good morning everyone what a turnout this is very impressive and with recognizing everyone I'm sure went through what I went through thank you all for disroing and coming through security and making the effort to get here uh but uh anyhow thank you all one of the things I would like to remind myself of as I'm the one probably most guilty but you all as well please uh set your cell phones to silence or uh turn them
off completely whatever works best for you uh so that we may conduct the business this morning and again I seriously do want to welcome everybody and thank you for your turnout reflecting interest and involvement in the functioning of the trust here which exist for you all and for the children we're all here and concerned about so thank you again very much for that um the first thing I will do is ask Miss Al to promote proceed excuse me with the roll call miss Woods I understand she'll be
here shortly issues in traffic mr williams here Dr northup here Mr leonard here Miss Kaine here Commissioner May is here somewhere someone saw him uh Miss White here and Judge Williams thank you next order of business will be uh the pledge of allegiance and uh ask Mr williams to lead us all and ask you all to please stand please join the
pledge i pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you next item is approval of the agenda for this morning's meeting i get a motion so moved i second any discussion all in favor i I I any opposed okay the next will be to
uh submit the minutes both correct them and uh then submit them for reference uh I get a motion or anyone have any corrections additions deletions modifications to the minutes of the March 11th meeting if not then they will be submitted as uh or filed as submitted then thank you all for that
and then we are down to the treasures report which Miss Woods would submit we can either do that or skip down to the financial audit and then come back or Tammy will you okay thank you thank you we met and went over the financial report at our finance committee there is um in in your packet you'll see we've got the balance sheet the revenue and expense statements both just normal and by function the one by function breaks it out into administrative and program expenses and
you will see that we are running um 87% program expenses and 13% administrative year to date if we break those down to remove tax collector fees we're under 10% administrative expenses right now um I don't see we didn't have any unusual transactions during the month and I do apologize i'm losing my voice so we don't have any unusual transactions for the month and if there aren't any questions um I recommend that we uh file this for an audit
any discussion questions uh comments regarding the financial statement one comment I will make uh at least from my vast knowledge of uh looking at nonprofits and such things to have an administrative expense which I see does exclude the fee that we have no control over that being the tax collector's fee of 3.7% but that our operations themselves are below 10%
is one of the uh I think hallmarks and I think reflects well on the operations of the trust and uh I would hope that the taxpayers of the county would recognize that and feel good about that that less than 10% of the funding for the trust is spent on administrative uh oversight of the trust i think that's a good commendable hallmark to have achieved and with there being no further comments or anything would submit that as published and and thank you all for that
the next item of business then will be the uh 2324 financial audit uh which uh Tammy will call on you again to uh make introductions and all regarding that please okay thank you this is Kristen Mallister with Warren Ever and she's going to present our um financial audit better all right thank you for having me here this morning once again I'm Kristen Mallister and I'm
an audit partner with Warren Aver CPAs here out of our Pensacola audit we did go through a more detailed presentation of this audit uh earlier in March for the finance committee overall I wanted to brief you today and let you know that we did not have any findings to report in relation to the compliance audit as well um and there were no significant journal entries or other findings that we have to report we did discuss with the finance committee overall highle financial changes with your cash which increased which was basically due to your net income and we discussed the ongoing
carry forward within your fund balance which is approximately $5 million for grants that have been approved during this year or last prior fiscal year going forward into the next fiscal year and we also discussed that your revenues were up as well within your expenses and your additional grants that had been approved during fisc year 24 otherwise I'll entertain any questions you have but it was a clean unmodified opinion that we issued which is the highest level of assurance we can provide thank you for that information any questions from the board
i want to again emphasize your comment of a clean audit with the highest uh approval recommendations that your firm can give and again in order of transparency in hopes of that knowing we've got a large audience behind you as well as anyone who may be watching uh on the internet or otherwise that uh this is the public's money and funding we're speaking about and so I think that reflects well and hopefully gives some folks confidence in where their taxpayers money is going so thank you okay we will need a motion to approve that audit so
moved second any further discussion all in favor of approving i any opposed all right very good now the next item is we are up for public comments at this part or this point do we have any uh one wishing to make any comments and if so the forms to do so are down on the table in front by the landmark hand sanitizer and if not
uh then we will move to a special presentation by the Pensacola Messaul and thank you all for coming it's tilty let me just make this be big for us um hi i'm Megan Pratt i'm the executive director at the Meshaw uh and I'm we're pleased to be here today to share with you about our Science Explorers afterchool program uh just I always like to remind us what our mission is as an organization is to inspire curiosity experimentation and creative
problem solving through the exploration of math engineering science and stuff first I point out it doesn't have technology in it we're not STEM as you can tell by the previous slide where my document didn't appear as it used to i never trust technology um the other thing is to point out that um we do a lot of math engineering and science in our programs but we also include lots of other stuff and as you hear this presentation you'll hear about many of the other elements that we include whether it's social emotional learning or language arts or just using tools and scissors
um so I'm joined here today by Sarah Beth uh Gordon who is our education director and Ariel Egan who is the boots on the ground and is doing all of our programs so she is going to share with you what Sarah's going to start with what we do all right i first want to let you know uh I'm not going to read all the slides for you because I know that you can do this um we go to multiple different places some community centers city community centers one run by the Y and then we do two afterchool programs at uh home and global
learning academy um we spend about one to one and a half hours with these students once a week our goals of this program are to provide fun experiences uh hands-on with math engineering and science also to increase the participants joy of science as well during this age range of third through fifth grade if you lose their interest in math science and engineering you may have lost them for life so this is a very important time that we know from research for uh science and engineering education i will just generally be using the word science to encompass
both that math and engineering otherwise it's going to be too long and I don't want to waste your time um we also want to increase their use and their recognition of using those math skills as well also to learn science content um and to share these activities with their family members and their friends now I'm the education director so I'm going to talk about our unit themes but I will let Ariel do most of the talking um the first year of the contract we went with what we call boots on the ground ready to go things that Ariel could easily take into these centers that included water light space and building and you see some
um indicative pictures of here of all the hands-on activities that we have done then we pivoted because we learned so much more about these participants in our C's program and we um listened to them and what they told us they wanted to do more of was robotics they wanted to do some spooky science they wanted to make sound see sound measure sound and also we decided to throw in some human biology which incorporates not just hygiene but also learning about DNA blood types all of those types of things as well um alien biology which is studying extreophiles
on Earth to understand what life might be out there that is not on our planet and also cardboard engineering with they which they just finished and like I said I'm going to let Ariel tell you um more about it while I wish I had more time to tell you all of the successes that the kids in our program have accomplished these are just a few of the highlights so what I've seen is an increase in their comfort level with their ability to be creative with the science and engineering technologies and not technologies activities that we bring them um I've seen them
become more comfortable using tools like scales and reading scales as well as using tablets to accomplish calculations um I have seen their enthusiasm for applied math increase so we give them real life situations where someone like an astrophysicist might use a formula to solve a problem and much like the formula that's on the slide they use that to calculate their weight on other worlds they have also successfully completed mass conversions using simple stoometry
