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Emily I. Naeole ^'•w'~4 Council Member ' .l Mailing Address: •~'•A,,,,w~+~ Business Address: (Former County Building 333 l;<lauea Avenue, Second Floor 25 Aupuni Street Beg~'nt-,tea 2Bui dingf~m ~1 t-,; Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Hiro, 1~aw' di td 96 0 i i - Hawai `i County Council County of Hawai `i Telephone: (808) 96l-8267 Facsimile: (808) 961-8912 Mazch 30, 2007 TO: Pete Hoffmann, Chair And Council Members FROM: Emily Naeole, Chair bt6 ~2 E~ Committee on Human Services and Economic Development SUBJECT: Recommended FY07-08 Appropriation for Gants to Nonprofit Organizations For your review and consideration, I azn transmitting my recommendations regazding the funding of qualified nonprofit organizations for fiscal year 2007-08. Theses recommendations have been developed pursuant to a through review of all applications forwarded by the Finance Department and the interviews and site visits conducted by the Adhoc Committee establish by Council for this purpose. Public noticed for site visits and interviews were duly served to all applicant organizations, prior to Mazch 15d' and 16d' in Kona and Mazch 22nd and 23`d in Hilo. The Adhoc Committee was established to attend site visit and interviews in accordance to 92- 2.5 of the Hawaii Revised Statues, "Permitted Interaction of Members" (The Sunshine Law) to communicate, interact ,discuss and investigate matters relating to the Hawaii County Grant Applicants. The grant applications conducted in two parts, site visits and interviews. The site visit is afact-finding undertaking, not a meeting or decision-making deliberation of a committee. Its purpose is to inspect facilities, inquire about programs and location of its operations. The applicants' allowed 15 minutes to present to the committee a brief summary of the organization missions, implementation of programs and its benefits. The committee consists of four Council Members, Donald Ikeda, Stacy Higa, Vice-Chair Angel Pilago, and I met to formulate recommendations to present to the full committee on its decision concerning the nonprofit appropriations. After lengthy discussion and review of the programs, careful consideration was the benefit to the County as a whole that by providing additional funding to enhance the quality of life represented by all applicants. This yeaz, 36 agencies submitted and 57 eligible applications. The sum of $1,778,800 requested for which the Council has available $900,000 to appropriate. Of these 57 applicants, twenty-eight programs funded by the County previously, sought funding increases this yeaz. Six programs requesting funds were identical to their FY2006-07 grant award. Eighteen new agencies (not funded in prior years) submitted program-funding requests, they aze ARC of Hilo Comm. tVO. J S"l• Ref. To: 1.1'5 EDL Hawaii County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer Ref. ()ate APR 5 ~Rn7