All right.

Well, good evening, everybody.

I'd like to call the City of Manasha Common Council meeting to order.

If you'd please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Seven are present.

If anybody wishes to speak during public comment, we just ask that you step up to the podium, state your first and last name address, and you do have five minutes.

Would anybody in the gallery wish to speak this evening for public comment?

All right.

Seeing none, we will move on to F, which is report of department officers, department heads, staff, and consultants.

And the first order of business this evening is F1 was which is presentations.

And the first is with the strong neighborhoods partnership opportunity with the Great Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity.

So I will turn the things over to Director Dane.

So we structured this as just a presentation today, and then our hope based on direction from the housing authority has made a recommendation that we put together a more formal proposal for a pilot program to work with habitat to deliver some uh additional home repair services for our homeowners.

So tonight is just a presentation, and then we anticipate coming back in a couple weeks with uh with a memorandum of understanding to uh establish a pilot program with habitat.

Um I guess before we get into the weeds on this, um home repair and housing is kind of a uh has always been a big part um in my career.

Um started off my first stint as a community development director in Arizona uh working for a community and and um established several um emergency home repairs, major home repairs, um established I think three or four housing programs during that time.

Um and when and reflecting back on it, what really made those programs work were the partnerships that we created with other nonprofits and entities that allowed us to really leverage our investment and have a much bigger impact than we would uh just going it alone.

So in coming into the city and taking a look at our department and where we're spending a lot of our time and resources, one of the areas is on our home repair program.

Um it's a fairly heavy lift for us to administer as a small department.

Um, and so just looking towards the future, uh wanted to explore some different opportunities for kind of um leveraging our our investment uh that we have through the strong neighborhoods program, and the thought was to try to do like a one-year pilot just to see how this partnership would work for um

uh

with habitat.

So the proposal in general is you know, as we looked at this, it's not really to change or modify our own existing strong neighborhoods program, but um the proposal will be coming back next next year is to do a pilot with habitat that would complement that and then give us some time to evaluate that over the year.

Um without further ado, I'm gonna introduce uh Amy McGowan and Doug Salmy, who are gonna come up here and just talk a little bit a little bit about Habitat for Humanity and kind of the broad outlines of what this partnership might look like

for you.

I'm

Amy McGowan, and I've been with Habitat for six and a half years.

I am the VP of uh donor services.

Hi

everybody, um Doug Salmy.

I'm the chief programming officer for habitat, and I've been there for nearly a year

now.

All right, thank you.

Um tonight, as Andrew said, we're here to talk about a potential partnership between us, um, really about amplifying the existing strong neighborhoods program of Manasha today.

Um

as you can see here, you know, we have a proposal of just creating a greater impact in Manasha through the collaboration of both of our efforts.

Uh we have many, many shared goals.

Uh, one of them was safe and attractive strong Manasha homes, uh, neighborhood pride, uh, much like the event you all just had with Project Front Porch a few weeks ago, neighborhood safety, ultimately just making sure that our families and the community have a safe and decent and affordable place to live.

Our program, our partnership is really heavy around educating homeowners, uh maintenance and relationships that it takes to have a successful home.

Uh,

we empower homeowners through our partnership and our existing programs, uh and it's something that we really really want to try to uh have a partnership with Manasha to continue to expand our dollars and our reach.

Next slide.

Yeah, why why habitat?

Just to give us a little history of what we've done here in the Greater Fox Cities, we serve as three and a half counties.

We service three and a half counties.

We are we are centered here in Manasha on Midway.

Our history here, we've done 24 rock the blocks in the Greater Fox Cities where we've amplified and beautified our neighborhoods.

We've built 345 homes, 731 homes repaired, and we've impacted 3,921 people.

We do know in the in home repair that there's an extensive wait list.

And we really want to try to find unique partnerships that we can get to that wait list as fast as possible.

And

for Menasha, here's the impact of what we've been able to achieve already.

And so Habitat for Humanity, we are committed to Menasha.

We've done eight projects so far.

We've invested 511,000 in those projects.

We've built 71 homes here in Manasha that we're really proud of.

And we've already repaired 162.

So you know, our commitment to Menasha investment is north of 12 million dollars for the history of our affiliate.

And all of those dollars have been to families under 80% AMI, average medium income.

And you know, we all know the housing crisis.