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UM, I DUNNO IF YOU WANNA YOUR CHAIRS OR NOT.
I MEAN, IT'S UP TO YOU ALL, BUT, UM, OH, IT'S PROBABLY GOOD BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE OVERHEAD QUICKLY.
UM, WHO'S GONNA DO ROLL CALL TODAY? OKAY.
CHAIR JULIE LEE HERE, VICE CHAIR DESIREE RUE.
ABSENT MEMBER OF SARAH BEATTY.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, WELCOME OUR NEWEST MEMBER, KIMBERLY LEWIS.
SHE'S BEEN IN AND AROUND THE HOMELESS, UM, SERENA FOR A LONG TIME AND SHE'S GONNA GREAT US WITH HER KNOWLEDGE AND CE THANK YOU, KIMBERLY.
OKAY, UM, LET'S GET TO OUR AGENDA.
UH, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT, UM, A FRONT THAT WE WILL HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR AGENDA ITEMS AS WE GET THROUGH DISCUSSION FOR EACH ITEM.
SO THE PROCEDURE FOR ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER IS TO HAVE THE COMMITTEE, UM, MAKE THEIR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ADDRESSED, AND THEN, UM, WE WOULD OPEN IT UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND THE, UM, CRITERIA FOR PUBLIC, PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AGENDA ITEM IS THAT, UM, EACH SPEAKER IS LIMITED TO TWO MINUTES, UM, TO MAKE THEIR COMMENTS AND LEFT EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR.
THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES FROM MARCH 6TH, UM, 2024.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE OUR MINUTES? SO MOVED.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? GIMME ONE SECOND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES FROM MARCH 6TH, 2024, SAY, AYE.
UM, OKAY, ITEM NUMBER TWO ON OUR AGENDA IS THE SUBCOMMITTEE UPDATES.
UM, LET'S START, WE HAVE THREE SUBCOMMITTEES.
LET'S START WITH THE MAYOR EXPENSE SUBCOMMITTEE.
JIM? YEAH, WE HAD OUR MEETING ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, AND, UH, WE, WE DISCUSSED THE, UM, WE HAD A PROPOSAL IN FRONT OF US THAT, UH, WAS THE REQUIRING REQUESTING FUNDING FOR SOME TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.
UH, WE HAD A REALLY GOOD DISCUSSION ABOUT IT WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, AND WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WE COULDN'T REALLY SEE ANYTHING IN THE APPLICATION THAT SHOWED THAT PEOPLE WERE REALLY WORKING IN LONG BEACH.
SO WE ACTUALLY ASKED STAFF TO GO BACK TO THEM AND GET SOME INFORMATION ON WHAT SERVICES THEY ARE PROVIDING IN LONG BEACH AND WHERE THEY GET THE FUNDING FROM THOSE.
AND SO WE GET THOSE ANSWERS THAT SUBSEQUENTLY MEETING AT THAT TIME.
UH, ALSO DISCUSSED A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS.
ONE, THAT WE, IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO GET INFORMATION BACK FROM THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE FUNDED FOR.
ONE, TO SEE THE WORK AS BEING DONE, BUT ALSO WE'RE HAVING A PROBLEM WITH OUR FUNDING AT THE PRESENT TIME, RAISING MONEY.
AND IF WE HAD SOME GOOD SUBSTANTIAL REPORTS BACK FROM PEOPLE WHO WE HAVE FUNDED AS TO WHAT THAT MONEY DID DO AND THE SERVICES THEY PROVIDED FOR THE PEOPLE IN LONG BEACH, WE COULD USE THAT IN OUR FUNDRAISING.
SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT WHEN WE DO AGREE TO FUND AN ORGANIZATION IN THE MOU THAT WE ALSO ASK FOR REPORTS BACK ON OUTCOME AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WITH THE MONEY AND, YOU KNOW, GOOD HAPPENED.
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DID YOU WANNA, ANYTHING YOU WANNA ADD? NO, I THINK YOU COVERED ANYBODY ELSE ON ANYONE ELSE IS ON YOUR COMMITTEE? OH, BARRY'S NOT HERE.KIMBERLY, I JUST, I FORGOT TO SAY THAT WE, WE HAVE THREE SUBCOMMITTEES, SO, UM, WE USUALLY, UM, ENCOURAGE MEMBERS TO JOIN ONE OR MORE OR ALL.
UM, NATALIE, DID YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON YOUR
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WITH GP CARE PACKAGES AND THERE WAS A VIDEO, THERE WAS A VIDEO OF THAT THAT MAYBE WE COULD, COULD USE.
I DON'T, I DUNNO, BUT I'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT DURING OUR DISCUSSION, UM, LAST WEEK.
I HAVE QUESTION JIM, IN, IN THE GRANT, IS IT NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR THE, FOR THE GRANTEES TO REPORT OR SUBMIT REPORTS? WELL, ACTUALLY I DON'T THINK WE'VE BEEN DILIGENT IN GETTING THOSE REPORTS BACK.
IT WOULD BE PART OF THE, WHEN YOU GIVE THE MONEY OUT THAT THERE IS A END OF FUNDING REPORT THAT'S VERY TYPICAL FOR ANYBODY THAT GIVES OUT FUNDS, YOU WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE MONEY, EXACTLY WHAT EFFECT IT HAD ON THE COMMUNITY.
SO THAT'S WHAT I WAS ASKING, BECAUSE IT'S A NORMAL THING TO DO THAT, SO WE WANNA MAKE IT A LITTLE MORE FORMAL THAT THEY ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE.
AND THE QUESTION IS, IF YOU'RE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER PROPOSAL REPORT AT THE END ABSOLUTELY.
PAUL, DO WE NEED A MOTION TO ASK FOR A OUTCOMES REPORT FROM OUR MAYOR FUND, UH, GRANTEES? IF THAT'S NOT A, IS IT ALREADY IT'S ALREADY THERE.
IT'S BEEN REQUIRED SINCE LAST MONTH.
UM, YEAH, I MEAN WE'VE GOTTEN IT FROM SOME, OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY HAS TO SUBMIT THEIR INVOICES SUPPORTING THE DOCUMENTATION.
UM, SO I GUESS THE QUESTION, AND I GUESS IT CAN BE ASKED WITHIN THE NEXT, LIKE TO WHAT, LIKE LEVEL OF DETAIL, AGAIN, IF YOU'RE RECEIVING FIVE GRAND, LIKE THE LIKELIHOOD OF BE LIKE DOING SOMETHING SUPER IN DEPTH IS GONNA BE LIMITED, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY MAYBE MOLD THROUGH LIKE WHAT'S THE LEVEL OF DETAIL THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN OUR REPORTS WITHIN WOULD PROBABLY SET THE SAME LEVEL OF DETAIL.
IS A APPLICATION, YOU KNOW, NOT PAGE, PAGE ONE PAGE OR LESS SO FAR.
THERE'S NO TEMPLATE, BUT IT'S ALREADY A REQUIREMENT FOR THE MOU.
WE DID ADD IT TO THE APPLICATION, I THINK, I WANNA SAY ABOUT A MONTH AGO, UNCLEAR, BUT, UH, GP BLANKETS OF LOVE WAS THE FIRST ORGANIZATION THAT HAS ACTUALLY STATED THAT WITHIN THEIR MOU.
UM, MAYBE THEN FOR THE COMMITTEE TO DRAFT LIKE A SIMPLE TEMPLATE, THAT WAY WE CAN JUST, FOR AN ORGANIZATION, I FIND THAT EASIER GONNA SAY BECAUSE, UM, I ACTUALLY DID SOME WORK WITH, UH, UNITED WAY RECENTLY AND WE CREATED A FORM ONLINE JUST THROUGH MICROSOFT FORMS WITH THE EXACT, YOU KNOW, LIKE WITH WHAT WE NEEDED.
IT TOOK LITERALLY, I THINK A MINUTE AND A HALF TO COMPLETE SO THAT WAY WE CAN JUST SEND THEM A LINK AND TOTAL BOOM AND IT JUST AUTOMATICALLY OVER INTO THE EXCEL SPREADSHEET, WHATEVER'S CREATED, WE'LL PUT ON OUR, UH, PROCESS FOR ONLINE.
WELL, THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD WE'LL PUT ON AGENDA SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING IS TO COME UP WITH WHAT KIND OF REPORTING WE DO.
YES, SARAH, I WOULD STRONGLY ENCOURAGE PICTURES OR YEAH, IF WE DO INCLUDE THAT, WE PROBABLY NEED TO HAVE LIKE A TEMPLATE OR RELEASE OF RESPONSIBILITY VIDEOS THAT THEY CAN EASILY THAT FINE.
WE'LL, WE WILL NOT RELEASE ANYTHING AGAINST THE CITY WITHOUT KNOWING THAT LIKE THE PERSON WAS OKAY AND UNDERSTANDS THE INTENT OF POTENTIALLY USING THAT IN, UH, ANY SORT OF OTHER MEDIA IN THE CITY.
UM, OKAY, NEXT SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT IS OUR
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POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE.SARAH, WE MET ON THE SECOND MONDAY OF LAST MONTH AT 2:00 PM AS WE ALWAYS DO, ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND, BUT LET US KNOW AHEAD OF TIME IF YOU'RE GONNA, UM, AND WE HAVE SOMETHING EXCITING THAT WE WANNA DISCUSS WITH YOU TODAY.
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL AT SAC.
AND SO THE POLICY COMMITTEE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THOSE DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS AND IF SUBMITTED, THIS WOULD BE SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF OUR ENTIRE COMMITTEE.
SO I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO GET EVERYONE'S FEEDBACK AND HEAR FROM YOU ON WHAT YOU THINK OF IT.
YOU HAVE A COPY ALONG WITH YOUR AGENDA PACKET, UM, BUT WE THOUGHT WE COULD AT LEAST START THE DISCUSSION TODAY.
SO JUST TO BRIEFLY GO OVER IT, ADDRESS TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, UM, IT'S OUR 20 24 20 25 POLICY RECOMMENDATION.
IT GIVES THE BACKGROUND ABOUT THE RESOLUTION THAT ESTABLISHED US.
IT GIVES SOME STATISTICS ABOUT, UM, FROM THE 2023 POINT IN TIME HOMELESS COUNT.
UM, AND THEN IT STARTS WITH OUR POLICY RECOMMENDATION AND THAT, UM, WE KIND OF CALL ON THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL TO FOCUS ON COST EFFECTIVE AND OBEDIENT INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS AND ITS MOST DANGEROUS EFFECTS OR IMPACTS, WHICH INCLUDE VULNERABILITY TO ASSAULT, MENTAL HEALTH, DETERIORATION, EXPOSURE RELATED ILLNESS SUCH AS HYPOTHERMIA, THESE STRESS, SKIN CANCER, DEHYDRATION, TRENCH FOOT RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS, VECTOR BORN AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, AND POOR NUTRITION.
UM, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW EQUITY HAS TO BE A CENTRAL OR SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, UH, WHEN THINKING ABOUT SOLUTIONS AND PRIORITIZATION OF OUR RESPONSE.
AND SO OUR FIRST RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY, THE MAYOR, THE CITY COUNCIL, SET GOALS FOR THE PERCENTAGE OF, UM, PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WHO ARE SHELTERED BY CERTAIN YEARS.
SO WE PUT FORTH, UH, THE CITY SHOULD ADOPT A GOAL OF SHELTERING 40% LONG BEACHES HOMELESS POPULATION BY 2026 AND 60% BY 2030.
AND THAT'S VERY OPEN TO DISCUSSION, BUT WE THINK SOME SORT OF GOALS SHOULD BE SET THERE.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW CURRENTLY ONLY 29% OF PEOPLE
UH, RECOMMENDATION NUMBER TWO, WE RECOMMENDED, UM, A NEEDS ASSESSMENT PULLING ON THE INFORMATION THAT'S ALREADY BEEN GATHERED, UM, THROUGH OUTREACH WORKERS.
AND WE THOUGHT THAT THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT SHOULD, YOU KNOW, SINCE WE HAVE THIS GOAL OF SHELTERING MORE INDIVIDUALS, UM, TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT IT WOULD COST TO SHELTER THAT NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS AND WHAT THEIR NEEDS MIGHT BE AND WHAT SERVICES THEY MIGHT HAVE.
SO WE RECOMMEND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
UM, CONSIDER HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS COULD MOVE IMMEDIATELY INTO PERMANENT HOUSING IF IT WAS AVAILABLE.
UM, HOW MANY, HOW MANY PERMANENT HOUSING UNITS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT YEAR? UM, HOW MANY PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS FIRST WOULD REQUIRE INTERIM SHELTER AND WOULD NEED SUPPORT BEFORE THEY WOULD BE READY, UH, FOR PERMANENT SHELTER.
HOW MANY UNITS OF INTERIM SHELTER WE EXPECT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN TOTAL IN 20 24, 20 25.
AND THEN A PROJECTION OF ANNUAL FUNDING SOURCES THAT COULD FUND EACH OF THESE TYPES OF HOUSING.
UM, AND THEN THE TOTAL COST IN EACH CATEGORY OF PROVIDING THESE TYPES OF SHELTER AND SERVICES TO THE WHOLE POPULATION.
SO SINCE WE KNOW THERE'S NOT ENOUGH FUNDING AND THERE'S NOT ENOUGH RESOURCES, WE COULD HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW WE SHOULD PRIORITIZE THE RESOURCES THAT WE DO HAVE.
UM, RECOMMENDATION NUMBER THREE.
UM, WE THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, AS YOU KNOW, STAFF HAVE SAID, AS WE HAVE SAID, TO FOCUS ON PREVENTION.
WE KNOW THAT PREVENTION, UM, IS THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS, AND IT ALSO GUARANTEES THE BEST OUTCOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS.
UM, SO WE URGE CITY COUNCIL TO MAINTAIN OR INCREASE FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS LIKE THE EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, THE GUARANTEED INCOME PROGRAM, AND ALSO PEER LED LIFE SKILLS PROGRAMS THAT ARE FULL FOR, EXCUSE ME, FOCUSED ON WORKFORCE READINESS, HOME ECONOMICS AND OTHER LIFE SKILLS THAT MIGHT HELP PREVENT HOMELESSNESS.
UM, AND FINALLY, RECOMMENDATION NUMBER FOUR.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LOT AT SAC.
UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT THE CITY SHOULD PILOT SOME LOWER COST QUICKER STARTUP INTERIM HOUSING SOLUTIONS.
THIS IS TO HELP MEET THAT GOAL OF SHELTERING MORE UNHOUSED RESIDENTS.
UM, AND SO WE GAVE THE EXAMPLE OF SAFE SLEEP, WHICH WE'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO AS A COMMITTEE A LOT, BUT WE WANTED TO PUT FORTH A SOLUTION FOR HOW THE, THE CITY COULD START TO MOVE TOWARDS MEETING THOSE GOALS AS SHELTERING MORE RESIDENTS.
UM, SO THOSE ARE OUR FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND YOU CAN SEE AT THE BOTTOM WE ALSO INCLUDED, UM, AN ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR THE MAYOR'S FUND, UM, SO THAT WE'RE KIND OF REPORTING ON THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING AS A COMMITTEE.
SO LET ME KNOW IF ANYTHING NEEDS TO BE ADJUSTED THERE.
UM, AND THEN WE DID A SUMMARY OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE.
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FEEDBACK DOES THE GROUP HAVE ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS? DO THEY REFLECT US AS A COMMITTEE? I JUST NOTICED, UM, IT IS, IT JUST SEEMS PRETTY GENERAL.SO ARE ARE, ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO FOCUS ON SENIORS? BECAUSE SENIORS ARE A HUGE POPULATION ON THE STREET RIGHT NOW AND THEY REQUIRE DIFFERENT THINGS THAN MOST PEOPLE.
SO THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
SO WE WOULD EXPECT TO, YOU KNOW, TO WHATEVER EXTENT POSSIBLE WITH THE INFORMATION GATHERED, THE, THE TYPES OF INFORMATION WOULD BE WHAT, WHAT EXTRA NEEDS DOES THIS INDIVIDUAL HAVE THAT IT WOULD REQUIRE TO SHELTER OR HOUSE THEM? YOU KNOW, DO THEY NEED DOCUMENTS? DO THEY NEED SUPPORT FOR ADDICTION? AND SO ARE THEY A FAMILY? THOSE DIFFERENT TYPES OF, UM, CRITERIA WOULD BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES AND SHELTER AND HOUSING AND, AND WHAT ARE THE NEEDS.
