* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:04] ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. UM, WE'LL CALL THIS MEETING TO, ARE WE READY? YES. UH, KIMBERLY, WE PRESENT JAMIE FER. PRESENT. I ABSENT ANNA . HERE. BRANDON WASHINGTON. ABSENT. ABSENT. DANIEL BOFF. MCPA. PRESENT. NICK . PRESENT. LUTHER RICHARD. ABSENT TAMIKA BOY. HERE. SHELBY BAER. ABSENT. MELANIE MARTINS? HERE. JANAE MCCOMBS. HERE WE HAVE FOUR. UH, THE FIRST ITEM, HEARING APPROVED MINUTES FROM THE COC BOARD MEETING DATED ON JUNE 11TH, 2024. DOES THE BOARD HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? JUNE 11TH OR JULY 9TH? JULY 9TH. I'M SORRY. EXCUSE ME. YEAH. UH, JULY 9TH. JULY 11TH. OH, I'M SORRY. ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS? ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS? CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE COC BOARD MEETING? DATED JULY 9TH? JULY 9TH. FIRST. SECOND. SO WE DIDN'T HAVE, UH, CALL FOR VOTE TO APPROVE RECOMMENDATION ROLL. I BELIEVE YOU MOVED. WE GET A SECOND. SECOND. AND THEN I CAN DO ROLL CALL. KIMBERLY P. APPROVE. APPROVED. JAMIE. THAT'S IT. BRANDON WASHINGTON. I'M SORRY. ANNA KY APPROVED. BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT. GILLES APPROVED. DANIEL BOFF. YES. AFFIRMATIVE. THAT'S IT. APPROVED NIKKI AM APPROVED. LUTHER RICHARD HERE. TAMIKA BOY APPROVE. SHELBY BERG. ABSENT. MELANIE MARTY APPROVED JANAE MC. MOTION. WHO'S GOING, UH, SPEAK ON THIS? APPLICANTS. UH, WE DO HAVE TWO APPLICANTS. UH, CONNOR LOCKE. HE WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT TODAY. HE HAD ANOTHER MEETING. UM, BUT HE DID SAY THAT HE, HE'S ABLE TO JOIN FOR THE NEXT MEETING. UM, DID YOU GUYS GET A CHANCE TO REVIEW THAT? HE IS FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. UH, DEPUTY MAYOR OF HOUSING IS HIS POSITION. UM, AND THE OTHER APPLICANT WAS ROSE URA. AND SHE IS HERE. SO YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO HEAR, YEAH. YOU WANNA GIVE A LITTLE SYNOPSIS OF YOURSELF AND WHILE YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THE BOARD? YES. THANK YOU. HATE TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT IT'S EASIER PROBLEM. WELL, HI EVERYONE, MY NAME IS ROSE URA. I AM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVOPS AT ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY. UH, WE RECENTLY ACQUIRED 2 0 1 OH C THAT REALLY ARE THE STEWARDS OF THE 2 0 1 HMIS INFORMATION FOR THE COUNTY OF ORANGE. [00:05:01] I LIVE IN LONG BEACH . AND THAT BEING SAID, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE MY OWN COMMUNITY AND REALLY HELP OUT ON HOUSE NEIGHBORS. I THINK I HAVE A NICHE KNOWLEDGE SET IN TECHNOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY IN THE HOMELESSNESS SECTOR, AND WE'RE REALLY GETTING INTO THE SPACE OF TRYING TO IDENTIFY, UM, RISK FACTORS THAT CAN HELP IDENTIFY THOSE SORT RISK OF LOSING THEIR HOME. 'CAUSE IT IS A KEY EQUATION TO ENDING HOMELESSNESS. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT GETTING FOLKS HOUSED, BUT ENSURING THAT, UH, MORE FOLKS DON'T END UP ON THE STREET. SO WE'RE TRYING TO REALLY LOOK AT DATA TO DRIVE THAT AND TO PROVIDE ANALYTICS ON WHAT ARE THE DETERMINANTS THAT PUT PEOPLE AT RISK IN, LET'S SAY THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, AND HOW CAN WE USE THAT TO INFUSE RESOURCES IN A MORE EFFECTIVE MANNER TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS DON'T LOSE THEIR HOMES. SO, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, . THANK YOU. HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ROSE? YES, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. ROSE. UH, YOU, UH, UNITED WAY, ORANGE COUNTY AND YOU'RE AT LONG BEACH RESIDENT FOR SIX YEARS. HOW WOULD THAT, YOU KNOW, WHILE YOU, YOU KNOW, COMMUTE TO ORANGE COUNTY, YOU KNOW, FOR THE UNITED WAY AND TO LONG BEACH? WELL, I WORK REMOTE. YEAH, I WORK REMOTE IN LONG BEACH. OKAY. SO I LIVE OVER THERE BY EL DORADO PARK. MY OFFICE IS IN THE HOUSE, , SO THE COMMUTE WOULD BE PRETTY SIMPLE. THAT'S GOOD. I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, KIND OF I CAN SAY, WELCOME. I'M GLAD THAT YOU, YOU CONSIDERED TO BE ON THIS BOARD AND I VOTE CORRECT. DID WE WANT TO VOTE SEPARATELY OR TOGETHER? UM, AND JUST FOR OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRENT STANDING WITHIN THE BOARD, UM, OUR CHARTER WAS AMEN. TO BE A FLEXIBLE 13 TO 17 PEOPLE SEATED AT ANY POINT. RIGHT NOW WE'RE AT 15. IF YOU LOOK AT THE ROLL UP TOP, HOWEVER, WE HAVE HAD ONE PERSON, UM, PAM HAS DECIDED TO, UH, STEP DOWN FOR THE TIME BEING. SO CASE SACK WILL BE APPOINTING SOMEBODY TO THEIR SEAT. UM, SO THEY'RE STILL GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS. UH, SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE 14, 14 PEOPLE SEATED WITH A POSSIBLE POSSIBILITY OF 17 SEATS. SO IF YOU EXCLUDE HAYSTACK, WE HAVE TWO OF THINGS JUST THAT WAY EVERYBODY CAN CONSIDER THAT. BUT THEN IT'S NOT ONE PEOPLE YES. TECHNICALLY ELECTED. OKAY. AND THE QUESTION DID COME BACK TO MY MIND. UH, YOU KNOW, ONE THING ABOUT BEING ON THIS BOARD AND THE OTHER BOARD, YOU KNOW, ATTENDANCE, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, ATTENDANCE, BECAUSE A FEW TIMES WE HAVE NOT MET KORUM AND BE QUITE HONEST, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF ENERGY PUT INTO IT AND, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSIONS. AND WE DIDN'T MEET KO AT THAT TIME, SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT ATTENDANCE. UM, I HAVE GONE TO THE COC BOARD IN THE COUNTY OF LAWRENCE TO REALLY TALK ABOUT LIKE HI DATA. I'M FAMILIARIZED WITH THE PROCESS. I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN A CITY BOARD MEMBER AND MY SCHEDULE'S FLEXIBLE ENOUGH WHERE I CAN BOOK THE TIMES SLOT AHEAD OF TIME AND NOT HAVE ANYONE SCHEDULE MEETINGS ON TOP OF THAT. SO IT'S, UH, FLEXIBLE ENOUGH, OR I BELIEVE MY ATTENDANCE WOULD BE RELATIVELY HIGH COUNTING ON YOU. NO, . THANK YOU. UH, IF I COULD, UH, JUST SINCE S NOT HERE, I, I JUST WANT TO SPEAK, UH, UH, UH, UH, ABOUT CONNOR. I, I'VE KNOWN HIM FOR MANY YEARS. I, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS APPLYING TO, UH, HE CAN PUT ME UP TO THIS OR ANYTHING, BUT, UH, AND HE'S KIND OF GOT MY OLD JOB IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, . UM, AND, AND, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, CON CONNOR'S A GREAT GUY WHO CARES VERY MUCH ABOUT THE CITY. HE KNOWS THIS ISSUE REALLY, REALLY WELL. AND, AND HE'S THE KIND OF DUDE, YOU KNOW, WHEN I'VE NEEDED HIM FOR SOMETHING, UH, WHEN HE WAS CHIEF OF STAFF IN FIRST DISTRICT, OR AFTER I LEFT CITY HALL, HE WAS IN, IN, UH, IN MAYOR RICHARDSON'S OFFICE, HE'S JUST SUPER RESPONSIVE. HE'LL, HE'LL GET BACK TO YOU, UH, AND, AND HE WANTS TO GET THINGS DONE. HE SAYS, YES, WE'LL FIGURE THAT OUT. LET'S FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET IT DONE. HE'S WANTED ONE OF THOSE FOLKS. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK HE'D BE, HE'D BE A GREAT GUY TO HAVE ON, ON THE SPOT. AND I, I ACTUALLY, I SECOND WHAT DANIEL SAID. YOU KNOW, CON IS A GREAT DUDE. YOU KNOW, HE'S, HE'S REALLY [00:10:01] OPEN AND, UH, HE REALLY CARES ABOUT THE HOMELESS SITUATION IN LONG BEACH AS A, YOU KNOW, AS A HUMAN. JUST TO ADD TO THAT, FROM HIS APPLICATION, HE DID SAY HE WOULD BE ABLE TO ASSIST IN FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND BOARD AND STAFF. UM, AND IN REGARDS TO ATTENDANCE, HE, HE WOULD BE ABLE TO WORK THIS, HIS REGULAR DATING TASKS, ACROSS MEETINGS, EVENTS, EMAILS, CALLS, AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS. HE HAS ALL HIS CLOSE BIASES, ISN'T HE? , HE CAN RUN OVER. DO WE WANNA, UM, DO THIS IN PRIVATE OR DO WE, CAN WE DO IT IN TECHNICALLY BAD CONVERSATION WITH US RECENTLY. SHOULD BE DONE WITH, WITH, WITH ROSE PRESENT. BUT YOU CAN HAVE A SEAT IF YOU . YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU DO NOT HAVE NOT ON STAGE. APPRECIATE. DOES, UH, ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HAVE ANY, UH, COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS BEFORE WE GO TO A VOTE ON, UH, WE CAN VOTE EITHER SEPARATELY OR AS A SLATE. I'M OKAY WITH BOTH OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME. UM, BUT IF WE WANT DO IT SEPARATELY, WE CAN DO IT. OKAY. SO I THINK THE WAY TO DO IT WOULD BE TO FORWARD A MOTION TO VOTE ON BOTH IF ANYBODY WANTED TO COUNTER THE NEW ENCOUNTER, RIGHT? NAH, DOESN'T JUST TAKE A VOTE. . WELL, I'D LIKE TO, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO VOTE FOR OUR TWO CANDIDATES, CONNOR ROSE, UM, AS A SLAVE TO JOIN THE COC BOARD. I'LL SECOND THAT CONVERSATION, OR COUNTER PROPOSALS. ANY MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE THAT WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THIS? NO, WE CAN DO, UH, KIMBERLY LEE. APPROVED JAMIE S SCHIFFER APPROVED. I GO ABSENT ANNA POLUSKI APPROVED BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT CLAUDE DIALS APPROVE. DANIEL BOFF APPROVED C**K MC PATSON APPROVED. NIKKI AMICK APPROVE LUTHER RICHARD APPROVED TAMIKA BOY APPROVE SHELBY BAER. ABSENT. MELANIE MARITZ APPROVE JANAE COLA APPROVE. I'VE ACTUALLY WORKED WITH CONNIE MYSELF TOO. SO MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. SIT HERE AND WE'LL REACH OUT, UM, TO BOTH CANDIDATES TO SET UP A ONBOARDING AND OVERVIEW OF THE BOARD AND OUR MEETINGS PROCESS. OKAY, MOVING ALONG, WE'RE GOING TO ITEM THREE RECOMMENDATIONS TO RECEIVE AND FILE IN 20 24, 22. FIVE COC. NO OVERVIEW. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. JOHN PROCTOR, THE OF OPERATIONS OFFICER, CITY OF ONE MUTUAL SERVICES BUREAU. I'LL BE PULLING IN FOR ALEXA ON THIS. AND THE NEXT ITEM, SO WHICH, UM, SO I THINK THIS PROBABLY GOT MENTIONED PRIOR, UM, PRESENTATIONS ABOUT ONE CHANGE THAT I DIDN'T SEE PRESENTATION IS THAT THIS YEAR'S NOFO IS ACTUALLY A TWO YEAR, UH, FUNDING APPLICATION. TYPICALLY, HUD RELEASES, UH, ANNUAL, UH, NOTICE OF FUNDING, AVAILABILITY, NOTICE, FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. EACH YEAR WE GO THROUGH A COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION PROCESS WITH THE BOARD COMMUNITY MEMBERS, PROVIDERS TO ESTABLISH OUR, UM, OUR, OUR, UH, WHAT WE WANT TO INCLUDE IN THAT APPLICATION THIS YEAR WHERE, UH, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT ONE APPLICATION FOR TWO YEARS. UM, WHAT WE'LL SUBMIT THIS YEAR WILL BE FOR NEXT YEAR'S FUNDING. AND THEN THERE WILL BE, UH, A SECOND YEAR, BASICALLY A RENEWAL OF THAT. BUT, UH, VERY HELPFUL, I THINK FOR MOST OF US IN THE ROOM AND OUR PROGRAMS TO NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS, UM, ANNUAL CONSECUTIVE YEAR. SO THIS IS A, UM, A LOT OF BURDEN TAKEN OFF OF OUR SHOULDERS. UM, BUT THE NOFA WAS DROPPED IN AUGUST. UM, SO WHAT WE'LL WALK THROUGH IS SOME OF THE CHANGES IN THIS YEAR, SCORING RECOMMENDATIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT. SOME OF THE POLICY PRIORITIES FOR HUD. UM, MORE RECENTLY, HUD DID RELEASE THEIR ANNUAL RENEWAL [00:15:01] DEMAND AMOUNTS FOR EACH COC FOR LONG BEACH. WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST OVER $9.4 MILLION IS OUR ANNUAL RENEWAL DEMAND. UM, OUR, UH, TOTAL PORTFOLIO IS FOR SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THAT. SO BASICALLY HUD DOES IT GREATER THAN, UM, WHICHEVER NUMBER WAS GREATER, WHICHEVER YOUR RENEWAL FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO OR THE A RD WAS. UM, SO ACTUALLY WE ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE MORE THAN THE RD GREATER THAN THAT. UM, AND THEN WE ARE IN TERMS OF, UM, BONUS PROJECTS OR EXPANSION PROJECTS, THIS, UH, OUTLINES HOW MUCH WE'RE ELIGIBLE FOR, FOR