Homelessness Solutions Task Force
March 4, 2021
Youtube Auto-Generated Transcript – see https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I 

Call to Order, Introductions & New Members – Chief Spalding
Mayor’s Welcome – Council Goals: Mayor Jones
Helping Hands – Program Updates, Personnel Changes:  Raven Brown
Homelessness & Health Concerns: Lisa McClean
Countywide Liaison Position Update: Viviana Matthews
Clatsop County 2020 Strategic Plan Goal SS1a, Navigation/Drop In Center — Clatsop County: Monica Steele
Pallet Shelters: Ron Maxted
Homeless Activity
Mental Illness: Amy Baker
Calls for Service: Chief Spalding
9th Street Park Activity: Chief Spalding
Member Roundtable
Guest Comments

Call to Order, Introductions & New Members – Chief Spalding
hour:minute:second
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=19 
0:00:19	okay well i think we'll go ahead and get
0:00:21	started it's now
0:00:22	1002 and looks like we have a good
0:00:24	turnout of members and guests
0:00:26	uh welcome everybody to the march 4th
0:00:29	homeless solutions task force
0:00:31	glad to see so many people here this is
0:00:33	great look forward to
0:00:34	some good discussions today
0:00:38	for those that have an agenda we will be
0:00:40	following the agenda with the exception
0:00:41	i'm going to move the mayor's welcome up
0:00:43	just a little bit
0:00:45	initially i do want to just go through
0:00:47	the roster for the members here i can
0:00:48	see many of you on the screen but i want
0:00:50	to make sure that i capture everybody
0:00:53	so i'm going to go through the roster
0:00:55	then i'm going to turn over the mayor
0:00:56	for his welcome and then we will also
0:00:58	do some additional recognition of some
0:01:00	of our new members here so
0:01:02	um hang tight on that so uh
0:01:06	kate allen i think i did see you here so
0:01:08	i will acknowledge that amy i
0:01:10	saw a you um
0:01:14	jonah are you there i'm here okay thanks
0:01:17	jonah
0:01:18	um mike davis one of our new members are
0:01:20	you here
0:01:22	i'm here okay uh alan evans
0:01:28	allen's in another meeting okay thanks
0:01:30	raven um
0:01:32	sean fitzpatrick i'm here
0:01:35	okay uh kenny i see you here sarah lou
0:01:40	okay i don't see that was that you
0:01:42	harlow okay i see you thank you
0:01:45	uh jennifer holland are you there
0:01:48	sasia is here okay okay okay
0:01:52	uh jared i did see you yep i'm here
0:01:55	uh arlene i do see you tom i see you
0:01:58	uh melissa linder
0:02:02	andy martin here okay
0:02:06	vivian i saw you uh lisa mclean
0:02:12	i'm here okay thank you uh jan peter
0:02:18	okay uh cindy i know couldn't make it
0:02:21	david reed i saw
0:02:22	you uh counselor rock i saw you
0:02:25	raven i see you uh
0:02:28	i see myself uh brooke i did see you i
0:02:32	think
0:02:34	yep i'm here okay uh monica gotcha
0:02:37	terry i see you and kathleen sullivan
0:02:40	are you there
0:02:44	yes i'm here hi okay great all right
0:02:46	thank you guys
0:02:48	um yeah great turnout all right mayor
0:02:51	i'll turn it over to you for your uh
0:02:53	welcome and comments and then um
Mayor’s Welcome – Council Goals: Mayor Jones
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=175 
0:02:55	we'll get started okay thank you chief
0:02:58	welcome everybody uh thanks for joining
0:03:00	us today it's our first
0:03:02	meeting since august so about six and a
0:03:04	half months i believe
0:03:06	uh so i know there are a few new people
0:03:08	uh
0:03:09	to the group a few new positions
0:03:12	so just briefly a little history of the
0:03:14	host
0:03:15	uh it was founded by mayor lemire
0:03:19	during her tenure uh at least three
0:03:21	years about three years ago i guess
0:03:23	and uh chief spalding has been the chair
0:03:26	of it since then the purpose of the
0:03:28	host is really it's a coordination and
0:03:31	communication
0:03:32	body because there as you can see by the
0:03:34	faces on your screen there's so many
0:03:36	different
0:03:37	organizations and individuals
0:03:41	and groups that have some
0:03:44	that are dealing with some aspect of
0:03:46	issues involving homelessness
0:03:48	we thought it would be beneficial to
0:03:50	meet periodically
0:03:52	share information share ideas hopefully
0:03:54	occasionally eliminate some redundancy
0:03:57	and maybe take advantage of some
0:03:58	opportunities that someone might not
0:04:00	have known about before
0:04:02	basically this many different
0:04:04	organizations involved in some aspect of
0:04:06	a complex issue
0:04:07	it's probably a good idea to get
0:04:08	together periodically and share
0:04:10	information
0:04:11	and even between meetings we can do so
0:04:12	by email as well so that's the premise
0:04:15	of this group um the homeless liaison
0:04:18	position that you'll hear more about
0:04:19	today that is an example
0:04:21	of an idea that was brought to this
0:04:24	group
0:04:24	by group members uh discussed by the
0:04:27	group uh
0:04:28	found broad support among most of the
0:04:30	group members not unanimously but
0:04:32	the vast majority of the group has
0:04:33	supported the homeless liaison position
0:04:36	and then finally and most importantly um
0:04:39	members member organizations of the host
0:04:42	volunteered to assume the sponsorship
0:04:45	role
0:04:45	and find the funding for the position
0:04:48	and so
0:04:48	you know sharing information and then
0:04:51	ideally
0:04:52	sponsoring new ideas and funding new
0:04:54	ideas
0:04:55	there's some other issues that the host
0:04:57	is dealing with
0:04:58	uh some of which you'll hear about today
0:05:00	that ideas that have support by the
0:05:02	group but have not yet found sponsors
0:05:04	or for funding to become real and so
0:05:07	we'll talk more about that
0:05:08	and when some of some of those ideas as
0:05:10	well
0:05:12	but i have found it very helpful for
0:05:14	myself at least
0:05:15	to hear what everyone is working on and
0:05:19	i'm looking forward to hearing more
0:05:20	especially about the homeless liaison
0:05:22	fish position
0:05:23	today we're going to hear from
0:05:26	ms steele from the county about the
0:05:28	county's new strategic plan goal which
0:05:30	identifies a drop-in center as one of
0:05:32	a navigation drop-in center as one of
0:05:34	the strategic goals for clattson county
0:05:36	and how that might move forward
0:05:39	i do want to mention one a new bit of
0:05:41	news from the city
0:05:42	um uh parks director jonah dart mclean
0:05:46	who's part of the meeting today
0:05:48	uh was successful in obtaining a grant
0:05:50	from the state for
0:05:52	a series of improvements on the river
0:05:54	trail including lighting and signage
0:05:56	and a portland lou so restroom
0:05:59	facilities for
0:06:01	people in astoria whether they're
0:06:02	homeless or not restroom facilities has
0:06:05	been a big issue
0:06:06	that we've struggled with and um this is
0:06:09	a matching grant but the bulk of the
0:06:10	money will come from the state with
0:06:12	with additional funding from the city
0:06:14	and the portland loo is going to be
0:06:15	built
0:06:16	at the people's park that's the one
0:06:18	right across from mohs
0:06:19	it will essentially be right where the
0:06:21	the two porta potties are now they'd be
0:06:22	a portland loose so we're very excited
0:06:24	about that
0:06:26	and and then finally i want to note uh
0:06:28	for our first meeting of 2021
0:06:30	that we've been very fortunate to have
0:06:32	chief spalding as our chair for
0:06:34	several years and he has uh very
0:06:37	willingly
0:06:38	taken on that role and the workload
0:06:39	associated with it there is nothing that
0:06:42	says
0:06:43	that in perpetuity the host needs to be
0:06:45	led by either the police chief or
0:06:47	or a staff member from the city of
0:06:50	astoria
0:06:50	so sometime during this year we're going
0:06:52	to look to transition to give chief
0:06:54	spalding a break for his many other
0:06:56	duties
0:06:56	and find other leadership for the host
0:06:59	so
0:07:00	if you have someone you'd like to
0:07:01	nominate or would like to volunteer
0:07:03	uh let us know and uh and and and and
0:07:07	we'll
0:07:07	in the meantime continue to enjoy chief
0:07:09	spalding's excellent leadership so
0:07:11	thanks for coming and i'll turn it back
0:07:12	to the chief
0:07:14	great thank you mayor i appreciate that
0:07:16	and appreciate your comments as well
0:07:18	um by way of introduction let me uh
0:07:21	bring up my other screen here real quick
0:07:29	and go so uh first off bear with me on
0:07:33	this technology thing that's
0:07:34	uh i'm still learning and i'm also
0:07:36	multitasking
0:07:38	so um just uh
0:07:42	asking for your forgiveness through that
0:07:44	um i'm first off i'm sharing my email
0:07:46	address so this is for any of the guests
0:07:48	in the room typically when we have our
0:07:50	in-person meetings
0:07:51	i'm able to put a roster out there or a
0:07:53	sign-up sheet so that you can be
0:07:55	added to notification for future
0:07:57	meetings so
0:07:58	please write down my email address and
0:08:00	if you're not already on the list in
0:08:02	other words if you haven't received a
0:08:04	couple emails in the last few days
0:08:05	regarding this meeting
0:08:07	then shoot me an email with your email
0:08:09	address and i'd be more than happy to
0:08:10	add you to our guest list
0:08:12	that way i'll be able to send you
0:08:13	notifications about future meetings
0:08:16	and i also apologize for the last
0:08:20	minute notice of this meeting for our
0:08:21	guests i only sent it two days ago
0:08:24	i was under the misunderstanding that
0:08:26	this meeting was posted to the city
0:08:27	calendar so
0:08:28	um that will happen in the future so
0:08:31	i'll be better about
0:08:32	making sure that everybody has more
0:08:33	notice so uh hang in there on that
0:08:36	and uh that's much appreciated
0:08:41	uh just new members uh counselor roger
0:08:43	rocca is with us today
0:08:45	thank you counselor and uh mike davis
0:08:47	who
0:08:48	raven is going to introduce in just a
0:08:49	little bit here from helping ham so
0:08:52	um but uh in the meantime i'll get back
0:08:55	to our
0:08:56	formalities and going down our agenda we
0:08:59	looking for one of our members to make a
0:09:02	motion to approve
0:09:04	the minutes
0:09:08	i this is amy i so move thank you amy
0:09:12	and a second
0:09:17	kate allen all second okay i heard kate
0:09:20	allen second
0:09:21	any discussion
0:09:26	okay seeing none uh all in favor by
0:09:30	saying aye you'll have to mute real
0:09:31	quick all right
0:09:38	okay i think i heard the eyes the motion
0:09:40	carries thank you
0:09:41	um so what i'd like to do real quick
0:09:43	though before we move into
0:09:45	some of the um presentations is just
0:09:48	talk a little bit about some of the
0:09:49	protocols for this meeting especially
0:09:51	now that we've moved into the
0:09:52	virtual world and i know
0:09:55	i see a lot of new faces so i just want
0:09:57	to make sure that everybody kind of
0:09:59	understands how these meetings have gone
0:10:03	uh first off we are having minutes taken
0:10:05	by megan mccall
0:10:07	from cca thank you megan really
0:10:09	appreciate you doing that for us
0:10:11	this meeting is being recorded and i
0:10:13	believe it can be made available if
0:10:15	anybody
0:10:16	would like to see it afterwards or share
0:10:17	it with somebody
0:10:20	and i would also encourage anybody to
0:10:24	if you have any questions at all just
0:10:26	make sure you contact me and i'll be
0:10:27	more than happy to do what i can to get
0:10:29	you
0:10:29	some of these uh the minutes um
0:10:33	this as the mayor mentioned this is our
0:10:35	we've been meeting since november of
0:10:37	2017
0:10:38	and one of the very first things we did
0:10:40	at our very first meeting
0:10:42	was come up with a name for our group
0:10:44	and we a lot of names were tossed around
0:10:45	but the one that stuck
0:10:47	was the homeless solutions task force
0:10:49	and to me the one key word
0:10:50	in that title is solutions and that was
0:10:53	called out by one of the members at the
0:10:54	time who
0:10:55	said you know we're here to look for
0:10:56	solutions and not just to talk about
0:10:59	things
0:11:00	i will say that there has been some
0:11:02	criticism about what we've accomplished
0:11:04	the last three years and i think
0:11:05	a lot of the criticism is justified this
0:11:08	is a very difficult problem to solve
0:11:10	there are lots of different ideas
0:11:13	floating around
0:11:14	in terms of what we should do and
0:11:15	they're on both sides of the spectrum
0:11:17	in terms of how we address the topic of
0:11:20	homelessness so
0:11:22	it's it is challenging um we
0:11:25	are going to be talking about one of our
0:11:26	significant accomplishments today
0:11:28	uh and what i've said in the past and i
0:11:31	continue to believe is the relationships
0:11:33	that we
0:11:33	developed and formed have been at least
0:11:36	to me have been extremely invaluable
0:11:38	and uh have gone a long way towards
0:11:41	addressing some of these concerns but
0:11:43	um also as the mayor mentioned you know
0:11:45	i look forward to giving somebody else
0:11:47	an opportunity
0:11:48	to take over the reins at some point
0:11:50	down the road
0:11:51	and told the mayor i'm happy to hang in
0:11:53	there as long as you'd like me to
0:11:55	but for whatever reason my real job here
0:11:58	seems to be getting busier all the time
0:12:00	and i'd like to be able to spend more
0:12:02	time with this but
0:12:03	it's becoming more difficult so i do
0:12:05	appreciate
0:12:06	other people considering yourself or
0:12:08	somebody else down the road
0:12:11	um the core group of members that i
0:12:15	called off in the beginning uh are
0:12:17	approved by the mayor
0:12:19	and the mayor the members are the ones
0:12:22	that will vote so if there's an item
0:12:23	that needs to be voted on
0:12:24	it would be only as a member voting
0:12:28	the members are generally part of the
0:12:31	discussions
0:12:32	we don't want to exclude any opinions
0:12:34	from anybody whether you're a member or
0:12:36	a guest
0:12:38	but what i found is in our previous
0:12:40	meetings that all of our meetings seem
0:12:41	to go up until the end and even then we
0:12:43	don't seem to cover everything we'd like
0:12:45	to so we do have to be careful in terms
0:12:46	of limiting the time
0:12:48	so conversation topics are open to
0:12:50	members but
0:12:52	if we're moving along pretty rapidly
0:12:54	then we will open it up to guests as
0:12:56	well if you'd like to weigh in on a
0:12:58	particular topic
0:13:00	but i will say that there will be time
0:13:02	at the end of the meeting we will make
0:13:03	sure there's time
0:13:04	so that guests will have an opportunity
0:13:07	to speak
0:13:09	to make sure that you have a chance to
0:13:11	be heard there is also an opportunity
0:13:14	in the program here for those that are
0:13:15	familiar with it or not is the chat area
0:13:18	you can enter a comment in there you can
0:13:21	simply say i'd like to be able to say
0:13:22	something at some point or if you'd like
0:13:24	to enter a comment i'd be
0:13:25	happy to share that with the group so um
0:13:29	i think that's it for the protocols
0:13:33	so with that being said just moving down
Helping Hands – Program Updates, Personnel Changes:  Raven Brown
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=815 
0:13:35	i'm going to move to
0:13:37	um raven if you would like to introduce
0:13:40	mike
0:13:40	and maybe just share anything that's
0:13:42	going on with helping hands
