good morning this much the same budget this meeting of the budget and finance committee will come to order we have a lot of testimony this morning and before we get started but you know the members that we will be sticking to the three minutes and not be terribly excited about extending the extra minute i'm sure that some of the members will have so without further a will open public testimony and our first test fire this morning is john herberger and he'll be followed by tom blackburn rodrig aloha i want to thank the council for the opportunity to speak and even more so for your listening ear that you always provide us your test result is ready you are hiv positive no matter how many times i've had to say that anyway telling someone that they are hiv positive never gets easier for me or anyone that i work with but we do what we do as professional professionals we manage our discomfort and we put the client first we want our clients to dr of course telling someone that they are hiv negative is a lot easier and we get a lot more of those thankfully but we spend thirty minutes with every person who is a child the negative to ensure that they know how to lower their risk and stay lower in their risk to themselves and to protect the community they need to educate counsel and protect remains of urgent and the state of hawaii and maui county we are no different than the rest of the u s population but fastest growing population for hiv or youth ages thirteen years old to twenty six they account for a quarter of all new infections and fifty percent of the she with do not know that they are infected because they have never tested hepatitis is even worse on the islands hawaii is number one in hepatitis and many county alone we have over fifteen hundred people living with hepatitis c that know it and the c estimates there are another one thousand six hundred people living with hepatitis c that do not know it and that is why we offer the free testing thanks to their scram your generosity and stewardship allows us to reach many of the test twice a year and thanks to women helping women we're getting ready to test online twice a year as well we're very proud of this widespread outreach to all the corners of memory county along with testing we are currently doing two our success and now we count is number one of all the counties linking people to care who are hiv positive in hawaii and the c d c is currently studying h because the rate of linkage to care in the united states is twenty eight percent and we are more than double that here and i don't think that would happen if we didn't work as a whole as a community i think that's our aloha and our connectedness and we would never be able to reach that goal if we didn't work as a village so with a few seconds left and cutting down my speech i just want to say thank you without recommendations that deal with issues of public safety health and welfare that it's a job that i do not understand why people aspire to and i honor them for doing it this is that time during the budget hearing when we look at another aspect of counties infrastructure talking about the social human capital the infrastructure part of what makes us the great county we are one of the things that has happened here is the many nonprofits and when i speak to directly would be economic opportunity i've served the national level with community action agencies i've traveled in all fifty states i visit hundreds of community action agencies in that role before moving here to maui and i can tell you this when we at the national association of stablish the recommendations of how you become an outstanding community action agency a rigorous national process with competition against over nine hundred agents these amnio was the first agency chosen and was number one outstanding community agency in the entire united states guam and also the virgin islands that is the quality of the agencies here and m b o that you have over fifty years with them supported this is not an accident it's a partnership  forward backwards it's sideways but it's a partnership this county should be very proud of the fact not only do we have the leadership of the national association of counties but we have a story in a message to tell about people and work together in a small area even though they may disagree over items but they can set things aside for the common good and i simply want to take advantage of this opportunity to say thank you to m b o thank you to the council of nonprofits and to let you know that i expect to have a double hip operation coming up in july and i'm going to talk to harry and make sure that m b o transportation takes me to my doctor's appointments and i'll tell you this i've been waiting years to called and complain about services but again goodloe chairman council members my name is tony or carry on the program director of the residential detox services and i'm here to thank you for supporting us last year and also encourage you to again consider our grants for the two thousand and sixteen fiscal year for the detox and residential programs over at aloha we've gone through some changes over the last year as far as funding is  concerned but one of the ways that that's affected by this is that there are certain stipulations on you know when we can find somebody a lot of our funding most of our funding is done by insurance over at the residential these days  and good morning my name is courtney and i'm a proud graduate of a little house residential treatment i want to thank the council for your past grants because i no doubt benefited from them and thank you for your consideration for future help for those who are still suffering i am a recovering alcoholic who is the child of an alcoholic who was the child of an alcoholic who was the child of an alcoholic i am also diagnosed with a co occurring disorder of complex post traumatic stress injury i have one year sober and clean as of last week april sixth and i am now stable in my mental health and breaking the cycle in no small part because of a low house and it's amazing staff they have saved my life and they are an anchor in my recovery what i most noticed about my stay there was the fact that they treat the whole person it is a holistic and comprehensive physical mental emotional and spiritual way to eliminate and treat the causes and effects of addiction we were educated about how addiction affects the brain and if there was a co occurring disorders to be treated that was treated as well there was cognitive behavioral therapy in order to rewire for lack of a better word and help us to really learn how to respond with thought rather than just react to the environmental genetic formative and chemical causes of addiction there is psychiatry on site where medication is administered and adjusted if necessary and there is  therapy which i have greatly benefited from as i have engaged in intensive trauma therapy and continue to do so since my graduation and i am actually benefiting from a specialized  and really effective method for me called d r and i have seen changes in my life every day the other thing that they address there which is all important is our health as a human being  we engage in exercise and activities to stimulate our our bodies and our minds which have been starved over the course of our addiction there is an amazing diet there that that improves our way of living and helps us to understand how important it is to maintain health during the course of our recovery while we are there we are introduced to a twelve step fellowships including a and a and h and i comes and gives those talks on campus so that we understand how important those fellowships will be to our recovery when we leave we are taken to meetings and were encouraged to get a sponsor by the time that i left alone house i had a sponsor and i am with her for eight months now i cannot say enough about the staff there their expertise some of them have personal experience with addiction their love their empathy their generosity the extra mile does not go say enough to cover what it is that they do for us even after we left three minutes thank you in closing i would like to say that they set up each and every client and patient who leaves there to succeed by the time that i left i had sober living housing i had a case manager i was in rolled in intensive outpatient and outpatient programs and i can still go to that same counselor for help when i need it and most importantly i found the alumni group that meets every good morning chair and consul members thanks again for having us here i just wanted to say thank you for supporting over the past twenty years support of university of hawaii molly college and the cooperative education grant partnership i passed out these blue folders to share with you a few of our students that have benefited from the grant that was providing stipends for students and just to share with you there are so many departments here at molly conti that have been wonderful mentors for up incoming students that will likely replace our workforce and with that said i just wanted to share with you just some few highlights one student commented that the county provided warm welcoming professional mentors to really help them find where their career pathway would lead another student said i learned so much from the internship experience it's prepare them to have the right approach to going about seeking a job it does also help them with hands on experience with managing or talking to customers the public and sharpen their skills in more  to have them regain some confidence in their own skills so in light of all the wonderful students that you've touched i do want to share this one example the fire department secretary who is a former cooperative education student and i had no idea i had been talking to her for a while coordinating internships with her and she said that this program has been very dear to her heart so i would like to see that you have touched many many what ins hole workers and colleagues that you have here a commie of molly and i hope that you are able to continue your funding support of the u s college cooperative education partnership thank you and good morning count so more and i thank you for your time today so i'm a student who actually took two different internships per the co op course wonderful areas very different i did office on aging and i also did the recycling there recycling actually it was job offered but i am still pursuing my engineering degree so i had to decline for now i intend to be a part of county eventually be a good area i think and i want to be and i would like to ask you to reinstate we still have a lot larger funding to help our students  very beneficial for myself being a single parent coming after all these years i'm not i'm not the traditional student from high school nontraditional it's a lot more challenging and difficult trying to work around the children and work and school full time of course but i'm almost there i will definitely be getting a bachelor's soon and i just want to say thank you for your support it really does help our students do you have any to co op it's a flow semester i did one semester in summer and that was high recycling previous to the summer i did with county of office on aging it was a lot  of travel documents really not something i want to be doing so recycling was definitely the area well you say pursue your dreams continue where you want to go because i think you have a great future ahead of you  good morning my name is rene gates and i'm here to talk about the key hey you center my family has been privileged to have a grandson part of the u s center for the last five plus years and i can't speak highly enough about them  i've really never had any complaints only praises for the staff and also the executive director of the center's been a lifesaver the kids have a place to go that safe after school where they'll get homework help along with the nutritional snack which is very important to kids and also all the love that all the staff and all the other people that participate at the use center provide the center has provided a lot of cultural type teaching to the children and it's given them a great team building and vironment and they've made some lifelong friends thank you for your support currently and for the future and good morning members my name is stacy monies i'm the executive director of women helping women and i also want to say thank you to you all for your continued support of women helping women we are a line item with the county and i just want to give a little bit of a background in women helping women is the domestic violence shelter and programs and we've been providing services on maui since one thousand seventy seven and then in nineteen ninety seven we started an office lend me and the county has been supporting that since about two thousand and four then in two thousand and six we opened an office in la hina and the county has been supporting that office as well so we tried to respond to communities and expand our services accordingly and hama has been asking us for quite a few years to start an advocate position in the honna so we finally have created partnership with ohana maka my and we are prepared now to hire an advocate in hama and so i have asked for an increase in our budget that is exactly for that position so our total request is two hundred twenty thousand dollars two hundred and forty three dollars and currently in the budget there's about two hundred ten thousand so it's a little bit short i understand times are tough and but i did want to put a plug in that this is a news service for the community of east mali so that's where that increase is coming from and give you a chance to ask questions are but i did want to echo again how grateful we sixteen hour position plus computer and some to help pay for our internet a cell phone things like that ok thank you very much thank you thank you i will first go to the honda district office don do you have any time we have a focus on spaying and neutering cats from areas where native birds are threatened and then relocating in caring for the cats at the sanctuary of our grand application provides  low cost ineffective approaches with others contemplating the lower solution i thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony to the budget and by you and my heart for your consideration thank you mr carroll members is to use the collective resources of our community to strengthen families and our prime directive is to prevent child abuse and neglect and i'm here today to thanks thank you again the council and the mayor's office for continuing to support the program so my family's support services your support means a lot because we are able to leverage federal funding with the county support and for this year for two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen we will be able to bring in almost two million dollars from federal funding and also a mother of young children so i know they need all families in terms of early childhood starting last year we were able to support the honda community by starting to build the infant toddler center which will be the first in front of their center in holland and we're just waiting right now for it approval of s licensing so that we will be able to have the first in front and toddler center in that community so for this for next year we are requesting sixty seven thousand dollars six hundred eight to continue to support the early head start program which serves to low income families so these are defense these who cannot afford to pay child care and by and rolling them in our program were able to help them in going back to school or going back to work and that helps in building up their self