Sep 25, 2024 9-1-1 Judges

CONSIDER AN ACT UPON THE RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS.

NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMENTS.

ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? COMMENTS, MR. CHAIRMAN? THANK YOU.

UH, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS

[4. Consider and act upon the recommendation to approve the July 24, 2024 Area Judges Meeting Minutes.]

CONSIDER AND ACT.

CONSIDER AND ACT UPON THE RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE JULY 24 AREA JUDGE'S MEETING.

UM, UH, MEETING MINUTES IN YOUR PACKET, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVE A SECOND.

SECOND.

GOT A MOTION TO SECOND TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS, AS PRESENTED.

ANY DISCUSSION? THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES.

ITEM FIVE,

[5. Consider and act upon the recommendation to approve the Workforce Solutions Alamo Budget for the period of October 1, 2024-September 30, 2025. - Adrian Lopez, CEO]

ALAMO.

BUDGET FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER 1ST, 2024 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025.

ADRIAN LOPEZ.

GOOD MORNING JUDGES.

OR GOOD AFTERNOON .

UM, SO THANK, SO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND PRESENT THIS FINAL, UH, PRESENTATION ON THE F 5 25, UH, BUDGET FOR WORK, WHICH SOLUTIONS? A, UM, UM, AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON WORKING ON THIS BUDGET FOR A NUMBER OF MONTHS NOW.

UH, I HAVE SECURED OUT ALL THE APPROVALS.

UH, THIS WILL BE THE FINAL APPROVAL.

I JUST WANT TO PROVIDE, UH, SOME QUICK, QUICK BACKGROUND.

UH, OF COURSE, HERE'S, UH, OUR MISSION, VALUES AND, UH, VISION FOR THE AGENCY.

OF COURSE, WE, OUR, UH, MISSION'S LARGELY TO STRENGTHEN THE ALAMO REGIONAL ECONOMY BY GROWING, UH, AND CONNECTING PIPELINES TO EMPLOYERS.

UH, HERE ARE THE INDUSTRIES THAT WE SUPPORT, INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION, IT, CYBERSECURITY, AEROSPACE, HOSPITALITY, AND OTHERS THAT ARE LAID OUT HERE.

IT WAS GOOD TO HEAR FROM PREVIOUS MEETING THERE WAS SOME SUPPORT AND THE MANUFACTURING CYCLE FROM TRANSPORTATION THAT OBVIOUSLY IS A GROWING INDUSTRY AND WITHIN OUR REGION.

UM, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID, UM, UH, LAST, UH, ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, TWO YEARS AGO, WORKED CLOSELY CLOSELY WITH, UH, THE CHAIRMAN OF TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN DANIEL, UH, AND TWO OTHER WORK FOR CAPITAL AREA, RURAL CAPITAL AREA, UH, IN A PILOT PROJECT PROJECT TO BE ABLE TO SORT OF DEVELOP, DEVELOP A STATEWIDE ACTION PLAN.

AND THESE ARE THE, ARE THE RESULTS, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF SORT OF, UH, BEING ABLE TO DESCRIBE THE WORK AND, AND HOW, UH, WE ASPIRE TO WORK.

ONE, BECOME TEXAS TALENT EXPERTS.

TWO, UH, BECOME SERVICE OPTIMIZERS AND THREE PARTNERSHIP MANAGERSHIP MANAGERS.

UH, SOMETIMES YOU'VE HEARD PROBABLY PRESENTATIONS ABOUT, UH, WORKFORCE AND TALK ABOUT PROGRAMS AND GIVE YOU ALL OF THE SALAD SOUP IN TERMS OF SORT OF, OF THESE, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, ACRONYMS. UM, AND SO THEN A SUMMARY, UH, THE WORK THAT WE DO THROUGH THE COMBINATION, COMBINATION OF OUR THIRD FUNDING DIFFERENT SOURCES, UM, IS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, UH, THESE TYPES OF SERVICES FOR WORKING CLOSELY WITH EMPLOYERS, PROVIDING EXPERTISE IN REGARDS TO JOB SEEKERS AND, AND CONNECTING THEIR, OR PROVIDING, UH, RECRUITMENT EFFORTS AND JOB FAIR AND POSTINGS AND GRANTS.

GRANTS.

UH, JUST RECENTLY, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE RECEIVED A GRANT THROUGH, UH, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR THROUGH A SPECIAL INITIATIVE, UM, AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED, ANNOUNCED IN REGARDS TO, TO THAT IN THE NEXT COMING WEEKS.

UH, BUT WE ALSO ARE PARTNERSHIP MANAGERS CLOSELY WORKING WITH, WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WORKING WITH, UM, YOU, YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CORPORATIONS, NONPROFITS, AND, AND A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE REGION.

UH, IN TERMS OF SORT OF, OF OUR PERFORMANCE.

AND, UH, SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A LOT MORE, BUT WE WANTED TO KIND OF SUMMARIZE, UH, SOME OF THAT.

UH, CURRENTLY WE'RE, UH, MEETING OR EXCEEDING 15 OF 22 MEASURES.

UH, WELL, THAT MAY SEEM KIND OF AN ALARMING, UH, ISSUE THAT THE REST OF THOSE MEASURES, WE FEEL WE'RE ACTUALLY AT, UH, MEETING OR EXCEEDING, UH, MOST OF THOSE MEASURES.

BUT THERE'S A DATA, DATA SYSTEM ISSUE BECAUSE X WORKFORCE COMMISSION RECENTLY, RECENTLY, UM, UH, TRANSFERRED INTO, INTO A NEW SYSTEM.

AND SO THE DATA TRANSFERRED INTO THAT NEW SYSTEM HAS, UH, HAS NOT BEEN, BEEN COMPLETED.

UM, WHEN IT IS, I BELIEVE IT WAS MEASURED, UH, BEYOND PAR.

UM, AT THE TIME WHEN WE, WE CREATED THE SNAPSHOT, WHICH PROBABLY A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, WE HAD ABOUT 6,000 VISITORS TO OUR CAREER CENTERS.

THOSE ARE BOTH IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL, UM, BUT ALSO HAD ABOUT 69,000

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REGISTERED JOB SEEKERS.

SO THE FOLKS ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR OUR CORPORATE, OUR SERVICES TO BE ABLE TO, UH, SECURE A JOB, UH, WITHIN, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE REGIONAL ARE WITHIN THE REGION, ALSO SOME OTHER, UM, YEAH, YOU HAVE QUICK NUMBERS.

10,000 PLACEMENTS INTO EMPLOYMENT.

OVER 20 UNIQUE JOB POSTINGS, WORKING CLOSELY WITH EMPLOYERS, UH, TO HELP, UH, POST JOBS, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THEM TO HELP MEET THEIR, UH, THEIR NEEDS.

UH, ON AVERAGE, AVERAGE ABOUT 12,000 KIDS.

AND ON A DAILY BASIS, UH, THROUGH CHILDCARE, THAT'S OUR LARGEST INVESTMENT, APPROXIMATELY ABOUT $125 MILLION.

UH, THAT IS INVESTED, INVESTED INTO CHILDCARE.

UH, THAT ALLOWS YOU OPPORT OPPORTUNITY FOR, OF COURSE, MOM AND DAD, UH, TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND BE EMPLOYED.

UM, WE'VE GROWN AS AN AGENCY, UH, IN TERMS OF, OF OUR BUDGET, UH, LARGELY OUR STAFF.

OUR STAFFING PATTERN HAS REMAINED THE SAME, UH, BUT WE CONTINUES TO BE REALLY JUDICIOUS AND FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR, UH, ALL THE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS.

AND, UH, THERE IS EVIDENCE THROUGH OUR SIXTH YEAR IN A ROW WHERE WE'VE HAD, UH, CLEAN AUDITS AND KNOW, UH, FINDINGS TO TEXAS WORK WORKFORCE COMMISSION.

UM, WHAT FOCUS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, WHERE, UH, OUR, OUR LARGEST INVESTMENT RIGHT INTO CHILDCARE, UH, MANY TIMES WE'VE BEEN AT THIS TABLE, TABLE, TABLE AND OTHER TABLE.

PEOPLE ARE ASKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU OWE DO IN REGARDS TO CHILDCARE? SO IN ADDITION TO, TO THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE MAKE TO PROVIDE, UH, CHILDCARE SUB SUBSIDIES FOR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO SECURE, UH, THOSE SO THAT, UH, THEY CAN REDUCE THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDCARE.

WE ALSO MAKE MAJOR INVESTMENTS INTO CHILDCARE STAFF AS WELL AS CHILDCARE PROVIDERS.

UH, FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, WE AWARDED 46 6 RISING STAR, UH, PROVIDERS, ABOUT $775,000 IN STAFF BONUSES FOR ABOUT 803, UH, CHILDCARE EDUCATORS.

THAT'S IMPORTANT, UH, BECAUSE THE CHILDCARE INDUSTRY, UM, IS, UH, ONE OF THE, THE LOWEST PAID INDUSTRIES.

IT IS CRITICAL TO, TO MAINTAINING A HEALTHY WORKFORCE, RIGHT? UH, AND SO BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE STAFF BONUSES FOR THOSE THAT, UH, REMAIN IN THE INDUSTRY AND CONTINUE TO, UH, INCREASE THEIR, THEIR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, UH, AND, AND BUILD CAPACITY.

AND THAT'S WHAT THE RESULTS OF, OF THAT, UH, HAS, RIGHT? AND SO IN ADDITION, WE INVESTED, UH, ALMOST $82,000 IN PURCHASING CURRICULUM.

UH, SO THIS OFFERS THE, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN, UH, TO NOT ONLY BE WAREHOUSED OR TO NOT TO NOT BE WAREHOUSED INTO, UH, A FACILITY, BUT THEY WILL ACTUALLY RECEIVE CURRICULUM.

THIS HAS, UH, LONG, LONGER TERM OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDREN BEING SCHOOL READY BY THE TIME THEY'RE SCHOOL AGED.

AND THEN LONGER TERM TERM OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH, WITH WORKFORCE IN GENERAL.

UM, SOME OF THE, THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE, AND LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STAR REPORTS, UH, WHICH IS THE, UH, UH, TEXAS, UH, EDUCATION AGENCY'S, UH, RESULTS, IS THAT MANY KIDS ARE NOT AT READING LEVEL.

SO GETTING THEM TO READ, FOR EXAMPLE, GETTING 'EM TO WORK ON MATH AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS AT A EARNED AGE, UH, IS AN EFFORT TO BE, TO IMPROVE THOSE EFFORTS, RIGHT? UH, SOME OTHER TYPES OF, UH, INVESTMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR EXAMPLE, $134,000 TO PURCHASE INDOOR AND OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT.

UH, THIS OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY, OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDCARE PROVIDERS THAT ARE BOTH LARGELY MOM AND POP BUSINESSES, OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE INFUSION SO THAT THEY CAN, UH, PUT THEMSELVES IN THE ROAD TO BECOME TEXAS RISING STAR.

UM, ALSO INVESTED, INVESTED IN ABOUT, UH, 70, 76,000 TO, UH, 43 EARLY LEARNING PROGRAMS DIRECTLY IN ABOUT 340, UH, ONE CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS.

UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT SORT OF BEING STRATEGIC ABOUT THE INVESTMENT AND, UH, SUPPORTING THE INDUSTRY, UH, AS, AS WE, UH, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO SORT OF, SORT OF SEE SOME CHALLENGES, UH, MOST RECENTLY, UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE AN INVESTED ABOUT $400,000 I'VE SIGNED OFF ON A NUMBER OF, OF PURCHASES FOR, FOR ADDITIONAL, UH, TYPES OF, UH, INCENTIVES FOR TEACHERS, UH, THAT ARE, UH, THROUGHOUT THE REGION, REGION THAT ARE SECURING THESE TYPES OF, UM, INCENTIVES, AGAIN, BECAUSE OF, UH, LARGELY, LARGELY YOU MOVING IN THE DIRECTION WHERE THEY'RE IMPACTING THEIR CHILDCARE, UM, AGENCY IN A POSITIVE MANNER.

SO, UH, ONE OF THE LARGER PROGRAMS AS WELL, WE'VE HAD IS OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.

ANTONIO IS READY TO WORK PROGRAM.

SO THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST A BACKGROUND ON THAT, WE WERE ABLE TO CREATE THE, UH, ALAMO WORKFORCE CONSORTIUM, WHICH IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH WORKFORCE, WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, ALAMO, AND ABOUT, UH, SEVEN COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND A MAJOR UNIVERSITY, WHICH IS TEXAS A AND M, UH, SAN ANTONIO.

UH, SO FAR WE HAVE ABOUT ABOUT 6,000, UH, FOLKS, UH, INTERVIEWED ABOUT 4,000 ENROLLED INTO TRAINING, UH, 2100, UH, ENROLLED INTO TRAINING IN PROGRESS, UM, AND ABOUT 1200

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THAT HAVE COMPLETED TRAINING.

THIS IS SHOWING, SHOWING RESULTS ABOUT $20, UH, HOUR OF THOSE TWO WHO HAVE GRADUATED, WHICH IS ABOUT $26 MILLION OF THE ANNUAL EARNINGS.

UH, SOME OTHER, SOME OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN TERMS OF THE, THE STATE OF, UH, THE REGION.

SO WE ARE ONE OF THE HOTTEST REGIONS, UH, NOT IN TEXAS, BUT ALSO IN THE COUNTRY.

THE COUNTRY, UH, LARGELY BECAUSE OF, UH, THE JOB GROWTH, UH, THE GROWTH IN OUR LABOR FORCE AND THE LOW UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.

SO CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY WE'RE PROBABLY ABOUT FOUR, 4%, WHICH IS LOWER, UH, THAN THE STATE AVERAGE.

UH, WE RANK ABOUT SECOND LOWEST IN AMONG THE LARGE METRO AREAS, PROBABLY, UM, BEING OUT BY I THINK AUSTIN.

BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT AUSTIN IS JUST ONE COUNTY, WHICH IS TRAVIS COUNTY.

WE'RE COVERING 13 COUNTIES.

UH, I WOULD SAY WE'RE PROBABLY, PROBABLY, UH, IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION THAN THEY ARE.

