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Well, I have a very uh a very brief introduction to make mainly um so we can get to all this exciting update that uh uh Aileen and Amanda are going to share with us uh and Adam.

But the one thing that I'm really excited about this because the Dayton Home Repair Network was an innovation that came out of us coming together around COVID and the ARPA funding.

And you know, we all sat around the table afterwards and said, why didn't we think about this a long time ago?

Um, but at least we thought about it when we did.

And so I think that this is um just uh an amazing collaboration and really does show off our superpower really well.

You know, we are collaborative, uh, the most collaborative region that uh I know of.

And so this collaboration is a perfect example of that and of the innovation work we do when we come together to solve problems.

So I will leave it at that, and I will turn it over for all the exciting updates.

Thank you, Shelley.

Good evening, Commissioners and Mayor.

Um, thank you for your time today.

My name is Eileen Hall.

I am the executive director of Dayton Energy Collaborative, and I chair the Dayton Home Republic.

I'm the neighbor care director at rebuilding together Dayton, and I am the co-chair of the direct mine.

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And I am the chair of the dating program network.

My name is Amanda Harrelson, and I am the neighbor care director at Rebuilding Together Data, and I am the co-chair of the Data Homecare Network.

I also want to acknowledge that we have some other third executive committee members behind this.

Thank you all.

Um so today we're going to provide you an update on the work that we have completed in 2025, and that's our 2026, especially highlighting the dollars that have come from the city of Dayton.

And then also going into our collective strategy to address the high level of need that um is in the community for home repair work.

Um, and express the the importance of this partnership with the city of Dayton.

So, first, as a reminder of who we are, you know, the Dayton Home Repair Network is a coalition of organizations uh collaborating to provide critical home repairs, weatherization, energy efficiency measures to underresource, typically income qualifying residents of the Dayton region.

Um we are not a separate nonprofit, but rather a collective of nonprofits found by an MOU and an admission.

So our goal is to leverage our shared resources to ensure that we leave no vital projects incomplete.

Um here are a breakdown of all the network partners in late 2025 to open the new partner, which is Yellow Springs Company, after their leadership made a commitment to complete more home repair work in the Dayton area.

So we have a five total home repair programs, one weatherization program, two workforce development partners, one facilitator organization, which is the Dayton Energy Collaborative, and one capacity sponsored partner, which is the City of Dayton.

So I wanted to talk about kind of the entry point for the Dayton Home Repair Network, which uh we operate and cost at Dayton Energy Collaborative.

So we serve as the clearing off the residents.

So anyone in the Dayton area can call us and we take them through the screening process to see which uh dating home repair network programs that they need to be eligible for.

And if they're eligible, we help those individuals um brought them to the universal application for the Durham, and then we offer application support.

This past year, like we find the city granted Dayton Energy Fibonacci funding to staff our entity team so that we could handle the capacity or have the capacity to handle the ID in the community.

I'm also successfully operate as the clearinghouse for the six programs that are in the Dayton Home Repair Network.

So I included numbers here from 2025 and 2026 to see the increased capacity that we have and um the increase in clients that we're serving.

So you see that in 2025, we had an average of 40 clients that have existed per month, and now we serve an average of 147 clients a month, which is an 11% increase.

Um that is due to the increase in staff, which are the very thing before.

It also reflects one, the high need in the community, but it also reflects, which is a really good thing, the higher awareness of the home repair network and data and energy private is at entry point.

It's streamlined processes.

People don't have to call several different organizations.

And so I think that it's shown a lot of success with that.

And it also shows that moving forward, we have a really good partnership and people in the community that trust us and are willing to work with us as we have strategies to address the high need in the community.

So the next few slides will take you through the numbers of houses that we actually completed home repairs on in 2025 and 2026 and a leverage funding of the network.

So in 2025 and 2026, we helped over 600 households with in 2026, we are almost at the total number that we assisted in 2025, which really demonstrates the increased capacity of our partners.

I also want to highlight that about 95% of the households we serve across all the partners are within the city of Dayton limits, even though most of the programs do serve county and beyond Hong Kong County.

And this really reflects the highest level calls are from the city of Dayton.

We know with some of the oldest housing stack and under maintained.

And so we consistently do hear that higher need from our neighbors to get the city of Dayton.

So last year collectively, we invested over $7 million into the 368 houses that were assisted.

So far, this year through July, we have collectively spent about $3.7 million.

And one of the most impactful results of the collaboration is how we leverage those dollars.

The funding this funding combination is uh 34 different brands.

They're federal, county, city, philanthropic, corporate banks, etc.

Um, so our dollars go further within the DERN because we are rarely just utilizing one funding source on a house.

So if you look at the next slide, um you can see these are all of the grants that we have leveraged so far in 2026, um, which just shows the need for home repairs is critically high.

So we know that the need is critically high.

Um, and we're all aware that I think we're our group is best suited to understand that we are in houses every day, we receive the calls every single day, and we have the wait list.