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UH, I AM COUNCIL AND REBECCA VIAGRA.
I'M CHAIR OF THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AND WE ARE HERE FOR OUR E W D C COMMITTEE MEETING FOR THIS TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2020.
UM, IT IS GOOD TO SEE ALL OF YOUR FACES AGAIN, EVEN THOUGH IT IS VIRTUALLY STILL.
UM, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
UM, MADAM CLERK, READ THE ROLE.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER CABELL HDA HERE.
MADAM CHAIR, WE HAVE A QUORUM.
I'M SURE SHIRLEY WILL JOIN US HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.
WE DID SEE, UM, WE DID HEAR COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO, BUT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM EITHER WAY.
SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR JOINING.
UH, WE HAVE A LOT TO GO THROUGH.
A LOT HAS HAPPENED AND THIS MONTH AND, UH, THE MONTH OF JULY.
AND SO I WANNA THANK THE STAFF ALREADY, UH, FOR ALL OF THE WORK.
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FIRST ITEMS ON THE AGENDA ITEMS ONE, TWO, AND THREE ARE THE MEETING OF THE MINUTES FROM THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR JUNE 2ND.ITEM NUMBER TWO IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR THE E W D C COMMITTEE MEETING ON JUNE 19TH.
AND ITEM NUMBER THREE IS AN APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR THE E W D C COMMITTEE MEETING ON JUNE 23RD.
I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR ALL THREE UNLESS, UM, YOU, MY COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR, UM, EDITS ON ANY OF THESE IN PARTICULAR.
CAN YOU CLARIFY YOUR MOTION AGAIN? COUNCIL COLLEY.
I MOVED TO APPROVE, UH, THE THREE COUNCIL, UM, I'M SORRY.
UH, ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES SECOND.
OKAY, SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEMS ONE, TWO, AND THREE, THE MEETING MINUTES FOR JUNE 2ND, JUNE 19TH AND JUNE 23RD, 2020.
UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
AND THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMENTS.
I BELIEVE THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, EMAILED IN OR ANY CALLS IN.
SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM FOR
[4. 20-4462 Update on the COVID-19 Community Recovery and Resiliency Plan regarding the Small Business Support and Workforce Development Pillars [Carlos J. Contreras, III; Assistant City Manager; Alejandra Lopez, Director, Economic Development]]
BRIEFING AND POSSIBLE ACTION ITEM NUMBER FOUR.IT'S AN UPDATE ON C OVID 19 COMMUNITY RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY PLAN REGARDING THE SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PILLARS.
UM, THIS IS GONNA BE A NICE, UH, JUICY PRESENTATION AND CONVERSATION.
SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO CARLOS TO START US OFF, AND THEN I'M SURE ALEX WILL BE DOING A LOT OF THE PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS.
UH, CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN A MONTH SINCE WE, UH, SINCE WE MET LAST.
ALL OF US, UH, THIS MONTH HAS BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY FOR E D D AND, AND ALL THE PARTNERS THAT YOU SEE HERE ON THE SCREEN.
UH, UH, IT WAS SPENT, UH, DRAFTING, NEGOTIATING CONTRACTS, SETTING UP ALL THE PARAMETERS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROGRAM, UM, AND THEN, AND THEN BEGINNING RIGHT AWAY SO WE COULD, UM, TRY TO GET THE MUCH NEEDED, UH, ASSISTANCE OUT TO THE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE SO DESPERATELY IN NEED OF, OF ASSISTANCE.
AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT HAS DONE.
UH, I WILL TELL YOU, THERE WASN'T A SATURDAY OR A SUNDAY DURING THE MONTH OF JULY WHEN E D D WASN'T WORKING THE WHOLE TIME.
I MEAN, IT WAS CONSTANT THE WHOLE TIME.
UM, I NEED TO HAVE A VACATION AND, AND I PROMISED THEM IN SEPTEMBER THEY COULD HAVE ONE, UH, BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE STILL WORKING.
SO I WANT TO THANK ALEX AND ALL OF OUR TEAM FOR ALL THE WORK THEY DID AND ALL THE PARTNERS WHO WERE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO REALLY WORK WITH US, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS MONTH OF JULY.
SO, ALEX, WOULD YOU TAKE IT OVER PLEASE? THANK YOU.
ALEX LOPEZ WITH THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, UM, LIKE CARLOS MENTIONED, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, BUT I DO WANNA START OUT BY THANKING THE TEAM INTERNALLY THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY ON THIS, UM, STARTING THE SMALL BUSINESS WORK.
UM, ANN EATON AND THOMAS DAVIS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON SO MUCH OF THAT.
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THE WORKFORCE, OR ON THE WORKFORCE SIDE, WE'VE GOT MICHAEL SENDEN AND HIS TEAM, UM, THAT HAVE AL ALSO BEEN TRYING TO MOVE THIS, THIS WORK FORWARD, AS YOU'RE GONNA SEE.SO, JUST TO START OFF, THERE IS, UM, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, REITERATE THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT ARE, UM, INFORMED THE ACTUAL PLAN, THE ACTUAL RECOVERY PLAN, BUT CONTINUE TO INFORM THE WORK AS WE'RE IMPLEMENTING.
UM, SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY THINKING OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PERSPECTIVES, THINKING OF EQUITY, HOW WE BRAID AND INCORPORATE DIFFERENT SOURCES OF FUNDING, UM, COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND FAMILY AND, AND OVERALL RESIDENT WELLBEING.
SO THEY, THEY, THEY HELPED US IN THE BEGINNING AND THEY CONTINUE TO, TO HELP US THROUGH THE WHOLE EXECUTION OF THE PLAN.
SO WE WANTED TO START OFF WITH THAT AS WELL.
AND JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY ABOUT THE, THE TWO PILLARS WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY AND THE FUNDING ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE TWO.
UM, THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IS PRIMARILY GENERAL FUND.
UM, THERE IS OTHER FEDERAL FUNDING ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHILDCARE, AND THAT'S THE 10 MILLION THAT YOU SEE IN THE, PRETTY MUCH IN THE CENTER OF THE SLIDE.
UM, AND THEN ON THE SMALL BUSINESS PILLAR, UH, THE 38.1 MILLION IS, UH, SUBSTANTIALLY, UM, CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDING, UM, EXCEPT FOR 5 MILLION OF THAT, THAT IS GENERAL FUND AS WELL.
SO THESE ARE THE VARIOUS STRATEGIES THAT ARE A PART OF THE SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT PILLAR, AND WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH EACH ONE OF THEM AND GIVE YOU A, A BRIEF UPDATE AS TO WHERE WE ARE.
BUT COLLECTIVELY, THESE STRATEGIES WERE FUNDED WITH $38.1 MILLION.
AND WE'RE GONNA START OFF WITH THE MICRO-BUSINESS GRANTS AND OUR NONPROFIT GRANTS.
HERE YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE, UM, THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRANTS, UH, THAT WE'VE, WE'VE, UM, GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS AND RECEIVED APPLICATIONS FOR, WE DID LIMIT THIS TO BUSINESSES WITHIN THE SAN ANTONIO CITY LIMITS THAT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO MARCH.
UM, WE DID ALSO ASK FOR THERE TO BE AN, A DOCUMENTATION OF A NEGATIVE IMPACT SINCE MARCH.
UM, RESULT SINCE REALLY THE COVID PANDEMIC, UM, WE WANTED TO SEE THAT LOSS IN REVENUE TO BE ABLE TO DOCUMENT THAT LOSS IN REVENUE.
UM, AND THESE ARE ALL TO REALLY TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH CARE ACT REQUIREMENTS.
UM, BUT THEN SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL, UH, REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS THAT WE ADDED INCLUDED CRITERIA LIKE FOCUSING ON BUSINESSES AND NONPROFITS WITH LESS THAN $2 MILLION OF REVENUE.
UM, THOSE THAT HAD LESS THAN 20 EMPLOYEES, AND THEN ALSO THOSE THAT ARE, ARE OPEN TO TAKING THE, THE, THE GREATER SAFER TOGETHER PLEDGE.
AND THAT WERE, UM, DEVELOPING A RECOVERY PLAN, UM, TO REALLY HELP THEM SO THAT THIS FUNDING CAN BE USED IN A WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE, UM, BUILDING THAT, THAT RECOVERY STRATEGY AND HELPING THEIR BUSINESSES BE MORE RESILIENT.
ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SLIDE, YOU SEE THE DIFFERENT, UH, CATEGORIES BASED ON SIZE AND THE FUNDING THAT WE HAD, UM, THAT WE'VE ALLOCATED FOR THOSE DIFFERENT SIZES OF BUSINESSES.
UM, BECAUSE THESE AMOUNTS, LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THE, UNDER THE SELF-EMPLOYED CATEGORY, THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT IS $10,000.
UM, HOWEVER, THAT IS A MAXIMUM AMOUNT.
SO THERE MAY BE, UH, GRANTS THAT ARE AWARDED THAT ARE LESS THAN THAT VALUE, WHICH IS WHY WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE AN, AN ACTUAL NUMBER OF GRANTS THAT WE'RE GONNA AWARD.
BUT ACTUALLY A RAGE, WHICH IS WHAT YOU SEE IN THAT LAST COLUMN, WE ARE, UM, RESERVING 10% OF THE, THE GRANT FUNDS FOR NONPROFITS.
AND, UM, WE'LL BE KIND OF IDENTIFYING THOSE SEPARATELY AS WELL.
AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE, YOU SEE THE EXCLUDED BUSINESSES THAT, UM, WE'VE ALSO PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED.
SO HERE'S SOME OF THE NEW INFORMATION THAT WE'RE SHARING.
AND THIS STARTS WITH THE MARKETING PLAN.
UH, SO WE HAD, THIS IS THE CITYWIDE MARKETING THAT WE DID AS PART OF THE PROGRAM, THE GRANT APPLICATION PROGRAM.
UM, SO WE DID PRINT AND DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS FROM THE EXPRESS NEWS AND SPECIFIC SECTIONS OF THE EXPRESS NEWS, BUT ALSO THE REBAR REPORT.
UM, AS FAR AS SOCIAL MEDIA, WE USED FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, AND TWITTER.
UM, WE DID E-BLASTS USING MAILCHIMP TO OVER 25,000 CONTACTS.
AND WE ALSO DID ROBOCALLS OVER 41,000 NUMBERS, UM, THAT WERE, THAT WERE DIALED.
SO THAT WAS A CITYWIDE APPROACH THAT WE TOOK.
BUT WE ALSO HAD A TARGETED MEET MARKETING APPROACH.
SO HERE WE ALSO DID PRINT AND DIGITAL, UH, PUBLICATIONS, BUT WE, WE USED, UM,
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VENUES LIKE ZA AND SOUTHSIDE REPORTER AND THE OBSERVER.UM, WE ALSO DID TARGETED POSTCARDS.
WE MAILED ALMOST 12,000 POSTCARDS TO CENSUS TRACKS WITH, UM, EQUITY SCORES OF EIGHT OR HIGHER.
UM, WE ALSO DID SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT NOW WE STARTED TARGETING ZIP CODES AND SPECIFIC COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
UM, WE ALSO DID E-BLASTS TO THE BLACK BOOK DICTIONARY, WHICH WERE OVER 38,000 CONTACTS.
AND THEN WE DID TARGETED, UM, RADIO ADS IN, UH, THREE SPECIFIC STATION FOR A TOTAL OF 72 ADS.
SO THIS WAS, WE HAD A COMBINATION, LIKE I MENTIONED, OF THE, THE CITYWIDE AND NOW SOME VERY SPECIFIC TARGETING TARGETED MARKETING.
THIS IS JUST A COUPLE OF, OF EXAMPLES OF THE POSTCARDS, OF SOME OF THE, THE BANNER ADS, SOME OF THE PUBLICATIONS THAT YOU SAW OR, OR YOU MIGHT'VE SEEN OF, UM, SOME OF HOW WE WERE PROMOTING THE APPLICATION, UH, PERIOD AND THE GRANT AVAILABILITY.
SORRY, CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE? SO THIS IS ACTUALLY SOME OF THE RETURN, SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE CAN SHARE ON THE APPLICATIONS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
UM, THE VA WE'VE RECEIVED 2,844 APPLICATIONS.
AND, AND I'LL JUST START OFF BY SHARING THAT THIS NUMBER IS, UH, IS SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN THE NUMBER THAT WAS REPORTED, UH, TO YOU LAST WEEK.
UM, AND THIS IS SIMPLY BECAUSE WE'VE ACTUALLY, A LIFT FUND HAS HELPED ELIMINATE SOME DUPLICATIONS ALONG WITH A COUPLE OF, SOME OF THE APPLICATIONS THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED TO ACTUALLY BE OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS.
SO THIS IS THE MOST RECENT NUMBER WE HAVE AS OF THE 31ST.
UM, YOU SEE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF APPLICATIONS WE RECEIVED WERE FROM BUSINESSES FROM ONE TO FIVE WITH ONE TO FIVE EMPLOYEES.
37% OF THE APPLICATIONS ARE IN THAT CATEGORY.
UM, ON THE OTHER SIDE, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU SEE THAT, UM, THE BREAKDOWN AS FAR AS GENDER, RACE, ETHNICITY, AND INDUSTRY BREAKDOWN.
UM, THERE WAS SOMEWHAT OF AN EVEN SPLIT BETWEEN WOMEN AND WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES AND, AND, UM, THOSE OWNED BY MEN.
UM, WE DID GET A GOOD DIVERSITY OF, UM, RACIAL AND ETHNIC, UM, OWNERS, UH, AS FAR AS THE FROM FOR THE APPLICATIONS.
UM, AND THEN AS FAR AS THE INDUSTRIES, ALSO, WE WERE GLAD TO SEE THAT WE, UH, WE DID GET THE, THE MAJORITY OF THE APPLICATIONS FROM THOSE BUSINESSES THAT WE KNOW THAT ARE IN INDUSTRIES THAT ARE VERY SEVERELY BEING IMPACTED RIGHT NOW.
SO THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION THAT WE HAVE AS FAR AS WHAT WE'VE RECEIVED IN APPLICATIONS.
