Good afternoon.

The public safety committee will now come into order.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Alderman Oldenberg.

Alderwoman Clark Hubbard.

Here.

Alderwoman Velasquez.

Alderwoman Sanyer.

Vice Chair Aldric.

Present.

Chair Narayan.

Here.

Alderman Oldenberg.

Alderwoman Velazquez.

Alderwoman Sanye.

Present.

For present.

We have Quorum.

Thank you.

Quorum being present.

I will now entertain a motion to approve the minutes of Thursday, November 13th.

So move.

Second.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Alderman Oldenberg.

Alderwoman Clark Hubbard.

Aye.

Alderwoman Velasquez.

Alderwoman Sany.

Vice Chair.

Vice Chair Aldrich.

Aye.

Chair Narayan.

Hi.

Alderman Oldenberg.

Alderwoman Velasquez.

Four I votes.

All right.

With that, we've sustained the motion to approve the minutes of Thursday, November 13th.

We have no board bills for review before us today.

We do have the uh discussion on the prop S funds.

We do have Judge Tear here from the Office of Violence Prevention here to uh to discuss these again today.

Uh with that, I'll turn it over to him.

Judge, are you on?

Yes.

Am I there?

Yep.

Uh we can hear you, but we can't see you.

Okay.

You have I am fairly computer challenged.

And I'm doing this for the first time from a virtual setting.

And I apologize if I am not able to bring my camera into bear.

We'll give you a minute and see if you can figure it out.

There uh are are you on a phone or a tablet?

Yes.

So there should be a in the bottom corner uh next to where you mute and unmute yourself.

There should be a uh a different icon for a camera.

And if you make sure that's toggle once and it's not giving me that option.

Oh, there it is.

There we go.

Do you see me?

Yep.

Hi guys.

Alec.

Thank you very much for your patience.

Um of the 60 plus applicants for uh the amount of a little bit under 900,000.

Uh my staff reviewed all 60 plus applicants and made a recommendation, I believe, of about eight different uh entities that had the highest scoring based upon um the objective review that we were uh required to apply.

With that in mind, we forwarded those and presented those to the board uh last week, and I am happy to entertain uh whatever questions that I can uh for your review.

Thank you for that.

Um I'll just go down the uh the roll and see if anyone has any questions for you.

Uh Alderman Oldenberg.

No, I have no questions.

Thank you, Chairman.

Thank you, Judge.

Alderwoman Clark Hubbard.

No questions at this time.

Alderwoman Sonier.

No questions.

Uh Alder Woman Velasquez.

Uh here.

Uh Alderman Aldridge.

No questions.

All right.

And I don't have any questions.

I think we had a pretty robust discussion uh last week about this and wanted to give all of my colleagues a uh week to uh let things roll around in their heads before we try to uh vote this out.

I believe Alderwoman Clark Hubbard has uh a change, uh so I'll yield to her to put that forward.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman, members of the committee.

Not necessarily a change, but after um speaking with the Office of Violence Prevention, going back through the list of applicants that they sent us, the different spreadsheets, and actually going back and listening to the meetings as well, not just from this year but from last year.

Chairman, members of the committee, not necessarily a change, but after um speaking with the Office of Violence Prevention, going back through the list of applicants that they sent us, the different spreadsheets, and actually going back and listening to the meetings as well, not just from this year, but from last year, um, quite frankly, I was humbly asking my uh colleagues here if we could make a voice umendment to the original resolution, not changing any of the recommendations that the Office of Violence Prevention set forth, but to award the residual nine thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars to the archway chapter of links.

Now, this is below what they asked for, but in their presence um during and after the meetings, they alluded to that it was still help.

And since the Office of Violence Prevention brought it to our attention that these are residual funds, I mean would not impact the recommendations that they made.

I was hoping that we can make that amendment to the resolution this uh afternoon, awarding that nine thousand one hundred and twenty four dollars to the archway chapter of links incorporated.

All right.

Uh does anyone have any discussion on that amendment?

Uh I'll just open it up to the committee.

Uh Alderman Oldenberg, any discussion there.

I don't think so.

No, thank you.

All right.

Uh Alder Woman Sonier, any discussion.

Um, if Alder Woman Um, if Alder Woman Clark Hubbert could just explain for those watching a little bit of the work that Archway links does and some context for folks who might be unfamiliar of the work that the amendment would help to find.

Absolutely.

I can read from the spreadsheet that's publicly shared as well, um, from their application.

The Archway Chapter Links Incorporated has 30-year record of community service over a decade of program at Marion Middle School, which is not um notably in the 10th ward.

Uh, but again, from not only their presentation this year but last year as well, where they were not awarded, um, it stood out to me.

Uh there they're focused on STEM education, career readiness, and youth leadership, and the proposal demonstrates consistent delivery, sustainable partnerships, and natural national recognition from the links incorporated.

