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,. . . . I . $190,000 in Senior Center Bond Act Funds from the State and about $40,500 from the County of San Mateo and CDBG funds that they were going to use to improve their - existing facility at 2555 Middlefield Road... they approached the City and said we don't feel it would be a good expenditure of funds to use those funds there. Would you consider creating an addition to the Fair Oaks Community Center. We then applied for those funds.. .. The idea was that TEWCI would sell their building. Once the construction of the Senior Center was completed, and those proceeds of up to $640,000 would be given to the City, actually they were returned to the County, it would go to pay for the addition to the Fair Oaks Community Center." Council Member Bain said he agreed with former member Kastrop, that agencies were not entitled to money and that was how he approached it when he was on the HHCC. He said specific grants were not reductions, and a better way of looking at it was, "The Committee chose to fund TEWCI at $15,000." In response to Council Member Bain's questions as to why HHCC chose to fund TEWCI, Mrs. Keely said, "The person who brought up funding at the $15,000 level was Charles Greer, and his feeling was.... to just cut them off completely was kind of cruel. .. in the sense that if they really wanted to work for this, possibly they could work harder and pull something together." She said the vote reflected the long discussion, and many of the HHCC members believed there should be no funding at all. Mrs. Keely said it ended up as a compromise vote. She answered further that, "It isn't so much a matter of weaning (TEWCI from HSF A funding), as it is a matter of feeling that the community they should be serving isn't being served appropriately." She said the HHCC wanted to find an agency that could help TEWCI be - viable again. In response to Council Member Bain's questions regarding funding of the Youth Employment Program for the first time, Manager Gonzalez said that that vote was also a compromise, but the agency had accomplished what the HHCC had asked them to do last year, which involved tracking the people they served. In response to Council Member Claire's questions regarding current clients of TEWCI, Mrs. Keely said there were very few people being served by TEWCI at the present time, and "it was our hope there would be a collaborative process that would bring another organization in very rapidly." She said they had looked at other senior organizations in Redwood City that were doing very positive things with less money, and HHCC hoped one of them would come forward, such as Casa de Redwood, to form a new Board perhaps, and meet the needs of the people. Mrs. Keely said that the evening HHCC discussed these hopes, no one from TEWCI was present. Mayor Howard said that over the past three years, these same suggestions had been made to TEWCI at each application and recommendation meeting. In response to Council Member Claire's questions regarding responses from the TEWCI Board to these concerns of staff, 'Mal1alge'r Gonzalez said the HHCC was totally - responsible for the recommendations. City Manager Everett said staff processes the data REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 56 MAY 11, 1998 MINUTES Page No. 465 PAGE 16