HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0126.003 2002-2004 FRED C. HOLSCHUH, M.U. o~~?+,?[!~.,~ Tcl: (808) 961-8264
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HAWA17 COUNTY COUNCIL
C'oun[~~ of Hawaii
Hativni'i Coanty building
35 Aupuni Siree(
Hilq Haiaai `r 9h720
March 28, 2003
TO: .lames Y. Arakaki, Chair, and Council Members
FROM: Fred C. Holschuh, M.D., Chair • -1 t%"-'
Committee on Human Services and Economic Development
SUBJECT: Recommended FY03-04 Appropriations for Grants to Nonprofit Organizations
Attached for your consideration, please find the recommendations of your Human Services &
Economic Development Committee working group for the funding of qualifying nonprofit
organizations in Fiscal Year 2003-04. These funding recommendations have been developed
pursuant to a thorough review of all applications by the Finance Department and your HSEDC
working group and subsequent interviews with all applicant organizations conducted on
March I I-12, 2003 (see attached schedule).
After considerable thought, it is the recommendation of your HSEDC chair that the Counci] grant
FY03-04 appropriations to all recurring grantees in the identical amounts as made during the past
fiscal year. This action would appropriate $895,(100 of the $900,000 available for county grants. I
recommend that the remaining $5,00(1 be apportioned between the Boy's and Girl's Club and the
North Kohala Community Resource Center. The following table details our FY 03-04 funding
recommendations.
AGENCY FY01-02 FY02-03 FY03-04 RECOMMENDED
GRANT GRANT GRANT FY03-04 FUNDING
AWARD AWARD REQUEST
American Red Cross -Community Safety Ed $ 5,000 $ 5,000 6,765.00 $ 5,000
ARC of Hilo $ 29,000 $ 29,000 30,000.00 $ 29,000
Bay Clinic $ 19,000 $ 20,000 26,000.00 $ 20,000
Big Island Aids Project $ 10,000 $ 10,000 10,000.00 $ 10,000
BISAC -East Hawaii $ 27,000 $ 27,000 35,000.00 $ 27,000
BISAC- West Hawaii $ 27,000 $ 27,000 75,000.00 $ 27,000
Boy and Girls Club of the Big Island $ 30,000 $ 36,000 50,000.00 $ 38,000
Brantley Center, Inc $ 21,000 $ 21,000 25,000.00 $ 21,000
Bridge House. Inc. $ 16,000 $ 17,000 19,000.00 $ 17,000
Center for Independent Living $ 15,000 $ 15,000 20,000.00 $ 15,000
Child and Family Service $ 5,000 $ 5,000 7,000.00 $ 5,000
Diabetes Network of East Hawaii $ 7,000 $ 8,000 10,000.00 $ 8,000 Q
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East Hawaii Coalition- Kiheipua Emergency $ 34,000 $ 37,500 42,500.00 $ 37,500
East Hawaii Coalition- Kiheipua Transition $ 2,500 $ 2,500 2,500.00 $ 2,500
Family Support Services of West Hawaii $ 50,000 $ 48,000 55,000.00 $48,000
Friends of the Children's Justice- East HI $ 13,000 $ 13,000 15,000.00 $ 13,000
Friends of the Children's Justice- West HI $ 13,000 $ 13,000 15,000.00 $ 13,000
Goodwill Industries of Honolulu $ 10,000 $ 10,000 29,500.00 $ 10,000
Hamakua Health Center $ 8,000 $ 8,000 10,000.00 $ 8,000
HI County Economic Opportunity Council $ 150,000 $ 145,000 145,000.00 $145,000
HI Island Adult Care- Hilo Adult Day Care $ 15,500 $ 15,500 25,000.00 $ 15,500
Hawai i Library Foundation $ - $ - 64,767.00 $ 0
Hospice of Hilo $ 10,000 $ 5,000 0.00
Island of HawaPi YMCA Mediation Services $ - $ 5,000 10,000.00 $ 5,000
Island of Hawaii YMCA Youth-At-Risk $ 50,000 $ 50,000 60,000.00 $ 50,000
Ka Hale O Na Keiki $ - $ 2,000 8,500.00 $ 2,000
Kapiolani Child Protection $ 16,000 $ 16,000 20,000.00 $ 18,000
Kona Adult Day Center, Inc. $ 15,000 $ 15,000 15,000.00 $ 15,000
Kona Krafts $ 17,000 $ 17,000 19,100.00 $ 17,000
Kona Literacy Council $ 2,500 $ 1,500 3,000.00 $ 1,500
Mental Health Kokua $ 15,000 $ 15,000 20,000.00 $ 15,000
North Kohala Community Resource Center $ - $ - 27,800.00 $ 3,000
Office for Social Ministry- Care-a-van $ 29,000 $ 29,000 35,000.00 $ 29,000
Office for Social Ministry- Food Bank $ 29,000 $ 32,500 35,000.00 $ 32,500
Office for Social Ministry- Mobile $ 20,000 $ 20,000 30,000.00 $ 20,000
Salvation Army- Kona Interim Home $ 30,000 $ 29,000 35,000.00 $ 29,000
Salvation Army- Puna Prevention Program $ 35,000 $ 35,000 40,000.00 $ 35,000
Special Olympics of East HawaPi $ 6,000 $ 5,000 12,000.00 $ 5,000
