 I'm going to do that now. Great. Oh, I heard it. Well, good. So yeah, this meeting serves two purposes. It's the closeout meeting for your 2020 grant and then the startup meeting for the 2021 grant. So just, I guess, starting with the first one that 2020 grant is, you know, you guys have all fully fully expended the grant, which is great. And you're all caught up on the quarterly reports and beneficiary reporting. So, you know, we're, we've closed it out on our end with the state. So there's not that much to report other than just a good job on spending the money and then thank you for doing their reporting in a timely manner and all of that. It really makes, makes our job easier too, because we are, we then have to send that out of the state. So it's, it's good. Glad to hear that. Yeah. Yeah, that's great news that everything is all set. If there's anything, if you find there's anything else that's needed or any questions that come up. Okay, yeah, yeah, I definitely will answer for the 2021 grant. I did receive your signed contract. So thanks for sending that to me and we have, you know, put that in our system and so that has that has a June 1 start date so if you've, you know, expended any funds on the grant, you can backdate those to June 1. And so, and that'll run for a 12 month timeline so through, through May 31 of 2023. Okay, great. Yeah. And so just a few things so it's a little weird with the June 1 start date the first quarter ends on June 30. So we'll ask for like a quarterly report on July 10. Yeah, you know, if you haven't expended any funds or done really started any activity yet you can, you know, it can be a sentence or just a paragraph long just saying, you know, no funds spent to date, or whatever, or just, you know, I imagine projects might, your activities might be are they less in the summer and more in the school year or is it vice versa actually I'm not sure but We have stuff happening in the summer. Yeah, we have our picnic in June so we can write about that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So yeah, obviously it's just that it'll be a it'll really be from June 1 to end of June so just whatever you've done at that point just we'll go for the beneficiary form to I'll be doing beneficiaries just for the month of June. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. That's good to know. Yeah. And then. Yeah, I think I've mentioned this before but just the beneficiaries reporting is is it's a cumulative number. So, you know, each time you submit a quarterly report. Along with that you'll submit the beneficiaries form and that number should reflect the total number of beneficiaries served from the beginning of the grant, rather than just that quarter that you're reporting on. The beginning of the new grant. Not reference to the prior year. Yeah, yeah, just from June 1. Okay. So I know it's a little weird for especially a program like yours where you have, you know, littles who are, you know, kind of ongoing clients are being served and so it's like, you know, you can kind of do a snapshot on June 1 of like everyone being served. And then, you know, as if the numbers, you know, increase from there, just report on that each each quarter, that total amount that have been served. So, so like as of June 1, the amount of matches that we're serving as of that date that are ongoing and active as of that date. And then that would be like the starting. Yeah, yeah. Great, that makes sense. And then, can you remind me do you guys do like intake forms for each new match. Okay, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Yeah, we have that sheet where they fill out like the median income and the rates and everything. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm going to be sending along HUD, they just updated their income limits for this year. So I'll be sending that out shortly just to all the agencies. And update those forms with the income limits for this year. And yeah, just to make sure you're keeping the intake forms on on file or somewhere, you know, just stored, because we haven't done it, or I haven't been a part of a site visit just because it's been coded but I know in the past Nate has done in person site visits with agencies to look at the intake forms and, you know, just make sure everything's programs running smoothly and all that so we might do that in the fall if COVID numbers seem normal or whatever. So, yeah, well that'd be great. Welcome to visit our new offices. Yeah. Yeah, so where are you guys, where are you located now. We're in Hadley at 220 Russell Street. Okay. Yeah, we've been here since just moved in last summer. Okay, still feels new for us. Right. Right. Yeah, so it's great to have a new home base established. Good. Yeah, absolutely. And so you're still working closely with the family center at the at the schools. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So that is that how you find most of the matches for this grant for the programs. That's how we find a lot of our Amherst matches. Yeah, other towns were in connection with other schools. Okay. Okay, gotcha nice. That sounds like a really good relationship you guys have with them serving. Yeah. Yeah, they've been a great source for ongoing referrals for a long time. Good. And then still maintaining a relationship with the university and is it Amherst College you work closely with as well, right? Yeah. Yeah, both UMass and Amherst College. Okay. We actually have a meeting with them tomorrow. Oh, good. Yeah, the community engagement and service learning department that has the course that, you know, where it's promoted to M matches mentors can, they don't have to attend the course, but it's something that's available to students who want to be mentors and get academic credit by engaging in this service learning course that's been offered. Right. Many years now. Right. So yeah, so we've been doing a series of meetings to get plans together and see, it's looked different over COVID or before COVID versus during and, you know, how it will look in the fall. So trying to figure out, you know, what can work best as figure out recruitment and, you know, COVID and the COVID impact, but it'll, it'll move forward and, you know, in some fashion, it just has evolved with all the changes. Right. Yeah, it seems like you guys were able to adapt really well. It was a struggle, but just without the virtual mentoring and I'm sure it was an ideal for, for both parties. But, you know, I'm glad to see that it, the program persisted and hopefully people, people still got a lot out of it. Definitely. Yeah. I had to be creative. A lot of flexibility involved for everyone involved, but I'm really proud that we're able to continue maintaining matches, making new matches, and keeping things going in ways that didn't always look the same. Right. Right. Alternatives to make it work. Good. And is there anything at, how are staffing levels and volunteer levels or? Yeah, well, we just hired a new case manager. I started with us last week. I'm really excited to be onboarding, onboarding her. Hopefully you'll get to meet her. It's okay. So, yeah, so that filling that role is definitely key to, you know, keep having us be able to continue our progress and move forward with more and more matching that we can do now that we're fully, our team is more fully assembled. Awesome. Well, good. I think. I'm just looking through quickly. Obviously you wrote this application almost a year ago, but, um, Took me some time to get used to all the numbers like that. This is the 2021 grant, even though it's the 22 to 23 grand. And then the new one that we'd be writing when the time comes would be for starting presumably in 2023 and go to 2024. