Council agrees to move AlamoPROMISE scholarship funding into Ready to Work while keeping AlamoPROMISE outcomes reported separately

City staff proposed treating AlamoPROMISE scholarships funded with city dollars as part of Ready to Work for FY26 while keeping AlamoPROMISE recipients separate from Ready to Work participant counts.

City Manager staff said the Alamo Colleges, as the program administrator, would provide the city with names, addresses, demographic information, scholarship counts and amounts, program of study, graduation dates and job placement details when available. That reporting package is intended to let the council and the public track use of city funds without counting AlamoPROMISE recipients toward Ready to Work enrollment totals.

Priscilla Camacho of Alamo Colleges told the council “The job placement information is not available to us at scale by the Texas Workforce Commission,” and asked that the council accept alternative reporting measures in the near term. Camacho proposed providing transfer and graduation data now and adding job‑placement data later if and when the Texas Workforce Commission makes it available at scale. Council members asked to change semiannual reporting to annual reporting to align with higher‑education reporting cycles; Alamo Colleges agreed.

Staff and council members said the change is intended to preserve reporting transparency while avoiding onerous Ready to Work verification requirements for AlamoPROMISE students. No formal contract changes were adopted during the work session; staff said they would incorporate the agreed reporting language into the funding agreement and return with the final budget or contract language.