HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-03-14 Housing & Human Services MIN
Ashland Housing and Human Services Commission
Minutes March 14, 2019
CALL TO ORDER
Meeting to order at 4:20 pm in the Siskiyou Room at the Community Development and Engineering Offices
located at 51 Winburn Way, Ashland OR 97520.
Commissioners Present: Council Liaison
Tom Gunderson Dennis Slattery (Absent)
Rich Rohde
Heidi Parker SOU Liaison
Erin Crowley None appointed at this time
Jackie Bachman
Linda Reppond Staff Present:
Sue Crader Linda Reid, Housing Specialist
CDBG AND SOCIAL SERVICE GRANT APPLICATION DISCUSSION AND GENERATE QUESTIONS FOR
APPLICANTS
The Commissioners discussed the CDBG applications, got clarifications about available funding amounts from
Reid, and discussed potential questions to ask applicants. One question generated was “why has Maslow raised
the amount of their request for the past couple of years?” Another question for all applicants was “what would you
do if you do not receive all of the funding you requested.”
The Commissioners also discussed the Social Service Grant applications and some issues that they had with the
application form. One issue was that the application did not clearly request that applicants provide an estimated
outcome for the activity. This will make it difficult for Commissioners to compare applications. Reid distributed a
handout that showed reported outcomes from prior grant years. Commissioners felt that the handout was not that
helpful as the previous application also did not require grantees to identify anticipated outcomes, and therefore
there were not anticipated outcome numbers to compare with the actual outcome numbers. This made it difficult
for Commissioners to determine whether prior grantees activities had been effective in achieving their goals. The
Commissioners did not get through all of the Social Service grant applications in the allotted meeting time. The
Commissioners decided to schedule an additional meeting to finish going over the applications and agreeing on
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questions to be asked of the applications. The meeting was scheduled for April 4 from 4-6 P.M. Reid will see if
there is a room available in a City building to hold the meeting and will email the commissions to let them know
where the meeting will be held.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 6:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by Linda Reid