We
were
blessed
about
two
years
ago
to
receive
a
call
from
Vulcan,
County,
Health
and
Human
Services
to
go
through
training
with
Buncombe
County,
to
implement
making
proud
choices
to
youth
and
foster
care,
and
it
was
a
blessing
we
collaborate
with
the
HP
city
school
system
as
for
middle
school
as
for
high
school,
and
we
this
year
when
I
leave
that
for
Kara.
But
we
are
blessed
to
work
with
our
teenz
and
the
goal
is
to
reduce
pregnancy,
HIV
and
STDs
or
now
sexually
transmitted
infections.
M
As
stated,
my
name
is
Karen
Monroe
in
on
the
outer,
you
outreach
worker
project
and
power,
so
the
goal
of
project
in
power
is
to
reduce
the
teen
pregnancy,
STD
and
HIV
AIDS
rate
in
Buncombe
County
by
word
of
mouth
and
strengthening
our
partnerships
with
Ashley
Asheville
city
school
system.
We
have
went
from
serving
65
last
fiscal
year
to
129
students
this
fiscal
year
through
implementing
the
evidence
based
educational
models,
reducing
the
risk
and
making
proud
choices,
while
also
stress
stressing
the
importance
of
goal
setting
and
positive
decision
making
skills.
M
We
aim
to
impact
these
rates
in
our
county.
We
host
sessions
that
include
parental
involvement.
We
also
have
enrichment
enrichment
activities
involving
community
partnerships
to
expand
knowledge
of
these
topics
and
also
enhance
leadership
and
team
building
skills.
We
do
college
tours
and
offer
case
management
services.
So
that's
about
project
and
power.
Thank
you.
L
Want
to
introduce
our
next
program
that
we
are
requesting
for
funding.
We
thank
you
for.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
prepares
funding
for
the
project
now
program
which
stands
for
nurturing
asheville
and
area
families.
It
is
buncombe
county's,
healthy
beginnings,
project.
It
used
to
be
called
minority
infant
mortality
reduction
project
and
when
we
learn
to
say
the
name,
they
changed
it.
But
now
we
say
healthy
beginnings,
project
to
work
with
african-american
pregnant
women,
so
that
our
babies
can
see
the
first
year
of
life
and
beyond.
L
Our
program
has
been
cited
as
a
national
program,
it's
being
one
of
the
top
27
programs
in
the
United
States.
At
that
time,
by
the
US
Bureau
of
exchange.
We
continue
to
be
a
state
model.
We
were
asked
to
serve
on
the
North
Carolina
child
fatality
task
force
and
recommended
by
Belinda
pettyfer,
the
head
of
the
Women's
Health
Division,
to
have
our
article
in
the
Carolina
pressed
on
last
year.
We
thank
you
very
much.
N
We
also
have
a
component
where
we're
talking
about
smoking,
cessation
and
referring
our
program,
participants
to
agencies
and
other
support
groups
that
can
help
them
with
reduction
or
cessation
of
smoking.
Project
now
has
been
around
for
16
years
and
we
are
happy
to
serve
40
participants
each
fiscal
year
and
at
the
end
of
each
fiscal
year
we
have
the
opportunity
to
have
served
more
than
40
women,
and
this
is
a
quote
from
unnatural
causes,
which
is
a
documentary
that
was
cited
as
a
national
model
and
use
to
educate
people
about
infant
mortality.
N
As
a
country,
we
pay
an
enormous
price
for
a
high
rate
of
premature
and
low
birth
weight.
Babies,
preterm
birth
is
the
second
leading
cause
of
death
for
infants
if
they're
lucky
enough
to
survive
many
face
a
lifetime
of
learning
and
medical
problems.
Studies
show
that
prematurity
increases
the
risk
for
increases
the
risk
for
hypertension,
diabetes,
artery
disease
and
the
high
cost
of
medical
care.
Beginning
the
moment,
they're
born
one
month
stay
and
need
a
neonatal.