um I have also seen an increase in their confidence in their general capabilities so while I once heard phrases like "I can't do that i don't want to do that i'm not good at that you do it for me." I now hear things like "Oh I want to try that when can we start let me do it i want to do it." And that enthusiasm is abundant um I have seen them work together to deal with their frustrations and failure and the activities that we bring with science and engineering there's a lot of room for failure there's a lot of room for them to deal with frustration and work together
to create mummies uh to establish the best way to wrap themselves with toilet paper so that it doesn't break all the time um I've thrown puzzles at them and these are not typical puzzles these are put the dinosaur bones together without instruction and they fully embraced the unknown of paleontology here i've also noticed an increase in their level of engagement with their friend f friends and family pardon me um where they're sharing the activities that they
do constantly we've had several participants ask to have their parents come back and see what they've been doing they've asked to stay till the end of the time and for the last three weeks at Vicky up on the screen you see Noel and her mom her mom has stayed for the duration of our program so that Noel can complete her engineering projects she thanked us personally for inspiring Noel and they now do activities at home together regularly um I've also had comments from parents thanking us for bringing science-based activities to the afterare centers
um a few of our participants have asked their guardians to modify the pickup time so that they're able to stay for the duration of our program and I'm going to pass it back to Sarah Beth so what Ariel's been showing you is qualitative data that what we notice what we see and Ariel from the beginning has kept a really great diary because we know in informal math engineering and science education it's very difficult to measure our impact it is small compared to the amount of time they spend in school or with their families however we
have done our best to measure our own goals with numbers and these are done through exit tickets that we give to the kids at the end of each unit so what you're seeing up here is how do the students enjoy the activities we give them three choices were they really fun were they fun or not fun um I like always like to note that spooky science which is the one that they asked us to do um they all found it fun and so that shows that we were listening to them and responding and doing that studentled learning um and then we also asked them how do you feel generally about
the subject of science and I really am very proud of the educators that have gone into these places because if you look at how many of them loved sound and robotics and when you see videos from them doing sound they did love the sound but the more challenging things of the human biology the the alien biology they loved that challenge and I find that really really excellent that these kids are asking for more and more and more and then how did we do with sharing with family now this
is an example we've been asking this since the beginning so it used to be right around 50% of them and I think it's more that we're asking have you shared this with their family that they are then sharing with their family so this is a case of in science when you measure something you end up changing it and which is really great because they really are and Ariel talked about those well she said one example but there are many we also noticed when we first asked during the light unit again that was the first contract year that these students weren't recognizing that they
were using math skills every time that we came so we began to push um the the use of those math skills and recognizing that this is a math skill that you're using and this is just showing two of the units the difference between light and sound and it's really important if you've ever um looked at an oscilloscope or measured sound you are looking for patterns you are measuring you are estimating and they the these kids recognize that which I think is a really big use again of that applied mathematics that we have seen now it wouldn't be fair to talk about all of our fancy
things because as scientists we like to know how to improve and we know there are challenges but you ready okay so we have had a couple of main issues that are not unique to just us they are nationwide issues the first of those is behavior so we've had several behavior issues that make it difficult for us to carry out our programming but in order to address that we have implemented assets of social emotional learning into each of our units um attendance is another really
big issue that we have we have zero control over who can come which day um occasionally there are children who are picked up before our program even begins or right at the beginning of the program so they're unable to participate um we have kids who have moved or switched schools or centers so they no longer attend our program and then of course the regular unexplained absences where occasionally participants will be gone for weeks and then reappear and then be gone for weeks and then reappear um the second of those I mean attendance is probably one of our bigger issues
but the data collection has also been an issue for us because we are not in direct contact with their families like a lot of the centers are um we've had a a hard time getting that data um the other thing that we've noticed with attendance is that the schools that we go to those children are choosing to be there they're choosing to stay after school they're getting their permission slip signed that they need to need to to be able to stay and be picked up later whereas the community centers they didn't necessarily sign up to go to that center you know they're
going where their parents need them to be so we're just we're not in control of a lot of that um that that's the end we open it up to questions um again I'm Sarah Beth Gordon um Megan Pratt and Ariel Egan if you have any questions for us about some of the pictures or some of the things we've talked about we're welcome to uh you're welcome to ask us thank you for the presentation um I have a question for clarification edification on my part the uh center that you all have down on I think it's right right street uh what role
does that how does that fit in with things and perhaps uh children that don't go to one of the schools or what again if you could just speak about that for a second Megan so our facility downtown is not big enough to have any sort of afterchool programming um you know and and transportation would be a challenge as well so our our effort in designing this program was let's go to community centers that already are serving students but not providing the kind of
science programming that we can provide um and then we've expanded to go over to the schools as well and they just stay after school and that solves a lot of the transportation problems that a lot of people have now that said I mean our facility provides all the storage for stuff um planning space for us and um I I will say Ariel has said so many nice things about the the kids at these schools that her mom is covering a field trip for the the kids at home to come and
have a field trip during the school day because you know they and we do provide as an incentive for the kids to keep coming we will provide them a pass for them themselves and their family to come to the messaul because it is a very different experience when you have open-ended exploration thank you further questions or comments from anyone just one quick question um with the
centers do you know how many schools possibly um different schools come to the centers i know you've listed a couple of schools that you go to after school but at the center is is any data data that you have so I think for Woodland and Ariel can correct me um plenty of students from OJ Sims um there are students that come from home obviously that also go to I think a victory center as well so we see um and I mean AK Sudter AK Sudutor there's at
least a few kids at Cobb that also go to global and maybe there's one or two kids from NB Cook Fricker Center Global Fricker Center is mostly Global Learning Academy any further questions or comments or anything i don't have a question i just I did have the opportunity to visit Pensacola Mess Hall when Holm Elementary was there on a field trip quite the experience for me as well um especially with Jen Ruffin there it was it was it was a lot of fun
and educational um I believe on April the 14th at Global Elementary School there will be at 4:00 a global Earth Day that Pensacola Messaul and many of our other partners here in our community will be participating in so I just want to say thank you for being a partner here with the children trust and also with the school district thank you very much and I would just want to add one other comment well actually I'm going to add two i did I one of the things that we mentioned
was the social emotional learning and so when when we talked about it we she mentioned the spooky science that you know whatever but yet really the focus of it was talking to these kids about fear and how one deals with fear and what are the appropriate reactions and so um and a lot of that is inspired from my previous life when I was on city council I had the opportunity to go to a national league of cities meeting and they shared this little framework that was designed by the Boston afterchool program which really talks about
their afterchool programs goals for students and and we use this when we think about our programs in general in terms of what are we really trying to teach these kids because we have great faith in the actual teachers that are in the schools that if they can get those kids attention they can teach them the core stuff but getting all of these other key skills is really important and we have that opportunity in our programming to share that with them one other thing that