SO, UH, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR BUDGET HAS CONTINUED TO GROW OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST, UH, FIVE YEARS.

I'VE BEEN, UH, HERE ALMOST FIVE YEARS, ALMOST FIVE YEARS IN, IN, IT'LL BE, UH, MY, MY, UM, UH, ANNIVERSARY WITH, WITH WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ALAMO.

WHEN I STARTED HERE, BUDGET WAS TALKING A HUNDRED MILLION.

THIS YEAR'S, UH, FISCAL YEAR BUDGET IS ABOUT 197 MILLION.

UH, NEXT YEAR WILL BE ABOUT 181 MILLION.

UH, SOME OTHER, UH, DOLLARS WILL BE SECURED US THROUGH, UH, THE PROGRAM GRANT, WHICH IS AN ISSUE, ISSUED THE TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, UH, TO SERVE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSITIONING FROM, UH, THE FEDERAL, UH, PRISON, PRISON SYSTEMS TO BE ABLE TO GET THEM BACK, BACK TO WORK.

UH, ALSO HAVE SOME, SOME SMALL AWARDS LIKE THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE.

UM, WE APPLIED FOR ABOUT $2 MILLION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

UM, AND WE ALSO, UH, ARE WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM, UH, CHILDCARE APPRENTICESHIP FUNDING.

SO, UM, AND THESE ARE PROBABLY DAYS, SO YOU, THOSE CHANCE TO WALK OUTSIDE, YOU DID GET TO SEE OUR, UH, WORKFORCE ONE BUS, UH, LIVE IN PERSON.

THAT WAS A STRATEGIC HALF A MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT, UH, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE 16 CENTERS THAT WE CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY OPERATE IN.

MANY OF OUR COUNTIES, OF COURSE, WE HAVE, UH, OF COURSE, THE COUNTY SEAT, BUT WE MAY, WE MAY HAVE ALSO MULTIPLE CITIES WITHIN, UM, WITHIN THAT COUNTY.

UH, AND WE MAY, UH, BECAUSE OF OUR FUNDING SOURCES, WE MAY ONLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, ONE CAREER CENTER LOCATED IN THAT COUNTY.

UH, SO IN ORDER TO HELP FILL THAT GAP, UH, WE, OF COURSE MADE THE STRATEGIC DECISION TO, UH, PURCHASE WORKFORCE, WORKFORCE ONE.

UM, AND SO, SO WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A SCHEDULE.

I KNOW JUDGE MACHO PROMISED HER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO OR SO, I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW.

YES, THAT, UH, SHE WAS, SHE WAS GONNA BE THE FIRST COMMITTEE THAT WE WERE GOING TO VISIT WITH THE BUS.

AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, SO I THINK, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BUDGET WHEN, WHEN WE WERE APPROVING THESE, IT'S FOR THESE TYPES OF INVESTMENTS THAT WILL, UH, YIELD US BETTER RESULTS, BETTER SERVICE FOR, UH, FOR THE REGION ADDITION.

UH, WE'VE BEEN, UM, WORKING ON, UH, RELOCATING OUR MAR MARBACH LOCATION, UH, TO PORT SAN ANTONIO IS TO HAVE A BETTER INTERSECTION BETWEEN JOB SEEKERS AND EMPLOYMENT, WHERE, UH, EMPLOYMENT IS BEING, UH, EXPANDED.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S ABOUT 15,000 JOBS TODAY ON PORT SAN ANTONIO, AND ANOTHER 18,000 OR SO THAT ARE BEING PROJECTED, PROJECTED TO BE, UH, DEVELOPED IN THE NEXT, THE NEXT FEW YEARS, UH, LOCATED OUR WALLS AND LOCATION TO O'CONNOR.

UM, AND SO I, SO I KNOW THAT WOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, AN ISSUE, UH, THAT WILL HELP ADDRESS SOME OF THE GROWTH, BOTH ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING, FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE TIP OF BEAR COUNTY, WHILE BEMAL COUNTY, UH, TONS OF DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT ALONG, UH, ALONG 35.

AND SO WE FELT IT WAS STRATEGICALLY BEST FOR US TO MOVE THAT LOCATION CLOSER TO WHERE, UH, JOB DEVELOPMENT WAS, UH, WAS HAPPENING.

UM, JUST SOME STRATEGIC STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, AND IT SPEAKS TO THE TEXAS, UH, STATEMENT, STATEWIDE ACTION PLAN, UH, GETTING WORKFORCE CONSORTIUM.

UH, WE'RE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE CREATED OUR, UH, WORKFORCE ACADEMY ACADEMY AND HAD ABOUT, UH, 350 GRADUATES, ABOUT 6, 601 PARTICIPANTS.

THIS WORK IS IMPORTANT FROM THE, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE THAT WE UNDERSTAND, GIVEN THE REGION, REGION, LIKE IF I WERE TO GO THE FURTHEST PART OF THE REGION, LET'S SAY, CURVILLE, TO, UM, TO BUILDING AND MULLIN COUNTY, THAT'S PROBABLY ABOUT A TWO HOUR DRIVE.

SO IT'S FAIRLY LARGE REGION.

WE CAN'T DO THIS WORK BY OURSELVES, OURSELVES, AND SO SURVIVE, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE GET AMBASSADORS TO HELP US WITH SPREADING THE WORD AND GETTING MORE PEOPLE ENGAGED, ENGAGED, UH, AND BEING ENROLLED INTO OUR PROGRAM.

UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS LAST, UH, UH, THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR IS WE WERE AWARDED A, THE ASPEN INSTITUTE AND CREATED THE ASPEN WORKFORCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AND GRADUATED 23 FELLOWS.

THAT'S OUR EFFORT TO BRING, TO BRING MORE PEOPLE INTO THE TENT, TO

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BE ABLE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT, TO BE MORE CRITICAL OF OUR WORK, AND TO BE ABLE TO HOPEFULLY EXPAND THE ABILITY FOR WORKFORCE, UM, AND TO BE BETTER, UH, ALIGNED WITH, UH, THE PRIORITIES OF, OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

UM, WE CONTINUE, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR, UH, YOU KNOW, PARTNERS THROUGHOUT THE REGION, REGION THROUGH LETTERS OF SUPPORT AND OTHER EFFORTS, UH, RESULTING IN ABOUT $15 MILLION OF IMPACT TO OUR REGION.

UM, WE'RE EXPANDING OUR MOUS, UH, AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF COMMENCING DEVELOPMENT OF OUR YOUTH SERVICE DELIVERY MODEL.

AND WE'LL CONTINUE THOSE EFFORTS, EFFORTS IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

UH, SO JUST SOME GO THOSE, UH, OVERARCHING SORT OF POLICY.

THOSE, UM, UH, CONTINUE TO, UH, DEMONSTRATE HOW ARE TEXAS TALENT EXPERT SERVICE OPTIMIZERS AND PARTNERSHIP MANAGERS WORKING THROUGH, UH, THE TRIAG AGENCY PROJECT, WHICH IS TEXAS, TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY, AND THE TEXAS HIGHER COORDINATING BOARD.

AND THE COORDINATION BETWEEN SORT OF OUR LARGER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES INTO REAL SORT OF WORKFORCE OUTCOMES.

UM, WE'LL, UH, AND THE NEXT, NEXT ITEM, WE'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO TALK TO YOU AND ENGAGE YOU ON A LOCAL PLAN.

UM, YOU KNOW, YOU WANNA CONTINUE TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT, UH, OR, OR ENHANCE OUR BUSINESS SERVICES AND OUR REBRANDING OF OUR, OUR FACILITIES AND COURSE, COURSE, THE WORKFORCE ONE AND, AND OTHER, UH, OTHER SOURCES THAT WE HAVE.

SO LET'S TALK MORE ABOUT THE BUDGET.

I HAD VARIETY, UM, BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME DETAIL ON THAT.

SO, GOOD AFTERNOON.

UM, AS VICTOR MENTIONED, OUR BUDGET FOR THIS NEXT FISCAL IS SLIGHTLY DECREASED FROM THE CURRENT BUDGET DOWN TO 101 MILLION.

AND THE MAJORITY OF THIS IS DUE TO OUR READY TO WORK GRANTS THAT WE STILL IN, STILL IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CITY OF SAN SANTA TO EXPAND.

BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT, UM, CONTRACT, CONTRACT FOR THE LAST BUDGET, BUDGET ONLY INCLUDES FUNDING THROUGH THE MONTH OF MAY.

I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT, HIGHLIGHT SOME OF OUR, UH, PERSONNEL AND REALLY SHOW, UM, SHOW HOW AT THE WORKFORCE, WE BUDGET ONLY ABOUT 3.4% OF OUR BUDGET TO PERSONNEL, WITH THE BULK OF OUR FUNDING GOING BACK TO DIRECT, UM, SERVICES, EITHER THROUGH THE DIRECT CLIENT CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS, OR EVEN THROUGH OUR FACILITIES.

AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE CONTINUE YEAR OVER YEAR TO PUT OUR FOCUS ON WHEN WE COME TO THOSE BUDGETS.

SO, AS MENTIONED, OUR CORPORATE COSTS, UM, COST DID INCREASE, UH, ROUGHLY BY ABOUT 260,000.

AND MOST OF THAT IS DUE TO, TO OUR TEMPORARY STAFFING AND OUR, UM, PERSONNEL EXPENDITURES.

EXPENDITURES.

AS ADRIAN MENTIONED, WE DO TRY TO STAY WITHIN A, UM, 50 FTES WITHIN OUR BUDGET, BUT HOWEVER, JOBS HAVE SEEN OVER THE YEARS, OUR, OUR FUNDING HAS INCREASED, AND THAT DOES TAKE ADDITIONAL STAFFING, BUT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ABLE TO UTILIZE OUR, UH, TEMPORARY STAFFING, UM, TO HELP OFFSET OFFSET THAT.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE ALWAYS, ALWAYS LIKE TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERNS.

AND SO, SO WE'VE BEEN, UH, UM, OVER THE PAST COUPLE, COUPLE YEARS, HAVE INTERNED AND HAVE REALLY HELPED US WITH SOME OF THE WORK WHILE THEY'RE STILL IN SCHOOL AND GETTING SOME, UM, ON THE JOB TRAINING.

JOB TRAINING.

OUR BUDGET DOES INCLUDE, UH, 3% COLA, WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH THE BUREAU OF, UH, LABOR AND STATISTICS ESTIMATES.

UM, WE DO BUDGET ABOUT A 2% MERIT INCREASE, AND THEN WE, UM, USE ABOUT A 3% FOR PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES FOR OUR STAFF.

AND MOST OF THIS IS TO CONTINUE TO RETAIN OUR STAFF.

WE'VE SEEN OVER, UH, OVER TIME IT IS, UH, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IS CHALLENGING, AND WE REALLY VALUE THE TENURE, MANY OF OUR STAFF, BUT WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THEY HAVE OTHER CHOICES WITHIN, WITHIN THE CITY OR OTHER AREAS.

AND SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE RETAIN THAT HISTORY AND THAT KNOWLEDGE, UM, AT THE ORGANIZATION.

SO OUR FACILITY COSTS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE, AND MOST OF THAT IS DUE TO, UM, AS MENTIONED, AS MANY OF Y'ALL SAW TODAY, WE HAD THE COMPLETION OF OUR WORKFORCE, UH, ONE BUS.

UM, THE BUILD OUT OF, FOR SAN ANTONIO IS, UM, ALMOST COMPLETED.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, OUR RELOCATION OF WELLSOME TWO O'CONNOR.

AND SO THOSE WERE IN THE PAST BUDGET.

AND SO SINCE THAT HAS ENDED, THAT'S, UH, THE BULK OF THE DECREASE.

AND THEN WE DID HAVE SOME, SOME INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE, OVER THE PAST YEAR, AND A LOT OF THAT WAS BASED, BASED ON MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE REALLY SECURING, UM, PPI INFORMATION AND BUILDING OUR RESOURCES AND OUR, UM, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THOSE, UM, THOSE QUALITY CONTROL CHECKS AND INCLUDED OUR BUDGET, OUR RESERVES.

UM, SO AS THE BUDGET DOES SHOW, WE HAVE ABOUT A $14 MILLION RESERVES.

AND MOST OF THIS, THIS IS DUE TO, UM, OUR FUNDING FROM TWC IS NOT ALWAYS CONSISTENT WITH OUR FISCAL YEAR.

AND SO THERE WILL BE OVERLAPPING GRANTS.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE BULK OF IT, IT COMES FROM.

MOST OF, MOST OF THIS.

AND JUST, UM, TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE IS, UM, OUR CHILDCARE.

AND THAT'S PROBABLY ABOUT TWO AND AND A HALF MONTHS OF CHILDCARE.

AND SO TO BE, UM, RESPONSIBLE, RESPONSIBLE WITH OUR FISCAL DOLLARS, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE DO HAVE THAT BECAUSE WE WILL SEE THOSE INFLUXES, ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMERTIME, OUR CHILDCARE EXPENSES WILL INCREASE.

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UM, WE DID HAVE SOME PROJECTS SUCH AS, UM, RED, WHITE, AND U AND CAREERS, UM, IN TEXAS WE'RE ALSO PART OF THIS.

AND AS ADRIAN MENTIONED, WE DID HAVE SOME, UM, SMALLER GRANTS, UM, FROM THE AREA FOUNDATION TO HELP PROMOTE THE, THE WORK AND REALLY EDUCATE OTHER FOLKS IN WITHIN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT, UM, BEING WORKFORCE AMBASSADORS AND REALLY HIGHLIGHTING THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE AND HOW THEY CAN ASSIST, UH, ASSIST US IN BEING PARTNERS.

OUR SERVICE DELIVERY.

UM, THE INITIAL BUDGET DID DECREASE BY ABOUT EIGHT POINT 0.2.

AND AGAIN, THAT'S THE BULK OF THAT IS COMING READY TO WORK.

UM, CURRENT GRANT AND KNOWING THAT, THAT WE ONLY BUDGETED THROUGH THE MONTH OF MAY IN THIS FISCAL CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, UM, THERE WAS, UM, SOME, SOME OF OUR INITIAL CHILD CHILDCARE ESTIMATES WERE COMING, UM, DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT.

