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Ms. Morley indicated that she works with new organizations and helps them contact related non-profit groups. She explains the City's process and continually informs the existing agencies which the City has been working with about the work of the committee. This will help all three Commissions make better decisions and recommendations. There is overlap among those Commissions, particularly with regard to funding for youth. Ms. Michelotti felt the most important aspect was to create consistency. The application addresses all sources of funding and how the City fits into the entire scenario as well as whether the group would transition to a service agency for the City. Ms. Morley indicated there are also some grants awarded to agencies that have contracts with the City. That allows for two funding mechanisms and sometimes three when Community Development Block Grants are allocated. The next step is to work with the Commissions on developing the contractual portion. Ms. Dennis said her question was aimed at a different aspect. For example, at the Recycling Board level, she had worked in granting funding to emerging organizations to help them start to provide services. She believed funding is necessary to provide funding of services to the community. Mr. Wolfe believed that Ms. Morley provides that kind of startup assistance. One of the reasons the subcommittee approved the phased approach is to give an organization a jump start on providing services and create other funding bases to assist them. Julie Testa, 3494 Torlano Court, indicated she had concerns about the phased funding. She had voted for this as a member of the Human Services Commission because she felt most of the efforts of the subcommittee were worth supporting. She believed that if there are successful non-profit agencies, there should be unquestioned support for them. She was concerned about the step down process. She has continually asked for information about the contract process. She would have felt better if she had known that some of the agencies she was concerned about were under a different funding umbrella or under contract with the City. Ms. Michelotti felt the step down process was to provide more opportunity for more non-profits to receive funding. The Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) address some of the needs as well. Ms. Testa indicated the CDBG funds are much more restrictive in how they can be used. The City grants would be used for different purposes. Mayor Tarver asked if the Human Services Commission understood the guidelines. Pleasanton City Council 13 01/04/00 Minutes