0:13:45	thank you chief hi everybody for those
0:13:48	of you that don't know me my name is
0:13:49	raven russell and i'm the director of
0:13:51	data and major projects for helping
0:13:52	hands
0:13:54	and i had the great pleasure of spending
0:13:56	a whole lot of time in classic county
0:13:58	because i grew up in seaside
0:14:00	until i recently moved about a year ago
0:14:02	to portland to manage our
0:14:03	big expansion project here at the bybee
0:14:06	lakes hope center
0:14:07	we had a change in staffing uh elizabeth
0:14:11	catesh
0:14:11	decided to move back to the midwest and
0:14:14	to be
0:14:14	closer to her family she has a little
0:14:17	one-year-old niece
0:14:18	that her brother is raising and so she
0:14:20	really wanted to be close to the family
0:14:22	so
0:14:23	um we went through a hiring process and
0:14:26	found
0:14:26	mike davis and mike is joining us here
0:14:30	today he's going to be joining this task
0:14:32	force
0:14:33	as well and we'll be actively
0:14:35	participating here so
0:14:37	hopefully uh in a post-covered world
0:14:39	you'll get a chance to actually
0:14:40	meet him in person and shake his hand
0:14:42	but mike comes to us with some great
0:14:44	experience
0:14:45	in development and fundraising with the
0:14:46	oregon food bank and so we're really
0:14:48	excited to
0:14:49	have his help um as we grow and evolve
0:14:52	as a non-profit
0:14:54	so that's our update with with mike and
0:14:56	joining this
0:14:57	board we also had some other changes in
0:15:00	our regional office and we moved our
0:15:04	main office from seaside to gearheart
0:15:07	so when you're driving down the highway
0:15:09	you'll see our sign on the road you can
0:15:11	honk and wave
0:15:13	but all of our referrals are now going
0:15:15	through justin
0:15:16	and denise for the astoria facility so
0:15:20	you should have their phone numbers but
0:15:22	anybody that does not
0:15:23	i'd be happy to help connect you a
0:15:26	really exciting update
0:15:28	since it's been a while since we met is
0:15:30	that
0:15:32	we now have only three beds open at the
0:15:34	astoria facility
0:15:35	we had a dip for a while where we were
0:15:37	not able to take new
0:15:39	referrals into our emergency shelter as
0:15:40	we figured out how to keep everybody
0:15:42	safe
0:15:43	in group living through covid so we're
0:15:46	really happy to say that in
0:15:48	all five counties that we serve we've
0:15:49	only had three positive cases for covid
0:15:53	and that they did not trickle out and
0:15:55	infect a whole
0:15:56	facility which we're really grateful for
0:15:58	those three cases were in astoria so
0:16:01	um we're really proud of our staff
0:16:02	that's doing a great job with the
0:16:03	cleaning protocols to keep everybody
0:16:05	safe and
0:16:06	um yeah so that's our little general
0:16:09	update here
0:16:10	but um everything is going really well
0:16:12	with social distancing within the
0:16:14	facility and masking and all the
0:16:15	pre-screening protocols we've got so
0:16:18	thank you so much to our community
0:16:19	partners that stuck with us through some
0:16:20	changes
0:16:21	and figuring out how to navigate a
0:16:24	pandemic in group living has been
0:16:26	a bit of a rodeo so we're really
0:16:28	grateful for everybody coming along with
0:16:30	us and figuring out how to do this
0:16:31	safely
0:16:33	thanks raven i appreciate that and mike
0:16:35	welcome aboard and i look forward to an
0:16:37	opportunity to sit down and meet with
0:16:39	you and chat so
0:16:39	uh welcome to the group thank you i
0:16:43	appreciate it
0:16:45	um let's see here so uh lisa mclean
0:16:49	well let me back up just a second does
0:16:50	anybody have any uh questions
0:16:52	for raven
0:16:58	congratulations thanks pat
0:17:02	actually it's tom i'm using your
0:17:04	computer you're on cat's login
0:17:06	[Laughter]
Homelessness & Health Concerns: Lisa McClean
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=1029 
0:17:09	all righty um lisa mclean from public
0:17:12	health
0:17:16	hi good morning i'm sorry i'm not on the
0:17:18	zoom call but i ran out from
0:17:21	one phone call over onto this so um
0:17:24	i apologize um so just quickly
0:17:28	um for public health right now we're
0:17:31	really kind of
0:17:32	in the middle of our uh covet vaccine
0:17:36	task force and doing those events right
0:17:38	now they're four days a week monday
0:17:40	through
0:17:41	thursday and we did just receive our
0:17:44	first
0:17:44	shipment of the
0:17:47	johnson johnson one dose vaccine
0:17:50	so we will be looking at how we're going
0:17:54	to utilize that
0:17:55	we do have on our agenda as we expand
0:17:58	our outreach how we are going to reach
0:18:00	the homeless
0:18:01	and we've got some ideas that um
0:18:04	definitely on our radar
0:18:06	and we'll be utilizing our johnson
0:18:08	johnson vaccine for that
0:18:12	outreach
0:18:16	and that's about our office is opened
0:18:19	and we're probably going to be starting
0:18:21	to ramp up more
0:18:22	appointments there um
0:18:25	we did we had a pretty i think pretty
0:18:28	successful flu outreach we went to um
0:18:32	the warming shelter we did um through
0:18:35	our harm reduction program and we did
0:18:37	were able to reach a lot of people with
0:18:39	that so we felt pretty good
0:18:40	um so hopefully we'll use that same type
0:18:44	of
0:18:46	outreach as we set forth with the covid
0:18:49	vaccine too so we will be out
0:18:51	reaching out to those people out on the
0:18:53	street and such
0:18:58	great thanks lisa appreciate the update
0:19:00	any questions of lisa
0:19:09	lisa this is kathleen sullivan at the
0:19:11	story warming center and i just want to
0:19:13	offer again
0:19:13	um our our our facility to
0:19:17	to vaccinate our our population um
0:19:21	we we were very happy about the flu
0:19:23	clinic and we
0:19:24	felt it was a big success so thank you
0:19:28	thank you that has been um brought up a
0:19:31	couple times so
0:19:33	i will be reaching out to you as soon as
0:19:35	we're
0:19:36	to that spot where we've got enough
0:19:37	vaccine that we can offer that
0:19:41	thank you
0:19:44	all righty thank you kathleen thank you
0:19:46	lisa
Countywide Liaison Position Update: Viviana Matthews
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=1187 
0:19:47	at this point i'd like to turn it over
0:19:49	to viviana matthews from cca to talk
0:19:51	about
0:19:52	the great news about the liaison
0:20:04	position
0:20:08	viviana you you may be muted okay
0:20:11	can you hear me now okay sorry my mic
0:20:13	was off
0:20:14	so sorry do i have to start over
0:20:21	hi everybody it's viviana matthews out
0:20:23	of cca
0:20:24	and after many months of working with
0:20:28	our county widely as
0:20:31	county widely as a decision we have
0:20:33	found two very good candidates
0:20:35	that will start with us on april 1st
0:20:42	they are we have enough funding for the
0:20:44	first year
0:20:45	to hire two very outstanding
0:20:49	candidates we went through a very long
0:20:51	process of interviewing
0:20:53	we had about 20 different applicants for
0:20:56	the
0:20:56	position and our hr department selected
0:21:00	about four of those to be interviewed by
0:21:04	some members from the host such as
0:21:07	chiefs folding and monica steele and we
0:21:10	interview
0:21:11	four people four candidates and then we
0:21:14	have decided because of the fundings
0:21:17	that we are able to hire
0:21:19	two people that will start on april 1st
0:21:22	and as i mentioned before it's a
0:21:23	county-wide position so they are going
0:21:26	to see clatzo county
0:21:28	and be working with partner agencies
0:21:32	and be working with with the
0:21:35	houseless individuals here in class of
0:21:38	county
0:21:39	and i i'm comfortable to say that
0:21:43	i'm comfortable with sharing their names
0:21:45	with you one of them
0:21:46	is cheryl paul who has been working for
0:21:49	the astoria warming center for the last
0:21:51	six years
0:21:52	or five years i'm sorry and she's been a
0:21:56	astoria residents for the past six years
0:21:59	and she has a lot of experience with a
0:22:01	houseless
0:22:02	unsheltered homeless population here in
0:22:05	astoria and she's also familiar with
0:22:07	some of them
0:22:08	in seaside uh she has a lot of
0:22:12	knowledge on partner agencies but still
0:22:14	she will go through
0:22:16	um training on partner agencies and what
0:22:19	services we can offer
0:22:21	to our unsheltered population and the
0:22:23	other candidate is janet
0:22:25	turner and she has worked in social
0:22:27	services for about four years
0:22:29	in texas she will be moving from texas
0:22:32	to klatsov county
0:22:33	she's actually moving this coming
0:22:35	weekend and she has worked with
0:22:38	marginalized population and shelter
0:22:40	individuals
0:22:41	in people with mental illness
0:22:45	um and shannon also was
0:22:48	instrumental in opening a recovery
0:22:51	shelter
0:22:52	in texas so she's very familiar with
0:22:54	policies and procedure
0:22:56	and her father is a police officer or
0:23:00	was he a chief
0:23:01	in texas so she's she can see
0:23:04	um different sides of the issue
0:23:08	and and we are looking into
0:23:13	having an advisory committee and
0:23:16	the employees the two employees will be
0:23:18	working under cca they are going to be
0:23:20	cca
0:23:21	employees but we're still going to have
0:23:24	an advisory committee
0:23:25	and we are going to reach out to city
0:23:28	councils and county commissioners to see
0:23:30	if they would like to be part of the
0:23:32	advisory committee
0:23:34	to overseas the uh another not
0:23:36	necessarily the hr aspect
0:23:39	of the homeless liaison but see their
0:23:42	work
0:23:42	throughout the county and
0:23:47	monica and chief spalding am i missing
0:23:49	anything
0:23:50	well i'll just add that the advisory
0:23:54	committee
0:23:54	is still a work in progress and in
0:23:56	addition to reaching out to cities and
0:23:58	counties
0:23:59	as we grow this program and we add new
0:24:02	financial partners too
0:24:04	we will definitely be looking to add
0:24:07	individuals to the advisory committee
0:24:08	outside
0:24:09	of the you know the government entities
0:24:12	so
0:24:13	look forward to having more partners in
0:24:16	this on many levels to make sure that we
0:24:18	have as much
0:24:19	input as possible so um and and vivian
0:24:22	i'd like to thank you personally for all
0:24:23	the work you put into this
0:24:25	and also thank the subcommittee um
0:24:27	consisting of you viviana
0:24:29	jared tom terry raven and monica from
0:24:32	the group here that put a little time in
0:24:34	you know coming up with you know some of
0:24:35	the ideas and putting this program
0:24:37	together
0:24:38	so again i think it's a significant
0:24:40	accomplishment
0:24:41	and just reiterate that this is going to
0:24:44	be
0:24:44	a work in progress and i think this
0:24:47	program will probably look very
0:24:48	different two years
0:24:49	now than it will be today and we will
0:24:51	learn from this and
0:24:53	um also we will track our progress and
0:24:56	see how effective the program is in our
0:24:57	community
0:24:58	which is what i think a lot of people be
0:25:00	looking for so
0:25:02	with that i'll turn over to monica if
0:25:04	you have anything to add to that
0:25:06	um i would just add also um thanks to
0:25:09	viviana
0:25:10	in regards to being able to make this um
0:25:13	two full-time positions i think we all
0:25:15	knew
0:25:16	from the beginning that there's more
0:25:17	work than one person can handle
0:25:20	and so from a funding perspective
0:25:22	viviana
0:25:23	really went out and tried to find
0:25:26	additional funding so that um when we
0:25:29	had two
0:25:30	good candidates come before us that we
0:25:32	were able to um
0:25:33	to hire both of them and so i think
0:25:36	kudos to her on that as well because i
0:25:38	think there's going to be a lot of great
0:25:39	work
0:25:40	and again like chief spalding said um we
0:25:42	know that this is going to evolve as we
0:25:45	move forward
0:25:46	and so how this position looks now
0:25:49	versus how it might look in two to five
0:25:51	years is going to change
0:25:55	thank you monica and raven i think i saw
0:25:57	your hand up was that a
0:25:58	misfire nope i was clapping oh i don't
0:26:01	think i see sarah
0:26:02	that's what that means okay sarah yeah
0:26:05	um
0:26:06	so exciting that this is coming to
0:26:07	fruition um congratulations y'all
0:26:10	um i kind of had maybe the ironic
0:26:13	ponderance which was um with with being
0:26:16	able to hire two
0:26:18	in somebody coming in from out of town
0:26:19	do we think that this person is going to
0:26:21	be able to find a place to live
0:26:25	so yes that's a really good question it
0:26:28	it has been a challenge finding a place
0:26:30	for this person
0:26:32	but um we are working really hard for
0:26:35	her to obtain housing within the next
0:26:37	week
0:26:38	we have a really good cca has really
0:26:40	good relationship with a lot of
0:26:42	different landlords
0:26:43	so we might be able to find her
0:26:46	something she has uh
0:26:47	she has the friend who lives in the area
0:26:50	so she's going to start with to live
0:26:52	with a friend
0:26:53	until she finds something but i'm hoping
0:26:55	that she will be moving to her place
0:26:57	in seaside by um next week or so i don't
0:27:00	want to jinx it
0:27:01	yeah but i just want to reiterate that
0:27:03	the person working for
0:27:05	the most connected housing provider
0:27:06	right county making a living age is
0:27:08	having a really hard time finding a
0:27:10	place
0:27:10	is that true absolutely true yes
0:27:14	and it hasn't it it has been a team of
0:27:17	uh
0:27:18	really you know good qualified
0:27:21	case management trying to find her a
0:27:23	place for her and her daughter
0:27:25	it has been a challenge we've been
0:27:27	looking for over
0:27:28	for over two weeks now and finally we
0:27:31	have uh
0:27:32	penciled something down but it's not 100
0:27:34	sure until she moves in
0:27:35	cool my other was a question um so
0:27:39	will these two staff people be
0:27:42	if we have a person in crisis will we be
0:27:44	able to call these folks
0:27:45	for assistance or is is that outside of
0:27:49	the scope
0:27:52	so that's why the advisory uh the
0:27:55	advisory committee will come into place
0:27:57	we have to still work on
0:28:00	aspect of that we just don't want
0:28:04	the homeless liaison will have their own
0:28:06	cell phone their own
0:28:08	computer system and all of that so uh we
0:28:10	just want to make sure that
0:28:12	all the partner agencies um
0:28:15	have their information and it will be
0:28:18	something similar to the
0:28:19	rara is it is that rara from cvh
0:28:23	something similar to that yeah i would
0:28:26	just
0:28:26	add that we know that part of this
0:28:28	training process
0:28:29	is that these individuals are going to
0:28:31	have to get to know our law enforcement
0:28:33	agencies as well as our cvh members
0:28:37	and so working with them because again
0:28:39	we want to make sure that
0:28:41	when people are calling any agency that
0:28:44	they're calling them for the right type
0:28:45	of response and we don't want to
0:28:47	put these individuals in a situation
0:28:50	that they're not prepared for
0:28:51	and so it's going to be kind of to speak
0:28:54	to the training
0:28:54	aspect that viviana mentioned it's not
0:28:57	just going to be
0:28:59	training for these individuals it's
0:29:01	going to be training
0:29:02	for the different agencies to know who
0:29:05	should be
0:29:06	who should be getting called
