City of Laredo, Texas Third Party Funding Advisory Committee, 9 Jun 2021

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06-09-21 3rd Party Funding Advisory Committing Meeting

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Here here, oh you recorded. Oh sorry,.

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Dr gaskins, he did call it, he won't be able to move.

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As I am new to this, I have a question for you as we review these minutes. I don't need to be up to you about it, but are we currently clearly typos.

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uh If I can call your attention to number seven roman numerals, seven, the last paragraph on the page is the characters mr beckham asked. If the staff could contact us for any assistance.

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I used to be a math tutor when I was young and I would also correct ink papers, so I find that thing and some people just say yeah, so I wanted to make sure it was.

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It's on the above section, seven.

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Mister, they just responded that he would, as staff.

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Then I think they are meant to say commended.

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Passes believe we still have another seven minutes per season comments, so.

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We can go ahead and move.

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To the next item- and we can revisit this in comments when the time expires- item number five discussion with possible action on review of applications and spoilers for third-party hotel multi-journal fund applications for the fiscal year, 2001-2002.

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That much discussion here, they're, both depending on you guys. um We, the applicants, requested 155 000 and we only have 372.

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I I see that several of them don't have any.

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For the current funding, most of the agencies did not apply. Some of them would be their first time applying for their court funding, and some of them were not invited to.

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uh Health, food, shelter, those were.

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Out of one of them, so we could fund the rest. Yes, and even if we funded the as is- and we didn't include the new.

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Ones, we would still have a near 20 000 gap between what we have and what was allotted the last year. Yeah so they're still tough, very tough decisions to make.

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And the way- and that has a spreadsheet right right now, if I can add he has the total link to that column. So as soon as you start putting your numbers, you're gonna see the reduction of the funding.

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That way, you have an idea of how much you have left and you want to go back and be reflecting the balances. Okay. That way, you have an idea. I have a.

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Question, um for instance, the first one. The current amount is 5 000 they're requesting 50.. Was there.

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A cap or a limit there.

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Is no limit? Okay. Other thing is that sometimes, like you mentioned before they might request they go above and beyond and requested one of the stars there's only a certain amount. So that's what you guys came in and decide recommend to counsel what amount to give back.

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That specific amount for them. I believe they have a three-year.

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And so they've already been.

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Because last year was a very tough year for everybody, so everybody needs.

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Is that the only one that has that, um but.

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Does it have anything.

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This fiscal year, so you might be able to recommend something different from for this year that we're discussing basically another year. That's coming up to council and then council will decide whether you know we want to give them the same or less, but we just need to double check. We believe it expires this year because we're funding her.

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But I don't see the real society.

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Here it's already set. I think they were saying that this is for the next year, and so this is for this year. So this hundred thousand rupee column this paper that you've given us is fixed.

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Right now for ongoing.

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Is there a possibility.

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That you could I'm asking for this and I got it and it wasn't available on my computer to rank this by the score as opposed to this way.

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You can do it here, no I'm doing it by hand, but I didn't know if there was a spreadsheet that we could just get and just oh. This is.

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See that as a bigger screen till we get to all of them,.

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uh It gonna click off. My data has headers to take it off and then you'll be able to do what you want to do I'll go to the right, then click that off and.

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And we did not receive any users there. We go.

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We all know for lie.

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Mr chairman, would it be good, would it be true? This is my first time doing this. As you know, I'm wondering if we just took the highest scores and moved their dollar figures to the committee recommendation to see how far we get.

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I think that'd.

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Scores and give them what they're, asking just for just just for the sake of figuring out, where are we yeah?

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Is that what you're? uh What you're saying.

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Or what they're.

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What they're requesting.

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We're not really around real fast, but let's go like you said that right, like d.

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I think if we copy the d column to the f column and then just add, I think.

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So we're gonna have to shave off.

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uh This is the last the final year with a three-year contract, with the.

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Either copy paste it or start typing in the numbers.

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Well, that's the one we're going to shape anyway, so just see where we, how far we get with our highest ranked ones.

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I believe it's the number 10 shift from there.

