Temple — The Temple City Council voted 4–0 on Oct. 16 to approve routine consent items that included resolutions authorizing Family Promise and Feed My Sheep to serve as subrecipients of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds the city receives from the federal government.

City staff said the two agencies provide services "for homelessness and those experiencing homelessness in our communities" and that the city is an entitlement grantee that can pass funds through to subrecipients because the organizations are not direct recipients of the federal entitlement. "We are recommending these two agencies who do a great amount of work with providing services for homelessness," a staff member said during the consent presentation.

During public comment, resident Alan Lytle questioned why the city would administer grants to local nonprofits rather than those groups applying directly for funds and said enforcement of youth tobacco sales and related prevention funding should not fall primarily to police. He told council he "applaud[ed] the effort to try to stop young people from smoking" but said "$10,000 is not near enough."

The consent agenda (items 3A–3E, minus item 3E) was approved 4–0. Item 3E — an authorization to purchase two 2026 Freightliner chassis and bodies estimated at $1,061,974 — was pulled from consent and later the council voted 4–0 to postpone that purchase.