All right, good morning.

We'll call today's housing, urban development, and zoning committee meetings order.

Madam Clerk, please call the role.

Ottawa and cohn.

Ottawa Miss Weitzer.

Vice Chair Sonyer.

Other and Browning.

Present.

Alderman Aldrich.

Vice Vice Chair Sonyer.

President.

Alderman Browning.

Ottawa and Aldrich.

Present.

Chair Clark Hubbard.

Here.

Automants, Ottawa Ms.

Weitzer.

We have five present.

We have a core.

All right, with that, I'll accept a motion to approve the minutes from Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Second.

Madam Clerk, it was moved by Alderman Browning and seconded by Alderman Aldridge.

Can you please call the role?

Altaman Cone.

Ottawa Ms.

Weitzer.

Vice Chair Sonyer.

Aye.

Ottauman Browning.

Aye.

Altaman Aldridge?

Aye.

Chair Clark Hubbard?

Aye.

Alta Woman Sweiser.

We have five I votes.

All right, with that, we successfully approved the minutes from Tuesday 14th, uh, October 14th.

I'm gonna pass it over to Alderman Cohn so that I can be recognized on board bill.

Thank you, Otterman Cone.

Madam Clerk, can you please read the summary for Board Bill 84?

A board bill recommended by the Board of S apportionment authorizing the mayor to submit the 2026 annual action plan to the United States Department of Urban and Housing and Urban Development, authorizing and directing the mayor and the commandroller to enter into an execute agreements with HUD for the recipient of 2026 Community Development Block Grants, 2026 Home Investment Partnership, 2026 Emergency Solution Grant, and 2026 Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS funds appropriating C D C D B Gome S ESG and HOWPA grant funds authorizing the director of the community development administration, Department of Human Services, and Department of Health to make negotiate and execute contracts as may be necessary to expand funds and containing severality and emergency clauses.

Thank you so much, Madam Clerk.

We know that this is an annual action plan that we do every year here down at the City of St.

Louis through CDA and hear it through our HUS committee, but I'm excited today to hear it even more because of the alignment that I know it's gonna have and the fierce urgency we have now as the city is going through recovery and rebuilding from the May 16th tornado.

So seeing how we can pull from wherever we can to see hope of rebuilding, um, I think is what we are all committed to.

So with that, I'm gonna bring up Director Pfeffer and his team for his presentation.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and good morning, honorable committee members.

My name is Noelle Pfeffer.

I lead the city's community development administration.

I'm joined by our director of compliance, Rashonda Alexander, uh, and uh my executive assistant who keeps me sane, Kevin Ellison.

Um as Alder Woman Clark Hubbard uh noted, this is an annual appropriation.

So uh you all have seen and are familiar uh, I think with the process, so we'll keep this presentation uh by popular request short and sweet with plenty of room uh for questions.

But just as a roadmap, we'll start with an overview of uh CDA's work and in particular CDBG formula funds before diving into the 2026 annual action plan.

Um as you all know, CDA serves as a clearinghouse for a variety of federal, state, and local funds.

We support affordable housing, social services, and much more.

CDA was founded in 1974 out of the consolidation of a variety of city development agencies to administer HUD dollars.

1974 is when the community development block grant was first created.

And in fact, if the funding had been indexed to inflation back in the 1970s, the city, instead of receiving about $18 million a year in CDBG funds, would receive closer to $90 million a year.

And so it just speaks to the importance of maintaining these funds.

And I will include a brief update on the federal landscape.

Well, actually, I can provide that now to say that we have seen this program continue to evolve at the federal level.

And then when it went over to the Senate, the Senate restored funding in full to the home program to $1.25 billion while proposing a cut to CDBG from $3.3 billion to $3.1 billion.

And that proposed cut is why we do estimate that our allocation for 2026 will be about 5% lower this year than it has been in years past.

To be clear, we do not know at this point where the final appropriation will be.

Of course, we're in the midst of a shutdown, and so we don't know where the House and Senate and White House will ultimately find a reconciliation.

But we do expect that CDBG and home will continue to be funded as both the Senate and the House did move to restore that funding almost entirely in full.

Let me know after if you have any questions pertaining to that.

I'll move on now to next slide where just a little overview of CDA's operational structure.

We have a fiscal team, a compliance team and construction team.

Our fiscal team is really the engine that works to deploy funds.

And we've grown a lot in our capacity over the last five years.