0:29:12	so again a a work in progress and just
0:29:14	as a reminder this
0:29:16	position is for those of you who heard
0:29:18	the presentation from gresham's kevin
0:29:20	dahlgren
0:29:21	um it's going to be similar to that
0:29:24	but not the same in gresham that's
0:29:27	actually a
0:29:28	works for the city directly and for the
0:29:30	police department
0:29:31	this is not designed to be an
0:29:33	enforcement function is to help get
0:29:34	people into services
0:29:36	although they will work very closely
0:29:37	with the police departments and
0:29:39	county sheriffs i would hope that
0:29:42	someday we will get to a place where
0:29:44	they will be able to respond to
0:29:46	certain types of homeless related calls
0:29:50	and the police department isn't
0:29:51	responding to those calls so um
0:29:53	that remains to be seen so stay tuned on
0:29:56	that front
0:29:58	um david i saw your hand up just very
0:30:01	briefly thank you
0:30:02	everybody who made this happen i think
0:30:03	this is one of the um has potential to
0:30:05	be one of the best things that's come
0:30:06	out of this group um
0:30:08	it's a lot of work as you pointed out
0:30:10	it's more work than one person can do
0:30:12	the truth is it's more than two people
0:30:13	can do
0:30:14	especially if we as a committee as a
0:30:17	as a group try to put too much on them
0:30:19	so that steering committee that advisory
0:30:21	committee is going to be essential in
0:30:24	in defining what that that role is
0:30:27	really responsible for that what it's
0:30:28	capable of
0:30:29	so that we're not really just kind of
0:30:31	turning everything over and saying
0:30:33	great we've got we've got liaison so the
0:30:35	problem is solved
0:30:39	thank you david and uh as a note of
0:30:42	correction here i
0:30:43	i thought that this particular zoom
0:30:45	product had a chat room it doesn't
0:30:46	appear that it does so i apologize for
0:30:48	that so i sit corrected
0:30:50	and if anybody would like to
0:30:53	speak at some point just raise your hand
0:30:55	and i will try to catch that
0:30:58	so any any other questions for viviana
0:31:01	or about the
0:31:02	the program in general that hopefully
0:31:04	one of us can answer uh chief hamm
0:31:08	hi thanks everybody um yeah i i wasn't
0:31:11	at all familiar with these uh positions
0:31:13	coming in for whatever reason and so
0:31:16	you kind of touched on it but is there
0:31:17	just a real brief
0:31:19	couple of sentences of what the
0:31:21	expectations of these people are when
0:31:23	they're out there doing i know they're
0:31:24	going to be working with us
0:31:25	but for me to kind of go back to my boss
0:31:28	and talk a little bit about these
0:31:29	positions coming online it'd be nice to
0:31:31	know just a little bit more of a
0:31:32	snapshot of what we should be expecting
0:31:35	yeah and chief i'll turn it over to
0:31:36	viviana but i will say that
0:31:38	um you know even though they're going to
0:31:40	be hired april 1st that's still a month
0:31:42	out and then they're going to be at
0:31:43	least
0:31:43	a month internally and training well
0:31:45	they'll be spending time
0:31:46	learning the systems of cca and and
0:31:49	going around and forming relationships
0:31:51	so
0:31:51	we're definitely not going to throw them
0:31:52	to the walls they've got at least a
0:31:54	couple months and during that time
0:31:56	we will be putting together information
0:31:58	that we can share with all the
0:32:00	stakeholders
0:32:01	obviously including you and anybody else
0:32:03	how they will be used in what capacity
0:32:05	what the expectations are of them
0:32:08	so that that is all coming so
0:32:12	you know our announcement today is not
0:32:14	necessarily premature but just to let
0:32:15	everybody know that we're
0:32:16	we're still working on some of those
0:32:18	things and we want to make sure that
0:32:19	this group heard first before the press
0:32:21	release goes out
0:32:24	yeah we wanted to be as successful as
0:32:26	possible especially with people that are
0:32:28	coming out of town
0:32:29	uh i'm what i meant that homelessness
0:32:31	somebody's going to be coming out of
0:32:32	town
0:32:33	um we the committee the homeless liaison
0:32:36	committee
0:32:37	that it's myself jared tom
0:32:40	terry from the harbor raven and monica
0:32:43	have worked we worked really hard for a
0:32:46	few months
0:32:47	on getting the homeless liason position
0:32:49	the the job description
0:32:51	which i'll be more than happy to share
0:32:53	that with everybody
0:32:55	so everybody has kind of a sense what
0:32:57	the homeless liaison will be doing here
0:32:59	in class of county
0:33:00	but essentially it will be connected
0:33:02	with the um
0:33:03	with the police departments making sure
0:33:06	that the homeless people
0:33:08	know of services that they might qualify
0:33:10	here in class county
0:33:12	one of the goal is for them to be
0:33:13	connected with services the other one is
0:33:16	to
0:33:17	not to utilize the ed as much as
0:33:21	we have that people just you know
0:33:24	need to be connected with insurance
0:33:26	company instead of going to the aed for
0:33:28	every little thing
0:33:30	um so there's some there's some things
0:33:32	there
0:33:33	um yeah
0:33:40	okay any questions uh back to that uh
0:33:43	anybody else uh
0:33:44	if you do the hand raised thing and i
0:33:46	will try to
0:33:47	recognize that and she's folding do you
0:33:50	you do have the most uh
0:33:52	recent job description don't you do you
0:33:55	mind sending that
0:33:56	out to the group i will definitely do
0:33:59	that
0:34:00	thank you
0:34:06	[Music]
0:34:10	okay i don't see any questions at this
0:34:12	point so um
0:34:14	i do want to say though that
0:34:16	homelessness is not just
0:34:18	the the issue of homelessness is not
0:34:21	just people
0:34:22	want to be on the street housing it's a
0:34:25	huge
0:34:25	issue where we have so many people who
0:34:27	are homeless so we just have to remember
0:34:30	that we do have these two positions
0:34:32	coming up but we're not going to be able
0:34:33	to solve the homelessness
0:34:36	issue of finding housing i mean we'll do
0:34:38	the best we can
0:34:40	but please remember the housing
0:34:42	inventory
0:34:43	it's extremely low kind of non-existent
0:34:45	right now
0:34:46	um so please keep that in mind the
0:34:49	housing
0:34:50	it's our number one issue
0:34:54	and this is monica and i i would just
0:34:57	add you know
0:34:58	that and as you all know i mean this is
0:35:00	not
0:35:01	anything new to you but homelessness
0:35:03	looks different for everybody
0:35:05	and so the whole um idea behind these
0:35:08	positions right now is because we have
0:35:11	such a housing inventory crisis
0:35:14	is getting these individuals connected
0:35:16	to the services
0:35:17	so that way they are able to be one step
0:35:20	closer um if if housing does open up
0:35:24	and there they have everything in place
0:35:26	to kind of put them into a position
0:35:28	depending on the type of housing that
0:35:30	they're needing um
0:35:32	we're we're well aware that um
0:35:35	in many instances people are coming into
0:35:37	town um
0:35:38	in like motorhomes
0:35:42	or or living out of their cars with
0:35:44	children
0:35:45	and so in some instances it's making
0:35:47	sure that they're getting their kid
0:35:48	kids enrolled into the school system um
0:35:52	and and those types of things so ideally
0:35:54	this is
0:35:55	um what we can do right now if we can't
0:35:58	get them
0:35:58	into um stable housing is get them
0:36:01	connected to the services
0:36:03	that they're needing to just start
0:36:05	moving forward
0:36:06	[Music]
0:36:10	thanks monica and thanks again viviana
0:36:13	thank you
Clatsop County 2020 Strategic Plan Goal SS1a, Navigation/Drop In Center — Clatsop County: Monica Steele
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=2174 
0:36:14	all right so uh monica back to you uh to
0:36:17	talk about the uh
0:36:19	ss ss1 a navigation drop-in center
0:36:23	discussion yes so the ss1a
0:36:26	seems very you know technical or
0:36:29	whatever you want to call it but our um
0:36:31	board of county commissioners recently
0:36:33	adopted their strategic plan
0:36:35	um it was about a year-long process that
0:36:37	they went through
0:36:38	and it involved the board as well as
0:36:42	staff
0:36:42	and then community partners also and so
0:36:46	through that process they identified
0:36:48	five different areas that they wanted to
0:36:50	focus on
0:36:51	those being governance infrastructure
0:36:53	economic development
0:36:54	environmental quality and social
0:36:56	services and so the ss
0:36:57	stands for social services and then
0:37:00	within
0:37:01	these five areas they identified
0:37:05	different different projects that they
0:37:07	wanted to address
0:37:08	and there were tier one tier two and
0:37:10	tier three projects
0:37:11	and then within those tiers there there
0:37:14	may have also been more than one project
0:37:17	and so um the one stands for tier one
0:37:20	and then the a stands for um
0:37:23	one of the two tier one projects that
0:37:25	got identified
0:37:26	and that is a navigation or drop-in
0:37:29	center
0:37:30	and so um you know we
0:37:33	we've all recognized that it's really
0:37:35	hard when trying to engage somebody
0:37:37	in services um to have them have to go
0:37:40	to one location
0:37:42	and then say okay now you need to go
0:37:44	down here and you need to work on
0:37:46	getting this
0:37:47	and a lot of times whether it's just um
0:37:51	the the timing of it or whether it's
0:37:53	just
0:37:54	some sort of distraction they might not
0:37:57	make it to that next point and so
0:37:58	being able to have a single location
0:38:01	that provides
0:38:02	as many of these services as possible is
0:38:05	critical
0:38:06	in trying to keep that person engaged
0:38:09	and getting them the help that they need
0:38:11	um so one of the things that we have
0:38:14	looked at is
0:38:15	this drop-in center to have services
0:38:17	such as public health
0:38:19	mental health various things like foot
0:38:22	health
0:38:22	or dental health as well as being able
0:38:26	to provide them
0:38:27	with showers and meals
0:38:30	and a place to do laundry in addition to
0:38:34	those types of services
0:38:36	it's also really critical to be able to
0:38:38	get whether it's a
0:38:40	id or driver's license or social
0:38:42	security card
0:38:43	um employment opportunities and so
0:38:46	trying to have a one-stop shop
0:38:49	sort of um mentality for this facility
0:38:52	um of course the difficulty is finding a
0:38:55	facility
0:38:56	we were working with a community partner
0:38:59	and we were
0:39:00	really excited because it seemed like it
0:39:03	would be a perfect
0:39:04	fit but unfortunately for them
0:39:07	it didn't work out to be something that
0:39:09	they were able to do
0:39:11	so we are continuing to evaluate um
0:39:14	possibilities um i know that a common
0:39:18	theme that has come
0:39:19	up is what is the county going to do
0:39:21	with the old jail
0:39:23	once they move out to warrenton
0:39:26	and that is something that um you know
0:39:28	we are going to be looking at
0:39:30	um it's something that um in this next
0:39:33	um fiscal year we will be um
0:39:37	requesting the possibility of doing a
0:39:39	feasibility study for what that
0:39:42	old jail could be used for i don't know
0:39:45	how many of you have ever visited it
0:39:47	um either intentionally or
0:39:49	unintentionally
0:39:50	um but it is it is not
0:39:53	the most um
0:39:57	user-friendly facility um and so in some
0:40:00	instances we want to make sure that the
0:40:03	individuals
0:40:04	who are coming here aren't having a
0:40:05	negative experience
0:40:08	and so we are you know we're going to
0:40:11	take a look at it to see
0:40:12	one can you do remodeling to it
0:40:16	to be able to make it a usable facility
0:40:19	and if so
0:40:20	what what type of use can it be so
0:40:22	that's
0:40:23	that's one area that we're looking at
0:40:25	and then we're also just gonna
0:40:26	continue to look at um other possible um
0:40:30	facilities um that that would be a good
0:40:32	location for this so if at any point in
0:40:34	time anybody says
0:40:35	i happen to have this huge wide open
0:40:37	space that you know we're looking for a
0:40:39	use for
0:40:40	please reach out to us and let us know
0:40:42	um to see if it's a
0:40:44	viable option so so that is the um
0:40:47	that is the social services 1a project
0:40:50	that we're going to be focusing on
0:40:52	in this next year again um
0:40:55	will it be up and running by the end of
0:40:57	2122
0:40:59	most likely not simply because trying to
0:41:01	find a facility to put it into
0:41:04	um but it's it's um steps that we're
0:41:07	trying to
0:41:08	um put forward so that way in the next
0:41:11	year or two
0:41:11	we do have a facility that we can um
0:41:16	have been available to all of our
0:41:18	populations county-wide
0:41:20	[Music]
0:41:24	all righty thank you monica any
0:41:26	questions about the
0:41:27	the new program the goal members or
0:41:31	guests we're moving along pretty good
0:41:32	here
0:41:33	um so we do have some time if we have
0:41:35	questions from anybody in the
0:41:37	online i'd like to i have a question
0:41:40	i i just jumped on to the meeting here
0:41:43	um
0:41:44	if you don't mind hi um
0:41:47	hi monica it was good to hear from you
0:41:49	and it was
0:41:50	um i just want to actually just take a
0:41:52	moment to
0:41:54	introduce the beacon clubhouse um i
0:41:56	don't know if everybody knows
0:41:58	what the beacon clubhouse is but nami
0:42:00	klatsup which stands for the national
0:42:01	alliance on mental illness has um
0:42:04	has planted this project and i'm the
0:42:06	director of that project
0:42:09	it is an outreach and advocacy and
0:42:12	resource
0:42:12	center for people who are navigating
0:42:15	mental illness
0:42:16	and we work a lot with people who are
0:42:18	living on the streets
0:42:19	we've done a lot of housing placement
0:42:22	and job placement we opened in june
0:42:26	it's good to hear that cheryl paul is
0:42:28	taking on the new liaison position
0:42:31	she's currently working for the beacon
0:42:32	clubhouse she's been amazing
0:42:34	i'm really happy about that hire and
0:42:37	then
0:42:38	we are taking referrals we take mental
0:42:41	health referrals from
0:42:42	cbh and just we have partners all
0:42:45	through the community cca
0:42:48	choices counseling treatment core we
0:42:50	work with directly so i just wanted to
0:42:53	give
0:42:53	that i wanted to introduce that program
0:42:56	on this format and just let everybody
0:42:58	know that we exist um and then also to
0:43:01	follow up on the drop-in center i just
0:43:03	wanted to remind you to monica that
0:43:05	filling empty bellies has
0:43:07	still continued to work towards that
0:43:08	direction and we've gotten some grant
0:43:10	funding in the past year
0:43:12	that's moving us closer to that goal so
0:43:14	just don't forget that feeling empty
0:43:15	bellies is still there and
0:43:17	and hoping to partner with whatever
0:43:19	drop-in center movement
0:43:20	continues to to develop and that we're
0:43:23	still doing the work that we
0:43:25	have continued to do on the ground so um
0:43:28	just don't don't forget about us please
0:43:30	that we're still here and we're still
0:43:32	trying really hard
0:43:33	to meet some of those same goals so that
0:43:36	sounds great and i appreciate
0:43:37	you um sharing that information erin and
0:43:40	and that's
