25th, 2026.

Uh the code is called role.

I'm just going to go to all the last numbers with the exception of New York.

Okay, well, let's just jump on and have some discussion items tonight.

Uh let's begin with human and community services grant funding and policy.

So Ms.

Esper.

Okay.

Yep, take it away and we're all yours.

So we've talked about this at uh one of the last work studies, and my goal for tonight is to get council direction on we would want to support human services and cultural arts organizations.

If so, in our policy, can we develop a process that provides clarity and transparency and also fiscal sustainability for the city?

And the third goal would be can we decide with council direction on the company model?

I think with that last book, there were three different types of models that we have used.

One is the percentage of the general fund, second is um per capita, and third is service cost units.

So um and the one that provided the most critical sustainable review is maybe seven to five funds.

So in the draft, and then totally as a draft, um policy to talk about background and why we provide have provided in the past grant funding and provide photography for our community records,

and

the purpose of my just some um sentences that I thought stood out as far as um really supporting to find the type of policy, and one is that by having this policy and then deciding we want again we want to think forward um to find your model and the process demonstrates our commitment to the community and services and cultural needs, and it also just establishes consistent and sustainable funding plan, and we have to balance the needs of our fiscal sustainability with the needs of the community organizations, so that is a good

one.

Um

it is available to all nonprofit organizations.

We have a core group that have applied every year and received funding.

There are other agencies that are interested in applying, and there is support from the other organizations to have them apply, even though they know that if there's one either they have to cut the pieces a little bit smaller, but they would rather have those agencies and other specifications recognized for the work that they do in the support fund.

Um procedures again, they are uh welcome to apply, and then we uh have a human services and cultural evidence committee that would review the applications after the development september 14th, and then based on the rubric, would it make recommendations to the to the mayor

for the funding, and then the mayor would make recommendations.

So we are gonna have a couple of options.

So one do we need accepted this to happen?

Um the funding allocation model was based on sales tax and sales taxes one is that contribute to the general fund.

So the percentage of that based on the amount that we have provided so far is about 5.8 percent of sales tax the last three years, and so if we were going to just focus on one fund, um moving forward, the suggestion was that we focus this besides the sales if we want to look that general fund in a broader sense and there are many funds that contribute to the general

fund,

we're ready to look, and if we look at those five things and take just those to make up the general fund,

then

percentage about those advanced would be funds, and that's the second.

So

if we looked at those five funds, it would have 1.5 percent, but it could based on that um sort of points we have for doing some of the cultural parts.

Again, what our nation has done is that any organization that receives grant funding, they have to set to the council for their standard of the money and how it is.

We don't have that, but we do have organizations that want based on the funding needs.

Yeah,

maybe more of

a historical one.

I want to say

that Tiger makes any differentiations between funding for what versus funding for sustained support, I guess on a

I

understand.

Okay.

Um is that something that would be part of this, for example, uh speak on behalf of the nonprofit back and all those there's certain things that that uh organization needs that are kind of one-time investments that are for the community betterment for that facility.

Um, but then there's also funding that they need for ongoing maintenance and operations.

So given that those are two kind of financial needs for that organism about organization, um would this be a certain level of prioritization one versus the other, or should they only go out for one versus you know, is it or does it matter?

Like, hey, do you need 50,000 dollars to pay the driver or update the bathrooms to make them APA compliant?

You know, things like that, those are one-off costs.

Um how does that factor into this, or does

it

I think it could now for one thing we want to base the funding of our budget cycle, so we were changing it from one year to two years so that there's it follows the budget.

Um and I think at the end of that two year, you can apply things.

I mean the committee would have a blueprint depending on what the priorities are.

The priorities for human services are based in a community survey that was done about three or four years ago.

So all we use is that we use it um information, and so those results determined the different areas.

Oh yeah, we're due for another survey that go out and say it has the have the needs of our community changed, and then we would base the rubric on that.

Um, and so as far as the committee can develop a group, but I could distinguish between ongoing for the fundamental, and then you would evaluate each application based on

that.