Welcome to our study session for Tuesday, June twenty-fifth, twenty twenty-four.

And we have the pledge downstairs, so we'll go straight into our study session items and we'll go on to the presentation on Legacy Foundation updates.

City Manager Martinez introduce our guests.

Rihann and Yavett are here to give an update on all of the great things the Legacy Foundation is doing this year.

And with that, I will turn it over to them.

Thank you, Mr.

Martinez, City Manager.

Thank you, everybody, for joining us or allowing us to join you tonight for your study session.

My name is Yvette Martinez, and I've been a member of the Brighton Legacy Foundation.

I'm I am proud to say from the beginning with Wilma Rose.

And I took a couple of years off or so, and um and have come back, and to my right is our co-chair Rihanna Collins.org.

And uh keep in mind that we as a foundation always are mindful that our applicants are indeed serving the residents of Brighton, our community, our children, our elderly, our hungry, our homeless.

And so as we read through grant applications, we definitely want to make sure that we are good stewards of the monies that you endow the foundation.

So you'll see the list of grant recipients in 2023 and the amounts each that each received from the legacy foundation so with that I'll turn it over to our co-chair, Rihanna Collins.

Thanks, Yvette.

Okay, if you will take a peek at this new flyer that we handed out, you've got your 2024 grant recipients in your packet.

This one is a little bit updated.

Um some of the numbers were a little bit off, so we went ahead and made some updates.

So this does show our 2024 grant recipients.

Um I do want to point out um Calvary Chapel that was awarded the 10,000 and then in the emergency grant recipients of a thousand is um our food bank here in town.

Just to clarify, that's Calvary Chapel um food bank.

So you'll also see um on this paper that we were also able to do some youth funding.

We've um got some recipient um recipients of our mini grants that we were able to do as well.

Um our total funding for 2024 that we were able to award was 145,000.

So the majority of that funding is coming from the city.

We are um as a as an organization, we are not really equipped to do large amounts of fundraising.

So we do a little bit here and there.

We work with Lulus in the fall at their Chili Fest.

We provide their liquor license for them, and they in exchange provide us $750 for that.

We do we've done Amazon Smiles in the past.

We have all of our board of directors have um Brighton Legacy Foundation as their nonprofit of choice for King Supers.

So that does bring us um a little bit every quarter, but we are depending on the city for the majority of this funding.

So, like I mentioned, 145,000 is what we were able to grant for 2024.

The amount of grants requested, however, for 2024 was 161,500.

So that brings me to what I want to kind of touch on.

Um now I'm gonna talk about year over year what we've been able to afford just for the last couple of years, what we've been able to award, and what has been requested of us.

So for 2021 to 2023, we had funding um available to us of 110,000.

We got a really nice bump last year and 2024 up to 150,000, which allowed us to of course grant um more of those requests that are coming in.

So I'm just gonna go through the numbers here really quickly on what we were able to award and um what was requested for the last couple of years.

So 2021, we awarded 107,525 requested was just under 145,000.

In 2022, we awarded 12400 requested was just over 140,000.

In 2023, we awarded 105,000.

Requested was just over 155,000.

So like I mentioned, um, we got that really nice bump um up to 150,000 in 2024.

So that funding is incrementally increasing.

Um, as you are aware from those numbers that we just talked about, the grant requests are also increasing along with those funding increases.

We want to continue to meet the needs of our nonprofits in our community, and we need the city's help to do this.

Myself and our board of directors would like to recommend a 10% increase in funding for an amount of $15,000.

This will allow us to um more effectively fulfill our grant requests and in turn meet the needs of our community.

That's okay.

It was good timing, Ann.

All right.

Councilmember Green.

Thank you, Mayor.

Couple questions.

What percentage are the admins cost?

Admin costs we set aside $5,000 every year.

Okay, so minor.

And if I could add, um council member green, over the last um Katrina, correct me if I'm wrong, please.

20 years, we have kept that at 5,000.