AND THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION OF THOSE APPLICATIONS BY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
SO YOU SEE, UM, THE MAJORITY, YOU'VE GOT A COUPLE, A COUPLE DISTRICTS THAT, THAT, UM, DID, WE DID RECEIVE MORE APPLICATIONS, UM, SPECIFICALLY DISTRICT ONE.
UH, THERE'S JUST, THERE'S A HIGHER NUMBER OF BUSINESS CONCENTRATION IN THAT, IN THAT DISTRICT.
UM, UH, WE ALSO ARE REPORTING THE AMOUNT REQUESTED, THE TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED.
UM, SO THIS MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE THE AMOUNT THAT WE ACTUALLY AWARD.
AND, AND YOU'LL SEE IT'S A HUNDRED, A TOTAL OF ALMOST $110 MILLION WAS REQUESTED.
SO, UM, WHAT THIS FUND IS ALSO DOING, ALONG WITH VERIFYING ELIGIBILITY AND THE CRITERIA, UM, THERE'RE ALSO VERIFYING HOW MUCH OF THE, OF THE REQUEST SHOULD BE FUNDED, UM, BECAUSE THIS WAS PART OF WHAT WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT THESE GRANTS ARE GOING TO THOSE BUSINESSES, UM, NOT JUST NECESSARILY ON WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING, BUT WHAT THEY REALLY NEED IN ORDER TO, TO GET THROUGH MORE OF THE SITUATION RIGHT NOW.
SO, EVEN THOUGH THAT PREVIOUS SLIDE SHOWED THE DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATIONS BY COUNCIL DISTRICT, I, I JUST WANTED TO RE REMIND EVERYBODY THAT AS FAR AS THE AWARD OF THE GRANTS, THIS IS GONNA BE BASED ON AN EQUITY SCORE MATRIX.
UM, AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE, THE POINTS AVAILABLE UNDER THE SCORING MATRIX HAVE TO DO WITH THE, UM, GEOGRAPHY AND THE COMBINED EQUITY SCORE, UH, FOR WHICH A BUSINESS IS LOCATED.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT OUT OF THE 60 POINTS BUSINESSES THAT ARE LOCATED IN A, IN A CENSUS TRACK, THAT OF A SCORE OF 10 WOULD BE THE ONES THAT WOULD GET THE 60 POINTS.
UM, WHAT YOU SEE ON THIS MAP HIGHLIGHTED OR SHADED IN THAT TEAL COLOR, THOSE ARE ACTUALLY CENSUS TRACKS WITH A SCORE OF EIGHT, NINE, OR 10.
SO YOU SEE THOSE WOULD BE THE AREAS THAT WOULD EITHER GET 36, 48 OR 60 POINTS.
UM, BUT YOU SEE THE DISTRIBUTION FOR THE REST OF THE, OF THE CENSUS TRACKS BASED ON THEIR EQUITY SCORE THERE ON THE SLIDE AS WELL.
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THE NEXT 30% OF THE CRITERIA IS BASED ON THE OWNERSHIP OF THE BUSINESS.SO A VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS WOULD GET SIX POINTS, UM, IF THAT BUSINESS WERE ALSO, UH, IF THAT PERSON WERE ALSO A MINORITY, THEY WOULD GET AN ADDITIONAL 12 POINTS, AND IF THEY'RE ALSO A WOMAN, THEY WOULD GET AN ADDITIONAL 12 POINTS.
SO THAT'S HOW THOSE 30 POINTS ARE ALLOCATED.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST, UH, THE LAST SET OF POINTS, THE 10 POINTS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH WHETHER A, AN ENTITY HAD RECEIVED PREVIOUS COVID FUNDING.
UM, AND WHILE WE DIDN'T WANT TO SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDE ANY BUSINESSES THAT HAD PERHAPS RECEIVED, UM, A PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM ASSISTANCE, UM, WE DID WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TOOK THAT INTO CONSIDERATION, UM, AS PART OF THE OVERALL SCORING, JUST TO ENSURE THAT WE COULD SERVE AS MANY BUSINESSES AS POSSIBLE AND STILL PRIORITIZE THOSE THAT STILL HAVE A NEED, UM, AND DIDN'T NECESSARILY EXCLUDE BUSINESSES THAT MAY HAVE RECEIVED, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS THROUGH ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS. NEXT SLIDE.
AS FAR AS THE PROCESS ITSELF, UM, WE HAVE COMPLETED THE MARKETING AND OUTREACH.
WE HAVE COMPLETED THE SCREENING, THE APPLICATION THAT HAS ALL BEEN RECEIVED.
WE ARE NOW AT THE REVIEW AND THE SCORING SECTION, UM, WHERE WE WILL BE APPLYING THAT EQUITY SCORING MATRIX I JUST COVERED, UM, WILL BE RANKING ALL OF THE DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS AND THEN VALIDATING THAT INFORMATION, UM, SO THAT WE CAN START ACTIVATING SOME OF THE FUNDS AND, AND DISPERSING SOME OF THE FUNDS.
SO WE CAN ASK OUR PARTNER LIT FUND TO, TO BEGIN ACTIVATING IN THAT WAY.
UH, THE FINAL STEP WILL STILL BE DATA COLLECTION AND UNDERSTANDING A LOT OF, UM, HOW THIS MONEY WAS USED AND, UM, STILL BEING ABLE TO REPORT ON THAT IN THE MONTHS TO COME.
SO AS FAR AS THE TIMELINE, THE, THE REMAINING ITEMS HERE TODAY, ACTUALLY AFTER THIS MEETING, WE'RE MEETING WITH, UH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE CITY AUDITOR'S OFFICE BECAUSE WE HAVE DEVELOPED A PROCESS TO VALIDATE THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM LIFTFUND, UM, AS FAR AS THE SCORING CRITERIA AND THE RECOMMENDED FUNDING LEVELS.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA REVIEW THAT PROCESS WITH THE CITY AUDITOR'S OFFICE.
AND, UM, THEY HAVE, UH, OFFERED TO HELP US REALLY IN THIS PROCESS SO THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY WAIT UNTIL AFTERWARDS, UM, TO, TO PROVIDE ANY KIND OF VALIDATION OR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.
UM, DOING IT ALONG THE WAY WITH US AND HELPING US ALONG THIS PROCESS WAS REALLY A MORE EFFECTIVE WAY TO ACTIVATE THE FUNDING.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING THIS AFTERNOON ALREADY ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THE NEXT INDICATOR YOU SEE HERE WAS THE AUGUST 7TH OF RECEIVING THE FIRST REPORT FROM LIFTFUND.
WE ACTUALLY JUST RECEIVED THIS RIGHT BEFORE THIS MEETING.
UM, SO WE HAVE THIS INFORMATION AND WE'RE GONNA START REVIEWING IT NOW, UM, TO SEE HOW WE CAN, UM, THE, THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY TO VALIDATE THE INFORMATION.
AND AS YOU SEE, THE NEXT MILESTONE IS REALLY TO INITIATE THAT FIRST BAN BATCH OF GRANT AWARDS ONCE WE'VE CONFIRMED THEIR AVAILABILITY OR, OR THEIR ELIGIBILITY, UM, AND, AND START RELEASING SOME OF THIS FUNDING.
THIS IS, UH, THE, UH, A MUCH FASTER TIMELINE THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED, UM, BUT WE'VE IDENTIFIED SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO, TO CUT DOWN ON SOME OF THE TIME AND TRY TO GET THIS FUNDING OUT TO THE SMALL BUSINESSES AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE SHIFTING NOW TO OVER, OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
OUR GOAL IS TO TRY TO GET, UM, IF NOT ALL, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING, UM, BY THE END OF AUGUST.
SO I'M SHIFTING OVER TO THE ON-THE-JOB TRAINING STRATEGY.
AND AS YOU MAY RECALL, THE, THE SUPPORT HERE WAS TO, UM, TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES WITH LESS THAN 500 EMPLOYEES, UM, WITH SOME OF SOME HR NEEDS THAT THEY MAY HAVE BY PROVIDING, UH, STIPENDS TO RESIDENTS, TO UNEMPLOYED RESIDENTS THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ON-THE-JOB TRAINING FOR.
SO HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THESE TYPES OF TRAININGS OR OPPORTUNITIES WOULD INCLUDE MACHINE OPERATORS OR MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANTS.
UM, THEY COULD ALSO BE, UM, REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS LIKE, UH, LIKE IN TRADES, ELECTRICAL WORK, PLUMBING PIPE SITTERS.
UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN THESE FIELDS, AND IF THEY ARE INTERESTED IN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS, UM, THE PARTICIPANT WOULD RECEIVE A $450 WEEKLY STIPEND.
UM, SMALL BUSINESSES CAN HOST UP TO 20 PARTICIPANTS.
UM, WE DID PUT A CAP ON IT JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD TRY TO HELP AS MANY SMALL BUSINESSES AS POSSIBLE WITH THIS TYPE OF WORK.
ALAMO WOULD, WILL BE ADMINISTERING THE STIPENDS TO THE PARTICIPANTS, AND SA WORKS AND OUR OUTREACH PARTNERS WOULD BE THE ONES HELPING US RECRUIT AND MARKET THE PROGRAM.
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SO, WE'VE ACTUALLY ESTABLISHED GOALS FOR THE TYPES OF BUSINESSES THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE GET, GET ASSISTANCE OR GET SERVED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.UM, SO AS WE'RE OUT, AS WE'RE OUT MARKETING, AS WE'RE PROMOTING THIS PROGRAM, THESE ARE THE BENCHMARKS WE'RE GONNA TRY TO HIT AS FAR AS, UM, WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES, MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESSES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ASIAN, HISPANIC VETERAN-OWNED BUSINESSES, AND THEN ULTIMATELY ALSO THE LOCATION OF THE BUSINESS, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT THAT EQUITY SCORE, UM, BASED ON GEOGRAPHIES SO THAT THE, THE SUPPORT AND THE RESOURCES CAN STILL GO TO THESE GEOGRAPHIES THAT ARE, WE KNOW ARE MOST IN NEED.
SO NOW MOVING ON TO THE OUTREACH PORTION OF, OF OUR SMALL BUSINESS PILLAR.
I STARTED MENTIONING THEM ALREADY A LITTLE BIT AS FAR AS THE MARKETING OF THE, ON THE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM.
I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT THEY HELPED WITH THE, UM, MARKETING OF THE GRANT APPLICATION PROGRAM, AND THEY HELPED SMALL BUSINESSES WITH COMPLETION OF THAT APPLICATION.
SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE HOW MUCH THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING.
UM, BUT THIS STRATEGY RIGHT NOW IS FOCUSED ON THE DOOR-TO-DOOR ENGAGEMENT.
SO HERE WE HAVE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION SERVING AS A, UH, COORDINATION LEAD, UM, ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING.
UM, BUT THE ACTUAL OUTREACH WORK THAT THEY, THE DOOR TO DOOR ENGAGEMENT WILL BE CONDUCTED BY CENTRO, W D C, SAGE AND SOUTH SIDE FIRST, THIS TEAM, UM, AS THEY'RE MEETING WITH SMALL BUSINESSES, UM, THEY WILL, IF THEY IDENTIFY, UM, PRE BANKING, FINANCIAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS, WHAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO IS REFER THEM OVER TO A TEAM FROM LIFT HUNT THAT WILL PROVIDE THIS TYPE OF VERY HANDS-ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THESE SMALL BUSINESSES.
UM, AND BEFORE THE OUTREACH ACTUALLY EVEN STARTS, WE'RE GONNA BE, UM, PROVIDING TRAINING FOR THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE GONNA BE DOING THE DOOR-TO-DOOR OUTREACH.
AND THIS IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE STARTING RELATIVELY SOON, LIKE TOMORROW,
I THINK YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS.
THE NEXT WEEK, THE PLAN IS TO CONDUCT THIS TRAINING, UM, SO THAT THE STAFF WITHIN THESE ORGANIZATIONS, UM, CAN, CAN GET JUST SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.
A LOT OF THEM ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE TYPE OF WORK THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING, UM, BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO PROVIDE SOME, A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL, UM, TRAINING.
UM, SOME OF IT'S SPECIFIC TO, UH, THE CURRENT CONDITIONS AND WHAT SMALL BUSINESSES ARE EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW.
UM, ALSO SOMETHING, UM, ADDITIONAL, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE, UM, IN THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESOURCE PARTNERS OR THAT OUR OUTREACH PARTNERS ARE FAMILIAR WITH, FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT THE, UM, THE COBRA ACCELERATOR AT U T S A AND, UM, SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEY, THEY'RE FULLY AWARE OF THOSE, UM, SO THAT THEY CAN REFER SMALL BUSINESSES TO THEM.
UM, WE'VE ALSO, UH, DEVELOPED A DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM THAT'S GONNA BE USED TO TRACK ALL OF THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE ENGAGED, AND ALSO THE REFERRALS THAT ARE MADE SO THAT WE CAN REALLY KEEP TRACK OF, YOU KNOW, A PARTICULAR BUSINESS EXPRESSES A CERTAIN NEED.
UM, THE OUTREACH PARTNER IDENTIFIES, UH, OF SOMEBODY IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, THAT PROVIDES THAT TYPE OF SUPPORT AND MAKES THAT REFERRAL.
WE'LL BE ABLE TO RUN REPORTS OFF OF OUR SYSTEM, UM, TO BE, TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE WE'RE REFERRING PARTICIPANTS TO SMALL BUSINESSES, TO.
THEY'LL ALSO BE MESSAGING TO THAT REF, TO THAT REFERRAL, TO THAT, THAT TRAINING PROVIDER TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THIS PARTICULAR SMALL BUSINESS IS IN NEED OF, YOU KNOW, BUSINESS PLAN WRITING SUPPORT.
UM, AND SO THEY CAN ALSO ENGAGE THEM DIRECTLY IF, IF THE SMALL BUSINESS ISN'T ABLE TO DIRECTLY REACH OUT TO, LET'S SAY, UM, S B D C, S B D C COULD, COULD ALSO POTENTIALLY ENGAGE THEM DIRECTLY.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THAT, THAT TRANSITION AS, AS EFFECTIVE AS POSSIBLE.
UM, BUT THEN ALSO SO THAT WE CAN KEEP TRACK AND, AND HELP FACILITATE WHERE WE CAN.