Intensive
care
unit
is
an
average
of
sixty-eight
thousand
dollars
a
month.
A
O
P
Q
O
O
It
is
very
dear
to
us,
and
especially
dear
to
me,
as
a
clergy
person,
we
must
be
about
a
higher
powers,
business
in
supporting
our
youth
and
our
children
and
most
of
our
children.
There
comes
from
single
parents,
but
one
thing
that
we're
proud
of.
We
have
had
the
opportunity
and
myself
personally
to
collaborate
with
many
of
these
great
programs
through
Buncombe
County
and
through
our
state
I'm
approaching
I'm
cutting
out
there
you
off
about
the
freezer,
but
we
are
very
proud
to
have
the
support
of
the
churches
without
the
churches.
R
Afternoon
my
name
is
David
whitehill
I'm,
the
executive
director
of
the
Asheville
symphony
when
the
Asheville
Symphony
first
made
its
home
in
the
asheville
Civic
Center
in
1974.
The
symphony
was
a
young
organization
only
14
years
old.
At
that
time,
more
than
40
years
ago,
the
staff
comprised
one
part-time
manager,
one
part-time
conductor.
The
musicians
were
volunteers
and
the
budget
was
only
forty
thousand
dollars
that
new
home
in
the
Civic
Center
was
designed
as
rehearsal
space.
R
Only
today,
almost
a
half
a
century
later,
the
symphony
still
occupies
that
same
space,
but
it's
no
longer
you
as
rehearsal
space.
The
orchestra,
not
professional
and
paid
rehearses
on
the
stage
of
Thomas
Wolfe
auditorium
our
budget
this
year
is
1.6
million
dollars,
putting
us
in
the
top
twelve
percent
of
orchestras
in
this
country,
and
we
continue
to
grow
this
past
year.
R
Actually,
past
month,
we
launched
a
new
festival
called
Asheville
Amadeus
that
in
a
week
alone
served
over
20,000
people
through
50
events
in
30
venues
over
eighty
percent
of
the
events
free
serving
everyone
from
newborns
to
people
celebrating
later
in
life.
The
purpose
was
not
only
to
bring
business
and
visibility
to
our
collaborative
arts
partners,
but
it
was
to
fill
hotel
rooms,
fill
restaurants,
showcase,
our
galleries
and
our
shops
and
all
in
a
time
that
is
a
little
slow
in
Asheville.
This
was
by
design.
R
We
wanted
to
create
something
that
would
add
to
and
not
compete
with
existing
attractions.
We
are
a
regional
Symphony.
We
bring
visitors
from
every
county
in
western
north
carolina
and
many
parts
of
the
state
and
actually
from
other
states.
Our
festival
alone
drew
people
from
australia,
london,
montreal
New,
York,
Arkansas
and
Georgia,
and
many
other
places
in
the
United
States.
One
of
the
things
we're
focused
on
an
effort
to
align
ourselves
with
the
Buncombe
County
sustainability
plan.
R
The
Asheville
Symphony
brings
music
education
programs
to
every
single,
publicly
educated
child
in
Asheville,
City
and
buncombe
county
schools
in
grades,
2,
3,
4,
&
5,
our
newest
initiative
and
el
sistema.
Spired
after-school
program
is
reaching
some
of
the
most
disadvantaged
youth
with
the
idea
of
music
teaching
life
skills.
With
all
this
exciting
growth
and
change.
There
is
one
thing
that
has
remained
constant
for
almost
half
a
century:
our
office
space.
In
that
regard,
almost
nothing
has
changed.
Our
staff
workspaces
are
perched
on
rehearsal
risers.
R
Our
marketing
manager
and
development
director
share
one
large
room
with
timpani
gong
pianos
boxes
print
materials
in
a
music
library.
It
is
our
time
to
align
our
work,
invite
with
our
artistic
excellence
and
our
contribution
to
the
region
best
relax
our
professionalism.
We
respectfully
request
your
consideration
of
this
request.