0:43:41	um that's one thing that we're really
0:43:43	trying to do and
0:43:44	i do attend a lot of the different
0:43:47	meetings because
0:43:48	there are a lot of a lot of groups out
0:43:51	there who are trying to do great things
0:43:53	and we just want to make sure
0:43:55	that we're not um we're not duplicating
0:43:57	efforts of another organization
0:43:59	and we're not trying to spread the
0:44:01	resources that are already so
0:44:03	thin even more thin so working with
0:44:06	community partners such as feeding
0:44:08	empty bellies and the beacon house and
0:44:09	the warming shelter
0:44:11	and i know that seaside has been working
0:44:13	to also get a warming shelter in place
0:44:15	so we want to have those conversations
0:44:17	as a larger group
0:44:18	so that way we can all all work together
0:44:21	absolutely
0:44:22	yeah i appreciate that thank you
0:44:26	thanks aaron uh any other comments if uh
0:44:29	you either want to raise your hand or
0:44:31	um
0:44:34	okay i'm sorry who's that barry okay
0:44:37	barry
0:44:38	and then ron i see you next
0:44:43	[Music]
0:44:44	i can't hear you you're muted
0:44:49	you're still muted
0:44:53	[Music]
0:44:59	hello there you go yeah i just wanted to
0:45:02	make one comment that
0:45:04	right now at the warming center when we
0:45:07	have the people leave in the morning
0:45:10	they used to go to the library and now
0:45:12	because of the pandemic it's even
0:45:14	magnified the need for a drop-in center
0:45:18	because they have
0:45:19	no place to go and um
0:45:22	so thank you thank you thank you ron and
0:45:25	barry it looks like you're now unmuted
0:45:27	back to you
0:45:28	okay um so comment long ago
0:45:32	which is uh can you bring your
0:45:35	microphone down
0:45:38	yeah this is a comment to monica which i
0:45:40	think is going to sound harsh
0:45:42	but um i think that um
0:45:47	calling something assess one and a
0:45:50	and then in the same sentence saying
0:45:53	that
0:45:53	uh well our deal fell apart and now
0:45:56	we're looking at
0:45:58	maybe 2022 is really
0:46:01	um a mischaracterization
0:46:04	of uh the uh
0:46:08	where you stand with respect to the
0:46:10	actual priority of the drop-in center
0:46:13	the actual need for it and i think that
0:46:16	um you need to be more straightforward
0:46:19	uh
0:46:20	with your constituents about exactly
0:46:24	um you know where you are with this and
0:46:27	how much
0:46:28	energy and investment you're really
0:46:29	going to put into it because we
0:46:31	you know we we can walk away thinking oh
0:46:34	yeah the county's behind
0:46:35	a drop-in center and then it just turns
0:46:37	out to be a vacant promise that
0:46:40	uh has no productive outcome i mean i'm
0:46:43	uh far more interested in what aaron's
0:46:46	doing which is real
0:46:48	than what the academy says is
0:46:53	some vacuous goal out into
0:46:56	some uh unknown future um
0:47:00	so i mean can you be more
0:47:01	straightforward with this uh
0:47:03	let you know that the that the um 2122
0:47:07	strategic plan that this is the this is
0:47:10	the number one priority
0:47:11	and so it's part of the budget process
0:47:14	and there is funding that's going to be
0:47:16	going towards it
0:47:17	and so when i say that the um the
0:47:20	facility that we had
0:47:21	planned to try and partner with fell
0:47:24	through
0:47:25	that doesn't mean that we are dropping
0:47:27	off as this being a number one priority
0:47:30	to
0:47:30	continue to move forward with and we're
0:47:33	working on it now
0:47:34	um and we'll continue to work on it in
0:47:36	2122. these
0:47:38	strategic plan goals were for driving
0:47:41	the budget budget process for
0:47:43	21.22 so nothing has changed there
0:47:46	um the unfortunate part is that the fact
0:47:49	that that building fell through
0:47:51	so continuing the project nothing has
0:47:54	changed there it's just we don't have an
0:47:57	immediate facility
0:47:59	and that's not anything to do with um
0:48:02	the board not seeing it as a priority it
0:48:04	simply has to do with
0:48:06	um the availability of real estate and
0:48:09	the partners that are willing
0:48:11	to be able to help us find find a
0:48:14	location for that so
0:48:15	i can promise you that it's still a
0:48:17	number one priority
0:48:18	and it's going to be moving forward as
0:48:20	it currently is in the current year
0:48:22	and into the 21 22 budget year but i
0:48:26	appreciate your feedback and i commend
0:48:28	aaron for the work that her
0:48:29	and the beacon house and mommy are doing
0:48:31	and um
0:48:32	and so we'll continue to work with them
0:48:35	as well to move
0:48:36	to move our project forward so thank you
0:48:39	[Music]
0:48:42	thank you anything else on that barry
0:48:45	well i'm not satisfied with the answer
0:48:47	but it's pointless to continue
0:48:48	[Music]
0:48:50	so let me just point out also these are
0:48:52	goals established by the
0:48:54	clatsup county commission those are our
0:48:57	elected representatives at the county
0:48:59	so the class of county commissioners
0:49:02	under the leadership of the current
0:49:03	chair commissioner cuellar established
0:49:05	these goals
0:49:06	and commissioner cuiola had a conflict
0:49:08	and couldn't join us today
0:49:09	to talk about this so the assistant
0:49:11	county manager monica steele who's
0:49:13	charged with
0:49:14	executing the priorities of the elected
0:49:16	county commissioners is here to brief us
0:49:18	on this project and i appreciate your
0:49:20	work i don't think it's helpful at all
0:49:21	to describe people's work as vacuous i
0:49:24	think there's a lot of people here that
0:49:25	want to do
0:49:26	good work they're trying very hard to do
0:49:28	good work
0:49:29	and let's just keep sharing information
0:49:32	and coordinating with each other and
0:49:33	make forward progress
0:49:36	thank you man thanks for that mayor
0:49:38	[Music]
0:49:40	thank you mayor anybody else on this
0:49:42	topic before we move
0:49:44	to the next subject uh hand raise on
0:49:46	your computer if you can
0:49:48	[Music]
0:49:52	okay i see a virtual hand raised by
0:49:56	kathleen i'm trying to unmute
0:49:59	i just wanted to support uh monica
0:50:01	steele as you know i worked on this
0:50:03	strategic plan last year as a
0:50:04	commissioner and i know that the
0:50:07	intention is there
0:50:08	and the effort is there and i really
0:50:11	applaud
0:50:12	um all the work that uh ms steele has
0:50:14	done on this
0:50:15	and i know that the commissioners going
0:50:17	forward are also committed to this so
0:50:20	um but the reality is the reality i mean
0:50:23	real estate is what what it is right now
0:50:26	and
0:50:26	it doesn't mean that the intention isn't
0:50:28	there that the effort won't continue
0:50:29	so uh thank you very much uh uh
0:50:33	monica for all that you've done on this
0:50:34	as well as the board and as as well as
0:50:36	the other folks on the call
0:50:38	um i know that uh beacon clubhouse and
0:50:41	feeding empty bellies
0:50:42	have been working a long time and all
0:50:44	this too and i think that
0:50:46	for me one of the purposes of this
0:50:48	meeting is for all of us to coordinate
0:50:50	together
0:50:51	[Music]
0:50:52	and to put all of our energy together um
0:50:54	to get something for the community it's
0:50:56	it's not a it's not an ownership issue
0:50:58	it's something that we all
0:51:00	are committed to helping uh the people
0:51:02	that are most
0:51:03	in need so uh i just wanted to to say
0:51:07	thank you thank you kathleen and then um
0:51:10	i
0:51:11	i know brooke you're up next and then uh
0:51:14	annie i have you up after that
0:51:18	thank you i just wanted to say i've been
0:51:20	here for about a year
0:51:22	um i'm here with representing columbia
0:51:24	pacific
0:51:25	cco and i'm very excited to see the
0:51:27	progress that's happened in the year i
0:51:29	had a baby a year ago and so i was gone
0:51:32	and then it was copied
0:51:33	and i missed our last one um so i'm
0:51:36	excited to see you all and since then
0:51:38	we at columbia pacific cco have started
0:51:41	a regional housing impact fund
0:51:43	we've started funding housing projects
0:51:45	uh both services and support
0:51:47	so we have a grant that's gone out to
0:51:50	the story of warming center
0:51:51	and we also have a grant that went out
0:51:54	to
0:51:55	fund the chelsea gardens new housing
0:51:58	development in warrington through noha
0:52:00	um and we'd be interested in learning
0:52:03	more about the drop-in center
0:52:05	and um yeah i'd love to connect
0:52:08	so just loop me in to those
0:52:10	conversations
0:52:14	thank you brooke i appreciate that annie
0:52:20	so i just wanted to say thanks monica
0:52:22	for giving us all the information about
0:52:24	this
0:52:25	um and to keep us in mind we'd really
0:52:28	like to work with you on this
0:52:30	and i want to reiterate what erin said
0:52:33	on the fabulous work
0:52:34	filling empty bellies has been doing we
0:52:37	all need to work together this is
0:52:38	something that
0:52:39	needs to happen so that's all
0:52:43	thank you hey sammy
0:52:47	erin would you do me a favor just so i
0:52:49	know your organization now i know you
0:52:51	have a
0:52:52	new individual mr ozark what have you um
0:52:54	what what is your current structure just
0:52:56	and so
0:52:56	those who need to reach out to you guys
0:52:58	if at least for my benefit anyway i'd be
0:53:00	helpful
0:53:01	yeah so um i will remind everyone that
0:53:05	we are filling empty bellies so if you
0:53:07	google us
0:53:07	it does need to be filling i know that
0:53:09	it seems to make more sense in most
0:53:11	people's minds to be feeding because we
0:53:13	do feed people
0:53:14	um but so ozark orrick who is on this
0:53:18	call is the new director of filling
0:53:21	empty bellies he's actually done some
0:53:24	fabulous work this year since taking it
0:53:26	over
0:53:27	he has lived experience in this town
0:53:29	being
0:53:30	on the streets and also being on the
0:53:33	other side of it
0:53:33	so his position is really valuable i
0:53:36	think that lived experiences
0:53:39	is obviously really important when
0:53:41	looking at this issue
0:53:42	so um he he brings a lot um
0:53:46	and so he is the director he would be
0:53:48	the one that you would reach out to i
0:53:49	know he works
0:53:51	you know quite a bit actually directly
0:53:53	hi kenny he's worked a lot with kenny
0:53:55	hansen
0:53:57	and and others of you on this call he
0:53:59	also works part-time at the astoria
0:54:01	warming center so
0:54:02	um so he would be the contact from now
0:54:05	on for filling empty bellies
0:54:07	although because my heart and soul is in
0:54:10	filling empty bellies i would still have
0:54:12	information um about the goings on of
0:54:15	that
0:54:15	um but he would be the contact person
0:54:18	and then i am the director of the beacon
0:54:20	clubhouse
0:54:21	which is a project of nami clacked up
0:54:25	and so i would be the touch point person
0:54:26	for that and that's really coming at it
0:54:28	from the angle of
0:54:30	addressing the mental illness piece and
0:54:32	offering support for people who are
0:54:34	dealing with mental illness and
0:54:36	co-occurring substance abuse
0:54:38	and homelessness so i hope that answers
0:54:40	that question
0:54:41	um jeff it does it absolutely does i
0:54:44	appreciate that
0:54:45	and uh thank you and uh mr newton i see
0:54:47	you have a hand raised i
0:54:48	don't think you're just waving so no i i
0:54:51	i don't know how many people on here are
0:54:53	not elected officials as a businessman
0:54:56	what i can do i decide where to go i
0:54:58	spend my money there but the county when
0:55:00	they
0:55:00	and the cities when they lay out their
0:55:02	budget that's where they're going to go
0:55:04	and focus in the next year
0:55:05	so basically almost two years ago it was
0:55:07	decided what they would do this year
0:55:09	because you
0:55:10	and so for the county that to think they
0:55:12	can do it in 2122 is really a rush
0:55:14	order in government and so i i
0:55:18	i understand monica is there but most
0:55:20	programs like that would be five years
0:55:22	in the development before they ever
0:55:23	moved anywhere
0:55:24	with any of the local government so
0:55:25	monica you're doing a good thing if you
0:55:27	can get 2122. so
0:55:29	and i would just like to reiterate
0:55:31	commissioner newton
0:55:32	um and it's it's not that we um
0:55:35	unfortunately think
0:55:36	that we're going to be able to open
0:55:37	something in 2122
0:55:39	we um are working on finding a location
0:55:44	and so what we're
0:55:45	what we're going to be requesting in the
0:55:46	budget is the feasibility of
0:55:49	converting the um existing jail
0:55:52	into a navigation drop-in center when we
0:55:55	originally
0:55:56	thought that we had a partnership in
0:55:58	place
0:55:59	with a local entity um
0:56:02	we thought that the that the likelihood
0:56:05	of being
0:56:06	able to open a navigation center would
0:56:08	have been um
0:56:09	a little sooner but since and that was
0:56:12	work that's been happening um
0:56:14	over the last eight months um but when i
0:56:17	met with that group
0:56:18	a couple weeks ago it was learned um
0:56:21	just
0:56:21	based on some things that they're trying
0:56:23	to do it wasn't going to be feasible
0:56:26	so that's where the shift has occurred
0:56:28	so
0:56:30	it's just that you set your you set your
0:56:32	goals you set your direction
0:56:33	and you have to follow that direction
0:56:35	because if you change your direction
0:56:37	then you'd have no direction in
0:56:38	government because somebody comes to you
0:56:39	once this somebody comes in one set
0:56:41	and if you if you don't follow what
0:56:43	you've decided to do pretty soon you're
0:56:45	just
0:56:45	running in circles putting out fires is
0:56:47	basically what you do so
0:56:48	i understand monica how frustrating it
0:56:50	can be trying to move anything fast
0:56:54	thank you okay so i think we'll move on
0:56:58	see no other hands race at this point so
Pallet Shelters: Ron Maxted
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=3421 
0:57:01	i'm going to move forward to uh ron
0:57:02	maxted who'd like to talk a little bit
0:57:04	about pallet shelters
0:57:05	and after ron takes a couple minutes to
0:57:08	talk about the pallet shelters
0:57:10	i'm going to transition to a short
0:57:12	three-minute video
0:57:14	that explains what these are so um
0:57:17	ron you are on and let me know when
0:57:19	you're ready for me to start that video
0:57:21	okay uh thanks jeff uh so
0:57:25	the we are opportunity village
0:57:28	we're a subcommittee of this host
0:57:31	organization
0:57:32	and we've been in existence for a little
0:57:35	less than a year
0:57:37	and we have an opportunity
0:57:41	to
0:57:42	[Music]
0:57:46	acquire a demonstration
0:57:50	transitional home
0:57:52	[Music]
0:57:53	and uh we'd we would
0:57:56	need to find a space for it to set it
0:57:58	could be on the parking lot or something
0:58:00	like that
0:58:01	but then that would give us an
0:58:03	opportunity to introduce to the
0:58:04	community
0:58:05	and to all of us what a transitional
0:58:08	home
0:58:09	could look like uh you know it's uh
0:58:14	and uh this little video that we have
0:58:16	from a group in seattle
0:58:19	has been producing these that
0:58:23	seems like it could be a favorable model
0:58:26	it could be something
0:58:27	a another model but anyway this will
0:58:30	give you certainly an idea of what a
0:58:31	transitional home
0:58:33	looks like just a little
0:58:36	more information on opportunity village