PLANNING AND FOR THE, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE, FOR THE COST, THE UNIFIED FUNDING AGENCY. UM, WE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SOME BONUS FUNDS. IF WE PUT, UH, THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS, THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BONUS, JUST ABOUT $900,000, WE MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR IT. EXCUSE ME, JUST A LITTLE OVER 1.1 MILLION. UM, FOR JUST OTHER PROJECTS, UM, SOME TIMELINE FOR THE, OUR PROCESS PLUS HUD'S PROCESS. HU RELEASED THE NOFO, EXCUSE ME. UH, WE RELEASED RFP TO COINCIDE WITH THE NOFO ON AUGUST 27TH. SO THE RFP IS BOTH A VERY SIMPLE RENEWAL, RFP, JUST CONFIRMING THAT AGENCY IS WANT TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CC FUNDING WITH US. THEY HAVE AN INTENT TO RENEW. UM, AND IT'S ALSO FOR NEW PROJECT. SO IF YOU, AN AGENCY WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE A NEW HOUSING PROJECT OR EXPANSION PROJECT, UH, THAT, UH, RFP IS OPEN NOW. UM, THE APPLICATIONS ARE DUE VERY SOON. WITHIN A FEW DAYS, UH, WE WILL MEET, UM, ALL THE PANELISTS WILL MEET TO CONFER AND REVIEW THE PROPOSAL THAT ARE RECEIVED, MAKE DECISIONS, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, NEXT WEEK BASICALLY, UH, AND THEN PRESENT BACK TO BOARD ON THE TOTAL, UM, RANKING OF ALL OUR PROJECTS. AND THEN IN, AT THE END OF, OR OCTOBER RATHER, WE'LL SEE FULL, UM, APPLICATION PROPOSALS. UM, HUD IDENTIFIED IN THE NOFO A NUMBER OF POLICY PRIORITIES. A LOT OF THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY NEW POLICY AREAS FOR HUD OR THE LONG BEACH, COC. UM, A FEW THINGS I WILL HIGHLIGHT THOUGH, UM, REDUCING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS, IMPROVING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, AND PARTNERING WITH HOUSING, HEALTH AND SERVICE AGENCIES. UH, THOSE ARE AREAS WHERE OUR COC HAD UNDERPERFORMED PRIOR YEARS. SO WE'LL BE DOING SOME WORK TO TRY TO WORK WITH YOU ALL ON STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN THOSE AREAS. SYSTEM PERFORMANCE IS DEFINED BY HEAD, PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED. UH, A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT METRICS WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS LENGTH OF TIME HOMELESS IN YOUR SYSTEM, EXIT TO PERMANENT HOUSING DESTINATIONS, RETENTION OF PERMANENT HOUSING, REDUCTION IN FIRST TIME HOMELESS, AND RETURNS TO HOMELESSNESS. UM, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT REALLOCATION LATER. I THINK THAT COULD BE A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN THOSE AREAS. UM, ANOTHER ITEM TO NOTE IS THE ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY AND IMPROVING ASSISTANCE TO LGBTQ PLUS INDIVIDUALS. UM, THOSE, UH, ARE CONTINUE TO BE POLICY AREAS. , UH, IN THEIR RANKING, UH, EXCUSE ME, IN THEIR, UM, SCORING FORMULA, THERE ARE SOME ADJUSTMENTS FOR HOW THEY, UH, HOW THEY ESSENTIALLY SCORE THOSE COMPONENTS. AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT. UM, THE ELIGIBLE PROGRAM TYPES THAT WE CAN FUND THROUGH THE NOFO, THOSE CONTINUE TO BE THE SAME. PERMITS, WORK, HOUSING, RAPID REHOUSING, UM, SERVICES ONLY FOR, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECTS. UH, JOINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, RAPID REHOUSING PROJECTS FOR, UM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UH, PERSONS FLEE OR COMPLETE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AND OUR HMIS COSTS. UM, WE WON'T BE SEEKING NEW OR EXPANSION PROJECTS FOR SERVICES ONLY PROJECTS OTHER THAN IDB. UM, SO, UH, TRYING TO PRIORITIZE, UH, PROGRAMS THAT DIRECTLY LEAD TOWARDS PERSONS OBTAIN HOUSING, HOUSING VISA. UH, WE HAVE RENEWED OUR UNIFIED FUNDING, FUNDING AGENCY STATUS, UM, JUST ABOUT THREE MONTHS TOTAL FOR FULL LENGTH OF THE COMPETITION. UM, THE, SO HUD DOES THEIR TIER ONE AND TIER TWO WHERE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN TIER ONE, YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHATEVER FALLS INTO TIER ONE IS COMMITTED. HUDS COMMITS TO FUND WHAT FALLS INTO TIER TWO MAY BE SUBJECT TO REALLOCATION. UM, HUD UH, BASICALLY INCREASE THE AMOUNT THAT GOES INTO, SHOULD DECREASE THE DECREASE TIER ONE, TIER TWO. SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, MORE POTENTIALLY AT RISK FOR REALLOCATION, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR REALLOCATION FOR UNDER PERFORMING AND UNDERSPENDING PROJECTS. UM, SO HUDSON'S PRIORITIES ARE TO PRIORITIZE, UH, PROJECTS, PROGRAMS THAT DIRECTLY LEAD TOWARDS PERMANENT HOUSING. LONG BEACH. COC IS AFFIRMING THAT AS WELL. UM, FOR THE SECOND BULLET. UM, SO IN THIS YEAR'S NOFO, UH, DV BONUS AND YOUTH HOMELESSNESS DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS ARE, IF, IF THERE'S A REALLOCATION OF EITHER ANY PROGRAMMING THAT FALLS UNDER EITHER OF THOSE, UH, PROGRAM STREAMS AND FUNDING STREAMS, THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO BE REPLACED WITH ANOTHER D PROJECT OR A YOUTH PROJECT, UM, FROM THE ANNUAL NOFO. SO NOT A DB BONUS, BUT JUST AN ANNUAL NOFO, UM, DB [00:20:01] PROJECT. YOU MAY PURSUE REALLOCATION, BUT HUD WILL GO THROUGH A SECONDARY PROCESS OF EVALUATION, UM, IN ORDER TO BASICALLY DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY AGREE WITH YOUR REALLOCATION RECOMMENDATION. UM, IN THIS PROCESS, WE CAN SUBMIT, UH, CONSOLIDATION AS WELL AS REALLOCATION. UM, AS A , WE CAN REALLOCATE OR CONSOLIDATE REALLY AT ANY TIME, BUT WE HAVEN'T PURSUED IT OUTSIDE OF THE NOFO COMPETITION SORT, MINIMIZE ADMINISTRATION BURDEN FOR US. AND YOU ALL. UM, FOR BONUS PROJECTS, THERE ARE AREAS WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, BONUS IS AVAILABLE. THERE'S THE BONUS, THE GENERAL BONUS, UM, EXPANSION OF, UH, EXPANSION OF PROJECTS IS ALLOWABLE UNDER EITHER. UM, BUT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR BONUS DOLLARS OR EXPANSION SPECIFICALLY FOR, FOR, UH, PSH PROGRAMS, PERMANENT HOUSING PROGRAMS. AND THERE IS A PREFERENCE TO, UM, TO, UH, UTILIZE FUNDS FROM REALLOCATION FOR PERMANENT HOUSING PROJECTS THAT CAN PARTNER WITH, UH, SERVICES WHERE THERE'S, UM, COORDINATION OR INTEGRATION WITH THE HEALTHCARE. SO, UH, THE SCORING, SO THE ACTUAL, UH, SCORING METHODOLOGY IS HERE. SO YOU CAN SEE, UH, WHAT LAST YEAR SCORING METHODOLOGY WAS PLUS THIS YEAR. AND THERE'S HIGHLIGHTED CHANGES. SO I MENTIONED THAT THERE ARE THAT, UH, RACIAL EQUITY AND ACCESS TO SERVICES FOR PLUS IDENTIFIED PERSONS CONTINUES TO BE PRIORITY, THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME SLIGHT CHANGES IN THE SCORING HERE. THERE IS A, YOU KNOW, ONE EXTRA POINT FOR, FOR RACIAL EQUITY HERE. HOWEVER, UM, THERE IS ALSO A DECREASE OF ONE POINT IN THE PROMOTING RACIAL EQUITY IN HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SYSTEM. BUT HUD ALSO HAS INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF POINTS THAT CAN BE AFFORDED TO PROJECTS BASED OFF THEIR ABILITY TO PROVIDE COMPELLING, UH, DEMONSTRATION THAT THEY CAN AFFIRM FAIR HOUSING. SO, FAIR HOUSING IS ONE WAY TO ENSURE ACCESS TO PERSONS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, UH, WHETHER THERE ARE RACIAL INEQUITIES OR ACCESS TO SERVICES FOR THE L-G-B-T-Q, UH, IDENTIFYING, RIGHT, UM, IT'S EITHER FAIR HOUSING, UH, PRACTICES THAT PREVENT AN EVICTION, OR IT'S IN THE ACCESS TO HOUSING, NOT DENYING PERSONS BECAUSE OF A PRODUCTIVE STATUS. SO YOU'LL SEE CHANGES IN SCORING, BUT, UM, INCREASING OUR, UM, ADHERENCE TO FAIR HOUSING RULES WOULD HOPEFULLY ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE CHANGES IN THE EQUITY, UM, UH, SCORING. UM, AND THERE IS, UH, NO LONGER POINTS FOR CAPACITY FOR PROVIDING NON-CON SHELTER. SO THE TOTAL SCORING HERE, UH, ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY, PROJECT DESIGN COORDINATION, COLLABORATION, BUT YOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY OF, UH, UH, POINTS ARE IN THE PROGRAM DESIGN AND ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY EXPERIENCE AREAS, UM, APPLICATION PROCESS. SO THIS IS SCREENSHOT FROM OUR RFP THAT WE POSTED. SO YOU'LL SEE WE'RE INCLUDING QUESTIONS THAT HELP TO RESPOND TO ALL CODES, REQUESTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS. UM, SOME CHANGES FOR THIS YEAR, UM, WE'LL BE CALCULATING RENTAL ASSISTANCE BASED OFF OF THE 2022 FMR HU. THEY JUST RELEASED FM R FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025 ALREADY. UM, HU'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NOFO IS TO USE THE 2022 NUMBERS, AND THEY WILL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS WHEN THEY GET REWARDS. UM, AND THE SECOND BULLET, ONE THING TO NOTE THAT, UM, IS GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE IN THE ROOM PROBABLY, IS THAT HUD, UH, TO MY UNDERSTANDING HAS NEVER MADE COLA ADJUSTMENTS ON SERVICES ONLY TO FMR. AND SO THIS WILL BE, UM, HUD AS A CALCULATION BASED OFF OF, UM, UH, INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT FIGURES WITHIN EACH COC. AND SO WE WILL HAVE, WE'LL, UH, BE ELIGIBLE FOR FULL ADJUSTMENTS FOR, UM, SERVICES AND HOUSING AND OTHER SERVICES, SERVICE COMPONENTS. UM, AND THEN IN TERMS OF NEW PERFORMANCE METRICS, NEW POLICIES, BASICALLY WE, UH, IN TERMS OF OUR SORT OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, UH, OF OUR COC PROGRAMMING, UH, IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ACHIEVING THE OUTCOMES THAT, THAT ARE REQUEST REQUIRE, WE'LL HAVE SOME CHANGES IN PROGRAM PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES, UH, METRICS AND THINGS LIKE THAT FOR OUR . SO THAT IS, UM, PRESENTATION, AND I'LL PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS. UM, THE TWO YEAR, NO TIMELINE, DO YOU EXPECT THAT THAT WILL STAY THAT WAY OR COULD IT GO BACK TO ONE YEAR FOR SOME REASON? I DON'T KNOW WE'VE GOTTEN ANY SIGNALING YET THAT THEY PLAN TO CHANGE OR REVERT BACK. UM, I THINK THIS YEAR WAS, UM, THERE WERE SOME DELAYS IN GETTING THE THAT OUT. AND I THINK PROBABLY THE DELAYS WERE HOW THEY PUT TOGETHER A TWO YEAR INFO. I MEAN, IDEALLY, I THINK THIS COULD, HAS BEEN A COMMON COMPLAINT TO HUD. UM, EVERY, WE CONTINUE THAT. THIS IS EARLY NOW TAKING, UM, SO WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT THEY MADE THIS A YEAR PROCESS FOR NOW. HOPEFULLY THAT CONTINUES TO BE THE SAME, BUT HAVING THAT HEARD WHETHER THIS IS A ONE TIME, [00:25:01] UM, CHANGE FOR, OKAY. AND THEN CAN YOU, UM, SAY A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE A RD? HOW, HOW DOES THAT NUMBER DETERMINE FOR LONG BEACH? SO THE, UH, OUR, YEAH, OUR ACTUAL, OUR RENEWAL IS ACTUALLY BASED OFF OF HOW MUCH FUNDING IS IN OUR, UM, HOW MUCH IT AWARDED, BUT HOW IT MAKES A SECONDARY CALCULATION BASED OFF OF, UM, POINT IN TIME HOMELESS, UH, UH, NUMBERS FROM YOUR A AR BASICALLY DIFFERENT DATA POINTS THAT GO INTO THE ANNUAL DEMAND AMOUNT. BUT THEN EACH COC ESSENTIALLY IS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE NUMBER THAT IS GREATER. I KNOW THE AMOUNT THAT WAS IN THERE, UM, THEIR APPROVED, UM, CLOUD OF APPLICATION OR, OR THE A RD AMOUNT. OUR CLOUD OF APPLICATION IS FOR A GREATER AMOUNT THAN OUR RD WE'LL ACTUALLY BRING BACK MORE FUNDING. THAT IS D THE A RD THERE IS BASICALLY OUR PROJECT MINUS THE DV BONUS. SO FOR SOME REASON, THEY'RE NOT CALCULATING THAT INTO WHAT THEY PUT INTO OUR A RD. SO IF YOU ADD IN THE CURRENT EXISTING DV BONUS, THAT'S HOW YOU GET TO THE 10 MILLION, 34,000 THAT HAS A COUPLE OTHER ANTIQUATED FORMULAS THAT THEY USE AT MOMENTS AS WELL. UM, SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR WHAT WE HAVE EXISTED FOR THE 10. YEAH. AND PLUS THE BONUS AND A PORTION OF IT OBVIOUSLY IS GOING TO GO INTO TIER ONE. 