BUT AS WE ARE CLOSING OUT, CLOSING OUT THOSE GRANTS AND STARTING TO RECEIVE OUR FUNDING, THERE MAY BE SOME, THERE BE SOME CHANGES THERE.

AND THE LAST ONE WE DID DID SEE ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS IN TANF, BUT THIS ALIGNS BACK TO OUR HISTORICAL, UM, PREVIOUS FUNDING, UM, BUDGETS THAT WE HAD RECEIVED PREVIOUSLY FROM TWC.

SO AS WE DISCUSSED, UM, WE WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, JUST PULLED OUT OUR SERVICE DELIVERY.

AND SO, UM, AGAIN, AND GOING BACK TO THAT 150 MILLION OF OUR SERVICE DELIVERY IS OUT OF THAT 181 MILLION THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE OVERALL AND HISTORIC, WE KIND OF BUDGETED ABOUT 80%, UM, TO OUR, UH, URBAN AREAS AND 20% TO OUR RURAL.

AND THIS ALIGNS WITH, UM, TWCS ALLOCATION METHOD, AS WELL AS WE ALSO ALSO LOOK AT THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THE ALLOCATIONS ARE DONE.

AND SO THE FIRST COLUMN DOES INCLUDE OUR $19 MILLION, WE'RE READY TO WORK, BUT THE SECOND COLUMN, UM, TAKES THAT OUT AND THAT'S WHERE THE 131 MILLION IS COMING FROM.

AND SO YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE WAS ABOUT 82% TO BEXAR COUNTY AND ABOUT, UH, 18% TO THE OTHER COUNTIES WITHIN OUR, UH, JURISDICTION.

AND THIS IS THE ROADMAP OF THE, TODAY IS THE FINAL, UM, BUDGET APPROVAL, UM, THROUGH, UH, THROUGH THE, UH, THE AREA JUDGES.

BUT AS ADRIAN MENTIONED, WE STARTED BACK IN JULY, AND WE ARE NOW AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER FOR THE BUDGET PROCESS.

AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.

WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

YEAH, JUDGE EVANS.

ALRIGHT, JUDGE EVANS, IF WE COULD GO BACK TO THE BUDGET COMPARISON, AND, AND I'M PRETTY SLOW SOMETIMES, BUT THE, IF YOU GO TO CORPORATE FACILITIES, THAT IS, THOSE ARE THE WORKFORCE PLUS THE BUS OUT IN THE COUNTIES, RIGHT? CORRECT.

YEAH, THOSE ARE THE 16 CAREER CENTERS.

AND THAT, AND THE INCLUSION OF THE BUS IN THE CORPORATE GENERAL OFFICE, THAT'S THE DOWNTOWN WITH THE PARKING, CORRECT? RIGHT.

AND THEN YOU COME DOWN UNDER, RIGHT, UNDER A CORPORATE TOTAL, IT SAYS FACILITIES.

WHAT IS THAT? THE 7 MILLION? SO, UM, SO YOU'LL SEE LARGELY OUR BUDGET IS, IS, IS DIVIDED INTO, UH, CORPORATE FACILITIES AND, UH, SERVICE DELIVERY.

RIGHT? AND SO, UM, SO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT SORT OF, YOU SEE THE SALARIES UP, UP ON TOP, THAT'S THE BOARD BOARD STAFF APPROXIMATELY ABOUT 50 STAFF.

I, I'M JUST, I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT FACILITIES.

YOU HAVE FACILITIES.

MM-HMM, FIVE, WHAT'S IT 5 5 26.

THEN YOU HAVE THE CORPORATE GENERAL OFFICE, THEN YOU COME DOWN BELOW CORPORATE TOTAL, YOU HAVE ANOTHER FACILITIES, WHICH IS 7 MILLION.

WHAT, WHAT IS THAT? THOSE ARE THE WORKFORCE CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

SO THE 16 WORK WORKFORCE CENTERS THAT WE HAVE, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE UNDER FACILITIES.

THAT'S 6.4 MILLION.

SO WHAT DOES THE CORPORATE FACILITY INCLUDE? WHAT IS, YEAH.

SO THOSE ARE OUR DOWNTOWN OFFICES AND, UH, AND THE OPERATIONS, UH, FOR THE 50 STAFF THAT WORK AT WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, ALAMO PROPER, UH, THE REMAINING DOLLARS, UH, GO TO, UH, THE ACTUAL FACILITIES OF THE 16 CENTERS, AND THEN OF COURSE DIRECT SERVICES TO SERVICE DELIVERY.

SO THE, SO THE CORPORATE OFFICE IS ABOUT 1.2 MILLION, IS THAT RIGHT? SO THE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE, UH, WELL, THE CORPORATE FACILITIES IS, IS THE 472,560 FIRE, BUT THEN WE HAVE TO HAVE EQUIPMENT AND GENERAL OFFICE UP.

UM, AND THEN SOME PROFESSIONAL SERVICES THAT WE ALSO CONTRACT OUT WITH.

THIS HAS A, UH, YES, JUNE.

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SO THAT, I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE MAKING REFERENCE TO, THAT 4 72.

5 65, THAT'S THE CORPORATE FACILITY.

THAT'S THE DUMB TOWN OFFICE.

BUT DO YOU HAVE CORPORATE GENERAL OFFICE? WHAT IS THAT? THE 6 78? THE 6 78.

UH, THAT INCLUDES, UH, I BELIEVE THINGS LIKE INSURANCE AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR, UH, NOT ONLY THE CORPORATE OFFICE, BUT ALSO THE, ALL OF THE FACILITIES.

RATHER THAN GET IN THE WEEDS.

UM, REMIND ME AGAIN WHY YOU WERE HERE ASKING US TO APPROVE YOUR BUDGET.

YES.

UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LEGAL DOCUMENTS, THERE IS, UH, INTERLOCAL AGREEMENTS AND PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS BETWEEN, UH, THE CHIEF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE WORKFORCE BOARD, UM, IN THOSE DOCUMENTS, UM, THERE, UH, THERE'S A STIPULATION THAT SAYS, UM, THE COMMITTEE OF SIX HAS TO APPROVE.

SO, SO OUR BOARD APPROVES THE, THE BUDGET BUDGET, AND IT GOES DOWN TO THE COMMITTEE OF SIX.

THEN IT HAS TO GO TO THE RESPECTIVE, UM, REPRESENTATION OF THE CHIEF ELECTED OFFICIALS.

SO COUNTY, GO CITY, SAN DIEGO, AND THEN WE'RE THE AREA OF JUDGES.

AND YOU'RE FAMILIAR THAT WE'VE BEEN, UM, UNEASY ABOUT WHAT THE ALLOCATIONS ARE FOR THE COUNTIES.

NOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AND WE'VE DONE OUR BEST TO BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE, UM, BOTH THE ALLOCATION AS WELL AS THE EXPENDITURES, UM, TO HOPEFULLY RELATE THOSE CONCERNS.

AND SINCE WE'RE YOUR AUDIENCE, I'M KIND OF CURIOUS WHY YOU DIDN'T ITEMIZE MORE WHAT YOU'RE EXPLAINED TO US, THE BENEFIT THAT OUR COUNTIES ARE GETTING IN THIS INSTEAD OF JUST THIS GLOBAL, UH, I, I DON'T QUESTION YOUR WORK.

I'M JUST SAYING THAT YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR COUNTIES, YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, YOU HAVE TO GET OUR APPROVAL FOR THE BUDGET.

I'M KIND OF CURIOUS WHY YOU DIDN'T CUSTOMIZE YOUR, YOUR PRESENTATION TO US.

YEAH, WE DO HAVE SOME BACKUP FLIGHTS THAT COULD DEMONSTRATE, ACTUALLY, UH, LEMME SEE IF THERE'S THOSE RIGHT HERE.

COULD, COULD WE, UH, TABLE THIS UNTIL WE GET FURTHER A FURTHER BREAKDOWN? WELL, I THINK WE'RE RUNNING AGAINST TIME LIMITS.

I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE.

SO OCTOBER 1ST IS OUR, UM, IS OUR, UH, FISCAL YEAR.

WE CAN WALK THROUGH THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, TO DETAIL, UH, HOW WE GOT TO THE BUDGET DISTRIBUTION AND THEN TO DEMONSTRATE THE EXPENDITURES.

SO WE DID HAVE SOME BACKUP SLATES.

WE, WE BARELY HAVE A QUORUM HERE TODAY OF THE, OF THE 13 COUNTIES, THE 12, THE COMMITTEE SIX ADDRESSES THE 12, RIGHT? MM-HMM, 12 OF US, AND WE'VE GOT SEVEN OF US HERE.

WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T APPROVE YOUR BUDGET TODAY? UH, THE BUDGET DOESN'T GET APPROVED TODAY, AND WE DON'T APPROVE SOMETHING BEFORE OCTOBER 1ST, THEN OUR SENATOR EFFECTIVELY DON'T HAVE, UH, THE DOLLARS TO OPERATE.

BUT YOU SAY WE CLOSE OUR CENTERS.

SO THE, THE INFORMATION THAT WE GET SENT TO US MONTHLY, THAT ONLY SHOWS THE DATA FOR OUR COUNTY.

CORRECT? WE, WE DON'T SEE, UH, LIKE I'M NOT ABLE TO SEE OTHER COUNTIES, UH, INFORMATION AND WHATNOT.

AND, UM, UM, I DO HAVE THAT CONCERN BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THE SERVICES GOING IN, IN, IN DEPTH AND, YOU KNOW, WHO'S GETTING IT MORE THAN OTHERS, BASICALLY.

BUT, UM, UH, I DON'T SEE THE BREAKDOWN THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

SO I DO HAVE THAT CONCERN, BUT I ALSO HAVE THE CONCERN TOO, THAT, UM, AS FAR AS THE, THE UPCOMING EVENTS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT IN RIO COUNTY, I CAN TELL YOU, AND THIS IS VERY RURAL COMMUNITY, SO I CAN TELL YOU THAT I KNOW RIO COUNTY, THEY SHUT DOWN.

I'M, I'M IN TROUBLE, .

WELL, BUT, BUT WE'RE NOT IN TROUBLE.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA SHOW THAT WE'RE PUSHING FOR SO MANY RESOURCES.

AND THEN JUDGE CAMACHO, I'M VERY SENSITIVE TO YOUR SITUATION.

YES, VERY.

BUT I, I GUESS I'M JUST EXPRESSING MY DISAPPOINTMENT THAT YOU'RE STILL NOT TALKING TO US.

SO I, AND, AND YOU TALK AROUND US, BUT YOU DON'T TALK TO US.

YEAH, I'M NOT SURE I AGREE WITH THAT, JUDGE.

'CAUSE IF YOU RECALL, YOU AND I SAT DOWN FOR ABOUT A THREE HOUR SESSION, RIGHT.

SPECIFICALLY GOING THROUGH THE BUDGET AND SPECIFICALLY GOING THROUGH, UH, THE ALLOCATIONS.

AND I ASKED YOU TO COME, COME TO US AND EXPLAIN TO EVERYBODY WHAT WE SAT THERE AND TALKED ABOUT IN MY OFFICE THAT DAY THAT HADN'T BEEN DONE.

OTHER IS YOU DO HAVE A PROXY, WHICH IS THE COMMITTEE OF SIX.

AND SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TODAY, IS TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT THAT.

THE

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SO WE GO THROUGH, UH, THE METHODOLOGY, WE DO EXPLAIN, UH, THE BUDGET ALLOCATION, AND WE DO EXPLAIN, UH, THE EXPENDITURES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

IF YOU WERE TO SORT OF HAVE THE QUESTION ABOUT, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ESSENTIAL QUESTION WAS LAST YEAR, IS ARE WE GETTING OUR FAIR SHARE? SO WE DEMONSTRATED THAT WE HAD A BUDGET ALLOCATION AND WHAT THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURES ARE, AND BASED ON THAT.

SO, UH, ALL, EVERY ONE OF THOSE COUNTIES, THOSE ARE PRETTY MUCH IN LIGHT.

NOW.

THERE'S GONNA BE SOME FLEXIBILITY.

UM, JUST LIKE WE HAD FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, IN PREO COUNTY, YOU HAD A MAJOR LAYOFF OF ABOUT 600 FOLKS THAT WERE LAID OFF.

THAT'S, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES MORE RESOURCES NEED TO BE DEDICATED WHERE THAT NEED PRESENTS ITSELF.

RIGHT? SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE SOME LEVEL OF FLUCTUATION IN REGARDS TO THAT.

WELL, AGAIN, MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'VE EXPRESSED OUR, UH, DISPLEASURE AT NOT KNOWING MORE ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN PROVIDED TO OUR RESPECTIVE COUNTIES.

UH, AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE AN EXPLANATION.

AND YOU'RE ASKING US TO APPROVE $182 MILLION BUDGET, OF WHICH WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW THAT'S GONNA IMPACT THE 12 COUNTIES HERE.

WELL, WE KNOW MOST OF THESE S THE PURPOSE OF MOST OF THE, MOST OF THESE SERVICES ARE IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA.

UH, AND SO SINCE FEWER SERVICES ARE PROVIDED IN THE RURAL AREAS, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO ME THAT IT WOULD BE TOO DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO COME ITEMIZE THAT FOR US AND EXPLAIN IT.

AND, AND, AND WE HAD, WE HAD A UNCOMFORTABLE MEETING LAST TIME.

AND I, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.

I DON'T WANNA BE, UH, RUDE OR DISRESPECTFUL IN ANY WAY.

I'M JUST FRUSTRATED.

UH, AND I'M NOT GONNA VOTE TO APPROVE THE BUDGET BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT AFFECTS MY COUNTY.

SO I'M, I'M, I'M, I'M COMMUNICATING TO YOU SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHERE I'M COMING FROM BECAUSE THIS NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE COMMITTEE OF SIX.

THEY NEED TO KNOW, AND I'M, I'M, AND, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO NOT APPROVE THE BUDGET.

I UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF IT.

THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, UH, THAT'S A DEATH SENTENCE FOR YOU GUYS.

BECAUSE IT'S PRETTY COMPLICATED.