sufficiency we cannot do these programs as well without the partnership of other agencies such as color call the children with special needs and these are children who have developmental delays or significant delays and we don't separate them in the classroom they are integrated in all the services of the program so again i want to thank you for  thank you for hearing us this morning i just feel really happy and grateful to be here on the b half of my name is breeze carajo and i'm really grateful to be here on behalf of maui family support services the early head start program i have a twenty two month old baby who's currently enrolled at she's in the little dreamers room and some good things i just wanted to say they provide songs sign language my baby has learned so much in that program but i didn't want to particularly talk about how they've enabled me to save money or they mostly wanted to let you people know is  t peace of mind that it brings me to be able to drop off my baby at a place where i know she's safe cared for and loved i don't have a whole lot of people in my family and it's really hard when you have doctors especially to feel like they're going to be safe when you take them somewhere you want to make sure that they're not with strangers and the early head start staff has provided my daughter was so much love and so much support he know it's also enabled me to be able to go out and find that part time job to support my family and take classes at school to be able to find a better job to continue and have a better future for me and my kids i am a single parent and the maori family support services has made it very easy for me to be a single parent and i thank you thank you very much thank you very much breeze much for our county and make it the community that it is i'm asking for your support for best buddies hawaii that is currently running our programs in eight schools here on maui we have just under four hundred members and these are students with them without disabilities and the great thing of our program is these four hundred members are having a tremendous impact on thousands of our kids in our k keys here in maui county anybody that was at the meeting last night hopefully heard the speech by mary joyce seal son which is one of our students from baldwin high school and she shared with the council members present the story about how she was bullied at her previous intermediate school which was middle school and i'm proud to say we're in the process right now we've already got two teachers to volunteer to start the program and we're currently recruiting student members of which we've already got the special ed department head recruiting students with disabilities to be part of the program and student leaders so once again we thank you for your past support for best buddies and i hope you will continue supporting us by taking a look at what the mayor's request for best buddies why is for fiscal year two a location to the command center and it's years that the government center has been an important component of maui social service infrastructure for over forty years and we need the county's help to ensure that this valuable facility adults recover from the disease of substance abuse and chemical dependency as nearly all of those we serve have only minimal public support is essential for our continued existence and for the provision of services to meet high standards of excellence using evidence based practice is in the field this year the administration has proposed additionally capital allocation of one hundred thousand dollars to assist in the planning and design of a new facility to house administrative and direct services replacing a very old dilapidated testified earlier this year and you subsequently prove an extension of this lease of property for twenty five years maybe call as our initial requests that i have communicated with each of you about by letter by the way and sent you a copy of our proposal was for two hundred thousand dollars so if possible we would ask that you know tough times we would ask that you consider adding an additional one hundred thousand to the mayor's proposed budget for this purpose thank you for your continued support over all these years it's been a privilege and a pleasure to do this  or between businesses and people that they're not able to resolve on their own we're there to be able to step in and help to be able to resolve that our intent really is to be an alternative to the court system where people can resolve their neighbors and there was a mango over a fence and disputes been going on for ten years and it's almost gone to blows and they come to mediation get into a good safe environment everybody has really heard and they're able to start brainstorming solutions and come up with something that everybody feels really good and being able to compromise write out a nice little agreement and shake hands and call it good so we have we really do have quite a few success stories like that and it's very heartening last fiscal year we serve one thousand and sixty seven people that's with a little mom and pop shop that we have we were like two and a half staff with a two hundred twenty thousand dollar budget so we're working on a shoestring but the way we're able to do that is we have a qadri of about fifty fifty two volunteers who are highly trained they work with us and they devote their time their energy their emotion and their good heart to this cause it's one thing that i'm very proud of about my mediation is that we're able to serve all people from all economic walks of life so we have lawyers coming in professional people but also people who are on ten of grants who are unemployed living out of their car who are looking to come in and resolve some kind of a dispute we take pride in being able to serve everyone we do work on a sliding scale but nobody is turned away we do a lot of things for free for folks because they have a hardship story and the grant by the county helps us to be able to do that we've used eight hundred twenty five mediator hours and i did a little bit of math in preparation for all of this and if you're going to hire an attorney that's about two hundred twenty five dollars an hour that's one hundred eighty five thousand dollars and change so we're saving a little bit of money on court costs and also a lot of grief and aggravation from people i'm going to court a participation survey so we're always doing continuous quality improvement so people fill out these surveys so we can see how we are doing so that is very important to the mediators when they see those surveys after they're done to see if the people were satisfied or not in any kind of feedback that they have it's always a little nervous moment seeing how we do but we have ninety seven percent of folks who are satisfied with our service after they leave and very proud of that thank you for your continued support  good morning chair white in council it's great getting together all these time so i look forward to the budget process being done when we can stay home with our families in the evenings i'm here tonight or today to speak on behalf of the maui county animal coalition and i'm going to read so i don't get this wrong the maui county animal coalition is a group of animal related organizations working together to increase companion animal adoptions decrease homelessness increase neuter opportunities and to educate working towards a no kill community for companion animals our organization our coalition our members include s p c a maui which i represent the feline foundation of why sixty five percent of our families own cats and dogs fifty percent more than one i'm here to say that we have been working together in benefiting mound these animals and we are being successful we support funding for all animal related budget items across the board where coming together this year as a coalition and as a group and we want to say that we are all working together we appreciate your continued support for animal and companion animal related issues in maui county thank you very much thank you mr tierney members any questions for the test fire thanks for coming this morning  chair white council members my name is scott hopkins i am the operations director of feed my sheep and i'd like to testify this morning support of a line item balanced diet for the poor came to maui  two thousand and seven looking for an opportunity to reach out to the needs of people who are poor who are hungry on this island in the last seven years i've enjoyed the opportunity to work as a full time staff member through the great recession and the time that followed of course we've seen a large number of our community members in need and it's been a privilege to serve them we've enjoyed seeing their needs and that of course during the height of the recession we were happy to serve them whatever we could it was a very trying time but we've noticed in our own lives and of course we figured for our friends as well that it would be important to work on a more nutritious way of providing food and so in two thousand twelve we undertook several programs that were going to help us provide more fruits and vegetables and related items that would improve the overall health of those who are receiving food from feed my sheep and of course as you can imagine when you take away someone's sweets and you put vegetables in their place there's a little resistance but there has been a great response over time we've seen a number of people who have lost weight whose health conditions have diminished whose overall has improved and we've been excited to see that what we're pursuing help from the county for is to continue that and at the same time meet some of the other needs of course with fresh vegetables you want to bring along protein and starch items that will help that and those take a lot of work to get sometimes a lot of resources and so we're asking for your help in looking to meet that need in a greater i want to point out that we are also we're already working very hard to provide balance by and we just believe that the counties assistance in this pushes to a greater level of availability for our friends and keep seeing friends i should point out we try to say we don't have clients we have friends because we have people who come in and of course they're in a place of great trial sometimes cim and we do our best to push them out into the world with a full belly and with encouragement and with support myself and my my fellow staff members put a lot of creative energy into finding this food sources and making sure that that people are getting their needs met and that  had been going through we have all the different grant people that we provided for in your folks or one of them and i just have all these highlights and exclamation points of positive comments because they see that our money really goes a long way if you folks you know your executive director get zero there's five of you and total grants that are received with ours with along with others is one hundred forty one thousand but yet in just donations alone they exceed over eight hundred thousand dollars with some volunteer but food in kind donations or what have you so i really commend and want to let everyone know that our county dollars as go a long way with this particular group  in mind and they do great fund raising too on their own so thank you for all you do service and thank you for making our county dollars go a long way but to point out that they've not received county fundi is monthly and hannah you know we serve and you work in conjunction with some of the other churches like christ the king used there are actually about thirty churches support support you in as well as businesses in the visuals ok thank you i just wanted you know but a collaboration of various organizations has been helping feed my sheep and i'm very proud of that fact thank you joe thank you and you for the chorus of missed by so yes thank you very chair i'm confused i hear that this is the first grant application and i hear that they have a grant can we get that clarified mr buzz help us  chair and i say yes the county has not funded a line item for feed my sheep in the past but when the the executive director volunteer executive director did request funds from the  feet may she feud food distributions survey at six thousand so that's something that we paid to for a survey in order to figure out if it's worth funding such a that we did want to make sure that we were using our resources and if we're going to make any requests any of the counties resources well knowing what was the actual need there was  available information on the exact need of people who are below the poverty level on maui so in conjunction with the county we pursued a survey and that's the money that you're seeing there that was our good morning in a lodger way it's council members my name is j d wyatt and i'm the executive director for big brothers big sisters in maui we've been providing services to the mountain community for over forty five years now and certainly we could not do that without the support  council long term service like that speaks to several things but a lot of support and partnerships and so we're we're very grateful for that we continue to offer two different programs in our service scope community based program which matches adult volunteers with children in need in the community and they spend two to four hours a couple times a month out doing activities and mentoring and bonding and we also have our school based programs which essentially we go into currently nine  different elementary and high schools and we mentor and train up high school students to mentor the elementary school school students and as you would imagine there's no more powerful mentor to to a younger child than an older child just a few years ahead because they they really can envision that so those are traditional programs and we're very thankful again for the support that we received from that over the last several years we have a mentor center in our offices in the mcconnell and k j k o properties and i have personally been witnessing over the last four years an increase seen a negative influence in the park and around that area with some of the older kids and unfortunately the younger kids are left quite often to after school activities that  not necessarily positive spoke with their own plumbing with k j k oh based on her assessments there's about four hundred kids in our scope of services and that is a very large population in a small confined area to to deal with we have not traditionally serve those kids because it's been outside of our program models but we've done some due diligence and we've created a program over the last two years to propose to the county for this year which would directly serve those children you using our mentor center five days a week which currently we want one program out of one of the four that we do in our school based but that would provide an opportunity for the kids in that community to have a safe positive environment to not only be mentored but also focus on homework and other found fun activities that will keep them out of the park and hopefully try and create a sense of cooling on in the community for making sure that the younger kids are taken care of we  estimate that this this additional ask and we have put this in our proposal for this year is about fifty two thousand dollars to run this program and that's primarily just to hire a masters level program manager because part of the way of funding it too is to have it become a where we can keep our labor costs down i did ask for the fifty two in when i wrote the grant but we have successfully negotiated our saviour's contract and i'm fortunate