Special Olympics of West Hawaii $ 4,000 $ 5,000 10,000.00 $ 5,000
Turning Point for Families -ATV $ 9,000 $ 9,000 10,000.00 $ 9,000
Turning Point for Families - W. HI Family Crisis $ 21,000 $ 21,000 22,000.00 $ 21,000
West Hawaii Aids Foundation $ 15,000 $ 15,000 15,000.00 $ 15,000
West Hawaii Mediation Center $ 10,000 $ 5,000 10,000.00 $ 5,000
YWCA of Hawai i Island Ekahi $ 5,500 $ 5,500 6,000.00 $ 5,500
YWCA Kohala Center $ 2,000 $ - 0.00
YWCA Sexual Assault Victim Empowerment $ 52,000 $ 50,000 50,000.00 $ 50,000
Total $ 900,000 $ 900,000 1,211,432.00 $900,000
My reasons for making this recommendation are as follows:
I . There is a simple and abiding principle that guides decision-making in the area of human
services. It is this: "First, do no harm." [n our present circumstance, [believe this principle is
paramount. All the nonprofit organizations that received county funding in FY02-03 contribute
critical and proven services to the people of this island. Moreover, the Council has
acknowledged the merits of these programs by providing them with recurring funding for many
years. While there is a great temptation to tinker with funding amounts and shift monies about, I
believe this impulse should be resisted. 1 believe the Council would be wise to sustain funding in
the coming year and not disrupt the funding base or ongoing operations of worthwhile nonprofit
programs in our community. This is the best course to assure that we "do no harm."
2. As in past years, the 43 grant applications received from qualifying nonprofit organizations
greatly exceeded the $900,000 available to appropriate. This year, the sum of grant requests
totaled $1,211,432.00. Clearly, not all grants sought can be fulfilled in the amounts requested.
Only one organization funded by the Council last year -Hospice of Hilo -did not submit an
application this year. Of the 41 recurring grantee programs submitting applications, six asked for
no more funds than appropriated last year. However, 35 programs requested funds above FY02-
03 levels. This situation is akin to squeezing blood from a stone. There is, simply, no more to
give. To award higher funds to some programs, we would have to justify commensurate
decreases to other deserving programs. This is a hard bargain -robbing Peter to pay Paul -and 1
do not recommend it.
3. Accordingly, the sum of appropriations recommended for all recurring grantees totals $895,000.
Your working group recommends that the remaining balance of $5,000 be allocated as follows:
(a) North Kohala Community Resource Center (new applicant): $3,000
(b) Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island: $2,000
In proposing a small grant to one first-time applicant the North Kohala Community Resource
Center -your committee seeks to demonstrate fairness to new grant seekers and support for an
established community-based youth athletic program in the North Kohala area.
While we find much merit in the work of the Hawaii Library Foundation (a second "new
applicant"), we believe that this organization's request for $64,767 is far in excess of our ability
to fund. We acknowledge that adult literacy tutoring is an important program. Nonetheless, it is
primarily a state responsibility to be addressed by the D.O.E. The deticits of the state's public
library system cannot be absorbed by county taxpayers. We note that in a letter dated 2-23-03 to
the Honohrlu Advertiser, Hawaii Library Foundation executive director Holly Richards stated
that "although the Hawaii Library Foundation does not fund core functions of the Hawaii State
Public Library System, we have worked hard for ten years to supplement its governmental
funding." That being the case, it is fair to ask whether application for county funds is
appropriate. If the Foundation's purpose is to supplement state government funding -through
private support from the Building Industry Labor Foundation and Hawaiian Electric Co., for
example - a grant from the County would add, not supplement, government funding. County
dollars are already stretched to the limit in support of many programs that are core
responsibilities of the State of Hawaii.