Between 2020 and 2022, we deployed an average of a little over 20 million dollars in funds every year.

In 2023, we deployed over 37 million.

And in 2024, we deployed over 58 million.

So pretty dramatic growth, more than doubling, nearly tripling funds dispersed to the community.

And we anticipate to continued growth in 2025.

So our fiscal team is doing amazing work, as are our compliance and construction teams.

Our compliance team really administers the action planning process and is responsible for the action plan that we are presenting today.

And our construction team really manages implementation of the housing elements of our action plan, including both housing construction and home repair.

Just a word on the impact of this work and of federal funds.

I think it's really important in the current context to really be clear about how impactful these federal resources are.

And we produced an impact report, which we published earlier this year and includes this graphic, which is limited to HUD programs and shows the thousands of folks who have received food assistance, who have received youth services, senior services, who have received workforce development support and job training and affordable housing and much more through federal funds and through our work.

And I when I say our work, I really want to be clear that CDA does very little directly.

Our work is really driven by our partners, by the nonprofits, by the developers that implement these programs on the ground.

So we're very grateful to them and proud of all their incredible work.

And there's a great map as well that you can explore to learn more about this work, should you be interested in exploring further.

And a few pictures here.

These are just a few of the housing developments across the city funded with HUD dollars.

We've got for sale single-family homes, a rehab at 8706 Aneta in Baden, a new construction in the West End.

We've got the new doorways campus, which is now open, as well as the forthcoming new Benton Park Place on the corner of Arsenal and Jefferson.

And then finally on the bottom, we have one of the several buildings, nine buildings, I believe, that make up Marquette homes on 3600 South Grand, where that's being funded by 1.25 million of home dollars.

And again, you can see a map of kind of detailing how these funds are distributed to the right there.

So to kind of provide a very basic overview, we have four entitlement programs here in the city of St.

Louis.

An entitlement program is a program that the city is entitled to funding by right.

We receive these funds automatically, provided that we comply with the basic compliance requirements, which I'll detail in a future slide.

But these four programs are CDBG funds, that's about $18 million a year.

This year probably closer to $17.5 million.

And that is the most flexible source of funding, provided that you are benefiting persons of low and moderate income, eliminating slums and blight, or meeting an urgent need.

I should note that we do have to allocate 70% of CDBG funds, at least 70% towards benefiting persons of low and moderate income.

And also that we have to allocate, we can only allocate up to 20% of our CDBG funds to planning and administration, and we can only allocate up to 19% of our CDBG funds for public services and public services are consistently our most popular, most applied for category of funding.

Home funds, about $3 million a year may only be used to produce housing.

Emergency solutions grant funds are only used to serve unhoused individuals or individuals at risk of losing their housing with supportive services, permanent housing outreach, more, and HOA funds are really for families living with HIV and AIDS.

And HOPWA funds are administered by the Department of Health, and ESG funds are administered by the Department of Human Services, although CDA acts as the quarterback for all of these in terms of reporting to HUD.

And when we talk about 70% of CDBG funds that need to be used to serve low to moderate income households, what is low to moderate income?

That's under 80% of area median income.

So for an individual, that's going to be $57,800.

For a family of four, that's going to be $82,550.

And so what you see is that even though we're talking about these folks is low to moderate income, by I think most characteristics, most definitions, these are solidly middle class folks that we are serving with CDBG funds.

Moving on to the process through which we allocate these funds, essentially it starts with our consolidated plan, and we provided a much longer presentation last year as to the contents of our 2025 to 2029 consolidated plan, which was submitted to HUD on November 15th of 2024.

Then that's the five-year consolidated plan.

Then each year we produce an action plan for how we are going to implement and fulfill the objectives of the consolidated plan.

And so that 2026 action plan is produced subject to a public hearing where we solicit input on our funding priorities, a request for proposals process, which closed on September 5th, and which received an unprecedented volume of applications through our new Salesforce application portal.

And now the process we're in now of appropriating these funds.

Once this appropriation is complete, we'll also hold an additional public hearing and then submit the action plan to HUD.

The action plan needs to be submitted 45 days before the beginning of the program year, and that program year runs from January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026.

Once we submit that action plan and HUD approves it, they will then send us a grant agreement.

Typically, this does not come until much later in the year.

And then we are also required after we implement that action plan, we are we provide a consolidated annual performance and evaluation report, a CAPER, 90 days after the end of the program year, essentially telling HUD what we accomplished.