to be able to run a business at the same time as our nonprofit programs and i've been able actually really could use help with about half that and that's why i'm here today to to seek your support and your understanding of us wanting to serve a very adverse community that has has a lot of issues and we're there with the facilities to do it i have great intellectual capital with my staff and we know that we can do this program and we're even throwing a large amount of our unrestricted funds at developing it so it is a new program and something new from us we haven't done that traditionally we've we've usually just operate our two programs but i witness every day chair and you know these kids are very important and they're they're not being there and we know that we're capable of performing and performing well so a lot of great organizations in this room i love to come in here these these hearings because so many of my friends and peers you know and colleagues are in the nonprofit world here on maui and it's hard for me to come and ask for more money but again this is a new program to serve a specific need i can pull it off around one hundred twenty five and we use all of our other sources as well now united way and other fund raising things that we do in the community with our bowling and we're even creating a new fund raiser this year i've got a really motivated board that  director for four years now and and i'm sure that our history of county funded programs is as well lengthy ok now i'm warm just trying to cross reference where like the last poster for was trying to figure out where the and it looks like city and county also donates so you folks are statewide national white all were state wide we had i guided us into a consolidation a couple years ago we received no national funding whatsoever  my entire budget is almost solely based on our activities and we do get administrative support from being a member of the statewide organization but i can tell you that the that we like to work and live on in any way aaron's been great she's i know she has see an incredible job ahead of her as well on a daily basis and we both talked about this in a real need in the community they recently started up a neighborhood watch program  were we're part of the be a jerk campaign and so we had an event an unveiling this past saturday and my place was there to do some outreach swell and so they've started this this coulee on in the community and that's really what we need because the park has been taken over by the older activities for these young people around that area that's another come with them of the story of it thank you it is and i might add also the all the new commercial development that's happened around our facility has really created a lot of chaos in that area as well so i think even more pressing is the need to keep kids on our sites within their own boundaries and engage in positive activities ok thank you thank you q any further questions s good morning counsel thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today my name is ashley chapman and i am the school based case manager for big brothers big sisters i have the absolute honor and privilege to work with really diverse communities all around maui and i get to be auntie to about one hundred kids but to be honest it's not enough all of our programs are currently maintaining active wait lists almost on a daily basis i am fielding new inquiries for potential schools that want to house our programs and we are currently at capacity and can't serve any more people so i'm here today to ask for the increase not only so that we can open our mentor center and help our keiki at holly mcconnell but also to help additional school sites around mali so that we can stop saying now and this program when it initially started was an example statewide america wide about what can be done for the homeless it has continued to grow and i thank the council for the support that you've given us over the years it's an example of what can be done when people need a place to live care for the children job training and then eventually the whole purpose returned to the community as an established and productive member at our board meetings we now receive personal testimony from clients that are residents there and really motivates us as a board and as a group of people interested in the needs of individuals on my care and provide for what we can do because we see results and it has been inspiring and will continue to be sixteen hundred people are served forty percent of it sixteen hundred are children we have  housing transitional housing and rental assistance programs but the buildings are seventeen years old a solid base but wood framed buildings that are really because of their age showing forms of dilapidation and we need grants we need help to provide for these people so i'm here and ask you to help and guide us with your grants  upgrades and repairs are needed the activity continues to grow and i'm very proud to be a part of it and i'm very proud that all of us are part of it too thank you very much members any questions that test fire see none receipts are coming this morning miller will be followed by maryland good morning chair and council members my name is steve miller and i'm here on behalf of the board of directors of cali homeless resource centers to testify in support of our request funding request to department of housing and human concerns kako as a nonprofit agency whose combined facilities in central and west maui provide emergency housing client services transitional housing and assistance to over sixteen hundred individuals and families has got a father called and said over forty percent of which are children but god goes much more than housing for the homeless our mission is to break the cycle of homelessness to provide not only shelter for these folks but to support this support education and training that they need to become self sufficient and productive members of the community in addition to emergency and transitional housing and rental assistance we provide our emergency clients with three meals a day to day care and head start programs for children on site medical clinics with health and wellness screenings a chemical dependency program which extends to the entire family unit outreach support services life skills classes and we have a garden program that is providing a sense of ownership an accomplishment for residents and their children this success of these programs is evidence to by the testimony you've heard from some of our clients and former residence which is not always easy for them to come before a group of strangers and bait be able to express their feelings but they're very genuine and sincere in their support of these programs unfortunately funding for kako from all of its government sources has declined by over twenty percent since two thousand and ten but the homeless population didn't decline in fact it's increased substantially and as many of you know there's been a significant improvement in ca management both operationally and financially over the past year and despite increasing costs of maintaining the agent aging facilities are higher operating costs and less government funding we've maintained our commitment to serve the homeless population but at a cost of reduced services and deferred maintenance we understand the ation to control spending and that you can't afford to fund everything that comes before you but we ask that you please consider the one term and numerous other financial benefits to the county of not just helping the homeless to get off the street but helping these folks to become productive self sufficient members of the community we're simply asking you to please restore prior funding levels in light of the increasing thank you for being here i appreciate the work and the changes that have been done at the shelters and the housing my question as a board member yes we are we in fact a large number of our clients and residents testified at the c b d hearing last month and we understand that the grant request is going to be revised and we will be putting in another different grant request because it can't be the same again but we we will be applying for and this is particular specifically for maintenance renovation equipment repairs so you're going to be applying for we will be we did apply once but we understand that we have to apply i'm looking at some reports that were given to this body march third or twentieth of this year and looking at grants things that were allocated to folks and things that have been expended and directly related to your maintenance area it looks like there's about fifteen hundred dollars or fifteen thousand expended so you folks obviously you're asking for money now so you are going to use this but just to be used yeah i can i can ask to that that fifteen thousand dollars are our c f o i think it's going to testify could that explain it further but basically we've where we have emergency expenditures for repair and maintenance that has to be done on for life safety reasons that money comes out of either program money or out of funds that are restricted from use for operations so we're basically in a deficit in terms of maintenance good morning council chair council members my name is marlin tunji i'm with holly and my whole is homeownership and housing counseling program the program would like to thank you for your continued support for a program in the past the support of program has helped many of your constituents to resolve many of their housing issues ranging from learning basic budgeting skills and understanding the home buying process to working with their service or when trying to save their homes from foreclosure in two thousand and eight the county appropriate fifty thousand dollars to the homeownership and housing counseling program which lasted until the downturn of the economy which then reduced the program's funding down to thirty five thousand the future of my always economy looks promising and we're asking to increase another concert to our staff to help meet the coming eighty's demand for our services during two thousand and fourteen the program was able to council over one hundred twenty new client cases in both the home buying process and the foreclosure arena many of the foreclosure cases take one to two years to resolve the concerts anticipate a big increase in activity with educating first time homebuyers due to the newly amended ordinances relating to the residential workforce housing policy and afforded housing fund our program is seeing an increase in a number of requests from developers servicers lenders mandating that potential applicants attend a homebuyers education class to meet a benchmark on their application process the classes will enable these potential homebuyers to make better financial choices over the life of their mortgage which will help them to become responsible homeowners responsible homeowners will take better care of their homes be more involved in their community which will help stabilize the community resulting in less foreclosures this is a win win situation for the homeowner the community and county everyone benefits and it all starts with having the foundation of attending a home buying education class to get an early start in cleaning up the credit report started a savings plan and get their finances in order to ensure that they become long term homeowners our concerts have also seen a steady stream of referrals from the state second circuit court in regards to foreclosures often one court referral may generate three to four new cases from homeowners seeing seeking foreclosure prevention aid concerts work alleviate some of the stresses between the homeowner and the service or enabling the line of communication to remain open to both parties which may help both parties reach an agreeable outcome during the calendar year two thousand thirteen to two thousand and fourteen the program has helped save fifty five county homes from foreclosure many of these homes are multi generational with at least two families living on a single property helping the equivalent of one hundred ten families from becoming homeless the county for the past twenty seven years holly my hotel has provided several hundred thousand dollars of income and after dollars to its homeownership consing program and personal care program whenever there has being that we're the only how to prove how to prove housing counseling agency we have seen a lot of referrals from the hud website and more recently that additional foreclosures there has been a state of clients or foreclosures and we'll see an increase in the future but that being said will be followed by julian bryant potential of losing their homes our goal is to work with the homeowner and their loan servicer to come to an agreement that will allow the homeowner to continue to stay in their home over the upcoming year it is in to subpoena that the number of mortgage delinquencies plants will increase over the next year as lenders continue to move forward with judicial foreclosures through the court system the court system is continuing with their referral program to housing constant agencies to assist the homeowners prior to granting a foreclosure prior a foreclosure to the lender we continue to offer pre purchase counseling and home buyers education classes participants of these services come from the u s d a loan programs the county hop voucher program and other first time home buyer loan programs providing pre purchase and home buyers education prepares for the responsibilities that will come with homeownership and with the home buying process we anticipate an increase buyers education science over the next year with the amendment to the residential workforce policy is our it is our belief that this will increase the number of affordable homes for sale as developers may become more interested in building new  i ask for your continued support of our housing counseling program so that we may continue to provide housing counseling services at no charge to our community who would benefit from our services in assisting them in communicating with their mortgage lenders to prevent the loss of their home or helping a founding move into a home that they can call their own thank you thank you very much members any questions with just thank you for coming this morning good morning chairing committee members my name is jerry lane bryant and i am the c e o at the mouth humane society this past year has been one of growth and significant changes from our humane society in july of this year soon after taking over at the shelter i met with each one of o i was looking for input to help guide me with the changes in improvements i was expected to make the message was clear and consistent you wanted the shelter to perform better communicate more effectively with the community decrease the number of complaints coming your way from our presidents and last but certainly not least work collaboratively with the other credible animal agencies on the island in less than a year we have succeeded in meeting each and every one of these expectations and then some week maine society has launched the first of many mash style clinics in our aggressive campaign to sterilize tens of thousands of animals on this island this is an ambitious five year campaign that has a very real ability to change the landscape of when it comes to homeless animals in the free roaming community caps the cost for this groundbreaking endeavor will exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars over the next five years however the protection of our endangered wildlife fragile ecosystem and the end of pet overpopulation on maui is priceless seven hundred fifty thousand dollars