Homelessness Solutions Task Force
May 6, 2021
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Call to Order, Introductions & New Members – Chief Spalding
Mayor’s Welcome
Chief Spalding
Vaccinations
Helping Hands Update
CCA County-wide Liaison Update
CCA – Wellness Update
Clatop County – Navigation Center Update
Beacon Clubhouse Update
Clatsop County – more thoughts
Astoria Opportunity Village Update
Astoria Police Report
HOST Member Survey
General Discussion

Call to Order, Introductions & New Members – Chief Spalding
hour:minute:second
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=7 
0:00:07	all right well i think
0:00:08	we will go ahead and get started here
0:00:11	and
0:00:11	let me grab the agenda
0:00:15	and i'm going to as i go through this
0:00:18	morning's roster we have a few
0:00:20	changes on the roster so i want to note
0:00:22	those as i go through and call
0:00:24	roll so um
0:00:27	starting down the list kate allen i know
0:00:30	kate said that she wouldn't be able to
0:00:31	make it
0:00:33	amy baker are you here
0:00:37	okay teresa barnes hi theresa
0:00:42	jonah i think i did see you yep
0:00:45	uh mike davis i see you
0:00:49	uh alan evans
0:00:54	uh sean fitzpatrick
0:00:58	kenny hansen
0:01:02	sarah liu
0:01:04	[Music]
0:01:06	uh jennifer holland and i think she said
0:01:08	she couldn't make it she had a conflict
0:01:10	uh
0:01:10	jared i did see you
0:01:14	uh former mayor lemire i do see you
0:01:20	melissa linder
0:01:24	viviana i did see you
0:01:27	uh lisa mclean
0:01:31	i don't think lisa's going to be here um
0:01:36	ozark or oz are you here
0:01:41	jan peacher
0:01:43	[Music]
0:01:45	cindy i saw you
0:01:48	david reed i saw you counselor rock i
0:01:52	saw you
0:01:53	right here in the skunk cabbage okay
0:01:56	cool uh i'm here
0:01:59	brooke i see you uh monica is
0:02:03	i know she told me she's on the road but
0:02:04	she's gonna be hopefully signing in just
0:02:06	a little bit late
0:02:07	[Music]
0:02:10	okay great thank you
0:02:11	[Music]
0:02:14	and uh terry i see you're online
0:02:17	and raven i think uh raven was going to
0:02:20	try to sign on but she might have a
0:02:22	conflict
0:02:24	so looks like everybody is here
0:02:27	so as far as changes are some of our
0:02:30	newest additions
0:02:31	and just as a reminder the mayor is the
0:02:34	one that sets and approves the roster
0:02:36	and the following names have been
0:02:38	approved theresa barnes from the warming
0:02:40	center
0:02:41	uh welcome theresa um mike davis i think
0:02:44	you were actually the newest member at
0:02:46	our last meeting so
0:02:47	i think you're still good of course um
0:02:51	let's see and then oz from
0:02:54	filling empty bellies is one of our
0:02:57	newer members
0:02:59	um raven
0:03:02	i don't think's here but she does have a
0:03:03	name changed raven walsh she got married
0:03:05	a couple weeks ago so congratulations
0:03:07	raven
0:03:08	uh tom liner uh now former member has
0:03:12	uh they're moving up to washington to
0:03:14	port townsend area for an op job
0:03:16	opportunity for his wife so tom we
0:03:18	appreciate your service
0:03:19	i know he's going to be hanging around
0:03:21	astoria still here and there so
0:03:23	hopefully we will still see him and he
0:03:25	wanted to stay on the guest list because
0:03:27	he's already
0:03:28	signed up for some involvement and
0:03:29	homelessness issues in that community so
0:03:31	good for tom
0:03:33	um did i miss anybody
0:03:37	that's new new member we've had quite a
0:03:40	few changes so
0:03:41	uh oz i see you just signed in so
0:03:44	uh welcome i'll mark you down on the
0:03:46	roster here thank you
0:03:49	[Music]
0:03:52	okay uh mayor uh
0:03:55	if you have any opening comments fine
0:03:57	and then i'll
0:03:58	jump to logistics after that okay well
Mayor’s Welcome
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=241 