0:58:40	we started out um
0:58:43	with about 21 members that people
0:58:47	we did a demonstration from
0:58:53	a group in eugene
0:58:59	that presented their opportunity village
0:59:02	and their transitional housing
0:59:05	project and has given us some
0:59:08	some guidance and what we're looking for
0:59:12	now
0:59:13	is a non-profit to sister with
0:59:16	to be able to use their non-profit
0:59:20	status for fundraising and so
0:59:24	we are in a uh i think
0:59:27	a great position right now of the
0:59:30	possibility of actually being
0:59:32	able to purchase one of these
0:59:35	models through funding that
0:59:40	hopefully might be there and
0:59:43	so we'd like to take the opportunity to
0:59:46	show you
0:59:47	what a opportunity village could our
0:59:50	opportunity
0:59:51	housing would look like and
0:59:54	um and the possibility of us going
0:59:59	forward
1:00:00	would be uh finding a place for it to
1:00:03	sit
1:00:04	and then maybe like on saturdays having
1:00:06	open houses having the community come
1:00:08	and look at it and that would give us a
1:00:11	opportunity to garner support for
1:00:14	opportunity village and also
1:00:18	support for the homeless population
1:00:21	that might be able to
1:00:23	[Music]
1:00:25	live in such a quarter so
1:00:28	jeff if you want to play that um
1:00:32	video we can see here
1:00:36	okay i'm going to start up now i don't
1:00:38	know for 100 sure if i share this if
1:00:40	it'll also share the audio
1:00:42	so for those that you that can't see it
1:00:44	or don't hear it
1:00:45	um the website yes when you go to share
1:00:48	it there's going to be a special button
1:00:50	that you click
1:00:50	that says share audio oh okay you can't
1:00:53	go back if you get it wrong i've learned
1:00:55	from
1:00:56	experience okay so i'm going to hit play
1:00:58	and see what happens
1:01:00	and then i'll stop it for a second see
1:01:02	if i'm doing this
1:01:05	i'm excited can you guys hear that okay
1:01:10	i see a couple head nods
1:01:11	yeah okay give our shelter today one
1:01:14	thing to note for you
1:01:16	this unit is missing its front wall and
1:01:18	front door
1:01:19	that is intentional so that you can see
1:01:20	inside normally our shelters have a
1:01:22	really beautiful front wall
1:01:24	with a locking door which is really
1:01:25	important people experiencing
1:01:26	homelessness and displaced by disaster
1:01:28	in the security of knowing
1:01:30	that their things and their people are
1:01:31	safe so we have included a locking door
1:01:33	that we can't show you here
1:01:35	a couple important things to note about
1:01:36	this unit structurally it comes in a
1:01:39	panelized form
1:01:40	on a shipping pallet so we can get about
1:01:42	32 of these of this size in a single
1:01:44	tray
1:01:45	so max capacity at scale to get as many
1:01:47	people out of the elements as possible
1:01:49	the units go together in about 30
1:01:51	minutes with no tools
1:01:52	required they go together super fast
1:01:55	with a very small team
1:01:57	as you can see each of the panels is
1:01:59	individually manufactured here in the
1:02:01	shop so if you have any damage or issues
1:02:03	with any of the panels we can replace
1:02:04	just the panel instead of the entire
1:02:06	unit
1:02:07	the units are made of a material that is
1:02:09	mold mildew and rock resistant and
1:02:11	totally organic
1:02:12	they're also pest resistant which is
1:02:14	really important when working with
1:02:15	people experiencing homelessness
1:02:18	all of them are also cleanable
1:02:19	sterilizable which is especially
1:02:21	important right now during coven
1:02:23	so that you can cycle multiple people
1:02:24	through the same unit and get a higher
1:02:26	roi
1:02:26	on your investment another really
1:02:28	important feature to note is this floor
1:02:30	this is a structural floor that includes
1:02:32	an aluminum structural members that can
1:02:34	go right on the ground we put these
1:02:36	units on grass gravel concrete
1:02:38	anywhere you can literally set up a
1:02:41	pallet community in a matter of minutes
1:02:43	excuse me hours you can put together a
1:02:45	shelter in a matter of minutes
1:02:47	and put an entire community together in
1:02:49	a day if you like
1:02:50	a couple other really important features
1:02:52	that we want to make you aware of if you
1:02:53	come inside
1:02:54	you can see that this is a very
1:02:56	comfortable unit so it includes beds
1:02:58	these bunk beds fold up and out of the
1:03:00	way during the day and lit and latch
1:03:02	so that there's more room to move around
1:03:04	you can also drop them down at night for
1:03:05	sleeping
1:03:06	and we include the red mattresses and
1:03:08	and you can add your own bedding and all
1:03:10	of that
1:03:10	a couple other important features to
1:03:12	note we have shelves for storing your
1:03:14	things which is really important so that
1:03:15	people can keep their things with them
1:03:17	and feel like they have their own place
1:03:20	we also have electrical panels that
1:03:22	can be connected to an existing
1:03:24	infrastructure
1:03:25	or be added to you can add solar power
1:03:28	or connect
1:03:28	generators whatever you have available
1:03:30	um our units also contain
1:03:32	air conditioning units which we don't
1:03:33	have one here but this is what this hole
1:03:35	is for
1:03:36	and a heater as well so that you can
1:03:38	have individual temperature control or
1:03:39	comfort
1:03:40	additionally our units are meant to be
1:03:42	safe and secure so as i mentioned they
1:03:44	would have a locking door
1:03:46	they have opening windows that lock when
1:03:48	they're closed but can open for airflow
1:03:50	inside
1:03:51	we also have everything that includes a
1:03:54	fire extinguisher
1:03:55	a smoke detector which is hardwired and
1:03:57	co monitor
1:03:58	and we can also do that battery operated
1:04:00	if you're not going to connect the power
1:04:03	and then we also have really importantly
1:04:05	down here
1:04:06	an egress hatch this is if there happens
1:04:08	to be a fire in your unit in front of
1:04:10	the door
1:04:11	this is a secondary way to get out and
1:04:13	this can be kicked out quickly
1:04:14	and someone can slide out without any
1:04:16	issue
1:04:17	additionally we have other options for
1:04:19	ventilation we have a venting ridge roof
1:04:21	cap
1:04:22	that opens up so that hot air can go out
1:04:25	and cool air can come in it's very
1:04:27	important for people to be comfortable
1:04:29	and feel like they're in control of
1:04:30	their environment so overall those are
1:04:32	all the various features of our unit
1:04:34	that i wanted to share with you if you'd
1:04:36	like to learn more about our units and
1:04:38	how they can work in your city or county
1:04:40	please reach out to our team and we'll
1:04:42	be happy to set up a personal meeting
1:04:44	or answer any questions you have please
1:04:46	let us know how we can help
1:04:50	so uh hopefully you guys could hear that
1:04:52	and see it
1:04:54	if you couldn't and you want to see it
1:04:55	again or get any more information you go
1:04:57	to paletteshelter.com
1:04:59	and you can navigate to that link uh ron
1:05:02	uh back you to close that up
1:05:04	okay uh thank you chief um so
1:05:08	that's what's on the horizon so
1:05:12	the thing that we'll be up with
1:05:15	is where to put it and the sponsorship
1:05:19	and going forward and of course the
1:05:23	opportunity village would be responsible
1:05:25	for once it's up and
1:05:27	conducting open houses and that sort of
1:05:30	thing and going forward
1:05:31	so so thank you very much thank you
1:05:35	thank you ron i appreciate you bringing
1:05:36	that to the group
1:05:39	all right so uh moving into some of our
Homeless Activity
Mental Illness: Amy Baker
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=3942 
1:05:42	homeless related activity uh turn over
1:05:45	to amy baker with cbh
1:05:50	uh thanks chief spalding um obviously
1:05:53	i'm amy baker with cbh
1:05:56	i think uh this has been partially
1:05:58	addressed today but i
1:05:59	i want to remind folks about this
1:06:02	because i think it influences our
1:06:04	uh willingness to tackle the problem
1:06:07	that really it's not
1:06:08	substance abuse issues and mental
1:06:10	illness uh that are creating the
1:06:12	homeless issue what's creating the
1:06:14	homeless issue
1:06:15	is the fact that uh uh
1:06:19	30 percent of our rentals
1:06:22	in this community require more than 30
1:06:25	percent require people to spend more
1:06:27	than 30 percent of their income on rent
1:06:30	and there was a study that was completed
1:06:32	by zillow that
1:06:34	showed that once that happens in uh
1:06:36	communities
1:06:37	then the homelessness uh starts to
1:06:40	expand exponentially
1:06:42	and that is the challenge that we're
1:06:44	seeing in
1:06:45	in class of county and of course the
1:06:48	challenge for us
1:06:49	is that often the first folks who become
1:06:52	homeless are the ones who are the most
1:06:54	vulnerable uh
1:06:55	in their housing situations and that is
1:06:57	often people who have substance use
1:06:59	disorders and mental illness
1:07:02	and also to remind that it's almost
1:07:05	impossible to participate
1:07:07	in treatment services when you're
1:07:09	homeless
1:07:10	because your number one priority is
1:07:14	basic needs of food and shelter and so
1:07:17	if we wait for people to get treatment
1:07:20	services
1:07:21	to house them we will wait forever
1:07:24	and that the cities that have
1:07:26	successfully tackled this know that
1:07:28	they have to start with a housing first
1:07:29	model
1:07:32	from classic behavioral healthcare's
1:07:34	perspective we are currently pursuing
1:07:37	uh uh offering transitional housing
1:07:41	shelter for people who have serious
1:07:42	mental health issues
1:07:45	we very much appreciate the resources
1:07:48	that exist
1:07:48	now but for folks who have mental health
1:07:51	issues
1:07:52	dormitory style shelter is not going to
1:07:55	work for them
1:07:56	and so having having individual rooms
1:08:00	that feel
1:08:01	safe and the program is staffed
1:08:04	i think is going to be critical and i
1:08:07	have
1:08:08	something in the works currently but i'm
1:08:10	not going to say anything about it
1:08:11	because i don't want to jinx it
1:08:13	so stay tuned on that the second piece
1:08:17	of course is that transitional housing
1:08:19	is great
1:08:21	but what we really need is permanent
1:08:23	supported housing
1:08:24	there has to be the next step for folks
1:08:26	to go to and
1:08:28	permanent supported housing is a
1:08:31	deficit in this community we really
1:08:32	don't have it
1:08:34	and what i mean by that is that we have
1:08:36	housing that has staffing
1:08:38	attached to it to ensure that we're
1:08:39	helping folks out when they're
1:08:41	struggling
1:08:42	and that we're able to mitigate the
1:08:44	situations that would potentially
1:08:46	lead to somebody being evicted and and
1:08:49	doing everything we can to prevent that
1:08:53	what i can tell you is that the whole
1:08:56	issue around
1:08:57	housing has been a oversight dating back
1:09:00	to 1963
1:09:02	when the community mental health act was
1:09:05	passed by the kennedy administration
1:09:08	and in the attempt to
1:09:09	de-institutionalize
1:09:11	people with mental health issues and
1:09:13	they never
1:09:14	funded the housing component of what's
1:09:16	needed in order to
1:09:18	help folks with serious mental health
1:09:19	issues and so that is
1:09:21	a situation that we are currently
1:09:24	dealing with that being said uh there is
1:09:27	funding out there
1:09:28	to develop said housing i think the big
1:09:31	thing
1:09:31	and ron is certainly experiencing this
1:09:35	too
1:09:35	is going to be uh where do we put it
1:09:38	and how do we address the issue of
1:09:41	that's great we love it
1:09:43	sounds like a great idea but i don't
1:09:44	want it next to my house
1:09:46	um and that from my perspective that is
1:09:50	gonna probably be the biggest
1:09:51	challenge that we face and and and
1:09:54	that's what i hope
1:09:56	this group can help pave the way for
1:09:58	that if if we're gonna do this
1:10:00	and and i am uh fully committed to that
1:10:04	we are going to need assistance with
1:10:06	it's not like there are plenty of empty
1:10:08	buildings out there
1:10:09	um and spaces and and places to develop
1:10:12	this
1:10:13	it's really the it's really the
1:10:15	willpower to make it happen
1:10:17	so that's that's kind of what that's
1:10:19	kind of what we're working on
1:10:20	at this point in time
1:10:28	okay thank you amy uh any questions of
1:10:30	amy
1:10:34	gavin yeah commissioner sheldon you had
1:10:37	your hand up go ahead
1:10:39	thank you amy i appreciate your input i
1:10:41	i
1:10:42	also think that i've been thinking about
1:10:46	the possibility of this group too
1:10:48	there's a lot of people on this call
1:10:50	and some of the work that needs to be
1:10:51	done needs to be done
1:10:54	person to person in terms of how do we
1:10:58	uh challenge the stigma
1:11:01	that's attached to um uh the most
1:11:04	vulnerable
1:11:05	um you know when the nimby idea of i
1:11:08	don't want them in my neighborhood
1:11:10	is attached in my mind to a stigma that
1:11:13	somehow it's dangerous to have somebody
1:11:15	with a brain disorder in your
1:11:16	neighborhood
1:11:17	um and i don't think that's fair um so
1:11:20	we need to
1:11:21	just like we need to work on uh
1:11:25	racism we need to work on stigma that's
1:11:27	attached to
1:11:28	addiction disorders and brain disorders
1:11:30	and mental health issues
1:11:33	and i know that the city is taking on a
1:11:36	big task
1:11:37	of looking at their building codes and
1:11:39	trying to
1:11:40	increase density in our neighborhoods
1:11:44	which is one way to help all of this
1:11:47	and that too needs we need person to
1:11:49	person to talk to people hey
1:11:51	you know what if you really want to help
1:11:53	this is what's going to have to happen
1:11:55	and you're going to have to support it
1:11:57	um and you're going to have to find a
1:11:59	way to support it
1:12:00	and it it's it's just opening our minds
1:12:04	and reading and getting acquainted with
1:12:06	things
1:12:07	um because it is possible and and
1:12:10	the other thing that i i'll end with is
1:12:12	people do recover
1:12:14	from addiction disorders people do
1:12:16	recover from mental health
1:12:18	and and and it's it's you know we don't
1:12:21	we don't have a stigma against people
1:12:23	that
1:12:24	have something wrong with their pancreas
1:12:26	and have uh diabetes
1:12:28	and we don't um we don't shun people
1:12:30	that have had
1:12:31	cardiac surgery um and so we need to get
1:12:35	into the 21st century um with brain
1:12:37	disorders
1:12:38	and um i think that that's something
1:12:40	that this group can do
1:12:42	uh working with our our families and our
1:12:45	neighbors
1:12:46	and uh and and whatever i can do
1:12:49	to help let me know amy all right thanks
1:12:51	thank you kathleen
1:12:55	all right uh counselor rocket
1:12:59	well i just wanted to express my um my
1:13:02	total agreement with everything that
1:13:04	amy just said
1:13:07	[Music]
1:13:08	all the research i've read has has said
1:13:11	basically the same thing
1:13:12	that housing first is what makes
1:13:16	everything else possible and makes all
1:13:19	the other services
1:13:20	uh able to do what uh what they can do
1:13:24	um i once remarked to kevin when he was
1:13:28	here that uh
1:13:30	i think the thing that we all say is