NEXT SLIDE FROM THE TIMELINE I MENTIONED, UM, WE, WE HOPE TO START THE TRAINING TOMORROW.
UM, AND, AND THIS WOULD GO ON FOR ABOUT A WEEK.
UM, AND THEN FOR THE OUTREACH, THE ACTUAL DOOR-TO-DOOR ENGAGEMENT, UM, COULD START AS SOON AS, AS NEXT WEEK THERE.
THERE WILL BE, UM, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THIS INITIAL ENGAGEMENT TO BE OVER THE PHONE IF, UM, DEPENDING ON HOW, UM, PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES ARE GOING, UH, AT LEAST INITIAL ENGAGEMENTS MAY BE VIRTUAL OR OVER THE PHONE, BUT THERE WILL STILL BE AN EXPECTATION THAT SOME DOOR-TO-DOOR ENGAGEMENT ALSO STILL TAKE PLACE.
ULTIMATELY, WHAT WE WANNA SEE IS THAT EVERY MONTH WE'RE ENGAGING WITH THESE BUSINESS OWNERS, SO THAT BETWEEN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, THEY GET CONTACTED AT LEAST THREE TIMES SO THAT
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WE CAN SEE ONE AS AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT.WHAT ARE THEIR NEEDS, WHAT ARE THEY EXPERIENCING? THE SECOND ENGAGEMENT WOULD BE MORE OF A FOLLOW-UP, UM, BASED ON WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO THEM.
AND THEN THE FINAL ONE WOULD BE MORE OF A, A TRANSITION TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE READY AND THAT THEY KNOW WHERE TO GO WHEN THEY, WHEN SOMETHING ELSE COMES UP AND AS THEY NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.
SO THE NEXT, UM, SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGY ARE OUR VIRTUAL AND PLACE-BASED HUBS.
AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY SOME OF THE SAME PARTNERS BECAUSE WHILE THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PARTNERING AND THEY'RE HELPING US DO THAT DOOR TO DOOR ENGAGEMENT, WE ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE RESOURCES AT A PARTICULAR LOCATION.
UM, THEY, IF SOMEBODY NEEDS TO COME IN TO, UM, FILE PAPERWORK, TO SCAN DOCUMENTS OR, OR, OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A PARTICULAR TRAINING, WE WANTED TO HELP AUGMENT THE SERVICES THAT THESE PLACE-BASED RESOURCE CENTERS ARE PROVIDING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES.
SO, UM, WE ARE PROVIDING RESOURCES TO W D C, SAGE, SOUTHSIDE FIRST AND MAESTRO, BOTH FOR TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT THAT THEY MAY NEED, BUT ALSO FOR ANY KIND OF, UM, OFFICE EQUIPMENT OR PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY MAY NEED TO IMPLEMENT INTO THEIR, THEIR PHYSICAL SPACE TO ALLOW FOR, UM, AND TO PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING, BUT TO STILL BE ABLE TO SERVE OUR SMALL BUSINESSES.
OR WE'RE ALSO PROVIDING THE SUPPORT FOR VIRTUAL HUBS, UM, FOR INCREASED VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING.
UM, AND LAUNCHES, SAY, AND
UM, I KNOW SEVERAL OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS ALSO PROVIDE VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING, AND IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALSO INCLUDED SPANISH PROGRAMMING, UM, SO THAT, THAT'S PART OF THIS WHOLE COMPLIMENT AS WELL.
THE, THE RUNWAY HERE IS A BIT, UM, QUICKER BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE WANT THEM TO, UM, REALLY I IMPLEMENT THIS WORK, UM, MEANING IMPLEMENT THE, THE IMPROVEMENTS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY COULD BEGIN TO AUGMENT THEIR SERVICES.
AND, UM, BUSINESSES COULD BEGIN, CAN, CAN BEGIN ACCESSING THEM, YOU KNOW, FROM THE PHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE, THAT ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING THAT A LOT OF THESE PLACES OFFER, UM, THE ACTUAL SEMINARS THAT THEY PROVIDE, UM, ACCESS TO COMPUTERS AND, AND, AND, UM, EQUIPMENT THAT THEY, THAT SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS MAY NEED.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT GETS PUT IN PLACE AND THAT GETS SUPPORTED AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
NEXT SLIDE ON THE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTION.
UH, THE, THIS INFORMATION IS, UH, THE RESULTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION THAT WE DID AT THE ALAMO DOME IN MAY.
UM, SO WE'VE SHARED THIS WITH YOU PREVIOUSLY.
PREVIOUSLY, AS FAR AS THE TYPES OF BUSINESSES THAT WE SERVED, THEIR LOCATIONS, UM, THE TYPES OF INDUSTRIES THAT THEY WERE A PART OF.
UM, IT, ON NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
WHAT YOU'LL ALSO SEE THOUGH, IS, UM, THROUGH YOUR HELP OVER THE PAST MONTH, YOU HA AND YOUR STAFF HAVE HELPED US DISTRIBUTE AN ADDITIONAL 1500 OR SERVE AN ADDITIONAL 1500, UM, MICRO BUSINESSES, UM, WITH THESE SUPPLIES.
UM, WE'RE, I KNOW Y'ALL ARE STILL OUT THERE AND YOU'RE STILL DOING EVENTS AND
AND THIS IS ACTUALLY WHERE I'M GONNA HAND IT OFF TO DEBBIE FOR A BIT, UM, TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON THE, UM, GRANTS TO ARTS NONPROFITS AND ARTISTS.
GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, UH, ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE, AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS GRANT PROGRAM.
I WANNA THANK YOU FOR VOTING, UH, TO HAVE FUNDING FOR THE ARTS OUT OF THE CARESS ACT AND FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE.
AND I WANNA THANK, UH, MY STAFF.
IT WAS, UH, ME AND CRYSTAL JONES FOR A MOMENT THERE.
AND NOW WE'VE BROUGHT BACK, UH, WE ALSO HAD FINANCE HELPING US WITH, UH, AARON, AARON DEL ROSA, WHO WAS ALWAYS WITH US, BUT BROUGHT BACK TWO PEOPLE TO HELP WITH THESE GRANTS.
AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT.
DIANA, HE DEGO AND RICARDO LINDO HAVE COME BACK AND THEY'RE WORKING ON THIS GRANT WITH ME, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD, UH, MANAGING THE GRANTS OURSELVES.
SO, UH, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION, LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION.
WE HAD THE GRANTS THAT WERE DUE, UH, ON THURSDAY AT MIDNIGHT.
WE LEFT IT OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND LET THE ARTISTS WORK LATE IN THE NIGHT LIKE THEY'RE USED TO WORKING.
UH, BUT WE HAVE RECEIVED, UH, 47 APPLICATIONS, UH, FROM, UH, NONPROFITS THAT
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ARE, UH, STILL IN PROGRESS TO BE ELIGIBLE.I WANNA THANK THE ARTS COMMISSION AND OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR HELPING US REVIEW ALL THOSE GRANT APPLICATIONS.
SO THEY'RE SCORING THOSE RIGHT NOW FOR BOTH THE NONPROFITS AND THE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS.
UH, WE HAVE LOTS OF INTEREST FROM BOTH SIDES, UH, THE NONPROFITS AND THE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS.
ALL OF OUR NONPROFIT AGENCIES THAT WE CURRENTLY FUND DID APPLY, AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT ALL OF THEM ARE GONNA BE ELIGIBLE FOR AT LEAST THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT THEY WERE REDUCED, UH, FOR FISCAL YEAR 20 IN THE CITY'S GRANT.
BUT MORE BECAUSE, UH, OVERALL THEY ARE SHOWING A NINE OVER $9 MILLION IN LOSSES, UH, AS A TOTAL GROUP.
AND THEN THE ARTISTS ARE SHOWING LOSSES OF $1.6 MILLION.
SO WE HAD $600,000 TO GIVE AWAY TO THE ARTISTS AT A MAXIMUM OF $5,000 EACH.
AND I DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE STATISTICS AND DEMOGRAPHICS YET, BECAUSE WE'RE STILL VETTING, WE DON'T KNOW IF ALL OF THESE APPLICATIONS WILL QUALIFY.
UM, THEY HAD TO BE, UH, SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS OR A NONPROFIT WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF SAN ANTONIO.
UH, FOR THE NONPROFITS, THEY HAD TO PRIMARILY BE AN ARTS ORGANIZATION.
THEY COULDN'T BE AN ORGANIZATION THAT DOES RECREATION PROGRAMS THAT HAPPEN TO HAVE ART AS A COMPONENT.
THEIR PRIMARY MISSION MUST BE ARTS AND CULTURE.
THEY HAD TO BE, UH, IN EXISTENCE FOR THREE YEARS.
SO WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT THOSE, UH, REQUIREMENTS TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE QUALIFIED.
AND THEN FOR THE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, UH, THEY HAD TO LIVE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE SAW A LOT OF ARTISTS WERE APPLYING WHO LIVED OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS.
AND WE TRIED TO QUICKLY REVIEW THOSE AS QUICKLY AS WE COULD TO SEND THEM OVER TO, TO LIFT FUND SO THAT THE COUNTY COULD SERVE THEM.
UH, AND WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH MOST OF THEM EARLY ON AND GET THOSE OVER TO LIFT FUND QUICKLY.
AND THE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS ALSO HAD TO SHOW THAT THEIR MAKE A LIVING WITH THEIR ART.
SO THEY HAD TO TURN IN THEIR TAX FORMS. UH, THEY HAVE TO SHOW THAT THEY MADE MONEY WITH THEIR ART IN THE PAST.
AND, UH, THEY'RE ASKED TO GIVE SOME DOCUMENTATION ABOUT THEIR LOSSES.
UH, WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT WAS THE CANCELLATION, THE CLOSURE, AND WHAT WAS THEIR IMPACT? UH, SO I, I ACTUALLY READ A LOT OF THESE MYSELF.
AND THEIR, THEIR STORIES ARE VERY, VERY HARD.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE SO SAD, THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO THESE ARTISTS.
SO I, I REALLY AM VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU GUYS FOR, FOR HELPING THESE ARTISTS.
'CAUSE THEY REALLY NEED IT REALLY, REALLY BAD.
SO, UH, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL I HAVE, UH, FOR THE ARTS GRANTS.
UH, I THINK I MAY HAVE ONE MORE SLIDE, ALEX.
SO OUR OUTCOMES, WE WILL BE, WE'LL BE FINISHING UP OUR EVALUATION OF THESE GRANTS BY SUNDAY.
I GAVE THE ARTS COMMISSION UNTIL SUNDAY TO REVIEW THE GRANT APPLICATIONS.
UH, WE HOPE TO GET, UH, FINALIZED THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
AND WITH, UH, ALL OF THE FUNDS GOING OUT, AT LEAST BY MID-SEPTEMBER, MAYBE SOONER, UM, WE KNOW THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE MORE THAN 150 GRANTS.
UH, WE ANTICIPATE THAT BY THE END OF THE YEAR THAT 75% WILL RETURN TO CREATING ARTS.
SO WE HAVE A REQUIREMENT THAT THEY REPORT BACK TO US, AND WE'RE, HOPEFULLY THE AGENCIES WILL HAVE BE ABLE TO REHIRE THEIR, THEIR ARTISTS OR THEIR EMPLOYEES BY THAT TIME.
AND THE, THE LAST PILLAR THAT WE'RE GONNA BE REPORTING ON, UM, IS, IS OUR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WORK.
UH, NEXT SLIDE, JUST AS A REFRESHER, HERE ARE THE, UM, OVERALL THE OUTCOMES FOR THE PROGRAM IS TO TRAIN UP TO 10,000 RESIDENTS BY SEPTEMBER OF 2021.
UM, WE'RE INTEGRATING WORKFORCE SERVICES AND PROMOTING A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT INCLUDES THE TRAINING, THE JOB PLACEMENT, BUT ALSO CONNECTING WITH WRAPAROUND SERVICES AND CHILDCARE SUPPORT FOR UP TO 4,000 CHILDREN.
SO THE ESTIMATED BUDGET IS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, AND IT IN, UH, WE INCLUDED, UH, PARTICIPANT INTAKE REFERRAL AND WRAPAROUND SUPPORT.
AND THE, THE CAREER NAVIGATION, UM, PARTICIPANT TRAINING AND EDUCATION IS 13.6 MILLION.
STIPENDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROGRAM ARE, ARE APPROXIMATELY 44 MILLION, UM, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WORK TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT EMPLOYER NEEDS ARE AND WHAT THOSE TRAINING NEEDS ARE.
UM, AND THEN PROGRAM, THE OUTREACH AND THE MARKETING ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROGRAM.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE 10 MILLION FOR THE CHILDCARE
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SUBSIDIES, AND THE TOTAL BUDGET IS 75 MILLION.UM, OUR PRIMARY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ARE ALAMO COLLEGES AND PROJECT QUEST WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, ALAMO, UM, AND SA WORKS, UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE FAMILY SERVICES AND RESTORE EDUCATION AND CHRYSALIS THAT ARE ALL WORKING WITH US.
ON THE CHILDCARE PROVIDER SIDE.
WE ALSO HAVE THE AREA FOUNDATION AND UNITED WAY ALONG WITH ALL OF OUR LOCAL LICENSED CHILDCARE PROVIDERS, UM, THAT ARE GONNA BE PROVIDING SERVICES.
UM, THESE ARE JUST OUR PRIMARY PARTNERS, UM, AND WE HAVE, UM, SIGNED AGREEMENTS.
THIS IS, THIS IS THE, THE PART THAT WE'RE VERY WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY ON RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE.
IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE START DESCRIBING THE PROGRAM PROCESS A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, AS FAR AS THE MARKETING ASSOCIATED WITH IT, AGAIN, WE HAVE A, A RATHER, UM, COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY PLANNED.
UM, THE INTAKE AND ASSESSMENT, UM, THE CAREER PATHWAYS, BECAUSE IF YOU RECALL, WE'VE INCORPORATED SHORT-TERM TRAINING AND LONG-TERM TRAINING ON THE JOB TRAINING THAT I'VE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UM, THE JOB PLACEMENT AS WELL, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE MAY BE SOME PARTICIPANTS THAT, THAT ENTER THE PROGRAM AND MAY BE READY TO BE PLACED ALREADY.