While an additional $2,000 to the Boy's and Girl's Club would exceed their FY02-03
appropriation, we call close attention to the Council's historical support of the Club in years prior
to its bankruptcy and subsequent restructuring during the past two years. In FY00-01, the
Council appropriated $50,000 to the Boy's and Girl's Club. This funding was decreased to
$30,000 with the shutdown of the Club during FYO I -02 and only partially restored last year,
when the Council provided a $36,000 grant. Thus, our proposed $2,000 increase still leaves the
Boy's and Girl's Club far short of prior year funding levels. It is intended to help a flagship
organization providing recreational opportunities for low-income children in Hilo to fully get
back on its feet.
A summary of proposed expenditures by category of program activity is attached for your
review.
4. One year ago, the Human Services and Economic Development Committee's transmittal of
funding recommendations pointed out many of the difficulties inherent in the Council's nonprofit
grant awards. Those observations remain focal, as follows:
• The practice of providing sustained funding to many organizations year after year precludes
much opportunity for new applicants.
• The range of eligible services and activities outlined in the Hawaii County Code
"educational concerns, culture and the arts, the needs of the poor, youth, the aged, those with
physical or emotional disabilities, victims of crimes, or victims of health or social crises"' - is
broad, arguably to a fault, and the Code offers no criteria for the determination of priorities.
• Many of the programs long supported by grant funds are fundamental and core
responsibilities of the State of Hawaii Departments of Health, Human Services and the
Judiciary. The County's funding, while no doubt helpful, should not supplant chronic
deficits in state allocations to essential social services on the Island of Hawaii.
With these thoughts in mind, 1 request that the Council support four initiatives to reinvigorate our
support for the work of nonprofit agencies in Hawaii County, as follows:
I . 1 would like to ask the Legislative Auditor's Office to compile a list of those county grant-
funded programs and host agencies that are primarily funded and administered through State
of Hawaii purchase of service contracts. For all programs shown to be chronically
underfunded by the state, I would recommend that the Council adopt a resolution calling on
the Legislature to restore and appropriate tull and necessary funding.
2. I ask for support from the Council to reappropriate $2,000 from unspent FY01-02 nonprofit
funds for the purchase of service of an accredited nonprofit fundraising consultant to offer
one-day skills-building workshops in Hilo and Kona in the coming year. Many of the
agencies that annually seek county funds could profit from such a training. During our
March 1 1-12, 2003 interviews, your working group asked each applicant organization if they
would be interested in attending such a workshop if it was offered. All answered yes.
3. I request that the Mass Transit Agency provide a written report to the Council no later than
September 30, 2003 on steps necessary to fully fund and administer all transportation
services provided by the Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council in the 2004-OS fiscal
year.
4, I invite my colleagues to consider establishing aprotocol -and amending the County Code if
deemed necessary - to announce "priority funding goals" for nonprofit appropriations prior
to the Finance Department's publication/solicitation of nonprofit grant applications in
November each year. Such a protocol might enable the Council to better direct funding to
critical social needs and/or limit the practice of perennial grant awards.
I welcome your thoughts on these funding recommendations and what additional steps we may take
to support our island's safety net and the vital work of nonprofit agencies in our community.