uh Ariel mentioned data collection has been a problem the three of us have science backgrounds and as part of that we had NIH ethics training because of um human subjects and we were really um drilled on the importance of respecting power imbalance and things like that now you when you think human subjects you think of maybe the Tuskegee syphilis study which was an abomination but it also applies to the programs we do we have had to go through an institutional review board
process for our data collection in the past and and that's one thing that that has triggered with us a question as we collect data these students ask us why do you need my student ID number and my birthday these guys can tell you what that opens up data wise for us to have access to and all we say to them is ect tells us we have to and so just a a side note an institutional review board process might be beneficial as you look at the data collection and what what your goals are
and what kind of questions you want to be asking these students because we are we do have a power imbalance here we're like well you can't come to our free program unless you divulge stuff that you might not be comfortable divulging and and it just would help us feel comfortable asking that so just planting that seed for future reference but thank you for your time thank you thank thank you for your service just a quick question yeah uh those kids who I necessarily say
free but those who have been scholarship through this program right they receive the same services that a kid that would be paying full price for registration or whatever right right so yeah we don't offer afterchool programming in general but the the activities that we're doing are very similar to what they would do in our camps or other things I mean and we actually have because we see them all the time we have really pushed like the the cardboard thing ariel's like "We we saw something." And Ariel's like "Yes that's what we're going to do." And so they've been using this
little jigsaw kind of thing to cut the cardboard and so we've actually gotten to do things with them that we would never have been able to do with the general visitors to the mess yeah no thanks you do a great job and we partner on a ton of things so what's the path for a kid that's in a a Fricker Center or a Woodland Heights community a path to come to your right street facility you know if they want to go advance and they want to start in a community center but they wanted a pathway to being come down on Saturdays when when I've seen you in your shop so in
general anyone can come to the Massall during our regular hours and we do charge an admission fee however we know that that is an obstacle and so um rather than try and figure out means testing on people in general we offer a free pass at the public library so anyone who has a library card in the Scampi County Library can check out this pass for six people in the family to come for free so that does provide that um we get the schools yes and and that's something we haven't figured out
for some reason it hasn't worked there's actually a similar thing at every public elementary school there's a book in their school library that we it sort of tells you what it's like to visit the messaul because we also know that money isn't the problem for many people they have money to go to a movie they should have money to go to the the messaul right but a lot of people we get calls all the time so how do we come what do we have to do do we register and and this is for everybody
people don't know what it's like and so we wrote a little book that tells you what it's like to visit and that book if you bring it free admission for your family so what percentage of kids who you think that originate in the community center end up making visits or participating kind of what I call the laboratory on Right you know I I will say I I saw Kristen Mallister here today and she was on our board originally and I haven't seen her since then and she's like "Oh my kid loves the Messo." And I'm like "I've never seen you there." Um because I'm not the one there um so that's one
of our challenges we don't know because the people running the museum aren't people who'd recognize but Ariel can point out a couple things um so I can say that before spring break we handed out our first round of free passes to the students who had come 15 or more times to one of our programs at the centers and we had one of them come during spring break so while there are a few of them um they they do come they have been there so I mean what percentage do you think 5% 10% 2% i would say
maybe maybe 2% it's it's very low yes and so Megan I I'd be real supportive because it's an excellent program and my my children and nieces and nephews were there but and thank God we're able to afford it but originating in the community center through this program it's awesome but it's even more of an awesome experience for the kids to actually go to that laboratory and so I mean I would be very supportive of figuring out the pathway of how we get you know more than 2% of the kids to get to their downtown because kids at Fricker Cobb Woodland Heights amazingly Megan you and I do
the SOBO bowl uh many of them the first experience of ever getting downtown is coming to a sobo they don't get to experience their downtown uh or the resources that are available to them downtown we just it's absent to them and so any way we could help get them down there would be awesome well and we we do you know have field trips come but I will say most of the schools that are actually closer to us don't pull it off it's you know all of the barriers of permission slips and things like that but because of that we have built our outreach program to go to all of these schools so this
year we're it's sort of insane i can't keep track but I know that Sarah Beth was over at Global for this one program where it was actually doing water and some of the kids who had done the water with us at the afterchool program were like I am the superhero i know this stuff so we do make a strong effort through our outreach to get to these kids at their schools at the after school with the hope that you know it's familiar to them and they might say hey parents there's a place um so you
know we don't really know I mean we do get data about our visitors it was an IRB approved survey um but um so we know that our visitors in general are wealthier and whiter than our population But yeah we do get a mix of people coming so well I wish it would have been a scholarship when my kids were going through i probably would have applied for it too but but absolutely community center is important and I go to community center every single day of my life uh but to get kids out of that environment out of that community center particularly those who want to excel and those who
show a keen interest in STEM or science uh you know to get them for that experience it's like going to the HMC obviously for me it's a great experience i can sit in a science class all day at PSC but if I go to HMC it's a different level so any way in which we can introduce these kids to a a higher elevation of learning to me is is worthwhile i mean obviously I know the masses of kids wouldn't go or but I think that we could really work with you to make sure that we're getting those kids out of that community it's important for a kid out of Addis Court out of
Morris Court to get out of their environment not just going to Fricker Center not just going to Woodland Heights but going experiencing meeting different people and so to me that's a critical part of the learning rather than just the STEM the math the science i mean the social interaction of meeting new people in new environments to me it's critical to development well and I will I'm going to plant a seed because you hang out with a lot of different people that I don't hang out with just because you hang out with a lot of people and I'm I'm Everybody everybody line them all up
but one of the things that we have had as an idea and it just you know we sort of ask and then we don't you know is we do a program every year with Big Brothers Big Sisters where we have match day and they come highly discounted admission it's you know a lot less than usual but we're open to having you know a particular group come where you know if you know and and I hear from other museums that they'll do it like maybe if it's a church and the pastor is going to be there so
he'll protect you from those means hall workers i you know but your community is there and and you have sort of an open mourning at the messaul that is something that we are open to exploring if there are groups that that might be a good partner for something like that where it could be you know just a it can't be I mean Greater Little Rock Church we can't get all of them in our building so you know so it can't be family day for everyone but it could be some small group if
it's if it's the all the kids who come for Soul Bowl from the west side and east side you know wouldn't let them mix they'd have to have separate days but no but no listen i mean obviously I just was just a question because I know you're a great work i mean we fund millions of dollars to after school programs help me grow programs uh and many other services that you're providing are not being provided in these other after school programs there's a collaboration to me in and efficiency of tax dollars and stewardship to me I've said it you know independently i'm not