is an incredible amount of money and it has the ability to make an equally incredible impact on our island and in our community the good news is that i not here today to ask this council for a one dollar towards this campaign i am here however to respectfully ask the council to uphold the mayor's approved budget for the animal management program if it is no longer necessary from our humane society to supplement the animal management contract we hold with the county we will then be able to invest in this island's homeless pet problem and make a difference once and for all and this will be a victory for everyone concerned and a valuable template for the other hawaiian islands to follow over the years when faced with the dilemma of whether to supplement our contract with donor funds we have justified to do so for the wellbeing and care of the animals in our community but we are in a vicious cycle and the number of animals coming through our door has not decreased over the years it's time for a more proactive and aggressive approach to this problem now a humane society is up for the job and more than willing to invest in this campaign each of us in this room today share a common desire to rectify an age old issue of animal welfare and overpopulation through maui county m h s is on the path to deliver meaningful results well we are on the front lines of this effort we require support from the council to persevere and continue the momentum we have generated over the past year loosely showing our budget gap through valuable donation funding year after year only undermines our ability to succeed in finally making a real difference i ask you all here today to recognize the vision and efforts of m h s and to please share in that vision by the shelter and so you mentioned about this mash kind of campaign you're going into the different districts and setting up a mobile unit for spin neutering and a five year campaign which is valued at seven hundred fifty dollars or so that is dollars the only way we're able to do that is if we don't have to bridge the gap in our contract with the county some other funding source is also there believe it or not there are some big agencies who are really sitting up and looking at this what we're trying to do here on maui agencies like humane society of united states is contributing to this campaign other agencies like pet smart charities will be asking them to help  agencies like alley cat allies i mean these are all big hitters in the animal welfare industry and we'll be asking all of them to contribute so but but now humane society has to make an investment to thank you very much and i like that you know the concept of leveraging and assisting and again another entity you know focusing on becoming a role model for others to learn and live by so i and council members pleasure to be here i'm speaking i have submitted some testimony on myself by myself individually but today i wanted to come up and speak as the corner of equal you know which is a nonprofit here in way to  o on behalf of the learning center as a mentoring resource for the school they're probably one of our smallest but most important partnerships and if you have my testimony you'll kind of see why but as the only g school in the county what i know is that it means that a lot of families don't have to be dislocated and broken up that they get to keep their children here to gain their credentials and that's a really important thing because it costs families awful lot when that happens  to be despite dislocated to other islands my father used to see that in order to make a profit you have to invest money and sweat equity and as a taxpayer and as a nonprofit i would say that investing and learning center is probably one of the soundest investments in the greatest savings and rewards that we can give this county these kids get a chance to find a different direction in life that means that we save a whole lot of money on the other and if these kids don't have this chance so i'd encourage the council to fund the school's request in full in this budget but i also want to talk to you about what school looks for these kids and also for me as a resource person there are like the auntie and uncle that we all grew up with in our generation the one that pulls all the kids together and keeps them in line is the one you go to when you're not doing so well at home that helps these kids get through the tough spots and keep some on an even keel we don't have that so much in our community anymore and so for a lot of the students that come to this school the school is the best auntie and uncle they will ever have in their lives we need that to happen so that these kids don't end up further down the road further down in the system that they can't get out of and getting the ged and getting that certification that will help them move on to a more positive step is a really critical part of that process so i would  thank you very much members and he questions the test fire scene thank you and mr johnson is the last person to signed up to testify this morning so if there's anyone else in the chambers who would like to provide testimony please sign up and they will be and will be happy to take your testimony the morning members thank you for this opportunity i'm david johnston i'm the executive and artistic director of the academy of performing arts academy of performing arts is an educational performing arts direction of linda to keep in conjunction with the department of parks and rec over the years mapa has evolved into one of the hawaii's largest and most comprehensive performing arts organizations our mission is enriching individuals building community and connecting our world through the performing arts we strive to provide opportunities in the arts for lifelong learning to individuals of all  ages three to ninety three we like to say and in that education we we hope to inspire discussion encourage creative collaboration break down barriers service an economic driver and ultimately strengthen our community through the performing arts the support that i'm here to ask for your support for is for three separate areas of our of our organization the first is our map of school partnerships and they began almost thirty years ago we work in the schools to provide transformative learning opportunities that are to experiences to the states to our students all of our students funding as  funding of these programs in the schools has declined over the years and map a map has continued to fill the gap and try to be there to offer arts opportunities to people who wouldn't have an opportunity otherwise our educational theatre tour is part of this program we reach over six thousand students annually and two hundred forty teachers we take shows out to the schools that offer message kind of theme to kind of shows and issue nationally recognized program that we call voices and that program is designed to work in conjunction with the classroom teachers and their curriculum to enhance the learning and reading skills of students it's been fabulous le successful for us and teachers have reported that the test scores have increased as a result of their involvement in the program we reach over three thousand elementary students with that each year our second area  that we're asking for support in is our map a live production and some of you may know this most people will probably know this through the two programs two shows that we've done at the mac in the last couple of years lame is and  which we just recently found out is just in the last week you'll have to provide concluding remarks ok we just recently found out that we're losing the steppingstone theater in the home on a shopping center so we're going to be moving our communities do not exist to serve the arts the arts exist to serve the communities and that's what we firmly believe in but we do need a little help sometimes to make that happen thank you very much thank you very much mr th any question to the test fire scene thank you very much and we'll go next to our district office don do you have any test fires you and to our district office on molokai do you have any test fires i thank you ladies is there anyone here in the chambers who would like to provide testimony this morning yes mr chair and members of the budget committee i just want to thank you for the opportunity to present our budget when you're going through the end lines we're going to provide you with this much information as we possibly can we have really tried to be prudent we have not dramatically increased our budget you're not going to see a whole lot of new programs we will be completing the short update of our short range transportation plan not by the end of this budget session but hopefully by the end of july we're making good progress on that so that will help us to make some really good decisions and provide you with critical information over the next year or and beyond actually because the consultant's done a very good job one of the challenges that we did have and which i'm sure other departments have is when you have emergency requests for emergency services or things that were not part of your regular budget i think is cell was a very good example of that we have to provide oftentimes at the request of the community to meet their needs transportation so those are some of the challenges that we had but we tried to keep our budget level and we're happy to answer any questions and salary and wages there isn't any changes proposed here ok just the collective bargaining increases correct correct was maybe one or two example had to do with the portion of our budget that was under fixed and actually contracted transportation the portion i believe that you're speaking  the m e o human services portion of the transportation and that's one of the difficulties i think i see miss could be be here and one of the issues that i think they've had is sometimes they don't have sufficient vehicles or drivers available you know in a standby mode because if they are in standby mode then basically those individuals would have to be paid if if the buses the contracts currently where if there's additional services it's just that the money that we would have to pay for those additional services is sometimes the challenge in the budget because when we're operating our regular routes and everything is normal then that would be able to be covered within the fixed budget but when we have unusual events that require supplemental hours that's where we have the challenge of coming up with that additional money th questions on the the salaries and wages section of the budget so you know mr tyler moore if you could move on to age eighteen dash for change their start with between dash five or requested an increase for due to part of what happened recently from the two thousand and ten census we the central area of mali became  smart in its own area and so what's happening is that now that when we go to certain conferences or trainings we aren't able to access our rural transportation funds that that will provide assistance for i guess conferences for travel so what's happening is that you are seeing that we need to provide our own funding for us to go out to access or to go to these trainings for i guess the smart so trainings they can t the national transportation database trainings we recently went to i think a year ago we had to fund their ourselves do create the m p o and start receiving those funds we believe that we will be able to use those funds for training large part of the funds for training yes so this is a temporary thing correct so we can put a little star here give it to him again next year ok thank you the human services transportation program so you'll see that previous in two thousand and fifteen there they're purchasing twos school buses and they have  actually it's on island right now and i think it needs to be registered but they are basically that will be paid down shortly and for this upcoming fiscal year they're asking for a hundred ninety thousand to buy two t vehicles and then also under on this page we are requesting expansion of ten thousand dollars under the public transit general fund due to increase our actual expenditures and things that we charge within that fifty thousand total is things like signage fires surveys any anytime there's any changes to our schedules we have to go and reprint schedules and flyers and posters so we ask for the ten thousand increase for that line item ok we get for the transportation because i couldn't find any  it's a needed service you know i think it's continuously going so thank you very much that's all i had to ask anyone else have questions for the new busses replacements are the structure and also has mechanical problems that this came from and so they had to send another vehicle to replace it yes because it's not running currently the second vehicle is a two thousand and one is also in stores you to rust and and parts as have already been taken from it to help out with other vehicles  i'm not quite sure on the actual seating capacity but if it's of if it's at minimum five which are positions then that could be from a eight passenger up to a twenty five passenger vehicle  of two hundred forty nine thousand five hundred sixty dollars one hundred ninety nine thousand five hundred sixty currently in our budget is to fund for a new positions at amnio as well as fifty thousand dollars  allocated for low income for assistance program i believe that in our previous conversations we are looking at allocating one hundred ninety nine thousand five hundred sixty dollars make it easier for any you know when it comes to reporting for like when we report to them that national transportation database will also allow us to run different reports to have a better understanding of how the various programs are performing also on this page i mean zero is requesting one point five million dollars to fund part of their maintenance facility at check you say that again hundred fifty thousand six hundred twenty ok is a maintenance cost and that in years two three or five each year would be thirty five thousand for maintenance but not in year one know the year one would be in the one hundred fifty thousand ok and what is the installation time frame that we're looking  scene could you explain why you're transferring the sixteen thousand for eighty from a to b m e a transportation services which i transportation service sixteen thousand and forty need always on transportation services from ok so not sure why the proviso was put in but we want to make sure that you know my recollection was the proviso was put in to expand services to provide saturday service and the other question i had was the one point five million dollars for the maintenance facility is that the total construction cost or is out a portion of the construction cost mr chair that is actually a portion of the cost to create the maintenance facility what's the total requested three million dollars from the county and the mere proposed fifteen point five million dollars this year and i believe he would if things go well would propose a one point five million dollars for next year as well on the total cost of build out the infrastructure is already in which is going to be a great cost savings since we relocated to the new site so there regional plans was quite an extensive bill that i know she's looking at some  other options that are lead certified and she does have some quotes but i don't have a firm number to give to you and like sandy said we do have a request into this state as well ok thank you members any questions for m any changes on page eighteen dash fifteen any questions members on the computer matching fund hundred thousand there of course and the same amount