WERE THERE OTHER QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS? I THANK YOU FOR JUMPING.
UM, FOR ME, FOR THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, I WANNA GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF LIKE HOW DOES THIS FIT WITH LIKE THE PLANS FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, AND HOW DOES THAT GO HAND IN HAND? BECAUSE I'M WONDERING IF WE CAN LEVERAGE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR TYING IN A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OR, UM, I'M ALSO JUST WONDERING IS IT NEEDS ASSESSMENT OR IS IT MORE LIKE A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF ANALYSIS OF LIKE WHAT TYPE OF HOUSING IS NEEDED AND HOW MUCH FUNDING IS NEEDED TO DO THAT? SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, LIKE THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE IN HERE AND THEN WHAT IS THE BETTER VEHICLE TO BRING THAT ABOUT? YEAH.
AND I WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK AND WHAT YOU THINK THE BETTER VEHICLE IS, IS THE GOAL IS REALLY HOW DO WE HELP? UM, OR, OR HOW COULD THE CITY PUT IN PLACE THAT PLAN, YOU KNOW, TO REACH THESE GOALS AND WHAT INFORMATION IS NEEDED.
WE THINK MAYBE A LOT OF THE INFORMATION IS ALREADY POSSESSED BY THE CITY THROUGH OUTREACH WORKERS.
SO HOW DO WE USE THAT TO SAY, OKAY, THIS, THIS IS WHERE THE FUNDING SHORTFALL AND SO THIS IS WHAT THE HOUSING SHELTER COURT.
LIKE WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, USUALLY IN THE BEGINNING THERE IS LIKE A CAPTURING OF WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS, I GUESS.
AND THEN BASED UPON THAT, WHAT ARE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO FLOW OUT OF THAT? AND SO, UM, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IF THAT'S BUILT INTO THAT OR NOT, BECAUSE THEN I WONDER THEN IF WE CAN JUST CLARIFY LIKE IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUILDING THIS INTO THAT OR YEAH, I DON'T WANNA LIKE PUT ADDITIONAL WORK WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO I CAN ANSWER KIND OF WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON IN THE MOMENT AND IF THAT KIND OF GETS TO WHAT, UH, THIS GROUP IS LOOKING FOR, UM, WE WILL, SO WE'VE BEEN ENGAGING AROUND, UM, HOW TO BRING TOGETHER DATA TO BEST REFLECT OUR OVERALL NEED IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT AREAS THAT IMPACT HOMELESSNESS THAT WE'RE SEEING TO JUST LOOK AT HOMELESSNESS ITSELF, LIKE WOULD BE A MISS WITHIN THIS.
SO WE ARE, WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE COUNTY TO TRY TO PULL IN SOME OF THE COUNTY LEVEL DATA, SUCH AS WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, WHAT WE'RE SEEING FROM DMH, WHAT WE'RE SEEING FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES TO GET A BETTER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES PERSPECTIVE AS WE LOOK AT OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, LOOKING AT RENTAL COSTS, WHAT'S IN PLACE FOR THAT, UM, AND THE IMPACTS THAT THAT'S HAVING ON PEOPLE BECOMING NEWLY HOMELESS OVER TIME.
SO TRYING TO LOOK AT A HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PREVENTION, LIKE WE REALLY GOTTA LOOK AT THE DRIVING FACTORS.
LOOKING AT, UH, ALSO OUR, UM, SOCIAL SERVICE SYSTEMS SUCH AS DCFS, FOSTER CARE IS A MAJOR INDICATOR OF LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESSNESS WHEN WE LOOK AT, UH, DATA AND PREVALENCE.
SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DATA ELEMENTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO PULL IN TO TRY TO BRING TOGETHER OF LIKE, HERE ARE THE DRIVING FACTORS, HERE ARE SOME OF THE NEEDS THAT ARE BEING IDENTIFIED.
LIKE WE KNOW THE NEED WHEN WE PULL INTO ALL THOSE THINGS IS FAR GREATER THAN THE RESOURCE.
SO THAT'LL BE THE DIFFICULT PART OF LIKE, WHERE DO WE FOCUS WITH WHAT WE DO HAVE, WHERE ARE THE POLICY CHANGES THAT COULD BE MADE AS WELL AS LIKE, WHERE CAN WE BRING IN ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT TO HAVE THE LARGEST IMPACT? UH, BUT ALSO LIKE WITHIN A STRATEGIC PLAN AS THINGS CHANGE OR SHIFT, LIKE HOW DO, HOW DOES THAT CHANGE OUR NEED OVER TIME VERSUS HAVING A STAGNANT NEED THAT GETS, YOU KNOW, CREATED ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS.
LIKE THINGS CHANGE PRETTY, I MEAN, AT LEAST WITHIN THIS PAST FIVE YEARS, THINGS SHIFTED SO DRASTICALLY THAT LIKE GOALS THAT WERE CREATED AT THAT TIME OR NOVAL LONGER VALID FOR WHAT WE'RE SEEING AT
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THIS POINT AS FAR AS THE NEEDS OF, THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FACTOR IN AND STUFF THAT IS SOMEWHAT DYNAMIC IN DETERMINING OUR NEED AS WELL.UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YOU KATIE? UM, YEAH, I AM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY IF THAT IS THE PROCESS, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU'RE LIKE GETTING DATA AS YOU'RE GOING AND THEN TRYING TO BACKTRACK AS YOU'RE GOING FORWARD.
IT'S LIKE THIS MOVEMENT THAT KEEPS US LIKE THIS.
HOW DO WE GET THOSE TIMES AND DATA TO MOVE IT ACTUALLY FORWARD INSTEAD OF SIDEWAYS? SIDEWAYS? AND THAT'S, I THINK WHAT SHE TRYING TO SAY.
DOES THE HMIF DOES THAT HAVE CAPACITY TO EXTRACT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SARAH PUT IN THIS DOCUMENT? AS YOU KNOW, AS YOU UPDATE PEOPLE'S, UM, INFORMATION ON THE HMIS ANY GIVEN TIME, UH, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF IT, UM, I CAN SAY WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT IN COMPARISON TO WHERE WE WERE FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO.
I WOULD SAY NO WAY COULD WE USE HMIS TO REALLY, UH, ACCURATELY CAPTURE WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THAT POINT.
BUT WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT.
SO THAT IS ONE THING THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT.
HMIS WILL DEFINITELY BE A MAJOR THING WITHIN, UM, YOU KNOW, A DATA SOURCE FOR DETERMINING LIKE WHAT OUR STRATEGY AND OUR NEEDS ARE WITHIN THE
DID THE COMMITTEE HAVE A PROJECTED DATE OF, OF DELIVERING THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL? WE WANTED TO GET FEEDBACK TODAY AND WHEN WE FEEL THE GROUP IS READY TO SAY YES, THIS REPRESENTS US, THEN WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, LOOK FOR A MOTION TO SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, LET'S, SO WE WANT TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION AND THEN SEE WHAT, WHAT'S LINGERING THAT MAYBE WE AS A SUBCOMMITTEE WOULD NEED TO GO BACK AND ADDRESS AND THEN BRING IT FORWARD AGAIN.
OR IS ANYTHING REALLY LINGERING AS WE FEEL WE CAN MOVE FORWARD? SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THIS IS THE STARTING POINT, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF WORK DO WE NEED TO DO? UM, I I JUST WANNA UNDERLINE, ONE OF THE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS IS THAT AS A SUBCOMMITTEE, WE THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT, UM, TO MAKE SOME SORT OF PROPORTIONAL OR NUMERIC COMMITMENTS TO GET MORE PEOPLE INTO INTERIM SHELTER BECAUSE WE THINK THE NUMBER OF UNSHELTERED INDIVIDUALS IS TOO HIGH.
PEOPLE ARE DYING, THEIR HEALTH IMPACTS THERE.
UM, SO THAT'S WHY WE DID RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY ADOPT TARGETS FOR SHELTERING MORE PEOPLE.
AND THAT IS THE, IN, IN PART THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
UM, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T JUST SAY LET'S SHELTER, YOU KNOW, 40% OF PEOPLE.
IT'S LIKE, WELL, WHAT DOES THAT COST AND WHAT TYPE OF SHELTER DO THEY NEED? AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? SO WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS ADVISE HOW DO WE GET THERE? WHAT'S THE SHORTFALL IN FUNDING AND RESOURCE TO MAKE THAT A REALITY? ONE, ONE LAST THING, DOES THE COMMITTEE, UM, WE, WE, THE THE, WE DID COME UP WITH A LIST OF PRIORITIES.
UM, JORGE, I THINK THAT WOULD BE NICE TO ADD TO THAT OTHER DOCUMENT THAT THE, YOU KNOW, WE AS A COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP THOSE
SO IT'S BEEN LIKE, AT LEAST IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, BUT THAT WE LITERALLY HAVE A LIST OF PRIORITIES, UM, THAT HAY SEX VISIT FOCUSES ON.
YEAH, I THINK MAYBE JUST TAKING A LOOK AT STUDENT THAT IS STILL RELEVANT.
SARAH, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT PIECE ON INTERIM SHELTER, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WAS PICKING UP ON THE, THE MM-HMM.
I'M LIKE, OKAY, OVERALL WE WANT TO HAVE A FOCUSED STRATEGY ON BUILDING OUT INTERIM SHELTERS, RIGHT? UM, AND SO I'M WONDERING, BECAUSE KNOWING HOW SUCCESS IS, THEY LOVE DISABILITY STUDIES.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S WHERE MAYBE IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A NEEDS ASSESSMENT, BUT MORE LIKE REQUESTING A ITY STUDY OF LIKE, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO BUILD MULTIPLE, OR HAVE MULTIPLE STRATEGIES OF INTERIM SHELTER.
BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THE FEASIBILITY STUDY IS THEN THESE MODELS, HOW MUCH COST, AND THEN WE BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THAT WITH DIFFERENT CITY.
I MEAN, I THINK WE, WE SORT OF DID AN INFORMAL FEASIBILITY STUDY AND, AND WHAT WE DID WITH CULVER CITY AND UM, DENVER AND UM, EUGENE.
UM, AND THEN GOING BEYOND THAT AND PROPOSING THE PILOT, UM, I THINK SORT OF THIS NATURAL PROGRESSION, UM, KNOWING THIS COULD BE
WELL, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIVES AND TRYING TO GET THEM OFF THE STREETS, UH, RIGHT.
SO I SEE, I SEE WHERE SUZANNE'S GOING THOUGH BECAUSE THEY DO LIVE.
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I SEE WHERE IT WOULD, UM, BENEFIT MAYBE FOR TIME BECAUSE LIKE THE TIME THING, RIGHT? LIKE IF WE TAKE A SNAPSHOT TODAY AND IT TAKES US SIX MONTHS TO BUILD SOMETHING, THAT SNAPSHOT'S GONNA CHANGE.AND I KNOW THAT'S LIKE WHAT WE'RE, BUT IF THAT TIME IS SHORTENED SOMEHOW MAYBE WITH THE STUDY IS MORE SHORTER, SHORTEN, MAYBE IT'S A SHORTER PATH, WHICH PUTS DOWN ON TIME.
IT'S MORE HOW ABOUT IF WE INCLUDED YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR SUMMARY THAT WE DID NINE, THE THREE, UM, PROJECTS THAT WE LOOKED AT.
WHAT IF WE INCLUDED THAT BECAUSE THAT, THAT WAS SORT OF A NICE SUMMARY TO MAYBE ADD A COUPLE MORE COLUMNS TO THAT BECAUSE IT DID INCLUDE THE COST AND IT DID INCLUDE SOME OUTCOMES.
BUT THAT'S OF ONE MODEL, RIGHT? AND SO KNOWING, WELL, THE ONE THAT THE PILOT IS TRYING TO RIGHT, ATTACH TO.
UH, BUT ALSO I THINK MAYBE THERE IS OTHER MULTIPLE MODELS THAT THE STUDENTS WANNA TOO BEYOND THAT.
UM, BECAUSE YES, THAT'S OUR STRONG IS THAT WE THIS, BUT THE TIME PERIOD AND THE COST, THIS IS OUR RECOMMENDATION, BUT KNOWING HOW THE CITY IS, THEY WOULD WANT HAVE MULTIPLE OPTIONS LIKE
AND THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT MATTER.
SO, SO I'M HEARING YOU, AND MAYBE IF WE PUT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY COULD BUILD UPON THE FEASIBILITY STUDY ALREADY CONDUCTED BY THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE UNSAFE SLEEP AND INCLUDE OTHER FORMS OF OF INTERIM SHELTER TO THESE.
I HAVE FOUND THE DOCUMENT FROM 2020 PRIORITY.
I, I FORWARD IT TO THE COMMITTEE.
FORWARD IT, FORWARD IT TO STEPHANIE AND STEPHANIE, WE WILL SEND IT OUT.
ANY OTHER THOUGHTS OR, OR FEEDBACK, JIM? WELL, THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WAS THINKING ABOUT.
DOESN'T SOUND FAIR IN A WAY, BUT SOMETIMES I THINK WE HAVE TO MAYBE DO MORE PRIORITIZING SPECIFIC AREAS OF HOMELESSNESS, TAKE TARGETS AND TRY TO SOLVE THAT.
I KNOW THE VERY FIRST, UH, WELL, HOUSING FIRST PROGRAM WAS PART OF THAT, THAT WE TARGETED FRAIL PEOPLE, PHYSICALLY FRAIL, AND WE MANAGED TO GET THEM OFF THE STREET, WHICH WAS GOOD.
AND UH, AND I THINK SOMETIMES, AND I'M LOOKING AT YOUR RECOMMENDATION THREE, WELL, I REALLY AGREE WITH THAT, THAT, UH, THE PREVENTION AREA THAT GET PEOPLE THE NEWLY HOMELESS THREAT FROM DANGER OF HOMELESS AND REALLY FOCUS ON THAT GROUP, I THINK WE WOULD DO A GREAT DEAL TO REDUCING THE HOMELESS POPULATION OVERALL.
BUT IT SOMEHOW SEEMS WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T TARGET LIKE THAT.
AND I THINK MOST TIMES WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO SOLVE A PROBLEM, AND I THINK THAT'S MAYBE WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT, DOING MORE IN HOMELESS SITUATIONS, MORE TARGETING, PRIORITIZING CERTAIN POPULATIONS, BUT ONE WE KNOW WHATEVER, AND, UH, SPEND MORE OF OUR MONEY ON THOSE AND GET THEM OFF WORK, GETTING THEM OFF THE STREET.
I THINK SOMETIMES THE CHRONICALLY HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL I'VE WORKED WITH, A LOT OF THEM IS AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULTLY IMPOSSIBLE THEM.
SO MAYBE THE MONEY WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ON AREAS THAT WE REALLY COULD HAVE AN EFFECT ON.
SO MAYBE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, SHELTERING 40% OF THE, THE POPULATION BY 2026, WE SAY, AND STRATEGY FOR GETTING THERE WOULD BE THE TARGET SPECIFIC, KINDA WHAT I BROUGHT UP WITH SENIORS.
AND AGAIN, JUST LIKE JIM SAYS, IT'S NOT, YOU'RE NOT SEEING ONE POPULATION NEEDS MORE HELP THAN ANOTHER.
EVERYBODY NEEDS HELP, BUT THEY ARE VERY VULNERABLE, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE OF THE AGE.
'CAUSE UM, LIKE WE JUST HELPED SOMEONE THAT WAS, UH, ON THE STREET AND HE STAGED CANCER.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT, TRY TO GET THEM AND TRY TO THE SENIORS AND THE, I GUESS THAT INFORMATION, PART OF THAT INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE, UM, NORMAL RIGHT,
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THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF WHO'S EXPERIENCING NORMAL COUNT, THE AGE, YEAH, AGE, RACE, SOME OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS, UM, GENDER, ALL OF LIKE YOUR BASIC DEMOGRAPHICS WILL BE COVERED PLUS SOME OTHER STUFF.THE POPULATIONS THAT SEEM TO BE DISPROPORTIONATELY, UM, REPRESENTED ARE BLACK RESIDENTS, L-G-B-T-Q RESIDENTS AND MALE RESIDENTS.