seeing for any of the other people that sit on this dies the collaboration I mean it's great that the kid's playing basketball why you need to win science it's good that the kid is getting food but where where's the learning and we're funding those and I think that a collaboration with you would be important and I mean we don't have to reinvent the wheel we're already funding them to go to other after school programs it would just be an opportunity for them on a Saturday morning uh to participate in what you're doing and as you said we've already collected all this data we know where the kids are we've got we got the measurements and so we can find the aptitude of those who would most benefit from participating in a high level STEM program yeah well thank
you all for your time thank you appreciate it appreciate all the work that you all are doing uh our next order of business under operations i think uh Miss Ellis has some additional information for us regarding the ever elusive September meeting date so we were able to secure September 10th at 5:01 p.m for our preliminary trim hearing followed by our board meeting and
I put a sheet of paper up there for everyone to take back to your office and update your calendars right thank you and that the location of that will be here in the boardroom all right thank you uh next item is the grant committee uh has met to consider the car's grant request and has had a considerable amount of discussion on those both ranking them want to first thank all
the volunteer members that uh volunteered to assist us with that uh analysis and review of those various applicants and appreciate the work that was done it was considerable and uh Lindsay now will speak to this with the recommendation from that committee thank you Dr northa um so the program committee met we actually went through uh all the scoring um had the ability to um look at some other uncaptured dollars that we had not spent and didn't know about until
um OST contracts ended in February and so Tammy was able to um pull that together and let us know that we had a bigger pot than just the $300,000 um and so we went through and looked at um the top scores from 80 and up um felt like we could afford that which would actually double the pot to 611504 uh to put into these one-time grants and um you'll see the recommended list here of particular programming that was scored 80 and above and recommended for funding
thank you i believe there were also a couple of programs that you all were able to work with that re We did have modified yes we did have two that are current contractors that their application actually was um adjacent to what they're already providing and they have been able to go back and readjust their budgets so that they could incorporate that project into their current contract so those two were removed from the list of awardees here um and that's Twin Oaks and the YMCA so um and so the rest that allowed us to bring on two additional
um within that 600,000 it it gave us some more wiggle room there all right because it wasn't just about the scoring so I want to be clear we we had a finite amount of money um that we could use for this so it wasn't a you know 80 and above is going to get it or anything like that it was more what what can we afford um because there were a lot of really great projects even if they didn't score into that range all right so we need a motion to Mr chairman mr chairman yes are you you seeking a
motion or is there any discussion before that yes all right thank you um so a quick Well thank you program committee i mean I think we expanded it i mean we only had four you know and I had to leave out of the meeting earlier so thank you for the work uh you and Stephanie and Dave I mean Coach Williams and I had to leave my my only question is there there organizations that were not funded are we working with them on how they can improve their scores with these grassroot organizations because I mean we're funding 14 and that sounds great and I'm glad we expanded it but we had 40 to apply and I know many of them are doing good work so are we working with them to make sure that
they can how are we working what's the followup in working with them so they'll be prepared for next time around well we've had several that have reached out on their own um to just say hey can you I've never done this before this was my first swipe at it um can we meet and so we have several meetings already on our calendar to sit down one-on-one with these folks and just go through it like here's a rubric here's this but um and this is how you could have improved this score just from my perception um and Deborah's when we're looking at this with them and um so we've got those upcoming um the other thing is is that I think a lot of the conversation um and
I've had this individually and we talked a little bit about this at program committee as well is we do have a lot of nonprofits that are applying um and some of the ones we didn't even know that were working and if you actually look at the clustering and you brought up collaboration they need to be collaborating they are all like blocks from each other and not working together um so there's opportunities there as well and Liz I'd agree with you we we can't just put that the honest on those who applied that didn't get applied we I I certainly agree with you 210% and that pressure should be put on people that were funding hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than the people
that we did not fund so I agree with you they should be working there's some of that going on but there's also the business side of this work that is being reflected in these applications and so because you come in with your heart I mean that's that's what people step in with but there's a business side to it we have institutions here that can do that way better than I can um and more efficiently and I think that that's something that the board needs to consider investing in is some sort of training um that would be ongoing and has that mentorship component and right you know and Lindsay I think we're on the same page yeah i mean just because you can cook don't mean
you own a restaurant i mean you know that's just because you have a good heart of service doesn't mean you ought to be running programmatic things but I think that in helping to enhance the deliverables to the children who are the end users we can at least work as you said and recommend to those who have the efficiencies i mean the mom and pop can't compare to Walmart they'll never write a proposal to do the investment like them the the people that don't have 11 million budget have you know don't have this experienced season board will never be able to compete unless we give them a helping hand and so to me there are in my opinion there are still sections angels of
this community of of children that still need our help that many times it takes that grassroot small organization to go into those places uh that these larger organizations are not going into because they're in those neighborhoods and so to my point was just simply that hopefully these organizations that are being funded that are doing good that we can pair them and partner them and help them you know with that i think that it's incumbent upon us to do it just because they may never be funded by ect but they can be funded by others within this community as well but they are a fabric of our
community they're serving already as you said and I think we have funds that are available to help bring them along so that they have a substantial organization and they understand what they're doing because the reality is you can hire somebody to write you a great grant for us but if you can't pull it off on the back end then they're going to be in the news and they're going to be persecuted for not being able to pull off a government grant and that is the last thing we want for people that are actually out here trying to bring our kids up so we can talk more about this at a program
committee or or whatever but I think but I think we need to really consider working either with PSC or United Way or with someone to to put on the boot camp that they have that these people would take advantage and I will tell you we have talked to several that did not score in and have said "Please I will do it if you can help me." But they can't afford it i mean it's going to be too expensive for nonprofits no no great job point yeah absolutely and I know that I and I know some other members met too and pastor Mason over at Zion Hope i I know you guys are not score
but certainly hopefully um staff can get with the work that you're doing over at Zion Hope to be of assistance to you m that's all I have mr chair Mr chair just one question for Linds the uncaptured dollars there's no way of predicting that this will be off for next year the CARES Act no I mean I wish there is like Tammy keeps up on that like she's got a spreadsheet she updates monthly so we look at it but a lot of it too is variability around summer so you might see
like oh they're you know they're lapsing all these dollars and then summer boom it's all gone so we really have to do it at the end of contract so the next one we'll see is mental health will be our next ones we also have um navigator coming up we also have um help me grow coming up and so there will be some uncaptured dollars like or unspent dollars there likely so we've got the roadmap for it um and I think that they'll be easier to to put out again um and certainly would love to they they don't do good for our kids sitting in the bank so um if we can utilize those uncaptured dollars
to do things like this I think these are really great ways to um to get started or enhance what you're already doing yeah well well I appreciate the the funds being extended to 600,000 also i really appreciate that and it didn't matter where you cut it off at there going to be someone that's going to be disappointed we understand that but we like Commissioner May we want to do as much as we can to help as many as we can so I appreciate the Children Trust for doing that thank you okay request a motion to approve i have I have one more correction actually we haven't even
