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3. Public Participation There were none. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS 4. Recommendation to allocate Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) Funds for Fiscal Year 2010 (2010 -2011) Mr. Erickson reviewed with the Commission a PowerPoint presentation outlining the Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) Funding Program. He added that this new program would allow the City Council to review all funding requests at the same time. The Commission was also informed that the City anticipates receiving a 7% increase in CDBG funding from HUD over what was allocated for the previous year. Funding recommendations made by the Commission are tentatively scheduled to be reviewed by the City Council on April 20, 2010. Mr. Erickson advised that a total of 30 applications had been received for funding under this new program for a total funding request of $1,111,647. The allocation of HOME and Lower Income Housing Funds will be reviewed by the Housing Commission at its March 18, 2010 meeting. The Commission was informed that staff had reviewed all of the funding requests and had provided an analysis and funding recommendations for the Commission to consider. Staff also provided Commissioners with a history of funding through the CDBG program for the years 2007 through 2009. Mr. Erickson also reviewed with the Commission the results of the composite ranking based on HHSG program criteria. Chairperson Kennedy thanked Mr. Erickson for his presentation and the information provided, and felt it had been very informative and helpful for the Commission. She then proceeded to open the meeting for presentations from the agencies, noting that the Commission is primarily interested in hearing from agencies with new projects, or those that have never applied for grant funds in the past. The meeting was opened for presentations at 4:20 p.m. Axis Community Health, Automated Patient Messaging System, Sue Compton thanked the Commission for its continued support of Axis programs. She advised that the funding requested was for a new telephone teleminder that would automatically make phone calls to remind patients of appointments, provide them with info about lab results, etc. This system would reduce the amount of staff time currently needed to do these things, and would then allow staff to do other more important things. Ms. Compton informed Commissioners that the total cost of this teleminder system is approximately $18,000, and an allocation of $4,000 has been received from the City of Dublin. Funding requests to the Tri- Valley cities was based on the number of people that Axis serves from each city. Human Services Commission Minutes March 3, 2010 Page 2