FCH/rf
SPECIAL NEEDS TRANSPORTA7'ION $153,000
Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council: ($14$,000); Hamakua Health Center: ($8,000)
SHELTERS & VIOLENCE M[TIGATION $147,000
Bay Clinic-Violence Intervention Project ($2Q000); YWCA SAVE: ($50,000); Friends of the Children's Justice
Centcrv East & West Flawaii: ($26,0011); Kapiolani Child Protection: ($16,000); Turning Point for Families-West
Hawaii Shelter & Alternatives to Viulcner. ($30,000); Child & Pamily Service: ($S,OW)
DRUG TREATMENT & PREVENTION $140,500
BISAC -East Hawaii ($27,000); BISAC-West Hawaii ($27,0110); Bridge House, Inc. ($17,000);
Salvation Army-Kona Interim Home & Puna Prevention: ($64,000); YWCA Ekahi Program: ($~SUO)
DISABLED CARE/REHABILI'1'ATION $107,000
ARC of Hilo: ($29,0(10); Hramlcy C'cntcr ($21,000); Cen[cr for Independem Living ($15,(10(1);
Goodwill Industries' ($1(11100); Kona Kra ks 1$17,1100); Mental Health Kokua ($15,000)
EIOMELF,SSNF,SS/POVERTY & FOOD $101,500
East Hawaii Coalition for the Homeless: ($4QOD0); Otlice of Social Ministry-Care-A-Van & Food
Bank Programs: ($61,5001
YOUTH RECREATION & PREVENTION $101,000
Boy's & Gid's Club of the Big Island: ($38,000); YMCA Youth-At-Risk ($SQ,0001; North Kohala
Community Resource Center ($3,0011); Special Olympics-East & West Hawaii: ($10,000);
HEALTH INTIATIVES/EDUCATION $ 58,000
Big Island AIDS ProjeA:C !$10,00(1); West Hawaii AIDS Foundation ($15,000); Diabetes Network
of East Hawaii ($8,000): Ofticc of Social Ministry-Mobile Care ($20,000); American Rul
Cross-Community Satcty Education ($5,000)
FAMILY SUPPOR7' $ 48,000
Family Support Services of West Hawaii: ($48,000)
ELDERLY DAY CARE $ 30,500
Hilo Adult Day Care I S,SOU); Kona Adult Day Center ($15,000)
MEDIATION SERVICES $ 10,000
YMCA Aediation Services: ($5.000); Wesl Hawaii Mediation Centet ($5,000)
SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS $ 3,500
Kona Litcmcy Council (K 1,500); Ka Hulc O Na Keiki: ($2,000)
SPECIAL NEEDS TRANSPORTATION 17.00% $153,000
SHELTERS & FAMILY VIOLENCE 1633% $147,000
DRUG TTREATMENT & PREVENTION 15.61% $140,500
DISABLED CARE &REHABILITATION 11.88% ~ $107,000
HOMELESSNESS & FOOD BANK 1128% ~ S 101,500
YOUTH RECREATION & PREVENTION 1122°/u ~ $101'000
HEALTH INITIATIVES & EDUCATION 6.44% $ 58,000
533°~ $ 48,000
FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES
ELDERLY DAY CARE ~ 339% $ 30,500
MEDIATION SERVICES ~ 1-11°0 $ 10,1100
SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS ~ 039% 4 3,500
100.0 $900,000
PUBLIC NOT[CE
HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SITE VISITS/INTERVIEWS
Notice is hereby given that the County Council's Committee on Human Services and Economic
Development will conduct site visits/interviews with the following organizations which have submitted
applications for County grant funds for nonprotit agencies for Fiscal Year 2003-2004, pursuant to
~2-139(b), Chapter 2, Article 25, Hawaii County Code:
Tuesday, March 11, 2003; 8:00 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. -interviews/Site Visits -Office of Aging's Kona
Office (unless site visit specified) 75-5706 Kuakani Hwy., Ste. 103, Kailua-Kona
"Dime Organization Program
8:00-8:30 North Kohala Community Resource Ccntcr Kohala Community 4thletic Association
(SITE VISIT - 55-514 Hawi Rd., Hawi, Hawai°i)
10:00-IU20 Wect Howai'i Mediation Cenler Mediation Services
1020-10:40 Wecl Hawaii AIDS Foundation transmission Prevention for HIV- Women in West Hawaii
County
1020-10:40 Big Island AIDS Project Multi-0isciplinary I IIV Caw Management Program
10:40-I I:UO Special Olympics Hawaii - Wesl liawai'i Special Olympics Huwai'i - Wcst Hawaii General Funding
1 I:DO-I 120 Men [al Hcaltlt Kokua Residential Rehabilimtion Services
