 I believe we do now, Mr. Chair, I'm launching YouTube here, Mr. Chair, do you see my screen now? I surely do. Okay. Alrighty. Good. Again, good evening to everybody. Hopefully you're well rested. You enjoy this beautiful Monday. And so yes, I'm going to call this meeting to order. We will do a roll call with our newly elected Ms. Alicia Smith-Fretcher, you can call the roll. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, the Vaughn Barnes, I guess your President, yes, Shanika Bynum. She had requested an absence for this month. Okay. Rachel Eberhardt. Requested absence. Oh, yes. Requested absence. Leah, is it Eifford? Yes, ma'am. Eifford. Yeah, you're at the front. Eifford. Okay. Thank you, Leah. Dr. Monique Holsey Hyman. Donald Hughes. Okay. I skipped Michelle Ketchum. She is, she's requested absence as well. She's on leave, I believe, through this month. Okay. Richard Levenet. Jillian Riley. Present. Did I get Donald Hughes? You did. You said that one. Did he say present? I don't know. I didn't hear anything. Yeah, I don't believe he's here. I don't think he's on the call right now. Okay. Okay. So, um, Adam. Adam say that. Yes, please. Okay. And then Ebony West. Your question. And then. Yes, our staff support. Um, Reginald J Johnson. I think he's here. Matt. Present. Matt. And city council member liaison. I think he's here. He's here. He's here. He's here. He's here. He's here. I thought I saw him. He's present on the call. Can you hear me? Hello. Sorry. Yeah. I'm here. Great. Studio. Studio. Sure. Microphone. Right. Well, that completes the roll call. Did I miss anyone? Miss me. Brian. Oh, how could I miss you? Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Carl Newman and Brian. Okay. Got you. Sorry about that. Thank you. I've added you. No. Yes. Madam secretary. I just, just want to mention Terry Porter homes is also on the call. She is also a staff member, a community development assistant director. Okay. So that's Terry with an eye. Porter homes. Yes, ma'am. No. No. Thank you. So I've also added. I've added you as well. Thank you. Mr. Chair. Thank you. Miss. Fresh water. We have to read Carl and Brian only because they weren't here last week. So. Congratulations, Brian or being reelected as. Yeah. Vice chair of the assistant advisory committee. We take your leads. All right. We're going to go right. To the second action item, which is approving of the minutes. So hopefully you read your minutes. If there's any. Anything that needs to be added to the minutes. We can do so now. If not, then I will take. Oh, I will add. One thing. So just for the future. It's a capital V in my name. My name. My mama would not be happy if I didn't correct it. That's okay. If there's nothing other than grammatical errors, you can always shoot. Alicia. Your grammatical errors. If there are any, if not, I'll take a motion to approve the minutes. Moved. Smooth. And can I get a second? Thank you. It's been moved and properly second. Any discussion. Hearing no discussion. All those in favor of approving the September. Minutes. No. Excuse me. The August minutes. Say hi. Hi. Any opposed. All right. The minutes have been approved. We're going to go right into action item number three, which is the procurement request for funding proposal. Summary. And I will. Ask the mic to Mr. Snars. Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening. Members of the. Citizens advisory committee. Matt snars them. Staff. Planning performance manager. Community development. And your host of posts for the CAC meetings. And, and. The executive committee as we were making the agenda last week, we wanted to just follow up on some of the conversation from last meeting around procurement. Request for funding proposals. And. I have just a couple of key points here and may not take 20 minutes that we have. Allotted for this item on the agenda, but want to have a brief discussion and maybe be able to answer any questions that you may have. So procurement. We have a few that are. Currently under way and those are one is the emergency solutions grant ESG cares act funding. And that was a process that began in August and actually was closed right at the end of August, right? As we were reconvening our, our meetings. So that, that's one that is in process right now. I mean, it's, it's finished. It's just the actual final decisions and approval processes. And then we have the, the, and then we have the lead and healthy homes program, which is a HUD grant that we have through the department. We have one coming up that's a, it's a seal bid process. And it's slated for this October. So those are the two that are current or underway. And then beyond that upcoming. That you'll hear more about in the near future. And then we have the multi-family rental production preservation. We don't have a definitive timeline or date for that right now, but that will be one that will be soon to come in the fall. And then we have something called the continuum of care, which is another HUD grant program. That's a process that, that's got some alignment throughout apartment and some members of this is an advisory committee have been more involved in the past. And the, the funding process for that was announced by HUD in August. And there's a deadline for the submission of a document that we have to organize and submit for the funding. And that process basically is required to occur in November, November, 2021. And then we also have something called coordinated entry, which is also associated with the homeless housing system. The continuum of