SO CERTAINLY SENIORS EXPERIENCE IT, BUT AS FAR AS THE GROUPS THAT ARE KIND OF DISPROPORTIONATELY REPRESENTED, THOSE BEEN IN THE SENIOR WOULDN'T DO THE RESEARCH IN THE SENIOR, THE BLACKS AND BLACK FEMALES IN THE SENIOR POPULATION WERE THE HIGHEST.
SO YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE THE POPULATIONS AND LOOK AT THE DATA AND BREAK IT DOWN BECAUSE IT STILL COMES OUT TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
UM, I THINK YOU ABOUT THE ELDERLY.
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE EVERYTHING I READ, WE HAVE A LOOMING PROBLEM WITH THE, THAT'S WELL, WE WILL, UH, PUT THIS, WE HAVE OUR NEXT MEETING ON MONDAY.
WE WILL WORK ON A NEXT DRAFT WITH THIS, AND WE'LL TRY TO COME BACK TO OUR NEXT MEETING WITH KIND OF A, THE FINISHED VERSION, HOPEFULLY WITH YOUR APPROVAL.
UM, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR FEEDBACK.
UM, ARE THERE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, UH, SORRY, LET'S DO COC FIRST.
I DID WANT, I SAW, I JUST SAW ANITA WHEN SHE WALKED IN.
I DID WANT, I DON'T WANT NITA PUT YOU ON THE SPOT.
UM, BUT WE DID ALREADY DO THE MAYORS FUND, UM, COMMITTEE REPORT, SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT.
AND SO I WANTED TO SEE IF YOU HAD ANY, UM, THING TO ADD TO THE, THE MAYORS FUND SUBCOMMITTEE, BECAUSE I KNOW WE'VE HAD QUESTIONS AMONG THE STAFF AND, AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS REGARDING THE, UM, AUTHORITY OF SAC AND THE STAFF AUTHORITY.
I DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS RIGHT AT THIS TIME, BUT I BELIEVE IT'LL BE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM.
UM, OKAY, SO, UM, NEXT ITEM ON NEXT SUB COMMITTEE IS THE COC PAM.
I, I NEED THE STAFF STOP ON THIS THE LAST TIME I TWO SEE IF THE MEETING THERE WAS, AND THEN THE NEXT MEETING WAS THE GENERAL MEETING IN THAT 10.
YEAH, SO NO, WHAT THE UPDATES ARE, NO REAL ACTION ITEMS BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE FORUMS, SO WE JUST PROVIDED GENERAL UPDATES.
IT'S A LOT OF WHAT YOU GOT LAST MONTH WITHIN OUR STAFF UPDATE AND WHAT YOU'LL GET, YOU KNOW, THIS MONTH.
BUT BECAUSE WE WEREN'T ABLE TO MEET, THERE WAS NO ACTION, UM, THEIR MEETING NEXT WEEK.
UM, SO SHOULD I DO THE MOTION AND THEN DO THE PUBLIC COMMENT? I MEAN THAT'S WHAT I, I THINK I SHOULD DO IS, IS ENTERTAIN THE MOTION AND THEN CALL, THAT'S TYPICALLY HOW COUNTS ABOVE IT.
SO COULD I HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE SUBCOMMITTEE UPDATES? SOME MOVE I'LL SECOND.
UM, ARE THERE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS? OKAY, HEARING NONE.
ARE THERE, ARE THERE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? UM, WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE HAVE TESTS DONE OFF THAT'S SIGNED UP, BUT WE DO HAVE A FEW PEOPLE COME IN SO WE CAN LET THEM SIGN UP THIS TIME.
I DON'T THINK THEY KNEW THEY SUPPOSED SIGN.
AND THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS, SO IT WILL BE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, I LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING, I'M TESTIFIED TO MAKE, UH, I LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING, UM, LET'S GET A NUMBER THAT WE'RE GONNA PROMISE THE HOUSE AND LET'S DECIDE WHO WE'RE GOING TO HOUSE AND HOW WE'RE GONNA HOUSE THEM AS A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
ONE, UM, THERE ARE LOTS OF RUMORS OUT THERE, BUT IS THERE SOME WAY THAT, WHEN AREN'T THEY DOING HOTEL VOUCHERS ANYMORE DURING THE TWO MINUTES FOR YOU? OH, I HAVE TO TALK TO YOU.
LEMME TELL YOU WHAT, I, I THINK IT WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT FOR,
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UM, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PROVIDING THOSE THINGS TO LOOK AT PUBLIC HOUSING, LIKE THE SENIORS GOING TO A SKILLED NURSING FACILITY.I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR, UM, NOT JUST, I DON'T KNOW, IT'S SAFE LONG BEACHES, BUT I SAFE SLEEP IS, BUT SAFE SLEEP TO ME WOULD BE A TENT COMMUNITY THAT THAT'S BUILT BY THE HOMELESS IN THAT COMMUNITY THAT HAS POWER WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES THAT HELP THE CITY WITHOUT THE CITY HAVING TO HAVE TONS OF EXPENSE.
BUT I THINK TRANSITIONAL MEANS A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, AND I HOPE EVERYONE HAS AN OPEN MIND ABOUT WHAT TRADITION, WHAT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CAN LOOK LIKE, THAT IT'S NOT JUST HOTELS, IT'S NOT JUST TENTS, IT'S NOT JUST TINY HOUSES.
THAT IS, IT'S THE CITY SUPPORTING THE BUSINESSES AS WELL AS THE CLIENTS TO GET PEOPLE OFF THE STREET AND GET THEM THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES THEY NEED OR THE PHYSICAL HEALTH SERVICES OR THE CRIMINAL SERVICES THEY NEED.
SO ANYWAY, I REALLY RESPECT WHAT YOU'RE, WHERE YOUR HEAD IS AT.
UM, THANK YOU, UH, FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR, FOR, FOR WRITING THIS, I, I WOULD JUST LIKE YOU TO ADD A WORD IN RECOMMENDATION FOUR TO REACH THE, IT SAYS, UH, QUICKER PRODUCT HOUSING SOLUTIONS TO REACH THE GOAL OF SHELTERING WHERE WE TALK ABOUT PERMANENT HOUSING IN BULLET ITEM THREE.
I THINK WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT PERMANENTLY SHELTERING 40%.
WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT SHELTERING.
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT HOW TO SHELTER OR WHAT TO DO.
SO I WOULD THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT CONSIDERING OUR HOUSING PRICES IN THIS COMMUNITY.
NATALIE, CAN WE FOLLOW ON THAT? YEAH, I THINK THIS IS GREAT AND I HOPE IT STIMULATES ONGOING DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, DEFINITION AROUND ALL OF THESE AREAS.
I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, OR MY THOUGHT IS SETTING TARGETS CAN TRICK PICKING A NUMBER OUT THE SKY OR WHAT, AND IT MIGHT HELP THE CITY IF THERE WERE KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER CITIES THAT DO THIS WELL AND WHAT DO THEY ACHIEVE.
SO IF WE'RE ACHIEVING 29%, DOES EUGENE OR WHATEVER ACHIEVE 40%? AND THAT WOULD GIVE THE CITY A SENSE OF ACHIEVABILITY AND MAYBE HELP, YOU KNOW, FIGURE 60% ACHIEVES JUST QUESTION.
THAT'S THE KIND OF STUFF I WANT TO HEAR EVENTUALLY.
UH, ANY OTHER COMMENTS? THANK YOU.
OKAY, SO THERE'S A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE COMMITTEE UPDATES.
OKAY, THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS THE, UM, HOMELESS SERVICES STAFF REPORT AND MULTI-SERVICE CENTER STAFF REPORT.
SO WE HAVE TWO PIECES TO THIS, SO I'M GONNA INVITE TYLER TO KIND OF KICK US OFF.
HE'S GONNA GO OVER, UM, THERE'S SOME NEW PEOPLE AND I DON'T THINK IN MY TIME WE'VE DONE A, UH, PRESENTATION ON THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CHANGES OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
SO, UH, WE WANTED TO INVITE TYLER TO KIND OF GIVE A OVERVIEW ON THE MSE, WHAT'S OFFERED THERE, AND, UH, ALLOW THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE, UH, ABOUT THE, THE MSC AND THEN WE'LL PROVIDE OUR, OUR GENERAL OVERARCHING MANDATE.
UH, MY, AGAIN, MY NAME IS TYLER TOIN.
UH, I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO BE IN THIS ROLE SINCE, UH, LATE 2021.
UM, SO I'M EXCITED TO SORT OF GIVE YOU GUYS A REAL BRIEF SORT OF OVERVIEW OF THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
I SAY THAT IF I WERE TO TALK ABOUT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, I COULD TALK FOR HOURS AND I DON'T WANNA DO THAT TO ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM.
SO INTENTIONALLY IT IS SORT OF BRIEF.
UM, SO WE'LL GO THROUGH IT THERE.
SO, UM, WE'LL TAKE IT ALL THE WAY BACK TO WHEN THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER OPENED ITS DOORS.
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YEARS AGO, AND CONTINUES TO SERVE AS THE PRIMARY ACCESS CENTER FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN LONG BEACH.I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TO THE MSC OR HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DURING THE DAY WHERE WE'RE OPEN, UH, BUT IT IS A VERY BUSY CENTER AND WE SERVE AND WELCOME ABOUT 170 VISITORS EACH DAY.
WE JUST GOT UPDATED NUMBERS FOR THE LAST MONTH.
IT'S NOW 180 FOR THE PRIOR MONTH.
UM, BUT 2023 WE SAW OVER 50,000 VISITS TO OUR MSC.
REAL QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE MSC.
SO WHERE IS OUR SERVICE CENTER? UH, WE ARE LOCATED AT 1301 WEST 12TH STREET, THE MAJOR CROSS STREETS ANAHEIM HARBOR.
UM, OUR HOURS OF OPERATION ARE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 8:00 AM TO 4:00 PM EXCEPT FOR ON THURSDAYS.
WE DO CLOSE AT 2:00 PM THAT ALLOWS FOR TRAINING STAFF MEETINGS, UH, VARIOUS THINGS SUCH AS THAT NATURE.
AND EVERY DAY WE'RE CLOSED FROM 12 TO ONE, UH, CLEANING THE FACILITY PRIMARILY.
BUT, UH, WE ARE ALSO SERVING LUNCH OUTSIDE DURING THAT TIME TOO.
SO EVEN THOUGH OUR BUILDING IS CLOSED, WE'RE STILL PRETTY ACTIVE OUTSIDE IN OUR PARK AREA.
WE HAVE THREE SORT OF MAIN WAYS OF OF CONTACT FOR THE MSC.
UM, WE HAVE TWO NUMBERS THAT THE PUBLIC CAN CALL PEOPLE WANT TO VISIT.
THE MSC CAN CALL JUST FOR GENERAL INFORMATION.
WE HAVE THE CASE MANAGEMENT LINE, WHICH IS STAFFED BY TWO, UH, OF OUR COUNSELOR TWOS.
AND THAT IS, UH, (562) 570-4500.
ANYONE CAN CALL THAT LINE AND ASK GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT OPERATIONS OF THE MSC, WHAT SERVICES WE PROVIDE.
THEY EVEN CAN DO INTAKES TO GET STARTED IN THE PROCESS FOR WHATEVER SERVICES THEY MAY BE INTERESTED IN.
SO INSTEAD OF PHYSICALLY COMING TO OUR CENTER, THEY CAN CALL THAT LINE.
AND THEN THIS LINE'S MORE FOR GENERAL, FOR PUBLIC AND, AND, AND TRYING TO CARE FOR NEIGHBORS THAT THEY MAY SEE, UH, IN AREAS.
WE HAVE THE OUTREACH REQUEST LINE, WHICH IS THE 4 6 7 2 LINE.
AND THEN WE HAVE HOMELESS SERVICES@LONGBEACH.GOV.
SO THREE SORT OF PRIMARY WAYS OF CONTACTING OUTSIDE OF COMING INTO OUR DOORS.
ALRIGHT, SO WE'LL KIND OF JUMP RIGHT INTO IT.
WHY DO PEOPLE COME IN TO THE MSC? WHAT IS OFFERED THERE WHEN THEY WALK IN? WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT THEY CAN ENROLL OR PARTAKE IN? I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT TODAY.
THE PRIMARY REASON WHY, UM, WE HAVE VISITORS, PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WANT TO KNOW WHAT DOES THE CITY HAVE TO OFFER? HOW CAN I GET HELP TODAY? HOW CAN I GET INTO HOUSING, HOW CAN I GET INTO SHELTER? UM, WE HAVE CASE MANAGEMENT STAFF ON SITE AT THE MSC THAT IS SORT OF THE EXPERTS IN REFERRAL SOURCES TO THOSE VARIOUS RESOURCES.
SO CASE MANAGERS ARE REALLY WHERE THE INTAKE PROCESS STARTS.
THAT'S WHERE THE TRIAGING STARTS.
AND JUST THE BASIC CONVERSATION TO FIND OUT WHERE ARE YOU, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY WHERE YOU ARE AND YOUR NEEDS RIGHT NOW, AND HOW CAN WE ASSIST YOU HERE, UH, AT THE MSC.
SO, CASE MANAGEMENT IS THE PRIMARY RESOURCE THAT PEOPLE WALK IN TO, UM, OBTAIN.
PEOPLE WALK IN SAYING, I WANNA GET ACCESS TO HOUSING OR SHELTER.
WE WILL CONNECT 'EM TO OUR CASE MANAGERS ON SITE.
THEY DO GET LINKED TO THAT CASE MANAGER.
SO WHEN THEY COME IN, AGAIN, THEY'LL SEE THE SAME PERSON, UH, AND SORT OF START BUILDING THAT RAPPORT CONNECTION WITH THE CASE MANAGERS ON SITE.
SO THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME IN COME FOR CASE MANAGEMENT.
WHEN YOU WALK IN, YOU'LL ALSO SEE THAT WE HAVE, UH, A MEDICAL CLINIC.
SO WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, CHILDREN'S CLINIC AND THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A VERY SMALL, WELL, NOT VERY SMALL, A SMALLER MEDICAL CLINIC ON SITE AT OUR SERVICE CENTER, WHICH IS VERY, I THINK IS VERY UNIQUE AND VERY SPECIAL.
SO THOSE THAT ARE WORKING ON THEIR HOUSING PLAN CAN ALSO SEE A PHYSICIAN AT THE SAME DAY, CAN WORK ON THEIR HEALTH SCREENING, CAN WORK ON, UH, VACCINATIONS, ULTIMATELY JUST SORT OF THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS PORTION OF, OF THEIR JOURNEY.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF VISITORS THAT ARE CONNECTED TO OUR CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND OUR MEDICAL CLINIC.
UH, OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE'VE REALLY TRIED TO BECOME A LITTLE MORE ROBUST IN OUR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
WE UNDERSTAND, I THINK WE ASSUME A LOT OF US IN THIS ROOM UNDERSTAND THAT GETTING CONNECTED INTO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES CAN BE A VERY COMPLICATED, TRICKY PROCESS.
WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS SORT OF MAKE THAT AS OBTAINABLE AS POSSIBLE.
UH, REALLY TRY TO KNOCK DOWN THOSE BARRIERS TO SPEAK TO SOMEBODY WHEN YOU'RE IN A TIME OF NEED.
SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE CLINICIANS THAT ARE ON SITE AT THE MSC.
THEY DO HAVE PROGRAMS WHERE YOU CAN SCHEDULE TO HAVE APPOINTMENTS WITH THEM.
UM, AND IF SOMEONE'S IN CRISIS DURING THAT DAY AND WANTS TO SPEAK TO SOMEBODY, WE HAVE THOSE CLINICIANS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO UTILIZE AND RESOURCE, UM, THEN TO SPEAK TO SOMEBODY WHO MAY BE JUST HAVING A REALLY DIFFICULT DAY AND WANTING TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE.