0:04:01	welcome everybody
0:04:02	and um just real quickly since our last
0:04:06	meeting the city council
0:04:07	established its goals for the next two
0:04:09	year period and i wanted to just
0:04:10	review the uh the goal regarding
0:04:14	uh homelessness and it is to support the
0:04:17	work and recommendations of the
0:04:19	homelessness solutions task force
0:04:21	force as well as other community efforts
0:04:23	to address homelessness and explore
0:04:25	specifically explore partnerships for
0:04:28	housing first programs
0:04:30	and a county-wide drop-in center
0:04:33	and so those are the goals and then the
0:04:36	other thing i want to note
0:04:37	is that we'll cover it later but chief
0:04:42	spalding
0:04:42	took the initiative to send the survey
0:04:44	out and we
0:04:46	we realized that as even though we
0:04:48	always say we are open to
0:04:50	new ideas and the this
0:04:54	group is to serve the needs of the group
0:04:56	members
0:04:57	we never actually did a formal survey so
0:04:59	it was a great idea by chief spaulding
0:05:00	to do a formal survey
0:05:02	if you haven't filled it out yet please
0:05:03	take just two minutes after the meeting
0:05:05	and fill out the short survey
0:05:07	so that we can be sure that the group
0:05:09	continues to serve the needs
0:05:10	of the members thank you
Chief Spalding 
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=314 
0:05:14	thank you mayor appreciate that and uh i
0:05:17	don't know if anyone can hear that
0:05:19	beeping going off in the background it
0:05:20	could be a fire alarm here at the police
0:05:22	department so fortunately the fire
0:05:24	department's next door so
0:05:25	i feel pretty safe um but i there's a
0:05:28	possibility i may have to evacuate so
0:05:31	um we might have to put the meeting on
0:05:33	pause but i'll let you know as soon as
0:05:35	someone comes and drags me out of my
0:05:37	office here so
0:05:38	i'm not really sitting in front of the
0:05:40	bridge so
0:05:41	um anyway with that being said uh just a
0:05:45	few logistical things again just as a
0:05:47	reminder
0:05:48	please keep your phones muted and until
0:05:51	you would like to uh
0:05:53	speak uh the this is a member based
0:05:56	group
0:05:57	um however we do value the opinions
0:06:00	and thoughts from our guests many of our
0:06:02	great ideas have come from our guests
0:06:04	uh throughout the meeting though if
0:06:06	there's any items that are voted on it's
0:06:08	voted on by a member of the group and
0:06:10	the discussion generally surrounds the
0:06:11	members
0:06:12	but oftentimes we have time to be able
0:06:14	to open up to the guests so i don't want
0:06:16	anyone to feel excluded but also
0:06:18	are trying to follow the appropriate
0:06:20	protocols as well
0:06:21	um let's see so um
0:06:25	megan mccall from cca is taking notes
0:06:27	for us so thank you megan i appreciate
0:06:29	you doing that
0:06:30	and so unlike me try not to talk too
0:06:33	fast so she can capture everything
0:06:36	so with that being said we will um
0:06:39	ask for an approval of the minutes from
0:06:42	the last meeting
0:06:47	through the minutes second david reed
0:06:51	and david ii any discussion
0:06:57	okay all in favor say aye or actually
0:06:59	wave your hand
0:07:03	okay any opposed
0:07:06	okay motion carries thank you
Vaccinations 
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=430 
0:07:10	so um on the vaccination front that's
0:07:14	some of you may have read the article in
0:07:15	the paper a couple days on the
0:07:17	homelessness vaccinations
0:07:18	i believe julie hesse is here and
0:07:22	to talk a little bit about that on
0:07:24	behalf of public health i do see you
0:07:26	julia sorry i said julie and can you
0:07:29	pronounce your last name i just want to
0:07:31	make sure i'm getting it right yeah it's
0:07:33	yes
0:07:33	with a silent e all right essa if you're