care is also a homeless housing specific process. And then coordinated entry is another homeless housing specific process that we've got slated for December of 2021. And so then I created just a bullet point summary. And I'm just going to stop sharing change, change documents really quickly. Just go through high level. So can you see, see a word document on the screen? Hopefully this is procurement process overview. Mr. Chair, you see that? Yeah, I can see. Okay. So what I did was just really try to boil down what sometimes seems pretty complicated complex, but I just tried to boil it down into some really, hopefully bite sized chunks overview of the procurement process so that members can just sort of be grounded in this. And then like I said, we can open this up for some questions and discussion after, after I go through some, this one page bullet point that also include send out to everyone after the meeting. So what is procurement? So procurement is a kind of an overarching term that we use to describe different ways the city solicits for goods or services from third party businesses or vendors. And then the most common types of procurement and this isn't, you know, all inclusive, but these are the ones that, that are used most frequently and that would be something that members of the committee might be involved with. And then the third sort of major process that we use to solicit for goods or services in the city. And then the next question that you might be interested in is the short hand term for that. And request for qualifications is RFQ. That's another type of procurement. And then sealed bids or bid process is the third sort of major process that we use to solicit. And then the next question that you might be interested to, you know, what are the factors that determine how the city determines how the city makes procurement decisions and the process. So there's a, there's a few main ones that drive what type of a process that we use. The funding source is the first most important one, depending on what funding we use, whether it be federal or city funding or a combination of federal and city funding, that's going to, you know, drive what type of, you know, what type of process, how, how, you know, what's involved. And then also funding amounts. So we, you know, we have procurement processes that are, you know, very small amounts of money, maybe like less than 10,000 or even less than that up to millions of dollars into a process. And that's a major factor that, that make, that requires us to make various decisions based on, you know, based on those factors. Another factor is what type of good or service or program are we trying to solicit for funding. So depending on if it's a homeless housing service, or if it is affordable housing development, developing a, you know, units of affordable housing, or if it's to, you know, get a consultant to do some type of a service for us. Those are, are factors that are, that are going to determine how we go about making the determine which, which type of process we use. And then there's typically, depending on the funding source, there's going to be guidelines that are going to be specified by that funding source that might factor in to how long of a process we'll have or what type of, what type of process we use. And then the other factor is that whether, whether the alignment with the consolidated plan or the annual action plans or the city should treat plan or affordable housing goals and affordable housing bond plan, those are factors that also that we have to consider whenever we make a decision on how we're going to do a procurement process. So then another key question then, how are funding decisions made? So this is also going to vary, you know, depending on what happens in number one and number two above. And for competitive RFPs, a question for proposals, which is probably the primary one that we use that most folks are familiar with. The method for the method for services is typically involves an objective scoring and ranking of proposals used by using a predefined scoring rubric. So we would develop a scoring rubric that would, you know, factor in how we would make that decision. And then that scoring rubric would be used to rank and score the proposals. And so it's typically that staff members from our department that are, that, that partner with members of other city departments and members of the CAC and or other relevant subject matter oriented members of boards and commissions to evaluate proposals to score and rank or score and rank them. And so it's, once again, this is, this is driven by, you know, which, which type of procurement we're going to use and which funding source. And then what we'll do is then we'll use that process, use that scoring rubric, and we'll aggregate the scores from each of the different participants of the panel. And we use that to then come up with sort of a ranking of the proposals and which ones would be the highest ranking and lowest ranking. And this is usually, but not always require, you know, final city council approval. So typically these processes, you know, go through and then we decide that we're going to fund or not fund different proposals. And then the final decision, typically, but once again, not always is involves final review and approval by city council for the contract that we would then have. And so the other final kind of question that I thought would be relevant or, you know, if I'm a member of the CAC is, you know, so how do, you know, how do I as a CAC member contribute to