UH, NOT HOUSING RELATED, JUST MORE LIFE RELATED.
SO WE DO HAVE, UH, ONSITE MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIANS.
WE ALSO HAVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH SHIELDS FOR FAMILIES.
THEY PROVIDE GROUP THERAPY, UH, AND THEY PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL THERAPY.
SO MONDAY, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, WE HAVE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, UH, FROM CLINICIANS AND THERAPISTS THAT CAN COME ON SITE AND ACTUALLY PROVIDE GROUPS.
SO TODAY, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, WE HAD GROUP
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THERAPY SESSION.WE HAVE A NICE LITTLE SIDE ROOM TOO THAT'S PAINTED REALLY BEAUTIFULLY AND IT HAS NICE CHAIRS AND IT'S A REALLY COMFORTABLE SPACE TO FEEL, UH, SORT OF MORE, I DON'T KNOW, JUST KIND OF A COMFORTABLE SPACE.
SO, UM, A GREAT PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH, UH, OUR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SYSTEMS. ANOTHER HEAVILY UTILIZED RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE, WHICH IS REALLY, UH, SORT OF OBVIOUS WHY THE IMPORTANCE IS THERE IS MAIL SERVICE, RIGHT? PEOPLE THAT LACK SORT OF THAT FIXED RESIDENCE TO RECEIVE MAIL, UH, CAN ACTUALLY UTILIZE THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER TO RECEIVE MAIL.
UH, WE HAVE LIKE WHAT LOOKS LIKE A MINI POST OFFICE.
UH, EVERY SINGLE DAY WE RECEIVE MAIL, WE SORT MAIL, WE, UM, ORGANIZE MAIL AND WE DISTRIBUTE MAIL.
SO WE ARE OPERATING LIKE A LITTLE POST OFFICE OUT OF THE MSC.
WE HAVE OVER 400 PEOPLE SIGN UP TO RECEIVE MAIL AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
SO IT'S HEAVILY UTILIZED, UM, BUT IT'S REALLY NECESSARY FOR RECEIVING.
UH, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED THEIR FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS THERE.
WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT RECEIVED THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATES, THEIR IDS, AND IT'S A SAFE ALTERNATIVE, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, WHEREVER ELSE THEY MAY BE SENDING IT TO.
SO, UH, I HAD A STORY TODAY OF, OF SOMEBODY WHO WAS TALKING TO ME AND JUST MENTIONING THAT LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY JUST GOT OUT OF A RELATIONSHIP AND THEY DON'T WANNA SEND THEIR MAIL TO THEIR EXES, THEIR EX EX-GIRLFRIEND'S HOUSE, THEY'RE LIKE, I HAVE AN ID, I KNOW IT'S NOT GONNA MAKE IT THERE, AND EVEN IF IT DOES, I I JUST DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE GOING THERE.
I WAS LIKE, OH, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE ACTUALLY WOULD HAVE MAIL HERE AS WELL.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO GET HIM CONNECTED TO THE MAIL SERVICES AT THE MSC.
SO LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT, UH, ABOUT 40% OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME IN FOR CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES ACTUALLY JUST COME INTO THE MSC, UH, UTILIZE OUR SHOWER SERVICE TOO.
SO WE DO OFFER SHOWERS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE OPERATING HOURS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
WE PROVIDE TOILETRIES, WE PROVIDE TOWELS, WE PROVIDE CLEAN CLOTHING.
UM, SO DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT'S CONTINUOUSLY, UM, GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
SO THAT'S ALSO A REALLY HEAVILY UTILIZED RESOURCE.
WE HAVE, UM, WE TALK ABOUT TRYING TO OBTAIN HOUSING.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BECOMES CHALLENGING WHEN OBTAINING HOUSING IS GETTING DOCUMENTS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO, TO BE CONNECTED TO HOUSING.
IT'S THINGS LIKE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD ID.
UM, ONE OF THE REA ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO GET A BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS TO HAVE NOTARIZED FORMS. NOTARIZED FORMS, AND YOU HAVE TO PAY PROCESSING FEES.
UM, SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN ONSITE NOTARY AS WELL.
SO MONDAYS WE HAVE NOTARY SERVICE.
SO IT'S NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT LIKE, OH, YOU'VE COME BACK IN FOUR MONTHS.
WE'LL HAVE NOTARY OF MONDAY, FOUR MONTHS FROM NOW.
YOU COME IN ON MONDAY, YOU SIGN IN AND YOU CAN SEE SOMEBODY TO DO NOTARY SERVICES.
PRIMARY NOTE NOTARY NEEDS IS FOR BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND WE'RE ABLE TO SIGN THOSE FORMS, SEND IT OFF.
WE COVER THE COST OF, UM, THAT PROCESSING AND THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE ORDERING FEE, AND THEN WE ACTUALLY RECEIVE IT UTILIZING OUR MAIL SERVICE.
SO IT'S LIKE KIND OF THAT FULL CIRCLE.
I'M GONNA GO A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO THAT MAIL SERVICE ACTUALLY.
WE ALSO HAVE A VITAL DOC STORAGE.
SO YOU GET YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE, WHAT GRADE IS THAT, WHEN IT'S GONNA RAIN AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO PUT IT IN.
THAT BIRTH CERTIFICATE THEN JUST FALLS APART THE I SOCIAL SECURITY CARD FALLS APART.
UH, WE UNDERSTOOD THAT AS A CHALLENGE.
IT HEARD, YOU KNOW, FEEDBACK FROM THE PEOPLE WE'RE SERVING AS SORT OF THIS DISCOURAGEMENT OF WHY WOULD I WANT THIS IF I KNOW I'M JUST GONNA LOSE IT.
SO WE HAVE A VITAL DOC STORAGE SO, UH, VISITORS CAN STORE THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE, THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT THEY JUST WANT TO KEEP SAFE.
UM, SO WE HAVE LOCKED CABINETS FOR THAT.
SO THAT'S ALSO GOING A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO OUR MAIL SERVICE.
SO WE DO A LOT OF THINGS ONSITE WITHIN THE TEAM THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY, BUT WE CAN'T DO IT.
SO PARTNERSHIPS ARE SUPER IMPORTANT TO US.
ESTABLISHING PARTNERSHIPS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERTS IN THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT THEY'RE FOCUSING ON.
THIS IS JUST SORT OF HIGHLIGHTING SOME PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
THIS ISN'T A, THIS ISN'T AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST, BUT THIS IS A LIST OF THOSE THAT WE PARTNER WITH.
WE DO HAVE A PROBATION OFFICER ON SITE.
THE SPECIFIC REASON IS TO ALLOW THOSE THAT MAY BE ON PROBATION OR, UH, THAT MAY BE ON PROBATION, UH, OR PAROLE TO HAVE A, A SAFE PLACE TO CHECK IN WITH THEIR, THEIR PROBATION OFFICER.
SO, UM, THAT'S A REALLY NEAT RESOURCE.
ALSO HELPS US A LOT IN OTHER WAYS AS WELL.
BUT, UM, JUST A, UH, AN AREA FOR CLIENTS TO CHECK IN WITH PROBATION.
UH, WE HAVE CELL PHONE PROVIDERS ON SITE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
UM, SO THOSE THAT DON'T HAVE A CELL PHONE WITH AN ID CAN ACCESS A CELL PHONE THAT'S FREE WIRELESS SERVICE AND A FREE CELL PHONE.
UM, FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE HAVING A PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PUBLIC BENEFITS AND ID, THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO REQUIREMENTS, UH, WE ACTUALLY RECEIVE WITH THE MAIL SERVICE THERE.
IT COMES AROUND AGAIN, WE RECEIVE THE CELL PHONES ON OUR SITE AS WELL, SO WE CAN DO THAT.
UH, WE HAVE HARM REDUCTION PROVIDERS MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS,
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AND SO THEY PROVIDE, UH, EDUCATION, THEY PROVIDE NARCAN, THEY PROVIDE CLEAN NEEDLE EXCHANGE THINGS THAT, UH, YEAH, UH, VARIOUS THINGS WITHIN THAT HARM REDUCTION WORLD, UH, TO OUR CLIENTS TOO.SO MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS, THOSE ARE REALLY POPULAR POPUPS.
UH, WE HAVE H-I-V-S-T-I MOBILE TESTING CLINICS.
ACTUALLY ON MONDAY WE HAD A HUGE CLINIC, LITTLE MOBILE TESTING UNIT PARTNERING WITH US.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, ANTHEM WHO HELPS US WITH SENIOR MEDICARE ENROLLMENTS.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE ANTHEM BUS EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE.
THE MSCA COUPLE DAYS A WEEK, MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.
AND THEN A NEW PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE THAT'S REALLY EXCITING IS WE CARE FOR, WE CARE FOR THE THE PERSON.
AND SO WE HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE JUST THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS TO ESTABLISH A, AN ONGOING, UH, PROJECT STREET VET CLINIC.
AND THAT IS VETS, UH, VETERINARIANS THAT, THAT, UH, DONATE THEIR TIME TO COME TO THE MSC AND CARE FOR PETS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
SO THEY PROVIDE FREE VACCINES, THEY'LL PROVIDE FREE TICK MEDICATION, THEY'LL DO SCREENINGS.
UM, AND THAT'S AN EVENT THAT'S HOSTED ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS.
UM, SO NOT AS OFTEN AS I WOULD LIKE IT TO JUST KIND OF KEEP THAT RELATIONSHIP ALIVE AND TRY TO MAKE IT MORE ONGOING.
RIGHT NOW, I'M JUST THANKFUL THEY'RE GIVING US ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS.
UH, BUT IT'S A REALLY, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL EVENT.
SO THE IDEA FOR US IS TO REALLY SEE WHAT THE NEEDS ARE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE SERVING, AND TRY TO UTILIZE THE PARTNERS THAT ARE DOING A GREAT JOB IN THE COMMUNITY, ALLOWING THEM TO COME TO THE MSC AND, AND DO WHAT THEY DO BEST.
UH, YEAH, SO I GUESS I'VE JUST SUMMARIZED RIGHT NOW THE MSC, WE REALLY AIM ONE IS TO TRY TO CREATE IN A WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT.
THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE FEEL WELCOMED AND WANNA BE THERE.
UM, AND WE WANNA BE ABLE TO HAVE A RANGE OF SERVICES THAT, SO WHEREVER YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCESS, WHEN YOU COME IN, YOU'RE ABLE TO ACCESS SOMETHING.
AND AS YOU GUYS HEARD IN THE PRESENTATION, WE HAVE SORT OF MEDICAL HARM REDUCTION CELL PHONES.
WE TRY TO DO, UH, WE TRY TO HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE WHO COMES IN.
AND THEN IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THE MSC, YOU CAN FEEL FREE TO DIRECT IT TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU GUYS WANNA SNAP A PHOTO OF THAT.
UH, AND WE CAN CERTAINLY GET BACK TO YOU ON THIS.
SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TODAY.
DO YOU WANNA ASK, DOES THE COMMITTEE WANT ASK QUESTIONS NOW BEFORE I GO INTO MINE? THAT WAY STAYS FRESH.
I, UH, NO, THERE'S PUTTING YOU ON THIS SPOT, BUT HARD ONE ANSWER, BUT THERE SHOULD BE MORE INFORMATION.
WHEN YOU SAY 50,000 VISITS, IS THERE ANY WAY OF FINDING WHO MANY OF THOSE ARE UNIQUE, IN OTHER WORDS, FIRST TIME, ALL THOSE THINGS? YEAH.
IN OTHER WORDS, THAT NUMBER REALLY DOESN'T MEAN MUCH.
YEAH, SO I, I BELIEVE I, I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THESE MEETINGS, I'VE TUNED INTO THE VIRTUAL ONES, BUT WE DO REPORT ON NEW VISITS.
SO PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING THERE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, THOSE ARE, THAT IS A SEPARATE NUMBER FROM TOTAL VISITS.
SO THERE IS A WAY FOR US TO, TO PULL THAT NUMBER.
A LITTLE MORE DETAIL THAN THAT.
AND SOME, I WANT TO PROFILE THIS SENSE, WHO, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE PERSON COMING, WHO IS THE, AND SEND MYSELF, I KNOW THAT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO DO.
BUT IT'S A VALUABLE PIECE OF INFORMATION.
AND I, I SOME SERVICES IN THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, WE DO NOT REQUIRE THEM TO ANSWER A TON OF QUESTIONS ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS.
WE WANT TO MAKE THE PROCESS AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE.
YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE A SHOWER, HERE'S A TOWEL, HERE'S SOME, UM, MY NAME, HERE'S JUST YOUR NAME.
RIGHT? SO THERE'S A LARGE, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU CAN ACCESS WITHIN OUR SERVICE CENTER WITHOUT GIVING US TOO MUCH INFORMATION.
REALLY, WHEN YOU GET INTO CASE MANAGEMENT, WE'LL ASK MORE DEMOGRAPHIC, UM, QUESTIONS.
SO THAT'S WHEN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PULL THAT INFORMATION.
UM, BUT YEAH, SO IT'S KIND OF A GIVE AND TAKE.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T WANNA MAKE PEOPLE SIGN UP TOO MUCH FOR CERTAIN TYPE THINGS.
WHAT WE TRIED TO DO WORK, SOMEONE WAS TRY TO MAKE A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER.
IN OTHER WORDS, IF THEY'RE WILLING TO GIVE YOU DATE OF BIRTH AND COUPLE INITIALS, YOU CAN MAKE SOME IDENTIFIER.
YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT RECOMMENDATION.
THAT'S HOW WE DO THE HOME ACCOUNT.
I MEAN, WHAT THAT'S DONE IN THE IS SYSTEM.
SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THEY DO, IT'S THE DATA THERE IS JUST THAT CERTAIN IF, IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE GETTING THAT AS IT THERE, THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GIVE US A BETTER PROFILE OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING.
YEAH, I MEAN THE HMIS SYSTEM DOES ALLOW US TO DO THOSE THINGS, BUT JUST IN THE, IN THE SPIRIT OF CLIENTS, LIKE, I MEAN, AGAIN, I'M ASSUMING MOST OF YOU ALL WORK IN THIS FIELD, SO YOU KNOW, CERTAIN CLIENTS
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YOU CAN'T PUSH AND GET CERTAIN THINGS FROM THEM.WE DON'T WANT TO PUSH THEM AWAY.
SO SOMETIMES IT'S GONNA TAKE THEM TO COME GET A SHOWER 20 TIMES.
BUT IT MAY TAKE THEM TO COME GET A SHOWER 20 TIMES BEFORE THEY FINALLY FEEL TRUSTWORTHY ENOUGH TO OPEN UP AND SHARE THAT INFORMATION.
SO A LOT OF TIMES WE EVENTUALLY GET IT, BUT SOMETIMES WE JUST DON'T GET IT.
I WOULD SAY THE SIGNIFICANT MAJORITY OF PEOPLE COMING IN HAVE AN HMIS PROFILE WITH DEMOGRAPHICS.
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT COME IN ONE TIME AND TAKE A SHOWER AND WE ONLY SEE THEM ONE TIME EVER.
LIKE, THOSE ARE HARD TO CAPTURE.
BUT, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING IN CONSISTENTLY ALMOST ALL EVENTUALLY GET, YOU KNOW, A PROFILE.
BUT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT WE MIGHT SEE 10, 20 TIMES BEFORE THEY WANT TO SIT DOWN AND MEET WITH SOMEBODY.
UM, I WOULD SAY, UH, THE SERVICES ARE GREAT.
AND I WASN'T AWARE OF ALL THE SERVICES THAT WERE OFFERED, SO THAT'S FANTASTIC.
HOW MANY CASE MANAGERS ARE ON SITE? WE HAVE EIGHT ASSIGNED TO THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER ON SITE.
PLUS THE TWO PHONE LINE SPECIALISTS.
SO 10 TOTAL, BUT EIGHT ARE FOCUSED ON THE SERVICE CENTER ITSELF.
AND THEN A QUESTION I ALWAYS HAVE WHEN WE GET MONTHLY REPORTS, AND I THINK SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES MAY HAVE HAVE THE SAME QUESTION AS WE DO GET DATA SUCH AS THIS IS HOW MANY PHONE CALLS WERE ANSWERED, THIS IS HOW MANY VISITS, UM, PEOPLE MADE.