0:07:36	in germany
0:07:37	okay thank you you're on
0:07:41	okay um i think susan pretty man or
0:07:44	viviana can talk more about the um
0:07:47	health and wellness fair that they put
0:07:49	on and that grew from the conversation
0:07:52	we had about
0:07:53	how can we do outreach to the homeless
0:07:55	population
0:07:56	for vaccination um so i'll let them talk
0:07:59	about that because what i saw
0:08:01	it was really um a big success
0:08:04	it was great public health was
0:08:07	there lisa mclean was there she gave 20
0:08:10	vaccines
0:08:11	and she was really really happy with
0:08:13	that number she didn't expect to do that
0:08:15	many
0:08:17	and they also handed out naloxone is
0:08:21	that what it is
0:08:22	the they handed out several of those
0:08:26	um with the training that goes along
0:08:28	with it um so they were really happy
0:08:30	they didn't get rid of enough condoms
0:08:32	they wanted to give away more condoms
0:08:34	but
0:08:35	um and so for future vaccines
0:08:39	lisa wasn't able to be here today so she
0:08:42	asked me to let you know
0:08:43	that she is going to attempt she's
0:08:47	planning on attending the warming
0:08:48	shelter
0:08:49	shower days i guess they have those on
0:08:51	special days so she can be available
0:08:54	to vaccinate people that want the
0:08:55	vaccine
0:08:57	and they're also talking about setting
0:08:59	up pop-up clinics possibly
0:09:01	with the lunches or
0:09:04	other places that might be identified
0:09:07	and
0:09:08	we are open to suggestions and she said
0:09:11	if anybody
0:09:12	needs a vaccination tell them to stop by
0:09:15	the health department
0:09:16	but what i'm hearing is that doesn't
0:09:18	work because usually the nurses are out
0:09:19	in the field
0:09:20	but you can call lisa and i can drop her
0:09:23	number in the chat
0:09:25	um if somebody needs a vaccination a
0:09:29	homeless person needs a vaccination
0:09:31	otherwise we're running people through
0:09:34	our mass vaccination clinics that's by
0:09:36	appointment only
0:09:37	and i can give you more information on
0:09:39	that if you need it but that's the
0:09:40	separate topic
0:09:42	for vaccinations for the homeless
0:09:45	any questions
0:09:54	[Music]
0:09:57	julia uh julie just one question i i
0:10:00	think i understood that the
0:10:02	vaccine was the uh one-shot dose for the
0:10:05	almost yeah the dungeon and johnson
0:10:08	they're saving they're setting aside the
0:10:11	doses
0:10:12	of those for the hard-to-reach
0:10:14	population such as people that are
0:10:16	homebound or homeless
0:10:18	or other odd cases because there is a
0:10:20	limited supply
0:10:22	okay makes sense thank you yeah
0:10:26	all right thank you julia appreciate
0:10:27	that thank you so much
Helping Hands Update
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=630 
0:10:30	mike from helping hams
0:10:42	mike i'm guessing maybe you have some
0:10:43	connection issue there you look a little
0:10:45	frozen
0:10:46	in time
0:10:49	[Music]
0:10:55	and we do have can you hear me no
0:10:58	now i can yep okay apologies um our
0:11:01	uh astoria location uh the the men's
0:11:05	long-term re-entry program is running at
0:11:07	full capacity right now but we do have
0:11:09	um
0:11:10	availability in our emergency shelter
0:11:13	beds
0:11:14	and women were at about 75 percent
0:11:16	covered capacity
0:11:17	with emergency shelter beds as well
0:11:22	they did ask if anyone has any
0:11:24	connections to some art supplies and
0:11:26	some basic garden tools that would be
0:11:28	really helpful
0:11:30	and they wanted me to share with you
0:11:34	one of our success stories one of our
0:11:36	participants that's been in our
0:11:38	women's shelter for about a year now has
0:11:40	regained custody of our two children
0:11:43	and is actually graduating and moving on
0:11:45	to
0:11:46	independent housing and we're very