the scoring ranking and decision making process and what is in the tail. And so the way that we have it right now is that, you know, we kind of made it so that you can volunteer to participate on these panels based on your, you know, level of interest and the level of time that you might be able to commit to that. And it would involve, you know, reading proposals and using scoring, using the scoring and ranking rubric to score and rank proposals and then to have a subsequent follow-up meeting with the members of the panel to make the decision. And key point here is the amount of time and level of commitment is going to vary, you know, pretty substantially based on some of the items that we talked about in the first two bullet points on the sheet. And so I just, that's kind of just very high level. That was, that's kind of trying to abbreviate, you know, what is sometimes seen as a pretty complicated cumbersome process into some primary bullet points. So, Mr. Chair, I'll just pause there and defer back to you for, you know, questions or, you know, open up to the panel for questions and further discussion. Thank you. Thank you, Matt, for helping us understand. He's better. The question, I think. Yes, I do have a question. So when it comes to reviewing proposals, how do you ensure that there are not conflicts of interest with the reviewers, especially members of the CAC? And then my second question is, are the reviewers required to sign non-disclosure agreements? Great question. And so, yes, reviewers are required to not have a conflict of interest and reviewers are expected to sign a, you know, a non-disclosure agreement or an agreement that they don't have such a conflict. And that also brings up an important point that I need to follow up with the CAC members is that we need all of you to actually sign, annually sign an agreement that would basically articulate us as much. And that's something that, you know, I'm glad you raised that because that's something I had forgotten about as we usually at the beginning of each year, with the CAC, we have each member, you know, sign one of these agreements and we have that on file so that if something does come up that we have it on file. And if you would happen to have a conflict of interest, which we do have, you know, CAC members that are maybe on boards of organizations that would be, you know, asking for funding or they may be employees of organizations that would be, you know, part of an RFP process, you would not, you know, the expectation is that you would not be involved in that scoring and ranking process and that you would disclose that you have conflict of interest. So that's a very important point to raise good question. Thank you for answering that. So is it just self-disclosure? Go by the auto system. I'm not trying to be, you know, Doug Maddie, but I just want to make sure that. It is. And, you know, I don't know if Mr. Johnson would have more to say, but it, you know, essentially it's the expectations you sign this agreement. It's a binding agreement, the non-disclosure agreement nor the conflict of interest form. And, you know, we don't, we don't do serious forensic sort of analysis of that. We expect the board members to be honest. I don't recall any, you know, substantial issues that have ever come to light, but it is something that is, it is something that's very important that we have to have in place. Any other questions from the committee? I kind of want Carl, are you, are you still there? That's just sparing people from watching me eat. We appreciate that. I definitely, this is not necessarily on the agenda, but I wanted you to kind of talk about your experience in scoring because I know you're one of the members who scores a lot. So, and just talk about your experience with that process. I actually haven't done it in a little while, although I'd be very happy to do it again. You know, the proposals are going to come with a rubric. You know, I have been on the other side of similar RFPs before. And so, you know, I actually think it's usually pretty straightforward. It's not a ton of reading and generally speaking, the applicants are pretty good about organizing their response in such a way that's going to be easy for you to go through the rubric pretty quickly. Then we met with staff and, you know, had a not terribly long meeting where there was really some consensus at who was the sort of going to be the recommended applicant of the process. And yeah, I really enjoyed the whole thing getting to work with staff and also sort of getting to know more about the work that's being done with these grant dollars and getting to know a little bit more about the kinds of organizations local or otherwise who are applying for the grants. So I recommend you do it, even though it sounds like we had a bunch of paperwork and right now numbers. It is actually part of the sort of real work of getting this work done in our community. Call for that. Not to put them on the spot, but Mr. Langloss, Dr. Langloss has also been involved. He was involved in the lead grants last year. And, you know, he may have a comment on that. Yeah, I mean, I don't think I have much to say. You know, you get the rubric and the, the proposals. It's kind of nice reading through it to see kind of a little bit more in depth what these kind of proposal actually are and what people are trying to do around, around the city. And I think that I found it interesting. I've only done it a few times. And I was always kind of considering like, oh, I don't really know this topic