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staff for the hours of hard work in reviewing these proposals and encouraged Council approve their recommendations. Bruce Fiedler, Administrator for Pleasanton Gardens, indicated not every city invests its block grant funds in community-based programs, but Pleasanton does and the city gets many services not usually found in a municipal framework. He thanked Council for its confidence in the programs and in Pleasanton Gardens. It was moved by Ms. Mohr, seconded by Ms. Michelotti, to approve the recommendations of the Human Services Commission. A substitute motion was made by Mr. Pico, seconded by Mr. Tarver, to move item//19 ($6,500 for Echo Housing) from the CDBG program category and add it to the Housing Fund, to move item ~28 (The Center's youth/family program operation recommendation for $15,000) into the CDBG program, which would increase the expenditure from that fund by $8,500. Crhat $8,500 would then be allocated from the City's administrative portion in addition to the $6,500 that was moved out of that fund for Echo Housing.) Ms. Mohr also believed The Center's programs were very worthwhile, but the Human Service Commission reviewed all these requests and made recommendations based on the entire picture of priorities. She did not believe it appropriate for Council to fund arbitrarily a favorite program. Mr. Pico felt he was not deleting anything from the recommendations, but was instead adding to them. Mr. Tarver suggested that rather than take $8,500 from administration, that the money could come from the $5,000 for downtown loans. He believed that loans for the downtown area could come from other sources and may be more than $5,000, on a case-by-case basis. He agreed with moving the Echo Housing allocation from the Housing Fund if that is an appropriate expenditure. He suggested an amendment to the substitute motion. The amendment to the substitute motion is take the $5,000 for City of Pleasanton Downtown economic loans out of the CDBG column; to move $6,500 for ECHO Housing Counseling services to the Housing Fund column; and approve $15,000 requested by The Center - Youth/family services program into the funded CDBG column. Mr. Bocian indicated that the final details of the downtown project would be given to Council prior to implementing a project. There is no problem moving the Echo Housing request to the Housing Fund as it is an eligible expense. There is a problem relative to the ratio of the amount of dollars available for public service projects. By funding The Center, the City would be above the amount allowed by HUD to go to public service projects. By doing that, the City Council is subsidizing this program with General Fund money by approximately $8,000. If 04/04/95 -18-