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank.
A
J
J
We
feel
and
we
believe
that,
in
order
to
shrink
the
achievement
gap,
you've
got
to
eliminate
the
summer
learning
loss
and
that's
what
project
like
nut
does
we
incorporate
and
we
include
and
integrates
education
and
recreation
into
our
daily
activities.
We
do
reading
math
personal
development,
arts
and
crafts
and
recreation.
We
we
collaborated
with
UNCA
to
do
the
teaching
kitchen,
also
working
the
roads
garden.
We've
collaborated
with
a
bit,
but
to
do
a
bicycle
safety.
With
the.
J
Why
my
and
opera
lyrics
with
the
lyrics
opera,
our
kids,
actually
learn
to
do
math
by
with
music
and
so
again
we're
the
only
summer
camp
that
incorporates
education
and
recreation
together
we
serve
as
five
kindergarten
through
the
eighth
grade
from
mondays
through
fridays,
from
732
6pm.
We
appropriately
provide
breakfast
lunch
and
snack
Thursday's
are
the
educational
field.
Trips
Fridays
are
the
fun
field.
Trips
like
swimming
skating
and
bowling
on
Thursday.
The
educational
field.
Trips
are
like
the
nature
center.
J
We
also
visit
the
actual
police
department,
Lumpkin
County
Sheriff
Department,
so
that
we
can
build
those
community
relationships
with
our
young
people
so
that
the
police
and
sheriff
see
our
young
people
as
people
as
young
and
our
young
people
will
see
that
they
can
trust
and
build
that
relationship
with
our
Police
Department
and
with
the
chef's
department
as
well.
We've
made
significant
strides
this
project.
Lighten
up
is
not
something
that
just
started.
J
J
We
want
everybody
to
know
that
our
community
is
interested
in
investing
into
our
children,
so
we
do
an
annual
Radiothon,
which
we
asked
our
community
to
support
the
community
summer
day
camp
and
we've
get
the
support
from
churches,
local
businesses
and
individual
donors,
and
so
we're
doing
a
great
work.
One
of
the
things
I
think
our
highlight
we
had
a
most
kids
at
five
or
six
year
olds
and
don't
know
how
to
tie
their
shoe
because
they
use
the
velcro.
J
S
T
Afternoon,
thanks
for
allowing
me
to
be
here
today,
it's
a
it's
an
honor
thought,
I'd
start
by
talking
about
the
Southern,
Conference,
basketball
and
wrestling
championships
and
I
wanted
to
start
with
sharing
a
little
excerpt
from
an
article
that
ran
in
a
Chattanooga
newspaper
after
the
Chattanooga
men's
basketball,
team
lost
and
it
says
for
basketball
fans.
Asheville
is
perfect
for
the
fans
that
make
the
trip.
It's
a
celebration:
the
US
cellular
center,
where
the
tournament
cells
in
the
heart
of
downtown
Asheville.
If
you
ever
been
to
Asheville,
you
know
what
that
means.
T
A
wonderful
variety
of
restaurants
bars,
art,
galleries,
music
venues,
craft
breweries
and
anything
else.
You
could
want
in
a
growing
mountain
community,
it's
hard
to
have
a
bad
time
in
Asheville.
Even
if
your
team
loses
that's
what
that's
the
bad
press,
we're
getting
from
the
Southern
Conference
tournament,
you
can
imagine
what
the
team
say
when
they
win
they're
thrilled
with
astral
isn't
spent
a
great
part
of
our
community.
T
Many
of
you
know
because
you've
all
been
part
of
our
community
for
a
while
that
you
know
the
southern
conference
called
Asheville
home,
then
the
80s
and
early
90s.
It
left
after
you
know,
the
facilities
deteriorated
in
the
community
supports
were
dried
up
in
two
thousand
nine
and
ten
garba
community
leaders
boldly
said
we
can
bring
this
back.
We
can
improve
our
facility.