BUT I WANT TO GET YOUR ATTENTION THAT WE WANT MORE INFORMATION, WE WANT MORE EXPLANATION.

AND WHEN WE WERE IN MY OFFICE AND, AND I THINK WE'RE SHE THE ONE WITH YOU? NO.

WELL, WHOEVER IT WAS WAS REALLY SMART, REALLY GOOD.

AND WE SAID WE'D GO DOWN, UH, WE'D GO DOWN ONE PATH AND THEN ANOTHER, AND THEN ANOTHER.

UH, AND I GOT TO THE POINT THAT EVEN FOR A RELATIVELY INTELLIGENT PERSON, UH, I WAS HAVING TROUBLE KEEPING UP WITH THE DIFFERENT FORMULAS THAT WE HAVE TO USE FOR EACH OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS.

AND, AND, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THESE JUDGES HERE, THAT NOW I, IT TOOK A LOT OF TIME, TOOK A LOT OF YOUR TIME, TOOK A LOT OF MY TIME.

BUT WE GOT TO A COMMON UNDERSTANDING AT THE END OF THAT, THAT IT WAS JUST MORE COMPLICATED THAN I COULD UNDERSTAND.

AND THAT THESE JUDGES NEED TO HEAR IT FROM YOU AS TO WHY THAT IS.

AND IT ALL COMES OUT OF ONE OF THOSE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE SECTIONS, UH, TAX SOMETHING I FORGOT.

AND, AND WHICH IS, IS, IS A MINEFIELD.

I, I, I'VE GOT IT.

UH, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE CONSTITUENTS, WHICH WE ARE, THAT ARE ASKING QUESTIONS AND EXPRESSING THEIR CONCERN, THEY SHOULD BE ADDRESSED.

AND, AND ADRIAN, I MEAN, NO DISRESPECT.

SURE.

YOU'RE NOT DOING THAT.

AND ALL I'M DOING IS TELLING YOU THIS IS NOT ENOUGH.

I'M NOT HERE TO, TO, TO, TO STOP YOUR ORGANIZATION TODAY.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER JUDGES ARE GONNA DO.

I'M VOTING NO AS A PROTEST, VOTE AS A DISSENT, BECAUSE I NEED THE COMMITTEE OF 12 TO START LISTENING TO US.

I NEED YOU TO START LISTENING TO US.

AND YOU HAVEN'T BEEN DOING THAT.

AND, AND, AND WE CAN, WE, WE CAN DISAGREE AGREEABLY YOU UNDERSTAND IT AND YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.

AND YOU GET ME TO THE POINT WHERE MY HEAD IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE, BUT THEY HAVEN'T HEARD IT, AND THEY, THEY DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TO THEIR QUESTIONS.

AND I'M JUST SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF, OF, OF OUR, OUR LITTLE GROUP HERE OF THE AREA JUDGES.

UH, AT SOME POINT THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF EXPLANATION OBJECT OTHER THAN HEARING THAT FROM YOU.

I'M NOT SURE I'VE HEARD THAT FROM OTHER JUDGES.

NOW I HAVE TAKE THE TIME TO ACTUALLY VISIT OTHER JUDGES, AND I TAKE THE TIME TO WORK WITH 'EM MORE CLOSELY, FOR EXAMPLE, ON SPECIFIC ITEMS IN THOSE INTERVIEWS, RIGHT? THAT THREE HOUR MEETING WAS MY EFFORT AND STAFF'S EFFORT TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE PROCESS, RIGHT? WE WERE ASKED LAST YEAR AFTER THE AREA JUDGES VOTED ON PROVIDING EXPLANATION TO THE BUDGET.

AND THERE WAS A METHODOLOGY THAT SAID, FOLLOW THIS

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METHODOLOGY.

THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US, UH, WITH DIANE AT THE TIME.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID.

WE BUILT A BUDGET, WE BUILT THE APPLICATION, WE BUILT THE EXPENDITURES BASED ON THAT METHODOLOGY.

IS IT SIMPLE? NO, IT'S NOT.

NOW, THE QUESTION REALLY HERE IS, IS WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE AND TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET, AND I CAN GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE SORT OF SECTION WHERE IT'S, UH, DETAILED IN THE LAW.

IT SAYS, HERE'S HOW WE GET THAT PARTICULAR ALLOCATION FOR THIS FUND, FOR THIS ACCOUNT.

SO THERE ARE 30 DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES, RIGHT? EITHER ARE 12 OR 13 DIFFERENT COUNTS, RIGHT? THE APPLICATION AND THE BUDGET FOR EACH, FOR EACH COUNTY.

CAN YOU MULTIPLY THAT? THAT'S OVER A HUNDRED DIFFERENT SORT OF BUDGETS THAT ARE ACTUALLY PUT TOGETHER, RIGHT? SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE, THE FOCUS, YOU KNOW, WHILE WE WENT DOWN THIS ROAD TO HAVE THIS FOCUS ON THE DOLLARS THAT, THAT SHIFT MORE TO SERVICE DELIVERY, BECAUSE THAT CONVERSATION IN MY MIND IS MORE FRUITFUL.

IT'S WHAT RESULTS IN, FOR EXAMPLE, AT OSA COUNTY DEVELOPING A YOUTH, UH, SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE FUNDED, RIGHT? JUDGE K REACHED OUT, SAID, HEY, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO IN REGARDS TO THIS? LOOKED AT THAT.

AND WE SAID, YES.

RIGHT? SO WE'RE FOCUSING ON SERVICE DELIVERY, RIGHT? JUDGE GIO AND I HAVE BEEN CLOSELY IN CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER IN REGARDS TO THE LAYOFFS IN, IN HER COMMUNITY, WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT HER RESIDENTS AND, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS, THAT THEY ACTUALLY RECEIVE THE TYPES OF SERVICES THAT THEY CAN THAT ON, ON THEIR FEET, RIGHT? WE CAN GO TO THE CONVERSATION AND TALK ABOUT, WELL, HOW MUCH MONEY WAS INVESTED EITHER INTO THE YOUTH INTERN PROGRAM OR TO RAPID RESPONSE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT, BUT THAT SHIFTS THE FOCUS AWAY FROM ACTUALLY SERVICE DELIVERY, ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTATION.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT WE DO THROUGHOUT THE REGION WHEN YOU'RE SERVING 60 SOMETHING THOUSAND PEOPLE THAT JUST COME TO VISIT OUR CENTERS, RIGHT? THAT DEMONSTRATES THE VALUE.

SOME OF THAT'S NOT GONNA BE REFLECTED IN, IN, IN THESE NUMBERS.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN YOUR COUNTY, NEXT WEEK WE'RE PARTNERING WITH THE LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND HOSTING A VENTURE CAPITALIST EVENT, ALRIGHT? TO INFUSE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE REGION.

WE'VE ALSO HAD DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW DO WE ENHANCE, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDCARE.

THERE'S A, THERE'S A QUESTIONNAIRE THAT'S GONNA BE COMING OUT TO ALL THE AREA JUDGES AND ALL THE CHILDCARE PROVIDERS SAYING, HEY, WE ARE THINKING ABOUT SORT OF POTENTIALLY LOOKING AT DEVELOPING CO-OPS TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS CHILDCARE CENTERS WITH THE NEED FOR CHILDCARE CENTERS IN THE REGION.

NOW I CAN SIT DOWN AND SAY, WELL, HOW MUCH MONEY ARE YOU GONNA INVEST? WELL, I DON'T KNOW MY HONEST, BUT WE'RE GONNA USE OUR DOLLARS TO BE ABLE TO SORT OF INFUSE THAT IDEA SO THAT WE CAN BE ABLE SECURE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, RIGHT? WHAT WE'VE DONE AS A, AS A WORKFORCE BOARD HAS GONE WAY ABOVE AND BEYOND IN TERMS OF SECURING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, PARTNERSHIPS, YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON THE POPULATIONS THAT WE'RE SERVING, FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S SPREAD THROUGHOUT, THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE REGION.

THE CENTERS THAT WE WORK WITH IN TERMS OF CHILDCARE, IT'S ABOUT 600 DIFFERENT CENTERS.

WE'RE MAKING INVESTMENTS INTO NOT ONLY PEOPLE AND, AND, AND YOU KNOW, FAMILIES, BUT ALSO INTO TO THE BUSINESSES.

THAT'S WHY WE WERE PRESENTING THAT IN TERMS OF SORT OF THE SIZE.

I UNDERSTAND THE, THE CONCERNS ABOUT THE BUDGET.

AND AGAIN, WE'RE HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE A THREE HOUR MEETING JUST LIKE WE HAD WITH YOU, UH, WITH ANY OF THE AREA JUDGES TO EXPLAIN THE PROCESS.

AND WE HAVE A PROBLEM EXCUSE WITH THAT, BUT I ASKED YOU TO COME PRESENT IT TO ALL OF US.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE DOING HERE, JUDGE.

WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT IN MY OFFICE.

WE WENT THROUGH T GOING THROUGH THOSE ALLOCATIONS, UH, OF WHAT EACH ONE OF THOSE SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED, THE ALLOCATION IS PER COUNTY.

BUT YOU ALSO SAY, JUDGE, AND I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THIS SORT OF KIND OF TIT FOR ARGUMENT HERE, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT'S, I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA ARGUE.

I JUST, I JUST WANNA TELL YOU THAT.

BUT I THINK WHAT YOU SAID, JUDGE, WAS IT GOT TOO COMPLICATED FOR YOU.

SO DO WE WANT TO SPEND TIME TALKING ABOUT A SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM OR LAYOFFS OR, YOU KNOW, SERVICE DURATION OR CHILDCARE, OR YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT A BUDGET? YEAH.

IT'S GONNA REQUIRE ABOUT THREE HOURS OF YOUR TIME AND YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT, YOU KNOW, FULLY UNDERSTAND IT AT THE END, RIGHT.

I THINK WHAT, WHERE, WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY IS, IF I WERE TO SORT OF SUMMARIZE THIS THING IS DO WE HAVE ENOUGH TRUST AMONGST, UH, THE CHIEF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND YOUR CORE SOLUTIONS ELIGIBLE?

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WE HAVE SIX YEARS WORTH OF, OF CLEAN AUDITS.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONITORING ISSUES.

THERE HAS BEEN NO LAWSUITS, THERE HAVE BEEN NO ISSUES ASSOCIATED.

AND IT ALLOWS US THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN LIKE THAT BUS, IF YOU SEE RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE STORE, RIGHT? THAT'S TO EXPAND THE SERVICE PROVISION.

THAT'S TO GO TO COMMUNITIES LIKE CHARLOTTE, TEXAS, OR SOMEWHERE ELSE, RIGHT? IT DOESN'T HAVE A SET RIGHT.

OR OVER SOMEWHERE ELSE IN, IN, IN, IN, WITHIN THE REGION.

I THINK WE'VE DEMONSTRATED GOOD FAITH IN THE EXPENDITURE OF THE DOLLARS IN EXPANDING PARTNERSHIPS AND BEING ABLE TO SORT OF WORK CLOSELY WITH, FOR EXAMPLE, LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS IN BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR WHEN THERE'S LAYOFFS.

RIGHT? I DON'T HEAR COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT JUDGE.

AND, AND, BUT, BUT IF THERE ARE, I'M HAPPY TO ADDRESS THOSE.

WHAT I HEAR IS THE BUDGET AND, AND, AND THE ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUDGET.

BUT I DON'T HEAR REALLY SORT OF ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH SERVICE DELIVERY AND, AND, AND THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.

I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN THOSE.

RIGHT.

WELL, YOU SAY YOU'RE HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN 'EM, BUT YOU NEVER DO.

I I THINK THERE'S TWO ISSUES.

IT'S NOT ABOUT QUALITY OF THE SERVICES.

IT'S ABOUT IF WE HAVE AN ISSUE EXPLAINING WHAT THESE NUMBERS ARE ARE TOO COMPLEX, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO TO OUR CITIZENS IF WE DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND 'EM AND THEY SAY, WELL, HOW'D YOU COME UP WITH THESE NUMBERS? I THINK THAT'S THE UNDERLYING ISSUE.

AND THAT, AND ADRIAN WENT OUT OF HIS WAY AND DID A GOOD JOB, COME SIT DOWN IN MY OFFICE, BROUGHT STAFF WITH HIM, AND STARTED WALKING ME THROUGH THESE ALLOCATIONS.

BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT OUR ISSUE IS, THE ALLOCATIONS.

IT'S NOT THE, IT'S NOT DELIVERY OF SERVICE.

YES.

I, I THINK IT'S SOME ISSUES THAT THIS IS ABOUT THIS.

'CAUSE I DON'T GET ANY OF THAT FROM WHAT WE'VE BEEN PRESENTED TODAY.

SO I THINK THAT'S MY CONCERN AS WELL.

SO I, I STAND WITH YOU ON THIS AND, AND, AND JUST WHEN, WHEN WE LEFT MY, WHEN YOU LEFT MY OFFICE, WHEN WE PARTED THAT DAY, I WANTED, I I UNDERSTOOD OUR, UH, MISSION AT THAT POINT WAS FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN TO ALL OF THESE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT QUESTIONING THE ALLOCATION.

AND IT DOES GET CONFUSING AND YOU GET TO A CERTAIN POINT WHERE, OKAY, I'M GOOD WITH THAT.

UH, BUT, UM, YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA DO IT AND YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT AND YOU'RE HERE TODAY, MR. FREE JUDGE.

WHAT IF I MAY ASK, JUDGE, UM, WHEN WAS THE VISIT BETWEEN, UH, MR. LOPEZ AND YOURSELF? FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO.

PROBABLY APRIL OR SOMETHING.

OF THE SLIDES IN THERE WHERE YOU SHOWED THE RAISES, AND I WANNA UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH THAT.

AND, AND IT WAS A VERY CONSTRUCTIVE MEETING.

UH, BUT WE GOT TO THE POINT THAT THERE ARE SO MANY COMPLICATIONS TO THIS THAT, UH, IT'S REALLY GONNA TAKE US, UH, SOME KIND OF COMPUTERIZED SPREADSHEET TO, TO, TO GO THROUGH AND, AND PROVIDE IT TO US.