UM, SO, SO THOSE PEOPLE WILL ALSO BE SERVED, BUT ULTIMATELY AT THE END OF THE TRAINING, UM, THERE WILL ALSO BE THAT JOB PLACEMENT SUPPORT, WHICH IS PART OF THE WRAPAROUND SUPPORT THAT WILL INCLUDE STIPENDS AND CHILDCARE SUBSIDIES IF NEEDED.
UM, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, AND ALONG WITH SUPPORT FROM THE AREA FOUNDATION AND, AND UNITED WAY'S, VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE PROVIDING SUPPORT RIGHT NOW.
I MENTIONED THE DIFFERENT OUTCOMES THAT WE'RE EXPECTING ASSOCIATED OR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRAINING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PROVIDING.
BUT ON THIS SLIDE, YOU SEE THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERCENTAGES, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF THOSE.
SO, UM, WE, WE ANTICIPATE THAT NOT ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE GONNA NEED, UH, OR AVAIL THEMSELVES OF THE WRAPAROUND SUPPORT.
UM, BUT WE ANTICIPATE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM WILL.
UM, YOU SEE THE, THE PERCENTAGE ALSO FOR CHILDCARE SUBSIDIES.
AND THAT IS STRICTLY A RESULT OF THE FUNDING THAT IS AVAILABLE.
UM, SHORT-TERM TRAINING WILL BE THE VAST FOCUS OF THIS WORK.
UM, BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LONG-TERM TRAINING AND FOR HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY.
UM, ULTIMATELY WHAT WE WANNA SEE IS THAT 75% OF THE PARTICIPANTS COMPLETE THE TRAINING.
AND OUR ASPIRATIONAL GOAL IS THAT WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF COMPLETING THE TRAINING, PARTICIPANTS WILL HAVE SECURED EMPLOYMENT IN A DEMAND OCCUPATION WITH A PATHWAY, A CAREER PATHWAY THAT REALLY ESTABLISHES THEM AND GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO GROW THEIR, THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR EARNING POTENTIAL.
SO WE HAVE ESTABLISHED ASPIRATIONAL GOALS, UM, THAT ARE INCLUDED IN ALL OF THE CONTRACTS WITH OUR PRIMARY, WITH OUR PARTNERS, UM, FOR THE POPULATIONS TO BE SERVED.
AND THESE ARE DISAGGREGATED ASPIRATIONAL GOALS.
UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'VE ESTABLISHED, UM, SPECIFIC NUMBERS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN, UH, RESIDENTS FOR ASIAN, HISPANICS, AMERICAN INDIAN, UM, WOMEN.
WE'VE ALSO SET A GOAL FOR VETERANS, UM, ALONG WITH FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS, DISABLED.
AND, UM, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER, WE DID ALSO INCLUDE A BENCHMARK FOR HOMELESS, UH, RESIDENTS TO BE SERVED.
UM, ULTIMATELY, UH, 24% OF THE, OF THE RESIDENTS.
UH, THAT'S THE GOAL SET FOR THOSE THAT ARE LIVING IN POVERTY.
UM, AND THEN STILL WE OVERLAID THE EQUITY MATRIX.
UM, OUR GOAL IS THAT 75% OF THE PARTICIPANTS SERVED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, UM, LIVE IN CENSUS TRACKS WITH AN EQUITY SCORE OF EIGHT, NINE, OR 10, WHICH AGAIN, ARE THOSE AREAS THAT ARE SHADED IN TEAL ON THE MAP ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE.
UM, WE'RE ALSO WANTING TO FOCUS AT LEAST 50% OF THE PARTICIPANTS, UM, COMING FROM THOSE INDUSTRIES THAT WE KNOW WERE MOST IMPACTED.
UM, HOSPITALITY, FOOD SERVICE, AND RETAIL.
AS FAR AS WORKFORCE ARE CONCERNED, THE CONTRACTS ARE, UM, SOME OF THEM ARE EXECUTED, UH, NOT ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN EXECUTED YET.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, SOME OF THEM WILL REQUIRE BOARD APPROVAL, WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS.
ALAMO BOARD HAS ALREADY APPROVED THEIR CONTRACT.
UM, ALAMO COLLEGES WILL HOPEFULLY DO SO NEXT WEEK.
UM, SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AS FAR AS SOME OF THOSE PRIMARY PARTNERS.
UM, WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON STANDARDIZING THE INTAKE ASSESSMENT AND REFERRAL PROCESS.
UM, SO THAT WILL BE FINALIZED IN THE COMING WEEKS ALONG WITH THE MARKETING PLAN, UM, AND BEGIN EXECUTION OF THAT MARKETING PLAN.
UM, THIS IS, THIS IS A LOT OF THE BACKGROUND WORK THAT WE ARE HAVING TO DO TO SET THE PROGRAM UP RIGHT NOW.
IT ALSO INCLUDES STANDARDIZED REPORTING, UM,
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HOW WE'RE GONNA BE, UM, COORDINATING DATA AMONG THE DIFFERENT TRAINING, NOT JUST AMONG THE TRAINING PROVIDERS, BUT AMONG THE, THE INTAKE AGENCIES, BECAUSE A PARTICIPANT COULD GO TO ANY OF THESE AGENCIES, UM, TO, TO TECHNICALLY TO REGISTER.SO WE NEED TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE SYSTEMS IN PLACE SO THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY.
UM, WE'RE ALSO DEVELOPING A TRAINING CATALOG, UM, BECAUSE WHILE WE HAVE PRIMARY TRAINING PARTNERS, THERE CAN ALSO BE ADDITIONAL TRAINING PROVIDERS, UM, THAT, THAT PARTICIPANTS CAN BE REFERRED TO.
SO WE'VE MET WITH A COUPLE OF HIGHER ED INSTITUTIONS AND, UM, THAT, THAT HAVE ALL INDICATED THAT THEY HAVE COURSES THAT THAT COULD ALSO SERVE OUR RESIDENTS FROM A SHORT-TERM AND FROM A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE.
SO WE'RE PUTTING ALL OF THAT INTO A CATALOG SO THAT AS, UM, CASE MANAGERS MEET WITH RESIDENTS AND THEY IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES AND TRAINING NEEDS, THEY HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE.
ULTIMATELY, OUR GOAL IS TO LAUNCH THE PROGRAM, UM, IN AUGUST, UM, PROBABLY WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
UM, WE JUST NEED TO GET THESE, THESE SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE, UH, WE'RE READY TO GO.
REPORTING WILL CONTINUE ON A MONTHLY BASIS, STARTING IN AND CONTINUING THROUGH SEPTEMBER.
UM, JUST AS A REMINDER THOUGH, WHEN IT COMES TO WORKFORCE, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF MILESTONES THAT WE'VE BUILT IN, UM, BECAUSE OF THE SCALE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME WITH THIS PROGRAM IN NOVEMBER AND, UM, AND DECEMBER, BUT SPECIFICALLY DURING THE NOVEMBER E W D C WILL BE, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE FOR US.
UM, BECAUSE THESE CONTRACTS, WE'VE ACTUALLY DESIGNED THEM, UH, THE INITIAL TERM IS, UH, FROM, FROM NOW THROUGH DECEMBER.
AND SO WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PIVOT, TO ADJUST TO, UM, RECALIBRATE AS NECESSARY, UM, IN ESSENCE IN NOVEMBER.
BUT, BUT MOVING FORWARD INTO THAT DECEMBER, JANUARY TIMEFRAME, WHEN THAT CONTRACT GETS RENEWED, UM, HOWEVER, WE NEED TO POTENTIALLY MAKE ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON WHAT WE SEE BETWEEN NOW AND THEN WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO, BECAUSE AGAIN, THE PROGRAM ISN'T, UM, SCHEDULED TO COMPLETE UNTIL SEPTEMBER OF 2021.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR PATIENCE.
THANK YOU, ALEX, VERY MUCH FOR, UH, THE PRESENTATION.
THIS WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION.
UM, THANK YOU ALEX AND DEBBIE.
UM, THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION TO TAKE IN AND, UH, I DO HAVE, UH, SEVERAL QUESTIONS, BUT I'M GOING TO START WITH MY, UM, COLLEAGUE, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
CAN I JUST GET IN MY CHECK OR WE CAN HEAR YOU? OKAY, GREAT.
UM, SO, UH, LET ME JUST START, UM, ALEX, WITH THE SORT OF THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE THAT APPLIED, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE PLEASE? UM, AND IT SHOWED, IT SPECIFICALLY SHOWED DISTRICT FIVE WITH 143.
SO COULD YOU GO BACK TO THAT ONE? YES.
SO I, I I, I WAS KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT THIS ONE, UM, BECAUSE OF THE, UM, I GUESS JUST THE DISPARITY IN SOME OF OUR NUMBERS.
UM, AND THESE ARE, LET ME SEE, TOTAL NUMBER, THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS, UM, AND THEN AMOUNT REQUESTED.
AND SO DOES THAT ALSO, SO DID YOU SHOW AN AMOUNT FUNDED? NO, WE HAVEN'T YET FUNDED ANY OF THESE.
WE'RE STILL REVIEWING THEM RIGHT NOW.
YOU'RE STILL GOING THROUGH I'M FIND THAT EQUITY SCORE.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, UH, I GUESS OF COURSE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, THE LOW NUMBERS COMING OUT OF THE SOUTH AND WEST SIDES.
UH, SPECIFICALLY DISTRICT FOUR, WELL, ACTUALLY THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE, ACTUALLY, ALL OF OURS ARE PRETTY LOW, UM, NUMBERS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THE OUTREACH CAN BE CHALLENGING.
UM, SO, AND, AND I JUST, I EVEN THINK SORT OF MOVING FORWARD AS WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE THINGS LONG-TERM POTENTIALLY WITH VOTER APPROVAL, LIKE HOW WE REALLY TARGET A LITTLE BETTER.
I MEAN, IT, IT'S BEEN A CONCERN OF MINE ALL ALONG THAT WE DON'T REALLY SEEM TO BE REACHING THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THE MOST.
AND SO, UM, I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO INTO MARKETING STRATEGIES.
I MEAN, UM, I FEEL LIKE WE JUST KIND OF CONTINUE TO USE THE SAME MODELS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND THEY HAVEN'T
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BEEN AS EFFECTIVE AS, AS I WOULD LIKE.SO, UM, IT, IT'S PERHAPS AS, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S SO MUCH A QUESTION AS A COMMENT ABOUT, UM, TRYING SOMETHING ELSE.
SO, UH, I KNOW THAT FOR, UM, UH, THE C OVID 19, WE HIRED A MARKETING FIRM TO GO OUT AND TRY TO TARGET A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
MIGHT WE CONSIDER SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UM, IN THE FUTURE? IF, IF WE, UM, 'CAUSE I, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU CAN THEN TARGET THE FUNDING AND MAKE SURE SOME OF THOSE, UM, AREAS GET FUNDED, EVEN IF THEY HAVE FEWER APPLICATIONS.
BUT I STILL, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT NOT ENOUGH VERY TARGETED EFFORTS.
UM, I DON'T KNOW, IS THERE, IS THAT SOMETHING AS A COUNCIL THAT WE WOULD DECIDE TO DO, PERHAPS GIVE DIRECTION TO THE STAFF? IN FACT, AS I'M LOOKING AT, DEBBIE, IS IT COULD, COULD WE HIRE ONE OF OUR OWN ARTS AGENCIES TO CREATE A MARKETING PLAN TO TARGET? UH, WELL, WE ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO ALL OF OUR ARTS AGENCY PARTNERS AND ASKED THEM TO TARGET THEIR, THEIR, UH, INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS THAT THEY NORMALLY WORK WITH FOR THE ARTIST GRANTS.
UH, SO THEY HAVE REALLY GOOD MARKETING IN CERTAIN WAYS.
UH, UH, SO WE WOULD HAVE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT WHETHER THEY WERE REALLY IN, IN A POSITION TO HELP WITH BUSINESSES.
THEY MAY BE, UH, WE COULD HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.
AND I THINK FROM THE, FROM THE ENGAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE, UM, WHILE, WHILE THIS OPPORTUNITY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL MOVING THROUGH THE FUNDING PHASE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY, I THINK THE DOOR TO DOOR ENGAGEMENT IS REALLY WHERE WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE MORE OF THAT DIRECT CONTACT WITH ORGANIZA, WITH, WITH BUSINESSES.
SO THAT IS WHERE WE WILL BE USING SAGE AND W D C AND SOUTH SIDE FIRST, UM, TO DO THAT TYPE OF WORK.
THAT'S MUCH MORE DIRECT AND NOT SO MUCH OF A MARKETING, UH, CAMPAIGN PER SE.
IT'S THE ACTUAL DOOR TO DOOR WORK.
AND, AND SO, AND WE'RE DOING THAT ALREADY, UH, BECAUSE I MEAN, THAT WAS, DID WE DO THAT? AND THIS, THIS IS THE RESULTS WE GOT.
UM, IT WASN'T SO MUCH A PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN.
UM, THERE, THERE WAS A LOT THAT HAPPENED OVER THE PAST MONTH THAT I THINK, UM, CAUSED SOME PROBLEMS FOR US TO DO A LOT MORE DOOR-TO-DOOR ENGAGEMENT.
UM, IN PARTICULAR SOME OF THE SPIKES WITH COVID.
UM, WE, WE HAD TO RELY ON SOME OF THE MORE TRADITIONAL MARKETING EFFORTS THAT YOU SAW PREVIOUSLY.
UM, BUT I THINK MOVING FORWARD, WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO DO AS FAR AS CONNECTING THESE, THESE BUSINESSES, INCLUDING ALL OF THESE THAT APPLIED, UM, BUT MAKING SURE THAT THEY NOW GET THE DIRECT ENGAGEMENTS FROM OUR, OUR OUTREACH ORGANIZATIONS TO CONNECT THEM TO THE RESOURCES.
SO THAT'S NOT SO MUCH OF A MARKETING CAMPAIGN, IT'S, IT'S THE ACTUAL DIRECT SERVICE DELIVERY AT THIS POINT.
AND AGAIN, THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO, SORRY.
