2019-02-19 Minutes
Meeting Minutes
NEW HANOVER COUNTY
Non-County Agency Funding Committee
Human Resources Dept Training Room A
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
9:00 a.m.
In Attendance
Neal Lewis Tufanna Bradley-Thomas Fred Gainey
Gwen Hill Elizabeth DeBiasi Sheryl Kelly
Rosetta Royster Scott Steinhilber Randy Reeves
Damien Buchanan Shannon Winslow
1.The meeting was called to order at 9:00 a.m. Sheryl Kelly introduced Rosetta
Royster, the newest member of the Committee, and Tufanna Bradley-Thomas, New
Hanover County’s Community Affairs Coordinator.
2.The Committee approved the minutes from the October 12, 2018 meeting.
3.The Committee was informed that the Board of Commissioners has allotted $1
million for FY19-20 for agencies applying for funding through the Non-County
Agency Funding Committee.
4.Sheryl briefly went over the two documents included in the front of everyone’s non-
county agency application books. The documents are: 1. Funding History just for
the agencies that applied for funding for FY20 to include FY16-17 to FY18-19; and
2. FY18-19 Mid-Year Performance Reports. Elizabeth said she’d like to see a
financial health snapshot or budget decrease/increase of these agencies also. Sheryl
indicated that agencies have different financial reporting requirements depending on
their size, and she would identify information that is consistently reported in the
financial information provided by the agencies.
5.The Committee placed agencies/programs into buckets. The committee had a couple
of questions about Elderhaus/PACE before they could make a decision on which
bucket to put it in. Gwen indicated she would email Elderhaus with the questions
with a deadline of Thursday, February 21. Gwen will get the answers to the
Committee on Friday, February 22 and then they will choose which bucket it should
go in. The “Housing” bucket was added to the bucket list.
6.Neal inquired about performance issues and Sheryl said there were some issues
because of Hurricane Florence and also some unrelated to Florence.
7.Sheryl reviewed last year’s process with the Committee and they were reminded that
they decided not to fund capital, marketing, pass-through agencies, or salary that
was not to be applied directly to the program.
8.Everyone received a copy of last year’s scoring rubric for their review. The
Committee decided to remove “Dependency on New Hanover County Funding.”
Gwen will add the color coding to the agencies according to the bucket they are in,
add a place for the scoring and requested funding amount and then email the updated
rubric to the Committee today.
9.The Committee decided to cancel the meeting that is scheduled for next Tuesday,
February 26, to give the Committee two weeks to review the rubric and do the
scoring, and to get a list of questions to Gwen to email to the agencies. Questions
are due to Gwen by email by Tuesday, February 26. Answers are due from the
agencies by March 5. Committee members are to email their completed rubrics to
Gwen by March 6. The Committee scheduled a meeting for Thursday, March 7
from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. A second meeting will be scheduled for Thursday, March
14 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, if needed.
10.Meeting adjourned at 10:30 a.m.