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Oh, let me ask you all something, because I know you know more about this than I ever will. What is really the difference between this? I know the two different entities. I know that but south texas bank and a regular regional food bank. Why are there two food banks?

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Know that I I can give you a historical. I know the regional food bank was created sometime uh before the south texas new plan, but the southeast food plant is far larger.

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I know they have access to a lot more money too yeah.

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So I know their budgets are quite high, quite a bit higher. So I'm wondering if something's the food bank has access to more money than the raider regional goods, but who are they serving? That is different. That's my question.

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Is how texas is literally serving south texas? I.

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Believe, sometimes frank has multiple counties underneath there, like they go from del rio down to star coming in.

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Full disclosure- I am a board member.

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As far as allotment to them, but I can serve as some sort of historical informational guide between the two I.

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Can't say that.

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The council, when they would award money to the food banks, they would award far more money toward south texas group 9 region, almost sort of like a one to three wow.

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How do you all feel without being judgmental about this? How do you feel about a food bank that serves all of south texas and if it were, if this were our personal money, that we were.

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That's my thinking and I'm not trying to. I know they both do something extraordinary. You might recommend them over doing it, but if I had to choose hey.

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Like 20 or.

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I'm not trying to take over the meeting, but he's recusing himself, and I don't know who steps in in his place if at least let's start there and then, let's just see where we end up over here, can you shrink jk and l just so. We can see the remaining j and k there. We.

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I think we would agree that that's the first place, we'll shave when we start shaving. Okay does.

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That sound, reasonable.

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Exactly all right: let's leave them at 100 and then put the going by the rest of what we have been.

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And then we have border area nutrition council. What are they doing? That's different from those other two assuming that has.

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Been actual true.

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Congregate, meals, which is two bedrooms.

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And we read the packet, we understand the description. I just want to see what your girl's personal opinion was about, what they do. That's significantly different like the two food.

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Doctor having certain priorities.

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And then on the right we could put like five five.

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See what was their priority? I'm just curious, because I did I called um the city council that appointed me and I called- and I said, there's no sense of me going running.

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And so we went over these one at a time, and he didn't tell me give this one up. He just said, I just said give me the yeses that are absolute. Yes for you and give me the ones that are babies nobody's an absolute. No, unless you have one yeah. No, he had none that qualified us. No. But so then my rankings were tempered by what he would want to see at the city council.

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I think the ones that we're seeing with the higher ranks are the ones that he said.

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Yes? Yes, yes, yes, yes,.

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I mean if I had to choose it's going to just.

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My ranking, I'm assuming that, if you all did something similar or even just knowing because you've been here before, is the rank, pretty much says it all. If we felt really strongly about something, we would have ranked it higher.

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Because they could be doing many things, obviously right there are some intense agencies. Do several services.

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For because not all the time is for their whole operations or their whole items, they might just be funding certain things.

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It's okay with the term. Can we turn around and the ones that have figures from last year? Can we just go ahead and put those numbers in like that one, ten thousand who was it regular stroke support if we kept them the same in the next.

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To get there, I don't mean to pick up with me just.

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Without touching the ones I didn't get last year,.

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No, we did put one.

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Well, I think we can probably agree.

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Maybe I should say that: do we agree that we're not going to give anybody again, it's not our decision, but we're not going to vote to give anybody more than they got last year unless it was somebody who didn't get last year right. I don't see these increases as being something that we could.

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They should have money for the for the kobet fund and all of these small ones made it. Because of that I mean, I know both.

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Food banks got money from councils this year. As far as allotments, like just straight up, here's 45 here's 80 000. You know it was steady money that that has been throughout 2020.

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Stay at home families. You know.

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Putting an extra number, maybe an extra column here with what kind of organization is it, so we can see how much are we helping in this department? Like you just said a minute ago,.

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So what exactly is.

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Such as a doctor of physical therapy to care for wounded care, pain management.

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Physical depressions.

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I was wrecking mine also was what other options did they have for money.

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The radar regional food bank, emergency food assistance program and food distribution supplies style, texas, school advanced, backpack program, food, padding.

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What choice do you have yeah? Let's do that? Let's put them. I mean this is a discussion.

