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Regular Council Meeting February 22, 2021 Page 5 City Manager Grayson Path explained that every year the City contracts with non-profit organizations that apply to the City seeking funding for public purpose projects. He reported that in the past the City Manager had overseen this process, and that he would like for City Council to consider taking over that process of making determinations as to which non-profit organization should be funded. Mr. Path said he had developed a draft Policy incorporating and editing the existing Application and Contract, which was in their agenda packet. Mr. Path reviewed the Policy with City Council, which included a cap funding of $100,000.00 with an additional $5,000.00 of alleviated excess if found necessary. He said the total awarded in FY20/21 was $91,250.00 excluding the Paris Metro annual contribution of $25,000.00 and the Paris -Lamar County Health District annual contribution of $75,000.00, which he was recommending be excluded from the policy given the relationship the City has with these entities. Mr. Path outlined the parameters, the process of approval, the ranking scorecard, the application, and the agreement. Mayor Clifford said he liked this process a lot and expressed appreciation to Mr. Path for bringing this forward. Mayor Clifford said it gives City Council the opportunity to review and rank the organizations and he especially liked the requirement of having a summary. Council Member Hughes said he also liked this a lot. Council Member Portugal said she also liked this detailed process because these funds belonged to the taxpayers. 19. Discuss and act on a request from Samantha Hughes to waive her rent at the Event Center until May 2021, as related to Covid-19. Ms. Ellis said she had contacted Ms. Hughes about the required insurance and had not received it as of yet but hoped to by the next Council meeting. Mayor Clifford inquired if staff wanted to table this item, and Ms. Ellis answered in the affirmative. A Motion to table this item to the next City Council meeting was made by Council Member Pilgrim and seconded by Council Member Knox. Motion carried, 6 ayes ® 0 nays. 20. Received Report required by the Texas Local Government Code Section 399.009 for proposed the City of Paris, Texas Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program and discuss and possibly approve RESOLUTION NO. 2021-007: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS EVIDENCING THE CITY'S INTENT TO ESTABLISH A PACE PROGRAM FOR THE CITY; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. City Attorney, Stephanie Harris said that of the four phases for the Paris Lakes Project, they were discussing the first two steps of phase one in particular. She also said the first step consisted of the Public PACE Report which would be posted on the City's website and available in the City Clerk's office for the public. The second step was to pass a Resolution of Intent of Create a PACE Program.