AGENDA
ALAMO AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
WEDNESDAY, May 28, 2003 – 1:00 p.m.
8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 100
San Antonio, TX 78217
1. Meeting called to Order.
2. Roll Call.
3. Citizens to be Heard.
4. Executive Director’s Report
5. Consent Agenda.
Items on the consent agenda are considered being of a routine nature and may require only limited discussion. The items listed on consent agenda, other than A, have been reviewed by the Management Committee and they recommend approval. Any member of the Board may request that items be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately for purpose of discussion and voting.
A. Consider and act upon approval of the April 23, 2003 Minutes.
B. Consider and act upon the following Status Reports:
1. Grants
2. Recoveries
3. Income Statement
4. Balance Sheet
5. Board Expenditures
C. Consider and act upon the following personnel items:
1. Natural Resources
2. GIS Technician
3. Temporary Clerical Support – Criminal Justice
D. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to amend “Installation, Maintenance and Data Quality Assurance for Air Quality Monitors in the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area,” a contract with Operational Technologies Corporation, for an amount not to exceed $24,900.
E. Consider and act upon the following as recommended by the Bexar Senior Advisory Committee:
1. FY 03 Carryover funds
2. Allocation of USDA funds
3. FY 03 Family Caregiver Support Program Carryover Funds
4. FY 03 Health Screening Vendor
F. Consider and act upon the following as recommended by the Rural Public Transportation Advisory Committee:
1. Accept letter of intent not to renew from Dietert Senior Center for all transportation services in Kerr County – 5311 Rural Public Transportation (RPT) effective August 31, 2003 and Title III Older American’s Act Transportation Project effective September 30, 2003 or earlier.
2. Authorize the Executive Director to provide transportation services in Kerr County with Alamo Regional Transit (ART) as the service provider – 5311 RPT services effective September 1, 2003 and Title III Older American’s Act Transportation effective October 1, 2003 or earlier.
G. Consider and act upon approval of the agency Information Technology Strategy.
H. Consider and act upon the following as recommended by the Metropolitan Planning Organization:
1. Amendments to the FY 2003 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP).
2. Amendments to the FY 2002-2004 Transportation Improvement Program.
6. Committee Reports:
A. Management Committee:
1. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to negotiate and sign a contract with the Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) to administer the Environmental Protection Agency’s Adopt a School Bus Program for the Alamo Area from June 1, 2003 to May 31, 2004 at a contract price of $100,000.
2. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to submit a grant application to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Transportation and Air Quality Mobile Source Outreach Assistance Competition in the amount of $100,000 for the “Know Before You Go” commuter information program.
3. Consider and act upon the following as recommended by the Alamo Senior Advisory Committee:
a. Distribution of carryover and USDA dollars.
b. New Vendors for Caregiver services.
c. Change to Direct Purchase of Service (DPS) procurement method instead of annualized contracts.
d. Approve the release of a Request for Vendors for the Direct Purchase of Service (DPS) program.
4. Consider and act upon approval to submit a resolution to the Governor’s Office-Criminal Justice Division for the Regional Youth Criminal Justice Education Program in the amount of $77,042.
5. Consider and act upon authorization of the Area Judges to act as the governing board for Rural Transit.
6. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to submit a grant proposal to the Alamo Workforce Development for the provision of Child Care services for the Alamo Workforce Development Area, for approximately $35,000,000.
7. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to finalize terms of settlement relating to Intrado lawsuit.
B. Air Improvement Resources Executive Committee
C. Area Judges
D. Planning and Program
1. Criminal Justice Advisory Committee
a. Changes to Bylaws
b. Policy and Procedures Manual
2. Bexar Senior Advisory Committee
a. Ratification of Area Plan
b. Alternates
3. Alamo Senior Advisory Committee
a. Ratification of Area Plan
b. Member
4. Regional Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee (REPAC)
a. Member for Committee
b. Alternates for Committee Members
5. Solid Waste Advisory Committee
a. Member for Committee
b. Alternate for Committee Member
6. Creation of Housing Advisory Committee
E. Rural Public Transportation
F. Alamo Area Development Corporation
G. Alamo Area Housing Finance Corporation
H. Community Affairs
1. Regional Citizen
2. Corporate Citizen
3. Community Project
7. Consider and act upon the following as recommended by the Regional Health and Human Services Advisory Committee:
A. Benedictine Ministries Corp., “Head Start”. Funding: $540,080 Funding Source: Administration for Children & Families/Department of Health and Human Services.