this year you'll see a couple you'll see couple changes under the public transit program hi we are requesting an expansion requests of forty thousand dollars up to fifty thousand and that increase other other costs as well when it comes to i guess one of the areas that we will be needing to spend money on is because we just started  having to report to the national transportation database one of the areas that we are required by them is to hire a auditor that will look at our financials as well as where we are or how we are collecting our data in terms of reporting it to them so we recently requested just to get estimates on how much this auditor service will cost and we've seen  we got two people coming back to us and we saw the mess from thirty five thousand to forty five thousand dollars we also did we were also in communication with our county auditor asking if this is something that he would be able to do for us but he came back with that it isn't an area that he would be able to help us with and that's why we went out and ask also because i know we had this conversation earlier during rates and fees as well we were able to visit with emil based on the comments that had been made at the committee last time and so if there is to be monies allocated in our budget for the low income fair assistance program it would also it's not in here now but we've been able out a program with them you know where they would do the certification and then we would work on it but there was an expression by this committee that they did not want it taken from general funds so if you're going to insert that we believe that if the revenues are adjusted as we had in the earlier conversation that this would be the place to insert the fifty thousand in our budget so that was the only other comment i had and to answer mr victory in those question i know that in the past the contract that we transmitted last time has not changed with roberts or emil those contracts are five year contracts but we're happy to transmitter another copy of that mostly the reason for the five percent increase is under the requirements by the f d a because these are contractual compliance requirements imposed on the vendor actually they're imposed on us but we purchased transportation therefore the obligations of the vendor there has been an increase in the type of reporting and there has also been an increase in the frequency of the reporting and in addition to that the wage increases that have gone in to m e o as well as to roberts have really if if they keep operating this way they will and end up having a shortfall and so we just felt because they did not get the five percent last time that you know if the five percent could be located at least it would hope not fall too far testimonial letter from the manager of moby operations for roberts that was sent to us and he does state and i do know that this is true that allows for a five percent annual increase they are supposed to get one annually but only had one one year since two thousand and eight you know that's a long time this is seven years now and so i think it's reasonable what they're asking for thank you  you would put it on which on which line it would probably have to be one two line because it's a program that would be in my view a pilot program to see how it works and to make sure that you know we cause the amount that we're putting in is just a figure that we have sort of pulled out of the air and in visiting with the there are that many individuals in the county as some people have alleged you know then they could be inundated in the money could be gone in just a few short months so we'd rather even if you put it in you know it because i'm not an account i would rather have staff or yourself or mr budget chair insert it somewhere where it has a card that says it is specifically a pilot program i would feel more comfortable with that because at this point we don't know an amnio does not know how successful or you know or how many people would be accessing this program so that is the only thing that i would i would request to fifty thousand over for him to as a fifty thousand on page eighteen of them right yes that  thousand dollars shall be used for this pilot program we'd be happy to do that and as far as our perspective we just create a new index code for them ok ok any other questions members  i'm sure the budget happy to consider it ok any other questions on the transportation program members before we move on educational for under our rule transportation area one thing that is new they were looking at receiving is when sam peel is in place we would be receiving this pining money  fifty three or three and that is why you will see french fifty thousand being requested at the bottom of eighteen twenty three members questions o doesn't build us anything ok moving on to eighteen to twenty four so that's why you'll see it place there six hundred and four hundred thousand ok so that's just there in case we happen to receive money  and begin your presentation that would be wonderful i really don't have any opening remarks chair hole ever i did ask my division heads to be here by two thirty so we'll just start and i'll do the best i can and we'll go back to anything i couldn't answer ok and members were all going to be working off of this summary sheet and the summary sheet has the page references in the budget detail booklet this is the one we just received just received right well there's two things you just receive one is the spreadsheet with all the grants and the other one is the listing of all the and that is a flat request home oh it's moved to civil defense ok we're ok housing we're at eight that she live in affordable housing program ok this is before the housing program is a rental assisting assistance howzat housing program that is split between four agencies i believe it's women helping women college all kill law emil and family life center yes and the really interesting thing about this pot of money is they amongst the four of them decide how much each of them will get saul and it has been very well utilized i think we're pretty well on line to spend all of this money for this fiscal year of these entities these four entities is this split up eventually or is there a formula i kind of remember a couple years ago we went through this but it's been a while but just sort of the public and i understand what is how do you determine who gets what out of the spot like i just said i don't determine it they meet amongst themselves and they discuss it and they split the nine hundred sixty two thousand and i'm trying to find if i thank you i appreciate that breakdown and thank you chair to the members that the department did provide a letter dated march twentieth that provided a breakdown i believe is the letter you had referred to and it's identified as h c t owners and housing counseling program i believe you heard from them this morning that as you can see there's one hundred twenty two percent increase from an eighty thousand dollar i'm sorry thirty six thousand five hundred this year mary is recommending eighty thousand that is a four hundred forty three thousand nine hundred fifty dollars increase and the reason for that increase is their need they are seeing a need for increased counseling on home ownership a home counseling as they testified this morning they're seeing more and more people that need help with going into potential foreclosure of their all marlon is here yeah that one or two there is one four time cancer and two part time counselors included in the in the additional monies or that's right in that in that funding ok and so you currently under thirty six of two or one with the existing funding for this fiscal year yes we are looking possibly to increase the the it's unusual that we have a doubling of the funding right it's potentially to increase the number of hours from the part time to possibly give that part time person  of that we don't just have one person specialize and so with the we project that there would be an increasing need in foreclosure counseling with a lot of the coming up there's also part of our we get part of our clientele is seventy five percent of our clientele is word of mouth and so when one person comes in and we start working on a case they tell their friends and so we have like three or four more coming in so which increases our workload and with the homebuyer's education classes with the with the ordinances  with the new ordinances we will be offering a lot more classes there's been more requiring mintz from the lending side to have people qualify and there's been potentially be able to buy a home within eighteen months eighteen to twenty four months and thereby making it so that if they're going through the classes they understand what the responsibilities of home ownership is it helps with stabilizing the community and offering more long term homeownership thereby avoiding foreclosures or do you have any statistics on how many more foreclosures there are two or three years ago i don't have that with me right now but i can get that for you it seems to me that the foreclosures are not as frequent they're not as frequent mainly because the servicers are not really pushing it because of the judicial system and so they're still out there is just is taking time for them to get through the court system but they are there and the smaller servicers and thereby having the homeowners who through a lot of this reapplying for a modification against which it's taking them a much longer time to get that ok developer who will mention the ordinance right there's been more inquiries by the developers to offer classes because the they want their project succeed so they the understand that by having the potential buyer going to a home a home education class that you're looking at possibly having a better long term  show my loan in the meantime still going to have to go to the next one that got mine alone reapply all over again is that what you were saying no i think that's what i understood but maybe you're right some of the the bigger lenders have to follow certain regulations but when you when they sell these blocks of loans sometimes it goes to smaller servicers yes and the don't necessarily fall under the guidelines where they have to follow a lot of these stric regulations so what we've been seeing is that the we're back to like the pre i guess where they're losing a lot of the documentation they don't have it they don't respond to so what used to take maybe ninety days six months is i'm seeing i have clients that go back to three years because the loans keep getting sold well i'm a sad chronology is that you can and it's something we can deal with i guess it's really a state issue right now ok i mean i'd like to look into that because to me that's being very unfair that you're trying to correct the problem trying to refinance trying thank you so much for helping us with that and members questions for the department they do kind of an orientation acculturating on getting used to or educated on the local culture the hawaii culture lots of times it's good it's group training with for instance a group of people from tango or group of people from the philippines and just to let them know that you know you don't do certain things here in hawaii  or you need to understand that you know how you approach people all of that kind of stuff just kind of the culture getting them acculturated i guess is the term is is that an ongoing program and lots of times they work with say a church organization that will say we need some help with this but they will do it as an individual if the individual needs it you know but this money's is more for their group sessions how many people have you service in the last year oh gosh i couldn't give you that then i do know that the immigrant services division serves between i'm sorry i'm confused because i'm working from this sheet good the chair apologizes that i was working off of an earlier version so i will now switch the version that we handed out because evidently it's not the same tree so the next item is early childhood resource program director ok thank you chad in this early childhood research program you're seeing a request for an increase from one thousand four hundred to fifteen thousand dollars which is a five thousand five hundred ninety dollars increase the additional funding will be used to support iran table of early childhood community league leaders to help develop the early show no money has been spent out of the nine hundred for the one thousand four hundred so for this year we will be spending that money chair not no problem so this is this for one time medians or exactly how do you use it if you haven't spent anything you know this is this will be ongoing pretty much i'm sure you've heard of the situation that we're in where you have to be a four year old at a certain time before you can enter can the five year old at a certain time before you can enter kindergarten so we're having a lot of late born four year olds that must remain in preschools and we have a dire need for either preschool additional preschools or more  capacity in the preschools so what's what we're recommending here is to get the experts together on how we can expand our preschool capabilities so we can take on the additional children that will not be able to enter kindergarten ok members questions moving on to no office on aging ok so this is no increase in funding   i'm not all of this this may be the annual caregivers conference that we have every year olds volunteer he rolls this past week so we have several of these events annually to recognize volunteers members any questions on those two items and the community partnership total k the community partnership grant total has not increased this community partnership grant is a two year cycle grant so we're in the second year of the cycle and if look in our narrative section i believe it lists all the agencies that receive that to your funding members that is on the march t then the numbers that we're looking at from the past year couple years will stay the same correct ok so nothing's going to jugglers subtract or minus from the number are aware what of their grant for the first and second year and what amount that will be and they've already signed their contract so there will be no changes ok ok sorry i had gotten a phone call that's why from a particular entity on this list who said they were told they're going to be cut a certain percentage no no ok thank you mr i did get a call also in that you have two thousand and fourteen allocated what is two thousand and fourteen expanded in fifty fifty expanded what does that mean because some of those have different figures ok so the report that you have in front of you is i supposed to be looking at their report first and foremost am i supposed to be looking today well that's what you questioning yeah yeah yeah ok ok ok i'm on the wrong place now that's what i want to thank goodness for mr yeah so that's what this means yes ok sure for sixteen where do we find sixteen yeah we haven't reported yet for sixteen because amount yes because i also received a call saying that they were told they were going to be caught not not them but somebody in particular but you assure me know that whatever is here and fifteen is a seaman sixty yes for community partnership grants correct for this in particular to your cycle based ok if i can maybe i can go back in history there was a time when all grants was given to the grants review committee so that was called community partnership grants and the grants review committee which was made up of citizens like our commissions that made the decision on  along the way profit started coming directly to the council and the mare for