We
can
get
this
back
to
our
community,
it's
important
for
it
to
be
here
and
in
2011.
T
The
Southern
Conference
returned
to
a
renovated
facility
with
great
community
leadership,
and
support
and
buncombe
county
has
been
a
big
part
of
that,
and
we
want
that
for
that
to
continue.
We
competed
completed
our
first
three-year
commitment
with
the
Southern
Conference
in
2013.
They
renewed
their
agreement
through
2017
with
us
as
a
community.
Really
the
tournament
has
blossomed
into
much
more
than
basketball
and
I.
Think
that's
what
I'd
like
to
instill
in
you
today.
T
That
is
really
four
or
five
days
with
basketball,
but
a
lot
of
other
things
going
on
the
the
schools
they
come
and
they
want
to
be
part
of
our
community.
They
love
coming
here.
Their
mascots
visit
our
children
at
the
local
hospital,
the
cheerleaders
go
with
them,
the
coaches
they
put
on
clinics
for
low-income
kids,
while
they're.
Here
we
have
a
wonderful
community
events.
We
have
a
downtown
dribble
event.
We
give
away
500
basketballs
to
kids
in
need
in
our
community
anyone
that
can
make
it
to
pack
square
park
on
a
saturday
morning.
T
We
give
them
five
hundred
basketballs
a
t-shirt
and
a
free
ticket
to
come
to
a
game.
We
also
partner
with
buncombe
county
schools,
city
of
asheville
schools
and
henderson
county
schools,
to
allow
those
students
to
come
to
a
game
for
free.
This
is
likely
the
only
time
some
of
these
students
be
able
to
experience
something
like
a
college
sporting
event
in
their
lives.
We
want
to
plant
that
seed
of
you
know.
Maybe
I
can
play
college
basketball.
Maybe
I
can
go
to
college.
This
sounds
like
this
is
a
great
environment.
T
I
want
to
be
part
of
that,
and
we
really
enjoy
that
partnership.
So
we're
asking
you
know
the
the
the
beauty
of
the
Southern
Conference
basketball
tournament
is
the
time
of
year.
It's
early
March,
it's
a
time
of
year,
we're
slow
as
a
community.
We
could
use
some
additional
economic
impact
and
it
delivers
four
million
dollars
every
year
spend
four
years.
Math
is
pretty
easy,
16
million
dollars
from
what
is
a
basketball
and
wrestling
tournament
and
we're
thrilled
to
see
that
continue
just
transitioning
to
the
Sports
Commission.
T
We
are
small,
it's
me
and
one
other
person
on
staff
we've
a
small
budget
a
little
under
two
hundred
thousand
dollars,
but
we
are
lean,
we're
efficient
and
or
bold.
We
want
to
do
big
things.
Our
mission
is
simple:
to
bring
large
scale
sporting
events
to
our
community,
one
that
will
inspire
our
local
people
to
participate
in
them,
participating
in
marathon
and
5k
10k
get
healthy,
get
active
and
events
that
are
going
to
have
an
economic
impact
on
our
community.
T
T
Our
three
primary
funding
sources:
we
raised
a
bunch
of
money
on
our
own
as
well,
but
those
three
resources
are
great
sense
of
partnership.
We
right
now
just
completed
a
strategic
plan
which
I
think
we
gave
you
a
copy
of
hopefully
and
right
now
we
have
an
economic
impact
of
about
thirteen
million
dollars
annually
to
our
community
before
the
strategic
plan
is
finished
in
2017.
We
want
that
to
be
20
million
dollars
of
economic
impact.
T
U
You
any
questions,
I
have
a
real,
quick
question
and
she
was
probably
longer
answer,
but
the
short
version.
My
understanding
is
the
the
TDA
funding
is
for
that.
They
traditionally
I
understand
they
can't
fund
events
and
things
like
that
have
to
fund
kind
of
hard
costs,
bricks
and
mortar
type
stuff.