um the resolution that you have in your packet um we have three updates to legal names um you know we have a lot of like doing business as so um like Ready Kids is uh oh Lord let me put on my glasses every child of Reader is Gambia they're doing business as Ready Kids um and then uh B Ready Alliance for emergencies has a different DBA and then knowledge ministries for golden elite track so we will need to update those for the formal resolution for signature but I would ask that you recommend these to go forward with those three changes
um to be updated and signed after this okay we have a motion to approve so moved second commissioner May has seconded all in favor or before that discussion further discussion during discussion um I want to say thank you to all the people that applied um we had some really great grants and if you didn't apply I mean if you didn't make it um you still had wonderful ideas and I know that you really do care about our community and so I'm
going to ask Lindsay I know that so we're charged to provide high quality education that's what the trust is charged to do so we have to make sure that we use the taxpayer dollars correctly to provide this high quality education programs for our stu for for our students and for our kids but for those but maybe Lindsay can we ask you to research how much it would cost for the trust to help provide some of those nonprofits i know you've already talked to Andrea at PSC to provide that boot camp um and maybe you could research it and report back to us at the program committee
how much that would cost so we could help those people who didn't make it and I will say I was on the committee that helped scored them we all had very similar scores for everybody so it wasn't you know and so I think that those that didn't score 80 and above maybe could benefit from that boot camp and learn so but thank you for applying any further comments or discussion i I just had a um clarification question um for a children's home society with the 48220 um at the last board
meeting we I know I had questions about that one and I also wanted to know if there was information about how much that program cost i know they requested this money because they had title one funding cut and I wanted to know if we knew how much was cut from their title one funding and how much this program cost them last year and is this what what is the difference between this program and the current program i would need to defer to um to Leah and Emily if you want to come up so did
this come out of the extra money or did you just reassign some of the No this would be additional it's additional because I knew when I left the meeting y'all were talking about there were two groups that had extra money that that was Twin Oaks and YMCA so we pulled those out this was not um incorporated into the original Pine Forest application that's going to expire this year that was for the wellness coordinator for Community Health Northwest Florida's clinic so but I'll I'll let these two answer about the title one yeah thank you for the question um so in the community partnership school model expanded learning is an arm of the model itself and so when
we really looked at high needs one of the high needs was making sure that our kids graduate um and so as far as the funding from title one you know when you're an F or a D when you when you go up to a C or a B you get less money so I have Miss King here who is an AP and maybe she can speak to that a little bit more as far as how they're distributing that funding so Title One funding has not paid for our EBB program we call it Eagles Beyond the Bell um we've used our EA
funding for that which both were cut this year um title one funding most of that is going to go towards extra bodies at our school to pay for like an RTI coordinator our instructional coach um we actually are paying for a science teacher out of that to make sure that studenttoteer ratio isn't you know that is conducive to learning for our students so the EBB program has always been funded out of a grant until last year because like she said we did earn our C we worked hard for that C but you also lose that money um that you've gotten funded and we had used grant funding for
five years to fund this afterchool program which really benefits our students who struggle you know learning cannot be done on a timeline at all times and some of our students just need a little more time to overcome some of the obstacles and that's what we're doing in this afterchool program so it's not that they haven't gotten it they just haven't gotten it yet and the afterchool program also provides a a warm dinner for them and transportation which I think we've heard already today that the transportation is a very big issue yes our district provides night school
but it can't provide the transportation portion of it where this grant has been able to or last year our EA funding pays for the buses to take our students home so we have a much better turnout at our afterchool program than we do at night school for the the food and for the transportation to get them home afterwards so how much was that grant last what we've asked last year was about $38,000 but because it was a little smaller than what we've been able to do in the past I did have to limit the numbers to just juniors and seniors in need so again that that studenttoteer ratio wasn't
overwhelming um like for example first semester I could have used four English teachers and I had two so we really had to prioritize juniors and seniors due to the amount of time that they have to you know recover these courses for graduation purposes and this since this is a one-year grant what do you have a plan in place to offer this program since this is not an extended i'll attend Lindsay's grant writing and programs and hopefully continue to be able to apply for some grants um you know we we know that it's made a difference um the first year I was looking
some things up we had about 118 kids who completed courses last year was almost 300 students who've completed courses it is making a difference it's also building that confidence in our students um I wish I had data to show you how we are doing in all of our courses with our PM1 PM2 the EOCC's um you know Pine Forest is really making a turn and um that I do know that this program's contributed to that because it's building those confidence of those students who like they just
because you didn't do well the first time doesn't mean you're not getting a second opportunity so do you have a plan in place to fund the program after this year since this is a one as of today i can speak to that a little bit too though so because CHS um our expanded learning coordinator is on our team at CHS although they're embedded into the school um we meet on a monthly basis to talk about longevity sustainability and so yes we already have some partners like Florida Blue Pair that we're talking to they've funded before not this program specifically but as our needs change
um this will rise to the top so those are those are two there and again we meet monthly to really talk about what opportunities are out there and so we continue to do that additionally at Children's Home Society we have a yearly fundraiser um and those go those funds go directly to our top needs so with the additional 12,000 what like what is the difference between the $38,000 program and the $50,000 program more teachers do you know how many more teachers how many more teachers
i think I asked for four English teachers um two additional English teachers and two additional um I think it was math because I have the math teachers teaching multiple subjects which is it's difficult to teach multiple subjects for two hours if I could split that up yeah I have three ELA teachers two science teachers right now i have one social studies teachers and I've asked for two and I've asked for three math teachers including an Esau teachers assistant we are an Esau school and um you know their data is up like 20% just in one area alone because we pushed in those ESOL TAs
more so we're just and then um and then another TA to help our other students and I will say we we added compared to we looked at their budget we did bump the uh the hourly rate for the teachers that will be working because that was important so the EEB grant is no longer you no longer get that grant no ma'am we've we've used our own funding this year to pay for it this this personal school year like right now so So the EEB grant paid for it this year or the EA our money from the
district EA money we use that that's kind of like our discretionary funds that's what we used so you didn't get that so you were short we did get it this year but if we could get this grant and it was cut this year but we would like to use this grant to pay that so we So how how much was cut i guess what I'm what I'm asking is because the the trust can't um supplement funding so if were you cut $38,000 or did you reallocate the money and you're asking us for the money we reallocated those EA funds for professional development for teachers because like part of the trust is we
can't supplement funding so like and I'm trying to like just clarify that's like what the difference is what is the difference in supplanting and supplementing is there a difference excuse me supplanting would be um if you already have a grant that is written for let's say homeless youth and then you came to us and said we'd like you to fund the exact same thing that would be supplanting supplementing would be um we have this program but we need
to add this additional part to it so or it's not funded and we would like to go in and fund it so um my I think you I think it depends on which particular program because my understanding was I thought that the money was lost but if you had the money and you just decided to spend it somewhere else then that's not what my understanding was with each year you receive this discretionary funding and you have to decide how you're going to spend it correct okay and sometimes you spend it on kind of fun with the like most of the other programs aren't in the school and so there there