90% WILL GO INTO TIER ONE, AND THEN 10% WILL GO INTO TIER TWO. SO ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS WILL BE IN TIER TWO. UM, WHAT TIER TWO MEANS IS, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA BE PERFORMING WELL, UM, YOU KNOW, SHOWING THAT WE ARE ALSO REALLOCATING WHEN THERE ARE PERFORMANCE ISSUES. THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT GET FACTORED IN ON WHETHER YOU, YOU KNOW, RECEIVE, VOLUNTEER TO BACK AND POTENTIALLY GET BONUS OR YOU LOSE FUNDING OF PROJECTS INTO YOUR TEAM. SO IMPORTANT THAT WE MAKE SURE, LIKE OUR, OUR APPLICATION AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE, WE'RE SHOWING THAT WE ARE TAKING PERFORMANCE SERIOUSLY, THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE REALLOCATE AND ENSURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUALLY IMPROVING OUR PORTFOLIO. THANKS, TROOPER. I HAD A QUESTION. UM, AND, UH, WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH RESPECT TO THE PRIORITIZATION OF PERMANENT SUPPORT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND JUST LOOKING AT THE ELIGIBLE PROGRAM TYPES, I'M JUST WONDERING, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT ADDRESSES LIKE ANY OF THE TEMPORARY SHELTERS OR INTERNAL, INTERNAL HOUSING, UM, OPTIONS FOR ANYTHING ELSE OUTSIDE OF LIKE THE DV SUPPORTIVE SERVICES OR THE DV JOINT, LIKE RAPID B HOUSING PROGRAMS? YEAH, SO OUR INTERIM HOUSING PORTFOLIO WITHIN THE COC IS LIMITED TO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. UH, THE COC COMPETITION, UM, HAS ONLY INTERIM HOUSING PROGRAMING THROUGH THE COC COMPETITION. IT'S ONLY INCLUDED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING IN THE PAST. SO LIKE REGULAR EMERGENCY SHELTERS, THINGS LIKE THAT AREN'T ELIGIBLE FOR THE COC. THEY'RE ELIGIBLE FOR, UH, OTHER, UM, UH, FUNDING, OTHER COMMUNITY PLANNING, UH, RESOURCES THAT HAD RELEASES. SO ESG EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANTS, UH, AT HOME, HOME RP, UM, HAVE MIXED FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR OTHER EMERGENCY SHELTERS THROUGH THOSE OTHER PROGRAMS. BUT THEY, THEY HAVEN'T HISTORICALLY HAD EMERGENCY SHELTER BE ELIGIBLE COMPONENT. OKAY. SO THIS PARTICULAR FUNDING, UM, THROUGH HUD DOESN'T NECESSARILY IMPACT THE EMERGENCY SHELTERS OR THE INTERNAL HOUSING PORTFOLIO? NO, THE ONLY IMPACT WOULD BE, UM, WHETHER, UH, SO IN HUD IS ALSO DEPRIORITIZE LIKE CREATION OF NEW TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. SO, UM, WITH THE EXCEPTION, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE DB JOINT COMPONENT OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, RAPID REHOUSING. AND WHAT THAT IS, IS BASICALLY, UM, WANTING TO CREATE PATHWAYS OUT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING TO FURTHER HOUSING. SO, UH, THE JOINT COMPONENT ALLOWS AN AGENCY TO EITHER, TO EITHER DO EITHER COMPONENT, THEY COULD DO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ONLY OR RAPID HOUSING, OR THEY COULD DO BOTH. I'VE GOT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING BEDS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE, AND THEN I'VE GOT SO MANY RAPID HOUSING SLOTS THAT I PROVIDE TO GET THEM OUTTA THE HOUSING. UM, BUT BASIC, BUT THAT'S THE ONLY SORT OF SHELTERING COMPONENT THAT HAD THIS ALLOWED FOR EXPANSION OF RECENT YEARS THROUGH C SAID WILL CONTINUE, CITY CONTINUES TO BE AN ENTIT JURISDICTION FOR ESG DOLLARS. WE HAVE ESG FUNDS THAT WE USE FOR EMERGENCY SHELTER. UM, WE HAVE, UH, SERVICES DOLLARS FOR SHELTER THROUGH, UM, HOME E RRP. SO THERE ARE OTHER FEDERAL FUNDING STREAMS THAT WE USE FOR SHELTER. OKAY, THANK YOU. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, UM, ONE OF THE SALES C BOARD MEETINGS THAT, [00:30:01] THAT, UM, THEY WILL HELP THESE ORGANIZATIONS THAT'S DEALING WITH TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, ANOTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. CORRECT. UM, SO YEAH, LIKE IF, I DON'T KNOW IF FOLKS HERE, THERE'S PROBABLY ABOUT ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO NOW, THERE WAS A REALLY SIZABLE REALLOCATION OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING THAT HUD WENT THROUGH. UM, PROBABLY YEARS 20 14, 20 15 AROUND THERE. UM, I'M NOT SURE IF, UH, ONE IMPACT LONG BEACH WAS, BUT THE L-A-C-O-C HAD ABOUT $14 MILLION OR SO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING THAT TIME. UM, ALSO WHO WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE LA COC WORKED WITH COUNTY LA CITY OF LA HAD TRIED TO FIND ALTERNATIVE FUNDING SOURCES AND THE MAJORITY OF PROJECTS THAT WERE REALLOCATED FOR THE COC, UM, DID RECEIVE SOME TEMPORARY FUNDS TO CONTINUE PROVIDING THEIR PROGRAMS AND CONVERT TO OTHER SHELTER TYPES. UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT IN RECENT YEARS THERE'S BEEN LOTS OF, THERE HAS BEEN A, SO, UH, UH, THE ONE SORT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OPPORTUNITY AT HUD HAS MADE AVAILABLE. IT'S NOT, UH, HASN'T BEEN AN ANNUAL THING THAT YOU'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE EVERY OTHER YEAR YOU'LL, THEY'LL PROVIDE TA TO HELP TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROVIDERS, UM, TRY TO CONVERT THEIR PROJECTS TO A PERMANENT HOUSING PROGRAM. SO KIND OF DEPENDING ON THE FACILITY, THEY MAY USE SOME ANALYSIS AND SAY LIKE, WOULD THE FACILITY, UH, SUPPORT PERMANENT HOUSING? IF SO, HERE'S HOW WE CAN HELP YOU CONVERT YOUR PROGRAM. TOSH PERMANENT. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, ANY, UH, MORE QUESTIONS FROM BOARD, COMMENTS FROM MOVING ALONG, CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE 2024 IN 2025 CC BILL FLOW OVERVIEW? SECOND, I'LL SECOND. ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM? SEE NONE. KIMBERLY LEE, JAMIE FER, I ABSENT ANNA TKI APPROVED BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT. CLAUDE DALE WHO? DANIEL B POP MCBON APPROVE. NIKKI M APPROVE LUTHER RICHARD APPROVE TAMIKA BOY APPROVED SHELBY BAMBERG ABSENT. MELANIE MARITZ APPROVE. JANAE MC COLEMAN APPROVE. MOTION PASSES. JEFF, YOU'RE UP AGAIN, YOU SAID? YEAH, FOR REALLOCATION PLAN, THERE'S A PRESENTATION OR MAYBE JUST THE DOCUMENT. UM, OKAY. SO I WILL, UH, HOPEFULLY YOU ALL HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE, UH, RECOMMENDED REALLOCATION POLICY. UM, I'LL TRY TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW, UM, WALK US THROUGH TOGETHER. UM, THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, SO THERE IS A SUMMARY OF CHANGES WHICH, UM, WE CAN START THERE. SO I'M GONNA GET A SENSE FOR, UM, WHERE THERE ARE CHANGES WITHIN THE DOCUMENT. UM, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE COC FIRST ADOPTED A REALLOCATION POLICY IN 2017. YOU CAN SEE THE POLICY CHANGES OVER TIME FOR AUGUST, 2024. UM, LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS EDITED LANGUAGE AROUND PERFORMANCE BASED REALLOCATION, REALLOCATION EXEMPTIONS. THERE ARE SOME CHANGES SINCE THE, UH, AUGUST ADOPTION. UM, THE, THERE ARE SOME CONTINUED CHANGES WITHIN THE FORMAL SPACE REALLOCATION SECTION AND REALLOCATION EXEMPTIONS. THERE IS ALSO, UM, A PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE A, UH, REALLOCATION SUBCOMMITTEE. I CAN TALK THROUGH THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. AND THEN AS FAR AS THE PERFORMANCE BASED REALLOCATION CHANGES ARE, UH, CHANGES IN THESE THRESHOLDS OR PERCENTAGES FOR REALLOCATION AND THEN CREATING NEW THRESHOLDS FOR PROVIDING TA PROVIDERS OR DOING CONDITIONAL AWARDS. BOTH THE THINGS COULD BE NEW WITHIN OUR POLICY. UM, SO WALK US THROUGH THAT. UM, OKAY, SO BACKGROUND REALLOCATION, UM, WE TALK ABOUT IT, BUT ESSENTIALLY A POLICY TOOL, A FUNDING TOOL FOR NEW TOOL TO HAVE, UM, STRATEGIC UTILIZATION OF ALL YOUR FUNDING, HAVING FUNDING THAT'S MAXIMIZED AND [00:35:01] OPTIMIZED TO SERVE AS MANY THESE PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO GET THE BEST OUTCOMES. UM, AND SO YOU CAN SORT OF SEE THE GOALS OF REALLOCATION WOULD BE TO IDENTIFY YOU NEED TO COVER GAPS WITHIN YOUR SYSTEM, TAKE HOMELESSNESS, RARE BRIEF, NON RECOVERY, AND ALL OF THAT. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, AS ADMINISTRATIVE ENTITY FOR A COC, WE WANT TO HAVE THE SAME GOALS WITHIN OUR REALLOCATION STRATEGIES AND ALSO MAKE SURE THAT OUR REALLOCATION PRACTICES ARE TRANSPARENT, EQUITABLE DOWN, ALL OF THAT. UM, SO JUMPING AHEAD, UM, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PRESENTATION. AS A UNIFIED FUNDING AGENCY, AS A UFO, WE ACTUALLY CAN DO REALLOCATION OR CONSOLIDATION AT ANY, ANY POINT THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM YEAR. WE HAVEN'T REALLY ELECTED TO, UM, YOU MAY NEED TO MAKE A AMENDMENT WITH HUD AND THEN DEPENDING ON HOW LONG THAT TAKES, IT COULD BE DELAYS IN LIKE RECEIVING AMENDMENT FOR YOU ALL DELAY OF MODIFICATIONS THAT BASICALLY DON'T WANNA HAVE, UM, ANY IMPACTS THAT LIKE CHALLENGE YOUR ABILITY TO DRIVE ON FUNDS AND PROVIDE SERVICES. SO DOING CONSOLIDATION REALLOCATION THROUGH, UM, THE, THE, THE NOFO ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN, WHAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED INTERNALLY IS THAT WHAT MAKES SENSE WITH THE TWO YEAR WINDOW POTENTIALLY GOING FORWARD IS THAT AS A UFO, WE STILL REVISIT REALLOCATION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. SO WE COULD DO REALLOCATION THAT WOULD THEN, YOU KNOW, BE A LITTLE MORE, IT WOULD ALLOW TIME TO GO THROUGH THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS AND SOME OF THE REASONS WHY YOU CAN'T BE ALLOCATING SOME THINGS THAT ARE RELATED, BUT SOME OF THEM MAY BE DISTINCT OR UNIQUE, BUT PROJECT CAPACITY, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES. BUT, YOU KNOW, IS THERE SOMETHING HAPPENING AT THE AGENCY LEVEL SERVICE LEVEL WHERE THERE'S CHALLENGES WITH HIRING STAFF, MAINTAINING STAFF WHO ACTUALLY ARE PROVIDING SERVICES? OR IS IT BACK OFFICE ISSUES, ISSUES WITH, YOU KNOW, MANAGING AND ADMINISTERING, YOU KNOW, COMPLEX FEDERAL FUNDS AND ALL OF THAT. UM, YOUR ABILITY TO SPEND DOWN, DRAW DOWN, UH, INVOICE TIMELY. UM, THEN DO THOSE THEN, YOU KNOW, RESULT IN, UH, FEWER PEOPLE SERVE FEWER, FEWER OUTCOMES, FEWER PEOPLE PLACED, ALL THOSE KINDS OF ISSUES. AND SO WE LOOK AT EACH OF THOSE, UM, IN OUR REALLOCATION METHODOLOGIES AND FORMULAS. UM, AND LAST ONE HERE IS SORT OF LAWS OF EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAM FUNDS. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HAS, UH, BEEN AN ISSUE IN THE PAST, BUT, UH, REMINDER FOR COC FUNDS, THERE'S A MATCH REQUIREMENT REQUIRED TO MATCH, UH, 25% OF THE, THE HUD UH, FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVE. AND SO IF, IF UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S BEEN A LOSS OF EXTERNAL FUNDS THAT'S IMPACTING YOUR ABILITY TO DELIVER THE PROGRAM, THAT COULD BE THE REASON AS WELL. WE MIGHT LOCATION. UM, OUR POLICY HAS ALWAYS INCLUDED, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, JUMP AHEAD, UH, FOR VOLUNTARY ALLOCATION. THAT'S BASICALLY AN AGENCY IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, WE MAY HAVE CHALLENGES FOR WHATEVER REASON. UH, WE DON'T THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO FULLY SPEND DOWN ALL OF THE GROUND FUNDS. WE WOULD LIKE TO RETURN SOME, UM, USE IT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE, YOU KNOW, THE COC NEEDS. AND SO WE HAVE GONE THROUGH, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK COMMUNICATIONS GO OUT TO SOME RECIPIENTS SAYING, WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTARILY REALLOCATE SOME FUNDS? SO THAT IS AN OPTION. UM, THE TYPES OF REALLOCATION, YOU KNOW, WE MAY, UH, WHOLLY OR PART REDUCE FUNDING OR ALLOCATE FUNDING. UM, EITHER, YOU KNOW, COULD, COULD BE REALLOCATED BACK TO THE SAME AGENCY IN SOME INSTANCES IF YOU'RE SEEING AN EXPANSION AND ONE PROJECT TYPE THAT I DON'T THINK FULLY UTILIZE ALL THE GRANTS FUNDS FOR, BUT EXPANSION OF ANOTHER ELIGIBLE COMPONENT TYPE. SO WE CAN LOOK AT, UM, AT THAT, UM, ONE CHANGE, AND THIS IS BASICALLY REFLECTIVE OF THE CHANGES IN POLICY, UH, CHANGES IN SUBCOMMITTEES WITHIN OUR COC BOARD, UM, BEFORE THERE WAS A POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE AND THERE WAS A PERFORMANCE SUBCOMMITTEE, BUT WE CHANGED OUR SUBCOMMITTEES TO LOOK AT LIKE, SORT OF, UH, PHASES OR COMPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM. SO THERE'S AN ACCESS SUBCOMMITTEE, ACCORDING ENTRY SUBCOMMITTEE, A HOUSING RETENTION STABILIZATION SUBCOMMITTEE. SO WHAT WE WOULD LOOK TO DO IS TAKE A MEMBER FROM EACH OF THOSE SUBCOMMITTEES, CREATE A REALLOCATION WORK GROUP, CITY STAFF TO PRESENT EXPENDITURE, DATA, PERFORMANCE, STAFF OUTCOMES, ALL THAT, HAVE THE REALLOCATION WORK, LOOK AT THAT, PREPARE RECOMMENDATIONS. AND THEN AS A SECOND COMPONENT, WE WOULD WANT OUR ADVISORY BOARD EXPERIENCE ABLE TO REVIEW THAT TO LOOK FOR IMPACTS TO PERSONS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IMPACTS TO PEOPLE RECEIVING SERVICES. UM, TRY TO ASSESS FOR VALUE AT ALL THOSE THINK CONCURRENTLY BEFORE WE SEND THE RECOMMENDATIONS. BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS. UH, THERE IS A PERFORMANCE RATING TOOL THAT'S BEEN DEVELOPED. AND SO BASED OFF OF THE TOOL AND HOW WE SORT OF INITIALLY LOOKED AT SOME OF THE, UM, THE PERFORMANCE OF OUR SUBRECIPIENTS, THAT HAS MEANT SOME CHANGES TO THE SCORING METHODOLOGY THAT WE'RE PROPOSING. UM, BUT BASICALLY WE HAD SOME PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LOT MORE PROJECTS PERFORMING, NOT AS WELL AS WE'D HOPED. SO WE'VE ACTUALLY LOWERED SOME OF THE, UH, PERFORMANCE SPECIALISTS TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FUNDING. UM, SO NOW IT'S [00:40:01] A PROJECT 50% OR BELOW BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE RATING TOOL RECOMMENDATION WILL BE FULLY REALLOCATE AGENCIES IN THAT 51 TO 69% WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO RENEW, BUT WITH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CAPACITY BUILDING, COC. SO THAT'S A NEW ELEMENT. UM, AND THEN, UH, AGENCY SCORING, 70% OR ABOVE WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO BE RENEWED WITHOUT ALLOCATION. AND SO, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER THRESHOLDS HERE, SORT OF UTILIZATION, WE, AGAIN, UTILIZATION, HOW MANY PE, HOW MANY BEDS ARE UNITS WERE YOU CONTRACTED FOR? HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY ENROLLED SERVING. UM, SOME OF THE CHANGES HERE IS TO ESTABLISH CHRONICITY TO DEFINE WHAT THAT IS, LIKE CHRONIC UNDER UTILIZATION, CHRONIC UNDERSPEND, WE'VE GOT THRESHOLDS NOW THAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR PERFORMANCE FOR ONE YEAR VERSUS TWO YEARS VERSUS THREE YEARS. AND HAVING THOSE, UM, THOSE, UH, THRESHOLD, BASICALLY THE PERCENTAGES INCREASE OVER TIME. SO IF YOU'RE UNDERSPENDING, YOUR REVENUE UTILIZATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE HAVING TO LOOK AT, UM, YOUR UNDER PERFORMANCE OR CHRONIC UNDER UTILIZATION. UM, AND THEN WHAT'S ALSO NEW IN THE PROPOSAL, PROPOSED POLICY OR EXEMPTIONS, WE HADN'T ARTICULATED EXEMPTIONS BEFORE. UM, AND SO PROJECTS THAT WE WOULD PROPOSE FOR EXEMPTION WOULD BE LIKE A NEW PROJECT. YOU SEE THE DV BONUS, YOU RECEIVED A A, UM, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THIS IS A BRAND NEW PROJECT, YEAR ONE, YEAR TWO, WE WOULDN'T WANT TO REALLOCATE THAT, ASSUMING FOR THE RAMP UP TIME AND ALL THAT NEEDED TO, UM, SCALE INTO THE PROGRAM. THE SAME THING FOR RECENTLY CONSOLIDATED OR TRANSITION PROJECTS. IF YOU CONSOLIDATED TWO PROJECTS, THIS IS YOUR FIRST YEAR OF CONSOLIDATION, YOU TRANSITIONED ONE COMPONENT TO ANOTHER COMPONENT TYPE. UM, YOU WOULD ALSO EXEMPT FROM REALLOCATION BASED OFF A PERFORMANCE POINT TO ALLOW YOU TIME TO, UM, TO RAMP UP AND, UH, BE FULLY OPERATIONAL. SO THEN THERE WILL ALSO, AGAIN, CONTINUE BE AN APPEAL PROCESS. SO ANY AGENCY THAT'S SUBJECT TO APPEAL, UM, THIS CONTINUES TO BE THE SAME PROCESS AS, UH, PREVIOUS, WHICH IS THAT SUB RECIPIENTS HAVE FIVE BUSINESS DAYS TO NOTIFY APPEAL, REQUEST, APPEAL, AND THEN, UH, CITY STAFF WILL RESPOND TO THE APPEAL AGAIN. UM, SO THAT IS THE END OF THE PROPOSED POLICY AND WE CAN OPEN UP TO FEEDBACK QUESTIONS. UH, DOES THE BOARD HAS ANY QUESTIONS EXPLAIN TO US? I DO, I DO HAVE A CONCERN AND, UM, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THE CHILD LABOR IS A CONCERN, BUT I, I SIT THERE AS, UM, ACCOUNTABILITY IS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE CITY AND ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVE FUNDING. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, UH, REALLY NEED ACCOUNTABILITY WHERE WE'RE MOVING THAT RIGHT DIRECTION. CORRECT, OF ACCOUNTABILITY. JEFF, I THINK YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR FOLKS THAT ARE UNDERPERFORMING. YEAH. SO IN WE, UM, IN, YEAH, PAGE SEVEN, UH, HERE, HERE WE GO. SO, UM, FOR THE PERFORMANCE BASED REALLOCATION STANDARDS THAT WE WOULD DO, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY IF YOU'RE SCORING TO LOOK IN THIS MIDDLE RANGE, THE, THE GOAL HERE WOULD BE LIKE, UH, SINCE WE'D BE APPLYING NEW METHODOLOGIES, UM, YOU KNOW, CAN WE, ARE WE IDENTIFYING SOMETHING IN, OR WE MIGHT WANNA TRY TO WORK WITH OUR TYPES OF THINGS TO ADDRESS OR CORRECT. ARE THERE SYSTEM CHALLENGES OF, YOU KNOW, UM, LIKE WHAT, TRY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT MIGHT BE RESULTING IN LIKE THE LOWER PERFORMANCE AND THEN TRY TO PROVIDE RESOURCES, TOOLS, SUPPORT, STRAINS OF WHATEVER SORT TO HELP, UM, LIFT UP THE PERFORMANCE SO THAT WE'RE, WE'RE NOT HAVING TO REALLOCATE. SO THAT WOULD BE GOOD GOAL. GOAL. IS THERE AMOUNT OF AN AMOUNT OF TIME THAT YOU WOULD GIVE AN ORGANIZATION KIND OF YEAH, BASICALLY SINCE THE REALLOCATION POLICIES, USUALLY ON A YEARLY BASIS IT WOULD BE OVER LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, BEFORE THE NEXT ROUND OF REALLOCATION THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT THE, YOU KNOW, THE SCORING AGAIN. AND HOPEFULLY WITHIN THAT YEAR, YOU KNOW, HER PERFORMANCE HAS IMPROVED IN A WAY TO WHERE, UM, YOU WOULDN'T BE SUBJECT TO THE LOCATION. OKAY. SAY AN AGENCY WAS COMPLETELY NONRESPONSIVE AND DIDN'T PARTICIPATE. AS A UFO, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO SAY, HEY, WE CREATED THIS CONDITION AS PART OF RENEWAL. THIS AGENCY'S ACTUALLY NOT, YOU KNOW, ENGAGING WITHIN THAT CONDITIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ENGAGEMENT. LIKE, YOU KNOW, DO WE WANT TO TAKE ACTION? [00:45:01] THAT COULD BE HAS A YOUTH A REALLOCATING OUTSIDE OF THE TYPICAL CONTRACTING PROCESS? HOPEFULLY WE DON'T HAVE YET THAT NOW SAY LIKE BEFORE THE ONE YEAR REALLOCATION. LIKE, IF WE DON'T SEE ANY FORWARD MOVEMENT, JUST CALL THAT. OKAY. THANK. OKAY. CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE 2024 REAL ALLOCATION POLICY? IT WAS PRESENTED BY JEFF SO MOVED. ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM KIMBERLY LEE APPROVE JAMIE CHU APPROVED. I ABSENT ANKI APPROVE BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT CLAUDE ES APPROVED. DANIEL BOFF APPROVE. TODD MCBAIN APPROVE NIKKI AMICK APPROVE LUTHER RICHARD AFFIRM TAMIKA BOY APPROVE SHELBY BAMBERG. ABSENT. MELANIE MAR APPROVE JANAE MCCOLUM APPROVE PASSES. THAT'S ALL YOU GONNA SHARE WITH MEAT AND POTATOES. THIS IS, AND ALL THIS WAS THE LAST ONE. YES. WHAT WE COULD DO IS JUST MOVE, YEAH, WE WANNA MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM. WE'LL WORK ON PULLING, IT'S UP TO THE , WHICH IS ITEM SIX, DISCUSSING THE MEMORANDUM ON THE GRANTS PASS. IS THAT YOU PAUL? UM, YEAH. I'LL GIVE AN UPDATE AND THEN ALVIN CAN PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL, IF I MISS ANYTHING, UM, IF YOU WANT HELPFUL. UM, SO, UH, I'M SURE, AS EVERYBODY IS AWARE, UH, OVER THE PAST NINE MONTHS, THE SUPREME COURT DID DECIDE TO TAKE UP THE ISSUE OF ENCAMPMENTS. UH, PREVIOUSLY THE NECK DISTRICT COURT HAD TWO DIFFERENT CASES AS IT PERTAINED TO, [00:50:01] UM, CONSTITUTIONALITY AND LEGALITY AROUND ENCAMPMENTS AND RESPONSES FROM COMMUNITIES THAT APPLIED TO THE NINTH DISTRICT, UH, WHICH IS LARGELY WEST COAST CITIES. UM, SO THE FIRST ONE WAS MARTIN VERSUS BOISE, THAT KIND OF SET THE, UH, ESTABLISHED, ESTABLISHED BASICALLY WHAT WAS LEGAL AND NOT LEGAL AROUND, UM, ORDINANCE AS PERTAINING TO PEOPLE SLEEPING IN PUBLIC SPACE. AND LARGELY BASED OFF OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT, WHICH GETS INTO, UM, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, BASICALLY WAS STATING THAT NOT ALLOWING FOR PEOPLE TO SLEEP IN PUBLIC SPACE WHEN THEY HAVE NOWHERE ELSE WOULD CONS AND TICKETING OR ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR DOING SO, WOULD IN ESSENCE BE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. UM, WITHIN THAT, A NOT TOO LONG AFTER THE CITY OF GRANTS PASS, UH, PASSED A LOCAL ORDINANCE BASICALLY BANNING PEOPLE FROM SLEEPING IN PUBLIC PERIOD. IT DIDN'T GET INTO WHETHER THAT PERSON WAS EXPERIENCING HOME OR HOMELESSNESS OR NOT. IT WAS AN OUTRIGHT BLANKET OF SLEEPING IN PUBLIC SPACE. UH, THERE HAD BEEN A PUSH IN PREVIOUS, UH, YEARS TO HAVE THE SUPREME COURT TAKE UP, UH, GRANT OR MARTIN V BOISE. UH, THERE HAD BEEN A NUMBER OF TICUS BRIEFS, UH, INCLUDING FROM THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, UH, THE GOVERNOR WHO PUT IT IN AMICUS BRIEFS TO ENCOURAGE THE SUPREME COURT TO TAKE UP THIS ISSUE. UM, THE SUPREME COURT HAD CHOSEN NOT TO WITHIN THIS CALENDAR YEAR. UH, THEY DID CHOOSE TO TAKE UP THE CASE OF, UH, JOHNSON VERSUS GRANTS PASS. AND THIS PERIOD, IT'S IN GRANTS PASS, UH, CHALLENGING THE ASSERTION OF THE NINTH DISTRICT COURT, WHICH BASICALLY UPHELD MARTIN V BOISE SAYING, NO GRANTS PASS. YOU CANNOT HAVE AN OUTRIGHT BLANKET, UH, ORDINANCE SPANNING SLEEPING IN PUBLIC SPACES. IT EXPANDED IN A COUPLE AREAS AS WELL, UH, GETTING INTO PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO HAVE MATERIALS THAT HELP 'EM SLEEP, SUCH AS SLEEPING BAGS, TENTS, UH, AND WHETHER THOSE COULD BE RESTRICTED OR NOT. UH, SO THE SUPREME COURT DID HEAR ARGUMENTS FOR GRANTS PASS VERSUS JOHNSON AS AN APPEAL TO THE NINTH DISTRICT COURT, UH, EARLIER THIS YEAR, UH, AND ON JUNE 28TH OF THIS YEAR, UH, ISSUED THEIR RULING. UH, THE RELEASE OF THAT RULING, UH, LARGELY GOT INTO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS. UH, THE ARGUMENTS REALLY CENTERED ON DOES THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT APPLY TO PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS? IS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, AN ACTUAL CLASS THAT THE SUPREME COURT WANTS TO DESIGNATE. THERE WERE A COUPLE DIFFERENT CASES THAT KIND OF WENT INTO, UH, THE ARGUMENT AROUND THIS, A PREVIOUS CASE THAT LOOKED AT, UH, THE, CAN SOMEBODY BE TARGETED AND POTENTIALLY CRIMINALIZED HAVING PARTICIPATED IN DRUG USE, NOT THAT THEY WERE CURRENTLY USING OR CARING, BUT THAT THE PERSON HAD . AND BASICALLY WHAT THE SUPREME COURT FOUND IN THAT CASE WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE TARGETING A GROUP, NOT AN ACTION, AND THEREFORE, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL TO, UH, TARGET SOMEBODY DUE TO A CONDITION THAT THEY HAVE VERSUS THE ACTUAL BEHAVIOR, UH, THAT THE PERSON MIGHT BE ENGAGING IN. UM, BUT WHEN YOU'RE NOT SEEING THAT BEHAVIOR, YOU'RE JUST PURELY, UH, PURELY PUNISHING THEM FOR A, UM, A CONDITION