YOU CAN FINISH, ALEX, WHAT YOU WERE GONNA SAY.
UM, EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T APPLY.
SO, SO WE HAVE BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GEOGRAPHY THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED FOR SAGE, THAT, THAT DIDN'T APPLY, THEY'RE STILL GONNA GET REACHED BASICALLY BECAUSE OF THE, THE DOOR TO DOOR WORK THAT'S GONNA TAKE PLACE.
SO I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A WAY FOR US TO, TO KNOW WHO THESE BUSINESSES ARE, HOW WE CAN REACH THEM IN THE FUTURE, AND WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE.
AND THEN, SO E EVEN REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION, UH, THAT WAS PRESENTED IN, IN A COUPLE OF THE OTHER SLIDES.
SO YOU, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE DISTRIBUTION IS, UM, SO NOBODY'S ACTUALLY GOTTEN FUNDING YET, IS THAT WHAT I UNDERSTOOD? NO, NOT YET.
UM, THE APPLICATION, THE DEADLINE WAS LAST, UH, MONDAY.
UM, WE ARE RE UH, WE REVIEWING THE ELIGIBILITY, WE'RE VETTING THAT, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION, MAKING SURE THAT, THAT WHAT WE NEED HAS IN, THEY'VE IN FACT MET THAT CRITERIA.
UM, WE'RE GONNA START OUR INTERNAL VETTING, UM, AND OUR HOPE IS TO START DISTRIBUTING BASED ON THOSE SCORES, UM, THE HIGHER SCORES FIRST, UM, BUT START ACTIVATING AND DISTRIBUTING SOME OF THOSE GRANTS, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, POSSIBLY NEXT WEEK.
AND HOW ABOUT YOU, DEBBIE? THERE, NONE OF NOTHING HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED YET, RIGHT? NO, WE'RE STILL EVALUATING OUR GRANTS CLOSED ON LAST THURSDAY, UH, THE 30TH.
SO WE'VE JUST REALLY STARTED THE EVALUATION PROCESS.
UM, ALRIGHT, WELL, I, I THINK, UM, I THINK THAT'S ALL THE ONLY QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR THE MOMENT.
I MAY CHIME BACK IN, UH, CHAIR IF YOU'LL ALLOW ME, UM, UH, AFTER A WHILE, UH, IF, UH, MY OTHER QUESTIONS DON'T GET ANSWERED.
SO, UM, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR
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THE PRESENTATION.COUNCIL MEMBER NEXT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CAVEDA.
UH, MADAM CHAIR, I HAVE, UH, WELL, A QUESTION ABOUT SIMILAR, I GUESS IT'S THE VERY NEXT SLIDE, SLIDE 12.
I'M JUST NOT SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT CORRECTLY.
UM, CAN YOU GO TO SLIDE 12? UM, THE COMBINED EQUITY SCORE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU TALKED ABOUT GEOGRAPHICALLY AWARDED PREFERENCE, PREFERENCE POINTS.
AM I UNDERSTANDING THIS? AM I READING THIS CORRECTLY? UM, ARE THESE DISTRICTS HERE ON THE LEFT? NO, THOSE ARE THE EQUITY SCORES THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO CENSUS TRACK.
OH, BASED ON THE EQUITY APP? YEAH.
ALRIGHT, THAT MAKES MORE SENSE.
OKAY, SO THEN THAT CLEARS THAT UP FOR ME.
UM, THEN MY QUESTION, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, WHAT HAS THE DATA THAT WE'VE COLLECTED SO FAR, UM, WHAT IS IT TELLING US ABOUT THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE APPLYING FOR ASSISTANCE? I, I'D LIKE TO US TO BE IN A POSITION TO LEARN MORE ABOUT LONG-TERM BUSINESS SURVIVABILITY.
SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION YET FROM LIST HUNT.
UM, BUT THAT IS PART OF WHAT WE'RE, WHAT IS PART OF THE ASSESSMENT.
UM, AND IN THE FUNDING AND THE REVIEW OF THE APPLICATIONS, UM, NOT NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, EXACTLY DIAGNOSING WHETHER A BUSINESS WILL SURVIVE OR NOT, BUT DEFINITELY, UM, UNDERSTANDING THE LEVEL OF, OF SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED, UM, THAT, THAT IS PART OF WHAT THE APPLICATION ALSO CAPTURED FROM THESE BUSINESSES.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE PRIORITIZING REVIEWING THE SCORES, REVIEWING THE ELIGIBILITY SO WE CAN ACTIVATE THE GRANTS.
UM, BUT THERE WILL BE A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT WE CAN FURTHER ANALYZE, LIKE, LIKE YOU'RE DISCUSSED, LIKE YOU'RE MENTIONING, GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE'RE GONNA LEARN IS 50, THESE BUSINESSES WHO'VE APPLIED FOR $109 MILLION WORTH OF GRANTS, DID ANY OF THEM GET P P P, SMALL BUSINESS SYSTEMS, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
AND IF NOT, WHY NOT? DID THEY APPLY? WHY NOT? SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF THE, OR THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE STREET TEAMS AND THE HUBS IS TO TRY TO ASSIST THOSE BUSINESSES FOR FUTURE ROUNDS OF APPLICATIONS.
SO THEY'RE IN A POSITION TO APPLY AND WE, WE'VE ADDRESSED THEIR CONCERNS OR THEIR CHALLENGES WITH APPLYING, UH, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S PART OF THE INFORMATION WE'LL RECEIVE.
AND DID I HEAR YOU CORRECTLY THAT LIFT FUND IS, IS, UH, COLLECTING THIS DATA AS, AS THEY'RE PROCESSING THESE APPLICATIONS? IT WAS PART OF WHAT WE REQUESTED IN THE APPLICATION? YEAH, WE HAD, WE HAD A SERIES OF QUESTIONS AND THEY ANSWERED THE QUESTION.
I WONDER IF I CAN GET A COPY OF THAT APPLICATION.
I'D JUST LIKE TO SEE WHAT, WHAT, UH, DATA IS BEING COLLECTED.
UM, AND, AND IT, IT'S, IT'S, UM, LEADS INTO MY NEXT QUESTION.
THE, THE DATA THAT WE'VE COLLECTED OR THAT, THAT LIFT FUND IS COLLECTING FOR US, WILL THAT TELL US ABOUT THE, THE TYPES OF BUSINESSES, UM, THAT WE'RE APPLYING FOR, LIKE I MENTIONED, AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, WE CAN TAKE THAT DATA AND, AND TURN IT INTO AND EXTRACT FROM IT, UM, LONG TERM BUSINESS SURVIVABILITY.
AND, AND THEN ALSO I, IF YOU CAN GET ME SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DISTRICT SIX BUSINESSES SPECIFICALLY, I'D LIKE TO OF COURSE LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT.
UM, OFFLINE, I JUST, UH, QUICKLY I WAS AT, UH, GIVING OUT THE P P E FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESSES IN DISTRICT SIX.
AND I HAD A NUMBER OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT WERE THANKING US, OF COURSE, AS A CITY THANKING US FOR DOING THAT, ESPECIALLY THE THERMOMETERS THEY'RE HAVING, THEY'RE HARD TO GET.
AND BUT ALSO SAYING THAT THEY GOT THAT, THAT THEY'VE APPLIED AND THEY'RE REALLY EXCITED AND, UM, YOU KNOW, SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT.
UH, ALTHOUGH I THINK MY NUMBER'S A LITTLE LOW TOO.
UM, FOR AS MUCH AS WE'RE TRYING TO PUSH THIS OUT, I THINK THAT THE, THE CITYWIDE NUMBERS ARE PRETTY LOW.
IS IT SOMETHING LIKE 20, 2800? I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S, I'M, I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED AT HOW LOW THAT IS, BUT, UM, I, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT PEOPLE WERE, SOME PEOPLE WERE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF IT.
UM, AND THEN WITH REGARD TO WORKFORCE EFFORTS, IS THERE A PLAN AS WE TRA TRANSITION? UH, WELL, YEAH, I GUESS SO.
IS THERE A PLAN AS WE TRANSITION OUT OF CARES ACT FUNDING AND INTO OUR GENERAL FUND FUNDING? IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE HERE? THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FUNDING IS GENERAL FUND DOLLAR, VERY SMALL PIECE THAT IS CARE THE CORONAVIRUS DELAYED FUNDING, I THINK WAS $0.7 MILLION, AND THAT'LL GET EXPENDED PRETTY QUICKLY.
AND THAT'S WHAT ENABLES US TO GO ALL THE WAY TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2021.
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THANK YOU.COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CHER GARCIA.
UM, AND THANK YOU ALEX AND TEAM FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, I'LL START OFF BY, UM, THE, THE POSITIVES THAT I SAW IN HERE.
I LIKE THE FOCUS, UM, THAT YOU ALL HAD ON THE SHORT TERM TRAINING.
I APPRECIATE THAT YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK, UM, AND UPSKILLED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT OF JOBS, AND SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
I, UH, THANK YOU ALL HEARD OUR, UM, OUR COMMENTS AND REALLY TOOK THEM AND REFOCUS THAT.
UM, I APPRECIATE ALSO, UH, WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ALL WELL BEING INVOLVED.
I THINK I SAW ADRIAN AND LOPEZ EARLIER ON THE CALL AS WELL.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION, ADRIAN.
UM, ALSO WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR THE 3% THAT YOU'VE ALLOCATED.
I THINK IT'S 3%, UH, FOR FOLKS WITH DISABILITIES.
I THINK THAT THAT IS A, UM, FORGOTTEN POPULATION.
AND I'M WONDERING IF YOU COULD TELL ME WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE YOU WORKING WITH FOR THAT PARTICULAR POP AND THEN, UM, ALSO FOR SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYMENT.
SO WE HAVE NOT ACTUALLY STARTED WORKING WITH ANY OF THE DIRECT ORGANIZATIONS THAT COULD HELP US REACH THESE TARGETED POPULATIONS.
UM, BUT WE KNOW THERE, THERE WILL BE, UM, SPECIFIC GROUPS THAT CAN HELP US FACILITATE, UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE GET THIS INFORMATION TO THESE POPULATIONS.
UM, I WILL NOTE THAT AS FAR AS THE, UM, JUSTICE INVOLVED POPULATION, WE ARE DIRECTLY CONTRACTING WITH CHRYSALIS MINISTRIES AND WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM.
WE HAVE BEEN USING THEM ALREADY, UM, AS A WORKFORCE DELEGATE AGENCY.
SO THEY WILL CONTINUE TO IDENTIFY THIS, THIS POPULATION FOR US AS WELL.
AND THEN I ALSO AM GLAD THE, UM, THAT IT LOOKS LIKE A MAJORITY OF THE, UM, MICRO BUSINESSES THAT APPLIED ARE WITHIN ONE TO FIVE EMPLOYEES.
I THINK IT WAS LIKE A THOUSAND AND SOMETHING, UM, UH, MICRO BUSINESSES THAT HAVE ONE TO FIVE EMPLOYEES.
SO THAT IS, UM, THAT IS WONDERFUL NEWS TO ME.
UH, MY, I'M, I'M SAD, UH, BECAUSE DISTRICT FOUR IS THE ONE WITH THE LOWEST ABSOLUTE DEAD LAST 106 APPLICANTS.
THAT'S 3.7% OF THE TOTAL APPLICANTS.
AND I'M SAD, UM, UH, BECAUSE WE, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST, JUST NEED AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP, COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ.
UM, THAT WE, UH, NEED, NEED TO MAYBE REFOCUS, UM, NEXT TIME OUR EFFORTS.
I'D LOVE TO SEE WHAT LIST THAT WAS SENT OUT TOO.
UM, I'D LOVE TO SEE ALSO WHAT TYPES OF BUSINESSES FROM DISTRICT BOARD LIKE COUNCILMAN HDA MENTIONED, UM, SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF HELP STRATEGIZE, STRATEGIZE.
I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WE WERE NOT, UM, GOING TO BE DOING THE WHOLE DOOR TO DOOR.
UM, AND I UNDERSTAND COVID NUMBERS.
I WATCH COVID NUMBERS EVERY SINGLE DAY AND, UH, UM, CAN UNDERSTAND WHY WE PUSHED, UH, OR, OR KIND OF PULLED BACK FROM THAT STRATEGY.
BUT I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT ANOTHER PUSH STRATEGY FOR THESE COUNCIL DISTRICTS 3, 4, 5, AND SIX, UM, TO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, YOU KNOW, APPLICANT TO THE NEXT GO AROUND OR EVEN TO BENEFIT FROM THESE TYPE OF PROGRAMS. SO I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, AND YOU ALL SAW THIS IN THE PICTURE, UM, WE HAD 373 SMALL BUSINESSES PICK UP P P E AT THE D FOUR BUSINESS, UH, UH, P P E GIVEAWAY.
SO I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE BUSINESSES COULD HAVE BENEFITED AS WELL FROM THAT.
SO, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S JUST AN ANOTHER, UH, WAY THAT MAYBE WE CAN, UM, GO BACK AND DEBRIEF ON THIS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL DISTRICT OFFICES AND, AND SEE WHAT IT IS THAT WE CAN KIND OF, UM, PUSH FOR NEXT TIME.
SO, UM, IF WE CAN MAYBE ALSO FIGURE OUT, UH, THAT STRATEGY, UM, FOR NEXT TIME, I, I WOULD BE APPRECIATIVE.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU ALL ARE WORKING UNDER, UM, A TIME CLOCK AND IT WAS A ONE MONTH STRATEGY, SO I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL DID.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT, UH, FOCUS AGAIN, LIKE COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ SAID ON THE POPULATIONS THAT, THAT MOST NEEDED.
AND SO I HAD, UM, A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE WHO REPRESENTS SMALL BUSINESSES AND A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER HAD REACHED OUT TO HIM AND SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE APPLIED FOR THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY GAVE US $5,000, OR I THINK THAT THAT WAS KIND OF LIKE A LIMIT AT THAT POINT OR SOMETHING.
AND THEN THEY SAID, AND THEN THE CITY COME CAN COMES OUT WITH THEIRS AND WE REALIZE THAT THE CITY YOU CAN APPLY FOR UP TO $25,000.
SO, UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN'T APPLY NOW IF THEY RECEIVE FUNDS FROM THE COUNTY.