are there are differences um the EA money that Miss King is talking about is different than just straight up title one money is what used to be called SAI money in education we use all kind of acron acronyms just simply to confuse people um the SAI money is now called EA and
one of the deficiencies with the way allocations work for schools that have struggled is once you get over your struggles the money goes away i would not consider that and you know I need to be careful because I I do wear two hats um I would not consider this supplanting here is an example of supplanting a school has 350 students and they earn 18 teachers title One a federal funded
program says you know what we're going to provide additional resources at X elementary school those additional resources are going to be two additional teachers that's fine now if they earned 18 teachers and the school district said "You know what we're going to go ahead and put 20 out there." Title One would not be able to fund another teacher until the 20 were filled those two
additional teachers of the school district field would need to be in core subject areas and then on top of it the title one teachers would need to be resource teachers something providing additional resources to the students at that school um if we really want to try to advocate what we need to be advocating for is at the state and federal level when they are going to provide you what I call free money and remember nothing is free there really should be a mechanism to provide for years
out after you get out of a struggling situation but that does not occur it's kind of like getting well and they cut off the medicine and you're really not all the way healed um and coach that's I mean I guess in line with what Miss Wood is saying that's what bothers me i mean obviously title one money is more than children trust money i mean that comes in here and at least I'm aware to to my knowledge i mean title one money is is to supplement uh failing school for low-income kids
for educational learning whatever that learning may be in the classroom after school title One well Centure 21 and from my understanding of Title One my issue even with any of the programs that we're providing and Superintendent Lynon you could help because I see where Tori's going is sustainability uh because if it's critical and it's important today I mean as you said I'm going to put a kid on juvenile diabetes medicine and then I'm going to pull a plug and I'm not going to give them their medication anymore so learning is just as important as your physical health so if this is critical how do we we sustain it i mean what's our forecast of how we
are going to sustain it and and that's critical because I think that all programs that we fund uh and us as a board and and I've said this should be figuring out how do we empower people to sustain and and have sustainability which I'm children home society probably could do it more than many of these other independent but I think that that's critical for the students because if I got a kid in the 10th grade in my after school program and then there's a gap of funding like it was what happens in this 11th grade then we get the funding back in the 12th grade well now here we go we're behind the learning curve so Like I told you I'm not putting words in your
mouth but I kind of feel where you're going how how do how do we sustain that and knowing I mean candidly coach we should all you know be at the edge of our seats about title one funding and and federal funding and uh what's going to happen with DOE here in the near future i mean so if they cut funding what do you do i mean I guess that would be my question so from my perspective part of the community partnership school model you know the the base funding comes from the legislature but um they say "Hey good luck with that." Yeah right right so far we're okay but I don't know we'll see
um but part of the model is the community also comes to the table and from a sustainability standpoint community partnership schools is a 25-year commitment because it was very important for us to not come in and not have the funding and leave so that's part of our job at CHS and the other core partners is to ensure that we have sustainability and so that's why we're coming to you today for this specifically because part of the core indicators was high school graduation and
this is a huge need that we have at our community partnership school at Pine Forest and and and let me just make this clear i don't think that the program is bad i don't think that the program isn't needed but the pressure from the board is to make sure that we do what's best for the money and the pressure for the board is in six or five years that this is reapproved and this being my third time coming and learning from the past experience with grants being approved what always looks right
is not always what people see and we had to tell a lot of people no and CHS has applied for a lot of grants and I I think y'all do an amazing job i work with you guys a lot and I know the work that you do and I know hands down the work that you do and so we just have to be sure that we are um letting our taxpayers know how this money is being funded and we also had to tell a lot of people know and regardless of why they were told no they were told no and so to be able to justify
how much one pro one organization is getting over another regardless of how great the work is because I know like I said firsthand I see the kids i talk to the kids i'm in the community a lot i know how great of a job you guys do i know high school kids are the hardest kids to get i have a middle schooler and it's hard to get stuff done i can tell you what Trey needed to graduate or go from eighth grade to 9th grade i can't even help him with his geometry work like me either girl we use Snapchat math you know so like I I know the ins and outs of that but I I take
a he takes a picture and it tells him so I and I graduated i got two degrees but I just want to make sure that our community understands you know the difference between this and that and again working closely with the school why where where did that money come from before what is your plan you know for for next year to make sure that that it's not dependent on us to keep funding you know certain programs if we don't have that money and also to allow other people to learn how to work with the trust cuz and this was not in writing but when we were giving out these grants one of
the biggest my one of the biggest expectations for me was to help other organizations learn to work with the trust and you know when we have large organizations getting millions of dollars if we look at how much we've given out in the last four years and if they are three they have gotten a lot of money regardless of the great work you do and the the optics for us is not good and I've had to um the first two years having to go back and waste I feel like waste our volunteers time to re look at grants again because everybody doesn't understand why things were done the way
they were done was not fair to them and also um when people come out and vote they don't see all the great work you do if somebody came to Lindsay and asked for the funding and it says and I'm you know three organizations got 90% of the money but those three organizations aren't the people that are voting so if you guys have 200 people and two million are voting they look they're looking at the optics and they're looking at the churches and the nonprofits and the small organizations well they applied 10 times and didn't get anything and this isn't your fault but when we initially
when we initially started the grant um the past executive director came to us and asked for a program to help nonprofits and that's neither here or there whether we approved that or not but we're in a place now where that's still coming back and we're in the fourth and fifth grant and um out of all the times Children's Home Society has been approved for everyone that they've received so the options for us just don't look good so I just want I understand I want to make that clear like and I know that you know our services and a lot of you do i mean we have 14 programs and if we have a
need for our kids and you have core indicators here and we fall in the gap we're going to ask you know because our kids need it um that's my job oh I mean I don't I don't disagree i'm just saying the optics from the from the they they like when you vote on it if everyone isn't given all that information i know the information and my my reason for asking is so that everybody is educated on the information because when the story goes out the story doesn't say well children home society helps 2,000 people the story comes out that children's home society has gotten 45 every
five times the one every time they approve it they get it that's the optics that's what people look at when they vote and that's what people look at when they crucify us for those funding and that's what people look at that don't get the money so that this is why I'm asking the questions that I'm asking that cuz I don't know what EA is i don't know what SSI is i don't I at our board meeting I thought they said Title One and so I asked well how much was Title One cut if it was cut 20,000 and you asking for 50 what's the difference between a 50,000 program $50,000 program and
$38,000 program yeah so you know I don't know that question that's why I'm asking that question now i understand i love an opportunity to interject um good morning board deborah Ray speaking director of programs and performance um just want to commend um the two board members that we had as reviewers of the process to look at almost almost 50 grants in a week's process i know was um an extensive task the questions that came up in the actual program committee or before um in