This organization leverages a network of professional women, long-standing collaborations and institutions, um, including but not limited to the history museum, our Missouri History Museum, St.

Louis Art Museum, University of Health Sciences Inpharmacy, National Society of Black Engineers, and their extensive volunteer base and infrastructure provides continuity, mentorship, and strong community relationships that enhance program sustainability.

Um, their program aligns seamlessly, and again, reading from the information that was provided to us by the office prevention, aligns seamlessly with Prop S's objectives by addressing educational equity leadership and exposure uh for use of color, and what we know again from being down here and going through this process is that the spirit of Prop S was for organizations and work like this, smaller organizations, um, grassroots that come into the community.

Again, um, Miriam, where they provide this um this support is not in the 10th ward, but going back and listening to them, seeing this and then studying and quite frankly, just looking up online at some of the things um that they've done.

I believe that if this is a way that we can help them even this much, um, that it's valuable.

This money was again the spirit of this when it was created, was to um build capacity in smaller organizations, grassroots organizations to be able to do different forms and different um programs around violence prevention and everything that this Archway Missouri chapter of Link incorporated presented again, spoken here aligns with that.

Um, and without altering any of the recommendations that the Office of Violence Prevention um set forth, I'm hoping that we can um award and allocate them this residual funds.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh Vice Chair Aldridge.

No questions.

All right.

I don't have any questions, so at this point, uh, I'll entertain a motion to uh adopt amendment number one to uh exhibit A.

So I didn't hear you.

Is your mic on?

I believe so.

Okay.

Um I believe the chair said he'll accept an a motion um to voice amend the resolution to add 9,000 the residual 9,124 dollars um in prop S funding to the Archway chapter links incorporated.

Um I believe the chair said he'll accept an a motion um to voice amend the resolution to add 9,000 the residual 9,124 dollars um in prop S funding to the Archway chapter links incorporated second all right it's been moved and seconded.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll so can I just verify?

Just want to make sure absolutely so we're going to allocate the residual funds of 9,124 dollars in prop S funding to Archway chapter links incorporated.

Correct.

Is that correct, Alderwoman?

Yes, probably let's go ahead and spell out the way it is and the information that was sent over by Office of Violence Prevention.

So the full name is the Archway MO Missouri chapter of the links incorporated the archway chapter of the links incorporated, correct?

Yes, with Missouri Um abbreviated parentheses, thank you.

Alderman Oldenberg.

Alderwoman Clark Hubbard.

Aye.

Alderwoman Velasquez.

Alderwoman Sanyer.

Aye.

Vice Chair Algern.

Aye.

Chair Narayan.

All right.

Alderwoman Velasquez.

We have five aye votes.

All right.

With that, we've sustained the motion and adopted amendment number one to exhibit A of the resolution.

Um at this point, uh I think we should move forward and uh and vote on uh approving these all these funds and getting them.

I make a motion that we adopt the prop S funding with the amendment that was made uh for the exhibit to pass out of the public safety committee.

I'll second that.

Previous role.

There's been a request for previous roll.

Hearing no objection, we'll move forward with uh this uh funding exhibit as amended.

Um do we have any announcements before we announce that I did just want to publicly um again talk speaking to this process and going back and listening to those past meetings and the meetings that we had this year.

I think that there will be some changes that we as a committee can work on to make this process work a little better and more to um the vision of this prop S funding that these recommendations that I'll share whenever we take this up um not only came from community but came from um office of violence prevention staff.

And again, I think that there are ways that we can um improve this so that we get the most impact out of this funding.

And then uh since we're on announcements, um Mr.

Chair, I also wanted to publicly uh ask that we hold a hearing.

I know in community and in this tornado recovery, I've been getting a lot of um questions and concerns around mold and around um just the air um pollution that may come out of uh the demolitions and things.

So absolutely.

I I've been uh talking to the administration about having uh uh a hearing on exactly on that issue and I believe we're gonna have it just after Thanksgiving.

Perfect.

Thank you so much.

Absolutely.

One quick announcement.

I would like to congratulate Judge Tear on his new role at the Office of Violence Prevention.

Uh I know the public safety committee and board of Altman look ready to uh support you in the work that you do.

So congratulations and you already was at the same time.

Very helpful.

Yeah, very humble.

Thank you very much, sir.

All right.

Uh I'll just uh again thank everyone who uh has been a part of this process.

This is uh I think a frustrating process for everyone uh um uh every year.

Um but uh we've we've got it out the door this year again.

Um and then uh I did fail to uh see if we had any written testimony this week, madam clerk.

We have none.

Okay.

Um with that I'll entertain a motion to excuse Alderwoman Velazquez for necessary absence.

So move.

Previous roll.

All right, there's been a call for previous roll hearing no objection.

We'll use Alderman Velazquez, and with that, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

So move.

Second previous roll.

Hearing no objection to previous rule, we stand adjourned.