So
how
does
T
fund
the
organization
in
light
of
some
of
the
restrictions,
went
on
how
the
hotel
occupancy
phones
have
to
be
used?
Well.
T
Though
that's
the
one
percent
fund
that
you're
referencing
to
is
the
product
development
fund,
there's
the
other
I
think
three
percent
that
goes
into
a
general
marketing
budget
that
is
used
to
recruit
crude,
all
sorts
of
things
in
forest
and
visitors
to
our
community.
So
our
funding
comes
from
from
that
source
from.
C
C
T
Mean
the
CV,
the
TDA
is
funding,
primarily
it's
bringing
things
into
the
community.
It's
generally
not
used
for
things
that
once
they're
here
promoting
those
for
say,
attendance
at
you
know
a
festival,
an
event,
something
like
that.
Most
all
of
that
money
is
really
used.
You
know
a
lot
of
it
goes
to
the
advertising
that
they
do
throughout
the
region
to
bring
tourists
here
to
our
community.
That
also
goes
to
you
know,
developing
ad
campaigns
and
some
strategic
partnerships
as
well.
I.
I
Just
have
one
potential
request
which
is-
and
you
probably
are
already
doing
it,
but
you
you've
probably
been
here
a
good
deal
of
the
day,
and
you
know
I
kind
of
here:
I've
never
been
able
to
do
the
saturday
dribble
thing,
but
it
always
sounded
really
fun.
But
you
know
there
seems
like
to
be
such
great
matches
here.
I
I
mean
just
the
the
project
lighten
up
I,
don't
know
if
y'all
have
ever
done
that,
but
so
kind
of
reaching
out
to
some
of
these
other
community
funded
partners
that
we've
got
a
I
know
you're,
probably
already
doing
that,
but
I
would
just
kind
of
put
a
special
pitch
in
for
for
our
team
here.
So
certainly.
T
That's
great
and
this
year
one
exciting
partnership
was
with
Evelyn.
We
launched
a
headlock
on
hunger
campaign
and
hoops
against
hunger
campaign
and
it
left
but
I
forget
the
exact
statistics,
but
it
raised
thousands
of
dollars
to
support
the
home
for
the
holidays
project
through
Evelyn
and
a
lot
of
food
donations
as
well
and
I
forget
the
exact
number
of
tons
it
was,
but
it
is
a
couple
so
we're
proud
to
and
that's
really
how
we
are
effective
with
a
two-person
staff.
You
know
it's
really
the
volunteer
and
the
community
relationships
that
we
have
that.
A
A
P
You've
heard
from
April
bridges,
Johnson
our
executive
director
already
and
she's
in
California
this
week
at
the
Family,
Justice
Center
conference
and
so
I
way,
just
to
say
a
few
things
about
help
made.
As
most
you
know,
helpmates
been
around
for
almost
35
years
and
we
provide
a
variety
of
services
to
victims
of
domestic
violence,
including
a
24-7
hotline,
counseling
group
and
individual
domestic
violence,
education
classes,
emergency
shelter,
court
advocacy
case
management
and
service
coordination
and
professional
trainings
in
community
education.
P
P
We
do
serve
about
fourteen
percent
men,
we
serve
men
and
women
with
the
common
denominator
being
victims
of
domestic
violence,
and
so
we're
really.
Your
your
funding
will
help
us
increase
our
case
management.
The
depth
of
case
management
that
we're
providing
and
the
breath
as
well
will
provide
about
services
to
probably
plus
or
minus
two
thousand
thicknesses
masuk
malice
in
the
coming
here
and
take
probably
about
2,300
hotline
calls
and
so
forth.
P
And
so
we
really
appreciate
your
support
over
the
years
and
while
we
truly
believe
that
the
Buncombe
County
comprehensive
domestic
violence
plan
is
going
to
decrease
domestic
violence
in
our
community,
we're
going
to
see
a
surge
of
people
reaching
out
to
us,
I
think
before
that
levels
off
and
so
we're
planning
ever
doing
everything
we
can
to
increase
our
response
to
those
women
and
men
and
children.
