Okey.
The code You show is done from the beginning of loop.
You refere to "processes" and I don't manage to follow Your description. I need to read code.
I suggest You write down, for Yourself, a step by step of the happening of what the code is intende to do. Then compare to what's happening. Figure out where in those steps reality and intension go apart.
Your problem lays on a system design level, not on any little misprint in the code.
Your proj is not exactly a newbie one.