BUT WHAT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE 70% OF THOSE VISITS PEOPLE SAYING, I WANT TO SIGN UP FOR PERMANENT HOUSING, GET ME ON WAIT LIST.
OR YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE MOST PEOPLE ASKING FOR? AND THEN KIND OF WHAT ARE THEY BEING TOLD, YOU KNOW, OH, THE WAIT LIST FOR THIS IS SIX MONTHS OR MM-HMM
SO I THINK FOR ME IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE MOST PEOPLE ASKING FOR, AND THEN WHAT'S THE RESPONSE, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? OKAY.
SO WE HAVE SOME UPDATED, UH, NUMBERS FROM UM, MARCH FOR THE MSE AND OUTREACH.
UM, AS WHAT'S DISCUSSED, THESE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHER LEVEL THINGS.
THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN REPORT, UH, BEYOND THIS.
I KNOW WE'VE DONE THAT, UH, AT LEAST ONCE, MAYBE TWICE ON THE OUTREACH SIDE, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS OF INTEREST.
IT IS A LITTLE BIT HARD TO GET LIKE MONTHLY NUMBERS, LIKE ESPECIALLY WITH DETAIL WITH FOR A MONTH PREVIOUS, UM, BY THE THIRD OF THIS MONTH.
SO, UM, BUT WE CAN GO BACK AND IF IN, IF THERE'S INTEREST AND WE CAN FOLLOW UP JULIE AFTERWARDS, WE CAN PROVIDE MORE DETAIL AROUND, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES MSC VISITS MEAN? WHAT DOES OUTREACH MEAN? LIKE WHEN WE SAY WE PROVIDED THIS MANY SERVICES, LIKE WHAT ACTUALLY, LIKE, ARE WE ABLE TO CAPTURE AND DEFINITIVELY SAY WITHIN THOSE SERVICES, LIKE WE TRACK HOW MANY PEOPLE TAKE A SHOWER, WE TRACK HOW MANY PEOPLE, UH, GET MAIL ON A DAILY BA YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE MONTH.
UM, SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT LIKE WE ARE ABLE TO TRACK AND SPEAK TO MORE DEFINITIVELY HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU KNOW, OF THE VISITS, HOW MANY PEOPLE MET WITH THE CASE MANAGER WITHIN THOSE 300,811 VISITS IN MARCH.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ABLE TO REPORT ON.
SO, UM, WE COULD LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE PROVIDING A MORE IN DEPTH OF LIKE, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN WHEN WE SAY THIS.
UM, SO WITHIN MARCH WE HAD 418 REQUESTS FOR OUTREACH.
UH, 221 NEW ENROLLMENTS INTO OUTREACH AND THEN 417, UH, SERVICES THAT WERE DOCUMENTED WITHIN HMIS, UH, BY THE OUTREACH TEAM.
AND AGAIN, UH, THAT IS A VARIED LEVEL OF THINGS FROM WE PROVIDED A WATER BOTTLE TO, YOU KNOW, WE HELP SOMEBODY GET OVER TO A SHELTER.
SO, UH, IT REALLY DOES VARY AND WE CAN PROVIDE, UH, A DETAIL OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
UH, FIRST TIME VISITORS TO THE MSC, UH, WE DID TAKE SEE A BIT OF AN UPTAKE UPTAKE IN THIS LAST MONTH.
THIS ISN'T OUR HIGHEST AVERAGE MONTH, BUT WE'VE KIND OF BEEN TRENDING DOWNWARD FOR A WHILE.
SO, UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN A BUMP IN A MOMENT.
UH, BUT THE FIRST TIME VISITORS IS ALSO PRETTY HIGH COMPARED TO WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
SO WE HAD 468 PEOPLE THAT CAME INTO THE MSC, UH, THAT HAD NEVER BEEN INTO THE MSC BEFORE.
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VISITS OVER THE MONTH.UH, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT WE SEE ALMOST DAILY.
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT WE AGAIN SEE ONCE OR TWICE OR WE SEE ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH.
SO, UH, THERE IS A LOT OF VARIANCE WITHIN THAT.
UH, OUR AVERAGE DAILY VISITS WAS 181.
UH, ONE THING THAT WE ADDED EARLIER, UH, OR TOWARDS THE END OF LAST YEAR WAS THE PHONE LINE, UH, OPERATORS AND REALLY HAVING A BETTER SYSTEM FOR THAT.
SO WE HAD 1,228, UH, CALLS ANSWERED IN MARCH.
SO PRETTY HIGH CALL VOLUME ON A DAILY BASIS, UH, TO OUR CALL LINE.
THE COUNSELORS PROVIDING THE PHONE LINE ARE ALSO PROVIDING CASE MANAGEMENT TO SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT, UH, INTO THE MSC OR ENGAGE WITH OUR FIELD-BASED TEAMS. UM, ON THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER, WE HAD 146 NEW ENROLLMENTS, UH, AND 264 SERVICES PROVIDED IN, UH, THE MONTH OF MARCH.
UM, SO FOR THE SHELTER NUMBERS, UM, FOR PRODUCT HOME KEY AT 1725, UH, THERE IS QUITE A BIT HAPPENING THERE AND WE'LL PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL UPDATES.
SO, UH, WE HAD, UH, SOME PEOPLE MOVE OUT TO PERMANENT HOUSING IN THIS LAST MONTH.
SO, UH, WE STARTED INTAKES AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LITTLE WHILE THIS WEEK.
SO WORKING ON GETTING SOME OF THE RE ROOMS REFILLED.
THERE ARE SOME ROOMS THAT NEED, UH, SOME REFURBISHMENT AS WELL.
SO WORKING TO GET THAT BACK UP AND FILLED.
HISTORICALLY, WE'VE BEEN, UH, AT 98, 90 9% OCCUPANCY WITH PROJECT HOME KEY PRETTY CONSISTENTLY OVER THE LAST, UH, THREE YEARS.
UM, JUST WORKING THROUGH SOME STUFF WITH THE CHANGES OF THE OPERATOR AND CONSTRUCTION HAPPENING.
UH, ATLANTIC RIDGE COMMUNITY, UH, WAS AT AN AVERAGE OF 120, UH, PEOPLE PER NIGHT.
UH, OF THE 125 BEDS, OUR MOTEL VOUCHER PROGRAM, UM, WE'VE SEEN IT KIND OF FLUCTUATE.
UH, WE TEND TO DO MOTEL VOUCHER MORE PEOPLE WHEN IT'S RAINING IT'S REALLY COLD, UM, AND THEN LESS WHEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, DOING A LITTLE WARMER ROUTE.
BUT WE'VE BEEN AT AN AVERAGE OF 15 PER SAY, PARKING.
WE DID SEE A LITTLE BIT OF AN N UPTICK THIS LAST MONTH, WHICH IS GOOD.
WE HAD AN AVERAGE OF 19, UH, VEHICLES PER NIGHT.
AND THEN AT 7 0 2 WEST ANAHEIM, WE'VE BEEN COMPLETELY FILLED.
UM, ONE THING ON 7 0 2, UH, THE COUNTY IS WRAP WRAPPING DOWN THEIR, UH, WINTER SHELTER PROGRAM.
SO THERE ARE 40 ISH BEDS THAT ARE, UH, UNFORTUNATELY COMING OFFLINE WITH, UH, THE END OF THE WINTER SHELTER SEASON.
UM, AND WE'RE WORKING THROUGH A PROCESS TO, UH, GET THE CONSTRUCTION ON THAT, UH, AND LOOKING THAT WE CAN HAVE PROBABLY ONCE CONSTRUCTION IS DONE, ABOUT 125 BEDS AT 7 0 2 WEST ANAHEIM.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE THERE'LL BE A LOT HAPPENING THERE AND CAPACITY AND LIKE THE SETUP REALLY, UH, BEING MORE CONDUCIVE TO ONGOING SHELTERING, UM, UH, ON SOME STAFFING UPDATES.
UH, ALLISON KING, WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY THE BUREAU MANAGER FOR THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THEN WAS IN AN ACTING ROLE AFTER KELLY OPPE HAD LEFT THE CITY, UM, HAS BEEN HIRED AS A PERMANENT, UH, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.
SO, UH, SHE'S NOW, UH, OVER THE HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU MANAGE, UH, HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UH, JILL BOWLES, WHO HAS BEEN OUR VETERANS CASE MANAGER AT THE MSC FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS HAS RETIRED.
UH, SO WE'LL BE BACK FILLING THAT VETERANS, UH, FOCUSED POSITION.
UM, BUT SHE JUST RETIRED, SO, UH, THANKFUL FOR OUR 15 YEARS IN DEDICATION TO VETERANS AND REALLY, UH, MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIVES.
SHE'S WORKED WITH, UH, A COUNTLESS NUMBER OF VETERANS OVER THE, THE PAST 15 YEARS.
SO, UH, SAD TO SEE HER GO, BUT ALSO HAPPY FOR HER TO RETIRE AND, UH, ENJOY HER RETIREMENT.
UH, TERRY, UH, HAS BEEN WITH US FOR A WHILE.
HE WAS A COMMUNITY PROGRAM SPECIALIST, THREE FOCUSED ON ESG, BUT HAS ALSO BEEN SUPPORTING SOME OF THE, THE, THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT.
SORRY, TRY TO AVOID ACRONYMS, UM, BUT WILL,
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UH, AND SUPPORTING SOME OF OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE AND OTHER WORK.UH, HE HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS TO A COMMUNITY PROGRAM SPECIALIST FOR, UH, POSITION AND WILL BE WORKING WITH THE, UH, CONTINUUM OF CARE TEAM, REALLY FOCUSED ON FINANCIAL, UH, INVOICE AND PROCESSING AND THAT SIDE OF THE WORK FOR THE CONTINUUM OF CARE.
UH, CASSANDRA, BONNIE WILL BE STARTING WITH US ON APRIL 8TH.
SO NEXT MONDAY AS A COMMUNITY PROGRAM SPECIALIST.
UH, SHE'LL BE OVERSEEING A NEWLY CREATED TEAM, UH, WITHIN THE ADMIN AND OPERATIONS BUREAU.
SO SHE'LL BE REPORTING TO JEFF, UH, AND WE'LL REALLY BE FOCUSED ON PROGRAM, UH, PROGRAMMATIC GUIDANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND REALLY WORKING WITH OUR NON-PROFITS, UH, AROUND THEIR SERVICES AND HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE NONPROFITS THAT WE'RE FUNDING, UH, AND REALLY BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH THE SERVICES THAT THEY ARE PROVIDING.
SO, UH, EXCITED TO HAVE HER JOIN OUR TEAM AND CREATE THIS NEW TEAM, UH, THAT WE THINK WILL REALLY IMPROVE HOW WE ENGAGE WITH OUR NONPROFITS, UH, AND THE SERVICES THAT ARE BEING PROVIDED BOTH FROM THE CITY AS WELL AS FROM FROM THOSE NONPROFITS.
UM, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN RECRUITMENT FOR A MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN FOR REACH AND THE LIBRARY.
SO THOSE ARE ACTIVE, UH, IN CLOSING THIS WEEK.
SO IF YOU NOTE ANYBODY, ENCOURAGE 'EM TO APPLY.
UH, AND THEN WE ARE IN THE INTERVIEW STAGES FOR A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
OUR FIELD-BASED SERVICES OFFICER, WHICH WE'LL OVERSEE OUR OUTREACH TEAMS, UH, AND THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER AND OUR CALL COORDINATOR.
WE'RE JUST GETTING TO INTERVIEWS.
UM, A PARTICIPANT, INPUT SPECIALIST THAT WILL FOCUS ON, UH, NOT ONLY ENGAGEMENT WITH PEOPLE THAT WE'RE SERVING FOR CITY SERVICES, BUT THEY'LL BE WORKING WITH OUR NONPROFIT AGENCIES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE RECEIVING INPUT, UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE FEEDBACK IS COMING IN, UM, AND, UH, TAKING THAT FEEDBACK AND PROVIDING IT TO LEADERSHIP BOTH WITHIN THE CITY AS WELL AS WITH OUR NONPROFITS.
AND THEN WE HAVE A NUMBER OF COUNSELOR TO POSITIONS, WHICH ARE KIND OF THE LABEL WITHIN THE CITY FOR OUR CASE MANAGEMENT FOCUS STAFF, UM, STAFF.
AND THEN AS WE GET INTO OUR OPERATIONAL DAY, STAFF HAVE BEEN WORKING ON DATA FOR THE 2024, UH, POINT IN TIME COUNT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF COMING TO A WRAP UP.
WE'RE WORKING ON GETTING, UH, EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER TO GET INTO A REPORT, UH, WITH THE GOAL OF GETTING THAT AT THE PUBLISHED AROUND THE END OF APRIL.
UH, SO THAT SHOULD BE COMING OUT SHORTLY WITHIN, UH, THE NEXT MONTH.
UH, YOU SHOULD HAVE A REPORT THAT YOU CAN SEE, UH, IF WE'RE ABLE TO GET IT OUT AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, WE CAN PROVIDE AN UPDATE, UH, NEXT MONTH AND AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE GATHERED FROM THE 2024 HOMELESS COUNTY.
UM, AND THEN THERE WAS A QUESTION, SO, UM, ABOUT RVS AND, YOU KNOW, HOW THINGS ARE COUNTED.
SO, UH, AS WE ARE DOING SURVEYS, WE DO, UH, PROVIDE DETAILS AROUND DEMOGRAPHICS OF WHO'S EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT CHANGING UP OUR METHODOLOGY A LITTLE BIT.
IT IS HARD FOR US WITH THE DATA THAT WE HAVE TO DEFINITIVELY SAY HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN TENTS, MAKESHIFT SHELTERS, CARS, VANS, AND RVS, UH, WITH HOW THE DATA IS COLLECTED.
SO WE'LL BE CHANGING THAT A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE DO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT CAPTURING CAN SPEAK TO, UM, A ROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING IN TENTS, MAKESHIFT SHELTERS, CARS, VANS, AND RVS.
THERE'S A SMALL PORTION, UH, WITHIN HOW WE COUNT, OR WE'RE NOT ABLE TO NECESSARILY WITHIN THE DATA POINT BACK TO, UH, WHERE THEY WERE, WHAT TYPE OF, UH, THOSE SITUATIONS THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN RESIDING IN.
UH, BUT WE HAVE THE LARGE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE COUNTED DURING THE COUNT, WERE ABLE TO POINT TO ONE OF THOSE SETTINGS, UH, IF THEY APPLIED.
UH, CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN AT THE 59 50 LONG BEACH BOULEVARD, UH, PROJECT HOME KEY SITE, UH, THAT WAS FORMALLY THE LUXURY IN THIS WILL BE COMPLETED WITH CONSTRUCTION TOWARDS THE END OF 20 24, 20 BEGINNING OF 2025.
UM, ALL OF THE MECHANICAL, PLUMBING AND ELECTRIC POLE ARE BEING REPLACED.
WE ARE PUTTING IN SOME SAFETY FEATURES, REDOING RAILING STAIRS, UM, PUTTING IN FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, AND THEN PUTTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE
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THAT'S GOING TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING OPERATION.SO THERE IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT RENOVATION, UH, THAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE, UH, LUXURY IN ONCE OR FORMER LUXURY IN, ONCE IT'S COMPLETED, THERE WILL BE 78 ROOMS THERE.
UH, THIS SITE, UH, WITHIN OUR FUNDING FROM THE STATE, IS FOCUSED IN PRIORITIZING PEOPLE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS.
UH, SO AS WE COME TO COMPLETION, THAT WILL BE THE TARGET FOCUS GROUP, UH, FOR THOSE 78 FIRMS THAT WILL BE ON THAT SITE.
UH, FIRST TO SERVE, WE'LL START AS THE OPERATOR AT 1725 LONG BEACH BOULEVARD.
UH, THE FORMER, UH, BEST WESTERN PROJECT HOME KEY SITE.
UM, SO, UH, AGAIN, APRIL 16TH, RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE BEEN BRINGING IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TEMPORARY ENTITIES, TEMPORARY CASE MANAGEMENT.