B. El Centro del Barrio, “Community Health Center Early Treatment for HIV Services”. Funding: $589,139 Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services/Bureau of Primary Health Care.
C. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, “HIV Care Connection: A Peer and Clinically Based Intervention”. Funding: $399,894 Funding Source: Health Resources and Services Administration.
D. Children's Association for Maximum Potential, “Project B-Ours: Buddies and Opportunities for Recreation and Socialization”. Funding: $132,590 Funding Source: U.S. Dept. of Education.
E. El Centro del Barrio, “Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness in Families”. Funding: $150,000 Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.
F. El Centro del Barrio, “Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness in Individuals”. Funding: $300,000 Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.
G. El Centro del Barrio, “HIV Early Intervention Capacity Building”. Funding: $150,000 Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration - HIV/AIDS Bureau.
H. El Centro del Barrio, “Service Expansion - Health Disparities Collaborative Quality Care Management Services”. Funding: $40,000 Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration- Bureau of Primary Health Care.
I. El Centro del Barrio, “Service Expansion - Mental Health Services in Primary Care Settings”. Funding: $150,000 Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration- Bureau of Primary Health Care.
J. San Antonio Independent School District, “Project Los Caminos de Lectura”. Funding: $349,171 Funding Source: U.S. Dept. of Education
K. The San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity, “Improving Literacy through School Libraries”. Funding: $75,000 Funding Source: U.S. Dept. of Education
L. Texas Dept. of Human Services, “Cuban Haitian Discretionary Funding”. Funding: $1,500,000 Funding Source: Office of Refugee Resettlement.
8. Consider and act upon approval of the following as recommended by the Economic Development Environmental Review Committee:
A. City of Hondo. “Brownfields Training Research & Technical Assistance Grants.” Funding: Environmental Protection Agency: $507,000.
B. S.A. Town, Ltd., A Texas Limited Partnership. “Construction of Townhouse Units.” Funding: HUD Section 221 (d) (4) Program: $9,769,280.
C. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “Boating Area Improvement Project.” Funding: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: $200,785.
D. Texas Conference of Urban Counties. “Texas Conference of Urban Counties Integrated Justice Information System Project.” Funding: Technology Opportunity Program Grant Application (TOPS): $1,391,358.
E. The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. “Standardized Patient Facility.” Funding: Public Works and Economic Development, Economic Development Administration (EDA): $2,750,000.
9. Consider and act upon approval of the following as recommended by the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee:
A. Karnes/Wilson County Juvenile Probation Dept., “Karnes County Aftercare Program”. Funding: $385,694 Funding Source: Challenge Grant-JJDP Part E.
B. State of Texas, “Byrne Formula Grant Program”. Funding: $32,275,953 Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance.
10. Consider and act upon the following grants as recommended by the Regional Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee:
A. City of San Antonio-San Antonio Fire Dept., “CERT Program”. Funding: $123,748 Funding Source: TX Dept of Public Safety-Div. Emergency Management.
B. Bexar County, “Citizen Corps Grant”. Funding: $45,000 Funding Source: TX Dept of Public Safety-Div. Emergency Management.
C. AACOG, “Supplemental-Citizen Corps Grant”. Funding: $88,000 Funding Source: TX Dept of Public Safety-Div. Emergency Management.
11. Consider and act upon approval of a resolution to recognize the month of June 2003 as Home Ownership Month.
12. Consider and act upon a resolution in support of the establishment of the Southwest Regional Border Authority.
13. Information Items.
14. Adjournment.
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