COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (CDC) December 4, 2020, 10:30am MEETING VIA VIDEOCONFERENCING CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Amit Motwani, Chair Public Sector Appointee Fisayo Fadelu (absent) Public Sector Appointee Alberto Mejia (absent) Dove Springs Julia Woods South Austin Karen Paup, Vice Chair Private Sector Appointee Shavone Otero Private Sector Appointee Raymond Young Public Sector Appointee Bertha Delgado East Austin Joe Deshotel Public Sector Appointee Heidi Sloan Public Sector Appointee VACANT Rosewood-Zaragosa/Blackland Madra Mays (absent) Montopolis Michael Tolliver Colony Park Kendra Garrett (not yet eligible) St. John’s Tandera Louie (absent) North Austin Staff Members in Attendance: Rebecca Giello - Housing and Planning Department (HPD) Erica Leak (HPD) Kim Freeman (HPD) Jesse Gutierrez (HPD) Lisa Rodriguez (HPD) Angel Zambrano - Austin Public Health (APH) Neil Hackett (APH) Akeisha Johnson-Smothers (APH) Cindy Gamez – (APH) Chris Schreck – Ecomonic Development Department (EDD) Sam Sargent – Capital Metro Adrienne Sturrup (HECE) CALL TO ORDER: DRAFT MINUTES Chair Motwani called the meeting to order with 9 members present. Commissioners Mejia, Mays, Louie and Fadelu were absent. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up by noon the day prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. Speakers signed up to address specific items on the agenda may also be called upon to speak at this time. Stephanie Thomas (Adapt Texas volunteer) addressed the CDC regarding accessibility for persons with disabilities in all affordable housing developments. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Discussion and possible action on the November 10, 2020, Community Development Commission meeting minutes. On Commissioner Young’s motion, Commissioner Tolliver’s second, the November 10, 2020, meeting minutes were unanimously approved. 2. PUBLIC HEARING a) Briefing on the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Action Plan Amendments to incorporate additional Coronavirus Relief Funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Rebecca Giello, Housing and Planning gave the briefing. C Gamez (APH) and Chris Schreck (EDD) answered questions regarding their specific areas. b) Conduct a public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Action Plan Amendments A public hearing was opened; Stephanie Thomas addressed the CDC, requesting that priority be given to persons with diabilities in the deployment of programs outlined within the 2019-2020 Action Plan Amendments. c) Discussion and possible action on the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Action Plan Amendments On Commissioner Paup’s motion, Commissioner Delgado’s second, the CDC voted to support the Fiscal …
Versión en español a continuación COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (CDC) Meeting January 12, 2021 The Community Development Commission meeting to be held January 12, 2021 with Social Distancing Modifications. Public comment will be allowed via telephone; no in-person input will be allowed. All speakers must register in advance (January 11, 2021 by noon). All public comment will occur at the beginning of the meeting. To speak remotely at the January 12, 2021 Community Development Commission meeting, residents must: •Call or email the board liaison at 512-974-1606 or jesse.gutierrez@austintexas.gov no later than noon, January 11, 2021. The following information required: speaker name, item number(s) they wish to speak on, whether they are for/against/neutral, email address and telephone number (must be the same number that will be used to call into the meeting). •Once a request to speak has been made to the board liaison, the information to call on the day of the scheduled meeting will be provided either by email or phone call. •Speakers must call in at least 15 minutes prior to meeting start in order to speak, late callers will not be accepted and will not be able to speak. •Speakers will be placed in a queue until their time to speak. •Handouts or other information may be emailed to jesse.gutierrez@austintexas.gov by noon the day before the scheduled meeting. This information will be provided to Board and Commission members in advance of the meeting. •If this meeting is broadcast live, residents may watch the meeting here: http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live Reunión del COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (CDC) La junta se llevará con modificaciones de distanciamiento social. 12 de enero 2021 Se permitirán comentarios públicos por teléfono; no se permitirá ninguna entrada en persona. Todos los oradores deben registrarse con anticipación (11 de enero antes del mediodía). Todos los comentarios públicos se producirán al comienzo de la reunión. Para hablar de forma remota en la reunión, los miembros del publico deben: • Llame o envíe un correo electrónico al enlace de junta en 512-974-1606 o jesse.gutierrez@austintexas.gov a más tardar al mediodía (el día antes de la reunión). Se requiere la siguiente información: nombre del orador, número (s) de artículo sobre el que desean hablar, si están a favor / en contra / neutral, dirección de correo electrónico (opcional) y un número de teléfono (debe ser el número que se utilizará para llamar ). la • Una vez que se haya realizado una solicitud para …