line item grants and so that's how we got community partnership grants for two years and then annual line item grants will we were doing like to grant programs one was a community partnership grants for two years and then the line item grants for one year how ever in our planning with the budget director in a more automated grants process we're going to a computer grants application process and reporting process that the line item grants will probably be changed into one year grants it's all all one year grants that's our long term plan and we still have to research if we got to do some amendments to that the ordinance thank you for that explanation move on to the next section cost of living request and we determine what the cost of living increase has been i couldn't hear what you said i'm sorry so we checked in to see what the actual cost of the increase has been no i have i have not that looks like they've gotten their increase over the last three years is has gone from seventy six thousand eighty eight which is little more than the cost of living i believe we're going to say something and mr chair believe enough is the last two years in a row but the committee did go through and i think provide three percent increases to most non profits across the board right for those two years i believe in those were included in that not quite sure it looks like a little bit more than that as well you have a this this year is five percent so that's correct most nonprofits this year when they requested increases a lot of them requested a five percent increase ok any questions on a preschool let's move on i'm sorry but you know we had some papers given communication dated march twenty fourth and this is h c one and it breaks down each grantee and all the information requested by the committee on each one so and i pulled up these folks and it seems that all their i guess reporting of their source of incomes and what have you but they've got like one cas foundation fifteen thousand donation various and then four different fund raisers but it doesn't like add up to their total amount that the budget in their organization so i was just wondering if these kind of things are for the coming and it looks like it everyone else it was to be pretty up to date but this one in particular is lacking a lot of information provided this thus far we were hoping you weren't going to catch that but information that we gave to you today is not accurate but i spoke with my grants manager today she is aware of the inconsistency and will be working closely with that agency to make sure that they do their grant applications and their budgeting correctly we do have agencies that do really good work but may not have a real good grasp of the financial aspect so we'll be working with them very closely to make sure they do that correctly ok very good glad that you're aware and yes i on it thank you very much department thank you for you moving on ok early childhood coach and mentor program this is kind of hand in hand with what i mentioned earlier it's to bring on a coaching team that can assist the current preschools as well as potential new preschools to get a critic did and to be coached and mentored through the process early childhood programs we're asking for fifty thousand dollar increase for subsidies to families who have a hard time paying for preschool and this pretty much assists the families in being able to maintain at least a part time job or in many cases a full time job but you know their salary is not sufficient to help them with their  early childhood care and so we subsidize many families and how do you determine who gets subsidized there is a sliding scale and  who are utilizing licensed child care or preschool programs and they are required to submit financial documents to demonstrate that they have financial need so and then we have an assessment process which we go through and look at their expenses as well as their gross income and their expenses and then determine what the need is for each family so they all need to be income eligible and show need we also prioritize the gap groups so we have a committee that meets at least annually to determine if there are certain groups within our county that have a higher need for either more assistance or to be incorporated into the calculations and then we recommend the funding and that we also because of is so small we also have a cap on what we can for families but it allows those who can't really afford it to just get that little bit extra so they can send their child to places care or the preschool programs we have it for this past year it was two hundred dollars in assistance that we could give to each family they've been able to date to serve ninety four families with a wait list i mean ninety four children from the two families with a wait list of forty eight children so they're different entities broken into this one right there if for this particular program there is one entity that does the distribution of subsidies however their families can be utilizing any licensed facility within ma we can't so my family support services is the fiscal entity to do the distribution of the subsidy assistance for this program families that demonstrate need so in a i love their budget seeing they set their tuition but they provide assistance for families that demonstrate need and that's that's why that and it was a transition year this past year that's why i'm a ll just got it despite so i think you know i think it makes perfect sense that we're trying to serve the kids that probably would not be in a preschool in a created approved  preschool if they didn't have some support and so i totally understand where you're going with that and i understand you want to take care of the kids that need it the most thank you a integrated preschool where they work with somali adult day care center and this will probably be their last year of funding  because it just kind of doesn't fit into the priorities of our what our priorities are so it's a flap or it actually went down by six hundred dollars must go and finish up the early childhood groom molly economic opportunity this is for head start after school they're asking for a twelve thousand dollar increase  it's i'm sure it's because of the increase in services that they are going to be required to be providing and then economic opportunity head start summer program  there is a note here that the fiscal year fifteen included more will cut the program for twenty eight thousand dollars molly economic opportunity infant toddler care program is requesting an increase of nine hundred six thousand dollars from eighty eight thousand to ninety five thousand dollars and the the physically or fifteen tonsil adopted budget we added those two lines together right so that's the total for fifteen and sixteen they're asking for an increase so that the fifteen and sixteen ones in that single line will have ok so we're under the title of grant and disbursements for health human services and education eight three six on page two ok so you heard from feed my sheep this morning this is a brand new grant to request and primarily they are looking to serve healthier provide healthier food for the very needy of molly county every year and if we are able to cover it with funds that we get from the state then we don't use this money but otherwise it's kind of a stopgap measure so that if in case we don't get the state monies we have this to fall back on holly mccord this is a new one time grant and pretty much what is happening here is holly mccaw is proposing to bring in some physicians from the mainland to assist them with care of their patients at holly mccool i think it's pretty much on an interim kind of basis because when there is as health rehab center this is also new and i believe that's a one time grant to build a new rehab center at the honda health center and it would be  the puerto rican portuguese group that is building a facility in place for their particular heritage and that i believe is in construction already you very much on the behalf of all of what you very much members questions the first five feed my sheep probably my whole by the health center and heritage hall mr mr carrol i don't have any serious concerns about any of this you know i certainly understand putting this in here just in case they don't get state funding it's really important this program is so said i took me understand we have to take care of those people and there's no alternative there's any court that's it i understand heritage hold their deep into construction and what i heard one of the things they said last night they really needed was a fire hydrant they had been required to put one in and they thought they were ok but i guess in the process of construction they've been required to do that and a bunch of other stuff and we're not strangers to that we hear this all the time the question that i wanted a little bit more information about and i really like i've watched feed my sheep for many years and i do know that they serve a lot of people and i miss the person who's been doing it i mean miles and his wife i mean they've worked so hard with their own funds you know don't take care of this thing and kind of interested in the aid of healthier and better food because of course i'm concerned about of cost and if  most of this produce can be obtained i don't know what they're doing when they talk about an organic feeding program i don't quite understand how they get the food and how they do it a number joycelyn is here if you would like to hear from here about it i think that would help us but we certainly understand the program it's a great program i hope our farmers are helping because you know it's important that people have a good diet and i know that most of the food that we give it the food bank we give what we have just to make sure people have something is we've heard a few things during the testimonies that we've been going to the different districts and quite a few of the speakers described it as an organic feeding program and you know that kind of pick could take a lot of explanation what is it well we concentrate on healthy food we do give some processed and some canned goods but we really concentrate on the healthy food we get most of our produce through cleaning crops from farmers getting it also at discounted prices and then we get but we mostly pick it we said if we go out there ourselves because we don't want it to be plowed under so he cabbages pineapples things like that that way so the majority of our crop is that way so actually what you're describing is you're trying to do a program with more fresh produce and you actually get it yeah you know we supply a huge amount of fresh produce and then we want to make sure they get a balanced diet with the proteins and the carbohydrates ok i didn't know about that believing part i think that's amazing thank you thank you very much good question any other questions from his car call me while she's here was here and the our monies go a long way and i'll tell you the line section that donations and the sources that you get it from is just outstanding in the churches and it just you explain you folks go gather your own but i mean it's just all of us in kind of businesses and everybody just outpouring of help to you is is incredible so thank you for your are reaching what you provide to this community it's very it's very appreciated thank you for you do well any other questions on the top five items below any questions revenue plan would be after the structure would be built or the hall would be built so council member all of these i guess capital improvement kind of monies that are asked of  county we encourage and we have been i guess mandatory making them make sure that they have what is called a reserve for replacement fund so in their budgeting for the operations of heritage hall and the fees that they will be collected we'll have to part of that monies will have to be put in a reserve for replace spent so they don't have to be coming back to the county for maintenance kinds of stuff do you happen to know how much they know i don't know i don't have i can get that though i can ask them thank you are you sure but i think that's a question that we've we've all asked ourselves because the the amount they were providing is significant and we have seen not only by so like many out o me but others that have gotten into a crunch when they are faced with operational costs so it is a question that i think we need to ask and get answered is to what degree have we checked to see that they have the operational monies available to sustain the facility so if you could be so kind as to provide that goad be very helpful yes we will any further questions members mention the fire hydrant i'll just you know come up out of nowhere and they're faced with all of these extra expenses unexpectedly and they're just trying to finish this off because like blaming it on me and all these other these are these will be used by the it down to seven hundred fifty thousand so we were hoping that last year would have been a last request and yes you're correct for capital funding for this specific project the heritage whole organization has been mere actually i told them to hire a construction manager and you couldn't use that he was fifty thousand or something out of out of the grant that we give them because they were coming in there was a lot of unforseen items and change orders that you discuss you know things that you'd think that an architect engineer should be able to know that this is a requirement that the water departments going to need and stuff like that but they came in after after the fact kind of an item and that's why they required change orders and those were fairly significant but still not very significant compared to their one point two million dollar request that was last year so they're really only about one hundred fifty thousand dollars over what their original amount requested was so they wanted to clarify that thank you thank you for refreshing our memory and you know it's important and i want that was my next question to you read my mind thank you very much that's all i need to federal government of the state government are the ones that are basically making all the laws and providing the majority of the funding for health services issues can you help us feel comfortable this is something that we should be moving into mr child think that approached the mayor directly for this funding request you're correct a lot  capital and stuff like that in the past but this request really was a kind of a last effort ditch effort because they having such a hard time finding doctors that will give up their private practices on maui to assist the residents at how to makulu and so because of the inability to find doctors then this is some additional costs that are being borne by how  that they're requesting the county to help to defray otherwise you know the the wouldn't be able to serve the community that they're serving in a i mean without providing the services it usually gets born on the back of the hospital to take those individuals who doesn't have the capacity to serve and then as a community yes we are paying maybe not out of the right pocket but out of the left for those costs  decide on bubbles of funding and decide on every element of health care services that are to be provided and the amount of money that are that is being  provided as compensation so they're they're the ones that have all the policy we'll we have we have nothing that we can do to change any of the outcomes as as we well know with the hospital and  chair from my understanding the reimbursements from medicaid and medicare they cover these costs are limited you know they've put a