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Session 1846 July 22, 2002 the Homeless County shelter. Mr. Ollendorff said that we can make changes to these allocations easily up until next January. In January, the money is distributed. In June of 2003, we can also make changes only if we haven't spent the money. City staff and citizens always ask that the greatest amount of money possible should go to lower income homeowners to help them maintain their homes. Mr. Ollendorff reported that we currently have two home repair loan and grant funds - one that University City operates and one that the County CDBG department funds with our money. They total about $150,000. Reverend Robert Huston, 6505 Etzel, is the pastor of Mt. Gideon Baptist Church in University City. He stated that he is looking for financial support for their Feed the Hungry program from the CDBG. In the year 2000, they served ten thousand meals to children, the elderly and Iow income people. In 2001, this number rose to fifteen thousand. Their budget has risen to twenty five thousand meals to serve to the hungry in their current budget. He would like to see half of the grant funds for the hungry, if not all, to come to Mt. Gideon for their program. Reverend Huston said that the alleys between Etzel and Sutter are in horrible disrepair and he would like some consideration given to them, as well. Joan Botwinick, 511 Westview Drive, stated that she feels that very few people knew about the public hearing. She received a notice in the mail, but previous years she had received a suggested projects list which she didn't receive this year. She wonders why there isn't more publicity about this hearing. She believes we should have a public hearing before we even suggest a list of projects. She doesn't understand why 1/3 of the CDBG funds should go to repairing a street that belongs to Wellston and Pagedale. She requests that this allocation be eliminated in favor of $30,000 for emergency home repair and $20,000 to maintain and repair the alleys that Rev. Huston just spoke of. She still believes that we need to have an emergency repair program for forestalling the deterioration of housing stock and help families that are having a tough time financially. Many people on the City's program are on a 2-4 year waiting list. She wishes to ask the Council to table the CDBG allocation until the citizens have been better notified and another public hearing can be scheduled. She received information from the County regarding the City's home improvement programs, but the citizens know little about it. Richard Dockett, 6844 Crest, asked for additional time to consider how to allocate the very small CDBG funds. He believes that these funds should be refocused towards the northeast area. He particularly believes that attention needs to be paid to the area around the Ferguson side Pershing Accelerated School. The sidewalks are in disrepair. He believes that the money for Wellston should be eliminated because they should be able to receive empowerment fund money from the County. Patricia Merritt, 6558 Corbitt, said that she was glad to see money allocated to the '7