SO, SO, BUT MORE THAN WE EVER GOT SATISFIED TO THE ALLOCATION, WHAT I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IS I WANTED MY FELLOW JUDGES TO HEAR WHAT I HEARD AND GET TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE NEVER GONNA KNOW WHAT THE ALLOCATIONS REALLY ARE.

SO I THINK WHAT WE'VE DEMONSTRATED IN THIS BUDGET, WELL LAST YEAR BUDGET IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET AND, AND FORSTER'S BUDGET AS WELL, IS YOU ALL ASKED FOR A METHODOLOGY.

YOU SAID GO BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW, AND WE DID THAT, DO RESEARCH, AND YOU SAID, OKAY, FOR THIS PARTICULAR COUNTY, SO LIKE, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE HERE, NOW THIS IS EXPENDITURES, RIGHT? LET'S JUST TAKE, UM, YOU KNOW, BANDERA COUNTY FORMULA FUNDS 292,000, UH, IN EXPENDITURES ABOUT 0.76% OF TOTAL AMOUNT, RIGHT? CHILDCARE, 378,000 AND SO ON ITS OWN RIGHT? AND SO THIS IS DONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT WE LAY OUT IN THE ALLOCATION.

THE ALLOCATION IS FOLLOWING THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

IF IT SAYS THAT FOR A CERTAIN COUNTY BASED ON THEIR POVERTY RATE, THEY GET A HIGHER PERCENTAGE, FOR EXAMPLE, OF DOLLARS FOR PHONE OF FUNDS OR FOR OTHER TAX OF FUNDS, THEN THAT'S WHAT WE DID.

THAT'S REALLY COMPLEX THOUGH, BECAUSE AGAIN, THERE'S OVER 30 DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES AND THERE ARE 13 DIFFERENT COUNTIES AND THERE ARE FACTORS FOR EACH OF THOSE.

WE DEFINITELY HAVE THE METHODOLOGY AND THE SPREADSHEETS AND ALL OF THAT.

WE GO THROUGH THAT.

UH, IF YOU, IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, JUDGE, I GOT, I, I GOTTA, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR JUDGE TILL HE IS NOT HERE, BUT I, WE HAD A CONVERSATION THE OTHER DAY AND ASOSA MCMULLEN COUNTY HAS BEEN HAPPY WITH SOME OF THE RESULTS WE'VE BEEN GETTING FROM, UH, ADRIAN AND WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS.

WE DON'T, WE DON'T SEE ANY ISSUES ON THAT PART.

I DO UNDERSTAND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE BUDGET BETTER AND THE PROCESS BETTER AND THE FORMULA'S BETTER.

I MEAN, I, I DON'T WANNA SEE 'EM AND EXPECT IT.

IT'S GOTTA BE ADOPTED IN FOUR DAYS.

I DON'T LIKE THAT AT ALL.

THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN THIS.

I'M NOT SAYING IT HADN'T BEEN PRESENTED, BUT IT'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN IT.

ALSO, IF YOU, ADRIAN, IF YOU GO TO THE, UM, UM, ONE

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'CAUSE I MEAN, WE, WE GAVE, WE GAVE A STRAIGHT $200, UH, MONTHLY DEAL RIGHT THERE.

YOU GOT A 3% COLA, A 2% MAXIMUM MERIT, A 3% PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE.

I MEAN, YOU START ADDING THOSE UP, THAT'S A BUNCH OF NUMBERS.

AND WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T GRANT ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN OUR COUNTY.

AND THE RURAL COUNTIES DON'T GRANT THOSE KIND OF NUMBERS.

HOW, HOW CAN WE GET TO HOW, HOW DO, HOW DO YOU GET TO THAT? SO JUDGE, UM, AS I MENTIONED, WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, THE BUDGET WAS ABOUT A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

THIS YEAR'S FISCAL.

WHO YOUR BUDGETS 197 MILLION.

WELL, I THINK, I THINK THIS YEAR IS 182 AND LAST YEAR'S A HUNDRED NINETY, NINETY SEVEN.

WELL, NEXT YEAR'S FISCAL, WHO YOUR BUDGET GONNA BE HUNDRED 82, RIGHT? IT'S A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHERE, WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

BUT HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENED IS I'VE SECURED A TON OF MORE RESOURCES, BUT THE STAFF HAS NOT GROWN.

WE'VE KEPT OUT OUR STAFF AND 15 REALLY NOT GROWN THAT STAFF.

SO THERE'S SAVINGS THERE, WHICH GOES BACK TO, TO, UH, THE SPREAD SPREADSHEET THAT REFLECTS THAT EVEN WITH THOSE SALARY INCREASES, UHHUH 3.48% OF THE OVERALL BUDGET.

MOST ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE AT EIGHT TO 10% THAT THEY'RE SITTING IN MY, IN MY, OH, I'M, I'M NOT ARGUING THAT EFFECT.

I'M, I'M ARGUING THE FACT THAT WE CAN'T, THESE COUNTIES.

I DON'T KNOW.

DID Y'ALL GET THOSE KIND OF RAISES? NO, WE DID.

WE HAD 3%.

DID Y'ALL, I MEAN, I DON'T SEE ANY OF US GIVING THOSE KIND OF RAISES IN OUR SITUATION.

AND WE'RE, WE'RE, BELIEVE ME, OUR STAFF IS PROBABLY A LOT PAID A LOT LESS THAN YOUR STAFF IS.

AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS AND STUFF, THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE, WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

SHOW IF THE QUESTION WAS ARE WE GETTING OUR FAIR SHARE? THE OVERWHELMING ANSWER WAS YES.

AND IF YOU TAKE YOUR SALARIES, BENEFITS AND EVERYTHING AT 4 MILLION PLUS DOLLARS, HOW MANY EMPLOYEES IS THAT? 10, A HUNDRED, A THOUSAND? I DON'T KNOW.

THAT'S 50 APPROXIMATELY 50 EMPLOYEES.

I'M SORRY, 50 EMPLOYEES.

THAT, THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD CHUNK OF MONEY.

SO I MEAN, WE, WE JUST TRY TO UNDERSTAND, WE NEED TO KNOW THE MEAT OF IT TO, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND.

ADRIAN, I, I GOT YOUR BACK.

I LIKE YOU.

I LIKE THE WORK YOU'VE DONE.

WE'VE BEEN VERY HAPPY.

YOU'VE WORKED ON US WITH SEVERAL PROJECTS.

WE COME TO YOU.

I I I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE ORGANIZATION THE WAY IT'S OPERATING.

AND, AND AGAIN, TEAL AND I HAVE BEEN NECK AND NECK TALKING ABOUT THIS STUFF AND WE, BOTH OF US SEEM TO BE HAPPY.

BUT AGAIN, NOT UNDERSTANDING AND NOT KNOWING AND WE TALK ALL THE TIME, BUT I'VE NEVER GOT INTO THE MEAT OF IT WITH YOU.

AND SO THAT'S THE SITUATION THAT I'M, BUT I'M, YOU GOT MY SUPPORT ON ON WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU DO IT.

I JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND MORE LIKE JUDGE KELLY SAYS WE, WE DON'T NEED TO BE BLINDSIDED.

WELL, JUDGE, I WOULD SAY, I'M NOT SURE THERE'S A BLINDSIDED YES, SIR.

BECAUSE THE BUDGET PROCESS STARTS VERY EARLY.

SO A COUPLE OF THINGS, RIGHT? UM, THE WAY THE LEGAL RELATIONSHIP IS, IS BETWEEN, UM, THE CHIEF ELECTED OFFICIAL, THE 14TH, RIGHT? SO BECAUSE IT INCLUDES THE MAYOR, SAN ANTONIO, UH, AND THEN THE 13 COUNTY JUDGES.

UM, WE SET UP THE COMMITTEE OF SIX.

SO THE COMMITTEE OF SIX YEAH.

ACTING ON, ON Y'S BEHALF TO A CERTAIN EXTENT.

EXTENT.

'CAUSE THERE'S TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE RULE, TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM YOUR COUNTY, TWO FROM THE EXTENT, UH, THE BUDGET WELL GOES THROUGH THAT, RIGHT? AND GOES THROUGH, THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

IN ADDITION, THE LEGAL DOCUMENTS HAVE, UM, THAT EACH OF THOSE AREA JUDGES, THE, UH, BE COUNTY CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE THAT IS A, UM, THAT IS A, A BOARD MEMBER, A QUASI BOARD MEMBER ON OUR BOARD.

SO IN THIS CASE IT'D BE CLIFF AND, AND VERA COUNTY.

IT'S, UH, JORDANA AND, UH, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, IT'S MIKE RAM.

THEY ATTEND ALL THOSE WEEKS.

THEY REVIEW ALL THE BUDGETS THAT WE HAVE, UH, APPROVED.

RIGHT? SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS CRAZY ANIMAL THAT WOULD IS, IS THE, IS THE MOST UNIQUE, YOU KNOW, ANIMAL THAT I'VE WORKED.

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE.

I REALLY CAN'T, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE, THE DETAIL THAT GOES INTO IT.

I REALLY, THE FORMULAS, THE STUFF, I, I GET ALL THAT I DO.

UH, I UNDERSTAND JUDGE KELLY'S FRUSTRATION.

I I HAVEN'T PERSONALLY BEEN INVOLVED.

OF COURSE HE'S BEEN AROUND A LOT LONGER THAN I HAVE.

AND I, I, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH AND I UNDERSTAND JUDGE KELLY'S FRUSTRATION.

SO I WOULD SUGGEST THIS JUDGE, UH, WHICH IS, AND, AND, AND IF THAT, IF THAT IS THE COMPLAINT, I WILL GLADLY TAKE THE, UH, RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT.

LAST YEAR WHEN THIS, THIS CONVERSATION ERUPTED, WE WERE, WE WERE GIVEN THE TASK TO DEVELOP THE BUDGET AND, AND TRACK THE EXPENDITURES BASED ON A METHODOLOGY THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US LARGELY BY , RIGHT? WE FOLLOWED THAT AT THE SAME TIME WE, UH, FOCUSED ON, UM, IN SERVICE DELIVERY BECAUSE WE FELT WE CAN TALK TO ABOUT THE BUDGET TO REVIEW IN THE FACE.

AND I'M NOT SURE WE'RE GONNA GET MUCH OUT OF THAT OTHER THAN TO

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AND QUITE FRANKLY, BASED ON THE, THE BUDGET ALLOCATION AND THE METHODOLOGY THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US, THE RURAL AREAS ACTUALLY LOST A MILLION DOLLARS BECAUSE OF THE METHODOLOGY.

THEY SAID, LOOK, GO TO THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

AND BECAUSE LARGE, IT WAS AN 80 20, UH, 20% SPLIT.

SO WE ALWAYS FOLLOW THAT.

FOR, FOR YEARS, EVEN BEFORE I WAS HERE, WHEN THEY ASKED US TO, TO LOOK AT THE METHODOLOGY TO GO BY THE LAW, THAT SPLIT CHANGED TO 82% TO ABOUT 18%.

UH, FOR RULE.

THAT WAS A NET LOSS TO, UH, THE RURAL COUNTIES OF ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS THAT, THAT WE WERE ASKED TO, TO, TO GO IN THAT ROUTE.

AND WE DID.

AND SO, SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, TO YOUR POINT, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IN TERMS OF THE SERVICE DELIVERY, BECAUSE WE HAVE MADE CONCENTRATED EFFORTS TO BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE ARE PROVIDING VALUE, BECAUSE WE THINK THAT'S THE MORE FRUITFUL CONVERSATION AND THE MORE, UH, OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP, YOU KNOW, PARTNERSHIPS AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

AND THAT'S WHAT THIS LOCAL PLAN DISCUSSION IS GONNA BE ABOUT, UM, TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE.

BUT TO THE POINT ABOUT WHAT I'LL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR, I WOULD TAKE, DEFINITELY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR NOT SITTING DOWN WITH EACH OF YOU TO HAVE A THREE HOUR CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS PLAN.

I GET IT.

I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND.

I'LL TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY.

BUT YOU SAID THERE WAS 50 EMPLOYEES.

YES, SIR.

SO THAT AVERAGE IS ON AN AVERAGE $80,000 A SALARY, 87 5 IF YOU RUN IT, I'M SORRY, 87 5 IS WHAT I GOT.

SO WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE KIND OF NUMBERS, BUT SALARY PLUS MAKE THOSE KIND OF NUMBERS.

WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY, WELL DID SALARY PLUS BENEFIT, IF YOU TOOK THE, YOU SHOULD TAKE ACTUALLY THE 4.6 AND THE 1.3.

IF YOU CAN DO THE MATH FOUR WEEK AND THEN THE 50 ON THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S EVEN HIGHER THEN.

HE GETS IT TO 90, SO 90,000 NOW .

BUT, BUT I THINK THE, THE ISSUE HERE TOO, JUDGE, IS THAT I DON'T THINK ANYBODY CAN QUESTION THE CHANGES IN THE LABOR MARKET.

AND THE MESS OF RE RETAINING PEOPLE MEAN JUST THE LATEST, LATEST REPORT THEN IT CAME OUT ON FRIDAY, SHOWED ABOUT 30,000 NEW JOBS THAT WERE CREATED FOR THE REGIONAL OVER CERTAIN PERIOD, RIGHT? THERE'S MORE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT EVERYBODY'S PAYING MORE FOR, FOR SALARIES.

ANYTHING ELSE, SHANE? ALL THE QUESTION.

OKAY, FAIR ENOUGH.

SOMEBODY'S GOT YEAH, GO MORE.

GO AHEAD.

WELL, I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMITTEE SIX FOR 20 SOMETHING YEARS.

OKAY, , WE'VE HAD WHAT, SEVEN THESE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.

80 20 WAS AN ARTIFICIAL NUMBER THAT WAS CREATED YEARS AGO, BACK WHEN WE HAD A A DC AND ALL THAT.

AND WHEN DIANE BECAME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OF COURSE HER FOCUS HAD BEEN WORKFORCE AND, UH, THE THE BOARD.

Y'ALL WEREN'T FOLLOWING THE THE LAW, YOU WEREN'T FOLLOWING THE PROCEDURES.

CORRECT? RIGHT.