Community Services Block Grant Programmatic/Financial Report January 12, 2021 The Community Services Block Grant funds the delivery of services to low income Texas residents in all 254 counties. These funds support a variety of direct services in addition to helping maintain the core administrative elements of community action agencies. For the City of Austin, the grant provides funding for the delivery of basic needs, case management, preventive health and employment support services through the City’s six (6) Neighborhood Centers and the three (3) Outreach Sites. ◼ Basic Needs (food, clothing, information and referral, notary services, transportation, car safety education and car seats, tax preparation, Blue Santa applications, fans, Thanksgiving food baskets and other seasonal activities); ◼ Preventive Health (screenings for blood pressure, blood sugar including a1C, and cholesterol; pregnancy testing; health promotion presentations, coordination and participation in health fairs, immunizations, coordination of wellness activities, linkages to medical home providers and diabetes case management); ◼ Case Management (individual/family support counseling, advocacy, self-sufficiency case management, crisis intervention, linkages with employers, educational opportunities and training, and working with individuals on quality of life issues); ◼ Employment Support (intake, assessment and goal setting, job readiness training, job placement assistance, and job retention services) Expenditures 2020 Contract Cumulative % of Total Categories Budget Expenditures as of Personnel Fringe Benefits Other Total $693,764.20 $394,116.34 $14,225.46 $1,102,106 11/30/20 $626,911.86 $294,451.43 $5,357 $926,720.29 90.4% 75% 38% 84% 1 SRV 3O 4 4E 4E 5 5B 5D 4C 4I 5A 5JJ 7A 7B 7D 7N Austin Public Health Report on PY19 Community Action Plan Transition Out of Poverty Goal Goal Achieved TOP Individuals who transitioned out of poverty 43 25 Success Rate% 58% MISSION: To prevent disease, promote health, and protect the well-being of our community. TOP 5 NEEDS: Housing; Health; Employment; Basic Needs; Education Report Date November 2020 FNPI Outcome Description Target #Enrolled #Achieved Success Rate % Housing Households who avoided eviction Households who avoided eviction (Revised Target) Health and Social/Behavioral Development Individuals who demonstrated improved physical health and well being Individuals who improved skills related to the adult role of parents/caregivers 500 1200 15 50 915 915 103 7 Service Description Number Served #Enrolled #Achieved Success Rate % 915 339 271 366 23,860 1,454 52 78 87 1,524 Tax Preparation Programs Rent Payments Utility Payments Immunizations Food Distribution Case Management Eligibility Determinations Transportation Emergency Clothing 3A.1 Total number of volunteer hours donated to the Agency Programmatic/Administrative Updates …
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION 20210112-3D Date: January 12, 2021 Recommendation: Subject: The Importance of Consistent Community Development Commission (CDC) Evening Meeting Time Slots The CDC recognizes and deeply appreciates the hard work of city leaders, policymakers, and especially City Clerk staff for their arduous work in ensuring that the machinery of democracy, namely the convening of the City’s Boards and Commissions, continue to operate despite the manifold disruptive obstacles that the pandemic has introduced. It is also clear that the rapid adaptation of our meeting medium from physical to virtual has resulted in varying meeting times, shorter meetings, limitations in citizen communication, and an understandable reduction in all-around flexibility and predictability as related to meeting schedules. One of the key challenges is that meeting times are no longer fixed every month but often vary subject to the priorities at hand. In our commission’s example, this means that a meeting that typically happens during an evening time slot might suddenly be changed to a daytime slot, nearly exclusively prohibiting attendance from commissioners who don’t have the privileged flexibility to parse out large sections of the business/work day to fulfill their commission obligations. On this note, the CDC would like to point out the following: • Austin is infamously known (anecdotally and empirically) for being a city of exaggerated social, economic, and health disparities, many having resulted from explicitly racist municipal policy. • We are at a point where nearly 1 in 2 households are considered below Median Family Income (MFI) and at least 1 in 3 households are considered well below MFI. This is not an “us and them” situation: economic disparity has many faces, it can affect any of us, and it is doing so. • These disparities include income, despite working the same jobs, flexibility in schedules (or lack thereof), access to resources like childcare, transportation, social capital and the networking it produces, access to job training or related supportive services, and access to technology. • These disparities have only been magnified by the COVID pandemic which has demonstrated that race, ethnicity, zip code, primary language, and income, often as a result of many corresponding variables are the strongest correlating determinants in social, economic, and health outcomes of Austin residents. • Board members are liaisons who represent and advocate for low-income communities, and it must not be lost that they are members of those same communities: many members of …