UM, BUT I'M NOT SATISFIED WITH THE ANSWER OF DOUBLE DIPPING BECAUSE I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO MAYBE APPLY FOR THE AMOUNT THAT THEY COULD HAVE BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR UP TO, FOR THE CITY.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, IF THE AMOUNT WAS 5,000 FOR THE COUNTY, BUT FOR THE CITY IT'S 25,000,
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CAN THEY STILL APPLY FOR THE 20,000 THROUGH THE CITY? UM, I, I KNOW THAT THAT'S PROBABLY A FEDERAL, UM, REGULATION OR, OR SOMETHING WITH THAT THAT'S KIND OF TIED INTO THIS.BUT CAN YOU HELP ME EXPLAIN, UM, WHY I HAVE TO TELL THAT SMALL BUSINESS OWNER THAT THEY CAN'T APPLY FOR THE DIFFERENCE? I, I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID ABOUT SOME OF THE REGULATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FUNDING BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, UM, WE HAVE TO STILL BE ABLE TO DOCUMENT THE LOSS.
SO WHATEVER FUNDING LEVEL WE PROVIDE, LIKE FOR, FOR OUR PROGRAM AND THROUGH OUR PROCESS, WE'RE STILL VALIDATING THAT THAT BUSINESS EXPERIENCED THAT LOSS.
IF, IF THEY'RE RECEIVING ADDITIONAL FUNDING THROUGH OTHER PROVIDERS OR THROUGH THIS OTHER GRANT PROGRAM, BECAUSE IT IS ALSO CARES ACT FUNDING, UM, THERE, THERE WOULD BE A LOT MORE CO COORDINATION THAT WOULD NEED TO TAKE PLACE AND PROBABLY MORE PAPERWORK AND VALIDATION ON THE BUSINESS OWNER SIDE.
OUR INTENT WAS TO MAKE THIS AS SEAMLESS AS POSSIBLE AND AS FLUID AS POSSIBLE FOR THE BUSINESS OWNER.
AND IN DOING SO, WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE EXPANDED THE REACH, UH, OF OF THE GRANTS TO AS MANY BUSINESSES AS WE COULD.
WELL THEN I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S A, IT'S A REPORTING COMPLEXITY.
AND SO A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES DON'T HAVE BOOKKEEPERS NOW, IF THEY HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH TWO DIFFERENT AGENCIES.
I JUST WANTED TO HAVE A, A GOOD EXPLANATION RIGHT.
WHEN SOMEBODY CONTINUES TO ASK THIS.
AND, UM, I, CARLOS, WERE YOU GONNA CHIME IN? I, I THINK I INTERRUPTED YOU.
I THINK YOU, YOU, YOU SAID IT, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST GONNA SAY IN ADDITION TO THAT, IT, IT WAS, WE WERE AWARE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REACH AS MANY BUSINESSES AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, AND THAT'S THE REALITY.
THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO GO AROUND.
AND SO THAT WAS A PART OF THE CONSIDERATION IS GET AS MUCH MONEY AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE CAN POSSIBLY DO, MANY BUSINESSES IN POSSIBLY CAN.
THANK YOU CARLOS, AND THANK YOU, ALEX.
AND THEN I WAS WONDERING ALSO IS THE, UM, IS THE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF BUSINESSES IN EACH DISTRICT? IS THERE A WAY TO FIND OUT? SO WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE, UM, BUSINESS LEVEL DATA BY COUNCIL DISTRICT IN THAT WAY.
WE'VE USED DIFFERENT INDICATORS LIKE, UM, CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY OR O OTHER DATA SETS, BUT WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THAT NUMBER, UM, BY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
WHAT I APPRECIATE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, BOTH ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES, INCLUDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF, OF EQUIPMENT THAT, THAT ALL OF Y'ALL ARE PARTAKING IN RIGHT NOW, THAT'S GOING TO CREATE A VERY RICH DATA SET OF BUSINESSES IN EACH OF OUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT WE'LL REALLY BE ABLE TO PULL UPON FOR FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, MY NEXT QUESTION IS, UM, IS LIFT FUND ASSISTING PERHAPS WITH THESE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT, THAT MAYBE HAVE, UM, VERY LITTLE SUPPORT, RIGHT? SO IN TERMS OF PERSONAL FINANCES OR, YOU KNOW, KEEPING THE BOOKS, ET CETERA, UH, IS LIFTFUND OR SOME ORGANIZATION PROVIDING THIS TYPE OF SUPPORT SINCE THEY'RE GOING TO BE HAVING TO DO, UM, SO MUCH REPORTING? SO THEY, THERE IS, THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN ASSISTING JUST WITH THE APPLICATION ITSELF TO MAKE SURE THAT WASN'T A BARRIER.
BUT I BELIEVE SELENA IS ON THE LINE AND SHE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE DETAILS.
UM, AND I APPRECIATE YOU ALL'S COMMENTS IN OUR, UM, PROCESS, IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EFFORT FROM BOTH TEAM MEMBERS AND PARTNER AGENCIES, UM, TO KIND OF GUIDE THE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS.
SO I WANNA SAY THAT WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IS WE HAVE A SERIES OF, OF FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN ADDRESSING AS THE APPLICATIONS CAME IN, UM, BOTH IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
UM, WE ALSO, UM, HAVE BEEN HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, UM, SPECIFICALLY WHAT THEY ARE, UM, PUTTING INTO THEIR BUDGETS AS WELL.
SO GETTING TO ASSIST THEM IN UNDERSTANDING WHERE THEY WERE.
UM, I OBVIOUSLY PRIOR TO C OVID 19 AND WHAT THEIR BUDGETS AND THEIR ACTUAL BUDGETS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, UM, POST COVID.
SO THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING THEIR FINANCIAL GAP AS WELL AS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THIS.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THE GRANT FUNDING IS LIMITED, UM, IT'S NOT, UM, INFINITE.
AND SO HELPING THEM UNDERSTAND THAT AS WELL AS THEY LOOK AT THOSE BUDGETS.
WE ALSO, THANK YOU ALSO, WE SURE.
AND WE ALSO ARE REFERRING OUT TO PARTNERS, UM, COUNCILWOMAN.
SO U T S A, UM, SCORE, UM, AS WELL HAVE BEEN HELPFUL IN TERMS OF
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JUST CONNECTING FOR MORE IN DEPTH, DEPTH SUPPORT.WELL, THANK YOU SELENA, THAT I THINK, UH, IT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.
AND THEN MY FINAL QUESTION IS, IT'S AN ALEX, I DIDN'T SEE, UM, THE CHAMBERS ON HERE.
I'M ASSUMING THAT WE REACHED OUT THEM TO, UH, HELP PUSH TO THEIR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, BUT I I THOUGHT I'D ASK.
YES, THEY WERE PART OF THE E-BLAST.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE PART OF OUR STAKEHOLDER GROUPS THAT HELPED US PROMOTE AS WELL.
COUNCIL MEMBER BEIS, DO YOU HAVE SOME QUESTIONS? YEAH, I DO.
UM, WE, UH, I I, I'M LOOKING AT SLIDE 30 AND IT SAYS, UH, EXPECTED OUTCOMES BY DECEMBER 31ST, 2020, AND THE OUTCOMES ARE THAT WE ARE GONNA BE, UM, DOLING OUT THESE FUNDS.
ARE ARE THERE ANY METRICS THAT WE'RE ATTACHING THAT, UM, LIKE TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE WERE SUCCESSFUL? OR IS THE SUCCESS THAT WE HANDED OUT FUNDS TO ARTISTS? SO FOR, UH, THE ARTIST GRANTS, WE ARE ASKING IF THEY ARE, WE'RE GONNA ASK THEM TO RESPOND WHETHER THEY ARE RETURNING TO CREATING THEIR OWN ART.
SO THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A FOLLOW-UP SURVEY THAT GETS DONE FOR THE, FOR THE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AS WELL AS THE AGENCIES.
THEY'LL BE ASKED IF THEY'RE RETURNING TO CREATING ART.
WE'RE ALSO GONNA ASK THE AGENCIES ABOUT THEIR PIVOT POINTS.
DID THEY PIVOT TO ONLINE ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES, WHICH MANY OF THEM ALREADY HAVE, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO QUANTIFY THAT.
AND THEN WE'RE ASKING THAT THE AGENCIES, UH, WORK TOWARDS REHIRING ANY EMPLOYEES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LET GO FURLOUGHED OR WHAT HAVE YOU, AND REHIRING ARTISTS THAT THEY TYPICALLY HAVE ON A CONTRACT BASIS, RATHER THAN ON STAFF, UH, THAT THEY COULD CREATE CONTENT EVEN VIRTUALLY WITH THOSE ARTISTS.
SO TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY BACK TO WORK.
SO THOSE ARE OUR OUTCOMES FOR THESE GRANTS.
YEAH, AND, AND YOU KNOW, I, I'LL, I'LL TAKE THE RISK OF, OF QUESTIONING THE UNQUESTIONABLE.
UM, MY, MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT ARTISTS AREN'T MAKING MONEY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE NOBODY'S GOT THE MONEY TO GO OUT AND BUY ART.
UM, AND SO IF THE TEST IS SOME, YOU KNOW, UH, WE ARE GONNA BE SENDING A BUNCH OF THEM TO GO OUT AND MAKE ART.
I MEAN, SO LONG AS WE'RE HONEST WITH EACH OTHER, WE'RE GONNA BE SENDING 'EM OUT TO GO MAKE ART THAT IS JUST GONNA COLLECT DUST.
AND IF, I MEAN, I'LL, DO YOU DISAGREE WITH THAT? I MEAN, ARE ARE WE EXPECTING THIS TO SUDDENLY GO INTO INVENTORY SOMEWHERE SO THEY CAN SELL IT AT A LATER DATE? WELL, IT, THAT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT KIND OF ART THEY'RE CREATING.
SO THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MUSICIAN AND A PAINTER.
UM, SO ARTISTS THAT CAN PROBABLY, THE PAINTER COULD BE CREATING ART ALL ALONG.
UH, WE ACTUALLY SEE THAT MOST OF OUR APPLICANTS FOR THE GRANT WERE PERFORMING ARTISTS.
THAT'S WHAT I SAW WHEN I LOOKED AT THEM, UM, THAT THE VISUAL ARTISTS TEND TO BE DOING MUCH BETTER AND ARE STILL ABLE TO SELL THEIR WORK, UH, OKAY.
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT SELL AT FIESTA OR DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT GOT CANCELED.
BUT, UH, WE WOULD, WE WOULD HAVE AS A GOAL THAT THEY COULD RETURN TO CREATING THEIR ART.
AND WE'RE LOOKING AT NEW MODELS WITH THE ARTS AGENCIES HELPING US WITH NEW MODELS TO GET THESE THINGS, UH, OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
UH, IN FACT, SOME OF OUR AGENCIES, WHEN THEY PIVOTED TO ONLINE, I WAS TALKING TO, UH, SUE HATU WHO TOLD ME THAT MUSICAL BRIDGES HAS A LARGER AUDIENCE VIRTUALLY THAN THEY EVER HAD, OBVIOUSLY IN, UH, THE CHURCH, UH, WHERE THEY, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A LIMITED SEATING CAPACITY ON VIRTUAL, UH, EVENTS.
SO WE THINK THAT CHANGING THE MODEL THAT THE ARTS HAS WITH COVID IS SOMETHING THAT MAY HAVE TO BE DONE LONG TERM, AND IT'S A NATIONAL CONVERSATION THAT'S BEING HAD RIGHT NOW.
AND, AND I'M SENSITIVE TO YOUR, TO THE CHALLENGE, RIGHT? HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS IN THIS INSTANCE? AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I I, I MEAN, I, I IMAGINE YOU'RE SENSITIVE TO THE REACTION YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET FROM ME, WHICH IS, IT'S SOUNDS REALLY FLUFFY.
UM, AND IT, AND IF FLUFFY IS OKAY WITH EVERYBODY, I GUESS IT'S GONNA BE OKAY WITH EVERYBODY.
BUT A AGAIN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE READY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FLUFFINESS, RIGHT.
AND, UM, I'M, UH, I AM CONCERNED, RIGHT, THAT WE'RE FUNDING.
SO I, I MEAN, IF THIS, IF THE, IF WHAT WE'RE ASKING THESE PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TO DO IS GO ONLINE, PERFORM ONLINE, UM, OKAY.
UH, AND I MEAN, ARE WE MEASURING SUCCESS BY THE NUMBER OF CLICKS THAT THEY GET ON YOUTUBE? AND SO, I MEAN, THAT'S, THIS IS, THIS
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IS THE NATURE OF THE FLUFFINESS, AND I DON'T THINK YOU GOT ANY ANSWERS FOR ME TODAY, AND THAT'S OKAY, DEBBIE.UM, I, I JUST, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THAT'S WHAT'S ON MY MIND, BECAUSE THAT'S THE CONCERNS I'M GONNA GET FROM MY RATHER CONSERVATIVE DISTRICT UP HERE.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT WRONG TO ASK.
WELL, NOW NOW'S THE TIME FOR A, AN PERFORMING ARTIST TO PUT THEIR PORTFOLIO TOGETHER AND GET IT ONLINE SO THAT IN THE FUTURE WHEN THEY CAN GO LIVE, PERFORM SOMEBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE BUYING, UH, THEY HAVE THEIR PORTFOLIO PUT TOGETHER AND READY FOR THAT TIME WHEN THEY, WHEN THE QUINCEANERAS START BACK UP AND THE, THE WEDDINGS START BACK UP, BECAUSE THAT'S GENERALLY WHAT THEY HAD BEEN DOING, BUT MAYBE THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT PORTFOLIO TO SHOW.
AND SO WE ASKED THEM FOR THAT KIND OF PORTFOLIO IN THEIR APPLICATION, AND MANY OF THEM HAD TO KIND OF PUT SOME THINGS TOGETHER AND, AND THEY FELT LIKE THAT WAS BENEFICIAL TO DO THAT EXERCISE.
AND THEN, SO, SO ONE OTHER QUESTION IS, DOES AN ARTIST HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DOUBLE DIP INTO THE SMALL BUSINESS GRANTS AND THIS ARTIST GRANTS? WE ARE WORKING WITH ALEX'S TEAM.