UH, A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE REMAINING THERE HAD BEEN WORKING, UH, THROUGH ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION FOR A TEMP AGENCY THAT ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION WAS WORKING WITH PRIOR TO, UH, ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION.
EXITING THAT PROJECT, UH, WE DID KEEP THE SAME SECURITY COMPANY ON BOARD.
SO THEY HAVE, UH, CONTINUED TO PROVIDE SERVICES THERE, BRINGING IN FOOD.
UM, SO WE BEGUN, UH, DOING WALKTHROUGHS THIS WEEK AND HOSTING MEETINGS WITH FIRST TO SERVE, TO TAKE OVER OPERATIONS.
UH, WE'LL HAVE SOME OVERLAP BETWEEN APRIL 16TH AND MAY 1ST, UH, WHERE THE ENTITIES AND RESOURCES THAT WE'VE BROUGHT IN TEMPORARILY, UH, WE'LL OVERLAP WITH FIRST TO SERVE, UM, THAT WAY WE CAN HAVE A SMOOTH, SMOOTH TRANSITION.
UH, THEY ARE TRYING TO HIRE A FAIR AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE, THAT ARE INTERESTED IN STAYING ON BOARD.
UH, SO, UH, THAT PROCESS IS MOVING FORWARD, AND WHEN WE MEET NEXT MONTH, THEY WILL HAVE, UH, TAKEN OVER OPERATIONS AT, AT THE SITE.
SO, UH, THINGS ARE, ARE GOING WELL AND, UH, JUST TRYING TO HAVE AS SUCCESSFUL OF A TRANSITION AS POSSIBLE.
UH, THE REFERRAL AND MATCHING PROCESS FOR BOTH INTERIM, UH, PERMANENT AND INTERIM HOUSING PROGRAMS HAS BEEN MOVED INTO OUR HMIS SYSTEM.
SO, UH, PREVIOUS TO NOW, A LOT OF STUFF WAS HAPPENING THROUGH, UH, EXCEL SHEETS WITH FORMULAS BA BUILT INTO THEM.
UH, IT HAD BECOME PRETTY UNWIELDY AND, UH, NOT A GREAT WAY FOR MANY DIFFERENT REASONS.
UM, SO THAT HAS BOTH HAVE NOW BEEN LAUNCHED AND ARE WITHIN HMIS.
THE TEAM HAS BEEN DOING TRAININGS FOR, UM, OUR STAFF AS WELL AS MANY OF OUR PARTNERS THAT ARE ENTERING PEOPLE INTO OUR COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF THE NEW SYSTEM, HOW TO ENTER SOMEBODY, UH, AND HOW THAT WILL WORK.
UM, SO, UH, WE WILL BE PROVIDING AN UPDATE TO THIS COMMITTEE ON THAT NEW PROCESS.
UH, THERE WAS A REQUEST FOR IT, AND I WAS LIKE, THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FEW THINGS, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN COME TO REALLY PROVIDE, UH, A GOOD OVERVIEW OF THOSE CHANGES AND HOW THEY'RE BRINGING INCREASED EFFICIENCY, UM, AS WELL AS TRANSPARENCY TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ENTERING THAT DATA, UH, INTO THE SYSTEM.
UM, THE LONG BEACH CC, UH, SLASH CITY RECEIVED ITS FISCAL YEAR 24, 25, UH, MEASURE H ALLOCATION.
SO, UH, THAT HAS INCREASED TO 8.2 MILLION.
SO, UH, IT'S A LITTLE LESS THAN A $4 MILLION INCREASE, BUT PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL.
IT'S ALMOST DOUBLE WHERE WE WERE AT, UH, FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO, UH, EXCITED TO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT ARE COMING IN.
THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF ADVOCACY AROUND, UM, YOU KNOW, EQUITY WITHIN HOW FUNDING WAS BEING DISTRIBUTED AND MAKING SURE THAT THE COCS WERE GETTING IN, UH, FUNDING THAT WAS EQUITABLE TO WHAT'S BEING DISTRIBUTED THROUGH LASA AND COVERED IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WE DID, IT'S A JOINT APPLICATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COC FOR HALF ROUND FIVE.
UH, SO THIS HAD A BIT OF A PROCESS.
THERE WAS A LOT OF COORDINATION WITH THE OTHER ENTITIES IN THE COUNTY THAT RECEIVED HOMELESS HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND PREVENTION PROGRAM FUNDING, UH, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS HAP.
UM, AND, UH, SO WE WORKED WITH, UH, LA COUNTY LASA, UH, LONG BEACH OR
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PASADENA, GLENDALE, AND, UH, THE CITY OF LA IN CREATING A PLAN THAT WENT ALONG WITH OUR REQUEST FOR OUR 15 MILLION.UH, SO THAT'S THE END AND PROCESSING.
UM, SO WE SHOULD HEAR ABOUT THAT SHORTLY.
AND THEN LASTLY, WE WANT TO DO, OH, SO WE WANTED TO SHOW A CLIP OF THIS VERSUS, UM, YOU KNOW, ME TALKING ABOUT IT.
SO, UH, THE COUNTY HAS ONE NEW PROGRAM THAT THEY STARTED WITH IN THIS LAST MONTH.
UH, THEY'VE BEEN DOING SOME LOCALLY FUNDED ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION PROGRAMS, UH, WHERE THEY INTER LEASE WITH THE MOTEL, UH, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'VE DONE, AND THEN TARGET CERTAIN AREAS.
SO, UH, PREVIOUSLY THEY HAD DONE ONE FOCUSING ON THE 91 AND ARTESIA.
UH, AND THEN THIS LAST MONTH THEY HAD ONE THAT, UH, FOCUSED IT ON, ON SIGNAL HILL, AS WELL AS SOME AREAS OF LONG BEACH.
NORMALLY WE, WE MAY GET ONE CLIENT IN ONE DAY AND IT'LL BE A COUPLE MONTHS BEFORE WE GET ANOTHER PERSON HOUSED.
SO BEING ABLE TO GET, YOU KNOW, 35, YOU KNOW, OF OUR CLIENTS IN IT ONE DAY, IT IS LIKE, IT'S AN AMAZING FEELING, LIKE ALL THAT, IT'S LIKE OVERWHELMING ALMOST.
HOW, HOW COOL IS IT? WE'VE TO BE WIRED FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS COULD BE THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF THEIR LIFE, YOU KNOW, OF STARTING OVER AND DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
AND IT, IT'S, THIS IS REALLY COOL TO SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE ALL WORKING IN ONE DAY AND YEAH, IT'S REALLY NICE GOING TO THESE BEING INSIDE.
HOW ARE YOU DOING, KELLY? TODAY'S BIG DAY HILL IS THE ONLY PERSON THAT'S DONE ANYTHING, AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN HOMELESS SINCE, HONESTLY, DAY AND NIGHT SINCE THOUSAND 16.
I HAVEN HEARD YET STEP BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH.
NOT ALL, NOT EVERYBODY OUT HERE IS A DRUG ADDICT.
NOT EVERY DRUG OUT HERE HAS GOT MENTAL ISSUES.
SOME OF US JUST HAS LIFE SHOW UP, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT EASY AT ALL.
YOU KNOW, THESE PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF HISTORY OUT HERE WHO'VE BEEN OUT HERE A LONG TIME.
UH, YOU KNOW, THEY MAY HAVE BEEN PROBLEM, OTHER RESOURCES HAVE BEEN LET DOWN.
UH, SO YEAH, IT'S JUST BEING CONSISTENT, COMING OUT, YOU KNOW, EVERY WEEK.
UM, YOU KNOW, JUST STARTING WITH, YOU KNOW, GETTING THEIR STORY, SHARING YOUR STORY WITH 'EM.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, OVER TIME YOU GET TO KNOW THESE PEOPLE.
I BECOME MORE LIKE FRIENDS AND CLIENTS.
THE GOAL OF HALFWAY HOME STIGMA HILL IS FUNCTIONAL, ZERO HOMELESSNESS.
SO THAT IS, UH, A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE CITY.
UH, SO INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL, AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE ALL OF OUR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS AT THIS POINT IN TIME BE MOVED INDOORS TO THIS LONG-TERM PROGRAM THAT WILL TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES.
AND THEY WILL BE ON A PATH TO PERMANENT HOUSING, GET TO A PLACE THEY CALL HOME.
JUST IT, IT'S JUST SUCH A HEARTWARMING MOMENT.
WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY FOR THE CITY OF SIGNAL HILL, WHICH HAS A POPULATION OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS LESS THAN 30.
AND SO TODAY WE'LL ACTUALLY GET TO EXPERIENCE FUNCTIONAL ZERO FOR THE FIRST TIME WITHIN THE CITY, UH, WITHIN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHICH IS SUPER, SUPER EXCITING.
DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN REPLICATE THIS WITH OTHER SMALLER CITIES WITHIN THE CITY, WITHIN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES NEW HOUSE.
YOU GUYS ARE, IT'S AN AMAZING ORGANIZATION.
IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE LIKE TRAVIS THAT ARE FRIENDLY ENOUGH TO WHERE YOU CAN CONNECT WITH THEM AND YOU OPEN UP AND BE HONEST AND, AND REALIZE THAT NEITHER IS OUT THERE TO GET YOU, YOU KNOW, BUT BEING HOMELESS AND STEREOTYPE THE WAY WE ARE, UM, MOST LEFT, AND WE'RE NOT SUCH HUMAN JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, MOMS, KIDS, YOU KNOW? WELL, THIS IS THE SECOND ROUND THAT, UM, PAT HAS HAD THE HONOR TO HELP WITH.
IT'S HONESTLY VERY HEARTWARMING.
AND IT, IT IS AN UNEXPLAINABLE FEELING.
IT IS LIKE, IF YOU SEE YOUR CHILD GROW, IT'S A SUCCESS, RIGHT? UM, I KNOW THEIR JOURNEY HAS
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BEEN LONG BEFORE WE, THEM SOMETIMES, SOMETIMES NOW, EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.SO FOR THEM TO FINALLY HAVE A ROOM TO FINALLY HAVE A BED, A SHOWER, AND JUST SEEING THEM EXPRESS GRATITUDE FOR THE SIMPLE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT TAKE AS FOR GRANTED IS UNEXPLAINABLE AND DESERVE FEELING SO GREAT, IT REALLY NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MOVING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH, HUH? YOU KNOW, I USUALLY DON'T TELL MY STORY BECAUSE TODAY'S ABOUT THE CLIENT, BUT I WAS HOME WITH MYSELF FOR 14 YEARS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I HAD A SOCIAL WORKER HELP ME GET OFF THE STREET, AND THAT'S WHAT MADE ME WANT TO DO THIS WORK.
SO, I MEAN, DAYS LIKE THIS ARE, ARE WHAT I DO THIS JOB FOR, YOU KNOW, AND, UM, IT'S ALMOST OVERWHELMING, YOU KNOW, SO MANY EMOTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, UH, I CAN RELATE TO CLIENTS AND, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THIS CHANGES THEIR LIFE.
SO THERE'S 57 OR 58 ROOMS. I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY AT THE MOTEL.
UH, THERE WERE ROUGHLY 30 ISH PEOPLE, UM, IN SIGNAL HILL.
SO, UH, WE HAD 15 THAT WE PRIORITIZED THROUGH, UH, OUR OUTREACH IN THE MSC, LOOKING AT PEOPLE THAT HAD BEEN HOMELESS FOR 10 YEARS OR MORE, AND AT SIGNIFICANT VULNERABILITY, UH, AND PRIORITIZE THOSE FOR, UM, THE 15 ROOMS THAT WERE SET ASIDE.
AND THEN THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY ENGAGED THAT WERE LIKE RIGHT ON THE BORDER OF SIGNAL HILL AND LONG BEACH.
SO, UM, THERE WERE, WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE LIVING IN LONG BEACH, BUT RIGHT ON THE BORDER THAT WE'RE PRIORITIZED, UH, FOR THE 57 ROOMS. UM, THE SITE IS HERE IN LONG BEACH, SO AS ROOMS TURN OVER, THE AGREEMENT IS, UH, THAT THOSE WILL BE PRIORITIZED THROUGH, UH, OUR COORDINATE COORDINATED ENTRY AND THE INTERIM, UH, HOUSING PRIORITIZATION, WHICH AGAIN, I WILL HAVE, UH, WE'LL HAVE DALTON JOIN AT A MEETING TO KIND OF GO OVER THAT AND HOW THAT WORKS.
UM, SO, UM, THAT IS KIND OF A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW.
UH, THEY HAVE A TWO YEAR AGREEMENT THERE.
PATH WILL BE PROVIDING ONGOING, UH, SUPPORT ON SITE OVER THAT TWO YEAR PERIOD.
SO, UH, EXCITING TO SEE ADDITIONAL, UH, SHELTERING RESOURCES COME TO THE AREA AND BEING ABLE TO PARTNER WITH THE COUNTY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
UM, ANY COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE ON REPORT? OKAY, QUESTION.
UM, IF WE HAVE THE NEW, LIKE THE NEW OR THE, UM, WOULD THAT HELP GIVE US BETTER OUTCOME INFORMATION? LIKE HOW MANY BETTER EVALUATIONS? I GUESS I'M TRYING TO ASK FOR LIKE SEEING KIND OF WHAT, ASKING FOR LIKE, INSTEAD OF NUMBERS, BUT LIKE HOW MANY OF THESE PEOPLE ASKED FOR X, Y, AND Z? WHAT WERE, WHAT WERE THE RESOURCES THAT WERE OFFERED? IF THEY REFUSED, WHAT DID THEY, THOSE KIND OF, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE PHONE CALLS OR? YEAH, THEN THE, THEN THE I UPDATE IS BOTH PERMANENT AND INTERN HOUSING PROGRAM.
SO THOSE A MATCHING PROCESS, RIGHT? SO IF SOMEBODY'S MATCHED AND IF THEY REFUSE THAT MATCH AND YOU UNDERSTAND THAT PERSON AND THAT PLACE WHERE THEY ARE MATCHED TO, AND YOU HAVE THAT CRITERIA, I WANNA LOOK AT THAT CRITERIA.
I WANT TO KNOW IF THAT PERSON WAS MATCHED TO THIS PROGRAM, WHY WERE THEY MATCHED, WHY WERE THEY ELIGIBLE, WHAT THAT PROGRAM WAS REQUIRING.
AND IF THEY REFUSED THAT, WHY, WHAT WAS THEIR REASON FOR REFUSING IT? I THINK ONE, WHAT PAUL WAS SAYING, WHEN DALTON COMES HERE, THEN WE CAN ASK HIM THE CRITERIA AND THE PROCESSES THAT GO INTO THE HM IS EVALUATION AND THE MATCHING.
AND, UM, FOR PERMANENT HOUSING MATCHES, YES WE DO HAVE LIKE A BETTER RECORD OF LIKE DECLINE.
NOT ALWAYS LIKE WHY THEY DECLINED A RESOURCE.
UM, TYPICALLY THEY'LL TELL US, BUT THERE ISN'T LIKE SOMEWHERE THAT, LIKE WE HAVE THAT CAN LIKE EASILY PULL DATA AROUND WHY PEOPLE DECLINED A MATCH.
UM, BUT THAT IS ONE AREA WHERE WE CAN SEE LIKE, YOU KNOW, MATCH WHAT'S MADE.
PARTICIPANT WAS ENGAGED, PARTICIPANT DECLINED THIS MATCH, YOU KNOW, REMATCH, AND THEY'LL GO BACK AND, AND BE REMATCHED TO THE NEXT RESOURCE THAT, YOU KNOW, COMES UP.
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FOR PERMANENT HOUSING SIDE, YEAH, NOT NECESSARILYWE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHY SOMEBODY DECLINED, YOU KNOW, TO ENGAGE WITH OUTREACH LIKE THAT CAN BE A LITTLE BIT CHALLENGING.
LIKE WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A WAY WITHIN HMIS ALSO THAT'S CURRENTLY EXISTS THAT LIKE DOCUMENTS WHY SOMEBODY DECLINED.
UM, SOMETIMES IT MIGHT GET PUT IN A MONO NOTE, BUT LIKE THERE IS NO WAY TO PULL NOTES TO LIKE, YOU KNOW, AGGREGATE THE DATA TO SAY, YOU KNOW, 10% DECLINE FOR THIS REASON.