1:13:32	that while we really are
1:13:33	in awe of what you've done um of course
1:13:36	you're in a larger city where there's
1:13:38	more
1:13:38	opportunity to provide housing and so on
1:13:40	and i got
1:13:42	i i got an almost audible honor roll
1:13:44	from kevin
1:13:45	uh who said when we started we had
1:13:47	nothing
1:13:49	and and he is willing and and i would
1:13:52	like to make this pitch again he's
1:13:54	willing to come back
1:13:55	and talk to us specifically about what
1:13:58	they did
1:13:59	to create housing opportunities and i
1:14:02	think that's an opportunity
1:14:03	we ought to take advantage of so we can
1:14:06	focus on that
1:14:07	the background to everything everyone
1:14:09	has said today is that we don't have
1:14:12	any housing stock and we have a lot of
1:14:16	agencies here with i think collective
1:14:18	muscle including
1:14:19	our governmental agencies if we
1:14:22	recognize that
1:14:23	that is the problem
1:14:26	maybe we can all turn ourselves to
1:14:28	finding
1:14:29	the solution to that first um
1:14:33	we can build other things we can build
1:14:36	uh
1:14:37	arenas we can build fairgrounds we can
1:14:39	build jails
1:14:41	why can't we build housing if we have to
1:14:43	have housing
1:14:47	i think that's it for me okay can i
1:14:50	um comment so one thing that
1:14:53	um i was asked to talk about was the
1:14:56	the goal that the board had adopted for
1:14:59	the drop-in center
1:15:01	and so i just wanted to add that um
1:15:03	under the
1:15:04	infrastructure goal the um the other
1:15:08	another goal that they um are working on
1:15:10	is housing strategies
1:15:13	and um so we have been um
1:15:16	all of the cities in the county a couple
1:15:18	of years ago
1:15:19	did a housing study and then each
1:15:22	jurisdiction has kind of taken that
1:15:23	information
1:15:25	and evaluated it and evaluated
1:15:28	what they might want to do based on
1:15:31	based on that for their specific
1:15:33	jurisdiction
1:15:34	so classic county has been evaluating it
1:15:36	and we have also
1:15:38	been working with a consultant in the
1:15:40	current fiscal year
1:15:41	to see what what sort of viable options
1:15:44	there might be
1:15:46	we have in those meetings we have talked
1:15:49	and
1:15:50	spoken with um low-income housing
1:15:54	developers one of which is
1:15:55	the organization that's working with the
1:15:57	merwin
1:15:58	and what what sort of barriers they see
1:16:02	for us as a county to um
1:16:06	to being able to provide affordable
1:16:08	housing
1:16:09	so that is something that we've been
1:16:11	working on and we're we're moving
1:16:12	forward with that project
1:16:14	um and that's something that we're going
1:16:16	to be budgeting for in the next fiscal
1:16:18	year as well and just trying to
1:16:21	um some of it is code and zoning what
1:16:23	can be allowed
1:16:25	and what what changes need to occur
1:16:28	to be able to allow more dense housing
1:16:32	and then also um what what
1:16:35	sorts of things need to be put in place
1:16:37	to draw in those low-income developers
1:16:39	so does that mean
1:16:40	that um not only changing some of those
1:16:43	zoning requirements but also some of
1:16:45	those building requirements because
1:16:47	when you have different things like the
1:16:49	parking
1:16:51	the parking for a apartment facility has
1:16:54	to be covered well that increases the
1:16:56	cost to develop
1:16:57	and that makes it less
1:17:00	appealing to a low-income developer to
1:17:02	try and make um
1:17:04	make housing there um other things are
1:17:07	you know what sorts of incentives might
1:17:09	there be if there's
1:17:10	available land um which is something
1:17:12	that the county has done
1:17:14	in some instances with our tax
1:17:17	foreclosures
1:17:18	is there a way that we can take that um
1:17:21	tax foreclosed land and um draw in
1:17:25	um low-income developers with that so
1:17:27	we've been having those meetings and
1:17:29	then in the next year we're going to
1:17:32	further evaluate what what can be done
1:17:35	to take advantage of some of those
1:17:37	zoning changes
1:17:38	and or tax foreclosed plans so
1:17:41	so that's speaking from the county some
1:17:44	of the work that's being done to try and
1:17:46	address the housing issue
1:17:47	recognizing that um a lot of low-income
1:17:51	housing
1:17:52	most likely isn't going to happen in the
1:17:55	unincorporated area which is the
1:17:56	jurisdiction that the county has control
1:17:59	over
1:17:59	because to to build in the
1:18:02	unincorporated area
1:18:03	it's more difficult to to build
1:18:06	affordable housing because
1:18:07	the lack of infrastructure out there so
1:18:10	we're
1:18:11	um we're working on it and i know that
1:18:13	um that
1:18:14	this is something that the cities are
1:18:15	working on and then
1:18:17	also one thing that we um have been
1:18:20	working on
1:18:20	is trying to build um a housing
1:18:23	inventory
1:18:24	and previously she participated in some
1:18:27	of these meetings but lauren wilson
1:18:29	um was working for the county and she
1:18:31	started on that
1:18:32	um unfortunately she she left the county
1:18:35	in september and then it took a little
1:18:37	time
1:18:38	but we we now have somebody who's
1:18:40	picking that project back
1:18:42	up and um working with lots of community
1:18:45	action
1:18:46	as well as some other um organizations
1:18:49	to try and figure out okay
1:18:50	what is the housing availability that we
1:18:53	have and what is the rates of those
1:18:55	housing
1:18:56	so is it above market is it market how
1:18:59	far below market
1:19:00	those sorts of things so so that is also
1:19:02	some work that's being done to try and
1:19:04	figure out
1:19:05	um how we can tackle this housing issue
1:19:11	thank you monica all right any other oh
1:19:15	aaron to see your hand yeah
1:19:18	um i just want to go back to amy baker
1:19:21	like usual
1:19:22	she was spot on and i just agree with
1:19:24	everything that she was saying
1:19:26	and the work that they're doing over
1:19:27	there at cbh so i appreciate that
1:19:30	in terms of the housing first model um i
1:19:33	know like in theory
1:19:35	it you know it works and if you can read
1:19:37	about it and it works but honestly
1:19:39	on the ground too it works um between
1:19:42	the clubhouse and filling empty bellies
1:19:44	we've individually placed
1:19:46	i think between seven and ten people in
1:19:48	the last year into housing
1:19:50	and we've used some of our funds to pay
1:19:52	for rental deposits
1:19:54	and to get them going on their rent and
1:19:57	it's been a hundred percent
1:19:58	they are still housed and it's been that
1:20:00	much easier then to connect
1:20:02	them with the services that they need
1:20:04	for sustainability like mental health
1:20:06	making it to their open door
1:20:08	appointments at cbh
1:20:09	making it to their parole appointments
1:20:12	and their treatment
1:20:13	appointments um because they have a
1:20:15	place to lay their head at night and
1:20:17	they have a place that's safe
1:20:19	and all of these services that we have
1:20:22	here in our county are amazing and our
1:20:24	community are amazing but
1:20:25	when somebody is going you know leaving
1:20:28	the beacon clubhouse or leaving the
1:20:30	drop-in center
1:20:31	or leaving cbh for the day and they're
1:20:34	just trying to go
1:20:35	make sure they're not going to get
1:20:36	ticketed for sleeping on the street um
1:20:38	or get assaulted on the street or freeze
1:20:41	through the night
1:20:42	you know that's that's where we hit the
1:20:44	hard spot so that housing first model it
1:20:47	i just want to reiterate from a first
1:20:49	hand experience and on the ground
1:20:50	experience
1:20:51	it works i hope that that is something
1:20:54	that we continue to move
1:20:55	towards and um i just appreciate amy
1:20:58	that you guys are looking at that
1:21:00	and that you're looking at putting funds
1:21:01	towards that individual shelters
1:21:04	so
1:21:09	okay thank you
1:21:13	okay so can i say something absolutely
1:21:16	hi um i just wanted to uh sort of add
1:21:19	what
1:21:20	aaron and amy were saying that a lot of
1:21:21	the stigma around mental health also
1:21:23	extends to our domestic violence and
1:21:25	sexual assault survivors
1:21:27	a lot of whom are obviously experiencing
1:21:29	mental health
1:21:30	problems and also some substance use but
1:21:32	then some of them who are not
1:21:34	and just a lot of that stigma of people
1:21:36	not wanting somebody who's been through
1:21:38	what they've been through in their
1:21:39	backyard or in their building or
1:21:40	or what have you and so we do often even
1:21:42	when there is money
1:21:44	available which there has been we often
1:21:45	have a hard time placing folks in hotels
1:21:48	or
1:21:48	in even in housing that they could get
1:21:50	permanently because people don't want
1:21:51	domestic violence survivors in their
1:21:53	buildings
1:21:54	um and so just just to sort of add that
1:21:57	uh piece that um you know yes there is a
1:22:00	problem obviously with the space but
1:22:02	then even when there is space and there
1:22:03	is money there's
1:22:04	that stigma issue is huge and that we we
1:22:07	face that a lot as well with our clients
1:22:09	and
1:22:09	just to know also we have a ton more
1:22:11	clients that are trying to get away from
1:22:13	these situations and a lot of whom
1:22:14	have ended up going back just because
1:22:16	there's nowhere for them to go so
1:22:18	i just wanted to share that thanks
1:22:22	thanks terry ron yeah
1:22:25	could i just add that you know we do
1:22:27	have a
1:22:28	effective organization right now
1:22:32	astoria warming center at one time was
1:22:35	allowed to operate for 120 days
1:22:38	and during that time of
1:22:42	no restrictions and operating 120 days
1:22:46	we were able to see what that
1:22:49	how that effect was we had some kids
1:22:52	went to were able to enlist in
1:22:56	uh going back to school
1:23:00	other people getting jobs so
1:23:03	we do have that uh organization
1:23:07	that is there and we have corrected our
1:23:11	our misgivings that that caused us to be
1:23:14	restricted
1:23:16	but to expand our our uh
1:23:20	astoria warming center's uh
1:23:23	time frame uh would be something that
1:23:27	would be helpful in this whole battle
1:23:31	thank you thanks ron
Calls for Service: Chief Spalding
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=5015 
1:23:35	all righty so uh pressing on uh looks
1:23:38	like i'm
1:23:39	next on the agenda talk a little bit
1:23:40	about uh calls for
1:23:42	service and the ninth street park
1:23:44	activity
1:23:45	um i'll just say we are still tracking
1:23:49	homeless related calls for service uh on
1:23:52	the
1:23:53	plus side the calls are still down on
1:23:54	the downside there are still a lot of
1:23:56	them
1:23:57	um in 2020 we had 786
1:24:01	calls for service which was down from
1:24:03	the previous year
1:24:04	that average is about 65 calls per month
1:24:08	this year uh in the two months of
1:24:11	history we have so far
1:24:12	there's about 89 calls which average
1:24:14	about 45 so that's about 20 less per
1:24:16	month which is good
1:24:18	now obviously that there's a lot of
1:24:20	different factors there's weather
1:24:21	related and
1:24:22	um sometimes that plays into it um but
1:24:25	nonetheless the calls are on the
1:24:27	downside which i
1:24:28	i'd like to believe is a a good sign and
1:24:31	hopefully will continue
9th Street Park Activity: Chief Spalding
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=5073 
1:24:33	um i shared with a council last month
1:24:36	some concerns that we had at 9th street
1:24:40	park
1:24:41	and this was brought to our attention
1:24:43	through many of the business owners
1:24:45	we noticed a significant uptick in calls
1:24:48	in that particular area
1:24:50	so i'm just going to share a couple of
1:24:52	slides real briefly and then i'll
1:24:53	explain why i'm even talking about this
1:24:55	topic in terms of our philosophy
1:24:58	so there was a whole list of types of
1:25:01	activity that we were seeing at this
1:25:03	particular location
1:25:05	and this is 910 aster which is 9th
1:25:07	street park
1:25:08	at almost at the end of 9th street it's
1:25:10	just a little small grassy area
1:25:13	um hard to even call it a park on some
1:25:15	level but it is
1:25:16	um so a lot of seeing a lot of things
1:25:18	that we were getting calls from
1:25:20	so we wanted to ensure that we
1:25:23	validated what we were seeing there so
1:25:25	we reached out to
1:25:27	several of the business owners in the
1:25:28	area and
1:25:30	i think we contacted 12 business owners
1:25:34	our homeless liaison kenny hanson who's
1:25:36	also on this call
1:25:38	went out there and spoke with them
1:25:39	individually got their feedback and i
1:25:40	believe there was around 10 out of 12
1:25:42	that
1:25:43	had some significant concerns with what
1:25:45	was going on in the area there
1:25:48	so we also took a look at the calls for
1:25:49	service there
1:25:51	and also we had information on emails
1:25:54	that our city councilors and our mayor
1:25:56	were getting along with other
1:25:58	emails that were being received by the
1:25:59	police department so for us it was
1:26:01	really a no-brainer that we had a
1:26:03	problem there
1:26:04	and um so you know one of the things i
1:26:07	presented to council was
1:26:09	our approach of course is to take a
1:26:12	stronger presence
1:26:13	and enforce some of the violations i
1:26:16	know
1:26:16	for some um you know that is
1:26:19	is offensive that we are taking an
1:26:22	aggressive approach
1:26:23	on individuals that are homeless but
1:26:25	what i shared with the council meeting
1:26:28	is that we are not targeting homeless
1:26:30	even though some people believe we are
1:26:32	we are targeting bad behavior
1:26:34	occurring in that area so it doesn't
1:26:36	matter
1:26:37	you know whether you're affluent or
1:26:38	whether you're homeless or what walk of
1:26:40	life you come from if you are
1:26:42	creating a disturbance or you are you
1:26:44	know consuming alcohol or whatever that
1:26:46	looks like in that
1:26:47	particular area there's a good chance
1:26:48	that you're going to have a contact by a
1:26:50	police officer
1:26:51	now i can tell you um since that meeting
1:26:54	with council
1:26:55	we we've shared this information with
1:26:57	our officers but we haven't really
1:26:59	stepped it up
1:27:00	and and for a couple reasons number one
1:27:02	is we've been a little bit short-handed
1:27:03	we have a couple officers in the academy
1:27:05	and one was injured
1:27:07	however i will also say that over the
1:27:10	past few weeks we've noticed that there
1:27:12	has been a pretty significant downtick
1:27:14	in calls in that particular area
1:27:17	what we do attribute that to there were
1:27:19	two individuals
1:27:20	that many of the people
1:27:24	in this chat room are familiar with um
1:27:27	that
1:27:28	are no longer in the area for a couple
1:27:30	of reasons i'm not going to share the
1:27:32	names but i know many of you know who
1:27:34	i'm talking about
1:27:35	and they were generating a significant
1:27:38	amount of the calls in that area
1:27:40	but when we have three significant
1:27:43	aggravated assault type cases in that
1:27:45	area involving weapons
1:27:47	um then you know and the kind of
1:27:50	activity we're seeing and it's impacting
1:27:51	businesses in our area we know it's time
1:27:53	that
1:27:54	we we need to address some of these
1:27:56	issues
