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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMeeting Minutes 02-25-25t_z T11 I \7SHNP NEW HANOVER COUNTY Non -County Agency Funding Committee Government Center GC Meeting Room 155 Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 2:00 pm Meeting Notes 1. Introduction of Agencies in attendance Agencies introduced themselves. In attendance were Beacon Education, Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas, Cape Fear HealthNet, paws4people, WARM, Level Up Strategies and a few others that came in after the meeting started. 2. Introduction of New Hanover County staff Staff introduced themselves. In attendance were Gwen Hill, David Rice, Amanda Kostusiak and Scott Steinhilber. 3. Introduction of Committee Members & Announcement (see other side) John Hinnant was in attendance and read the announcement. Others in attendance were Gail Eddie, Clare Kiley, Shane Hartley and Candy Robbins. 4. FY24-25 Mid -Year Report Summary David went over the Mid -Year Report Summary for FY24-25. All agencies have reported. The committee looked over the mid -year report as they were reviewing the applications for funding and had questions on some. David will follow up with the agencies and report to the committee at the March meeting. 5. Funding Amount for FY25-26 Amanda said the allocation for Non -County Agency Funding is $1.6M. 6. Discuss Criteria on Rubric Spreadsheets The committee reviewed and discussed the criteria on the rubric spreadsheets and discussed some changes they'd like to make. Proposed changes were to delete either column 5 or 6 because both were not needed and to add a column to say Service (program) enhances the quality of life for residents of New Hanover County. 1. Strongly Disagree, 2. Somewhat Disagree,3. Somewhat Agree or 4. Strongly Agree. A few committee members had already left the meeting so Gwen will send an email to see what everyone thinks. 7. Additional Questions for Agencies that Requested Funding Applications were reviewed one by one to see what additional questions any of the committee members had and to give the committee a chance to discuss the applications. The committee worked until 4:30 pm ending with number 47 IndependentWorks. They will be back tomorrow, Wednesday, February 26, at 10:00 a.m., in the same conference room where they left off, which will be number 48 LINC, Inc. 8. Other Discussions Also in attendance was Tyler Braswell. He said he was applying for the Public Safety/Judicial position on the committee, and he was there to observe. Gwen let the committee know that Alison Linkner resigned from the committee because she accepted another job and was not able to take off to attend meetings during work hours. Gwen also let the committee members know that The Food Bank would like them to come for a tour of their facility and Gwen wanted to know if anyone was interested. Everyone was interested so Gwen will set something up with The Food Bank and send everyone an email.