QUESTION
What is the duration and budget for the $1,000 monthly support pilot for 500 families?
2:20:53
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Council Member Avilés seeks clarity on the budget and duration of the $1,000 monthly support pilot for 500 families, leading to a discussion on the program's unclear financial allocations.
- The program's duration is undefined, depending on the placement of new families in accommodation facilities.
- The total contract value mentioned is $53,000,000, but it's clarified that this sum is not solely for the 500-family pilot.
- Interim Director Schaeffer lacks the exact budget figure for the pilot but indicates that funds from the $53,000,000 contract can be appropriated as needed.
- Avilés expresses concern over the substantial budget allocated for a relatively small number of households, indicating a potential inefficient use of funds.
Alexa Avilés
2:20:53
In terms of in terms of the help Let me just take a we're gonna pivot really quickly to the direct call arts again.
2:21:09
The math isn't quite mathing.
2:21:11
So we're doing a pilot for 500 families, a $1000 a month, And how long do we anticipate that pilot going on for?
Molly Schaeffer
2:21:28
That pilot will be until so we as always mentioned, we don't control what happens at the border.
2:21:34
So it's really about new families that come in and get placed in Hanuk Hotels.
2:21:38
And so that pilot will take us as long as it takes to put people in those rooms.
Alexa Avilés
2:21:45
But for 500 families, $53,000,000,
Molly Schaeffer
2:21:50
it's not for that $53,000,000.
Alexa Avilés
2:21:52
Oh, no.
2:21:53
It's not.
2:21:53
If not, what's the correct number?
Molly Schaeffer
2:21:55
I don't have the exact amount.
2:21:57
We can get back to you on that, but the 500 family pilot is not the $53,000,000.
Alexa Avilés
2:22:03
But the contract I reviewed the contract.
2:22:05
Yeah.
2:22:06
The total contract is 53,000,000.
2:22:08
And the amount of money, I think, was 50,000,000, that 3,000,000 in administrative costs
Molly Schaeffer
2:22:14
did not take seed.
2:22:15
So that that's the the full value of the contract.
2:22:19
Right?
2:22:19
So it we can use whatever we need out of it.
Alexa Avilés
2:22:22
So so we we anticipate a pilot to run as long as it takes to fill the rooms to use all $50,000,000.
Molly Schaeffer
2:22:33
No.
2:22:34
Until we get to 500 households.
Alexa Avilés
2:22:39
That's a that's a really large up to amount for 500 households.
2:22:44
Because that would be $500,000.
2:22:46
There's a big difference between reaching $500,000 for a household.
2:22:51
Excuse me.
2:22:52
I'm using the wrong word.
2:22:53
And a $50,000,000 gap.
Molly Schaeffer
2:22:56
But it allows us the flexibility to expand if we like what we see.
Alexa Avilés
2:23:04
That's a that's a big gamble.
Molly Schaeffer
2:23:07
But we don't we are not I'll
Alexa Avilés
2:23:08
tell you 50,000,000.
2:23:10
I'll tell the admin a good place to put some clear money would be an adult literacy.
2:23:19
Okay.
2:23:20
That's wild.