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (CDC) January 12, 2021 – 5:30pm - 9:30pm APPROVED MINUTES CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Amit Motwani, Chair Public Sector Appointee Present Karen Paup, Vice Chair Private Sector Appointee - Present Bertha Delgado East Austin Joined at 5:48 (tech issues) Joe Deshotel Public Sector Appointee Present Fisayo Fadelu Public Sector Appointee Present Kendra Garrett (when eligible) St. John’s Present Tandera Louie North Austin Present Madra Mays Montopolis Present Alberto Mejia Dove Springs Present Shavone Otero Private Sector Appointee Present Julia Woods South Austin Present Raymond Young Public Sector Appointee Present Heidi Sloan Public Sector Appointee VACANT Rosewood-Zaragosa/Blackland Joined at 5:40 (tech issues) Michael Tolliver Colony Park Excused Absence Please visit https://austintexas.gov/cdc for more information about the Community Development Commission. Purpose: The purpose of the board is to advise the Council in the development and implementation of programs designed to serve the poor and the community at large with an emphasis on federally funded programs. Erica Leak Mandy DeMayo Angel Zambrano Jackie Nirenberg Letitia Brown Zachary Stern Jesse Gutierrez Lisa Rodriguez CALL TO ORDER: DRAFT MINUTES Chair Motwani called the meeting to order at 5:35pm with 11 members present. Commissioner Sloan joined the dais by telephone at 5:45pm; she was unable to speak due to technical issues, but was able to participate remotely by communicating with Chair Motwani and CDC administrator, Lisa Rodriguez. Commissioner Delgado joined at 5:48pm, also due to technical issues. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up by noon the day prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. Speakers signed up to address specific items on the agenda may also be called upon to speak at this time. No speakers signed up. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Discussion and possible action on the December 4, 2020, Community Development Commission meeting minutes. Following a motion to approve by Commissioner Mejia, seconded by Commissioner Deshotel, the December 4, 2020, minutes were approved unanimously. Commissioner Louie abstained due to her excused absence at the December meeting. 2. COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (CSBG) a) Briefing and discussion on the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood Services Unit, Austin Public Health) Angel Zambrano presented. b) Briefing regarding demographics of population served by APH through CARES and CSBG (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood …
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (CDC) January 12, 2021 – 5:30pm - 9:30pm APPROVED MINUTES CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Amit Motwani, Chair Public Sector Appointee Present Karen Paup, Vice Chair Private Sector Appointee - Present Bertha Delgado East Austin Joined at 5:48 (tech issues) Joe Deshotel Public Sector Appointee Present Fisayo Fadelu Public Sector Appointee Present Kendra Garrett (when eligible) St. John’s Present Tandera Louie North Austin Present Madra Mays Montopolis Present Alberto Mejia Dove Springs Present Shavone Otero Private Sector Appointee Present Julia Woods South Austin Present Raymond Young Public Sector Appointee Present Heidi Sloan Public Sector Appointee VACANT Rosewood-Zaragosa/Blackland Joined at 5:40 (tech issues) Michael Tolliver Colony Park Excused Absence Please visit https://austintexas.gov/cdc for more information about the Community Development Commission. Purpose: The purpose of the board is to advise the Council in the development and implementation of programs designed to serve the poor and the community at large with an emphasis on federally funded programs. Erica Leak Mandy DeMayo Angel Zambrano Jackie Nirenberg Letitia Brown Zachary Stern Jesse Gutierrez Lisa Rodriguez CALL TO ORDER: Chair Motwani called the meeting to order at 5:35pm with 11 members present. Commissioner Sloan joined the dais by telephone at 5:45pm; she was unable to speak due to technical issues, but was able to participate remotely by communicating with Chair Motwani and CDC administrator, Lisa Rodriguez. Commissioner Delgado joined at 5:48pm, also due to technical issues. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up by noon the day prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. Speakers signed up to address specific items on the agenda may also be called upon to speak at this time. No speakers signed up. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Discussion and possible action on the December 4, 2020, Community Development Commission meeting minutes. Following a motion to approve by Commissioner Mejia, seconded by Commissioner Deshotel, the December 4, 2020, minutes were approved unanimously. Commissioner Louie abstained due to her excused absence at the December meeting. 2. COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (CSBG) a) Briefing and discussion on the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood Services Unit, Austin Public Health) Angel Zambrano presented. b) Briefing regarding demographics of population served by APH through CARES and CSBG (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood Services Unit, …