1 120-I L40 Kona Literacy Councl Kona Litemey Council
11:40-12:00 Kona ARCiKona KlJlfs Captain Cook Domiciliary Home
LUU-1:2U Kona Adult Day Ccm rr, Inc. Adult Carc
Kapiolani Child Protection Ccntcr-West Hawaii
12U-Ld0 Kapiolani Medical Ccntcr thr Women & Children l itle IV-F3-West f lawai'i Counseling & Supportive Living
Project
1 :4U-2:OU Ka Hale O Na Kciki, Inc. Families-A[-Risk Project
2:00-220 Friends of the Childrei s Justice 1'cnter of Wcst Hawaii Enhancnncnt Program
220 2:d0 Famil} Support Services of Wesl Hawaii Family Ccmers
2:40-3:00 Bridge House, Inc. Outreach/Education Program
3:00-3:30 Big Island Substance Abux Council BISAC West Hawai-i Substance Abuse Program
3:011-3.3U Big Island Substance 46use Council BISAC East Hawaii Substance Abuse Council
33U-350 American Red Cross Community Safety 1 duration
Wednesday, March 12, 2003; 7:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. -Interviews - Hawaii County Building,
25 Aupuni Street, Elections Conference Room, Door Right of Rm. ] O5, Hilo
7:45-8:15 YWCA of~Huwai'i Lland Ekahi Program
7:45-8:15 YWCA of Hawaii Island Sexual Assault Victim Empowennem
R:IS-R:45 Taming Point for Families, Inc. Alternatives to Violence- North Hawaii Waimea Groups
8:15-8:45 Taming Point for Families. Inc. West Hawaii Drnnestie Abuse Shel[a
R:45-9:00 Special Olympics Huwui'i - F.nsl Hawaii Spatial Olympics Hawaii -Bast Hawaii
9:00 ~>:30 The Salvotion Anny Pwnil~ Inten~ention Services l'outlt Scrvicc Ccntcr - Kealakehc
HS&EDC Page 2 March 11& 12, 2003
Notice of Site Visits/Interviews
for Nonprofit County Grant Applicants
Time Organization Pro¢ram
9:(10-93U The Salvation Anny Family Intervention Services Youth Service Center-Puna
930-IU:UO East Hawui'i Coalition for the Homeless Kihei Pua Transitional Shelter
9:30-10:00 East Hawaii Coalition for the Homeless Kihei Pua Emergency Shelter
10:00-10:30 The Island of Hawui' i YMCA Ku'ikahi Mediation Center
10:00-1030 The Island of Hawui'i YMCA YMCA Youth-At-Risk Services
1030-10:45 Hawaii Itiland Adult Carc, Inc. I lilo Adult Day Ccntcr
10:45-I L00 Hawaii County Economic Opix~rtunity Council Transportation
Computer-Assisted Learning Center iCALC, Hilo Public
11:00-1120 Hawaii Library Faundatioo Library)
11:211-I Ld0 Hamakun Ilydlh Caner Transportation
11:40-12:U0 Goodwill Induelri cs of Huwai'i, Inc. Work Experience Pu~gram
I :00-I:I 5 Friends of the Childreds Justice Ccntcr of F,as[ Flawai'i Special Nods, Enhancement, Center Support,
Prevention/Education and Training Programs
I:IS-1:45 Ottice for Social Ministry Care-A-Van
I:IS-1:45 Ofticc for Social Ministry Hawaii Island Food Bank
I:U-1:45 Ottice for Social Ministry Mobile Cnre Health Project
1:45-?:US Diaheies Network of Huwui'i Comity Developing A Heahhicr Lifestyle
2:05-2:20 Center for Indepaidcni Living -East & West Hawaii Independent Living Services
220-2:411 Child and Family Senicc Domestic Violence Continuum of Care Programs
2:40-3:00 l3ovs & (iirk Cluh n~ the Rig Island Tarn Program
3:D11-1:20 Bay Clinic. Inc. Violcnca Intervention Projcei
320-3:4U The Arc of I lilu Person Centered Aduh Supports
?:40-4:00 6randcy Ccmcr, Inc. "transportation Program
Members of the public wishing to attend shall be responsible for their own transportation.
The meeting places arc accessible for persons with physical disabilities. Persons who need
special accommodations to attend these site visits and/or interviews should call 961-8245 by
Wednesday, March 7, 2003. Persons using TDDs may call 961-8521.
Please note that the dates and scheduled times are subject to change without prior notice. For
further information, please call Donald Ikeda at 961-8386.
Fred Holschuh, M.D., Chair
Human Services & Economic
Development Committee