THAT THEY HAVE. UH, THERE WAS A LOT OF ARGUMENTS FROM BOTH SIDES. THERE WAS A THIRD PARTY THAT GOT INTO TIME PLACE AND MANNER RESTRICTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, ARGUING ON, LIKE THE SUPREME COURT LOOK AT SAYING, YES, HE CAN HAVE ORDINANCES THAT, YOU KNOW, ALLOW FOR CERTAIN THINGS BUT DON'T ALLOW FOR OUT RIGHT. BANDS OF SLEEPING IN PUBLIC SPACE. UH, AND THE RULING FROM THE SUPREME COURT BASICALLY SAID, IN OUR OPINION, UH, THE MAJORITY OPINION WAS THAT THERE IS NO, YOU KNOW, CLASS TERMIN DETERMINATE DETERMINANT FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND THEREFORE THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT DOES NOT APPLY, UH, WITHIN THE PREVIOUS RULINGS THAT EXISTED WITH MARK V BOISE AND THEN [00:55:01] JOHNSON V GRANDS PASS. UH, AND THEREFORE, AS THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE, IT IS UP TO EACH JURISDICTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. UM, IT'S NOT SAYING YOU NEED TO HAVE AN ORDINANCE THAT ADDRESSES ENCAMPMENTS, THAT'S JUST SAYING WE'RE NOT WEIGHING IN. THERE IS NOT A CONFI, UH, A . GOOD AFTERNOON LIBRARY PATRONS, PLEASE JOIN US WITH YOUR YOUNG ARTISTS AND STUDIO JUNIOR FROM FOUR TO SIX FOR OUR OPEN STUDIO HOURS. THIS IS AN EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP FOR KIDS, AND TODAY WE WILL HAVE PEARLER BEADS, TISSUE PAPER, FLOWERS, A GROUP COLORING PROJECT, AND . UM, SO, UH, THAT THEN KICKS IT BACK TO LOCAL JURISDICTIONS TO DETERMINE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. UM, BOTH, YOU KNOW, BOTH ARE MORE CONSERVATIVE VERSUS ARE MORE PROGRESSIVE JUSTICES, IF YOU WANT TO FRAME IT IN THAT SENSE. UH, BOTH SIDES HAD OPINIONS THAT CIRCLED AROUND, LIKE BLANKET UP BANNING OF PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO SLEEP IN SPACE IS PROBLEMATIC AND IS SOMETHING THAT COMMUNITY SHOULDN'T DO, EVEN THOUGH THEY VOTED, SOME OF THEM VOTED FOR ALLOWING CITIES TO BE ABLE TO DO SO. UH, THERE WAS OPINION THAT THERE IS CONCERN ABOUT THE IMPACTS THAT THEY HAVE, AS WELL AS STATEMENTS AROUND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PUSHING, POTENTIALLY YOU HAVE CITIES PUSHING SOCIAL ISSUES THAT THEY'RE FACING WITHIN THEIR CITY INTO OTHER JURISDICTIONS AND THE CONCERNS THAT EXIST WITHIN THAT. UM, AND THAT THAT IS NOT OBVIOUSLY A SOLUTION FOR THE ISSUES THAT WE SEE AT HAND. UM, SINCE THE RULING, THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT, UH, STATEMENTS AND THINGS THAT HAVE COME OUT, INCLUDING THE GOVERNOR DID RELEASE A EXECUTIVE ORDER, UM, THAT GOT INTO CLEANING WITHIN STATE, UH, PROPERTY STATE JURISDICTIONS. UM, AND IT WAS PRETTY STRONGLY WORDED AS WELL AS HE HAS MADE PUBLIC STATEMENTS SINCE, UH, BASICALLY SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE NOT DOING CLEANING, UH, HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER IS THE LANGUAGE AROUND IT WAS MUCH MORE EXTREME THAN THE ACTUAL ORDER ITSELF. UH, THE ORDER GETS INTO, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE ABILITY TO POST AND DO CLEANUPS IN SPACE BUT DIDN'T GET INTO NECESSARILY BANS OR, YOU KNOW, THE, THE MINUTIA OF IT. UM, SO WE WERE CLOSE TO RELEASING OUR RESPONSE WHEN THAT CAME OUT. WE HAD TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF A PAUSE, UH, ESPECIALLY 'CAUSE THERE WAS LANGUAGE THAT IF THERE ARE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE NOT RESPONDING, THAT, YOU KNOW, HIS OFFICE MAY, UH, ULTIMATELY NOT PROVIDE FEATURE FUNDING, WHICH AT THIS POINT THE MAJORITY OF OUR FUNDING FOR, UH, SERVICE AS IT IS COMING FROM THE STATE. SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE TALKING, YOU KNOW, 5%, 10% OF OUR FUNDING. WE'RE TALKING 60 70% OF OUR FUNDING AT THIS POINT IS COMING, UH, FROM FUNDING SOURCES OVER FROM THE STATE OVER THE PAST COUPLE YEARS. UM, SO IT WAS SOMETHING WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE LIKE, HEY, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR US? DO WE HAVE ANY CONCERNS THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE ISSUES, UM, WITHIN THE APPROACH THAT WE TAKE. UH, SO WE DID RELEASE A, UM, A MEMO THAT WENT INTO OUR LOT CONSIDERATIONS, UH, WITHIN THE CITY. THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS A CONVERSATION HOSTED OUT OF THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, BUT HAD INPUT FROM A NUMBER ALMOST ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS WITH THE CITY, UH, AS WELL AS OUR CITY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE WHO WEIGHED IN. UH, THE CITY ATTORNEY WAS ABLE TO LOOK AT IT AND WEIGH IN, UH, AS WELL TO ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ILLEGALLY CONSIDERING THINGS WITHIN THAT. UM, I THINK THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF DISCOURSE SINCE THE RELEASE OF THIS, UM, AND WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T. UH, WE'VE HAD SOME HEADLINES THAT HAVE COME OUT THAT MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THERE IS THIS STRONG PUSH OF BASICALLY ENFORCEMENT, UH, ACROSS THE CITY. UH, WHAT THE MEMO GETS INTO IS WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE IN PLACE. UH, THERE IS, THAT ORDINANCE IS PRETTY STRONG. IT BASICALLY SAYS THAT SLEEPING IN PUBLIC SPACE IS NOT REALLY LEGAL ANYWHERE WITHIN THE CITY, UH, OUTSIDE [01:00:01] OF DESIGNATED AREAS. THAT BEING SAID, THERE ARE ORDINANCES THAT EXIST IN MOST CITIES THAT GET, YOU HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO BE ADDRESSED OR ENFORCED DUE TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS OF LOOKING AT DISCRETION. UH, SO THIS IS AN AREA THAT, UH, BASED ON CONVERSATION AT THIS MOMENT, WE DIDN'T WANT TO, UH, PUSH FOR ANOTHER ORDINANCE THAT WOULD BE UP TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IF THEY WANTED TO REALLY REVISIT THAT. UH, BUT FROM THE, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE OF THE CITY THAT AT THIS MOMENT WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE THE ORDINANCE THAT'S IN PLACE AND BLANKET, UH, HAVE IT PUT INTO PLACE ACROSS THE CITY. UM, THERE'S AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH CLEANING THAT WE DO, THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION THAT'S NOT GOING TO GET US TO RESOLVING THE ISSUE THAT WE SEE WITHIN OUR CITY. OUR WAY PATH FORWARD IS REALLY AROUND SERVICES AND, UH, DEVELOPING MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ADDRESSING THOSE. THAT BEING SAID, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT THAT WE SEE FROM ENCAMPMENTS WITHIN, UH, PUBLIC SPACES, UH, AND LOOKING AT HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE LOOK AT CERTAIN AREAS THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED? AND, UH, WE'VE COME UP WITH A TERM OF PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS. SO THE CITY CURRENTLY HAS FOUR PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS THAT IT'S IDENTIFIED. UH, ONE OF THEM BEING LINCOLN PARK AND BILLY D. KING LIBRARY, UM, WHICH WE HAD OUR ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION ROUND TWO PROGRAM FOCUSED IN. SO WE WERE ABLE TO GET A LOT OF THE PEOPLE INTO NON-CON SHELTER AT THE BACK OF BOND, UH, FROM HERE. SO YOU STILL SEE A FEW PEOPLE AROUND HERE, BUT IN COMPARISON TO WHAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD, UH, THREE, FOUR MONTHS AGO, THERE ARE DRASTICALLY LESS PEOPLE IN THE SPACE. UH, AND THAT REALLY IS KIND OF PART OF OUR THOUGHT PROCESS ON PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS AS WELL, IS WE KNOW THE BEST RESOLVE AND ENCAMPMENT. IT TAKES TIME, IT TAKES OUR ABILITY TO ENGAGE AND LOOK AT RESOURCES AND SOMETIMES TO ALIGN THOSE RESOURCES CAN TAKE A, UM, IT ALSO REALIZES THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO THAT WELL IN 20 DIFFERENT FOCUS AREAS. REALLY, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOTTA, WE GOTTA PROVIDE SOME FOCUS IF WE ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY PRIORITY FOCUS AREA AND FEEL THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY GO AND ENGAGE IN SERVICES AND OFFER RESOLUTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE, UH, BEFORE SAYING, HEY, THIS PRIORITY FOCUS AREA WE'RE ASKING YOU NOW TO BE LIVING IN THIS SPACE ANYMORE. UM, THAT TAKES TIME. UH, SO HERE IS A PRIORITY FOCUS AREA GONE BY NEW PARK VETERANS PARK AND, UH, JENNY RIVERA PARK ARE THE FOUR PRIMARY, UH, PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS AT THE MOMENT. UH, THE ONLY ONE WHERE WE HAVE OFFICIALLY SET AT THIS POINT, UH, WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE NOT NO LONGER TO BE IN THAT AREA. UH, BEING IN THAT AREA COULD LEAD TO CITATIONS AND CONTINUED CITATIONS COULD LEAD TO ARREST IS GONE BY IN PARK. IT IS FENCED AND WILL BE GOING UNDERGOING REHABILITATION TO OPEN BACK UP IN OCTOBER. WE ARE STILL DOING ENGAGEMENT, UH, AROUND SERVICES, UH, BOTH HERE. UH, THERE WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF TENTS. WE DO HAVE SOME PEOPLE SLEEPING, UH, IN THE OPEN HERE. WE ARE STILL ENGAGING. UH, THIS IS A, A SOMEWHAT OF A CHALLENGING LOCATION IN THAT WE HAVE THE METRO LINE RIGHT THERE. THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE ENGAGING TODAY COULD LOOK DIFFERENT THAN THE PEOPLE THAT WE SEE TWO WEEKS FROM NOW. SO WE DO SEE MORE MOVEMENT HERE THAN AT OTHER LOCATIONS. SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO ENGAGE AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND TRYING TO REDUCE AND GET PEOPLE LINKED TO SERVICES IN THIS AREA. UM, AND THEN, UH, AT THE OTHER TWO LOCATIONS, WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH OUR BY NAME LIST THOUGH. A PART OF THAT IS CREATING A BY NAME LIST OF WHO'S LIVING IN THAT AREA, UH, WORKING WITH OUR OUTREACH AND WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON IS, ARE THERE NEED FOR MORE TIME TO WORK THROUGH THE PLANS, WHETHER IT BE WORKING ON INTERIM HOUSING OR PERMANENT HOUSING IN THOSE LOCATIONS, UH, AND REALLY WORKING IN INTERDEPARTMENTALLY BEFORE WE SAY, HEY, THIS IS A LOCATION WHERE WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO NO LONGER BE THERE. UH, OUR PRIORITY FOCUS AREA SELECTION IS REALLY A PROCESS THAT TAKES INPUT FROM A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. UH, LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS. WHAT IS THE SIZE OF THAT LOCATION AND HOW IMPACTED IS IT BECOME? IS IT IMPACTING THE ABILITY FOR, UH, USE OF THAT SPACE FROM THE BROADER COMMUNITY? SO, YOU KNOW, IN A LARGER [01:05:01] PARK, FIVE, 10 PEOPLE MIGHT NOT BE A BIG ISSUE, BUT 10 PEOPLE IN A SMALL POCKET PARK MAY LEAD TO US SAYING, HEY, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THIS PARK. WE HAVE ONGOING CHALLENGES. WE'RE ALSO TAKING A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. SOMETIMES WE'LL SEE SOMETHING POP UP IN A PARK, BUT HISTORICALLY WE'VE NOT SEEN THAT. WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO HAVE THIS BE LIKE A TOOL WHERE IT'S LIKE, I DON'T LIKE THIS, THEREFORE I WANT THIS TO BE A PRIORITY FOCUS AREA. UH, IT'S REALLY BASED ON FACTORS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT IMPACT. UM, SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO BROADLY, UH, PUT ACROSS THE CITY. UM, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE WITHIN OTHER JURISDICTIONS THAT WE'RE CLOSELY LOOKING AT AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT. LA CITY COUNCIL RECENTLY PASSED AN ORDINANCE, UH, OUTRIGHT BANNING RV UH, PEOPLE SLEEPING ON RVS AND ON PUBLIC STREETS. UH, THAT DOES HAVE SOME CONCERN FOR US. UM, SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATION WITHIN THE REGION, CALLS