AND WE DEMANDED, OKAY, WE HAVE A RULE BOOK, IT NEEDS TO BE FOLLOWED.

NOBODY HAD A, I DIDN'T HAVE A PRECONCEIVED IDEA OF HOW IT WAS GONNA COME OUT, BUT IF WE NEED TO FOLLOW THE RULE BOOK, SO WE KNOW HOW IT WORKS.

AND, AND THAT WAS DONE.

WE DID LOSE MONEY, BUT, BUT AT LEAST WE ARE FOLLOWING THE LAW.

AND, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD DO.

NOW.

WE, I MEAN, I'M SITTING HERE, Y'ALL ASKING QUESTIONS.

I'VE BEEN OVER THIS TOO MANY TIMES.

IT'S ALMOST MAKES ME NAUSEOUS TO GO OVER THE, THE BUDGETS WITH THE KUIA SIX.

BUT WHEN WE GO INTO IT IN GREAT, GREAT DETAIL AND THERE'S SOME HARD, HARD CONVERSATIONS, AND WE HAVE IN THE COMMITTEE OF SIX TO GET IT DONE.

DO I LIKE THE BUDGET THE WAY IT IS? NO.

I THINK WE SHOULDN'T BE PAYING FOR PARKING IN DOWNTOWN.

I THINK WE SHOULDN'T BE DOWNTOWN WITH THE CORPORATE OFFICE.

TAKE PART OF THAT MONEY, PUT IT BACK OUT TO SERVICES, BUT THAT WAS DONE BY ANOTHER LEASE ACTIVE DIRECTOR.

AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE LIVING WITH IT, BUT THE LEASE IS OPEN UP.

I HOPE YOU MOVE , GET US TO PLACES MAYBE SO ABOUT THREE YEARS OR SO.

MY, WHAT MY REQUEST WAS, THEY DO IT ONE TIME TO ALL OF US.

GET TO A PLACE AND TAKE THAT MONEY.

BUT, UH, WE'VE HAD, WHAT, SEVEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS FOR EIGHT SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMITTEE OF SIX, HAD A LOT OF PROBLEM, A LOT OF MISMANAGEMENT.

ADRIAN'S DONE A GOOD JOB.

WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE.

AND, AND HE KNOWS THAT.

AND I'M, I TELL HIM , BUT, BUT, BUT WE KNOW, I, WE WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS AND I THINK IF EACH JUDGE WANTS HIM TO COME OUT, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.

BUT, BUT I THINK WHAT

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WE SHOULD HAVE JUST HAD A WORKSHOP YEP.

IN, IN, INTO A THREE HOUR WORKSHOP.

BUT WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T DO THAT.

SO WE WERE UP AGAINST THE DEADLINE NOW.

BUT I, I WOULD SAY THAT WE SHOULD, UH, I, I'M GONNA VOTE TO APPROVE THE BUDGET, BUT I THINK THAT THE, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT A PRESENTATION IS OFFERED TO EACH JUDGE IN EACH COUNTY TO SIT DOWN WITH WORKFORCE STAFF, IF THEY SO DESIRE, YOU CAN GO OVER EVERYTHING.

I, TO ME, IT'D BE MORE PRODUCTIVE TO THAT ONE-ON-ONE THAN TO DO THE GROUP.

THAT'S MY PERSONAL OPINION.

BUT I THINK IF THE WILLER WANTS TO KNOW IT, YOU KNOW, SPEND THREE HOURS WITH HIM, MAKE HIS EYES ROLL BACK, GO THROUGH THE FORM , YOU KNOW, AND GO, GO THROUGH IT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'LL HAPPEN.

I MEAN, IT IS.

WELL, BUT JUDGE EVANS, EVEN WITH HAVING THE GROUP PRESENTATION WITH ALL OF US, BECAUSE I, I REALLY LIKE A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS YOU GUYS ARE ASKING, AND IT MAY BE SOME QUESTIONS THAT I MAY NOT THINK ABOUT.

SO I'M LEARNING FROM Y'ALL AS WELL.

I WILL AGREE THAT THE COMMUNICATIONS ARE GREAT AS FAR AS THE SERVICES AND WHATNOT.

OH, I CAN'T, WE CANNOT GO BACKWARDS ON THE SERVICE PART.

BUT I DO AGREE THAT MORE INITIATIVES SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE TO DISCUSS THIS.

THE BUDGET PART.

BREAK IT DOWN FOR ME.

SO DO WE APPROVE THE BUDGET AND SAY THAT WE SCHEDULE A LAY A DIFFERENT EXPECT WORKSHOP FOR THE NEXT YEAR? THE, UH, AREA JUDGES TO, TO GO OVER EVERY FORMULA? IS THAT WHAT Y'ALL WANT? I, I DON'T CARE, BUT I DON'T WANT THE INDIVIDUAL VISIT BECAUSE I, I DO LIKE THE QUESTIONS ASKED.

WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT, BUT SOMETIMES THE QUESTIONS YOU GUYS ASK MAY PERTAIN TO OUR RURAL COUNTY, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A WORKSHOP'S.

ALL WE DO IS GO OVER THE FORM, IS THE BUDGET AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO IS THIS OUR DROP DEAD DATE ON THE ADOPTING THIS BUDGET TODAY? YEP.

YEP.

A WEEK FROM TODAY IS A DROP DEAD DATE.

I MEAN, WELL, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE, WE, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE RE OUR, THAT'S THAT JUDGE TO POST ESSENTIALLY MONDAY.

WELL, I WOULD'VE MOVED.

WE APPROVE THE BUDGET WITH THE CAVEAT THAT WITHIN 60 DAYS WE HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING WITH A WORKSHOP THAT DOESN'T HAVE AN ENDING TIME, TWO OR THREE HOURS.

SO WE CAN GET ALL THE, EVERYBODY LAY DOWN ON THE TABLE, GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, AND BE THROUGH.

THAT'S MY MOTION APPROVE WORKSHOP WITHIN 60 DAYS, ONLY ONE ITEM ON THE AGENDA DISCUSS THE BUDGET PROCESS AND THE FORMULATION OF THE, OF IT.

SO IT'S A, A CONDITIONAL APPROVAL.

IT'S AN APPROVAL WITH A CAVEAT TO IT.

A CAVEAT A SECOND WILL THAT I WILL THAT WORK IF WE APPROVE A BUDGET? WE ADOPTED A BUDGET.

WE ADOPTED A BUDGET FOR THE YEAR.

YEAH, I'M SORRY.

WE ADOPTED IT FOR A YEAR.

YEAH, WE'VE GOTTA A VOTE TODAY FOR A BUDGET THAT GO THROUGH SEP END OF SEPTEMBER NEXT YEAR.

YOU GOT A MOTION? AND A SECOND? YOU HAVE A SECOND.

SO WE GOT A MOTION BY JUDGE EVANS AND SECOND BY JUDGE CAMACHO, UH, TO APPROVE THE BUDGET AND WITH A CAVEAT TO, FOR A, UH, BUDGET WORKSHOP FOR THE AREA JUDGES WITHIN 60 DAYS.

IS THAT IT? JUST MAKING SURE THAT'S YOUR MOTION.

THAT DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO EVERYBODY? I MEAN, IF YOU THAT'S, WELL, IT'S YOUR MOTION .

I DON'T NEED A WORKSHOP.

WELL, IF, IF THE BUDGET'S DUE BOTH THE BUDGET'S DUE ON OCTOBER ONE 60 DAYS MEANS THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE IT.

I'VE HEARD IT SO MANY TIMES IN 20 SOMETHING YEARS ABOUT HOW WE DO IT, BUT YEAH, THAT'S MY MOTION.

I'LL TELL YOU, I PROBABLY WOULDN'T SUPPORT SOMETHING LIKE THIS NEXT YEAR NOT VISITING WITH SOMEBODY AND, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF IT.

WELL, IF YOU'RE GONNA, IF YOU'RE GONNA DO CAVEATS, I WOULD BE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE THAT THE CAVEAT BE IF, EVEN IF YOU'RE GONNA APPROVE IT THIS YEAR, BECAUSE IT'S TOO LATE FOR US TO DO ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN SHUT YOU DOWN.

AND THAT WAS DONE ON PURPOSE.

AND I KNOW IT AIN'T, YOU BROUGHT IT TO US LATE ENOUGH THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHOICE BUT TO APPROVE IT.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.

PUTS PRESSURE IN, IT'S A PRACTICAL MATTER.

THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN HERE TODAY.

SO THE CAVEAT THAT I WOULD WANT IS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS HEARING 60 DAYS BEFORE THE BUDGET HAS TO BE APPROVED FOR NEXT YEAR.

SO THAT WE HAVE THE, AND IT NEEDS TO BE A SPECIAL MEETING.

JUST JUDGES, JUST THE AREA JUDGES.

WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT BRINGING IN ANYBODY ELSE.

YOU NEED, YOU NEED TO GET US HAPPY WITH IT.

UH, WE'RE, THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN THIS YEAR.

AND THAT'S MY FRUSTRATION.

YOU TOLD ME YOU'D DO IT AND YOU DIDN'T.

AND SO, UH, IF, IF YOU AMEND YOUR MOTION TO PUT THE CAVEAT THAT I CAN SUPPORT THAT.

SO YOU WANNA DO IT 60 DAYS PRIOR TO THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET TO DO THAT? ABOUT 60 DAYS FROM THIS DATE?

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UH, WELL, I'D LIKE TO SAY, I SAY 90 DAYS.

'CAUSE THIS 90 DAYS IS IN THE, THAT'S IN MIDDLE OF MY BUDGET CYCLE.

YOUR'S DUE, ? WHAT'S THAT? THAT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF BUDGET CYCLE.

OH, IS IT? OKAY THEN.

60.

'CAUSE THIS DOESN'T FLY A, I MEAN, LOOK, IT'S A WEEKEND.

MY THOUGHT WAS TWICE.

YEAH, I'M FINE WITH 60 DAYS.

SO, SO THE ONLY, UH, THING THAT I WOULD SAY, HOW YOU PROVIDE THE WORKSHOP, RIGHT? CERTAINLY COULD DO THAT.

UM, JUST WANNA REMIND THE JUDGES OF GOING THROUGH ALL OF THE, THESE PROCESSES.

UH, SO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL HAVE TO APPROVE.

SO USUALLY ABOUT JUNE, JULY.

UM, SO WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE.

SO, SO YOU, YOU CAN HEAR THE BUDGET AND WE CAN PROVIDE THE, THE WORKSHOP IN TERMS OF SORT OF THE APPROVAL.

IT'LL PROBABLY BE VERY CLOSE TO THE, THE SAME TIMEFRAME.

UH, BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF HOW THE APPROVALS HAVE TO GO.

WELL, AND IT IS NOT NECESSARILY OUR APPROVAL, IT'S JUST WORKSHOP.

BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU WANNA KNOW THE PROCESS TO GET THE NUMBERS RIGHT.

THE NUMBERS ARE MATH.

I KNOW.

AND THE NUMBERS ARE SAID BY STATUTE AND IT'S MATTER.

YOU WANT THE EXPLANATION OF OF, OF THE PROCESS.

IS THAT RIGHT? YES.

BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU ASKING, ASKING TO GO BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

WE'LL DEMONSTRATE HOW WE'RE GOING BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW IN THE FORMULAS.

TO ME, IF WE HAVE IT 60 DAYS OR SO FROM THE DAY EVERYBODY'S, OUR, UH, ANXIETY IS HEIGHTENED.

OUR, WE'RE ALL POED A LITTLE BIT.

AND, AND IT IS FRESH IN OUR MIND.

SAYS GO AHEAD AND GET IT, GET IT EXPLAINED.

AND THEN IF WE'RE NOT STILL THAT HAPPY, WE HAVE A CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE THE NEXT BUDGET CYCLE.

I THINK IT'S FRESH IN OUR MIND.

WELL, E EVERY YEAR THAT I'VE BEEN, UH, ON THIS BOARD, THIS GETS BROUGHT TO US THE WEEK BEFORE IT'S DUE EVERY YEAR.

AND I'D LIKE TO SEE IT SOONER THAN COMMITTEE SIX HAS, HAS GONE OVER IT AD NAUSEUM.

SO I WOULD RELINQUISH MY SEAT ON COMMITTEE SIX.

SO SOMEBODY CAN BE MORE IN TUNED IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO IT.

WELL, WE NEED TO MOVE MY MOTION.

MY MOTION IS BUDGET HAVE MEETING WITHIN 60 DAYS TO REVIEW THE PROCESS OF, OF, OF CREATING THE BUDGET, THE PROCESS, THE NUMBERS, THE NUMBER 60.

BUT DID YOU SECOND MY MOTION? YES.

HE JUST WILL SECOND.

SECOND.

ALRIGHT, THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND.

SO THIS IS APPROVAL WITH THE CAVEAT THAT WE'LL HAVE A, A WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WITHIN 60 DAYS WITH NO ENDING TIME TO EVERYBODY SATISFIED.

WE HAVE A MOTION WITH A CAVEAT.

THEREFORE WE HAVE A CONDITIONAL APPROVAL.

I KNOW.

THAT'S WHAT IT IS.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING.

THAT CONDITION IS NOT MET THEN OUR APPROVAL, OUR ASSENT IS NOT GIVEN OUR, OUR APPROVAL IS NOT GIVEN.

IF THAT CONDITION IS NOT MET, IS WHAT I'M, I WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND CLEARLY FOR VOTING, I KEEP, OKAY, THAT'S, CAN'T DO THAT WITH THE STIPULATION THAT WE HAVE.

THE MEETING CAN'T BE, I WE CAVEAT A MOTION.

WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE SAYING A STIPULATION THAT IT'S A CONDITIONAL APPROVAL.

CAN'T BE, IT CAN'T BE CONDITIONAL APPROVAL.

'CAUSE THEN IF THE REQUEST IS, YOU CAN REQUEST IT TO RIGHT THIS WITHOUT HAVING PART OF THE MOTION, WE'RE HAPPY TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO POST WORKSHOP FROM WHATEVER IT MAY BE.

UH, I, I, I'LL I WITHDRAW MY MOTION.

YOU'LL DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.