0:11:50	excited very proud of her for that so
0:11:52	just wanted to call that out
0:11:54	our seaside location which was our
0:11:56	long-term uh women's
0:11:57	shelter we're about 75 of coba capacity
0:12:01	right now
0:12:02	so we could take a few more people uh in
0:12:05	in that location as well if people are
0:12:07	working down in the seaside location
0:12:10	um we are uh working at expanding like
0:12:14	as fast as we possibly can um we do know
0:12:17	that
0:12:17	um the portland state university
0:12:19	recently released a study that they
0:12:21	anticipate about 89
0:12:22	000 people could face eviction when the
0:12:25	moratoriums expire
0:12:27	uh which is going to be about a 3.3
0:12:30	billion dollar
0:12:30	impact on the oregon economy and so
0:12:34	our lincoln city project is moving along
0:12:36	very well we hope to open that
0:12:38	here in the fall and we're looking to
0:12:42	begin construction again on the second
0:12:45	phase in our portland location when
0:12:48	those are both done we expect we'll be
0:12:50	doubling our capacity that we're able to
0:12:52	serve
0:12:54	that is all i have any questions
0:13:02	[Music]
0:13:04	thank you thank you mike i appreciate
0:13:06	the update
0:13:07	that's a good news on the capacity
0:13:09	expansion good news
CCA County-wide Liaison Update
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=792 
0:13:12	all righty uh viviana you are up and uh
0:13:15	we appreciate your work on the homeless
0:13:17	liaison position
0:13:18	and uh and i don't think many of the
0:13:21	people in the group here are aware of
0:13:23	the second position so i'll let you
0:13:25	talk everything homelessly is unrelated
0:13:28	great good morning everybody so we we
0:13:31	did hire two homeless liaison
0:13:34	both started on april 1st april fool's
0:13:37	day
0:13:38	and one only lasted a week um she felt
0:13:41	it was not a good fit for her
0:13:43	so we still have cheryl paul uh as a
0:13:47	homeless liaison here in class county we
0:13:49	are in the process
0:13:50	of interviewing uh more candidates this
0:13:53	week and next week so hopefully we have
0:13:55	the second
0:13:56	um position filled pretty soon and
0:13:59	paul cheryl paul has been working going
0:14:02	to seaside pretty much
0:14:04	every day connecting people who have
0:14:06	been in campus
0:14:07	to different housing options and um
0:14:12	yeah so that's what i have from the
0:14:14	homeless liaison piece um
0:14:16	if you know of anybody who is interested
0:14:18	in a position
0:14:19	please let me know for some reason on
0:14:22	another
0:14:22	we have not received as many
0:14:24	applications
0:14:25	as we were hoping for and i think i'm
0:14:29	not the uh
0:14:30	cta is not the only one who is having
0:14:32	issues
0:14:33	with the people applying for jobs
0:14:36	we are seeing all of that all over but
0:14:39	if you do know
0:14:40	somebody who is very good with
0:14:43	essentially customer service and and
0:14:48	i'm sorry i got distracted by somebody
0:14:50	but anyway um
0:14:52	please let me know um the uh the pay
0:14:55	rate is from
0:14:56	you know from 17 to 21 22 depends on
0:15:00	experience
0:15:01	and full benefits and 40 hours a week
0:15:04	[Music]
0:15:06	that that's what i have about the
0:15:08	homeless liaison do you want me to talk
0:15:10	a little bit about the health and
0:15:12	wellness
0:15:13	that we had yeah viviana that'd be great
0:15:16	but also if you would maybe talk just a
0:15:18	little bit more about
0:15:19	some of the the role of this person what
0:15:21	they're actually doing right now
0:15:23	you know i know we talked about what we
0:15:25	envisioned they would do before when the
0:15:27	program started but
0:15:28	you know what are some of the day-to-day
0:15:30	duties i think
0:15:32	i can give you i can give you some um
0:15:34	you know some example of what cheryl has
