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Disabilities. Medical, concerned about funding with the Affordable Care act. Numbers have grown, so we need to look at funding and making sure that the systems are updated and all of the support programs. A lot of them dont have legislation with them yet. So well look at them again. And again ensuring that seniors and persons with disabilities are identified during the implementation process with the Affordable Care act and as we move through this second round of signups. And then homeless and atrisk populations, and service advocates. Well be monitoring those through the year. Aging and adult...

And you answered one. How much are we talking about . Half a Million Dollars . I know, you dont have a definite. I dont have the exact amount in front of me. Not exacty. Overall, 2. 5 million. 2. 5 million. Okay. My second question, how are you going to use the 2. 5 million . That was the subject of our notices of funding availability, where the nonprofit partners submitted proposals of how they were going to spend the money and how it was going to serve their clients. That goes through a review and a whole process. Once we make an allocation of a specific set of funds based on a proposal rece...

District gets a fair didnt opportunity to compete for it . There has to be a full and open competitive process. You are cant just give the money that. Is one. Once we make the awards they have to fit it into the budget coordinate with the staff to make sure were getting accountability for the public dollars. That is the process and sometimes it takes a little longer than we will all would like. I will say that the addback funding is available for the year. The encumbrances essentially we cant get all of the awards in front of you until january. Once you approve these modifications, based on no...

Addbacks, but there is some great benefit to providing targeted funding to specific neighborhoods and we all acknowledge that, but from the procurement standpoint we have to first of all get the funding and get feedback from the Supervisors Office of what they really intended for the funding and then we have to fit that into our normal procurement schedule. So often times board of supervisors addbacks as wellintentioned take 34 months to fasttrack and this particular one, because we were fortunate to get a number of addbacks and greater amounts to put out notices of funding of availability for...

Neighborhoods and we all acknowledge that, but from the procurement standpoint we have to first of all get the funding and get feedback from the Supervisors Office of what they really intended for the funding and then we have to fit that into our normal procurement schedule. So often times board of supervisors addbacks as wellintentioned take 34 months to fasttrack and this particular one, because we were fortunate to get a number of addbacks and greater amounts to put out notices of funding of availability for these various areas to try to fit the supervisors desires with the needs that we ha...