I, I THINK YOU JUST MAKE YOUR, I THINK YOU MAKE YOUR, MAKE YOUR MOTION TO APPROVE THROUGH AND THEN WE ASK THEM TO JUST, YOU MAKE A MOTION.

UM, NO.

'CAUSE I'M NOT, I'M GONNA VOTE NO, MAKE IT.

WELL YOU SECONDED IT.

NO, I DIDN'T.

SHE DID.

OH, SECOND, I'M SORRY.

IT'S JUST GOTTA BE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE BUDGET.

AND THEN OUR REQUEST TO THEM IS TO MEET WITH US WHEN IT'S 60 DAYS.

AND I THINK THEY WILL RESPECT THAT REQUEST.

'CAUSE OF ADOPTION.

CORRECT.

SEPARATE THE TWO ITEMS. SEPARATE THE TWO SEPARATE TWO ITEMS, THAT ITEM.

SO A MOTION TO APPROVE OR NOT APPROVE.

HAVE A MOTION DIRECTING YES.

WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ALAMO, TO APPEAR BEFORE THIS BODY WITHIN 60 DAYS.

I DO TWO SEPARATE THINGS.

AND THEN THAT, SO YOU HAVE AN APPROVAL.

IT'S NOT CONDITIONAL, THEN YOU HAVE A DIRECTION, A DIRECTIVE GIVEN DIRECTION TO TAKE.

HOW ABOUT THE DIRECTIVE FIRST? THAT, THAT ACTION.

I'M AGENDA.

THAT'S THE AGENDA I'M FILLING IN FOR JUDGE KUTCHER.

IT TRYING NOT TO RUN MY MOUTH TOO MUCH.

I THINK I'LL A LOT OF LIGHT.

I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE BUDGET, UH, AS, AS PRESENTED AT THE PRESENT TIME.

JUDGE CAMACHO SECONDED.

ANY DISCUSSION? THOSE IN FAVOR? WE'RE GONNA DO THIS ONE BY RAISING HAND SO WE HAVE A BETTER COUNT.

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1, 2, 3, 4.

AND AGAINST, OH, YOU VOTED FOUR, RIGHT? THAT IS CORRECT, SIR.

SO THAT'S 5, 5 2 IS THE VOTE.

MOTION CARRIES.

JUDGE, I MAKE A MOTION NOW THAT, UH, THAT THE, THE NEXT PRESENTATION OF THE BUDGET BE PRESENTED TO THE AREA JUDGES AT LEAST 60 DAYS PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.

FAIR ENOUGH.

YOUR MOTION? YES.

IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA FOR CONSIDERATION.

CAN'T MAKE A MOTION.

WELL, THAT'S TRUE.

YOU'RE RIGHT, ISN'T IT? COULD YOU ARGUE THAT IT IS CONSUMED WITHIN THE TOPIC THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY IS THE BUDGET.

YOU CAN MAKE IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA OR WE CAN THE NEXT MEETINGS PRESENTATION TO ADOPT THAT.

BUT RIGHT NOW YOU CAN'T MAKE A MOTION.

IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA.

HOW ABOUT ON THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM, HOWEVER, WHERE THERE'S A PRESENTATION ON THE BACKGROUND TIMELINE AND PROCESS FOR PROVID INPUT IN THE, UH, LOCAL PLAN, WHICH SPANS 2025 TO 2029, WE'RE MAKING A DIRECTIVE FOR 2025 UNDER THAT ONE.

MAYBE MAKE THAT, THAT, THAT MOTION UNDER THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.

HOWEVER IT MIGHT BE USEFUL.

WE DON'T HAVE AN AGENDA ITEM THAT CAN ENTERTAIN THAT KIND OF MOTION, SIR.

I DON'T, BUT I THINK WE CAN JUST MAKE A REQUEST.

WE MAKE A REQUEST.

YOU DON'T THINK NUMBER SIX COVERS IT? NO, BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE LOCAL PLAN.

THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO WITH THE BUDGET.

THIS, PUT IT BACK ON THE CHAIR.

YOU, YOU CAN CALL A MEETING WHENEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT AND HAVE ONE AGENDA ITEM.

HOW ABOUT WE JUST AGREE THAT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.

HOW'S THAT? FAIR ENOUGH.

I I GOT YOUR PHONE.

I GOT YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND IF THERE, IF THERE'S A MEETING SET WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS FOR AREA THAT WE'LL BE HERE, WE HAVE TO PRESENT.

WELL, ROB, HE CAN, YOU CAN CALL THE MEETING BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF LIKE THIS ON DEMAND.

WE, WHEN WE HAVE TO, YOU CAN CALL THE MEETING.

PUT THAT ONE ITEM.

OKAY, ADRIAN, WE CAN GET TOGETHER AND PLAN IT OUT.

SURE.

AND IF IT DOESN'T, WE'LL SCHEDULE A MEETING TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA ITEM.

HOW'S THAT BUT'S? WE'LL WORK TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE WITHIN 60 DAYS.

WE'LL GET, WE'LL GET CLIFF AND SUSIE AND, AND SO WE'RE GOING TRY TO SHOOT FOR A MEETING IN NOVEMBER.

THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE TRY TO AVOID THESE DAYS.

WELL, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE 60 DAYS.

YEAH, IT COULD BE DON'T ANYTIME WITHIN 60 DAY DEAL.

WELL, I I'M SAYING IS Y'ALL ARE AGREEING TO HOLD ONE.

MAYBE WE CAN DO IT IN DECEMBER WHEN IT'S SLOW BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS.

YEAH, WE'RE BEATING THIS HORSE TO DEATH.

BUT, UM, FOR MY CONCERNS, WE'VE APPROVED THIS BUDGET.

IS THE PRESENTATION ON THE BACKGROUND TIMELINE AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING INPUT INTO WSA 20 25, 29 LOCAL PLAN.

THAT'S ALL THAT HAS TO BE DONE RIGHT NOW.

WE WE'RE UNDER NO TIME LIMITS AT ALL.

UH, MY CONCERN IS BEING ABLE TO SEE WHAT'S GOING INTO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET SO THAT WE GET SOME INPUT.

THAT'S WHY I WAS TALKING ABOUT 60 DAYS BEFORE THE DUE DATE.

UH, THAT THAT'S WHAT I WOULD PREFER TO REQUEST RATHER THAN 60 DAYS.

BECAUSE WE'D BE GOING OVER THE SAME BUDGET WE JUST APPROVED, OR WE'RE BEATING THE HORSE TO DEATH JUDGE AS THE, AS THE CHAIR.

IF YOU WANTED TO HAVE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE, THE AREA JUDGES MEET WITH US AS WE DEVELOP AN EXTRA QUESTION, HAPPY TO PROVIDE THAT.

IF YOU WANT US TO COME AND PRESENT TO THE FULL BODY, WE'RE HAPPY TO DO THAT JUST AS WELL.

WELL, WHATEVER WE, WHATEVER WE DO, WE DO NOT HAVE AN AGENDA ITEM THAT WILL SUPPORT ACTION.

SO WE'RE JUST TALKING AT THIS POINT.

AND, UH, I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY CALL THIS QUESTION.

IT'S DONE.

UH, SO COMMITTEE OF SIX MEETS HERE THOUGH, CORRECT? YES.

YEAH, IT IS.

ANY REASON THEN WHY WE COULDN'T SIMPLY HAVE A JOINT MEETING OF THE AREA JUDGES AND THE COMMITTEE OF SIX IN JULY ON THAT TIMELINE AND SEE EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING THERE.

HAVE THE SAME PRESENTATION, WHICH IS OUR COLLEAGUE IS WELL STATED AS AD NAUSEUM.

WE DON'T NEED TO DISTRACT THE COMMITTEE OF SIX IN THE, WHAT OUR INDIVIDUAL CONCERNS ARE.

JUST, JUST THINK ABOUT THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED LAST MONTH AND IT WAS VERY UNPRODUCTIVE, I THOUGHT.

SO LET'S MOVE ON AND FINISH UP THE AGENDA SO WE CAN GO HOME.

UH, ITEM NUMBER SIX

[6. Presentation on background, timeline, and process for providing input into WSA 2025-2029 Local Plan. - Adrian Lopez, CEO]

MR. LOPEZ, GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

UH, MY NAME'S ADRIAN FEIS, OFFICER WITH, I GET THE WRONG ONE.

WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY HAS A CONTEXT FOR HOW IT'S UTILIZED.

UH, YEAH, I THINK HE WAS LISTED ON THE AGENDA, BUT, UH, TAG IN HIS STUD DOUBLE, UH, TO GET STARTED HERE.

UH, SO A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION JUST, WE JUST HAD, I THINK BOILS, BOILS DOWN TO COMMUNICATION AND US UNDERSTANDING, UH, AS A, A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD, HOW TO SERVE EACH COUNTY.

THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS LOCAL, LOCAL PLAN IS DESIGNED TO DO.

SO, UM, AS WE TALK ABOUT THIS, THIS LOCAL PLAN,

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AND WE TALK ABOUT THE LOCAL PLAN, WHAT IT MEANS.

UH, GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT WE'RE ONE OF 28 WORKFORCE BOARDS ACROSS THE STATE, BUT OUR MONEY FLOW INTO THROUGH STATE COMES INTO OUR REGION.

WE HAVE TO AGREE ON HOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND IT.

UH, WE'RE FUNDED BY NATIONAL STATE, STATE, LOCAL GRANTS, LOCAL GRANTS BEING READY TO WORK.

WORKFORCE NEEDS OUT CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES, RIGHT? SO WE'RE PROVIDING SERVICES THROUGH THESE 13 COUNTIES.

WELL, WHAT DETERMINES WHAT KIND OF SERVICES WE PROVIDE? HOW DO WE, UH, DEFINE THAT BY, BY COUNTY? WELL, THAT'S ESSENTIALLY THE LOCAL PLAN.

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE SERVICES, SERVICES THAT WE'RE CONTRACTING FOR, IT'S THE CENTERS, IT'S THE ADULT, IT'S THE YOUTH SERVICES.

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT VALUE, THAT VALUE CHAIN, THESE FOLKS COME TO THESE CENTERS, CENTERS, IDEALLY, THEY'RE GETTING THEIR NEEDS, THEIR NEEDS MET AS FAR AS NONPROFITS HELPING 'EM DEAL WITH WHATEVER ISSUES THEY HAVE.

THEY'RE GETTING ASSESSMENTS, THEY'RE HAVING BARRIERS ADDRESSED.

HOPEFULLY THEY'RE GETTING INTO A TRAINING.

THEY'LL PUT, PUT THEM INTO A TARGET OCCUPATION.

UH, SO IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE, CENTERS, ADULT YOUTH, ALSO CHILDCARE, WORKING WITH CHILDREN, FAMILIES PROVIDE, PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS AS WELL AS SERVICE PROVIDERS, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY SMALL BUSINESSES PROVIDING CARE ACROSS THE REGION.

FINALLY, W SAY YOU SAY CON UH, CONTRACTS FOR BUSINESS SERVICES, RIGHT? INDUSTRY COLLABORATORS.

TRY TO MAKE SURE THE INDUSTRY LEADERS, LETS KNOW, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON AS FAR AS THEIR NEEDS.

UH, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS AS WELL, UH, TO LOWER THE COST, LOWER THEIR RISK IN TERMS OF BRINGING THEIR CLIENTS, UH, TO WORK FOR THEM.

AND SO WHAT WE TRY TO DO IS MAKE SURE EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THOSE ARE THE BIG PIECES OF WHAT WSA DOES REGION.

WE CONTRACT OUT FOR THESE SERVICES.

WE SAW THIS BUDGET FROM LAST YEAR, 197 MILLION MILLION.

THAT'S ESSENTIALLY OUR WALKING AROUND MONEY, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT.

ALL OF THAT PUTS US IN TOUCH WITH TRAINING PROVIDERS AND PEOPLE WITH EMPLOYERS WITH NON-PROFITS.

AND THAT'S REALLY THE STARTING MR. LO LOPEZ'S POINT ABOUT EARLIER.

THERE ARE DOLLARS OUT THERE AT THE STATE OF TEXAS, A FEDERAL LEVEL THAT WE CAN PURSUE BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT STRUCTURE IN PLACE WITH OUR, WITH OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OF OUR CENTERS, OUR PARTNERS GOING FORWARD.

SO TO THINK ABOUT THAT AS A BACKDROP THAT OUR PROGRAM DOLLARS ARE REALLY THE STARTING POINT.

WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO IF WE HAVE ALL THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE? SO, SO THE LOCAL PLAN, AS BEEN MENTIONED, MENTIONED AT THE LAST MEETING, UH, REALLY IS THIS FOUR YEAR POLICY DOCUMENT, RIGHT? TWC REQUIRES US TO ARTICULATE HOW WE'RE GONNA MEET OUR COURSE CORE SERVICES.

IT'S APPROVED BY COURSE, THE SAME BODIES THAT APPROVED THE BUDGET.

UH, IN THIS PLAN, IT'S A FOUR YEAR PLAN, FOUR YEAR PLAN.

WE UPDATE IT EVERY TWO YEARS.

WE DO AN ANALYSIS OF THE 13, 13 COUNTIES AS FAR AS THE OVERALL SOCIOECONOMIC AND ECONOMIC BASE.

UH, WE ADDRESS HOW WE DEAL WITH CORE SERVICES, AND THEN WE HAVE TO ALIGN TO EVERYTHING THE STATE SAYS.

SO THE STATE HAS STRATEGIC PLANS.

WE HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE'RE ALIGNED, THE STATE GOING FORWARD.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF GLOBAL PLAN, TYPICALLY IS THE TARGET OCCUPATIONS.

SO THIS LIST OF OCCUPATIONS IS WHAT WE CAN INVEST IN IN THE REGION.

UH, WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS PREVIOUSLY IN TERMS OF HOW THESE OCCUPATIONS ARE DECIDED.

AND SO WE WANT BE VERY DELIBERATE, DELIBERATE ABOUT ENSURING THAT WE HAVE A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS THAT PUTS US IN THE BEST POSITION TO HAVE SUCCESS IN THE REGION, BUT ALSO ADDRESSING ADDRESSES EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTY'S NEED FOR SPECIFIC TALENT, UH, BASED ON THEIR ECONOMIC MAKE.