FOR GOOD NEIGHBOR PLEDGES, ASKING CITIES SURROUNDING TO NOT HAVE APPROACHES THAT LARGELY PUSH PEOPLE OUT INTO DIFFERENT AREAS. UM, SO THAT'S A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION AT THE MOMENT. UH, THAT'S KIND OF OUR BACKGROUND. I DUNNO, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD THAT MAYBE I DIDN'T COVER? NO, I MEAN, I THINK THAT THAT COVERS A LOT OF IT. I THINK, UM, SOMETHING TO ALSO EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS, UM, THAT THIS IS NOT MEANT TO REALLY REPLACE OR IMPACT OUR OVERALL OUTREACH AND SERVICES, UH, TO THE CITY. SO I THINK THAT, AS PAUL MENTIONED, THERE'S SORT OF THE COMPETING SORT OF, UH, REALITIES AND PRIORITIES FOR THE CITY, WHICH IS ONE, LIKE WE RECOGNIZE THAT, YOU KNOW, BLANKET CITATIONS OR CITATIONS DON'T REALLY RESULT IN, THEY'RE NOT REALLY A LONG-TERM SOLUTION FOR HOMELESSNESS, RIGHT? THAT WE ALL KNOW THAT, UM, THE WAY TO RESOLVE HOMELESSNESS IS, UH, SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND PERMANENT HOUSING. AND SO, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE CITY ALSO HAS A PRIORITY FOR MAINTAINING ACCESS TO HIGHLY USED PUBLIC RESOURCES, THINGS LIKE PARK SPEECHES AND LIBRARIES. SO I THINK THAT'S SORT OF THE TWO COMPETING SORT OF PRIORITIES THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, THAT THE, THE TEAM IS HOPING TO ADDRESS THROUGH THIS ACTION. BUT AGAIN, THAT DOES NOT, THAT IS NOT MEANT TO SORT OF IMPACT OR DECREASE THE, UH, SORT OF CITYWIDE, UM, SUPPORTIVE SERVICES THAT ARE BEING OFFERED AS WELL AS OUR COORDINATE ENTRY SYSTEM. LIKE ALL OF THAT STUFF IS STILL, UM, IN PLACE AND, AND THE PRIMARY SORT OF DRIVE FOR THE WAY THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS. SO, UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR YOU JUST WANT TO HAVE CONVERSATION LIKE WE'RE HERE TO LISTEN AS WELL AS ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS? WELL, FOR ONE THING, I, I DO SEE THE DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW, HERE AND UH, THE MIRROR SHOWED US THIS FROM HIS BEAUTIFUL BALCONY LOOKING DOWN AT THE PARK. I DO SEE THE DIFFERENCE. UH, THE THING IS, IS THAT YOU GUYS ARE THE CITY BASED UPON THE, THE MEMO THAT WAS PUT OUT BY HIM, YOU GUYS OFFICE DEPUTY, THE MANAGER'S OFFICE, THAT THE GUYS GONNA PROVIDE SERVICES AND, AND YOU GUYS GOING TO FORCE THE LAW RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS, MEANING ITSELF, THE CITATION, IT'S KIND OF CONFLICTUAL FOR ME ON THIS, YOU KNOW, WE PROVIDING, WE GOING, WE WANT TO DO SERVICES, BUT WE'RE GONNA WRITE YOU A TICKET AS WELL BECAUSE THESE TICKETS GONNA BE, WE NOW TO INDIVIDUALS WHO CONSTANTLY VIOLATE. ARE THEY ASKED TO, YOU KNOW, TO MOVE FROM THESE AREAS OR GET ALONE OR JUST THEY JUST OUTRIGHT FEW SERVICES. SO HOW DO WE, HOW ARE WE REALLY GONNA APPROACH THIS? YEAH, THERE IS A PIECE OF THAT THAT I THINK IS A LITTLE CONFUSING WITHIN THERE AND YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY DOES NOT REALLY HAVE ANY BEARING FROM THE SUPREME COURT DECISION OR NOT. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, I WOULD SAY LIKE THE PERCEPTION FROM SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS, I'M NOT GONNA GET INTO LIKE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT, WRONG, IT'S A PERCEPTION THAT CERTAIN COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE IS THAT LAWS OUTSIDE OF CAMPING ARE NOT BEING FORCED ENFORCED WHEN SOMEBODY'S EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT BE OPEN DRUG USE, WHETHER THAT BE VANDALISM, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OF ASSAULTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN VARIOUS [01:10:01] PLACES AND UM, THERE'S A PERCEPTION THAT, YOU KNOW, THE LAW IS NOT BEING ENFORCED. UM, THERE'S A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS WITHIN THAT THAT ARE HARD FOR NECESSARILY DIFFERENTIATION AND PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT'S PDS ROLE VERSUS WHAT'S OUR WORK SYSTEM'S ROLE, WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, OUR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, OUR CITY PROSECUTOR'S ROLE, UH, WITHIN THOSE PIECES. BUT ONE WAS, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSING HEY, LAWS THAT EXIST OUTSIDE OF, YOU KNOW, CAMPING WILL BE ENFORCED. LIKE THAT'S A NOT, YOU KNOW, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOUSING STATUS. LIKE AS A CITY WE BELIEVE THAT IF SOMEBODY ASSAULTS SOMEBODY OR SOMEBODY IS, IS, YOU KNOW, VANDALIZING OR ROBBING FROM A PLACE THAT THAT IS NOT A MATTER OF HOMELESS VERSUS NOT. SO THAT IS A MATTER OF YOU HAVE PERPETRATED A CRIME THAT, YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS OF HOUSING STATUS WE WANT TO ENFORCE. SO THERE WAS A PART THAT WAS REINFORCING THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THE ACTUAL TICKETING THAT COULD BE DONE, UH, AROUND OUR ORDINANCE, UM, IT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS HARD FOR SOME PEOPLE TO DISTINGUISH AND IT'S HARD FOR ME TO EVEN SAY, UH, 'CAUSE IT COMES DOWN TO DISCRETION. THAT'S MORE SOMETHING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO SPEAK TO. SO I'M NOT GONNA GET HEAVILY INTO LIKE THE DISCRETION PIECE OF IT. UM, BUT FROM OUR INTERDEPARTMENTAL, AS WE FOCUS ON THE PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS, IT REALLY IS ABOUT THAT ENGAGEMENT. AND THEN WHEN WE'VE GOTTEN TO A POINT WHERE IT'S LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE REMAINING HERE ARE PEOPLE THAT AREN'T REALLY WORKING WITH ANYTHING ON US, IT WOULDN'T BE AN IMMEDIATE TICKET. IT WOULD BE, HEY, WE'RE ASKING YOU NOT TO BE IN THIS PARK GOING FORWARD. DOING SO, UH, WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT COULD LEAD TO CITATION IF YOU CONTINUE TO SET UP WITHIN THIS PRIORITY FOCUS AREA. UM, WE REALLY TRY NOT TO DO BROAD ZONES. THERE ARE CITY THAT CITIES THAT HAVE DONE LIKE BROAD ZONES OF NOT WITHIN 500 FEET OF THIS AREA, NOT WITH, THAT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO DO. AND LIKE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, 300 FEET VERSUS, YOU KNOW, 600 FEET? LIKE NOBODY REALLY UNDERSTANDS THAT. SO WE TRY TO STAY AWAY FROM THAT. UM, AND AGAIN, IT REALLY COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE FOCUS IN ON A CERTAIN AREA, ALLOW FOR OPPORTUNITY, AND THEN WE ARE CLEAR ON MESSAGING AT A POINT WHERE WE'RE ASKING YOU NOW TO BE SLEEPING WITH IN THIS AREA. YEAH. UM, JUST WANNA, YOU KNOW, GO TO . YOU KNOW, I HAVE VISITS SOME OF THESE ENCAMPMENTS AND UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS FOR THE MORE TRADITIONAL REASONS, YOU KNOW, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UH, FACTORY CLOSING DOWN DIVORCE, YOU KNOW, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THEN WE HAVE THAT CRIMINAL ELEMENT OF HOMELESSNESS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS THAT'S BEING LIVING THESE IN PSYCHES ENCAMPMENTS ACTUALLY ARE FUGITIVES OF JUSTICE AND IT MAKES IT BAD FOR THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY NEEDS HELP. SO YOU SAY DISCRETION BY THE OFFICERS THAT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, DOING THESE, UH, ACCOUNTANT SWEEPS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. ARE THEY IDENTIFYING THE BACK ELEMENT OF THESE ENCAMPMENTS? I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE GOING IN THERE AND GOING LIKE, HE'S GOOD, HE'S BAD. UH, BUT THERE ARE SITUATIONS WHERE WE IDENTIFY LIKE SOMEBODY IS FLEEING. I MEAN, WE'VE HAD PEOPLE WANTED FOR MURDER THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. UM, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL WORK THROUGH A PROCESS TO GO AND, YOU KNOW, , MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE SOMEBODY THAT IS WANTED FOR MURDER, SLEEPING IN AN ENCAMPMENT. LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SITUATIONS OF, YOU KNOW, STABBING SHOOTINGS. THOSE ARE THINGS WHERE IT'S LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CAN YOU GO AND INVESTIGATE AND TRY TO IDENTIFY? AND SOMETIMES IT'S HARD BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT LIKE, YES, SO AND SO'S STABBING OR SO AND SO-AND-SO STABBED ME, OR SO-AND-SO SHOT ME. UH, I THINK THERE IS ALSO SOME MISTRUST THAT EXISTS WITHIN OUR SYSTEM. I'M SURE AS YOU TALK TO PEOPLE, LIKE THERE IS A SENSE FROM SOME PEOPLE THAT LIKE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM DOES NOT PURSUE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PERPETRATED, UH, VIOLENT ACTS AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. SO, UM, THAT ALWAYS FACTORS INTO PEOPLE'S WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IN THE JUSTICE PROCESS. UH, BUT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT TEAMS DO TRY TO GO OUT AND INVESTIGATE [01:15:01] AND TRY TO RESOLVE WHEN VIOLENT ACTS ARE HAPPENING. UH, THAT'S REALLY THE PRIMARY FOCUS AS FAR AS LIKE ISSUES WITH AN ENCAMPMENTS VERSUS LIKE SOMEBODY HAS A WARRANT OUT. UM, OBVIOUSLY IF THEY HAVE OTHER ISSUES GOING ON AND THAT WARRANT COMES UP AS THEY'RE ENGAGING THEM, IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT LEADS TO THEIR ARREST BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT, UH, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING FROM ENCAMPMENT TO ENCAMPMENT LOOKING FOR LIKE WARRANTS FOR YOU DIDN'T CHECK IN WITH PROBATION OR, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A WARRANT FOR, YOU DON'T PAY THAT CHARGE. LIKE, THOSE ARE SMALLER THINGS, UH, AND WITHIN OUR CURRENT NEEDS OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM ARE NOT A HIGH PRIORITY. OKAY. ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. UM, THANK YOU PAUL. I THINK NO HAS A QUESTION. YEAH. SO IT'S, UH, IS THE PROTOCOL GONNA BE TO GO IN AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, DO THE CLEANUP, DO THE, THE SWEEPS AND THEN FENCE OFF? OR IS THAT SPECIFIC JUST TO GUM? MINE? THAT'S SPECIFIC TO GUM. LIKE, UM, THIS FENCE THAT IS RIGHT HERE WAS PUTTING UP FOR THE SUMMERTIME. UH, THEY HAD A NUMBER OF KIDS PROGRAMS HERE. SO, AND NOT HAVING LIKE RELEASING INTO LIKE THE OPEN, THEY FENCE US OFF. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIMELINE FOR THIS FENCE ACTUALLY COMING DOWN. UH, THEY'RE LOOKING AT REDOING SOME OF THIS OUTDOOR TERRACE AND PUTTING IN SOME NEW FEATURES AS FAR AS LIKE FURNITURE SEATING AND OTHER THINGS. UH, SO THEY MIGHT KEEP IT UP UNTIL THAT IS COMPLETED. UM, BUT THE PROCESS WON'T BE TO LIKE COMPLETELY FENCING OFF THE PARK. OUR GOAL IS NOT TO TAKE AWAY PUBLIC SPACE. IT'S REALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT PUBLIC SPACE CAN BE UTILIZED BY THE PUBLIC. SO, UH, GUMBO HAD QUITE A FEW THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE, UH, UPDATED AND REDONE. AND THAT'S . IS THERE A TIMELINE FOR LIKE EACH PRIORITY AREA OR THEY'RE ALL KIND OF BEING HANDLED AT ONCE? IT'S KIND OF SITUATION BY SITUATION THAT'S REALLY, UH, LARGELY DRIVEN FROM LIKE OUR OUTREACH, DOING THAT BY NAME LIST, UH, WORKING CLOSELY WITH QUALITY OF LIFE, WHO'S ALSO OUT THERE, UH, AND WORKING TOGETHER AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, WHO'S WORKING ON WHAT, WHERE ARE THEY AT IN THE PROCESS, UH, AND HOW MUCH MORE TIME ARE WE ESTIMATING THIS IS GONNA TAKE. OBVIOUSLY IF SOMEBODY HAS LIKE A PLAN THAT'S GONNA TAKE SIX MONTHS, THE CONVERSATION'S GONNA BE WHAT DO WE DO IN THE INTERIM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A PRIORITY FOCUS AREA THAT GOES ON FOR SIX MONTHS. ANY MORE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? I THINK JUST A GENERAL COMMENT MYSELF, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE PRIORITIZATION OF THE OUTREACH AND THE ENGAGEMENT IS GONNA BE KEY, UM, TO A LOT OF THIS. UM, BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT, SO MANY DIFFERENT BARRIERS AND FACTORS AND SCENARIOS WITH DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES THAT HAVE THEM CURRENTLY IN THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS AND GETTING THOSE THINGS ADDRESSED AND BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY IT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE, WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE COMES THROUGH, WHETHER IT BE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE HOMELESS SERVICES DIVISION, BUT IT COMES FROM THE OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT TRAINING TO REALLY COME TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE NEEDS ARE AND THEN POTENTIALLY THE EXPANSION OF SHELTER OPTIONS AS A START, WHICH WOULD THEN LEAD TO THE ACCESS OF ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT THEY'RE OTHERWISE NOT, NOT ENGAGING WITH OR, OR REALLY CONNECTING WITH JUST KIND OF BEING OUTDOORS. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO I'M, I'M INTERESTED TO SEE LIKE, LIKE JUST THE LONG TERM GOALS IN TERMS OF THE TRAINING OF THE OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT. LIKE I SAID, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE INTEGRATING ORDINANCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES START TO COME INTO PLAY. HOW ARE PEOPLE BEING LY SO TO SPEAK? AND THERE, THERE ARE DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AND THEN GETTING ALL THESE DIFFERENT BARRIERS AND THINGS ADDRESSED FROM SUBSTANCE ABUSE TO MENTAL HEALTH AND ALL, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE I SAID, WE, WE KNOW THERE'S MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS. IT'S NOT ANY ONE THING LIKE WE SAID WITH EVEN THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, BUT THEN THAT KIND OF ISOLATES A SPECIFIC GROUP AND ALLOWS FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THEM FOR THEM THAT DON'T NECESSARILY APPLY TO OTHERS. SO I'M JUST, I'M INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THE BALANCE IS GONNA COME, COME INTO PLAY. AND AGAIN, I I PERSONALLY SEE IT COMING THROUGH, YOU KNOW, JUST THE, THE OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT PORTION AND THE TRAINING ON THOSE THAT ARE GONNA BE ENGAGING WITH, WITH THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY. I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CONSCIOUS OF AND HAVE QUITE A BIT OF CONCERN AROUND. I MEAN, THAT CONCERN GOES EVEN EXPANDS TO OUR ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION YEAH. PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM THE STATE AS WELL AS WHAT THE COUNTY HAVE DONE. LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT FEELS SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY ON PEOPLE [01:20:01] GETTING MORE RESOURCES IF THEY'RE IN A CERTAIN AREA VERSUS ANOTHER AREA. AND THAT'S LARGELY WHAT WE'RE SEEING, SEEING WITH SOME OF THIS IS LIKE, HEY, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE INCREASED FOCUS AND OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE YOU'RE IN A SPACE. UM, THAT BEING SAID, IF WE ARE WANTING PEOPLE NOT TO BE IN A SPACE, THE BEST WAY TO HAVE NOT PEOPLE NOT BE IN THAT SPACE, IS NOT FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT OR LIKE PUNISHMENT PERSPECTIVE, BUT HEY, LET ME HELP YOU IN RESOLVING THIS SITUATION. YOU HAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU CAN BE. UM, SO THE OTHER THING THAT EXISTS WITHIN THAT IS LIKE, AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE REALLY CONSCIOUS AROUND LIKE HOW MANY PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS, YOU KNOW, REALISTICALLY CAN WE DO AT A TIME. LIKE THEY ARE TIME INTENSIVE. IT'S OUR OUTREACH GOING TO THOSE LOCATIONS, YOU KNOW, MULTIPLE TIMES DURING A WEEK TO ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE DURING THAT PROCESS. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO COVER THE WHOLE CITY. LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER ENCAMPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAN THE FOUR LOCATIONS. SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE TO EXPAND AND HAVE 12 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, THAT WOULD TAKE UP ALMOST ALL OF OUR OUTREACH BANDWIDTH. SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT, YOU KNOW, IS A CONSTANT CONVERSATION IS LIKE, HEY, WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGHOUT THIS ID THAT, YOU KNOW, THE ONLY WAY TO GET ENGAGEMENT ISN'T JUST I GO TO THAT PRIORITY FOCUS AREA WHERE WE'RE TRYING NOT TO HAVE PEOPLE SLEEPING. UH, 'CAUSE I THINK I'M GOING TO GET MORE ENGAGEMENT OR RESOURCES OUT OF THAT AREA. UM, SO NO, WE DIDN'T AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT HOW DO WE EXPAND TO LIKE, YEAH, UNDERSTAND, AND I KNOW RESOURCE KNOW IN TERMS OF GOING TO THOSE FOCUS AREAS, BUT I KNOW A LOT OF THE, YOU KNOW, OUTREACH ENGAGEMENT ALSO TAKES PLACE THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TEMPORARY SHELTERS, THE SERVICE CENTER, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? UM, LOCATIONS LIKE THAT AS WELL. ONE MORE THING, UH, THE FOUR, YOU KNOW, TARGETED CAMP SITES. WHERE WOULD WE HAVE THOSE NUMBERS ON? YOU KNOW, ANY, YOU KNOW, KNOWING IF WE HAD ANY LIKE, SUCCESS IN THESE ENCAMPMENTS? YEAH, I MEAN, WE CAN COME BACK IF THAT'S AN INTEREST IN THE FUTURE ON WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. UM, WE HAVE BY NAME LISTS, UH, FOR THE PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS. WE HAVE A LOT MORE INTENSIVE ACTION WHEN IT COMES TO RIGHT HERE BECAUSE OF THE ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION PROGRAM AND HAVING AND OTHER PERMANENT HOUSING RESOURCES THAT WERE ALLOCATED SPECIFICALLY TO THIS ENCAMPMENT AREA, A LITTLE BIT OF DOWNTOWN. UM, SO THAT WE HAVE A MUCH MORE EXTENSIVE, AND WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH APT ASSOCIATES WHO'S LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT, UH, ENCAMPMENT APPROACHES THROUGHOUT THE, THE COUNTRY. UH, AND THEY'LL BE DOING A LARGER, UH, REPORT THAT WILL INCLUDE LIKE OUR DATA AS WELL AS QUALITATIVE. THEY'VE INTERVIEWED, YOU KNOW, STAFF, THEY'VE INTERVIEWED PEOPLE THAT ARE WITHIN THE ENCAMPMENT AREAS, PEOPLE THAT, UH, ARE RECEIVING SERVICES, PEOPLE THAT, UH, ARE COMMUNITY MEMBERS SURROUNDING THE ENCAMPMENT AREAS TO GET THEIR PERSPECTIVES AS WELL. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO GIVE LIKE A HOLISTIC, UM, PERSPECTIVE, AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT APPROACHES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TO SAY LIKE, HEY, THIS APPROACH WORKED WELL FOR THIS COMMUNITY. THIS APPROACH DIDN'T SEEM TO WORK AS WELL. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO BRING IN DATA. SO NOT ONLY WILL WE HAVE OURS WITHIN THAT WE'LL HAVE LIKE A VIEWPOINT OF WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE DOING, UH, AND WHAT HAS WORKED BEST. SO TRYING TO BRING TOGETHER LIKE BEST PRACTICES IN THIS AREA. UH, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THE REALITY IS THERE'S NOT A LOT OF RESEARCH OR PRACTICE OUT THERE WHEN IT COMES TO LIKE, ENCAMPMENTS AND HOW JURISDICTIONS ARE RESPONDING TO ENCAMPMENTS. THERE'S A LOT AROUND LIKE SHELTER AND THE PERMANENT HOUSING SIDE, BUT NOT SO MUCH AROUND LIKE THE ENCAMPMENTS ITSELF. SO SOMEWHAT OF A NEWER AREA. SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO, UH, SEE SOME MORE AROUND THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. WERE YOU ABLE TO GET ANY POSITIVE TRACTION WITH THE GOOD NEIGHBOR PLEDGE FROM ORANGE COUNTY? ? ORANGE COUNTY'S A LITTLE TOUGH 'CAUSE WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, IN ORANGE COUNTY, UM, AND SAY, DOES THAT EXIST WITHIN, YOU KNOW, A DIFFERENT COUNTY? UH, THERE IS STILL CONVERSATION HAPPENING WITHIN THE GATEWAY CITIES. COG, UH, THE, UH, SOUTH BAY, UH, COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT DID SIGN A GOOD NEIGHBOR PLEDGE AMONG ITS CITIES. UM, WE'RE NOT IN THE SOUTH BAY COX, SO WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY IN IT. UH, BUT WE [01:25:01] ARE TRYING TO, THE MAYOR HAS CALLED FOR THE GATEWAY CITIES COG TO CREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR AND JUST, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THE CITY'S HAD A GOOD APPROACH AND GOOD BALANCED APPROACH UP TO NOW OF OFFERING SERVICES, TAKING YOUR TIME, NOT PUSHING PEOPLE OUT BEFORE THEY CAN MAKE SOME PREPARATION, GIVING THEM OPTIONS. RIGHT. AND THEN MAKING SURE YOU DON'T HAVE 17 PEOPLE BLOCKING THE SIDEWALK ON ATLANTIC AVENUE AND, AND FIFTH STREET. RIGHT. OR BLOCKING ENTRANCES TO REC REC CENTERS AND PARK OR, OR DESTROYING DEATHS OR WHATEVER. IT'S RIGHT. I THINK IT'S BEEN A GOOD BALANCE AND I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS SUPREME COURT WOULDN'T CHANGE THAT MUCH, WHICH IS KIND OF WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SAYING, BUT I ALSO JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, I KNOW THE PRESSURES TREMENDOUS. I I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE THE GOVERNOR, UH, AND LET'S BE REAL. AND IN AN ELECTION YEAR IN PARTICULAR, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S A LOT OF PRESSURE. THEN THE MONEY IS, IS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU, YOU KNOW, LOSING 60% OF OUR FUNDING IS WORSE THAN PUSHING ON A HUMAN CAMPAIGNS A LITTLE HARDER, RIGHT? I THINK IT IS OVERALL FOR OUR, FOR THE PEOPLE WE'RE TRYING TO HELP. IF THAT'S THE ONLY TWO CHOICES, IT'S A BIT OF A DEVIL'S ARGUMENT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AND THEN I THINK WHEN YOU HAVE ORANGE COUNTY, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, THE CITY OF WHITTIER OR WHOEVER THAT ARE JUST GONNA GO ALONG BE LIKE, YES, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE HANDCUFFS OFF GOVERNOR SOMEWHERE. WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY. WHERE ARE THOSE FOLKS GONNA GO? WELL, THEY'RE GONNA GO TO THE CITY WHERE THEY THINK THEY'RE GONNA GET A LITTLE MORE COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE. AND SO THEN YOU END UP BEING A LITTLE BIT OF A VICTIM OF YOUR OWN BETTER PRACTICES, YOU KNOW? AND SO I I GET YOU HAVE, WE HAVE TO MAKE SOME KIND OF PIVOT A LITTLE BIT. I I PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT I, I KNOW THE ACTUAL PEOPLE WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS STUFF. YOU, YOU KNOW, THERESA ALLISON, WHOEVER IT IS, RIGHT? ARE, ARE, ARE GOOD FOLKS WHO GET, WHO GET ALL THIS AND WANT TO DO, DO, DO IT RIGHT, UH, AND, AND CARE FOR THE PEOPLE WE'RE SERVING. SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. RAISED EARLY, OH, NO. AGAIN, IT WAS JUST A QUESTION ABOUT PROTOCOL. WHAT CAN YOU REPEAT THE FOUR PRIORITY AREAS AGAIN? UH, LINCOLN PARK VILLAGE AND KING, WE KIND OF TREAT THAT AS, OKAY, THOSE TWO ONE VETERANS AND STUFF, UH, VETERANS. JENNY RIVERA GOT MINE. SO I TAKE US ALL FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT AND WORK COMMENT ZONING. UH, CAN WE GET A CALL FOR A VOTE TO APPROVE, UH, THE DISCUSSION OF MEMORANDUM OF DATED AUGUST THE 12TH, 2024 TITLED C OF RESPONSE GRANT AS MS. JOHNSON'S DECISION? YEAH. MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? YOU ALL SAID IT UP. UH, KIMBERLY APPROVE. JAMIE SCHU APPROVE. I GO TAG ABSENT ANNA POLUSKI, ABSENT BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT. CLAUDE DIOP APPROVED. DANIEL