UH, WE'VE PROVIDED A LIST OF OUR APPLICANTS, UH, TO HERS, TO ALEX'S STAFF.
UM, WE WILL PROVIDE THE FINAL REPORT OF WHO'S EXACTLY FUNDED, AND WE'LL COORDINATE THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO DOUBLE DIPPING THERE.
SO, I MEAN, IS THE, THE GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NO DOUBLE DIPPING.
I MEAN, IT'S ONE OR ONE OR THE OTHER, CORRECT? YES.
AND COUNCIL, IF I COULD JUST JUMP IN, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, THE AIRPORT HAD ARTISTS PERFORMING ARTISTS AT THE AIRPORT PRE COVID, AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS THEY CONTRACTED WITH ARTISTS TO CONTINUE TO PERFORM AND IT'S JUST TYPED IN.
SO IT, SO AS, UM, THE PASSENGERS ARE COMING ON AND OFF THE PLANE, UH, THEY'RE STILL ABLE TO DO THAT AND THERE'S STILL THOSE ARTISTS WHO ARE PREVIOUSLY CONTRACT WITH THE AIRPORT WHO CONTINUE TO BE CONTRACT AT THE AIRPORT.
I THINK THAT'S JUST THE REALITY OF THE PANDEMIC IS WE HAVE TO THINK OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO, PROVIDE THAT ART SERVICE.
AND SO IT'S A, IT'S A TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH CHALLENGE.
THAT, THAT'S ALL COUNCIL MEMBER PENEZ.
UM, I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
UH, I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH ITEM, I GUESS IT'S, UH, PAGE 29 OR THE SLIDE 29.
UH, FOR THE 2 MILLION FOR ARTS NONPROFITS, YOU SAID THAT THE, UM, ARTS COMMISSION MEMBERS ARE ALSO SCORING OR GOING THROUGH THE APPLICATION, DEBBIE? YES.
WE ASK THE ARTS COMMISSION AND OUR SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS TO VOLUNTEER TO ASSIST WITH REVIEWING.
UH, AND SO JUST, AND JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST IF THEY'RE LOOKING THROUGH APPLICATIONS, WHETHER TO ASSIGN POINTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
THERE'S NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST THERE? NO.
THEY HAVE, THEY SIGN A CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT AND RECUSE THEMSELVES IF THERE IS A CONFLICT.
AND, UM, YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE HOPING TO HAVE THIS DONE BY, UH, SUNDAY.
AND SO I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE NOT HAVE THAT DOUBLE DIPPING THAT WAS, UM, THAT WAS MENTIONED BECAUSE I DO REMEMBER WHAT WAS ALSO MENTIONED WAS IF THEY ARE A, UM, IF THEY'RE A SMALL BUSINESS THAT HAS A ARTS COMPONENT TO IT, THAT YOU DO TAKE THEM OVER TO THE SMALL BUSINESS GRANT.
UM, IF I CAN GO OVER NOW TO, WELL, I DO WANNA DISCUSS THE WORKFORCE TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICES.
AND I DO WANNA THANK MANY OF OUR, UH, PARTNERS WHO ARE ON THE CALL TODAY WITH US.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IS THE IMMEDIACY, UH, FOR JOBS, FOR PEOPLE TO GET INTO JOBS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT, UM, I'M GLAD TO SEE THE SHORT TERM TRAINING AS WAS MENTIONED, AND TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO SERVE UP TO 10,000 RESIDENTS WITHIN THIS TIMEFRAME, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT.
BUT WE DO HAVE OVER 160,000 UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS IN, UH, THE BEXAR COUNTY AREA.
UH, SO I THINK THE PARTICIPANT TRAINING AND EDUCATION IS CRITICAL AND I'M GLAD THAT OUR FOCUS TWO IS ON THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN FORMALLY EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED IN HOSPITALITY, FOOD SERVICE, RETAIL OF SLIDE NUMBER.
LET ME SEE, LET'S GO TO SLIDE 36.
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GOALS.WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ASIAN-AMERICAN, HISPANIC-AMERICAN, YOU HAVE IT BROKEN UP IN THOSE PERCENTAGES.
UH, CAN YOU TELL ME WHY THOSE PERCENTAGES ARE THAT WAY? IS IT BECAUSE IT'S PROPORTIONAL TO OUR POPULATION, OR IS THAT WHY? SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WE CONSIDERED, YES.
AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE CONSIDERED, BUT WE ALSO CONSIDERED SOME OF THE DATA FROM THE, UM, POVERTY REPORT AND FROM THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT.
WE ALSO LOOK, UM, OVERALL AT, UM, UH, POVERTY IN GENERAL.
UH, SO WE, WE KIND OF, UH, COMBINED THAT TO REALLY SHOW MORE THAN, UH, MORE THAN JUST THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE GENERAL POPULATION.
WE KNEW, WE KNEW THERE WERE AREAS WHERE WE NEEDED TO FOCUS.
AND THEN I, SO MY QUESTION, SOMEONE LOST THEIR, SO LET'S JUST, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE AND YOU CAN HELP TALK THIS THROUGH, UH, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A, A CONVERSATION MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, OR, OR HAVING SOMEONE LOST THEIR JOB IN JUNE AND THEY NEED A JOB NOW, OR THEY NEEDED A JOB LAST WEEK OR, UM, IN JUNE.
SO WHERE, WHERE CAN THEY GO TO SEE WHAT IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR THEM TO GET A JOB, YOU KNOW, BEFORE, UM, WE CAN GET THAT CERTIFICATION WHERE THEY NEED TO GET THAT CERTIFICATION, UH, FOR, FOR, FOR WHATEVER CERTIFICATION.
WHERE CAN THEY GO NOW TO FIND OUT WHAT JOBS ARE AVAILABLE NOW? AND ADRIAN LOPEZ IS ON MY SCREEN TOO, SO I'M GOING TO ASK ADRIAN LOPEZ, IF YOU COULD PLEASE ANSWER THAT.
SO, UM, SO A COUPLE OF WAYS, RIGHT? SO WHAT WE WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO IS TO, TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE@WORKFORCESOLUTIONS.ORG.
UM, OR ACTUALLY, UM, CALL OUR HELPLINE, WHICH IS TWO ONE ZERO TWO TWO FOUR HELP.
SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT, UM, WE CAN HELP PEOPLE WITH, UH, WITH JOBS.
SO, UH, ONE WAY IS THROUGH, UM, OUR WEBSITE.
WE HAVE THIS, UH, JOBS NOW BUTTON, BASICALLY THAT IS KIND OF A, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR HOT LIST OF JOBS THAT ARE COMING AND ARE BEING POSTED ON A DAILY BASIS.
UM, THE OTHER IS IF THEY'RE CALLING, UH, OUR NUMBER, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DATABASES WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY TRACKING THE, THE POSTINGS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, FROM LIKE MAY TO, UM, TILL ABOUT NOW WE HAD ABOUT, UH, CLOSE TO MAYBE ABOUT 5,500 POSTINGS, UH, AND WORK IN TEXAS, WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY THAT PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY, IF THEY'RE UNEMPLOYED AND THEY FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS THAT THEY ACTUALLY ASK 'EM TO DO IS TO, UH, REGISTER WITH WORK IN TEXAS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN BE GETTING, UM, HITS ON TYPES OF JOBS THAT THEY MAY BE INTERESTED IN PARTICULAR TYPES OF, UH, SECTORS OR INDUSTRIES.
AND THEN OF COURSE, WE'RE TRACKING OTHER TYPES OF, UH, DATABASES.
'CAUSE NOT EV EVERY EMPLOYER WILL, UM, POST OUR, UH, JOBS AND WORK IN TEXAS, UM, SOME POST AND INDEED AND MONSTER.COM AND ALL THE OTHER TYPES OF, UH, WEBSITES.
UM, SO BASED ON THOSE NUMBERS, THERE'S PROBABLY BEEN ABOUT 53 TO 54,000 POSTINGS FROM APRIL TO TODAY.
UM, SO THERE ARE JOBS, UNFORTUNATELY, THEY'RE NOT MATCHING THE AMOUNT OF JOBS THAT HAVE BEEN LOST, UH, BUT THERE STILL ARE JOBS, UH, FOR PEOPLE TO, UH, FAIL.
WE'LL CONTINUE TO, UH, SUPPORT THAT THE WEBSITE, BUT ALSO THE PHONE NUMBER SO PEOPLE CAN GET CONNECTED AND MAYBE WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO, AND THAT'S, AND THEN THAT'S WHERE WE COME IN WITH OUR IMMEDIACY FOR THE SHORT TERM OR THE LONG-TERM TRAINING.
MAYBE THEY SEE A FOREIGN EXAMPLE, ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING A COUPLE OF DAYS NOW WHERE SOME OF US HAVE BEEN HEARING A COUPLE OF DAYS.
NOW SOMEBODY BE, WANTS TO BECOME A FORKLIFT DRIVER AT AN H E B WAREHOUSE, THEY NEED CERTAIN OSHA CERTIFICATION.
HOW DO THEY GET THAT CERTIFICATION? THAT'S WHERE THE TRAINING CAN COME IN WITH THE SHORT-TERM TRAINING AND LONG-TERM TRAINING.
AND THIS IS WHERE WE CAN CONTINUE TO GROW, UM, WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND WITH OUR, WITH OUR RESIDENTS WHO NEED THOSE, THOSE STEPS.
UM, SO GOING TO THE, THE GRANTS AND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE MI UH, THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH AND WELL, LET ME JUST SAY FIRST WITH THE TRAINING OVERVIEW AND WITH THE OUTREACH, UH, THE SMALL BUSINESS OUTREACH,
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I THINK WHAT'S IMPORTANT, UM, WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE, UH, FOR ME IS THAT AS WE'RE CONTINUING TO DO THAT OUTREACH AND LOOKING FOR THE ON-THE-JOB TRAINING, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I DON'T WANT THE ON-THE-JOB TRAINING OUTREACH TO LOOK SIMILAR TO WHAT WE JUST SAW WITH THE SMALL BUSINESS GRANTS, UM, NUMBERS.I WILL SAY, UM, WHEN I SAW THE GRANT APPLICATIONS AND THE WAY THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF APPS, OR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF APPS PER COUNCIL DISTRICT, IT REALLY, UM, MY, I THINK MY HEART SANK INTO MY, THE, MY STOMACH JUST TO SEE THAT.
'CAUSE I THINK IT WAS, UM, IT WASN'T WHAT I HAD HAD THOUGHT.
AND I, UM, IT'S JUST DISAPPOINTING.
BUT I THINK IT ALSO SHOWS THE, THE LEVEL OF WORK THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO DO BECAUSE IT JUST, I THINK, DOES HIGHLIGHT THE DIGITAL DISCONNECTION THAT HAPPENS, UH, OR THE ONLINE DISCONNECTION THAT EXISTS WITHIN THIS CITY.
SO, UH, YOU MENTIONED THE OUTREACH AND YOU HAD CITYWIDE MARKETING AND THEN YOU HAD TARGETED MARKETING.
ALEX WAS THE TARGETED MARKETING ON TOP OF THE CITYWIDE MARKETING? YES.
NOW, UM, I DO SEE THE APPLICATIONS, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR DISTRICT THREE ARE 166, BUT I DO SEE THE AMOUNT REQUESTED IS 13.5 MILLION.
SO I'M VERY PROUD OF MY, UH, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS REQUESTING A LOT OF MONEY, UM, BECAUSE IT'S A NEED THAT THEY HAVE.
AND I THINK THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
BUT ALEX YOU ALSO MENTIONED THAT YOU, THAT SOME OF OUR PARTNERS WERE ALSO DOING OUTREACH FOR THE, FOR THE SMALL, A, A A LITTLE BIT OF THE OUTREACH FOR THE, FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS GRANTS.
SO I NEED TO, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT, I MEAN, THAT OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T DO THE, DIDN'T REACH WHAT WE HAD HOPED IT WOULD REACH.
SO I HOPE THAT OUR PARTNERS CAN LOOK AT THAT, REVIEW WHAT THEY DID, AND MAYBE MAKE SOME CHANGES TO WHAT THEY ARE, HOW THEY WERE TARGETING SOME OF THE AREA.
UM, SO I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE, THE ISSUE HERE.
I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO SEE STILL WHAT THE PERCENTAGE IS OF THE, UM, THE POINT SYSTEM, OUR EQUITY SCORE MATRIX, AND I THINK IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE DID IT, UM, THIS WAY.
AND OBVIOUSLY WE DID IT THAT WAY BECAUSE OF THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE SEEING HERE WITH THE APPLICATION.
SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT, THAT LEVEL OUT, HOPEFULLY, I'M HOPING, BUT I DON'T WANT TO SEE THE SAME KIND OF OFF BALANCE, AGAIN, THIS IMBALANCE HAPPENING WITH OUR ON THE JOB TRAINING OR WITH OUR, UM, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OR, OR ITEMS SUCH AS THAT.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW, I DON'T THINK I NEED TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE.
I THINK I SAID IT PRETTY CLEAR, SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE TO MAKE SURE IT'S DONE, UM, CORRECTLY OR TO, TO MAKE THAT INTENTIONALITY GOING MOVING FORWARD.
BUT, UH, WE ARE, UH, I KNOW YOU ALL ARE MOVING VERY QUICKLY, AND I ALSO WANNA THANK, UH, THANK LIFT FUND AND OUR PARTNERS.
I KNOW LIFT FUND IS MOVING AT A SPEED, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.
AND I KNOW THAT, UM, WHAT WAS MENTIONED TO ME THAT THE COUNTY DID HAVE TWO ROUNDS OF DISTRIBUTIONS OF THEIR, THEIR GRANTS, AND THEY DID IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS IN THE TWO ROUNDS.
SO WHEN DO YOU THINK THOSE, THOSE 88 APPLICATIONS THAT ARE PENDING RESOLUTION, WHEN DO YOU, WHAT IS IT THAT'S STILL PENDING THEIR LOCATION OR THEIR AMOUNTS OR JUST, UM, WHAT IS THE, WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO OH YEAH.
WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO RESPOND TO THAT? YOU BET.
UM, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN FOR THAT QUESTION.