SO THIS YEAR WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON INTEGRATED THE STATEWIDE ACTION PLAN THAT MR. LOPEZ MENTIONED LAST YEAR, FOCUSING ON THE THREE GOALS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT STATEWIDE ACTION PLAN.

TEXAS TALENT EXPERTS, SERVICE OPTIMIZERS, AND SHIP MANAGERS.

THE TIMELINE IS IN THE PACKET, UH, OR ON THE POWERPOINT HERE, REALLY DEMONSTRATES HOW WE'VE KICKED, KICKED OFF THIS PROCESS BACK IN JULY.

WE'RE REALLY TAKING THIS LOCAL PLAN, PROCESS, PROCESS THROUGH TO, UH, JUNE, JULY WHEN GOVERNOR FINALLY APPROVED THE PLAN.

UH, THE NEXT STEP FOR, FOR US IS OCTOBER.

OCTOBER.

WE'RE GONNA BE HOSTING, WE'RE HOSTING A NUMBER OF SESSIONS, UH, TO HELP FOLKS CONNECT TO EACH OF THESE GOALS.

WE'RE GONNA BE REACHING OUT TO, UH, PARTNERS OF EACH OF THE, THE COUNTIES AND INVITING THEM TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE CAN USE DATA, HOW TO PROVIDE SERVICES, AND WHAT KIND OF STRATEGIES WE NEED TO BE PURSUING THROUGH THE LOCAL PLAN.

SO WE TALK ABOUT GOLD NUMBER ONE, TEXAS, TEXAS TALENT EXPERTS.

WE'RE GONNA BE HOSTING SESSIONS SO THAT WE CAN PULL IN FOLKS WHO ARE DOING, DOING BUSINESS SERVICES IN EACH OF THE COUNTIES.

SO THE CHAMBER, THE EDCS, AND TALK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION WE CAN PROVIDE.

SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ADULT YOUTH AND CHILD CHILDCARE SERVICES.

WE DO THE SAME THING ACROSS THE BOARD SO THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT IS NEEDED BY THESE PARTNERS WHO ARE SERVING FOLKS IN YOUR COUNTY.

UH, FROM WSSA, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO GOAL NUMBER TWO HERE.

THE SAME TYPE THING WITH EACH OF THESE PARTNERS TALKING ABOUT SERVICES.

AND TRY TO ESTABLISH OUS IN EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTY SO THAT WE'RE CLEAR ALL WHAT KIND OF SERVICES NEED TO BE PROVIDED.

UH, FINALLY, WE GO RING GOAL NUMBER THREE WITH EACH OF THOSE PARTNERS AS WELL, WHICH IS REALLY THE STRATEGY OVER THE NEXT 40 YEARS THAT WE NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON FOR EACH OF THESE SERVICE AREAS.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EACH OF THE GOALS, WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT DEALING WITH INDUSTRY, SUPPORTING ADULT YOUTH AND, AND CHILDCARE.

SO WHAT WE'RE ESSENTIALLY, ESSENTIALLY ASKING, UM, FROM THE JUDGES IS, IS TO, UH, TAKE A LOOK AT HOW WE'RE DOING OUTREACH AND TRY TO EDUCATE AND

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CONNECT WITH PARTNERS WHO ARE SERVING INDIVIDUALS IN EACH COUNTY.

GET THEM TO TALK TO US ABOUT US, ABOUT HOW THEY'D LIKE TO PARTNER WITH THIS.

WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE DOING A SURVEY TO GET FEEDBACK FROM INDUSTRIES IN EACH COUNTY TO SEE IF THE MATCH MATCH UP, UH, WITH WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT AT, AND IF THEY'D BE INTERESTED IN DOING IN COMMON WORKER TRAINING.

SO THOSE TWO SURVEYS WILL GIVE US SOME CONTEXT FOR THE WAY EACH COUNTY WANTS TO BE SERVED.

FINALLY, WE'LL HAVE A THIRD TOOL, WHICH WE PROVIDE TO THE JUDGES, GIVE US FEEDBACK ON PRIORITIES WITHIN EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTY.

SO THE LOCAL PLAN THEN BECOMES A WAY FOR US, FOR US TO UNDERSTAND HOW EACH COUNTY WANTS TO BE SERVED.

SO THE JUDGE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE IN ANY OF THESE MEETINGS.

WE'LL HAVE SET THE COURSE OF OCTOBER.

UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, PROVIDE, PROVIDE INFORMATION ON WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THOSE NONPROFITS AND THIS COMMUNITY, THESE ORGANIZATIONS, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE SERVING EACH COUNTY, HOW THEY WANT TO CONNECT WITH WSA.

WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, PROVIDE INFORMATION ON INDUSTRY AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY FEEL THE TARGET OCCUPATIONS THAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT, UH, MAKE SENSE AND FIT THEM.

UH, FROM THAT WE'LL PROVIDE TOOL, THE S TO INDICATE HOW THEY, THEY'D LIKE US TO PRIORITIZE.

AND SO, SO THIS, THIS WHOLE PROCESS THAT WE'RE UNDERTAKING THROUGHOUT OCTOBER IS REALLY TO GET, GET WHAT IS EACH COUNTY COUNTY'S LOOKING FOR IN TERMS OF SERVICE PROVISION, ARTICULATE AND PUT IT IN THE FOUR YEAR, FOUR YEAR PLAN.

THAT FOUR YEAR PLAN IS WHAT OUR BOARD USE USES TO CONTRACT FOR SERVICES.

AND SO IT REALLY IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US, OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ENGAGE, UH, WITH EACH OF THE COUNTIES AND DEFINE WHAT SERVICE LOOKS LIKE.

UH, AS THIS PLAN PLAN COMES FORWARD, UH, WE HOPE TO HAVE EACH COUNTY LOOK AT THE PLAN AND UNDERSTAND WHO WE'RE PARTNERING WITH, HOW WE'RE ENGAGING BUSINESS, UH, IF THERE'S ANY PRIORITIES WE NEED TO FOCUS ON WITH THE NEXT FOUR YEARS FOR EACH COUNTY.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS.

MAY I ASK JUST REAL QUICK, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE NUMBER OF SESSIONS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT PLANNING SESSIONS OR ATTENDING SESSIONS? SO, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THROUGHOUT EACH WEEK IN OCTOBER, FOCUSING ON, UH, ONE GOAL FOR A NUMBER OF, OF INDIVIDUAL COUNTIES.

SO STARTING SEPTEMBER 30TH, WE'LL REACH OUT TO PARTNERS IN BARN AND WILSON DO A VIRTUAL MEETING TO TALK ABOUT DATA, RIGHT? WHAT INFORMATION CAN BE, CAN WE PROVIDE, HOW CAN WE PARTNER AROUND DATA FOR BUSINESS SERVICES FOR ADULTS, FOR YOUTH, FOR CHILDCARE? SO IT'S REALLY A WAY FOR FOR US TO, UH, WALK THEM THROUGH, ASK THE QUESTIONS, AND GIVE THEM THE TOOLS.

SO, SO THEY CAN FILL THAT INFORMATION OUT AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT I NEED FROM Y'ALL.

I SERVE THE YOUTH AND I'M, I'M A SCHOOL DISTRICT DISTRICT AND I NEED YOU GUYS TO ALIGN WITH MY CTE PROGRAMS, RIGHT? OR I NEED Y'ALL TO ADD AGRICULTURE TO YOUR, UH, OCCUPATIONS.

UH, AND SO WHAT WE'LL BE, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS GOING THROUGH EVERY DAY AND, AND INVITE A DIFFERENT GROUP, A DIFFERENT SECTOR OF COUNTIES TO COME IN AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH US, UH, ABOUT GOAL, GOAL ONE.

SO THAT'S THAT FIRST WEEK.

SECOND WE TALKING ABOUT ABOUT SERVICES.

SO PULL TOGETHER PARTNERS FOR PARTICULAR GROUP OF COUNTIES AND SAY, WHO DO WE HAVE AGREEMENTS WITH? WHO WE HAVE AND WHO USE WITH WHO WE NEED PARTNER WHO'S DOING THE WORK AND MAKING THOSE LISTS FOR THESE, FOR THESE POPULATIONS.

THE ADULT YOUTH, CHILDCARE AND BUSINESS SERVICES.

UM, AND WALK THROUGH THAT AND GET TO SUBMIT FEEDBACK ON WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE.

AND SO THIS IS THE, THE 10 SCHEDULE WE'VE GOT RIGHT NOW.

OBVIOUSLY, SOME THINGS CAN SHIFT, RIGHT? IF FOLKS CAN'T MAKE THESE, THESE VIRTUAL SESSIONS.

UH, WE DID DO A TOUR OF EACH OF THE COUNTIES, SHOW LIVE, INVITE, INVITED FOLKS IN TO HAVE A CONVERSATION.

WHAT WE HEARD WAS THAT THEY WOULD RATHER HAVE IT BE VIRTUAL SO THEY COULD INVITE NEEDS TO BE THERE.

UH, WHAT WE FOUND AS WE WERE REALLY ENGAGING WITH A LOT OF THE FOLKS THAT WERE DELIVERING SERVICES, BUT WE START TALKING ABOUT THESE FOUR YEAR STRATEGIES, WHAT WE HEARD WAS, WELL, YOU KNOW, MY BOSS REALLY NEEDS TO BE HERE.

UH, OR, OR THE DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR OF SO AND SO NEEDS TO BE HERE.

SO THEY ASKED US TO GO VIRTUAL AND TO, TO INVITE, TO INVITE THEM OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.

UH, AND SO THAT'S REALLY THAT, ESPECIALLY WHAT WE'VE DONE THROUGH OCTOBER, IS BREAK IT UP WEEK UP, WEEK BY WEEK, COUNTY, COUNTY AREA BY COUNTY AREA, AND GO AREA BY GOAL AREA TO HAVE A CONVERSATION, CONVERSATION THAT HELPS THEM PROVIDE INPUT.

UH, GOING FORWARD, WE'LL ALSO BE WORKING WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENTITIES TO SEE IF THEY WANT A PARTNER TO, TO SURVEY THE, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN EACH COUNTY.

ALRIGHT? EACH COUNTY BUSINESS COMMUNITY SHOULD BE ACTIVELY LOOKING AT, AT THAT TARGET OCCUPATION LIST AND SAYING, IT'S MY, THE JOBS THAT I NEED, ARE THEY THERE? SO WE'LL WORK WITH THEM TO GET THAT SURVEY OUT.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN INCUMBENT WORKER TRAINING? WHO WANTS TO GROW THEIR OWN TALENT? UH, SO WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE LOOKING TO PUT OUT THAT SURVEY AS WELL, UH, IN OCTOBER.

OCTOBER.

THE ACTUAL SURVEY TOOLS ARE OVER HERE.

UH, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THEM, THERE'S THREE STACKS HERE.

UM, IF Y'ALL WANT TO, TO, TO, YEAH, WE'LL LOOK AT THAT AHEAD OF TIME.

UM, WE'LL BE COLLECTING THAT INFORMATION FROM PARTNERS AS AS THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

AND THEN FINALLY THE JUDGES TO TAKE A LOOK AT ALL INFORMATION, INFORMATION COLLECTED AND SET SOME PRIORITIES FOR US.

SO THE WHOLE PLAN, I JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, 'CAUSE I'M FOR INSTANCE ON GOAL ONE, IT SET WHOLE WEEK, BUT IF, UH, ONE OF THE COUNTY JUDGES WANTS TO ATTEND, WELL, THE JUDGES

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FOR CARNES OR WILSON COUNTY WANT TO ATTEND, IS THERE A SPECIFIC TIME OR CAN THEY LOG ON ANY DAY BETWEEN 11 AND TWO? UH, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT.

WHAT ARE THE, THE MECHANICS OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES GETTING THE INPUT THAT THEY WANT TO PUT IN? ABSOLUTELY.

SO BETWEEN 11 AND 12, WE'LL PUT OUT AN INVITATION BY FOLKS TO THAT MEETING.

UH, WE'RE GONNA RECORD EACH OF THE SESSIONS AND WE'RE GONNA POST IT ON OUR WEBSITE AS WELL.

WELL, SO SAY SOMEBODY CAN'T ATTEND, UH, THEY CAN WATCH THAT VIDEO.

AND WHAT WE'VE DONE IS ON FRIDAY, WE'RE OPENING UP TO EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY FOR A RECAP OF QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING COVERED THAT WEEK.

AND SO SAY YOU CAN'T DO IT TUESDAY, COME ON IN FRIDAY.

SAY YOU CAN'T DO EITHER OF 'EM.

VIDEO, VIDEO AND UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS PRESENTED, WHAT WAS DISCUSSED.

UH, AND REALLY PURPOSE OF THESE SESSIONS IS JUST, JUST TO HELP FOLKS KNOW, KNOW HOW TO FILL BEFORE TO ADD THEIR IN INPUT, KNOW WHAT TO ASK WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DATA.

IT COULD BE, IT COULD MEAN A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, RIGHT? IT COULD BE, FOR INSTANCE, THIS BUDGET CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

UH, THAT COULD BE A, A, A REQUEST TO SAY FROM NOW ON 60, 60 DAYS FOR BUDGET ADOPTION WEEK THAT PRESENT.

UH, AND SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT THOSE, UH, SESSIONS WILL DO, IS KIND OF VERE OUT THOSE QUESTIONS AND ALSO PROPOSE THINGS TO SAY, HERE'S HOW WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA AUGMENT THE CEO REPORT RIGHT NOW.

NOW EACH JUDGE GETS A CEO REPORT.

UH, WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE THAT MORE ACCESSIBLE OR MORE DYNAMICS AND OTHER, OTHER FOLKS CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE OTHER COUNTIES? SO THAT'S THE INTENT FOR DATA SERVICES AND STRATEGY, UH, ACROSS THOSE THREE, THREE WEEKS WITH THE RECAP, UH, IN NOVEMBER.

THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, HONOR.

UM, THESE ARE JUST REPORTS FOR, UH, WRITTEN REPORTS.

NO, NO PRESENTATION UNLESS ANYBODY WANTS IT.