1:27:57	but the last thing i'll say about that
1:27:59	is that
1:28:01	um you know our approach is
1:28:04	you know when we say enforcement it's
1:28:06	it's holding people accountable
1:28:08	and if that means that we're issuing
1:28:11	somebody a citation we know in all
1:28:13	reality
1:28:14	that the the what what that's going to
1:28:16	do is hopefully start getting people
1:28:18	into services
1:28:19	and if we don't really have an ability
1:28:23	to take people to jail
1:28:24	you know because they would simply be
1:28:26	released simply because especially
1:28:28	during cove at times but because of
1:28:29	colvin also because
1:28:31	of um there's more serious offenses that
1:28:34	the jail has to hold so
1:28:35	taking someone to jail is not an option
1:28:37	nor do we consider that as a good option
1:28:39	so oftentimes our recourse is to issue a
1:28:43	citation
1:28:44	and we know that individuals don't have
1:28:45	the means to pay for it and that's why
1:28:47	we've
1:28:48	had the conversations in the past with
1:28:49	looking at alternative sentencing and
1:28:51	trying to make individuals who are
1:28:53	responsible for some of the behavior
1:28:55	part of the solution rather than part of
1:28:57	the problem
1:28:58	so um anyway uh again our
1:29:02	our philosophy really is
1:29:06	if i could ask you guys to mute your
1:29:08	phones
1:29:14	[Music]
1:29:22	do the air
1:29:34	all right stand by i think i'm going to
1:29:36	there you got it
1:29:38	okay all right so um
1:29:41	let me go back to the share screen here
1:29:50	and
1:29:53	all right um hopefully you guys this
1:29:56	this just kind of
1:29:57	i lost my train of thought there
1:29:59	apologize for that uh you guys still see
1:30:01	my screen there's a four little uh
1:30:02	heat maps okay so this just gives you a
1:30:05	sense of the kind of activity this is a
1:30:07	relatively new feature i'm still
1:30:08	learning
1:30:09	through our um our vendor that provides
1:30:12	our computer-aided dispatching software
1:30:14	the top left shows the um heat maps
1:30:17	where we're having the most activity uh
1:30:19	one tenth mile in and around the ninth
1:30:21	street park
1:30:22	so i picked four other three other areas
1:30:25	along the riverwalk
1:30:26	that just to compare the activity just
1:30:29	so you can see
1:30:30	in the same time period so
1:30:33	again the numbers you know speak for
1:30:35	themselves in terms of
1:30:36	you know how much activity we have down
1:30:38	there but i think what i was
1:30:40	talking about again is our is our
1:30:42	approach
1:30:43	is that we do understand that sometimes
1:30:45	taking enforcement activity
1:30:47	does help get people into services and
1:30:50	you know that's again we get back to our
1:30:52	relationships and working with
1:30:54	you know people like cca and cbh and all
1:30:56	the other three-letter acronyms that
1:30:58	you know we can hopefully address this
1:31:00	issue in the bigger scheme of things
1:31:02	and so that's why we're really looking
1:31:04	forward to working closely with cca and
1:31:06	our new homeless liaison positions
1:31:10	so um i know i went through that pretty
1:31:12	fast and i'm
1:31:15	i i think i'll just turn over to kenny
1:31:16	real quick i just want to make sure if
1:31:18	you
1:31:18	want to make any comments on that
1:31:20	kennedy or if you're seeing anything
1:31:21	uh recently in terms of activity in that
1:31:24	area
1:31:26	uh i our calls are definitely down in
1:31:28	the area there hasn't been as many
1:31:30	people
1:31:30	around a lot of it's weather related
1:31:32	they don't come out as much
1:31:35	during inclement weather and that i have
1:31:38	noticed the last couple nights of my
1:31:39	work at night shift
1:31:40	that the trash
1:31:43	and things like that are starting to
1:31:44	accumulate again um
1:31:47	we had a uh a person who was
1:31:51	unhoused in the community she was taking
1:31:53	it upon herself to
1:31:55	help clean up that area and i think
1:31:57	she's down in the seaside area now
1:32:00	and now so um something i'm going to try
1:32:03	it's helped in the past is just
1:32:05	stopping and talking to the people that
1:32:07	frequent the park and remind them
1:32:09	that they need to pick up after
1:32:11	themselves and
1:32:13	we'll see where that goes a lot of times
1:32:15	that's that's all i need is a reminder
1:32:17	to pick up things
1:32:18	and they usually do
1:32:22	thanks kenny and i welcome any questions
1:32:25	concerns thoughts i'm
1:32:28	more than happy to speak to any of that
1:32:35	i'll just say that we really appreciate
1:32:37	it from the downtown association chief
1:32:39	um that is an area that tends to go in
1:32:41	and out of flux pretty
1:32:42	regularly um and just we anticipate so
1:32:46	many people
1:32:47	uh we anticipate a pretty heavy tourism
1:32:49	season we also anticipate a lot of those
1:32:51	people are going to be wanting to be
1:32:52	outside so
1:32:54	um you know public benches and public
1:32:58	trash cans and things like that they're
1:32:59	used by everybody
1:33:01	are are going to be taxed but i
1:33:04	appreciate you
1:33:05	engaging in that area all right thank
1:33:07	you cheryl i appreciate that
1:33:08	and if anybody else has any comments
1:33:11	that they rather not share in a group
1:33:12	setting please do feel free to email me
1:33:16	or
1:33:16	you can always call me as well i'm happy
1:33:18	to talk to anybody about these things
1:33:20	so i walked through 9th street or
1:33:23	by there uh the other day and i noticed
1:33:26	that the trash cans that are there were
1:33:28	full
1:33:29	so i think one thing that would be
1:33:31	really facilitative of them cleaning up
1:33:34	the trash is if there's a
1:33:36	enough trash cans to put it in and i've
1:33:39	noticed that also at various places
1:33:41	along the riverwalk where the trash cans
1:33:43	are full
1:33:44	and in front of the um the
1:33:47	maritime museum
1:33:50	so i think that would really help a lot
1:33:53	and also um the
1:33:58	filling empty bellies was providing
1:34:02	lunches at people's park and it's my
1:34:05	understanding that they were asked to
1:34:07	move
1:34:08	uh to 9th street park which is a smaller
1:34:11	park
1:34:11	it puts people closer together that
1:34:14	aren't necessarily in the same tribes it
1:34:18	focuses energy there which is closer to
1:34:20	businesses
1:34:21	so i don't know the reason that they
1:34:24	were asked to move
1:34:25	but uh the that has contributed to
1:34:29	the um the situations that you're now
1:34:32	finding there at 9th street
1:34:34	so filling filling empty bellies moved
1:34:36	on our own accord
1:34:37	um for lots of different reasons one of
1:34:40	them being
1:34:41	is the anticipation of a remodel of
1:34:43	people's park
1:34:44	um for the the scandinavian um
1:34:48	park so we moved for that reason we also
1:34:51	moved
1:34:52	to get a little bit you know less
1:34:55	exposed right there on 101
1:34:58	and we're also closer to some of the
1:35:00	restaurants that support us because our
1:35:02	participants sometimes
1:35:04	pick up pizzas from sahara to feed for
1:35:06	lunch and they're on foot
1:35:08	so um there were quite a few reasons
1:35:10	that we chose to move it wasn't because
1:35:12	we were necessarily asked to we
1:35:14	had been talking with jonah um you know
1:35:16	about the timing of the park remodel and
1:35:18	we just didn't want to show up one day
1:35:20	and have the part torn up
1:35:21	and not have anywhere to go so we were
1:35:23	being proactive in that way
1:35:26	but yeah i'd be remiss to say that you
1:35:28	know obviously filling empty bellies we
1:35:29	do services there we serve there
1:35:31	um we have had you know the garbage
1:35:35	situation has been an ongoing challenge
1:35:38	it seems that the um cans are full
1:35:41	a lot at night street they were full a
1:35:43	lot at people's park again this is
1:35:44	something i've talked with jonah and
1:35:46	chief spalding about
1:35:47	at different times um how we can get a a
1:35:50	grip on the garbage
1:35:52	i think i my computer froze when kenny
1:35:54	was talking but i think kenny said
1:35:56	something about just going and talking
1:35:57	with the folks at knight street i know
1:35:59	that filling empty bellies
1:36:01	um has been talking a lot with the
1:36:04	participants
1:36:05	and the people that hang out at ninth we
1:36:07	just go and we tell them what's going on
1:36:09	and we tell them hey there was an
1:36:11	article in the newspaper and people are
1:36:12	upset and hey
1:36:13	things need to change or we will get
1:36:15	kicked out of here and we won't have our
1:36:17	services here
1:36:18	and usually people are pretty responsive
1:36:22	to that
1:36:23	and i think that that could be one
1:36:24	reason why things have calmed down a
1:36:26	little bit because we have been
1:36:28	talking a lot about how important it is
1:36:31	um
1:36:32	but yeah i i just you know i have to say
1:36:35	i feel you know feeling empty
1:36:36	yes we moved our program there it
1:36:40	possibly is a reason why there's more
1:36:42	action there
1:36:44	we are always open and willing to work
1:36:46	with chief spalding
1:36:48	and kenny daley um you know i have
1:36:51	kenny on speed dial so we want to work
1:36:54	with you guys we really do and we want
1:36:55	to work with our participants and we
1:36:57	want to you know fill that role
1:36:59	of um advocating on both sides and
1:37:02	um trying to figure out the best option
1:37:04	to get a hang you know handle on
1:37:06	on the activity there at night so thanks
1:37:09	aaron i appreciate those comments uh ron
1:37:10	we're going to hold the comments we're
1:37:12	starting to run out of time here uh joan
1:37:14	i'd like to
1:37:14	give you an opportunity if you want to
1:37:16	say anything about the
1:37:18	arrangement or the trash can issue
1:37:21	yeah absolutely so um i think as most
1:37:23	people are aware ecology
1:37:25	has included all of the parks and river
1:37:27	walk trash cans
1:37:29	for uh clean up or pick up or empty
1:37:32	through their franchise agreement with
1:37:33	the city and i just confirmed as i was
1:37:36	looking back to my emails that we're
1:37:37	having them uh pick up
1:37:39	six days a week along the riverwalk um
1:37:41	so they're doing their best
1:37:42	you know it's obviously i don't think
1:37:44	it's anything unique to
1:37:46	people at knight street park but it's a
1:37:47	people problem too when people
1:37:50	are next to a trash can even if it seems
1:37:52	to be full or if there's a pizza box or
1:37:53	a pogo painter blocking maybe the
1:37:55	orifice making it seem full
1:37:57	that people say well the next best thing
1:37:59	is put the garbage right next to it or
1:38:00	on top of it or to the side of
1:38:02	it or nearby anyway so um
1:38:05	it's just a kind of constant challenge
1:38:07	with public garbage cans in general but
1:38:10	i would say everybody is trying to do
1:38:11	their best to pick up and clean
1:38:13	sites and obviously when you get a large
1:38:15	volume of trash at any particular
1:38:16	location
1:38:18	parks department tries to be very
1:38:19	responsive and do the best we can to
1:38:21	pick that up we also have a very limited
1:38:22	staff too so
1:38:23	there are definitely times when there's
1:38:24	more trash and parks than we would like
1:38:26	to see and that goes across our whole
1:38:27	park system
1:38:29	um but yeah we're completely
1:38:30	appreciative that it's a challenging
1:38:32	topic to have for garbage in general um
1:38:34	and yeah
1:38:35	we do our best to clean up there and i
1:38:37	would not say it's particular to any one
1:38:39	group of people that cause more litter
1:38:42	than necessarily
Member Roundtable
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=5924 
1:38:44	thank you jonah so um we're going to
1:38:46	move into um
1:38:48	member roundtable before i do that mayor
1:38:50	i'd like to give you update if you'd
1:38:51	like to say something at the beginning
1:38:52	or after the round table
1:38:54	i'll just wait until the end okay
1:38:57	great um so uh first i would like to
1:39:00	recognize uh cheryl paul looks like she
1:39:03	is signed into our meeting she is one of
1:39:04	the new selected individuals for a new
1:39:06	liaison position so cheryl i would like
1:39:08	to
1:39:08	make this first welcome to this group
1:39:11	and we really look forward to
1:39:12	working with you
1:39:17	okay so um member round table so this is
1:39:21	an opportunity for any of our members
1:39:23	to just share anything that's not part
1:39:24	of the regular agenda any other news
1:39:27	thoughts things that you we should be
1:39:30	considering for future agendas
1:39:32	and then we'll open it up to guest
1:39:33	comments this is jared
1:39:36	from the hospital i just wanted to let
1:39:38	everyone know that we are
1:39:40	currently working on a plan to recruit a
1:39:43	psychiatric nurse practitioner to help
1:39:46	join our team and be a
1:39:47	healthy prescriber for
1:39:51	medications help out not only our
1:39:53	primary care physicians with managing
1:39:56	these clients but also the community at
1:39:58	large so
1:39:59	we're currently working on recruiting
1:40:00	for this role
1:40:02	um and yeah i think that's it
1:40:05	thank you thanks jared
1:40:10	any other members
1:40:13	roundtable okay
1:40:19	hi thanks um just i really appreciated
1:40:22	the conversation
1:40:24	and a couple of times we have uh
1:40:27	touched on this intersection between um
1:40:31	public safety policing and the needs of
1:40:34	people
1:40:35	in crisis of some kind mental health or
1:40:38	or
1:40:39	substance and i wondered if anywhere
1:40:42	within this group
1:40:43	folks are considering the potential
1:40:46	that could come out of the current house
1:40:48	bill 2417
1:40:51	that creates a program to provide
1:40:54	matching grants to cities or counties
1:40:57	to operate mobile crisis intervention
1:40:59	teams
1:41:01	wondering if this is a possibility to
1:41:04	expand
1:41:06	possibility for our communities to
1:41:08	expand
1:41:10	use of behavioral health specialists
1:41:13	in that response in collaboration with
1:41:18	the respective public safety agencies
1:41:23	so this is monica with the county and i
1:41:25	will say that that is a bill that we're
1:41:27	monitoring we have pac west our
1:41:30	lobbyists working on our behalf
1:41:32	and um i don't know if amy wants to
1:41:34	comment on it
1:41:35	but um she presented to the board the
1:41:38	other night
1:41:38	and um something that she said is so
1:41:42	true and um so that kind of depends on
1:41:45	one if this bill passes and two
1:41:48	what the funding mechanisms look like
1:41:50	because the unfortunate part that we're
1:41:52	dealing with
1:41:52	is and amy can correct me if i get it
1:41:55	wrong
1:41:56	is we are a rural community who has
1:41:58	urban problems with rural funding
1:42:01	and so while a lot of
1:42:04	good can come from this bill it kind of
1:42:06	depends on what they end up
1:42:08	funding us what they end up funding to
1:42:11	those
1:42:12	rural communities to be able to do
1:42:14	something with but it is something that
1:42:15	we're monitoring closely
1:42:18	i think just to follow up to that i
1:42:20	think that that communities that have
1:42:22	done well with
1:42:23	this is that i think like co-response or
1:42:27	or cahoots is a really it's a really
1:42:29	good model and it's really important
1:42:32	and there are still uh pieces that we
1:42:34	need such as a plates for people to go
1:42:38	like a lot of the a lot of the the
1:42:41	crises that are driven by
1:42:43	um some of the homeless activities have