Thank
you
so
much
any.
S
Just
a
comment
for
Miss
stone
for
the
future,
for
my
benefit,
there's
so
many
several
this
day
that
we've
heard
that
are
reaching
out
and
trying
to
meet
the
need
of
domestic
violence
and
with
the
family
justice
center
and
some
of
the
things
that
are
do
it
I,
don't
want
that
that
education
to
stop
for
me
as
a
commissioner
to
continue
to
understand
how
these
work
together
when
it
comes
to
you,
know,
meeting
the
need
and
funding
and
information
such
as
that,
so
the
more
information
I
can
receive
on
that
better.
For
me,
we.
P
We're
working
a
lot
collaborating
with
many
of
those
groups
that
are
working
in
domestic
violence,
so
we're
not
working
in
a
in
a
vacuum.
We're
working
and
reaching
out
to
all
of
the
different
groups
is
offering
our
services
and
also
looking
at
how
we
can
work
together
to
decrease
it.
Thank
you
so
much
thank.
A
W
Afternoon,
my
name
is
Johanna
Grima,
Keaton
and
I'm,
an
executive
director
for
a
bit,
but
which
is
the
Asheville
buncombe
Institute
of
priority
achievement,
I'm
very
tempted
to
have
everyone.
Do
an
activity
break
right
now
to
make
up,
however,
in
2014
the
books
are
provided
and
collaborated
in
135
health,
education
sessions
and
events
in
churches,
community
centers
and
individual
homes,
resulting
in
two
thousand
seven
hundred
and
seventy
one
person
served
and
the
case
management
of
100
individuals.
W
In
addition,
our
collaboration
with
Buncombe
County,
Health
and
Human
Services
and
Buckland
County
service
foundation
allowed
us
to
expand
our
reach
with
the
addition
of
two
community
service
navigators
who
provided
direct
navigation
services
to
an
additional
341
unduplicated
clients.
In
addition
to
our
normal
outreach
education
efforts,
this
collaboration
allowed
us
to
expand
our
services
to
the
residents
in
housing
by
facilitating
22
of
those
fresh
fruit
and
vegetable
pop-up
markets
at
Cindy
alluded
to
earlier.
This
allowed
us
to
serve
349
households
and
impacting
2388
individuals.
W
That
is
a
lot
for
a
staff
of
two
community
service
navigators
right.
So
additional
funding
will
allow
us
to
retain
an
additional
community
service
navigator
and
increase
our
time
of
our
current
community
service
navigators
and
our
nurse
a
bit
bus
community
service
navigators,
provide
support
to
the
following
communities:
d,
review,
apartments,
Livingston,
Erskine,
Walton,
Street,
Apartments
and
the
shiloh
community.
We
connect
citizens
and
communities
with
health
and
human
services
and
other
resources
available
in
Buncombe
County.
However,
we
go
deeper.
W
The
community
service,
navigators
trained
by
a
beber
are
unique
because
we
equip
them
with
the
extra
layer,
training
of
being
community
health
workers.
Also,
through
this
program,
we
are
able
to
address
social
determinants
of
health.
In
addition
to
direct
health,
that
is
impacted
by
people
simply
trying
to
survive.
We
meet
people
where
they
are
by
going
door-to-door
and
making
ourselves
available
in
the
community
settings.
We
don't
wait
for
the
clients
to
come
to
the
Ripper
office.
We
go
to
them
where
they
are
so
again.
W
We
thank
you
so
much
for
your
support
because
of
the
341
unduplicated
clients.
They
actually
were
able
to
address
428
of
the
pathways
that
were
there
and
a
hundred
and
fifty
of
those
pathways
were
actually
completed
and
again
with
to
commune
service
navigators,
and
so
with
our
partnership
with
the
county
and
the
community
service
navigators.