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We have a new understanding of who they are and what they're doing.

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We all have our own.

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Great original food bank 210.

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Immensely important, I think they all are ten thousand. Do we justify doing.

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Somebody else it was the nutrition council.

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If we're going to give.

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Remember that's one of the lowest rank ones that will be ranked.

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Think area to provide the lgbt with high quality nutrition services and essentials and prescription purchases bill and utility payment, central medical employment, social uh activities and a variety of different destinations.

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Is that the only mini they have for those rewards they offer for crimes?

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Is that the way they get the money is just? That is that money for that? What are they using for crime, stoppers uh crime, stoppers.

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Type in for outreach and education activity.

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Considering we're trying to feed people I'd say, that's a low priority, then they're going to break into my house when I haven't called the police.

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They put them at 10 also, unless somebody disagrees they were ranked low.

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Society we put them at 10 teams, some of that 66 10.

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That's our magic number today and.

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Then see if that works, I.

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I don't remember what this place does.

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They they do environmental awareness they they usually, uh they.

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Have a birding.

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Festival, they have a lot of events, they do kayaking.

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Well, hold on a minute: that's also our lowest rank yeah and that's. What is that a festival is okay,.

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The real mean three is.

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The farmer's market that.

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Is one of the things so.

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They've managed to survive with no money from the city so far.

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Facilitator means three applied for a general operational expenses in here.

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But they got nothing, they didn't get anything it was last year. Well, I think.

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Please remind me edgar, if you would loretto main street is affect the.

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Festivals, you see no, no, they have some uh like street vet, not street vendors, but like farmers markets, so they try to get people to come downtown, so they strictly applied this.

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Year for uh the operations, saturday, expenses.

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They had three applications. Last year, one was market, the other one was.

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You give the remainder back to california, I'd.

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Rather, give the remainder back to the food banks. I think the food.

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Are the ones that choose everything? Well, they all deserve it, but I don't know I don't want to bootboard anybody, but.

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Yeah, can we do that.

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Downtown we would also like to see our downtown thrive, but, quite frankly, the downtown businesses should be contributing to bringing traffic to downtown right. That's not why that's how I see it? It's not necessarily! Why should the city pick just the downtown here to help? What if I want to have a festival in north, or should they be putting that as well those things get sponsors you can sell beer?

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If that's, if that follows into that, I used to work in a festival when I was young and boy make a ton of money on beer sales, so those sorts of festivals, I'm glad that they do them, but I see that they can be well. They can they can earn their own money.

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There should be something enterprises.

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That's exactly right: they're, not non-profits, asking for help. It's like hey we're, gonna help this area, hey guys, everybody contribute because it's gonna help us it's our neighborhood, I'm going to contribute to build a sidewalk in my neighborhood, I'm not going to pull money out of my pocket to build in your neighborhood if it's a different neighborhood.

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So that's that's how I look at that. I said: there's probably a worthwhile community community stuff, but really should be asking for public violence as opposed to helping elderly or feeding people.

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So I mean that's just that's just how I see it. I don't want to discourage them from doing what they're doing. I'm sure it's extremely useful, but that's the point.

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But then again this last year they may not have been able to.

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But that also means that the money that they got from the year before it wasn't spent not the money they got from us for the city, but I mean any money that they raised at their previous event. They didn't have another event that money should have stayed locked.

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Up for the next time, they were able to have an event yeah because our money wasn't given to them. Exactly like you said they work on reimbursement. You bill us, so our money and they didn't have the event. They didn't get the money right, but from other you know, sources but you're, correct.

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Do you have to get money somewhere other than here.

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They're budget six, which is their agency budget, uh we do have payroll, rent internet logistic operations, manages printing advertisements, office supplies, insurance and adventure, entertainment which is covering basically their whole organization. As part of that.

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Foundation grants donations and fundraisers.

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Donations, five thousand dollars and fundraisers.

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Today, that's a big part of their budget that they're expecting.

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Yeah, that's too much considering tight times. What do you do? I personally I'd rather help people that are eating or taking care of your knees just like. When can you go back to the top of this here for a second, no problem.

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Go back to the top of the list.

