Speaker 2, the city’s Director of Development, told the finance committee the Department of Development evaluated Coco House on performance, reporting and spending and found “concern” about the nonprofit’s ability to spend its ARPA award on schedule. The department reported Coco House had drawn roughly $30,742 of an approximately $200,000 first‑year salary allocation and had repeated reporting gaps, prompting staff to recommend recouping funds unless the organization provided a clear spending plan.

Mitch (Speaker 5), the Community Development Supervisor, said department staff had met with Coco House leadership multiple times, toured the facility and walked the organization through reporting and invoicing requirements. He said he advised the nonprofit that the contract expected a full‑time executive director and warned the council that “the city council may choose to recoup some of that money if a year goes by and he had to spend to $200,000.”

Council members and staff discussed several options to preserve federal funds and ensure they were spent for city priorities before federal deadlines. One option that gained support was to recoup $141,580 from the Coco House allocation and reallocate $108,420 to a summer youth employment program administered through a contract the mayor would execute. Staff and council members emphasized the time pressure of federal obligation dates and the practical difficulty of arranging an outside partner contract (for example with the school district) before the imminent deadlines.

Speaker 6 formally moved to recoup $141,580 from the Coco House allocation and allocate $108,420 of the remaining funds to support a summer youth employment program; the motion was seconded and converted into a resolution to deobligate the Coco House allocation from $500,000 to $358,420. Committee leaders said contract terms and the details of the youth program would be finalized in the contract addendum and/or subsequent executive‑session negotiations.

Separately, the committee and then the full council considered using part of the reallocated money to purchase a municipal plow truck (chassis and cab). Staff cited a chassis price of roughly $141,580 (International 65100/65100 CV with a 10.5