So in short, we have a five-year plan where we tell HUD what we want to do.

We have a one-year plan, action plan where we tell HUD this is what we're going to do, then we do it, and then 90 days after we report out here's what we accomplished.

So another way to state all that more specifically for this year is that on July 3rd of 2025, we posted the timeline.

We held our first public hearing on July, I believe 18th.

We issued the RFP inviting nonprofits and others to apply for our funds in early August 1st, 2025, that closed September 5th.

And now we're going to be subject to appropriation submitting the action plan November 14th of 2025, and we hope to receive HUD approval in early 2026, and with programs launching in 2026.

And something important to note about how this works as well is I note that programs are launching in quarter one of 2026, but we may not have a grant agreement with HUD until later in 2026.

Essentially, the way the process works is that our partners incur costs, submit those to the city once their contracts are executed.

The city pays out and incurs costs.

And then once we have our agreement with HUD, HUD pays the city, right?

So in the same way that our sub-recipients operate on a reimbursement basis where they incur costs and then we pay them, the city operates on a reimbursement basis with respect to HUD, where the city incurs costs that are then reimbursed by HUD.

So with that, with no further ado, we'll get to what our 2026 action plan actually allocates resource towards.1 billion.

And this is allocated with 19% going towards public services, 1.87 million going towards interim assistance and code enforcement.

And this is really focused on maintaining LRA properties and operation Brightside Neighborhood Beautification efforts, 300,000 towards the commercial facade improvement program, 3.5 million roughly towards homeowner assistance.

That includes both home repair as well as down payment assistance, 3 million towards housing production and rehabilitation, 1.7 million towards economic development initiatives, 500,000 towards public improvements, and 3.5 million, approximately 20% towards planning and administration.

More specifically, we are providing 31 public services awards.

As I noted, this was kind of an it's always competitive, but this was even more competitive than usual.

We received 96 applications of these 64 were complete, and of these 31 were awarded for public services.

And so just a little bit kind of insight into how this process works in the interest of transparency.

Essentially, everyone who submits an application, that application is reviewed, and our team does a completeness and eligibility review.

Then for every project that is complete and eligible, every project that is complete and eligible is rated by three independent CDA staff and blindly.

So no one knows each other's ratings as they are rating.

We average out those ratings and also weight them so that if there's some individuals who are more generous with their points than others, that doesn't wind up punishing the programs themselves.

And then we uh sort them.

And essentially what we did this year and what we do every year is that we set thresholds whereby we say everyone's scoring this year was everyone scoring above 90 points is going to have their uh request awarded in full up to 200,000.

And we did cap awards at 200,000, or you would have seen a lot fewer awards because people made some very high requests.

Um and something that's very important to us as well is maintaining support for folks that we have funded for a long time, because uh one of the things about CDBG funds and HUD dollars is that they're sticky, they're difficult to deploy, they take time, especially for folks to build that capacity.

And so when there are programs that have grown to rely on these funds for often years, if not decades, uh we treat uh rescinding that funding very seriously.

Um, and that's why we set that threshold of 90 points for all applications, and then for previously awarded applications, we set a threshold of 80 points to just maintain their funding at their current level.

And so that's how we arrived at these 31 awards.

I'm not going to speak to them all individually because that would take much too long.

Um, but you can see here and in these future slides.

The only two that I will point out are our two uh new CDBG grantees, Operation Food Search, which is running a tornado recovery food assistance program that is obviously all the more uh essential and critical uh in the wake of uh an anticipated interruption to SNAP benefits, um, as well as uh Peter and Paul Community Services Ugen Shelter at the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Uh those are only two new awards uh to new organizations this year.

Um although Guardian Angel and Criminal Justice uh Ministry did receive um some uh an additional each an additional award as well, but they were previously being awarded funds.

Um here are our remaining public services awards, and with that uh I'll turn back to interim assistance.

Um we uh increased funding for the land reutilization authority from one million uh where it was last year to 1.5 million in anticipation of the additional ARPA funds that were allocated uh running out, and so we want to try and as much as possible uh maintain uh an expanded maintenance schedule.

Um, and then you also see funding there uh for operation bright side.

Um one thing I'll note is that while unfortunately we were not able, this is their historic level of funding.

They did request an additional $65,000 in funding, taking them from $370 to $435,000.