W
It
has
helped
us
to
facilitate
the
pop-up
markets,
but
an
additional
layer
and
our
pop-up
markets
is
that
we
do
community
health
screenings
and
we
also
integrate
the
winch's
application
process
so
that
people
are
actually
connected
to
that
service
before
they
reach
an
emergency.
Because,
again,
that's
the
hard
way
we'll
let
you
know,
I
would
say
that
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we're
having
a
sense
of
urgency
before
an
emergency,
so
they're
already
on
track
to
be
served
before
it's
over.
So
again,
thank
you
for
your
support.
Without
you,
we
couldn't
do
it.
Thank.
Q
That's
a
hard
act
to
follow
and
be
the
person
standing
between
you
and
break
in
Austin
I
serve
as
the
graduation
advocate,
the
Career
Academy
has
been
in
existence
at
erwin
high
school
for
the
past
seven
years.
Each
year
we
recruit
35
new
freshmen
and
we
work
with
the
remaining
90
to
110
upperclassmen.
The
goal
each
year
is
a
hundred
percent
graduation.
However,
knowing
that
students
have
barriers,
they
must
work
through.
Students
may
take
longer
to
reach
this
goal
or
choose
an
alternative
path
towards
graduation.
Q
The
current
success
rate
of
the
students
in
our
program
is
approximately
eighty-five
percent,
which
is
higher
than
that
of
the
state
graduation
rate.
The
key
is
to
show
our
students
the
bigger
picture
and
expose
them
to
the
opportunities
within
our
community
through
our
partners,
goodwill,
Biltmore,
Estate,
abtech
arvato,
the
actual
mall,
and
we
plan
to
expand
to
local
manufacturing
companies.
This
summer,
students
in
the
program
also
gain
a
beneficial
workplace
skills
as
they
participate
in
the
hospitality
camp
at
the
biltmore
estate
throughout
the
summer.
Q
This
paid
work
experience
allows
our
students
to
earn
a
paycheck
which
will
assist
themselves
or
their
families
financially.
This
hands-on
experience
is
valuable
to
our
students.
It
allows
them
to
connect
their
skills
earned
in
the
classroom
to
those
real-world
experiences.
We
feel
that
this
is
a
good
solution
to
the
soft
skills
gap
and
good
for
Economic
Development
I'd
like
to
leave
you
with
this
story.
I
met
dee
in
the
fall
of
his
junior
year,
not
while
passing
him
through
the
hallways.
Q
I
met
him
due
to
the
number
of
teacher
concerns
his
father's
concerned
that
he
had
with
how
well
he
was
dealing
with
the
loss,
the
recent
loss
of
his
grandfather
and
the
number
of
mono
referrals.
He
had
earned
himself
due
to
his
skull
addiction
when
I
met
with
him
after
multiple
attempts,
I
felt
like
I,
had
lost
him.
I
received
a
phone
call
from
his
father,
informing
me
that
yes,
d
was
choosing
to
drop
out.
I
decided
to
give
one
final
pitch
and
I
tossed
out.
Q
This
plan
buckle
down
in
your
remaining
classes,
a
tent
while
at
school
to
earn
your
missing
credits,
participate
in
the
hospitality
camp
and
will
give
you
a
focus
and
I
promise.
You
will
get
on
track
to
graduate
early.
He
chuckled
and
said
yeah.
The
first
day
students
were
allowed
to
pick
up
schedules.
He
was
one
of
the
first
ten
to
show
up
many
people
said:
have
you
ever
picked
up
a
schedule
in
your
entire
high
school
career?
Q
Q
We
got
him
involved
in
the
goodwill
reset
program,
so
he
can
earn
his
certificate
a
b.tech
in
welding,
because
his
plan
is
to
take
over
the
thriving
family
business
in
Leicester,
Thank
You
commissioners,
for
your
dedication
to
our
students
and
for
your
support
and
commitment
to
this
program,
which
not
only
allows
our
students
to
graduate
to
be
successful
even
to
those
students
who
didn't
think
it
was
possible.
Thank.