the review session we had a number of community grants i mean some personally I wanted to bring my checkbook out because they were so compelling the passion is definitely here in the community and people are willing um and have the capacity to do the work some are smaller than others and that's what we were able to see through this process the CARES grant was established because the number of community members that stood here um talking about community violence speaking to us about building their current programs up and so the fact that we were able to pull some money from existing grants
and the relinquished dollars was um was amazing to be able to do and to refuel the community um from their initial ask we have had a lot of opportunities to meet with them even the ones who weren't funded and they've had questions very specific questions on how they can grow their programs so I think you know we're compelled to answer that calling I know that Lindsay did speak to to that but also there were a lot of opportunities within this grant writing process that we offered so you will see that those may who may have scored higher you know they came to the
Q&A they spent two weeks in asking questions that we publicized to make sure that they can um complete the application and fulfill that need this is going to be a competitive process and moving forward our next OST is going to be highly competitive we have gone to different um conferences we've gone to a state one and a national conference and so you know we work with our current providers to be sustainable and to also be competitive so we've had um only what four or five to get um reawwarded as far as that but they're competitive and we have the parade
of providers that we're working to enhance our current so that we are um continuing to invest in our providers because our product is going to be the children and families and you know for us to continue to focus on that school finance is is a beast you know Mr leonard touched upon it um when we s were in um Nashville what we saw their out of school time programs are working in partnership with the school district and also families being that focal point and the surrounding being OST
programs and also the school district working in a collaborative partnership so I don't foresee that that's going to change if we're able to provide that assistance with that gap funding you know we can talk about that as just at the board like where is our new direction you know we're in a a national crisis where public um schools are being attacked um you know where are we going to be as a board to um sustain the efforts that have gone that's made schools and districts and families successful you know where are we going to have that in partnership and moving forward i think
that it's it's um an awesome question to ask a school leader like what are they doing to sustain but also as a community we're having to ask ourselves what are we going to do to sustain our community so that we can continue to thrive so I appreciate your input today thank you Mr chairman yes um with all due respect there's been a motion in a second and by parliamentary procedures I think conversation has to be restricted to the item uh that's being voted on um and so
um Tori I I concur with a lot of what you're saying perception is reality and so I will address the issue and very briefly that I think we should be telling all in this motion everyone that's getting our money this is a one-time grant what is a sustainability uh it's unfair to the end user of the children for us to give them a one-time grant and then next year that this program doesn't exist it doesn't matter to me whether it's Children Home Society or whether it's Dixon School of Arts and so there should be a sustainability plan you know that's added to the contract of how are
you going to do this i mean because there's a lot at risk with I mean with the federal audits do those coming down title one being cut how do these programs sustain and even if Children Trust which is a great possibility if Children Trust was not renewed how do these programs uh sustain themselves and so there should be a continuation of programs and that should be there i mean we're not this is not a onetime injection for us to give somebody a salary or increase somebody's salary it's a onetime injection to help children and how are we going to do that because to me the
stewardship on this motion on this vote for these programs that we're funding that we fund these 14 kids from uh Children Home Society down to CMBB and then next year the program goes away then what good have we done i mean we shouldn't even give it out if we can't do that and so I would just there's a motion that Mrs white has made i would just hope that a part of the motion a friendly amendment would be that before the contract is awarded that they have a clear sustainability plan that everyone's happy with just uh just to um let you know that in the in the grant we that
we scored there was a part about sustainability that we had to score them on and so we and so we the so the grant committee looked at all of that to make sure before we scored them and some of the people didn't do well because they didn't have a sustainability plan so that was part of the the grant and and that's fair Stephanie that's fine i just know Tori just asked how would it how would it happen if they didn't get the money next year and they it was not a clear answer of how they would be able to do it so if it's in the plan it's in the plan but we may not know exactly about money next year but the school has some plans in place that we do during the day we
have a course recovery program that's helping hopefully recover during the quarter versus at the semester and our our teachers are helping with that and um I think that has made a big difference we also do have two periods we're on a block schedule so two periods one every other day or one each day where we do have a lab setting where those students who might have multiple courses to um recover are put in that lab so we are trying to at least hit it because we we do hear often that
night school may go away we've always have to have a safety net in place so I don't want you to think we won't be able to help these students on our campus this is just this afterchool program that helps them beyond what we can do during the school day so I don't feel like we'll drop them and we will figure it out if it you know next year but as far as money no ma'am I don't know that but as far as what we're doing on our campus we do have some steps in place well I think sustainability is part of the car's grants and is part of uh all of the grants that we ask all of the providers to be
working towards particularly in the multi-year grants to be looking at the idea that this grant is going to come to an end how do you as an organization anticipate continuing those services or supplementing them the other thing I see the trust I think all of us do as an organization that does more and provides more for the community than simply distributing money and one of the big things that our staff does a tremendous job of and I have to uh provide some kudos to Michael
is serve as a bit of a triage organization and as has been mentioned already the amount of duplicity taking place within our community with the best of intent uh however is a fairly considerable amount with organizations being provided the information can you all collaborate and work together to accomplish the goals and so that is one of the functions that is already taking place in addition to the distribution of money another thing as I look over at Rick is
the idea of the organization itself uh providing a tremendous amount of opportunity to organizations in regards to education of how to fill these grants how to enter into SAMS the data that's being collected number of these other things that are being asked of them so even these smaller organizations operations can indeed uh have access to learning and to knowing how and using the staff to help them fulfill the requirements of their contracts even fulfill the requirements
of even submitting a request for funding and so those are opportunities that are already out there and then the staff I know for a fact is exploring working with as has been mentioned uh with Pensacola State College with United Way and with other organizations in the community to provide some education to these organizations in regards to establishing maintaining and sustaining a nonprofit entity within the confines of a Scampia County so those are activities that are
underway as well so that all of these things will hopefully help gel with the end result being that we are able as a community to provide more services consistently and in a sustainable fashion to children throughout the community uh and I think a lot of that is taking place and the CARES grant was just one more example of ways that we could uniquely try to take resources that we as a trust have available to us thanks to the community uh to turn that money back around and
sustain and implement programs that are going to benefit the community's children so we've had a motion it has been seconded there's been discussion uh time to call the question I believe so all in favor of moving this uh forward and asking the executive director with the name changes and other things that would make this official uh be in support of the uh proceeding with procuring these CARES grants and all in favor i I any opposed no okay thank you all and
very healthy and good discussion there mr chair and Steph just for a point of clarification you said when because I didn't review those grants the sustainability part is a part of all the packages that were awarded can I get a confirmation there was one that voted against yes just one okay and the next item of discussion will be lamp lighter budget request uh amendment request and Tammy
Okay thank you this came to us to our program committee before and to the board last month and we didn't have a quorum to approve it so the lamp lighter for their Ignite grant has requested a budget amendment this grant ended on February 28th or 29th 28th this year um and they have invoiced now through December they're waiting to invoice for January and February after this amendment is approved the big adjustment was that they had budgeted for a van that they discovered