Unfortunately, we are not able to uh find the funds for this request at this time, but I'm very hopeful that uh either through another source of funds um or uh either at CDA or elsewhere that that we can uh continue to support that program, and we are supporting them at our historic levels.

In addition, uh you can find here our housing uh allocations, including uh 172,500 for down payment assistance um and funding for our home repair program, which includes support to Mission St.

Louis and the building division, uh, as well as the home repair program loan pool, which is being maintained at its historic levels, as well as uh funding for affordable housing production and preservation, where between CDBG and home, um we are allocating uh $4.3 million, which will then be uh awarded pursuant to ANOFA in spring 2026.

Uh on economic development, um, we are continuing to to fund SLDC's economic development programs and Justine Peterson, which has historically managed a CDBG uh micro lending program, and we're also making new awards uh to T Rex and Upwards Care, um, which are both going to be supporting small businesses, uh upwards care, small child care providers, um, and TREX uh entrepreneurs uh in particular uh in around GIS.

So we're excited to support both these new programs um and uh to see uh our small businesses uh continue to grow.

Uh and then finally we do have our facade program, whereby uh CDA provides small uh grants up to $50,000 uh to small businesses uh for facade improvements.

And then finally, we are continuing to support um the uh overhaul and and and redevelopment of the Clinton Peabody uh development um and we're excited to support here a holistic approach that goes beyond the buildings um to also improve the streets and sidewalks uh around it.

Um finally we have our planning and administration funding, um, which includes CDA admin, our team, the Comptroller's Office, federal grants team, the planning department's admin team uh and and planning team.

We support a lot of neighborhood planning through this program, uh SLDC's uh capacity building program and the city counselor's office um legal support that they provide.

Um and with that, the last thing I'll note uh from a compliance perspective is that we are currently in our 30-day public comment period, um, and that public comment period ends November 12th, 2025.

Uh, and we invite the public to attend a public hearing in person or virtually on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 1520 Market Street at 1045 a.m.

Uh, there's also the Zoom link info provided.

Um, and the public can always comment um in writing at CDBG at St.

Louis-MO.gov.

Um, and so we welcome those comments and and also welcome the committee's questions at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

There we go.

All right.

Thank you for that uh presentation.

Uh Noelle, and uh we'll take questions from the committee.

Um I believe Alderwoman Keys is online.

Alder Woman Keys.

We'll give her a minute, Alderman Browning.

Okay, can you see me?

Oh, now I can.

Oh, now I can.

Okay.

No, I do not have any questions.

Always uh happy uh to hear about the great things that uh Noel and his team are doing.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Alderman.

Alderman Browning.

Thank you, Director.

I really appreciate the presentation as well as just the things that the thoughtfulness and care in which you try to allocate these dollars.

Um I uh understand the different scoring mechanisms this year and uh necessity of tidying our belts and figuring out where we can put things.

Um, but I just wanted to ask about one of my favorite organizations, which is the legal services of eastern Missouri, and saw that they're not receiving funds this year.

Is that correct?

And can you explain a little bit?

Yeah, absolutely.

Um so the legal services of Eastern Missouri has not historically been funded with CDBG, and in fact, to my knowledge, Roshanda, keep me honest, did not submit an application for CDBG funds.

So we we cannot fund programs that we don't receive applications for uh unless those programs are municipal programs led by city departments.

Historically, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has been funded through SLDC through a non-federal source of funds.

Um however, I am aware of the need for additional funding for the legal services of eastern Missouri.

Um and uh I have offered one idea uh as to a potential source, um, specifically uh the vacant building fund um that was recently established um subject to uh public vote and and follow the legislation.

Um and so uh we do anticipate uh receiving a portion of those funds, the legislation provided that um CDA would receive, I believe 50% of those funds uh to um uh initiatives designed to reduce vacancy and and and vacant buildings.

Uh and so that's something that I've proposed, and and I'm looking for confirmation from the city councillor's office that that's an eligible use of those funds.

Um and if so, um, we would love to work with legal services of eastern Missouri to support their work.

Thank you.

I I appreciate that answer.

It makes sense to me.

Um it strikes me that keeping people from being evicted would be a way to reduce vacancy.

So um that you know it I always view this two sides of the same coin that vacancy is a lack of people.

And I know that they do such a great job of helping people.

Uh so I really appreciate um you looking out and continuing to look for ways to get them funding and um just appreciate the way you go about your your job.

Thank you.

That's very kind, thank you.