MY OTHER QUESTION IS, UM, ON THAT, THOSE EVALUATIONS FOR TIMELINES, LIKE IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN GET LIKE A SHOT OF LIKE AN AVERAGE TIMELINE THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, BUT IF LIKE THIS CERTAIN PERSON, THIS CERTAIN PERSON FITS A CRITERIA IN ELIGIBILITY, LIKE HOW LONG DOES THAT TAKE THAT PERSON TO GET OR TO ACCEPT INTERIM HOUSING THAT YEAH, I MEAN THERE ARE, UH, DATA ELEMENTS THAT WE CAN SHOW WHAT DOES EXIST IS LIKE, THE REALITY IS THERE'S A LOT OF VARIANCE.
THAT'S WHY WE TRY NOT TO GIVE LIKE DEFINITIVE NUMBERS TO PEOPLE AS THEIR, YOU KNOW, COMING IN OF LIKE, WE'LL TAKE THIS LONG FOR YOU TO GET MATCHED TO A PSH UNIT BECAUSE LIKE WE MAY HAVE THREE BUILDINGS OPEN UP WITHIN A THREE MONTH PERIOD AND THEN IT MIGHT BE ANOTHER ALMOST A YEAR BEFORE A NEW PSH BUILDING OPENS UP.
SO THEN IT'S JUST THE TURNOVER AND THAT'S A MUCH SLOWER, SO SOMETIMES IT CAN MOVE REALLY QUICK AND THEN SOMETIMES IT CAN BE A YEAR WHERE IT'S VERY SLOW PERMANENT HOUSING.
AND ON INTERIM, LIKE WE CAN ALSO KIND OF SHOW AGAIN, SOMETIMES IF WE OPEN UP A NEW PROJECT, LIKE YOU'LL SEE A, A SPEED UP AND THEN NO NEW PROJECT AT ALL, MELLOW OUT AND LIKE, SO, UM, YEAH, WE CAN PROVIDE KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT DATA WE DO HAVE AROUND THAT.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION, SORRY, THERE, MY LAST QUESTION IS ABOUT YOUR, ABOUT THE NEW TEAM.
UM, WHAT'S GONNA DO PROVIDE, UM, PROGRAM OVERSIGHT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
SO THAT'S ALSO BE DOING SOME EVALUATIONS ON THOSE PROGRAMS AND THOSE OUTCOMES.
SO WE HAVE A NEWLY CREATED TEAM THAT'S IN PLACE THAT FOCUSES ON LIKE MONITORING GOING ON SITE.
THEY WILL ALSO WORK WITH THE CONTINUUM OF CARE TEAM FOR THE, THE COC FUNDED PROJECTS, BUT THEY'LL GO OUT AND MONITOR ALSO NON COC UH, PROJECTS.
AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE DATA.
THEY WILL BE WORKING WITH THIS TEAM AS WELL TO LIKE REFLECT BACK HERE'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITHIN OUR MONITORING.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR DATA TEAM THAT'S REGULARLY LOOKING AT DATA AS WELL.
WE REALLY HAVE LIKE MORE OF LIKE A SUMMARY.
UM, ONE AS FAR AS GETTING PEOPLE ON HMIS, ARE WE ABLE TO GET MOST OF THE VISITORS TO A PROGRAM ON IT, WOULD YOU SAY? A, A HIGH PERCENTAGE? YEAH.
WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR HOMELESS COUNT OVER TIME AND LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE, UH, ARE ACTIVE WITHIN HMIS OVER LIKE THE LAST THREE MONTHS, IT'S NOT THAT GREAT OF A DIFFERENCE.
SO WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE GETTING ACTUALLY PRETTY CLOSE TO GETTING LIKE A HOLISTIC CAPTURE OF, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW THE TEAM COULD POINT TO PEOPLE OF LIKE, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO ENGAGE THAT PERSON AND GET THEM TO LIKE, GIVE US INFORMATION FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, BUT LIKE, WE'RE JUST NOT THERE.
UM, BUT THE LARGE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT WE ARE ENGAGING WITH, LIKE I WOULD SAY 90% ISH, UM, ARE WILLING TO SIT DOWN AND GIVE US, YOU KNOW, THEIR NAME AND SOME BASIC INFORMATION.
WELL THEN WE GET BACK TO THAT, THAT 10% OF THE ONES THAT, SO OKAY, WE GOTTA WORK ON THE 90%.
SO I WANNA ASK ABOUT THE CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT PERFORMANCE AUDIT.
ARE WE DONE WITH PAUL? THE NUMBERS? I, I, I THINK, UM, SOME PEOPLE SAID IT, BUT I, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, UM, WHEN, WHEN YOU DO YOUR NUMBERS, IT, I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL IF THEY WERE BROKEN DOWN, LIKE YOU SAID, LIKE FOR THE NUMBER THAT YOU HAVE REQUESTS FOR OUTREACH AND IT'S 418, LIKE WHAT DID THE 418 PEOPLE
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ASK AND GET, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE 418, IT, IT DOESN'T REALLY MEAN ANYTHING IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THEY'RE GETTING OR WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.UM, SAME WITH YOUR TOTAL MSC VISITS.
UM, I THINK, UM, TYLER ALLUDED, YOU KNOW, MAYBE TO SOMEBODY WHO CAME IN TO GET THEIR MAIL MM-HMM.
UM, AND SO IT, IF WE COULD PROVIDE SOME MEANING TO THESE NUMBERS AND, AND GET SOME OF THE OUTCOMES IN TERMS OF WHAT IT WAS THAT THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY GOT WHEN THEY CAME TO VISIT OR WHEN THEY TALKED TO YOUR OUTREACH TEAM OR IF THEY TALKED TO YOUR MOBILE ACCESS CENTER TEAM OR IF THEY TALKED TO THEIR, TO THE PHONE CALL PEOPLE.
AND IF YOU WANT TO SEE AS LIKE AN OVERARCHING, NOT SPEAKING TO ANY ONE PROGRAM, I ALWAYS ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO LOOK AT THE DASHBOARD ON THE WEBSITE AS IT IS UPDATED MONTHLY ON LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE MOVED INTO PERMANENT HOUSING, WHAT ARE THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS, AS WELL AS LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE SERVED BY SHELTER AND LIKE WHAT THE OUTCOMES OF THOSE WERE.
SO DOES IT DO WHERE IF WE SAY 343 3,447 PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, DO WE SEE THAT NUMBER MOVING? UM, DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PERMANENT HOUSING, UM, BUILDINGS OPEN UP.
I MEAN, DOES THAT NUMBER MOVE? YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT NUMBER MOVE ALMOST ISN'T STAGNANT.
SO I THINK WHAT I SEE THAT MOVE MUST WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS LIKE A BETTER, YOU KNOW, FEELING MORE CONFIDENT IN LIKE THE OVERALL CAPTURE OF OUR HMIS TO REALLY KIND OF CHART THAT BETTER OF LIKE INFLOW VERSUS OUTFLOW AND FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THAT ACTUALLY MATCHES WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITY.
AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, DATA QUALITY, TIMELINESS OF DATA ENTRY ACROSS OUR SYSTEM, NOT JUST THE CITY FUNDED SERVICE, YOU KNOW, CITY PROVIDED SUN SERVICES AS WELL AS EVEN THE CITY FUNDED SERVICES.
THERE'S NON-CITY FUNDED SERVICES THAT ARE ENTERING INTO HMIS.
WE HAVE SOME AGENCIES, JUST A FEW THAT DON'T ENTER INTO HMIS FOR, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS REASONS.
A COUPLE OF THEM LEGAL BANDAIDS LIKE OUR, UM, DV SERVICES.
SO THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE A FEW THINGS THAT LIKE WE AREN'T ABLE TO CAPTURE WITHIN DATA.
BUT YOU KNOW, THE HESITANCY ON LIKE PUTTING THAT OUT AT THIS MOMENT IS FEELING THAT IT IS ACTUALLY ACCURATE TO LIKE THE OVERALL INFLOW AND OUTFLOW.
UM, WHAT WE ARE PUTTING AS LIKE WHAT WE DEFINITIVELY KNOW AS FAR AS OUTCOMES IN HMIS AT THIS POINT.
BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT AS LIKE AN INFLOW OUTFLOW BETTER LIKE GRAPH OF LIKE, HERE'S WHERE WE ESTIMATE WE'RE AT AT THIS MOMENT, AN AVERAGE OR SOMETHING.
AND UM, AND SO WHEN, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GIVE US YOUR SHELTER NUMBERS, THIS IS 300 BEDS SO TO, TO US, I MEAN 300 BEDS, BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I MEAN, HOW DOES 300, HOW DO THESE 300 BEDS FIT INTO THE 1300 OR WHATEVER IT WAS THAT MAKES UP 29%.
YEAH, THESE ARE, THESE ARE SPECIFICALLY CITY FUNDED OWNED, RIGHT.
I THINK IT'D BE MORE HELPFUL IF WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ASKING BECAUSE I HEAR YOU AND I HEAR I TO WORK WITH THEM.
SO I KNOW I JUST NEED TO BE MORE HELPFUL.
IF YOU SAY EXACTLY WHAT YOU LOOKING TO FIND OUT, THEN YOU PROBABLY TAILOR A REPORT AND BREAK IT DOWN FOR WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
I GUESS WHAT WE'RE, WHAT I AM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR IS HOW DOES THAT BIG NUMBER GO UP AND DOWN DEPENDING ON THE SHELTER OR WHATEVER OTHER RESOURCES THAT YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT BIG NUMBER GET EXPECTED? LIKE YOU SAID THAT THE PEOPLE ENTERING HOMELESSNESS AND THE PEOPLE EXITING HOMELESSNESS ON AVERAGE, WHAT IS THE NUMBER FOR MARCH? YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS IT FOR FEBRUARY? 'CAUSE WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE POINT IN TIME COUNT 3,447, BUT IT'S THE ONLY NUMBER I HAVE.
YEAH, SO SOMEBODY ELSE TO CLARIFY, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET LIKE WHAT'S REALISTIC OF LIKE, UH, ARE WE ASKING THEM FOR THE STAFF TO GIVE US MAYBE LIKE A QUARTERLY OF LIKE THE PAST THREE MONTHS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THAT WAY IS IT MORE OF LIKE A, SEEING THE PAST THREE MONTHS INSTEAD OF JUST MONTHS IN MONTH WHERE IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARDER TO GET THE PICTURE, BUT I WONDER IF THAT WILL BE HELPFUL.
WHAT WE'RE RIGHT NOW IS JUST MONTH TO, I, I
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FORGET, I I WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT THIS FOR LAST MONTH.AND SO IS IT MORE HELPFUL AND REALISTIC ALSO JUST TO SAY MAYBE WE CAN GET A, A CAPTURE THREE MONTHS ON A QUARTERLY BASIS, THAT WAY WE CAN SEE A BIT MORE OF A TREND THAT ARE HAPPENING.
MORE OF THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO HOMELESSNESS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE EXITING HOMELESSNESS AND AND HOW ARE THEY DOING THAT AND WHO ARE THEY? YEAH, RIGHT.
I MEAN TO WHAT WE CAN DEFINITIVELY SAY, WE CAN KIND OF COME BACK ON LIKE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AND THERE IS STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWN.
LIKE THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WE ENGAGE AND LIKE WE JUST STOPPED SEEING THEM.
WE DIDN'T HELP THEM OUT, BUT LIKE THEY'RE NO LONGER HERE.
SO LIKE THOSE ARE ALWAYS HARD TO SPEAK TO AS WELL.
BUT WE CAN KIND OF, I CAN BRING BACK KIND OF LIKE, HERE'S HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS AND KIND OF TRYING TO GET TO A POINT WHERE WE FEEL MORE CONFIDENT.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT LIKE ARE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO OVERCOME WITHIN THAT, THAT WAY THE COMMITTEE FEELS INFORMED ON LIKE, THIS IS HOW WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO BETTER DETERMINING ON LIKE A REGULAR BASIS.
I AGREE WITH THE 90 DAYS, 90 DAYS QUARTERLY.
AND THEN, UM, SO IN YOUR PROJECT HOME KEY, THE 1725 LONG BEACH, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK SOME OF US HAVE READ THE ARTICLE THAT REPORTS 14 DEATHS.
UM, AND WE HAVE A NEW OPERATOR.
I I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THOSE ARE 14 LAG THAT WERE LOCKED.
IT'S, I I DON'T WANT TO DEFEND THE FORMER OPERATOR.
I DON'T WANT TO, UM, PUT ANY BLAME, BUT I, I DO WANNA MAKE SURE LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW AND, AND MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THAT HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, IN A CITY OWNED BUILDING.
AND SO I I, I WANT TO BE CONFIDENT THAT STEPS WERE TAKEN NOT JUST TO HAVE A NEW OPERATOR, BUT TO ENSURE THAT WHEN PEOPLE, PEOPLE ARE PLACED IN THIS FACILITY THAT IS
THE CITY HAS RELEASED KIND OF A OVERVIEW OF SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT HAVE NOT CHOSEN TO BE COVERED WITHIN SOME OF THE STORIES THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO MEDIA.
OBVIOUSLY LIKE WE DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYBODY DIE.
UM, THERE HAVE BEEN 20 DEATHS AT THAT LOCATION OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.
UM, SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEATHS, LIKE AGAIN ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO READ THE REPORT, UH, THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT DIED WITHIN THE PROGRAM DID DIE IN THE HOSPITAL.
UH, THE PRIORITIES PRIORITY FOR THAT SITE WAS PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 65 AND HAVING OR HAVING A TERMINAL UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITION SUCH AS CANCER, UH, HEART FAILURE, OTHER SERIOUS AILMENTS.
SO THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG THOSE PEOPLE WAS, UH, CANCER FOLLOWED BY HEART FAILURE.
THERE IS ONE PERSON THAT DIED OF AN OVERDOSE.
THERE WAS ONE PERSON THAT DIED OF A, UH, VEHICULAR STRENGTH.
AND THEN THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT WE JUST DON'T FULLY KNOW.
UH, THE AVERAGE AGE OF DEATH OF THOSE 20 PEOPLE WAS 65.
SO OBVIOUSLY LIKE ON THE AVERAGE, YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T SOUND ALL THAT OLD, BUT WITHIN THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE SERVING, UH, 65 SADLY IS PRETTY ADVANCED IN AGE.
UM, SO IT'S A CHALLENGING SITE WE ARE WORKING WITH FIRST TO SERVE AND LOOKING AT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED THERE.
UM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF MEDICAL SERVICES THAT ARE BEING OFFERED ON SITE AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE OFFERED ON SITE THROUGH PARTNERS.
UM, THAT BEING SAID, OUR CURRENT AVERAGE AGE OF ENROLLMENT ENROLLED PEOPLE IS OVER THE AGE OF 65 CURRENTLY.
UM, SO THIS IS A PRETTY VULNERABLE SITE.
UH, WE LACK SOME THINGS WITHIN THE CITY HISTORICALLY, LIKE REGROUP OF CARE BEDS AND HIGHER LEVEL CARE BEDS.
UH, YOU KNOW, THERE IS EFFORTS BEING MADE WITH THE OLD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL TO REALLY BRING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE HERE TO LONG BEACH TO BETTER MEET SOME OF THE MEDICAL NEEDS THAT WE ARE SEEING HERE IN LONG BEACH.
SO, UH, EXCITED TO SEE WHAT COMES OF LIKE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAT SITE AND REALLY BRINGING IN THINGS LIKE RECUPERATIVE CARE, YOU KNOW, STEP DOWN BEDS FROM PEOPLE EXITING, UH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HOSPITALIZATIONS, UH, AND SOME OF THE THOSE NEEDS.
SO TO REALLY HAVE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE HERE LOCALLY VERSUS
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FOR THE MOST PART, PEOPLE HAVING TO GO ALL THE WAY TO DOWNTOWN TO RECEIVE MANY OF THOSE MM-HMM,UM, SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL HELP IN CREATING A BETTER LIKE, OVERALL HOLISTIC SYSTEM WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO, UH, BED WISE.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A BRIEF OVERVIEW, BUT THERE IS A LARGER STATEMENT THAT, UH, THE CITY HAD RELEASED.