IT'S, IT'S A MATTER OF JUST, UH, WE'VE BEEN TRIPLE CHECKING NUMBERS, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, PRIOR TO THIS MEETING.
AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH, UM, UH, ALEX AND ANNE ALONG WITH I T S D TO ENSURE THAT THE EQUITY NUMBERS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE RIGHT GEOGRAPHY.
WE SHOULD HAVE THAT RESOLVED, UM, NO LATER THAN TOMORROW MORNING.
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I THINK I WANNA HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION FOR, I SAW ROMANITA ON THE CALL WITH SA WORKS, AND I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA BE CRITICAL WITH OUR, UM, WORK WITH THE, UM, ON THE JOB TRAINING AND DOING THE OUTREACH EVEN WITH THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.SO COULD YOU JUST GIVE US A QUICK BRIEF, UH, BRIEF UPDATE OF WHAT YOU'RE SEEING FROM OUR PARTNERS, YOUR PARTNERS WITH SA WORKS AND THE INDUSTRIES AND THE COMPANIES THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT? CERTAINLY COUNCILWOMAN.
SO WE'RE TAKING A COUPLE OF APPROACHES.
UH, WE'RE AUGMENTING OUR EXISTING BUSINESS RETENTION EXPANSION TEAM TO REALLY FOCUS ON WORKFORCE NEEDS.
UM, AND ALSO THEN INTENTIONALLY TARGETING, UH, SMALL AND MICRO BUSINESSES THROUGH OUR PARTNERS, SOME OF WHICH, UH, WERE NAMED HERE.
AND LIKE SAGE, UH, AND E W D C AND A CO, UH, SORRY, LIKE SAGE AND W D C AND OTHERS THAT WERE GOING TO BE CROSS-TRAINING ON HOW TO INFORM THEIR SMALL BUSINESS CONSTITUENCIES ABOUT THE O J T OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL.
SO TO DATE, UH, THE REALITY IS THAT THERE ARE EMPLOYERS THAT ARE HIRING, AND TO YOUR POINT EARLIER THERE, THEY WANT PEOPLE NOW THAT MAY NOT NEED EXTENSIVE, UH, ON THE JOB OR EXTENSIVE TRAINING OUTSIDE OF THE JOB.
AND SO, UH, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS A COMBINATION OF MANUFACTURING, JOBS, LOGISTICS THAT YOU REFERENCED, UH, EARLIER, UH, THAT REQUIRE MAYBE OSHA TRAINING, UH, FORKLIFT CERTIFICATIONS.
AND I KNOW THAT OUR PARTNERS LIKE GOODWILL AS WELL AS ALAMO COLLEGES HAVE THOSE ACCELERATED TRAINING PROGRAMS. AND SO WE'VE ALREADY BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, ALAMO, AND REALLY JUST FEEDING THEM THOSE INITIAL EMPLOYERS THAT ARE COMING TO US WHO ARE HIRING.
TO ADRIAN'S POINT EARLIER, NOT ALL OF THEM ARE ENLISTING AND WORK IN TEXAS.
SO ANOTHER PART THAT WE'RE REALLY ENCOURAGING OUR EMPLOYERS IS TO GO THROUGH THOSE TRADITIONAL CHANNELS AND WORK THROUGH W S A.
SO W S A CAN ALSO COLLECT THIS INFORMATION, UM, HOLISTICALLY, BUT WE ARE SEEING INTEREST IN MANUFACTURING BOTH FOOD AND AUTOMOTIVE LOGISTICS, IT SALES AS ANOTHER KEY, UH, INDUSTRY AND MEDICAL BILLING WITHIN THE HEALTHCARE, UH, INDUSTRY AS WELL.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED WORK AND ALEX AND YOUR TEAM, EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
I BELIEVE THIS IS JUST AN UPDATE AND THERE'S NO ACTION NEEDED TODAY.
UH, SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FINAL, FOR THE FINAL NUMBERS AND TO SEE, UM, HOW WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER.
UH, NEXT TO MY COLLEAGUES, WE HAVE ONE MORE ITEM.
[5. 20-4416 Consideration of Applicants to the RiverWalk Capital Improvements Advisory Board (4 seats) [Tina J. Flores, Acting City Clerk]]
UH, ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS CONSIDERATION OF APPLICANTS TO THE RIVERWALK CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY BOARD.THERE ARE FOUR SEATS, AND I DON'T KNOW IF I'M GONNA TURN THIS OVER TO TINA OR TO JOHN JACKS.
WELL, COUNCILMAN, JUST ON A HIGH LEVEL, THERE ARE FOUR SEATS AVAILABLE.
WE HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL APPLICATIONS.
WE DID PROVIDE PACKETS TO YOUR OFFICE.
AND, UM, THERE IS A RIVER BEND LEASE, UM, OPEN, WELL, TWO ACTUALLY, UH, A DOWNTOWN BUSINESS THAT'S NOT A LEASE, AND THEN A DOWNTOWN RESIDENT.
SO WE DO HAVE APPLICANTS, THOSE SPOTS AVAILABLE.
AND, UH, MR. JACKS, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD, SIR? MADAM CHAIR, PERHAPS BEFORE WE GET STARTED ON THAT, UH, I'LL TELL OUR PARTNERS FOR THE OTHER TWO ITEMS THEY WELCOME TO DROP OFF NOW.
WE APPRECIATE THEM BEING ON, BUT THANK Y'ALL.
HI EVERYBODY, GOOD AFTERNOON, IT'S JOHN JACKS.
JOHN, I SEE YOU HAVE A PAST POINT.
UH, YEAH, I HAVE JUST A REAL BRIEF, UM, PRESENTATION.
I JUST PRIMARILY WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, UM, ABOUT THIS BOARD, UM, AND KIND OF WHAT THEIR ROLE IN, IN FUNCTION IS.
SO IF, UH, DENZEL, YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE THERE.
UH, SO THIS, THIS BOARD WAS ACTUALLY CREATED, UM, AS A RESULT OF A, UH, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND SEVERAL OF OUR RIVERWALK BUSINESS OWNERS BACK IN 2001.
UM, AND AS PART OF THAT SETTLEMENT, THE CITY AGREED THAT THE REVENUE FROM THE PATIO LEASES, UM, THAT THE CITY OWNS WOULD GO INTO A, A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND THAT'S, UM, DESIGNATED FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, UM, AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ALONG THE RIVERWALK.
UM, SO YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE PATIOS THAT ARE DOWN ON THE RIVERWALK.
UM, A PORTION OF THOSE PATIOS JUST DEPENDS ON THE SPECIFIC LOCATION.
UM, A PORTION OF THOSE PATIOS ARE ON CITY PROPERTY.
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RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS, UM, LEASE THAT SPACE FROM THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.AND THEN THAT REVENUE, UM, HELPS FUND OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, UM, ON THE RIVERWALK.
UM, AND SO BACK IN 2008, UH, WE WENT THROUGH A PROCESS WHERE WE CREATED A MA OR WE ADOPTED A MASTER PLAN TO HELP IDENTIFY THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE NEEDED ALONG THE RIVER WALK.
UM, AND REALLY THAT THOSE WERE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON A D A IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, THERE WERE A LOT OF PLACES ON THE RIVERWALK, UM, THAT WERE NOT ACCESSIBLE FOR, UM, INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.
SO WE WANTED TO FOCUS ON THAT.
UM, LIGHTING, UPGRADES, STAIRS AND STAIRWELLS AND RETAINING WALLS, UM, AND THEN ALSO SOME SAFETY, UM, UM, ITEMS SUCH AS RAILINGS, UM, THAT MAYBE WEREN'T UP TO CODE.
SO THAT WAS WHAT THAT, THAT RIVERWALK MASTER PLAN, UM, IDENTIFIED.
AND, UH, BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE, IT RECOMMENDED THAT IT BE DONE IN PHASES.
AND SO THIS, UM, THIS HAS BEEN, UM, SINCE 2008 HAS BEEN DONE IN PHASES.
AND THE, THE BOARD'S KIND OF ROLE WAS TO REVIEW THESE, THIS MASTER PLAN AND, AND RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL, UM, THESE IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, SO WE HAVE ONE MORE PHASE TO GO ACTUALLY, UH, THIS COMING YEAR.
UM, PHASE SIX WILL BE, UH, THE LAST PHASE TO COMPLETE, UH, THAT MASTER PLAN.
UM, SO I KIND OF ALREADY WENT THROUGH THIS A LITTLE BIT.
THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE BOARD, UM, THERE ARE CURRENTLY FOUR VACANCIES ON THE BOARD.
UM, THERE'S TWO RIVER BEND LESSEES, UH, I I DOWNTOWN RESIDENT WHO'S NOT A LESSEE.
SO THAT'S SOMEONE WHO LIVES DOWNTOWN THAT, UM, IS NOT ONE OF THE, UM, UM, BUSINESSES ON THE RIVERWALK.
UM, AND THEN A BUSINESS OWNER, UM, WHO IS, AGAIN, NOT A LESSEE, UH, ON THE RIVERWALK.
AND THEN THE OTHER THREE MEMBERS ARE MADE UP OF CITY STAFF.
IT'S MYSELF, UM, HOMER GARCIA WITH PARK THE PARKS AND REC, UH, DIRECTOR AND SHANNON MILLER, OUR, UH, HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER.
SO THAT'S THE, THE MAKEUP OF THE SEVEN, UH, MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD.
UH, SO WE DID A REALLY EXTENSIVE OUTREACH, UM, ADVERTISING THESE POSITIONS.
WE WORKED WITH A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS, UH, THE RIVERWALK ASSOCIATION DOWNTOWN, UM, THE HOTEL ASSOCIATION, UM, THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, UH, ADVERTISED IN MULTIPLE, UM, DIFFERENT VENUES TRYING TO GET SOME INTEREST IN THIS BOARD.
IT IS, IT'S A HARD BOARD TO APPOINT BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A SMALL, UM, NUMBER OF QUALIFYING, UM, INDIVIDUALS.
UM, AND THEN THEY'RE VERY SPECIFIC POSITIONS, RIGHT? UM, SO WE'RE, WE DID GET, UH, ONE APPLICANT, UH, FOR THE RIVER BEND LESSEE THAT'S CARRYING SILVERS FROM THE HARD ROCK CAFE.
UM, WE HAVE ANOTHER RIVER BEND LESSEE, UH, SAM PEN, PEN WHO, UH, IS THE AZTEC FAMILY GROUP.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE A DOWNTOWN BUSINESS, UM, OWNER WHO'S NOT A LESSEE, AND THAT'S CHARLES RILEY FROM THE LAW OFFICES OF CHARLIE CHARLES RILEY.
AND THEN WE HAD THREE APPLICANTS TO FILL ONE POSITION, UM, FOR A DOWNTOWN RESIDENT, UH, PEGGY MEYER, CHRISTOPHER HOLDEN, AND KENNETH BRIGGS III.
SO THAT COMPLETES MY PRESENTATION.
UM, SO REALLY WHAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO DO, UM, IS APPOINT THESE APPLICANTS, UM, AND THEN CHOOSE FROM ONE OF THE THREE DOWNTOWN RESIDENTS.
UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JOHN.
DOES, DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS REGARDING THAT? OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ROCHA GARCIA.
I MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS, BUT I DID NOT SEE ANY OF THE RESUMES OR APPLICATIONS.
UH, AND I'M NOT SURE WHO THEY WENT TO, BUT I, I, I JUST WANTED TO ASK IF I COULD FIND THEM SOMEWHERE QUICKLY.
COUNCILMAN, I WILL HAVE MELINDA EMAIL THOSE TO YOU.
WE DID DISTRIBUTE THEM TO THE COUNCIL OFFICES IN A, UM, A SMALL COMBED TYPE BINDER.
UM, SO I WILL HAVE HER EMAIL THEM TO YOU RIGHT NOW.
THAT'S PROBABLY THE, THE REASON WE WE'RE NOT WORKING IN OUR OFFICES RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE WORKING FROM HOME, SO SURE.
MAYBE THAT'S WHY I MISSED THEM.
LET ME RUN DOWN THE HALL REAL QUICK.
AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY ATTACHED TO THE MEETING PACKET, TO THE, TO THE COMMITTEE MEETING PACKET.
WHEN YOU SCROLLED ALL THE WAY DOWN THE, THE APPLICATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN ATTACHED TO THERE, THE SAME ONES WITH THE MEETING MINUTES.
COUNCILMAN, LEMME LOOK AT THAT.
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IT.UM, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION, UH, THE BACKGROUND OR ANYTHING RIGHT NOW? ARE MY COLLEAGUES OKAY THEN? UM, IF NOT, WE ARE GOING TO, THE
[Executive Session ]
TIME IS NOW 3:37 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2020.THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL NOW MEET AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND TO DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING.
ITEM FIVE, DELIBERATE TO THE APPOINTMENT EVALUATION AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND DISCUSS LEGAL ISSUES PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 DASH 0 7 4 PERSONNEL MATTERS AND TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 51 DASH SEVEN ONE CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY.
YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A LINK AND WE'LL BE GOING.
ALRIGHT, THE TIME IS NOW 3:55 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2020, AND THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL NOW RECONVENE AN OPEN SESSION.
NO OFFICIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR, UH, PARTICIPATION IN THIS ITEM.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO DID APPLY FOR THESE, UH, POSITIONS FOR THE RIVERWALK CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY BOARD.
AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA.
I MOVE THAT THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MOVE FORWARD, THE FOLLOWING APPLICANTS TO THE RIVER WALL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY BOARD FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION AT THE EARLIEST AVAILABLE DATE IN THE RIVER BEND.
LAST, THE CATEGORY, CARRIE ANN SILVERS FROM HARD ROCK CAFE AND THE RIVER BEND CATEGORY.
SAMUEL PANCHE FROM THE AZTEC FAMILY GROUP AND THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS NAI GROUP, CHARLES LRE, AND THEN THE DOWNTOWN RESIDENT, NAI KENNETH BRIGGS II.
ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THAT SLATE OF MAY.
CHAIR GARCIA COUNSEL CONSIDERATION.
UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
AND THAT IS OUR LAST ITEM ON THE AGENDA FOR THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING.
SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH AND HAVE A VERY SAFE DAY.