they don't need because they were able to get one through Ignite and to get one through their um mental health grant so they were looking to re adjust that money to other places so um the narrative and the budget is both in your packet if you have any questions I can answer them otherwise I would I have a question yes so you said they build out for December up until December so in January and February they anticipate like $20,000
in salaries correct that's what they're anticipating billing out $20,000 in January and February so I this is not updated for what their last invoice was where they were on current spent in Samos was before they submitted their November and December grants because this was submitted before that so um I don't have the number with me as to where they are right now on their salary but they did I went through their budget and I went through
their salary staffing and it looked very much in line so do you remember when this was this in this was done in um originally was submitted in December so this update was back through they had invoiced through October okay so this request was from October yes okay i just don't I don't remember when that's why I was reading this and I just trying to clarify from my understanding but you don't the 31 338 that was from October you think yes that was October
okay so the request would be more of a reallocation of funding within their organization than any increase in funding and that the uh total amount of funded would remain the same yes total funding amount remains the same they're just moving it along different general ledger items okay motion to approve so moved and a second second okay uh it has been uh motioned and seconded any further discussion yes sir i
will be abstaining from voting because I'm on the um Lamp Lighters board of directors all right thank you any further discussion if not all in favor i I Any oppose motion passes thank you whoops the next item of business is the uh request from Legal Services of North Florida contract regarding their year3 contract and Miss Canon will be speaking to this item and
there is some paperwork in our packet yes there's a resolution for it's um excuse me sorry year three of the um the three-year soul source that um with legal services uh we would recommend moving forward we've looked into the data and have that all caught up they're they're serving a tremendous amount of children within our community um this is a February 95 cases that's individuals some of these kids could have multiple cases um so they're representing a very large population you can see a
nice trend upward um and increase in um in cases and they they also project uh an increase going forward as well into this third year that we would recommend that be refunded for the third year all right and the program committee has recommended approval of this resolution i have a motion to approve so moved and second okay further discussion this is year three
so this is the final year of this grant okay yes it is and we're actually um working with um and I've spoken with Miss Kane about this as well um there are funds uh other CSC's have done this and maintained this going forward so we do have meetings set up and I'm working with Lesie over at legal services to see because we do believe that there is potential for a funding stream to continue this program past what the Children's Trust does um and I think that would be impactful we need to learn about it um but it would definitely be a partnership with
um ECT and probably Department of Children and Families and then um subcontracting back out so I'll keep you guys posted on this it will be a process so we and we're already starting that now in preparation and um the last year one and two they used the full amount of the funding year one and two no they have not um Tammy's got it right there so they have turned back over i'm sorry um they have surrendered 200 almost 250,000 in the past
um we did work with them very firmly very closely on this year's budget about was it reasonable and they did decrease their operating cost their grant by about 4,700 but now they're fully staffed and they were working on staffing up before so they do expect that they will be spending out year three year two will have I'm estimating about 200,000 left thank you and this year's budget also or the request of this change will be a net decrease
in their funding by $5,200 is that correct okay and then reallocation of some of the funding within the operation and then uh Okay so we've had a motion it has been uh seconded and discussed any further discussion if not we'll call the question uh those in favor of uh the executive director entering into the resolution and discussion of this with the
legal services of West Florida all in favor i i any opposed okay that motion passes thank you the last item of business is a change in scope request from Twin Oaks and the program committee has again recommended approval of this change in scope request and Miss Cannon will speak to that item as well sure we had um packet the the packet's a little thicker um what we had uh for
Twin Oaks was um a change of scope to actually inc to step outside of the ' 05 and 01 zip codes to serve they are just like our partner Hassan over at Youth Left Behind they are getting requests from um DJJ from judges to serve and they would like to be able to serve the populations that are outside of that or even getting kids that are at one to two miles of their particular facility that are outside of that so the change of scope was originally to um to break down some of those zip
code barriers but we've also added in a change of budget and their application that they submitted for the CARES grant to be included um because they can rework that within their current budget uh their proposals so you'll see they actually have some pretty innovative things that they're going to be doing with like youth ambassadors um from their programs and so um so this is a change of scope and a budget amendment that we would like to do for Twin Oaks okay the budget
amendment itself does not result in a net change at all as I'm looking uh at those numbers and just reallocating some of the funding uh within the grant between the various areas and it will result in an expansion of services uh thereby addressing some of the requests of the uh DJJ to serve more children yes very good a motion to approve so moved second been seconded any further
discussion okay we'll call the question those in favor of uh approving the change of scope request uh and the budget request from Twin Oaks in favor i I Any opposed motion passes very good uh okay our last well next to last item here upcoming contract renewals miss Cannon
so we mentioned this earlier but we do have two more that'll be coming um due uh June 30th so I just want to kind of put that on your radar we're already starting those discussions related to Help Me Grow um was a two-year agreement with a potential for a third-year renewal uh so we're working with them to really look at what their costs are and of course what's happening with Help Me Grow Florida from the legislative side um that was always going to step in and try to help fund some of this so there's a lot of moving parts around that one and then of course um the other one is the navigator contract will be ending its first year and will be
up for renewal so we'll be bringing that to you all as well at that time um I did have one other thing that I wanted to mention we we haven't really talked much about outreach but we've had a lot going on uh first of all Michael has been named our rising star for in weekly um so we had a big celebration last night for him we're very excited um it's a first step in a whole lot of things to be recognized in that way so we're excited for him um the other thing is we did uh conduct our Warrington outreach day the community day there were a lot of providers i
will tell you what was really exciting about it is some of our ones that went through the micro grant process also asked to come and be a part of that as well um so we got the chance to meet and speak with some of those folks um it was a good day um and then we also attended the healthy start um Escambia Healthy Start baby shower on Friday which was absolutely packed um it was an amazing event tori was there um and we left with one box I think and we never leave with one box so it I left with nothing tori left with nothing um there is a a lot of need out there one of the
other things that we really identified is we have a very large Spanish- speaking population um that were at that particular event and thank thank God Michael uh speaks a little bit of Spanish um to help us navigate that for a minute so um but but there there's a lot of unreached populations I would say Healthy Star is really getting to based on who showed up so um that's going to be a great partnership going forward too with them wonderful okay any uh legal report uh Meredith I know we have several items pending still but
uh any updates um no no real updates i mean as you know the um issue with the county was on their board agenda and they um did vote to schedule the exemption request but I've not heard back yet um when that's actually been scheduled um everything else is just status quo we're you know grinding out contracts and uh keeping the trust going so
thank you okay that is it on our um agenda and with that in mind I think uh and appreciate everyone's patience particularly you all in the audience here who have given of your time and interest to come and participate in this process thank you for that and uh hopefully your support of the children's trust and thank our board members for giving their time here and going on a little longer and uh with that we will adjourn thank you all
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