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So for the next grant. They're actually, we actually just last week got some confirmation from the state that the grant will be due to the state in March. And it will be a two year grant. So it's actually going to, it's actually going to combine the 2022 and the 2023. Grants. And it'll be a 24 month like implementation period. Um, and so, and it's, they're also doubling the amount of funds available. So it'll be, um, Yeah. So the, the, usually the town gets $825,000 to allocate to, you know, agencies and for non-social service projects in this year. Or for this one, it'll be 1.65 million. That'll be allocated for the two year grant. Oh, well, that seems like really good news. So having a two year cycle. So you don't have to do it all again. Yeah. You know, it's good and bad because it gives for the agencies that do get funded, it gives them certainty that it'll be, you know, two years worth of funding. But for agencies that are not funded, it's two years of not, not being funded. Yeah. Depends on what's at the end of that year. Yeah. But at least, you know, at least. If you're not funded, it, it means, all right, like, you know, we need to, you can begin looking for, for alternative sources of funding. Yeah. And you know that, you know, that you'll need to fill that gap, you know, the following year. Cause with the one year cycles, it's like, you know, it's, it's, you don't really know each year to year. And it means you might, you know, it might not be seeking out other sources of funding. Right. That's true. Yeah. Anyway, but I'm going to say is the grant, the grant is due to the state in March. And as you know, there's kind of this like, almost like a six month, like public process and application review process that we go through. Yeah. So even though the project, the grant's not due till September, or still March, I think it'll be more like September that will begin in earnest with like the RFP and application process. Oh, okay. So it starts to develop in September with like a due date of, yeah, like the end of the calendar year or something like that. Probably we'll have grant applications due closer to November. And then because it's weird, they, they actually want, they want a preview of what projects you're going to be submitting as early as December, even though the grant's not due till March. It's really weird. So we're like, it's kind of means they, because they like, they like to comment and make sure everything is, you know, eligible for the application. So, yeah, we'll probably have, yeah, applications due more like November. So, that's good to know. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, great. Well, we'll definitely look out for the details on that. Yeah. I think we'll need to hold another public hearing similar to what we did last month to kind of hear from the community and get a sense of the priorities. That was still a useful hearing, but the state wants us to hold another one now that we have more information about the next year's grant, you know, it being a two year grant is important to know. So, yeah, I think we'll do that again, maybe in August or something. In August. Okay. Well, it's been really helpful attending this last few hearings. I've been part of and I look forward to hearing about the next one and joining into that as well. Definitely a great way to really understand the full scope of the process and all that goes into making that happen. Well, great. Well, it sounds like I know during that last hearing, it was very unclear what the timeframe would be and what the yeah, everything was out in the air. So now you really know a lot more. Yeah. It was a little bit in limbo. So we kind of had to hold that hearing in case they did not, not change anything. Right. But now that they have made this proposal, then we have a bit more certainty. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure everyone's glad all around to have, have more information to go on. Right. Right. Fantastic. Well, thanks for going over that. Yeah. Really, really helpful for us to know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and I guess it does mean there could be a little bit of a gap. So this, this grant. The current 2021 grant ends on May 31st. 2023. And so if. The block grant applications for the next round or due on, in March of 2023. We don't know exactly, but typically it, you know, it can take them like five months to get. You know, make their, their awards and get contracts up and running. So. You know, it might not be until like, you know, the fall really August of 2023, maybe even later that. The next grant round begins. So there could be, and we're kind of dealing with this too, because a part of my position is funded by block grant. So it's like, there, there's going to be a gap potentially in the, in the grants because they're pushing everything back. So just something to be aware of if, if, if, if you are, so if you're included as an, an activity in the next grant round, there will be a gap. So yeah. Yeah. That sounds like a gap of at least like three or four months, potentially. Yeah, depending on how it all works out. That's, yeah. Good to know that too. Yeah. The, the dates are definitely shuffling with it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great. So yeah, anyway, do you guys have any other questions? Can you think of anything Miranda? No, my main question was just the beneficiaries because as Ben knows, I kind of struggled with that, but. Oh, I remember that. Yeah, no, it's fine. Yeah. So yeah, just knowing the dates with the beneficiary form and who I'm filling it out for. Yeah. But I think I got that answered. Okay. Hopefully you receive a correct form this time. Yeah, no worries. Yeah. All right. That sounds good. Great. Well, we're, like I said before, we're just so incredibly grateful for this ongoing support and it's, you know, just critical to what we do as an agency and we deeply appreciate everything that you all do to mobilize this funding. And, you know, we're very honored to have been. We're very honored to have been here to receive the support for, for so many years now. So we're looking forward to continuing to, you know, to benefit and moving, you know, moving our mission forward. Absolutely. The support you all are providing. So. Yeah. Thank you. I'm very honored, extremely grateful and. Good. Look forward to the coming year and continuing to partner together. All righty. That sounds good. Thank you both for your time. Oh, thank you. Take care. All right. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks again. Thanks. Bye. Bye.