statutory limit on the amount that they'll pay and so even though we can't because we can't find a doctor on the island to provide the services at you know whatever rate that is then we have you know the organization and is then having to cover the additional cost that won't be reimbursed by the state or federal government so yes you're very correct in we have no control over it but we have to do you know if they made a similar request of the state legislature i believe they did i can confirm that i can us move on to homeless programs ok homeless programs which is a six hundred forty one thousand dollars item we are not asking for any increase this is what i call kind of my director three hundred forty thousand family life center emergency operations eighty thousand same teresa's church holly call call in ky hey seventy five thousand family life cent emergency shelter case management sixty thousand family life center new leaf ranch fifty thousand kali a kill us step up program thirty thousand and feed my sheep food thousand so the next one is we lowly mohanan for hunted by allah says they are asking for an increase from forty six thousand six hundred to eight two thousand three hundred and the reason for this is that they are currently serving i believe it's two patients and they will be increasing their service to four patients so they are looking to hiring two more part time technical dialysis staff that actually the technicians sit with the patient to make sure that everything goes according to plan with the machines and everything like that so they're increasing milan learning center is not asking for an increase that's two hundred seventy four thousand six hundred dollars in more family services years here ok so in more family you more preschool they're asking for seventy five thousand dollars in more preschool celebrates children similarities as well as their different abilities and cultures by combining by ending children with developmental and concerns and special needs and typically developing children in an inclusive classroom environment that meets all the children's needs so they didn't ask us for anything last year but they are asking for seventy five thousand this year a nine thousand dollar increase learn community center is addressing behavioral health issues including mental illness integrated with medical services federally qualified serving uninsured and under insured visitors to the area would be accommodated instead of having to drive in and i may be wrong but i think that was what i was told by their staff and their what's your name  who i could remember so because you said for patients yes but i think they were also trying to add the service of visitors who come to that area that already han a stain out there that they'll be able to be worked it's kind of like a standing amount that we gave we give them annually but there are a couple things for instance like the emergency shelter case management and the food distribution survey sometimes things come up during the year that needs attention and this gives me the flexibility to act quickly but yet correct there are some that are like  standing funding but would there be a base number that you would be able to work with if so happen one of the members or including myself  provisos a certain amount of money to one of those in the individual sure organizations yeah it would be the bottom line in terms of the the money that you would need for emergencies and things like that yeah so you would you would make it a proviso to the homeless fund that we fund whatever program you're thinking about each of these projects has to fill out a grant application like any  just to clarify the items on direct to the items on the almost programs list now is this list as this list of  programs going to be handled similarly to the community partnership grants you know not what happens chair is in all certain ones for instance like sensual operations off that is kind of like a standing amount that i make sure we want to make sure that college will kill a can operate but others for instance you know how they call call may or may not come  in the food distribution survey that was a one time thing that we wanted to do a survey of all the food distributors to kind of see the need as well as determine overlap if there's overlap  so yeah i it's they come in they talk to me and jan do we talk about the need and if we feel that there is a dis a disk definite meaning and we have enough money to fund it we will fund it and they must submit a full application like every other grantee ok so unlike the other list these amounts except for over these amounts are not necessarily what's going to be granted this upcoming year correct yes ok thank you  center they had a grant last year and there's not no request in for this year and i think that there was a misunderstanding we heard the executive director this morning testify that they would like hundred eighty thousand waders and replacement of approximately one hundred feet of sewer line for building six so although there is no request and i understand the request was not made for some i don't know exactly what went the misunderstanding it is there so i just wanted to make the members aware that there is that request thank you thank you  any further questions for the section director if you can proceed with the economy of performing arts ok ma academy of performing arts this is this entity used to be funded by the county and then they didn't ask us for funding for a number of years for this year their record their requesting  they will utilize the county grant funds to support its mapa school partnership program mapper live two thousand and fifteen summer musical production and towards the completion of a conceptual drawing for map a new theater in a way to cool mali arts and cultural center this is kind of a standing amount that they ask us for annually and they're not asking  they're asking for a flat amount of three forty eight molly economic opportunity hispanic and in los a hispanic program this was moved from human concerns program to conti grants subsidy program they're asking for an increase of four thousand four hundred fifty dollars and mali economic opportunity for senior planning and coordination  they're not asking for anything here no not not flat ok that sort of stuff there will start with for the children and the they work with the schools in putting on a production i mean see what they have here map is an educational performing arts organization which has been providing a range of arts opportunities to mali community i know because i passed by there sometimes on my way home from work and they have dance classes act classes at their facility and then i guess they are working now with the schools in partnership with the schools to put on a summer production can and it's a cultural center ok mark arts and cultural center i think i believe that they testified today about the services that they provide but similar they have on site classes they bring schools to their facility as well as take programs out to the schools they also service one of our requirements in funding molly arts and cultural center has been that they service the outlying areas so they serve molly mulcahy and alumni and hannah i'm sorry and ok and we i think we all know what molly adult daycare center does i serve on one of their advisory committees and you know like like all senior programs they are also growing in number and so you know they're asking for flat funding they're not asking for any increases but they provide a very very important service to our community they provide civic engagement culture integration community education needs assessment service delivery and referrals to the hispanic community of mali both key and the hyena is reflecting a ten percent hispanic population so i think it's because of that that they're asking for this four thousand dollar increase ok and this is not a question for these particular programs but how do you how do you measure the outcome various programs that you administer and whether we're getting  the best name for a buck so there are there's several ways chair usually if if you notice in the grand application there are goals and objectives that they must provide us and pretty much we use those as our performance measures so if they say they're going to be providing tutoring at three schools we make sure they're doing tutoring  schools if they're going to do you know all x number of students at each of the schools that we make sure that they're meeting those those performance measures now we always work with them in if they find say after they started working for six months and they're not going to meet their performance measures then we ask them to come in and modify or amend their performance measures so that they are it will to meet what they're saying they're going to do ok mr carroll any questions are on the section ok let's move on to the next section so the next one is molly family support services they are asking for a four thousand dollar increase mali food bank is flat actually they are taking a cut of fifty dollars oh youth and family services i believe judge was here this morning and testified that this is kind of a one time capital  planning grant they want to do a new behavioral health facility so it's for planning and design of that facility mental health association is flat for a mental health association is an advocacy group and they always as long as i have known them have operated on us on a shoestring budget and  mental health mental health is a new request and that is to provide a cycle social rehabilitation services to homeless persons with mental illness so they may gain the social and communication skills necessary to allow them to remain in or return to community settings and they are asking for a one time funding primarily to improve their kitchen and they want to buy a new reefer because they are serving more and more people  you know their kitchen it's twenty four i'm sorry seven days a week all year long fifty two weeks in a year any facility will take a toll so they just need to do some improvement and they want to get a bigger refer so they can store more food so sufficiency programs ok self sufficiency of programs that's another one of my discretionary funds and this past year twenty fifteen were using those funds for my family support services early head start program sixty three thousand six hundred fifty fo consumer credit counseling fifty thousand molly farm stipend program nineteen thousand two hundred family life center their backpack program  family life center new leaf french mutely ranch four thousand eight hundred for a total of one thousand one hundred forty two thousand eight fifty four we have a balance of one thousand three hundred forty six dollars in that drug abusers and putting them into an environment where they would be working on a rent setting specific thank you mr carroll mr victory no danger man it's why you know we go out to eat thirty nine the roman catholic church of of the state of hawaii wayne why not put down seem to riches parish because that is where generally the money would be going to to improve that this is something people may misunderstand when you see that and some questions yes and i'm very sensitive to that idea you know so they were why we had to every like that we would gladly list there for you holly call call program i believe the reason being that same theresa's operates under the nonprofit entity of the roman catholic church in the state of hawaii there are they are not a separate nonprofit the diocese and so maybe maybe even putting down the  yeah you know because i think it's very important people understand there is a separation between church and state and that they were doing this for holly cocoa which feeds anywhere from one eighty to one hundred people every day you know and again that's luncheon and they also have the minds you know just sort of the title would be more appropriate to what i believe should be listed here so what if you have other reasons for why i mean just so long as there's someone else mentioned here so that i have i feel comfortable with it programs no further questions on those stirred up with the service of the frail and elderly ok services to the frail and elderly is oh man my eyes is that six hundred sixty one thousand yeah ok this is for the meals on wheels program congregant meals program and the meals delivered program delivery meals program year fifteen proviso for participation was ten thousand three hundred and we're assuming that will be the same this year tamale farm two hundred thirty five thousand that is a flat budget from last year the salvation army is asking for a three thousand one hundred dollars three percent increase universe of oil molly college cooperative extension believe you heard from them this year this morning they're asking for twenty five thousand dollar increase they received twenty five thousand last year and then women helping women is asking for a ten thousand dollar increase from their fiscal year twenty fifteen but wondering specifically what we're funding ok salvation army front line provider assisting the homeless population of mali by meeting basic survival needs such as food tarps tents hygiene supplies hot meals referral service and productive informational case management those that funding but we give them the money and that's what they provide in services back into the community yes ok and like i said would probably measure it by their objectives as to what how many people they're going to help or what they're going to help with and how many tents they're going to give all that kind of stuff i'd like to say this is one of those entities share that through donations and fundraisers  exceed what they get from grants from sources like ourselves so we do a good job on that  transportation and then congress getting meals congregant meals is where those senior goals to say like a site like wake up community center and they're fed and then they get social programs ok and then the women helping women when we were in honda they mentioned that the ten thousand was actually for providing services it harder and harder i'm i believe that's what miss money's testified this morning that they know the budget and finance committee will come back to order so it will be proceeding with the the top of page three of seventeen with the coalition for a drug free and members just want to remind you that this is our time to understand as much as we need to in order to be able to support or defend the chairs budget  office for at least two years and some for eight there's a lot of understanding of what these programs do and i think that's that's likely why we're not getting too many questions but is want to remind you that when the proposal comes out we need to be in a position where we have a good understanding because by the time the chairs proposal comes out it's the time is very short so of money but they have been lobbying made lobbying efforts and there is a bill which would force the department of human services to apply an annual cost increase to long term care facilities  p nine twelve and it looks like it's in conference committee so it does they are working on getting more money from the state but at this point here it's not a state wide problem the c did e mail me and he did say it's not really a statewide problem this is a lack of doctors is really more of a mallee issue so that's why the specific challenge that they're having but they are working on the statewide problem of reimbursements and and getting the state legislature to actually mandate that in the human services pay increase thank you thank you prevention and treatment coalition for drug free lanai he is asking for