0:15:37	been doing
0:15:38	cheryl was uh contacted uh cheryl paul
0:15:41	the
0:15:41	homeless liaison she was contacted by
0:15:44	city councils of seaside because they
0:15:46	were
0:15:47	um you know there were a lot of campers
0:15:49	parked on 12th street
0:15:50	in seaside and then she with another
0:15:53	case manager from cca had been going and
0:15:56	trying to find solutions for the people
0:15:58	who are
0:15:59	been camping and we were able to house
0:16:02	one individual
0:16:03	uh who had chronically illness and
0:16:07	and also store the camper so cheryl has
0:16:10	been working with us
0:16:11	with the um with the not only
0:16:15	with the uh homeless people but also
0:16:18	with the landlords and other housing
0:16:21	options
0:16:22	to be able to uh move the people from
0:16:26	12th street
0:16:26	from camping onto our street she is
0:16:30	being
0:16:31	connected with a lot of people from
0:16:32	seaside because her
0:16:34	knowledge about houseless people
0:16:37	is mostly in astoria but
0:16:40	she's getting to know the population in
0:16:43	seaside as well
0:16:45	and then move on to warrington she is
0:16:46	not going by herself
0:16:48	um because of for many different reasons
0:16:52	we are she is pairing with the kids
0:16:55	manager from
0:16:56	plaza community action until we hire a
0:16:59	second homeless liaison
0:17:01	and her hours are you know 48 hours a
0:17:04	week and she's
0:17:05	going going and going and coming to
0:17:08	seaside
0:17:09	and and all of that so making sure that
0:17:12	people are
0:17:13	knowing that she is available and then
0:17:16	we are hoping
0:17:17	for uh cheryl to start doing a tour for
0:17:20	all the different agencies and
0:17:21	connecting with all the different
0:17:23	agencies once we hire the second person
0:17:26	um yeah
0:17:30	do you have any questions essentially we
0:17:33	want her we want the homeless liaison to
0:17:35	be connected to all the agencies being
0:17:37	connected with the police departments
0:17:38	from this
0:17:39	from different cities and city councils
0:17:41	in trying to
0:17:43	you know uh come up with the
0:17:46	housing options for our house with
0:17:49	populations the ones that are ready for
0:17:51	because some a lot of them are not ready
0:17:53	for housing
0:17:54	so but we are giving those um the option
0:18:02	are you promoting this by uh providing a
0:18:06	phone number or
0:18:07	how do people access the services is
0:18:09	there any kind of a screening process
0:18:12	yeah so then we wanted to have the
0:18:14	entire
0:18:15	month of april for the homeless liaisons
0:18:18	to learn
0:18:18	what cca does and then connected to the
0:18:22	agencies here
0:18:23	in astoria but because of the second
0:18:26	homeless liaison resigning from the
0:18:28	position that threw us
0:18:29	off the curb here and then uh but we are
0:18:33	hoping to
0:18:34	have a self i'm gonna get a cell phone
0:18:37	for cheryl today
0:18:38	and then we are going to send that cell
0:18:40	phone out to all the community partners
0:18:43	so they
0:18:43	can have a way to contact cheryl
0:18:45	directly
0:18:46	without calling the cca office
0:18:50	so as soon as i have that in place you
0:18:51	will all have that number
0:18:54	and as of right now cheryl would
0:18:59	be working only monday through friday
0:19:01	once we hire a second homeless liaison
0:19:04	that might change i just uh i don't want
0:19:07	to send cheryl by herself
0:19:09	to see anybody i want i i need her to be
0:19:12	partner with another person from either
0:19:15	cca
0:19:16	or the second homeless liaison and at
0:19:18	this time i'm not able to pay overtime
0:19:20	over the weekends
0:19:21	but that's why we are doing it uh monday
0:19:24	through friday right now
0:19:25	[Music]
0:19:27	and then the uh the homeless we did have
0:19:31	uh
0:19:32	a homeless liaison um council