super well. Or I don't really know, you know, I have no past experience with it. So how do I like rate something on, you know, one to 10 or whatever. If I don't really know how it compares to other things. But one thing I like is then getting back together with everyone that was doing the grading and then seeing, you know, what people pick, what people had graded, any reasoning. And that was kind of nice because then I feel like it helped really kind of hone in as I, as I did a few more to, to really kind of know what to look for and how to grade things. And that was kind of cool. So appreciate, appreciate both input. I encourage members to get the emails for different RP proposals. If you want to score help with that process, make sure you reach out to Matt. And that way you can say, Hey, you know, I'm invested into where these, where your, our, what's it going? We definitely want to have some input on that. So I appreciate both of y'all. I want to add to the minutes to get an email from Donald Hughes asking for an excuse absence because he's under the water. Mr. Chaffee wouldn't mind just forwarding that to us if he didn't, if he didn't copy us on that. That'd be great. Yeah, I will. I will forward that to you. Thank you. Next week and go to the next. Oh, any other questions that we had. For Matt, as we. Mr. Chair, if I could just make one other, one other point is that. You know, the, the processes very greatly we have processes where we get. You know, there's either no proposals that are, you know, meet the required sort of basic threshold or may get one, like with the lead, with the lead grant, for example, last year we, in some instances, we only got one proposal and some of the requirements for the, from the federal funder for that requires that you actually get, you know, at least two. So sometimes we have to solicit more than once that's sort of the one end of the spectrum. The end of the spectrum is that sometimes we get, you know, a larger, a large number of responses for some of the larger processes, the mobile family, we might get 10, 15 responses. So, you know, there's a wide sort of variance of, of sort of what we get. And sometimes we don't know what we're going to get or not get. You know, when we, when we begin these, and so sometimes there's some unknowns that then factor in for, you know, for the purposes of the CAC members, factor into the time commitment. So if we get one or two or three, it's, it's one thing. If we get 12 or 15, you've got to read 12 to 15 proposals and score in rank basic, you know, the time commitment can vary. So there's kind of want to make that point. And it's not to, you know, not to deter anyone, but just so you know that there are some factors in some of this. So members can members will know whether or not it's 12 or. No, they won't. Typically, you know, we don't, we don't know staff in the city doesn't know until, you know, until we've actually, you know, close the process and begun doing the scoring ranking, but we would identify, you know, identify the panel before the process closes so that we can prepare folks for, you know, for doing the scoring ranking and doing some pre-work around sort of just orienting you to the, to the scoring or a brick, et cetera, et cetera. So we typically don't know. And that also has been, there's been a factor in past years for CAC members where, you know, there was more of a time commitment than what they had anticipated. And so that's some of what has factored into some of the way that we do it now, just to kind of give some context. I would just want to say, Mr. Chair, to emphasize the importance of CAC members serving on the panels. One of the things that I've shared with the staff is that when you're constructing the panels, I do review all of the panels for all of the selection processes that we have in the department. And it's a sort of a formula that we use. One is sort of like concentric circles. So we do have staff members who work on that particular area, but we also include other staff members who do not work on a daily basis on that area. And then we also will include, and this is a sometimes staff members in other departments in the city. So as you can see, begin to see the circles. Then sometimes we bring in expertise from other organizations. And then we also bring in citizens. That's where you all come in to participate and have a role in the process. And so obviously our panels, we work to make sure that they are balanced in different ways. Going to make sure we don't have conflicts. And of course we, you know, I look for a race agenda and ethnicity and those sorts of things as well. But also this level of expertise and role and representation is important. And so I just will want to stress and encourage the participation because it is deliberate the way we do it. There used to be a time when we had the process. Oh, that the entire CHC reviewed panel reviewed grants, but that got kind of cumbersome because the rules kept changing, becoming more complex. And the time commitment that it took particularly on the homelessness side got to be rather burdensome. So we went to the system that I've just described to you to share to be inclusive and also offer citizen input as well. And so I just wanted to make sure that everyone was clear that it is with intention and deliberate that you have the opportunity to participate on the panel. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. I think I might be the only member. Maybe. I don't know, Brian, or Carl, we're in the old scoring way. We first got on this bullet route on the tail end. Yeah, to be pretty cumbersome. Those are pieces and scoring them and all that stuff. So thank you, Matt, for that breakdown. I think we are on action item number four from that mistaken. Overview of community development department. Mr. Johnson, you have the floor. Thank you. I just wanted to share a few things. And Matt, are you still sharing? I believe I am. Maybe you can't see it. I can share again here. No, don't share unless you have something that you want to. I mean, I said the agenda. I'm going to share something. Do you want to share something? Okay, go ahead. I'll let you share. Great. Let me just make sure I can give you. All right, permission to Mike. So while he's doing that, a couple of things that I wanted to share and you will update on a couple of things before I share. The information that I wanted to share relative to funding should be able to share. Great. One, three things I wanted to talk about was. One, the audit report that I did share with everyone. We went before the audit services oversight committee this afternoon. Pretty uneventful. But that was asked a few questions, but you have the report. There are some things that they didn't find that we had any noncompliance in procurement, which is what we just talked about, but they did share some things that we need to be on the lookout for the operations of the department. And I wanted to let you know that we are doing those and we have those underway. And so I would encourage you to take a. Of you at the report that I shared with you last Friday, Friday night or Friday evening. We talked about today. And so that was one of the things I wanted to give all the boys and commissions that we serve staff to have the opportunity to see that know that that was going on. The next thing to give an update on the Durham emergency rental assistance program. I think this is the last time we met. You're probably seeing that there was a pause that the DSS and the government jointly issued. Processing of applications, receiving of applications. Effective October the fourth. And the main reason is for that is outlining the new release which you should have received is to allow DSS to catch up with processing applications and ensure that there is enough resources to get the applications that they have. And we'll receive. And we wanted to take some time to do that. So we are definitely agreed to that. And then in terms of you wrap to that the city has received. We're still under discussions with DSS and how we will proceed with some other funds. The application that they have may in fact take up those funds. We don't know yet. That's one of the reasons that they're causing. So I just wanted to mention those two things. And the question that I'd be glad to answer otherwise I'm going to share my screen and go to the next portion. Any questions from the body. I guess I have one is. Is the well running dry. On the amount of money that we have in the coffee right now. Is that is there a pause. Because there's a feeling that. You won't be assessed. Will not be able to. Handle. Or guarantee any, any money or any assistance. Is that why there's kind of like that pause there to try to catch up to see whether or not we'll have enough money to handle the amount of claims or the amount of folks who are seeking assistance. Yeah, that is the purpose is to ascertain. That one of the things that we decided that was important value is that we not keep taking applications. Until we are sure that we have the resources to. Once those applications are approved to disperse money for those applications. Those are those needs. It was not a need to just take applications. Without being assured. That we would have the resources that we needed to pause. To be able to do that with some with a degree of certainty. And so that's the reason I don't know if that helped the answer. The question that you asked, do are we running out of money? The money is not a, not limited. I'm going to talk about that in a minute. It's not unlimited. So there will be a time that the money will run out. We also know, and we shared this, you know, before there's not enough money to meet the needs. And we know that. But at the same time, my position is, you don't want to give false hope. And so that's something that's also important to me as a value. So it takes. One quick follow up. It's what happens after. The money draws the money is there. Let's say, you know, you know, we have enough money to help folks get to release the holiday. What happens to the folks who. After the holiday, I mean the assistance, but there's no money available. What was. What is the plan? What is the plan for that? Because. My concern is that we only have enough money to help. For a short amount of months per se. Not enough. Not enough for anybody that's new that that. Okay. Maybe they. They didn't directly get hit with this first wave. Of needing assistance, but. You know. It hit later on, you know, those folks who might need assistance after. When the money kind of draws up, are they going to be able to seek assistance. No. So I would say. Let's keep in mind the sources of the funding. And so what's going to happen after this funding is. that they already had that they normally disperse for various situations. Remember that this funding that we're talking about, this funding that has come from the federal government to meet these needs, unless the federal government gives additional funding, which is a possibility, there won't be any more. Thank you. Any