an increase from forty two thousand to fifty thousand college pull my cut he is a new model drug treatment under age drinking prevention campaign for emil is fifty thousand and that is under if you look below at that forty it's under the substance abuse program and youth call awareness program so those funds are coming from there and then my is that flat and that is they do several programs in on a drug treatment family counseling that kind of stuff so that's it for that category ok mr carroll comments or questions  here from the substance abuse thing for the underage drinking program in thousand voices program these are listed as increases or new is it because they're being transferred  this year so you don't have to put provisos on them but it's essentially the same funding they received the previous year you had become additions no it's actually been moved out of the programs below yes it's the same effect  you know i know that stacey might be able to answer this better than i can but they have been an active service provider on the whole case for a long time that we used to fund them a few years ago item as opposed to being part of the substance abuse programs on the i'm assuming chair that they are you know applying because we have the line item grant application process now if they were going to be under the discretionary funds that is a whole different process and they it's kind of like they're taking their chances and make thinking that we have enough funding for them abuse funding that we have here and i'm thinking that we can accommodate them i'm not sure if it's going to be fifty thousand but yeah we may be able to do that so their total is getting the ninety thousand plus forty thousand from the substance abuse fund it would be about one hundred thirty thousand ok testified this morning they're asking for a four thousand three hundred dollar increase big brothers big sisters was also here they're asking for close to six thousand dollar increase boys and girls club center facility design move from facilities improvement of bet's palm yeah that's done ok so boys and girls club you success center they're asking this is new asking for one hundred thousand on a youth center is flat their move from youth centers grant new line item grand for boys and girls of them all you for one santa providing information and resources and services for the youth and their families and you're a little bit more in debt that's  hundred thousand in oh i know the amount but what does that entail i think what they're talking about is that they wanted to be able to provide a like they say if somebody just walked in and needed help they can make referrals from that used center not necessarily you know the of course if it's a youth they're going to try and coordinate it with their services but if it's services that they need outside of the youth center that they can provide that one stop service family family support services other groups that they would then if there's a challenge in in a particular area refer them to that particular agency is that what they're intending to do with this money correct so for instance if somebody came in and a family say had a substance abuse problem in the family where that they could make the connect for if a family member say say they came in and it was determined that this family is not buying food because they're paying rent then how do we help them how do we make that connect so this money you know again is just for one location for all of the locations i think it's for they probably are going to operate out of one location but i'm assuming they're going to train all their centers that that this referral can be made through this what are they calling it use for success center  probably watching as we speak should we come flying down before we've done ok and mr chairman i made i do have a proposal they submitted i could submit that to the committee for testimony if you if you like that information we would love whatever proposals we can get two hundred forty five thousand dollars i believe that was a design yeah you know chair i would have to get back to you on that i will we have to do is go check their report for last year of twenty fourteen it was yeah yeah we can check that it would normally happen that we would get some sort of a request the report or either additional design moneys or start of construction by now  did have people testify and in support of constructing a new center there so they must know something we don't we'll get a report for you chair thank you and dollar increase from eighteen thousand six seventy two to nineteen thousand t hey youth center is flat budget two hundred seventeen thousand  god bless them for getting on there we know we gave them the seed money and they grew and now they are off on their own yeah i just so you know sometimes they ask us for money just for a little bit of help for something they're doing at the to move on to five of page four of my youth center center is a flat budget of one fifty three five seventy three  economic opportunity for youth services is asking for an eight thousand dollars increase molly family support services teen voices is asking for a twenty three hundred dollar increase community services council for high youth center is a flat budget put your youth council is a flat budget two hundred twenty four thousand project graduation is at a flat budget of forty seven thousand seven forty one youth programs is that a flat budget of one hundred seven thousand one hundred eight program same operations who are actually funding them the forty or forty two forty two thousand or so thousand from the departments recollection there they had requested in this additional amount of but right now they're still separate so if the committee to chooses to combine them into one grant we'd be happy with that as well i was just trying to see tha thank you could the dimia provide a reason for the increase are there any increase services ok the eighty two hundred dollars or a three hundred dollar increase my economic opportunity ok so what that program is doing is providing after school out of school positive youth development activities for youth six through twelfth grade i'm assuming there is an increase in need of services and that that is what the real increase will cover and then molly family support services that's when you were just discussing so what they're saying is it's up prevention and early intervention service and support to help teens of void teen pregnancy and challenges of effectively parenting as teen parents object of of the program is sue prevent child abuse and neglect but there's no specific justification for the eleven percent no there was not and i would do in your review what the other you centers are dealing with would you or would you comment on whether they're facing increased need for service the youth centers yeah i believe that all of the youth centers are i don't think it's an unmanageable increase of service but you know because as the seniors leave you get the younger kids come in and many more youth than they were in previous years only some of these are receiving increases so will mr chester mayor sure respond to that  not asking for so it's kind of where we're at with that i can understand maybe a comprehensive look especially at the youth centers because they're they're serving a targeted population and providing similar services but if the youth centers aren't asking for an increase in you know ministration feels like it's not up to us to give them money that they're not asking for i don't i don't totally disagree with that but they're not asking for it because community to wailea community so that some youth centers can get this you know community money better than others b from m e o the increase was to support an additional position to work with the youth during the summer months only during the school year we are in the schools and it's manageable with two staff during the summer months we have an increase in participation for this children that we're serving in the schools and we do a lot of camping you know outdoor activities and so it requires a five but we're almost at three hundred right now for the last quarterly report that we just finished as of march thirty first and do those all carry through the summer months not all in the summer but probably about half of them do  ok moving to management chair kelly is here if you want to hear from kelly and kelly from boys and girls club is here and here for she heard you calling her she must have been watching success center and i had a couple of questions i got some explanation from the budget director and housing and human concerns director however i wanted to know number one is this just one location as the person after come all the way to the center to get in from we share or to get help you explain that please ok so i think in the beginning of the year when i first got the opportunity to be the c e o i kind of went around to the council and and talked about an idea that i had had for so many years and basically it was a one stop research center for kids and yes it does seem like people or the community would have to go down to the central area but because it was a central area is the most convenient area but what we do have is the original center mall youth center facility the building and although we're using it right now for programs a lot of our educational programs i still felt that we could do utilize that facility not just for boys and girls club kids but the entire community so what they did was a one stop research center for kids and basically my idea is to have all the services any service even nonprofit for profit any service that affects a child's life be in this one location and my reason is that i find that when think my kid is really the press and may may take his or her own or her own life whatever it is the time that it takes for a parent to pick up the phone and actually find a rate agency to contact me to get services from takes time and sometimes they don't have the time so the reason i propose is once that research center was so that this would be the core place and the area the full number one for number they would call we would not make them run around to different agencies all and i also felt that that would be a good way to efficiently use our funds because it would be under one roof one place and the way that all us other agencies who serve kids could collaborate and know right now there's not a whole lot of talking stories and i think over the past years there's not been you go to several meetings whether it be substance abuse teen pregnancy alcohol whatever and you can go to four different meetings but we are talking about the same customers which is our kids when we should all be talking stories under this one roof we could talk story so yes it was in those i would love to take the lead on this and use that  think is underutilized at this time time but it would be a collaboration on all of the services so i understand it's open to any child any family in michael to who needs assistance in any particular area you're going to try to guide them to the right specific if you see to assist them at that point yes and i think it's more for non boys and girls club members because there's a lot of the kids who are in need of services that are coming and from there we can even connect them to our own in the process of them i was a member of the weinberg fellows last class and i had made a really good connection i don't know of anybody heard but they come work out of oahu they're called the learning coalition and basically he has coalition set up on o and big island not in on ma yet and it's kind of the same concept that i was talking about so they have funding i'm currently working with then i've been to meetings in koichi and trying to bring money to molly county because they're not finding here yet but that is another agency that i'm working with at this point and just to get the building ready so yeah it's kind of planting the seed at this point if we get approval for this then we can move forward and july one i would love to be ready but even working on the facility we don't even knowing if we cut this finding or not we already started the ball rolling for working on that facility and in may in june we have three different destination companies coming down over two hundred people who can do free labor for us has got a lot of paint delineated from los that we're going to use to repaint the facility and set it up brought follows grant so setting up the facility is one thing in having the funding to provide a service is my goal is to have the resource center open before parents work and close after parents power to so their leader evenings because i think if we had a one set research center for kids and their families and we operated eight to four thirty that really didn't make sense because that's not when they can come and visit so this way the extra resources you know what i've heard  nation and maybe others have questions i think we weren't this funding and you know i hope it's not for ever to funding you know maybe hopefully with the weinberg and others that this will you know and if other groups are go child things i think she's been working on but i did take a tour of the facility in central maine called holy and saw the old building where they would like to put the facility for the what do you call it the one stop implement thank you discovered thank you and yeah i think there's a need and i think you folks definitely if anyone can pull it off you can and so this is to help more like a c a p thing in regards to an existing building you're fixing it up or is this to roll out the program with with more resources extend our you know what you expect more operate more operations and ok and but that building has got to be about six thousand square feet but we're currently using it for a college bar and we're also we also have admin offices in there so my director of education and they're my director of finance and and when you have all of that space that is utilize once in a while and i want to see it being used every day daily and and not only for boys and girls club kids i guess that's why i'm so excited because it gives us a chance to outreach to non members as is kind of a revisit the design and look at it more of a i think when i took over i asked what the number was it was a crazy high number and i even can say that and i think what we need right now is cut it down and resign so he can be a little bit more affordable then i can work on a plan so i do want to move it forward but before i come in for planning and design or c d g or to any or even weinberg never really discussed this with weinberg as well director let's move on to animal management  we just contacted journey in the few minutes school was most of you know she is in the middle of a major they're calling it the mash programme where they're attempting to do three hundred fixes of cats we have adequate time i'm tomorrow to go through the remaining grants that are under oath and we have time on thursday morning and so rather than bringing humane society and  tomorrow morning they're going to be doing their spaying neutering clinic again tomorrow if we bring them in on thursday morning i believe they'll be done by then is that correct so we'll bring them back on thursday morning and  you'd like to have and we will also we'll start with the animal and the grounds at nine o'clock nine o'clock nine o'clock oh wait a minute wait about thursday we start so ten o'clock on thursday and so we'll be here tomorrow morning at nine tomorrow night we go upcountry thursday we start at ten o'clock and unless there any questions or objection community media you're watching channel fifty three