1:42:46	more to do with the fact that people
1:42:47	don't have a place to go and so
1:42:49	i i think as we move forward on this we
1:42:52	have
1:42:53	we're it's not there's not like one
1:42:56	piece that we have to put together it's
1:42:59	a seri we have to create a system
1:43:00	essentially that we can move people
1:43:02	through and that we're going to want all
1:43:04	of those things
1:43:04	in order to successfully
1:43:08	uh address people who are in crisis and
1:43:12	to
1:43:12	uh move folks out of homelessness um
1:43:16	i think that's otherwise you get you get
1:43:18	one piece but it doesn't fix the whole
1:43:20	of the problem
1:43:25	and i i apologize i have to step off the
1:43:28	meeting i have another meeting at
1:43:29	uh 11 50 so but i just want to say i
1:43:32	really appreciated the conversation
1:43:33	today thank you all
1:43:35	thanks amy appreciate it okay uh last
1:43:39	call on round table from members
1:43:42	uh brooke cheryl paul just texted me and
1:43:46	said she wants she's at work
1:43:48	she's she's working for me at the
1:43:50	clubhouse but she wanted me to tell you
1:43:51	all hello and that she's listening
1:43:53	but um but that she's on the call but
1:43:56	can't talk
1:43:57	oh yeah i appreciate that thanks aaron
1:44:01	uh chief if i may i just checked with
1:44:04	um sorry my camera is a really
1:44:06	particular individual
1:44:08	um i just checked with the merwin and
1:44:12	they at this time are just a little over
1:44:14	half
1:44:14	full um and there are probably a few
1:44:17	more applications that could be put in
1:44:19	and still
1:44:20	make it uh in in the waitlist so
1:44:23	um let us know you can you can contact
1:44:26	them directly
1:44:27	or you can let us know and we can put
1:44:29	you in touch
1:44:32	well thank you sir okay
1:44:36	uh did i miss anybody
1:44:40	with columbia pacific cto um
1:44:44	we're helping host uh you probably all
1:44:47	have heard about resilient classic
1:44:49	county network it's a trauma informed
1:44:50	care network many of your organizations
1:44:52	are part of it
1:44:54	um and i just wanted to remind you all
1:44:56	we have a launch event coming up on
1:44:58	april 6th from 1 to 3 p.m i can send
1:45:02	an email out as well but as you all are
1:45:05	probably well aware
1:45:07	childhood trauma and trauma in general
1:45:09	are associated with homelessness
1:45:13	and so all of our agencies are
1:45:16	thinking up in a trauma formed care
1:45:18	network called resilience
1:45:20	and if you're not part of it or don't
1:45:22	know about it um
1:45:23	you can reach out to me uh there's no
1:45:26	chat in this room but i think without
1:45:28	any details
1:45:30	hey brooke you're you were broken up a
1:45:32	bit there i think we got
1:45:33	probably half of what you said but i do
1:45:35	have um some materials that amber sent
1:45:37	me
1:45:38	so i will send those out to the group if
1:45:40	you're good with that
1:45:43	that work okay thank you
Guest Comments
https://youtu.be/KXX9S9FFn9I?t=6346 
1:45:46	okay so uh any of our guests uh please
1:45:49	do a hand raise or a virtual hand rise
1:45:51	if you can't find the button and i'll do
1:45:52	the best i can to
1:45:54	recognize you ron
1:45:58	i meet ron
1:46:06	ron if you can unmute if you're hearing
1:46:08	me yeah
1:46:09	okay yeah i just wanted to make one
1:46:12	comment
1:46:13	uh from the uh litter patrol from the
1:46:16	warming center
1:46:17	uh which we patrol on a regular basis
1:46:21	once a week and we've been finding trash
1:46:24	cans full
1:46:25	uh by the library all the time
1:46:28	and a lack of of other receptacles that
1:46:33	could certainly be distributed around
1:46:35	that would pick up a lot of
1:46:37	help us pick up a lot of litter so
1:46:40	so the trash can issues i know i know
1:46:42	it's a it's a
1:46:43	uh it's an ongoing thing but we're
1:46:47	it seems like we need more trash cans i
1:46:49	guess
1:46:50	okay thank you thank you ron i know
1:46:53	there's a lot of people on the call here
1:46:54	that uh
1:46:55	heard you and are aware and have the
1:46:57	ability to hopefully do something about
1:46:59	that so thank you
1:47:01	uh teresa
1:47:04	hi everyone i'm theresa barnes i'm a
1:47:07	past
1:47:08	volunteer and current current employee
1:47:10	of the warming center
1:47:11	so um we have a whole warming center
1:47:13	crew here today
1:47:14	um so uh yeah i know a lot of you and
1:47:16	good to meet the rest of you i'm uh yeah
1:47:19	i've been wanting to come to these
1:47:20	meetings for a while um so i guess i
1:47:22	have a few
1:47:23	questions i'm just wondering i would
1:47:25	love to be a member of this group i
1:47:26	don't know how what that process looks
1:47:28	like
1:47:29	and i'm just thinking of the protocol
1:47:31	i'm wondering if are the
1:47:33	meetings open to the public is one
1:47:34	question
1:47:36	and then also wondering um since i'm new
1:47:38	to the group
1:47:39	have we do we have anyone that is
1:47:41	currently experiencing homelessness in
1:47:43	the group or have we sought out those
1:47:45	voices
1:47:46	um because i know a lot of us in the
1:47:48	group work
1:47:49	with work with this population but i
1:47:52	know that um	
1:47:54	for me like having i've been working
1:47:56	with a woman um who has been unhoused
1:47:58	for 16 years
1:47:59	um she had a marijuana charge when she
1:48:01	was 19
1:48:03	and has been unhoused ever since getting
1:48:05	out of prison
1:48:06	and um some of the stuff that she's been
1:48:08	telling me has really
1:48:10	opened my eyes to i mean i totally love
1:48:13	and agree with so much of what has been
1:48:14	said here yes supportive housing
1:48:17	yes housing is a right and i'm so glad
1:48:20	that
1:48:20	we're moving toward a resource center um
1:48:23	but i'm also just thinking about as
1:48:25	has been acknowledged by many people
1:48:27	here that um
1:48:28	you know even if it moves at lightning
1:48:31	speed for government
1:48:32	that that's still really slow for people
1:48:34	that are living out of their car i mean
1:48:36	this woman is living out of her car and
1:48:37	working multiple jobs
1:48:39	while also trying to solve homelessness
1:48:41	you know and so i think that um
1:48:43	i just hope that we keep in mind that
1:48:45	there are lots of things i don't want us
1:48:47	to feel like that we have to solve
1:48:49	the housing crisis before we can do
1:48:51	anything
1:48:52	and you know i don't mean to tell you
1:48:53	guys anything you don't already know but
1:48:55	i mean some of the stuff that she said
1:48:57	is um you know having a place to take
1:48:59	daily showers
1:49:01	having a place to get mail having a
1:49:03	place to charge your phone
1:49:04	having a place to store your stuff i
1:49:07	mean everything from just like
1:49:09	free to pretty inexpensive solutions are
1:49:13	they're not the the what i want to be
1:49:15	our end goal but i just you know like
1:49:18	the warming center is closed in a week
1:49:20	you know and as
1:49:21	a lot of us have talked about these you
1:49:23	know our population doesn't really have
1:49:24	anywhere to go after that
1:49:26	so um that's my two cents thank you
1:49:29	teresa i'll uh i know you threw a lot of
1:49:31	questions out there so i'm going to try
1:49:33	and answer them so first off as far as
1:49:34	representation from homeless individuals
1:49:37	we don't have anybody as a member on the
1:49:39	group
1:49:40	that is part of the homeless community
1:49:43	per se however with that being said over
1:49:44	the past three years i know we have had
1:49:46	several individuals come
1:49:48	and have had an opportunity to speak at
1:49:50	some of our meetings
1:49:51	and i think that's been valuable and i
1:49:53	know you know kenny
1:49:54	hanson over there has done a good job of
1:49:57	of having some people come and talk and
1:49:59	and i think it's been uh informative to
1:50:01	the group so
1:50:02	we have done that i know of at least
1:50:04	three we've had vern
1:50:06	um uh i know we had the other uh
1:50:09	individual that moved to hawaii
1:50:11	and i forget his name but we we've had
1:50:13	some representation
1:50:15	um and along those lines the other uh
1:50:18	answering your question is the group is
1:50:19	open to anybody it's a public meeting so
1:50:21	anybody can
1:50:22	sign on as a guest and as i offered
1:50:24	earlier if you send me your email
1:50:26	address i'd be more than happy to add
1:50:28	you to the guest list and then i'll
1:50:29	inform you of meetings
1:50:31	as far as the actual membership goes
1:50:34	when we started this group we wanted to
1:50:36	do our best to ensure that we have
1:50:38	representation from as many groups as
1:50:40	possible in the community that are
1:50:42	impacted by this concern
1:50:44	and um so you know for the most part we
1:50:46	generally have one person from each
1:50:48	organization
1:50:49	in this particular case we actually have
1:50:50	two from the warming center so
1:50:52	with you know annie and kathleen so um
1:50:56	but at the end of the day the mayor's
1:50:57	the one that sets the
1:50:59	roster and so um i would defer any
1:51:03	additions to to the mayor so hopefully
1:51:05	i've answered all your questions
1:51:08	yes thank you all right thank you mayor
1:51:11	you want to add anything to that or no
1:51:14	just i mean we
1:51:15	we welcome any individual or
1:51:17	organization who's actively working with
1:51:19	these issues
1:51:20	i think in regards to whether you know
1:51:22	we want to set a limit of how many
1:51:24	people from one individual organization
1:51:27	um you know whether we want to have
1:51:30	three three members of the or employees
1:51:33	or board members from the warming center
1:51:35	as members or just have
1:51:36	you continue to attend as a welcome
1:51:38	guest you know we can discuss that we
1:51:40	don't
1:51:40	we've tried to not get too formal with
1:51:43	the rules in this group
1:51:44	as far as having we don't have bylaws
1:51:47	written up
1:51:48	we don't have robert's rules of borders
1:51:50	that were you know formally following
1:51:52	so we haven't really answered that
1:51:54	question but in the meantime you're
1:51:56	certainly very welcome to continue
1:51:57	attending and i know chief will get you
1:51:59	on the mailing list the email list
1:52:04	that's that should be part of this
1:52:05	that's not you know let us know so that
1:52:07	we can invite them to have a
1:52:08	representation
1:52:11	thank you mayor and just lastly teresa i
1:52:13	would say that
1:52:14	you know i in every meeting i've been to
1:52:16	which is all of them
1:52:18	that you know we've never silenced
1:52:20	anybody and
1:52:21	you know with the time allows everybody
1:52:24	has had an opportunity to
1:52:26	just to address the group at the meeting
1:52:28	so
1:52:29	like the mayor said there is an
1:52:30	informality to the group and um
1:52:33	you know we we do welcome opinions from
1:52:35	everybody
1:52:38	all righty um let's see
1:52:41	annie thank you i just i just had one
1:52:46	addition then to our group because we
1:52:48	don't have a representative from filling
1:52:49	empty bellies not officially
1:52:52	so that's never been on our group so
1:52:55	that would be a good thing
1:52:56	i think we need that representation okay
1:53:00	i would recommend um inviting ozark to
1:53:03	be
1:53:03	a member because not only is he the new
1:53:05	director but he also
1:53:07	has lived through homelessness and he's
1:53:09	on the other side of it so it would be a
1:53:11	really unique and valuable voice
1:53:15	okay thank you aaron thank you annie
1:53:16	appreciate that yeah that would be fine
1:53:18	and we can we will invite
1:53:20	you can consider this an invitation for
1:53:21	filling empty abilities to
1:53:23	have representation so it doesn't look
1:53:24	like ozark is still here it looks like
1:53:26	he stepped out
1:53:27	he went to go serve lunch so yeah he
1:53:29	stepped out but i'll let him know and
1:53:30	i'll
1:53:31	um i appreciate that and thank you annie
1:53:33	[Music]
1:53:35	okay so um it looks like we're winding
1:53:38	down here um this time i've done
1:53:40	something a little different and
1:53:41	actually put a date on the calendar for
1:53:43	our next meeting
1:53:44	of may 6th 10 o'clock in the morning
1:53:48	most likely it will be a zoom meeting
1:53:50	again
1:53:51	if that works for the mayor's calendar i
1:53:53	will um
1:53:55	send out an advance notice but this way
1:53:57	again i apologize
1:53:58	to those that didn't get this until a
1:54:01	couple days ago as far as some of our
1:54:03	guests
1:54:03	i'm trying to fix that so i'm announcing
1:54:06	the next meeting now two months out on
1:54:08	44322
1:54:09	and um more information to come i've got
1:54:12	a few things i'll be sending out to
1:54:14	all of the members and guests via email
1:54:16	so again if i'm
1:54:17	if you're not on our list please make
1:54:19	sure you get that to me
1:54:21	and then lastly mayor any final closing
1:54:24	comments
1:54:25	no i just want to thank everybody for
1:54:26	their participation
1:54:28	and taking time out of their busy days
1:54:30	two hours out of your day today
1:54:32	i think there's a lot of reason for the
1:54:33	optimism
1:54:35	description given of the two individuals
1:54:38	who have been hired for the uh
1:54:40	liaison position it sounds very
1:54:42	promising uh
1:54:43	talked to uh people that were on the
1:54:45	selection committee and they feel these
1:54:47	are
1:54:47	gonna be really good candidates or good
1:54:50	good
1:54:50	people in that position and really
1:54:52	exciting for what those two full-time
1:54:54	positions can do for our community
1:54:56	in the coming months and and years and i
1:54:59	also just want to thank the county
1:55:00	commission
1:55:01	uh for having prioritized navigation
1:55:04	drop-in center as a number one
1:55:05	priority and for uh ms steele for all
1:55:08	the work that she's doing to
1:55:09	try to figure out a way to execute it
1:55:12	and um
1:55:13	in all also for noting that uh for
1:55:15	viviana noting
1:55:17	that um you know this position will
1:55:19	evolve with needs so
1:55:21	it's not you know written in stone
1:55:22	exactly what the jobs description is
1:55:24	forever
1:55:25	if we find out that there needs to be
1:55:27	more effort in one way or another to
1:55:28	meet the needs of the homeless
1:55:29	population
1:55:30	and the community then that there'll be
1:55:33	flexibility to
1:55:34	uh to improve it as it goes so i think
1:55:37	there's
1:55:38	a lot of promise there and and also
1:55:40	there were several organizations who
1:55:42	specifically raised their hands and said
1:55:43	hey we want to be part of that
1:55:45	we can help you find funding we can help
1:55:46	with that job
1:55:48	so i think there's a lot to be
1:55:49	optimistic about so thank you everybody
1:55:51	for today
1:55:53	thank you mayor appreciate that and uh
1:55:54	last comment i'll say is uh thank you
1:55:56	everybody for being here thank you
1:55:57	guests
1:55:58	and our members this is the best
1:56:00	attended meeting we've probably had in
1:56:01	three years i think we're almost 100
1:56:03	participation minus one or two people
1:56:05	that couldn't make it so
1:56:07	i don't know maybe this is the wave of
1:56:08	the future doing it through this uh
1:56:10	format so i do appreciate people's
1:56:13	patience with my
1:56:14	technological challenges and getting
1:56:15	through this but i felt we had a good
1:56:18	meeting today
1:56:18	and look forward to progress in future
1:56:22	meetings
1:56:23	so everybody take care stay healthy and
1:56:25	look forward to talking to you all soon