other questions from the body before Mr. Johnson continues? All right, Mr. Johnson. Okay, thank you. So one of the things that came up in the last meeting was a summary, a request of summary for COVID relief funding that the Community Development Department is responsible for administering. This is different from the ARP funding American Rescue Plan, which is American Rescue comes out of the federal, where it's come out of the federal legislation that was the title of the legislation and Matt may be helping sometimes I get which ones confused. But that's where the city received $50 million in ARP funding in there as a process. And I'm going to go to the website, I think I showed the link in the last meeting. But what you have in front of you is the COVID relief funding that the Community Development Department is in charge of administering. Some of it was come from the CARES Act, and then some of it is from ARP. And so I just want to go through that. You see that different sources, I'm going to go through these sources, but the total is about just over $25 million that the department received in the past 15 months, I would say. And just to give an order of magnitude, our highest budget allocation is in the past few years has been around 20, maybe a high point of $22 million, $23 million. But this year is $17 million for all of the work that we do. It's $17 million and in 15 months we received another $25 million. So we are receiving $25 million in less than a year, more money than we received all year. So that's one of the challenges that we have, and of course that was reflected in the audit that you received. But just to go through the list of funding, we had Community Development Block Grant funds, a total of $2.7 million. This is special funds for coronavirus, had to be coronavirus related. For half of the $1.2 million of the $2.7 was actually given early in the year, earlier a year ago, and that went to emergency rental assistance. That was the first money that we had that DSS distributed for us. This was before the E-Rap money came. We also are using part of that money, the CDBGCZ money for a program with Office of Economic and Workforce Development to create opportunities for grant and loan programs for small businesses in low to moderate income areas. That's a contract we're working on right now to the tune of about $900,000. And then the balance of the money is about $500,000, $540,000. It's actually a contract that was just approved, was later to be approved, the next county city council for a partnership with Durham Public Schools, where we're using CDBGCZ money to help with afterschool and in-school COVID learning loss at four elementary schools. One of those is Burden, East Wade, Fayette, Ville Street, and W.G. Pearson, the four schools at DPS. And so remember these funds had to be, you have to have documented learning loss. I mean documented COVID ties and also it has to be in low moderate income areas, which is the same for CDBG money, whether it's COVID or whether it's regular. Just in the past week, we received a grant agreement for the home investment partnership funds. This is part of the American Rescue Plan for about $4.3 million. We have not made decisions on where that will be allocated. Right now, we're looking at something connected with the homelessness system. Then ESGCV money is $2.6 million. And we did something with COVID relief as it relates to the shelters, if I'm not mistaken. Matt may know a little bit more about that. And then Hopwell CDB, we are still, I think we're adding that to some additional money. That's about $70,000 to some current contracts that we already have, mainly because of the small amount of money. We just still have to have the COVID tie. The money, I'm getting ready to talk about now with E-Rap 1 and E-Rap 2. That's the emergency rental assistance program money that we were talking about with the chair. And so E-Rap 1 money is the funds that we received last fall. So this must be the last fall. And we actually in partnership with DSS, and that was the main part of the funding that was used to that's being distributed now. The county also had another, I think another million dollars in funding just under a million dollars that they have for E-Rap 1. And so they combined those for that money. And they said there's the administrator for those funds. Our portion of money has actually run out. That happened last week. And so what they're doing now, the county receives another allocation directly to the county from the state. That's another million, another nine million dollars that they have. And then they're going to actually receive some money on E-Rap 2 to the tune just under another million dollars. And so that's E-Rap 1 and then E-Rap 2. Our E-Rap 2, we reason it's two portions down there. Part of it we've received already is 2.6 million dollars. And then we depend upon how we're spending those in terms of timing. Then there's another just under four million dollars that we will receive for E-Rap 2. And all of that is for a total of about 25.2 million dollars that we receive through the community development department for COVID relief funding. And all of this comes from the federal government. Some of it comes through the U.S. Department of Housing Development. I probably should have put that on here, but E-Rap 1, 2, 1 and 2 come from the U.S. Department of Trade. So I'll stand for any questions on that. Any questions, Mr. Johnson? Thank you. Just for that breakdown. Okay. And we'll send this out to you. Maybe I have one question. I