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Mayor Tarver thought there has been commitment to the downtown area and there is no question that the Council wants to encourage and assist in any way it can. He believed that the funds are not significant to find. It was moved by Ms. Mohr, seconded by Ms. Michelotti, to approve the Human Services Commission recommendations. The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Michelotti, and Mohr NOES: Councilmembers Dennis, Pico and Mayor Tarver ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None The motion failed. It was moved by Mayor Tarver, and seconded by Ms. Dennis, that Resolution No. 95-60, be adopted, to approve the Human Services recommendation to apply $5000 to the Housing Rehabilitation project; to maintain $6500 in CDBG funding for ECHO's Housing Counseling Services; to direct the staff to continue to develop a downtown grant program with recommendations on funding; and to request The Center to resubmit an application as part of the youth program funding process. The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Dennis, Michelotti, Mohr, Pico, and Mayor Tarver NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Item 6e ReCommendation for use Of undesignated City funds to nrovide assistance to various community programs, and recommendation that available City funds be se2re~,ated into selected program categories (SR95: 182) Dolores Bengtson presented the staff report. Ms. Mohr asked if in categorizing the programs this way, would there be any reason to believe that there might not be enough applications for each category? Ms. Bengtson stated it would be a surprise if the Council set a spending level at $70,000 and did not receive enough applications to use or exceed the funding. She stated that the Youth Program Funds would be the one to promote new ideas. It will encourage youth development, will promote creativity, and she thought if various groups knew the funding was available, they 06/06/95 14