IT'S NOT A REBUT OF WHAT'S BEEN PUT OUT, IT'S JUST ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
SO IF SOMEBODY IS SICK AND NEEDS MEDICAL, YOU KNOW, SERIOUS MEDICAL ATTENTION, DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO COUNTYWIDE FACILITIES THAT MIGHT MEET THEIR NEEDS? OR IS IT JUST MONTHS? I DON'T, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE REALLY DIFFICULT TO GET INTO.
LIKE HIGHER NEED AROUND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IS PRETTY CHALLENGING.
UM, THE ISSUE IS SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO GO TO A SKILLED NURSING FACILITY OR ASSISTED LIVING TYPE FACILITY.
THEY FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO SURRENDER TOO MUCH FREEDOM.
THEY LOSE A FAIR AMOUNT OF CONTROL.
SO THE HARD PART IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE AGREED TO GO TO SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES AND A HIGH LEVELS OF CARE FROM THAT SITE OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS.
BUT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT REALLY WOULD BENEFIT FROM THAT, THAT ARE LIKE, NO, I'M NOT GONNA GO TO A SKILLED NURSING FACILITY.
I WOULD GO BACK TO THE STREET BEFORE I GO TO A SKILLED NURSING FACILITY.
AND THOSE SITUATIONS ARE PRETTY DIFFICULT AND LIKE IT DOES PUT STRESS ON, YOU KNOW, THE PROVIDER AND BEING ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, FEEL LIKE YOU'RE MEETING THE THE CARE NEEDS OF THAT PERSON.
UH, BUT THEY'RE UNDER THE DOCTOR'S CARE, RIGHT? I MEAN YOU, YOU GUYS CONNECT THEM TO YES, THEY'RE MOST PEOPLE PROFESSIONALS, ALMOST EVERYBODY THERE IS CONNECTED TO A DOCTOR.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEIR ABILITY, THEIR WILLINGNESS TO REGULARLY FOLLOW UP IS A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGED.
WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE VERY DILIGENT WITH THEIR CARE AND SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE NEGLECTFUL WITHIN THEIR CARE NO DIFFERENT THAN YOU WOULD SEE IN THE GENERAL POPULATION.
UM, WE DO HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING WITH HEALTHCARE IN ACTION WHO ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR DOCTOR COME TO THE SITE, UH, AND MEET WITH THEM THERE.
UH, WE HAVE NURSING STUDENTS FROM LBCC THAT ARE PROVIDING SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT THERE.
UH, WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH WELLBE HEALTH.
THEY'LL COME AND PICK THE PERSON UP AND TAKE THEM OVER TO THE WELLBE CENTER, UH, THAT ARE FOCUSED ON MEDICARE, UH, RECIPIENTS.
AND THEN WE HAVE A FEW PEOPLE THAT ARE ON PALLIATIVE CARE.
YEAH, THEY'RE NOT ON HOSPICE YET, BUT THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE A TERMINAL DISEASE.
SO, UH, ECHO HOSPICE HAS BEEN PROVIDING PALLIATIVE CARE TO A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS ON SITE, UH, AND CAN WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE CAN WE SEND THIS THE DOCUMENT
WE'LL WE'LL UH, SEND IT OUT TO THE GROUP.
UM, SO THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT PERFORMANCE AUDIT, THERE'S THIS KEY FINDING, UM, THAT THE CITY HAS MADE A BAD DEAL, UH, WITH MHA FOR THEIR PROPERTY WITH 1919 65, 19 65 ON BOULEVARD.
I UNDERSTAND IT'S PRE-DATE, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE IN THE ROOM.
UM, BUT IT'S BASICALLY THE CITY PUT 3.45 MILLION INTO A CITY OWNED SITE TO IMPROVE IT.
UM, GAVE MHA FREE MONTHLY RENT FOR 10 YEARS, GAVE THE ORGANIZATION THE OPTION TO BUY THE BUILDING FOR A DOLLAR AT THE END OF THE LEASE, UM, AND THEN ALLOWS MHA TO SUBLEASE TO ANOTHER PROVIDER AND BRING ABOUT HUNDRED $74,000 A YEAR IN REVENUE FOR THAT.
UM, AND THEN THE AUDITOR FOUND THAT THERE'S KIND OF NOT THE SIT DOWN RETAIL CAFE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, THE HEALTHCARE CLINIC THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE IS ONLY OPEN ONE OR TWO DAYS A WEEK.
AND THAT PROVIDER SAID IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY RENT TO MHA, THEY'D PROBABLY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES.
UM, AND THE COMMUNITY ROOM THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IS NOT OPEN.
SO UNDERSTAND THIS IS AN OLD AGREEMENT, BUT ARE THERE ANY PLANS IN PLACE TO KIND OF IMPROVE THAT PERFORMANCE OR IMPROVE THOSE SERVICES? THIS IS, IS NOT MY AREA OF OVERSIGHT.
THIS IS THROUGH OUR REAL ESTATE BUREAU.
SO, UM, WE ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH OUR REAL ESTATE BUREAU, BUT I WOULD REALLY, YOU KNOW, IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WANTS TO BE DISCUSSED, I WOULD REALLY WANT REAL ESTATE HERE TO ANSWER TO THAT BECAUSE THAT IS THEIR AREA OF OVERSIGHT.
BECAUSE ONE OF, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF SUSAN REMEMBERS OR IF JIM REMEMBERS, BUT UM, THIS SITE WAS COMPLETED AT THE END OF 2019 AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE, UM, SHOWERS AVAILABLE, UH, WASHERS AND DRYERS AVAILABLE.
UM, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE CASE MANAGEMENT FROM MHA AND THEN JOB
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TRAINING AT THE CAFE AND THE, THE MAIL SERVICE.SO IT WAS GONNA BE LIKE MFC PLUS AND AT 1955 LONG BEACH BOULEVARD, IT'S A REALLY, UM, IDEAL LOCATION WITH A BLUE LINE RIGHT THERE.
UM, SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT WE SHOULD ASK THE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT THAT IS THEIR AREA OF OVERSIGHT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS REALLY TO PROVIDE HOMELESS SERVICES THROUGH THAT LOCATION? I CAN ANSWER SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS, BUT IF THERE, WE WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ON THAT.
HOMELESS SERVICES DO, DOES NOT HOLD THAT AGREEMENT WITH MHA OH.
UM, SO IT'S NOT REALLY OUR AREA OF OVERSIGHT.
SO HAVING A CONVERSATION, UM, REALLY WE SHOULD HAVE THE REAL ESTATE BUREAU HERE TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO, TO THINGS.
DO YOU SEE IT AS SOMETHING THAT, UM, THAT YOUR TEAM COULD PARTICIPATE IN IN THAT SPACE? WELL, I'M IN CONVERSATIONS WITH REAL ESTATE.
WE'VE MET AND DISCUSSED ON THIS.
I'M JUST SAYING FOR LIKE, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATION, I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE HERE.
'CAUSE ULTIMATELY THIS ISN'T THEIR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THEIR AUDIT.
SO I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ON THEIR, THE AUDIT ON THEIR BEHALF OR THIS AGREEMENT WITHOUT THEM TO BE PRESENT.
BUT IF WE WANT TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, WE CAN INVITE THEM TO AN UPCOMING MEETING.
HAVE YOU TALKED TO MHA? YEAH, I'VE TALKED TO MHA SO, UM, AGAIN, THE UH, LEASE AGREEMENTS AND THINGS THAT IS REALLY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF, OF, UH, THAT BUREAU.
SO, BUT WE HAVE BEEN A PART OF THEM.
UM, BUT AGAIN, BEING THEIR AREA OF OVERSIGHT, I'D WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ANY INFORMATION THAT IS BEING PROVIDED ON LIKE ACTIONS DATE, THAT THEY'RE, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY.
SO CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO UM, RECEIVE AND FILE THE MULTI AND SERVICES STAFF REPORT? SO MOVE SECOND.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM WOULD BE THE PHRASE GODSMACK WOULD BE THE PHRASE THAT'S, IT'S NO QUESTION.
PEOPLE NEED TO FILE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT SO IT'S NOT A Q AND A.
RIGHT? I WASN'T GONNA ANSWER
SO WE HAVE TESS, SHE'S NO LONGER HERE.
JOEY, UH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO A PUBLIC COMMENT? NO, I DO NOT.
AND THEN NATALIE PUBLIC COMMENT, I APOLOGIZE.
UH, ANYBODY ELSE THAT WE WOULD LIKE.
UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, UH, RECEIVING AND FILING THE MULTIRY SERVICE CENTER AND HOMELESS SERVICES STAFF REPORT.
SO WE HAVE THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR REPORT.
DESIREE, UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY REPORT OUTSIDE OF, UM, JULIAN ON MET ON MONDAY FOR OUR, UM, MONTHLY UH, CHAIR BUS YEAR MEETING.
SO, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO UM, PUT OUT THERE FOR YOU GUYS IS IF WE CAN ESTABLISH A MEETING LOCATION, UM, FOR OUR FORMAL SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, I WOULD PREFER MOVING BACK THAT WAY, BUT, UM, OR WE COULD DO WHAT WE DID BEFORE PANDEMIC, LIKE SUSANNA AND JIM KNOWS AND THAT IS GO BACK TO THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
UM, I DON'T WANT US TO BE, UM, MOVING AROUND SO MUCH 'CAUSE I, I WANT US TO, TO HAVE A HOME, RIGHT? SO IF THE LIBRARY DOESN'T WANT US, WHICH IS FINE, WE CAN ENTERTAIN GOING BACK TO THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
YEAH, BOTH HERE IN THE LIBRARY ARE A LITTLE CHALLENGING AND THAT THEY ARE USED FOR OTHER THINGS AND LIKE, UH, THEIR SYSTEM IS A LITTLE CHALLENGING.
THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, THE PARKING HAS BECOME A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGED OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
LIKE PARKING IS REGULARLY, UH, PRETTY IMPACTED.
UM, WE ARE WORKING TO UH, HAVE PART OF OUR TEAM CO-LOCATED WITH THE HOUSING
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AUTHORITY IN THE NEAR FUTURE.UH, THEY HAVE A PRETTY LARGE CLASSROOM.
SO WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE ABILITY TO HOST MEETINGS THERE.
UH, WE CAN SEE IF WE CAN START HOSTING THIS THERE BEFORE MOVE IN, UM, WITH THEM.
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHOSE WAY 'CAUSE IT'S HARD TO GET TO, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT THAT EASY TO GET TO THAT BUILDING.
THE DIFFICULTIES WITH THE LIBRARIES IS COME WITH COME SUMMER MONTHS, THERE'S A LOT OF PROGRAMMING.
SO UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T TELL YOU WHERE EXACTLY WE'LL BE.
WE DO TRY TO BOOK THREE MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
SO I KNOW JENNIFER HAS WORKED ON PLANNING A LOCATION FOR NEXT MONTH AND PROBABLY THE FOLLOWING MONTHS.
OUR PREFERRED LOCATION IS VILLAGE AND KING JUST 'CAUSE IT IS ACROSS, UM, FROM OUR BUILDING.
AND WE CAN CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, WORKING ON THAT SCHEDULE.
BUT FOR THE MOST PART WE LOOK FOR VILLAGE AND KING OR THE PACIFIC GATEWAY 'CAUSE OF INTERNET.
IT'S PREFERABLE FOR US, BUT I THINK ONCE WE DO EVENTUALLY CO HOUSE WITH THE HUGHES WAY OR HOUSING AUTHORITY, THEN THAT LOCATION WILL BE LIKE THE NEW MSC FOR THE ADMIN OFFICE AND IT WOULD JUST MAKE THE BEST STEP.
SO THEN, WELL THE NEXT TWO MEETINGS ARE AT BILLY JEAN AND THEN I'LL TRY TO KEEP THEM THERE AS LONG AS THEY'RE ABLE TO.
YEAH, I MEAN WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR STAFF, WHEN YOU ALL MOVE TO UM, HUGHES WAY, UM, WOULD THAT ALLEVIATE THE PARKING PROBLEM AT THE MSC? NO.
I MEAN, AND PLUS WE DON'T START TILL THREE 30.
I MEAN, USUALLY WHEN WE USED TO MEET THERE BEFORE WE DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM PARKING.
THINGS HAVE NO, I, I UNDERSTAND.
UM, I'LL TALK TO TYLER AND BEING AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT MIGHT ALLEVIATE SOME OF IT BACK IS TYPICALLY A LITTLE THINGS THAT MOST OF THE PARTICIPANT PARKING HAS GONE.
WE'VE GOT, WE'VE GOT THE NEXT TWO.
UM, AND THEN, OH, THERE WAS JUST ONE MORE QUESTION I FORGOT.
CAN I, ANITA CAN I ASK THE QUESTION AT MY, IN MY REPORT OR NOT? IS IT A PART OF YOUR REPORT? BUT IT WAS A, WOULD IT BE UNDER ANNOUNCEMENT? I JUST HAD A QUESTION THAT WAS NOT ON THE COUNCIL.
BUT UM, IS THE A, BC PROPERTY BEING SOLD THE, I SAW SOMETHING ON THAT.
UM, BUT LIKE AT A HIGH LEVEL, THAT IS THE PLAN.
THE SHELTER WILL STAY THERE AND IT WILL BE, AND THAT WAS ALWAYS A PLAN THAT WAS ALWAYS IN DISCUSSION WAS LIKE THE FULL BUILD OUT OF THAT CAMPUS.
UM, SO WE CAN KIND OF GIVE AN OVERSIGHT OF WHERE THAT'S AT, WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
IT WILL BE ALL FOCUSED ON HOMELESSNESS AND, YOU KNOW, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE THAT ALSO MIGHT BE AT RISK, UH, WHICH WAS THE INITIAL INTENT.
AND THEN ANITA, MAYBE YOU CAN HELP US.
UM, PAUL HAD MENTIONED THAT, UM, MAYBE WE NEED TO REVIEW THE, UM, TERMS OF, OF THE IN INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS SINCE WE'VE BEEN SHIFTING AND PEOPLE HAVE MOVED.
AND, UM, AND THEN, UM, LEADING UP TO ELECTION OF, UM, CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR PEOPLE.
SO RIGHT IT BE ON THE UPCOMING NEXT TIME AGENDA.
UM, THAT, WHERE IS MY, MY REQUEST? SORRY.
UM, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS ANNOUNCEMENT.
UH, UM, CAN WE VOTE ON THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR? THIS IS ALSO WHERE WE HAVE FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. OH, OKAY.
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. SO WE HAVE THE, UM, STUFF BUT THE MEMBERS, WE HAVE THE MAYOR'S FUND AUTHORITIES, WE HAVE THE, UM, VICE CHAIR AND VICE AND CHAIR ELECTION AND WE HAVE, UM, THE A BC SHELTER SALE THAT YOU'LL JUST PUT IN THE, IN THE STAFF REPORT.
AND THEN, UM, FOR THE NEXT ONE, IF WE WA IF WE HAD TIME FOR A SPEAKER, WOULD IT BE THE APPROPRIATE TIME TO HAVE FIRST TO SERVE, COME TO THE MEETING THAT, THAT'S BEEN ON OUR LIST
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SINCE LAST MAY A YEAR AGO AND SHELTER? SURE.ANY OTHER ITEMS TO ADD? WE HAVE A CONTINUING LIST ESTATE DEPARTMENT.
AND THEN, UM, OKAY, SO THAT WAS THE FULL EXTENT OF THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR DISCUSSION.
DO WE APPROVE THIS DISCUSSION? OKAY.
IS THERE A MOTION TO, UM, APPROVE THE DISCUSSION OF THE, THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR REPORT? I KNOW.
ANY DISCUSSION? ANY COMMENTS? UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UM, NOW WE GO TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON NON AGENDA ITEMS. EACH SPEAKER IS LIMITED TO TWO MINUTES TO MAKE THEIR COMMENTS UNLESS, UM, EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR.
UH, NATHAN AND THEN WE HAVE NATALIE.
UM, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH US? OKAY.
I CALL THIS MEETING ADJOURNED.