guess we do not know the money that DSS has or what's the regularly allotted amount of money that we use if it wasn't a pandemic. What does that item look like or how am I missing that budget? That, I do not know. That's approved in their budget annually. So there was a amount approved when they approved the budget in June. I wouldn't know. I don't know that number. So after this 25 million is gone, whatever, but it's left, it will be based on what the budget cycle was that was approved by our commission. Right. So just like in community development, they have programs that's been ongoing. Show these money that we're talking about on top of what already has been going on. You're on mute. Oh, thank you, Mr. Johnson. Matt, we'll go to the next item. Hang on just a second. Let me get the agenda. So I was trying to put some information in the chat as Mr. Johnson was talking for reference and we can make sure what he gets that is after the meeting as well. Hang on a second. I'm probably waiting for Matt. Hopefully everybody's alive and well and you know, it's been a long day. Hopefully everybody is alive and well. And if you're watching us on YouTube, if anybody's watching us on YouTube, please, please, if you have any questions or any, please reach out to us and let us know. We will do a lot of checking. You see the agenda back up on your screen there? I do see it. So we're going to, so this is following up on community development week. So if y'all recall last month that we talked about community development week as not waiting till the last minute and or last, you know, planning it in, you know, within a month or two this time when it, when it occurs and try to plan it throughout the year. And then we would meet, you know, once, maybe once a month or two as we get closer to community development week. Ebony is not here, but I'm trying to remember who else had signed up to be a part of that committee, subcommittee. I think Dr. Hyman was one. Anybody else besides Dr. Hyman? I think Jillian as well. Jillian as well. And was anybody else? Or if you didn't get a chance to sign up or didn't get a chance to say, hey, I would love to be a part of that subcommittee. You can reach out to myself or Ebony and we will try to have a meeting this next month in October to kind of like start the framework of what we want community development week to look like. So she's not here. So I'm going to move forward to other business. And Mr. Chair, I, I believe I neglected to collect some examples of previous year's events and I will follow up on that. I just wanted to, you know, highlight. I believe that the executive committee had asked me to do that. I had not done that yet, but I will collect that. And we can, man, whenever you get that opportunity, you just have to have an email. It doesn't have to be in the next meeting. So any other business? Mr. Johnson, Ms. Snard, do you have any other business that you just real quick? Mr. Chair, when is community development week? April. April. Mr. Chair. Yes, ma'am. I just wanted to add one thing. During our last meeting, we brainstormed a list of topics that we'd like to cover. And I would just like everyone to know that in the minutes, we added the link to the wiki page that Matt has developed. And so he's added a lot of information, samples of, I think proposals. What else, Matt, did you add to that so that it can ground the members? So I just encourage you to go to that wiki page. Do you want to give an overview of what? Yeah, I can just reference that if that's a pleasure. Absolutely. Give me a second here, sorry. I'm just going to see if, whether or not you would be able to add your presentation to your next wiki page as well. Yeah, so I've been trying to collect all the relevant information. Mr. Chair, can you see this wiki site that I've got here? It is really bare bones at this point, but it's really just a Google site that we can put everything on. And so I did add the, we've had previous presentations that don't give overviews of the federal programs, home and CDBG. And so I just added all those presentations on here and everyone should have access to these and can download these if you wish. So each of the federal programs has a PowerPoint presentation that I've embedded into the site. And then we also have the CAC bylaws. It looks like I didn't enable them to be able to get access, but the bylaws and the boards and commission handbook is also linked on here. And once again, all of this stuff is on the city's website, different places, but wanted to just have a landing page that folks could easily kind of access these. And like I said, it looks like I didn't give, I got to go back into the Google drive and just make sure that those are available and set up for people to be able to access. But once again, the idea is that this would just be a place that you could get information quickly and be able to get information that you need. Is it possible on that as we continue to build it to put minutes on there or the YouTube? Yeah, what I was going to do is on the home page, I was just going to put the links to where we have the minutes that go to the city's agenda sites center, but you know, that's for all the boards and commissions. I was going to put the link for that on here as well as links to, you know, the other, you know, meeting minutes, et cetera, et cetera. I just haven't gotten to that. Yeah, I mean, first of all, we're not trying to give you more work. No, it's more work for me to be able to one off sort of answer these questions for members. So this actually is not more work. It's a little bit of work at the beginning, but it's not, it makes it easier for us on the back end. And then I would also suggest, you know, I share the YouTube live, you know, like my personal pages, you know, it might be, it might be cool for members who may be missed the meeting. I still want to inform them of the meeting to at least have a YouTube website page as well. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And that once again, that's all on, you know, that all ends up, you know, it ends up sitting on the city's website and associated with the committees, you know, the boards of commissions. But once again, the thought process is that sometimes those aren't super easy to locate. Right. And so you certainly will connect those. Yep. I know for a fact, nothing, nothing is navigating on either city or the website. Yeah. Yeah, it's just that there's so much the city and county, you know, we have so many boards of commissions that, you know, it's not that it's not there. It's just it's sometimes it's easier to just if you could go to one place and it'll sit in there. Correct. All right. So that I appreciate that. Mr. Johnson, did you have any other visits? No, but if you can refresh my memory, did I put in a link to the Elvahome dorm website? In the minutes or? Oh, did I discuss that with the body? We touched over it last month, only trying to touch over it, but we can, we want to pull that up so we can move it as to the, you know, we can, we can give an update on that on what the website. We can do a well update on the next where at the next meeting. Right. I just like to make sure, you know, I have so much information flowing through my head. I can't remember what I've shared, what I have not, and so I want to make sure to do that and we can do it at the next meeting. Yeah, we can definitely put that on the agenda for the next meeting, which I feel like we'll have more members and it might be an opportunity for more, you know, comments, questions based on that website. So agenda item number seven is something that we discussed in the executive meeting. You know, again, I'm on the affordable housing implementation committee and, you know, part of their meetings, they do ask for public comment via the chat. And I felt like that was something that we needed to do better within this committee. We hope that people will want to attend our committee meetings and we hope that people have, you know, citizens have questions that they want answered based on the different experts we have to come speak or even questions that we can answer as a board. So we will now have a public questions and comment portion of our meeting for the community. If the community has questions, we give them this space to ask them. And so, no, if we have any questions or any any comment, Mr. Mr. Chair, just a point of order. So, you know, and I mentioned this in the executive committee, we have the ability to and have the link to join these meetings, the public to join these meetings, the way that you've referenced that occurs in the affordable housing implementation committee, but there are no there are no public participants right now in in the meeting. Now, the YouTube, the YouTube site would be, you know, is available and there may be comments on, you know, there but I'm not monitoring that. So I guess just to kind of give you some make sure you have the right information there that we do, we don't have anybody from the public that isn't this on this meeting right now. And so we'll move forward. Any announcements, any announcements from whether it be members or staff, you know, this is a, I don't have any announcements. However, you know, continue to promote this committee. All right, we we're trying, we're going to as an executive committee, we're going to try to make sure that we have the topics that as a board that was stated in that first meeting, we're going to have those topics. And, you know, I know that we can't control when people are sick and we can't control what's currently we can't control a lot of things can't control. But the power of this board is dependent on is on the power of the members that attend the meetings. And so, you know, I'm hoping that we will have all 14 14. I think we I don't know if we have any 13 or 14 15 Mr. Chair total is the 15 15 members and I don't know how many openings we still have. We have to two openings for the count to the county seats have openings right now. So if you know anybody who wants to get involved in boards and commissions, tell them to go through this through the county and apply. We want diverse lenses in voices in these meetings. I'm very, very crippled. There's a question. One quick question about the RP views, will Mr. Starr send us those opportunities as they are? Yes, I so that we can express interest. Yes, I will do that. Once once we have the timelines, you know, more firmly sort of developed and are at that point, I'll send I'll send requests for those opportunities to all the members of the committee. Awesome. All right. Any other announcements before we take a motion for a German? And I'll take a motion for a German. So moved. And I will see everybody October the total sum October, October the 25th, I think. Yes, October the 25th in your best Halloween costume if you celebrate. Just know that it has to be appropriate. And that I'll see y'all later. Councilmember Freelon, we appreciate your presence, my brother. Y'all have a good, good rest of your week. About to win the costume party. Thank you. All right. Bye.