Alderman Aldridge.

Thank you.

No questions.

I like to be at as a co-sponsor.

Thank you.

So nodding.

Uh Madam Clerk, is Alderwoman Sonier online?

Yes, she is.

Oh, I'm sorry, Alderwoman.

Um, hi, Cindy, hello direct fairly nice to see you.

Um my questions are uh first of all, thank you for all the work you're doing.

Um and my question is really just you know, I was very happy to see the amount of kind of food access things that we have found in this time, especially with the anticipated cuts to the SNAP program and also participated through the free reviews lunch program that we have in our schools.

I mean, I saw that there's about a total of 321,355 funding.

I'm just curious in general and something for the test that they're saying at the federal level.

I know you kind of alluded to it earlier, and you know, some of the new information that's coming, which uh federal government shut down.

Um serious in general about ways you've seen.

Have you seen like weather surge in applicants from certain organizations around certain causes?

And then a specific question around a few excess use and um any opportunities you see that maybe in your features to uh to fund those efforts.

That is um, you know, we have a lot of folks in our city.

I think there's like a 40% over the Consortes I'm gonna see um is kind of just Alderwoman.

Alder Woman, Sonia.

Uh you're uh slightly muffled on our end, and when you're couple that with your very fast cadence of speaking, we we aren't getting a lot of what you're saying.

I uh I think some of us are picking up that you're talking about the SNAP benefits being eliminated on the state, but uh we're you're talking very fast and it's very muffled on our end.

So we're we're not picking up most of what you're saying.

That's better.

Okay, thank you.

Um I was just making note that I saw that about 321,000 dollars on the bond, so food food uh pantry, the other organization is a food access.

And I was asked given the political assignments that we see where there are opportunities to like care and I see to help with that redemption and just a jingle question.

I know you needed some further area if you're sort of serving specific social service when there's food or more housing access, just curious about um more information that we might be inserting through about this application process and funding.

So I'm gonna try to interpret that because the chair lady just asked if you could send an email uh because you're still a little muffled on our end.

But uh it sounded to me as though she was uh asking about this services component to CDBG funding and what are we doing to address the anticipated you know shortfalls with respect to SNAP.

If there's something else, Alder Woman, if you could just send an email to myself and I'll make sure that it's it's covered.

But I I think that that was the kind of uh basis of your your question here.

So and uh thank you, Alder Woman, for the question.

I I also unfortunately was not able to hear precisely the dollar figure that you were referencing at one point.

Um but uh I can speak a little bit uh to public services challenges and the food assistance that we provide.

Um last year in 2024, um over a thousand five hundred um city residents um received CDBG funded food assistance.

Um and we have for some time now funded um Northside uh youth and senior services, Guardian Angel, Mission St.

Louis, um, the St.

Louis Area Agency on Aging, which in turn also funds Wesley House, um, and various other food pantries, including now Operation Food Search, um, that were excited to add, uh, in particular for their focus on tornado recovery food assistance.

Um, but the truth is, of course, that uh that there's more need.

Um one of the constraints that we face is that under CDBG, uh, we are not allowed to allocate more than 19% of our C D BG funds towards public services.

And that's where food assistance falls is an eligible activity.

And so we are very constrained on the public services side, which is why it's always our most competitive um uh funding round.

Um, and that's where uh again, if there are any opportunities for for additional funding, um, certainly CDA DHS and the St.

Louis Area Agency on Aging and even the Affordable Housing Commission, we all fund different types of programs uh associated um with food.

Um we're also funding for the first time through ARPA um some food growing initiatives such as the Grow Farm uh and um and I believe the Affordable Housing Commission is also funding HOSCO um and other uh kind of urban agriculture initiatives.

Um and so I think that's an exciting uh uh development in recent years, but uh unfortunately we are limited in terms of how we can deploy CDBG funds to support that.

Did that answer your question?

I've sent a question to both chair uh chair the chairman and also auditing the following.

Okay.

Uh she says that she sees that 321,355 being funded.

What opportunities do you see for meeting this need and what social services have been has you have you seen an increase for giving the state and federal cuts whether food access, housing, or other critical survival social programs.

Um that 321,000 was for food access specifically.

Um, but in this funding that what they have allocated, she wants you to know she's happy to see that.

Yes, and now I understand that the 321,000 seems to be you putting together the different agencies, right?

That we're funding.

I understand now.

Thank you.