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Look at the ones, we've all ranked the highest secret of our children. Last name isaiah to go to that holding institute. I'm curious to know! Does anybody if anybody ranked them high can.

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They explain why.

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Holding institute specifically.

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All these people that are.

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Communications.

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I would think in the more general sense.

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And they did requests for communications, which is requesting the need of a new phone system that can incorporate a build on correct.

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I would allocate that 8760 back.

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Again, if the understanding is that south texas covers a wider squad, I understand that south texas, new banks, I've donated to them. So I wholeheartedly agree with what they're doing, but I think they have access to have access to federal funds.

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There's a reason you serve on that board because you obviously agree very wholeheartedly with what they're doing.

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So the answer is yes: they do receive. They do estimate to receive in 2021, 20 22 392 000., give.

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It all to the regional food bank. I.

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Say that's my guess.

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Yes, go back to the two food banks again piece where you can see them both.

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Okay, can you go back to where we can see both food.

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I added the rest, so they will be getting that amount instead of 2.85.

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000 off of something.

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Three million.

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Dollars from the federal government in fact put them at zero. I love the scientists, but I've donated to them. I've never donated into the narrator regional food bank. I didn't even know they existed before this.

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They do a lot of good work, you see them.

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Somebody else shake your heart. You gotta take anything yeah, I'm gonna get in half, let's dig up last year, holding us a two.

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They are the electives.

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And they have to worry about the political ramifications of each choice that they make. I don't have any.

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Okay hold on boys and girls, everybody loves them. Can you tell us what they're told by they don't recall what their total budget was, but from all.

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So I did well you.

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Guys were discussing a different of the right original.

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Food bank uh budget- and they do expect to receive three hundred and ten thousand dollars for twenty twenty one. Twenty.

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And you were going to look at what the boys and girls called the bridges? Yes, what's their total budget? That's.

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Oh, I think they were also looking into building a facility in the north. I.

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Exactly where, but that.

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Might be a part of that? Well, I think what they do is they take a lot of kids off the streets.

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But we didn't give anything.

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2022 is one million seven hundred and seventy seven thousand two hundred fifty and they have two facilities right now,.

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The main the the.

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Feel compelled to change any of these numbers.

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Exactly what we have here I year it's been moving a second to accept the current funding recommendation for the third party general fund.

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If there's no discussion I'll go ahead and move into the previous question, I was in favor singing by saying I was opposed by saying name: motion passes.

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Can you give us a copy of what we just did, because I wouldn't be following the console or.

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It matches with what I thought and what I liked.

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They would all get everything.

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To show the presentation and the final numbers, the final numbers I don't know what's going to be percentage, is.

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This date uh acceptable june 23rd, is.

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You know magic there.

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And then we we will show you the presentation, that's going to be percent of the budget, which is in august.

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Zoom I like to see everybody face to face.

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Okay, well, I make a motion that we accept roman numeral, six, the date of june 23rd at 6, 00 pm right here in this room and I'm saving this chair. For me, that's.

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Not really part of the market, don't put it in there.

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Is there a second I'll say.

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Passes uh is there any new business that can come to the board.

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Not from us uh and as you guys have any other questions or comments, I.

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Think next movie we can discuss possibly having um that off of the year or at the training, correct things we're discussing in the last zoom meetings where the newer members can and the other members can go through the process of the application process with a fight back home. And we can maybe change things because I know that there's some discrepancies as far as the checklist and the application.

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So we have to make sure that they that they mentioned and so we're giving the organizations the best information so that when they apply there's no issues with missing documents or anything like that. So we discuss it at the next meeting.

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If there's no other any other.

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And we have a new appointee, but obviously she has confidence. She is still active. Actually, the next person is sworn so she did get to do the final scoring and stuff and everything that pertained to allocating defense. But now, maybe in the next meeting we will have a new committee member representing.

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Congratulations.

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Yeah, that's very nice. Congratulations.

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If there's no other new business any chance to adjourn so.

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To a german meeting.

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As far as was awesome, it is unamendable if it dies, it dies, that's usually the rule of our roots. So if all those favors say hi, oh.