Brewer and Stevens continue pressing on Beacon wait list data and interim action

And again, like, you know, Councilman Brewer actually has spoken to me about this for the last four years.

Endlessly.

And so I'm just trying to get an understanding of like how and how are we evaluating even when we are still in the middle of a contract.

Yeah, I think that these are really good questions, and I will definitely bring it back, and we can have internal conversations and obviously engage the council.

I'm going to bring Murphy down from heaven.

Literally.

My question, though, is this is what I'm concerned about.

These 20 kids, maybe they'll be okay, you know, but they'll be a lot better if they were at Beacon.

So then I wonder about all the other kids that are on wait lists.

They would be better off if they were at a Beacon.

And I'm just thinking, you know, youth development.

It's not great.

So while we're doing the RFP and figuring out what's next, they're sitting not in a great situation.

I'm worried about them.

So I would love to see some interim, if that's what it takes, of the sites that are overcrowded or have a wait list.

I know it doesn't make sense to me.

We're all focused on youth development, right?

This is, I mean, I know their chair is, I am.

And yeah, you and I, I am, you are.

I'm definitely focused.

And there are others.

But I'm just saying it doesn't make sense not to have some interim plan for this list.

So can you really look at it?

Because it has been going on for a couple of years.

This is not a new thing.

It's not like it's a new wait list.

No, we'll definitely take that under advisement, especially as we are.

Doing this assessment to determine where there are the pockets.

I'm not good on assessments.

I just want to make it happen.

So if it's more funding, I don't even think it's a space issue.

I think it is a funding issue.

I even go over there and say, excuse me, is that wait list moving?

I go over there and say, hello, Ray, can you move the wait list?

Because...

These parents are, like, upset.

So, anyway, I don't want, I just want it.