Um so yes, we we did expand our funding for food assistance.

It is something that we consider uh more essential than ever.

Um, but I do think that we are seeing across the board certainly um the effects of the government shutdown in terms of uh the impact on uh access to these essential services.

I think uh SNAP is one of the most salient.

I'll share that um thankfully we have been able to continue uh we have continued to draw down funds um from HUD um more or less uh uh uh according to traditional processes.

There was a brief point in late October when um we uh had a processing pause that that worried us a little bit, but we were able to um get draws in before that pause and and continue processing them on the housing side.

There are some deals that are being slowed down because HUD cannot provide requisite approvals of such as environmental review or rad conversions or others, but it's not having as immediate an impact um as obviously it is in the case of food stamps and and access to food.

So I think a trend that we're going to see in the coming years is um as the federal government retreats from certain areas and and from providing certain services.

Um it's incumbent on us at the local level to be strategic in terms of how we can uh deploy our limited resources to help fill uh some of those gaps uh in order to protect our residents uh and uh and ensure that basic needs are met.

Um but yes, food assistance is a critical need, and that is why we we did increase it this year.

Thank you, Mandy, and this co-sponsor.

So noted.

Any further questions?

Seeing none, uh thank you again.

I also would like to be added as a co-sponsor, Madam Clerk.

So noted.

And uh anything that you'd like to close with, Madam Chair on Board Bill 84.

No, um don't have any questions other than that.

Thank you all for the support.

Thank you, Director Pfeffer and your team for all of your uh continued hard work and efforts here.

Make sure that people take advantage of their public um comment section if they would like to leave um comments or speak with them either again virtually or in person.

And with that, I would like to ask for your favorable consideration and I do pass the recommendation for Board Bill 84.

Is there a second?

That was not a motion, Alderwoman.

I make I make a motion that we pass Board Bill 84 with a due pass recommendation.

Second, it's been moved previous row.

It's been moved by the alderman from the 14th, seconded by the alder woman from the elevated 11th.

That we pass board bill 84 with a due pass recommendation.

There's been a request for previous role.

Is there any objection to previous role with Alder Woman Sonier on the previous role?

Um keys wasn't on the previous role.

Audible Miss Sonier.

I'll object to previous role.

Why not?

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Automancohn.

Aye.

Audible Miss Weisser.

Auto Woman Keys.

Aye.

You said aye.

Yes.

Aye.

Vice Chair Swift Vice Chair Sonier.

Okay.

Autumn and Browning.

Aye.

Autumn and Aldrich.

Aye.

Chair Clark Hover.

Aye.

Autumn and swipe.

Ottawa Ms.

Weiser.

We have six eye votes.

With that vote, you sustain the motion from the alderman from the 14th to do pass uh Board Bill 84.

Madam Chair, the floor is your righty.

With that, do we have any resolutions for review?

We have we have none.

Committee discussions.

Do we have written testimony?

We have none.

Okay.

Does anyone have any announcements?

I have an announcement.

We gotta say, happy birthday to the arch.

It's 60 years old today.

I'm talking about development and bringing us up.

Um and speaking of that, there was a great documentary on nine PBS last night about um our brother uh in service and action, uh Percy Green, and uh all of the things that he did, but one of them we know he's well known for is um providing jobs on the arch um development sites and amongst so many other things.

Now, colleague was in it, so it's good if you missed it last night.

You have a second opportunity on Friday.

And then for the things that were uplifted today, we are very aware and tracking about the looming shutoff of SNAP.

Um coming up amongst everything else that the city is going through.

So please do not hesitate to reach out to your uh representatives to your community to your neighborhood organizations to see how they are helping.

I know many people that have already been helping, like Urban League and other food banks.

Um, West Side Missionary Baptist Church does one every Thursday.

Rung STL on the South Side is going to be um setting up a food bank.

So many people are recognizing that this need is going to balloon overnight.

And so just please don't be in a position where you don't reach out for help.

Um with that, I'll accept the motion to um very much uh excuse Audder Woman Um Sweiser for an extremely necessary absence.

Second.

It's moved by everyone and seconded by everyone.

Oh, we we love you and we are so happy for you, Audible Woman Sweisser.

Continue to uh enjoy every second.

And I'll accept the motion for adjourn.

So move.

Second, previous row.

Move by Alderman Alger, seconded by Alderman Browning that we adjourn with no objection in the previous row.

Everyone have a blessed day.