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Tuesday,April 20, 2010 City Hall, 7th Floor
3:00 p.m. Council Conference Room
Committee members For your calendars:
present: The date of the next regular meeting is Tuesday, May 18, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council
Conference Room, 7th Floor, Renton City Hall.
Margie Albritton
�..�i Ilrapcptl� Elizabeth called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.
Alicia Glenwell 1. Minutes from Februarv 16.and March 16,2010. Meetin�s: It was moved,
Charlie Gray seconded and carried to approve the February and March minutes.
Adria Krail
Linda Smith Z• 2011-2012 Fundin�Process:
Rob Spier a) View online application on HS Connect: Members received a demonstration
Elizabeth Stevens,Vice- on how agencies will use HS Connect to apply for funding. City staff will also have
Chair the ability to view all data and documents submitted by agencies at HS Connect,
Nicole Wicks including primary contacts for each agency, program,and the dollar amount they
are asking for.
b) Review of Draft Ratin�Tool: A subcommittee of Charlie, Linda, Rob, and
Nicole developed a draft rating tool to bring to the April meeting. It will address
Absent: need, program description and accessibility, service system coordination, outputs
Robin Jones, Chair and outcomes. It was distributed to the Committee, and there were no suggested
Samantha Williams changes.
c) Groups for readin�/ratin�applications: Applications will be distributed to
Staff Contacts: four groups to ensure that each member gets roughly the same number of
applications to read.
Karen Bergsvik d) Draft of Staff Review of Application Summarv: Dianne sought input from the
425-430-6652 Committee on the draft of Staff Review of Application Summary. The Committee
kbergsvik@rentonwa.gov agreed that it is important to include the demographic information of the clients.
Dianne Utecht We will also include staff comments from other cities, if they are available by the
425-430-6655 June meeting. A City of Bellevue review was presented as a sample.
dutecht@rentonwa.gov e) Draft of soft fundin�tar�ets: Dianne reviewed the soft funding targets for the
2008/2009 funding process by result. It was interesting to see how much funding
Carol Allread was allocated to each result, and this will be the starting point for discussion for
425-430-6650 the May meeting. At that time we will know who applied for what funding, in each
callread@rentonwa.gov result area.
3. Useful Back�round Information on Communitv Needs: It was suggested that
committee members review the demographics and updated information, so that
they have a common base of knowledge going into the funding deliberations.
4. Updates•
a) Affordable Housin�Tour Apri) 14.2010: Linda, Charlie, and Margie attended the Affordable Housing Tour.
All agreed that Rainier Vista in Seattle is a model for future housing in Renton. It presents an interesting concept
of blended housing, where people are not segregated based on economic status. On the last leg of the tour,the
City discussed plans to invigorate the Highlands area by rebuilding the housing to maximize the usage of the
property and increase units of housing.
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b) Update on Veterans Levv to Communitv Services Committee Apri126.2010: This levy is up for renewal next
year. It funds Human Services and veteran's programs in King County. Information will be presented to City
Council to lay the groundwork for renewing the levy. The Committee would like a speaker on this at a future
meeting.
c) Brief Presentation on Renton Communitv Supper.Citv Council, Mav 3.2010.7:00 pm: Pastor Loren Lichty
and Captain Terry Masango will give a brief presentation on the Community Supper. Thirteen churches are
getting together to fund a hot meal program on Mondays,Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. They are
recruiting volunteers. A part-time cook will be hired,and some of the food will be donated by local grocery
stores. The Community Supper will be key to getting a mobile medical van and other services for the homeless in
Renton. The mobile medical van is funded by the Veteran's Levy.
d) First dav of Renton Communitv Supaer.Julv 6.2010. 5:30-6:30pm: For more information,visit the
Community Supper Hot Meal Program website at www.rentoncommunitvsupper.com.
e) Reminder—Census: Renton was at a 48% return rate. The City had a fairly low return rate, so additional
publicity and outreach was initiated by City staff and the Mayor. Committee members are encouraged to
promote the census and help neighbors with the form. Information on the census and return rates is available at
http://2010.census.�ov/2010census/takel0map.
Other: Adria said that the by-law revisions and section on attendance had not been completed. Since the May
meeting will be busy,she moved to set it forth to the July meeting. The Committee members agreed to wait on
the by-law revisions until July.
The meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Eli eth Stevens,Pro Chair Tem
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