BNO. YES. APPROVED HOON ABSENT NIKKI AMON APPROVE LUTHER RICHARD APPROVED TAMIKA BOY APPROVED SHELBY BANFORD ACCENT. MELANIE MARS APPROVE YOUR NAME AND COLE APPROVE. MOTION PASSES. GO BACK TO THE HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU. YEAH, WE'LL GO REAL QUICK. WE'RE TIME ACK, RIGHT? YEAH. UM, SO, UH, WE'LL SEND OUT ON MONDAY, UPDATED, SLOW THIS DOWN. I'M JUST GONNA COVER A FEW THINGS. UH, WE DO HAVE A FEW DIFFERENT, UH, NEW PEOPLE AS WELL AS PROMOTIONS ON OUR ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE OF THINGS, UH, AS WELL AS ADDITIONS TO, UM, THE HOMELESS STRATEGY AND PARTNERSHIPS OFFICE. SO, UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, BOTH CHRISTIAN AND SAVANNAH HERE WITH US. SO THEY'RE JOINING, UH, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND ALVIN, UH, ON THAT TEAM LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, PLANNING PARTNERSHIPS, UH, AND UPDATING OUR STRATEGY. UH, AND THEN WE HAVE A FEW NEW PEOPLE ON MISSPELLING THERE. UH, PETITA AND STEVEN, UH, ARE NEW TO OUR TEAM. UH, SO, UH, PETA WILL BE PROVIDING GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT TO OUR RAPID REHOUSING PROGRAMS, UH, AS WELL AS HAS BEEN SUPPORTING SOME OF OUR PREVENTION, UH, SINCE SHE'S JOINED. [01:30:01] AND THEN STEVEN, UH, IS NEW WITH US AS OF THIS WEEK, AND HE WILL BE, OUR PROJECT MANAGERS WILL BE SUPPORTING A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT, UH, THINGS ACROSS OUR ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE. UH, JASMINE, WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY A COMMUNITY PROGRAM SPECIALIST, FOUR, UH, HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO AN ADMIN ANALYST THREE, UH, ON OUR TEAM. SO, UH, SHE'LL BE HELPING US WITH, UH, OUR PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING, UH, WITHIN THE BUREAU. UM, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF REASSIGNMENTS THAT ARE NOW, UH, FULL-TIME WITH US. UH, SO, UM, MOST NOTABLY YOU'LL BE SEEING AND HEARING FROM SHARON. UH, SHARON IS NOW OUR FULL-TIME, UH, BUREAU SECRETARY, SO SHE'LL BE SUPPORTING WITH POSTING AND OUR MEETINGS. UM, AND THEN, UH, WHAT'S OUR, WHAT'S THE PERSON NAME? OUR CPS TEAM, ALICE, ALLISON. ALLISON, UH, LOPEZ, UH, IS JOINING US AS A COMMUNITY PROGRAM SPECIALIST. UH, SO SHE IS ACTUALLY BACK FILLING STEPHANIE'S OLD ROLE. UH, SO SHE WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE CONTINUUM CARE TEAM AND WORKING CLOSELY WITH ALEXA. UH, SO YOU MIGHT BE SEEING HER AROUND AS WELL. UM, SO SHE'S JUST STARTING WITH US AS WELL. UH, AND THEN JUST WORKING THROUGH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT, UH, POSITIONS TO GET . UM, WE WERE ABLE TO SUBMIT THREE GRANTS OVER THE LAST, UH, COUPLE MONTHS. MOST IMPORTANTLY, UH, MORE APPLICABLE TO OUR COC AS A WHOLE IS THE ENC ENCOUNTERING RESOLUTION ROUND THREE, UH, PROJECT FOCUSED ON THE LA RIVERBED. UH, SO THIS IS AN $11 MILLION PROPOSAL, UH, TO TAKE A COUPLE YEARS TO ADDRESS AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SERVICES ON THE LA RIVER. IF WE ARE FUNDED, UH, THIS WOULD INCREASE ADDITIONAL NON CONGREGATE SHELTER OPPORTUNITIES, AS WELL AS BRING IN ADDITIONAL PERMANENT HOUSING RESOURCES FOCUSED ON THE LA RIVER RIVERBED. IT IS OUR MOST CONSISTENT LONG STANDING ENCAMPMENT HERE IN THE CITY. UM, SO WE'VE DONE A LITTLE BIT ALSO, SO THROUGH THE COUNTY AND THEIR PATHWAY HOME PROJECT. UH, SO WE WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE COUNTY AROUND THE RIVERBED AS THEY ARE TECHNICALLY THE JURISDICTION THAT, UH, OVERSEES THE RIVER BED. UH, SO WE SHOULD FIND OUT AT THE END OF OCTOBER, BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER, WHETHER AWARDED FOR THAT. UH, THERE IS A LOT OF POLITICS AROUND THE BUDGET THIS YEAR. IT IS A TOP BUDGET YEAR. WE ARE FACING A SLIGHT, UH, DEATH OR DECENT SIZED EPISODE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS AT THE STATE LEVEL. UH, THERE HAD BEEN A PROPOSAL NOT TO CONTINUE THE HOMELESS HOUSING AND ASSISTANCE, UH, ASSISTANCE AND PREVENTION PROGRAM FROM THE GOVERNOR. UH, OUR STATE LEGISLATURE DID ADD BACK IN A ROUND SIX, UH, TO THE 25 FY FISCAL YEAR 25 BUDGET. UH, SO THERE WILL BE A HALF ROUND SIX WITH ANOTHER BILLION DOLLARS, UH, AVAILABLE. SO, UH, THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING IN FUNDING, UH, FROM THE STATE. THAT BEING SAID, WE ARE FACING, AGAIN, TOP BUDGET YEARS. UH, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION AROUND THIS, SO, UH, WE'LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THAT, BUT IT COULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON OUR OVERALL, UH, APPROACH IF THE STATE WERE TO DECIDE NOT TO PROVIDE FUTURE FUNDING. UH, WE'VE KIND OF BUDGETED OUT SEVERAL YEARS INTO THE FUTURE. SO IF THEY WERE TO NOT FUND IN THE FUTURE YEAR WOULDN'T BE AN IMMEDIATE UH, ISSUE, BUT IT WOULD BE AN ISSUE. UH, TWO TO THREE YEARS DOWN. UM, BACK ON SITE IS FULLY OPEN. UH, AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO ADD AN EXCITING NEW, UM, PROGRAM THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH PROJECT STREET BET AND KISMET PETS. UH, SO WE NOW HAVE A PET FOOD PANTRY AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER. UH, IF SOMEBODY'S DOING AVERAGE, WE CAN ALSO COME PICK UP PET FOOD, UH, FROM OUR CENTER. SO, UH, WE ARE ABLE TO GIVE OUT GALLON SIZED BAGS OF PET FOOD. UH, AND WE'VE GIVEN OUT A LOT OF PET FOOD OVER THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS. UH, SO THEY'VE, UH, COMMITTED TO CONTINUALLY PROVIDING US, UH, PET FOOD THAT WE CAN HACK OUT TO PEOPLE THAT ARE, DON'T HAVE, UH, A WAY OF GETTING [01:35:01] PET FOOD. SO, UH, EXCITING PARTNERSHIP. AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO HOST, UH, THE ANNUAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY, UH, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. SO ON AUGUST 29TH, UH, WE HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT AGENCIES THAT JOINED US, UH, IN OUR AREA. WE PROVIDE EDUCATION, A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT RESOURCES, UH, AND A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT GIVEAWAYS. WE HAD HAIRCUTS. THERE WAS A DJ, UH, SO THIS WAS THE SECOND ONE THAT WE HAD HOSTED. UH, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT. AND THEN, UH, WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT WAYS TO TRY TO BRING MORE FAMILY RESOURCES INTO LONG BEACH. LIST HAS BEEN A, UH, A CHALLENGE OF LATE. WE HAVE BEEN SEEING MORE FAMILIES EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS THAN WE HAD OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. UM, SO PART OF TRYING TO IMPROVE OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH FAMILIES, WE HAVE REDONE, UH, A PORTION OF THE MSC. SO WE NOW HAVE A NICE KIDS CORNER THANKS TO LEADERSHIP LONG BEACH AND GINSLER ARCHITECTS. UH, SO WE'RE MOSTLY DONE WITH REDOING THE AREA. WE STILL NEED THE LEAVES. THOSE WILL COME IN LATER THIS MONTH. UH, SO IT'S A REALLY NICE AREA. UH, THERE'S A NICE LITTLE MURAL THAT GOES THROUGH IT. SO, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO BRING IN ADDITIONAL, UH, RESOURCES WE'RE TALKING TO AT THE COUNTY LEVEL ABOUT GETTING SOME FAMILY FUNDING IN LOCALLY, UH, TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE MORE SHELTER AS WELL AS PERMANENT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE. SO, UH, STILL WAITING TO HEAR FOR A DETERMINATION, BUT WE ARE PURSUING SOME ADDITIONAL YES. UM, UH, NOT ON THE SLIDE, BUT ANOTHER UPDATE. RFP IS OPEN NOW. SO, UH, FOR REHOUSING, TRANSITIONING, UH, POSTED ON THE HOME SERVICES BUREAU TAPE. ANY QUESTIONS FOR PAUL? COMMENT ON, UH, WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING OVER THERE. YOU KNOW, FOR OUR ANIMALS, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING FOODS, YOU KNOW, CAT, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THAT'S A GOOD THING BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN AN ISSUE WITH SOME OF OUR HOMELESS THAT DO HAVE ANIMALS. THEY SAY, OH, MY PET, MY PET. AND, YOU KNOW, MONEY IS BEING VERY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD THING, YOU KNOW, JUST DOWN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT CAN BE VERY STRESSFUL. THE EXPANSION OF THE FAMILY SERVICES IS VERY, VERY, VERY EXCITING, ESPECIALLY WITH THE FOCUS ON THE KIDS CORNER. I LOVE IT. SO IT'S, IT'S OUR FAVORITE PART OF, UH, THE MSC NOW THAT IT'S BEEN REDONE. OKAY. YOU GET A CHANCE TO COME BY. ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO COME BY. CHECK IT OUT. THERE'S NO OTHER COMMENTS. THERE ARE QUESTIONS WE CAN, UM, TAKE A MOTION TO, UH, FOR A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU STAFF AND OPERATIONS REPORT. MOTION. SECOND. SECOND. OKAY. ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON MRIDA? CNN, KIMBERLY WHEAT APPROVED JAMIE CHU APPROVE. IE ABSENT ANNA . ABSENT BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT. CLAUDE LES WHO? DANIEL BOFF POP MCBAIN ABSENT. NICK AM LUTHER RICHARD APPROVE. TAMIKA BOY APPROVE. SHELBY BAMER. ABSENT. MELANIE MARITZ APPROVE. JANAE MCCOLLUM. MOTION PASSES. WE HAVE, UH, OUR LAST ITEM, ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE ASAC REPRESENTATIVE REPORT. UM, SO PAM STEPPED DOWN, SO I'LL FILL IN QUICKLY. UM, A LOT OF THE SAME CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD HERE TODAY WAS HAD AT THE LAST ASAC MEETING. THEY'VE [01:40:01] MISSED QUORUM A FEW MONTHS IN A ROW. SO, UH, THEY DID HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM, UH, THE PUBLIC WORKS CLEAN TEAM AS WELL. UH, THEY APPROVED, UH, TWO PROPOSALS FOR THE MAYOR'S FUND, UH, TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, UH, TO A COUPLE, UH, OF OUR GRASSROOTS NON-PROFIT, UH, PROFIT AGENCIES THAT ARE GETTING UP AND GOING. SO EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME FUNDING, UM, TO SUPPORT THOSE AGENCIES AND THEIR WORK. AND THEN, UH, YEAH, NOTHING ADDITIONAL BEYOND THAT. DOES THE BOARD HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WELL, I GUESS I, I WOULD MISS PAM. YOU KNOW, SHE'S A GREAT INDIVIDUAL, YOU KNOW, AND, UM, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, SHE SAID I'M DOWN. YOU KNOW, SHE'S TRYING TO FREE UP TIME. THAT'S WHAT SHE TOLD ME LAST, THEY SENT ME. CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE HAAC REPRESENTATIVE FROM FOURTH? ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON MR. UH, KIMBERLY LEE APPROVED JAMIE CHU PRO? I GO 10. ABSENT ANNA , ABSENT BRANDON WASHINGTON ABSENT. CLAUDE DOLES APPROVE DANIEL BNO APPROVAL. MC APPROVE LUTHER RICHARD APPROVE TAMIKA BOY APPROVED SHELBY BAMBRICK ABSENT. MELANIE MARTINS, APPROVE YOUR NAME. COLA APPROVE. MOTION PASSES COMMENT. UM, ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON ANY ON NON AGENDA ITEMS? NONE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS. OH, WE DO STILL NEED TWO PANEL MEMBERS, IF ANYBODY'S STILL INTERESTED. THANK YOU, TAMIKA, FOR VOLUNTEERING. I'M SORRY, CAN YOU SAY MORE ABOUT THAT? WE STILL NEED TWO MORE, UH, PANELISTS FOR THE, TO REVIEW THE RFP. IT'LL BE TWO, UH, THE EVENING OF NINE 12 TO REVIEW THE PROPOSALS. AND THEN WE MEET ON EVENING OF NINE 13 VIA ZOOM TO DISCUSS. YOU'RE A PART OF AN AGENCY THAT MIGHT PROPOSE PROBABLY BEST NOT DO SIGN, BUT WE HAVE WRITTEN STARS EVENT THAT NIGHT. I DON'T WANNA BRING MY RFPS WITH ME TO THE EVENT. SO , THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. THERE'S NO OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS. WE CAN ADJOURN. 4 48. SORRY, WE'RE GOING A LITTLE OVER. WE ALL THE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.