0:19:37	member meeting we did have it a couple
0:19:39	of weeks ago
0:19:40	it's a group of people who represent
0:19:42	different agencies
0:19:44	to be able to oversee the position of
0:19:47	homeless liaison
0:19:49	and then we met about uh two weeks ago
0:19:52	in uh just to give a report of what the
0:19:56	homophobia is some have been doing
0:19:58	and come up with ideas and metrics and
0:20:01	goals
0:20:02	within the next year to make sure that
0:20:04	it is uh
0:20:06	it is a position that is going to be
0:20:08	bring positiveness
0:20:09	to our county
0:20:14	okay is there any questions for viviana
0:20:17	before she talks a little bit about the
0:20:18	wellness
0:20:19	piece so please uh raise your hand or do
0:20:22	a shout out
0:20:25	and then if you have questions later on
0:20:27	you're more than welcome to email me at
0:20:28	any time
0:20:29	[Music]
CCA – Wellness Update
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=1233 
0:20:33	okay i want you to go ahead with the
0:20:35	other piece the wellness
0:20:37	yeah i just want to ask if everybody had
0:20:39	their coffee today
0:20:40	am i the only one with full of energy
0:20:43	here
0:20:45	yeah thank you so um
0:20:48	cca was contacted by the health
0:20:50	department about a
0:20:52	month and a half ago uh of coming up
0:20:55	with an idea of how
0:20:56	to um vaccinate
0:21:00	the houseless the unsheltered population
0:21:02	in krakow county
0:21:04	and then i contacted oha
0:21:08	for fundings to see if we'll be able to
0:21:12	provide a health and wellness activity
0:21:14	in such a short time
0:21:16	because that means it's going to require
0:21:18	a lot of money
0:21:20	because we are not counting on
0:21:21	volunteers and we're not counting on
0:21:23	donations
0:21:25	or sponsorship so oha gracefully
0:21:28	gave us some fundings to be able to do
0:21:31	uh
0:21:31	and also the cco plus columbia pacific
0:21:34	cco
0:21:35	to help us put together a health and
0:21:39	wellness
0:21:40	event for our houseless and shelter
0:21:42	population here in clatzo county
0:21:45	we did intensive outreach
0:21:48	process and then we were able to
0:21:51	bring from outside of plateau county a
0:21:54	mobile shower
0:21:56	we were able to provide to go lunches
0:21:59	for
0:22:00	everybody who came to the event um
0:22:03	we had vaccinations available we had
0:22:06	and other clothing and also we had a lot
0:22:09	of
0:22:10	giveaways so everybody received a
0:22:13	backpack
0:22:14	with items such as a cell phone charger
0:22:18	water
0:22:22	sleeping bag and so on and then um
0:22:25	we had about a little bit over 60 people
0:22:28	coming through the door
0:22:29	and the health department brought in
0:22:31	with them 20
0:22:32	um vaccines covered 19 vaccines
0:22:36	and they used all of them um what else
0:22:40	and susan um she took the lead on the
0:22:42	event i just
0:22:44	took the lead on the funding and susan
0:22:48	um susan and i put it all together but
0:22:50	susan might have some
0:22:51	more things to add to it
0:22:55	i would just add a thank you to the
0:22:57	agencies that were willing to
0:22:59	participate and be there
0:23:01	i think it's really really amazing when
0:23:03	our community comes together
0:23:04	we had we had a table set up for cvh
0:23:09	the va was there like you said we had
0:23:11	you know we had a free meal we had the
0:23:13	shower station
0:23:14	we had hair stylists come in and do free
0:23:16	haircuts
0:23:18	um head start was there there was some
0:23:20	information from the harbor
0:23:22	bear and it was a really great event to
0:23:25	have more
0:23:26	you know more than 60 people show up and
0:23:28	i can tell you that we opened the doors
0:23:29	at 10 and we had a line outside
0:23:32	30 minutes before that and so i think
0:23:34	that just speaks to
0:23:36	you know what our agencies can do when
0:23:38	we work together in a very short time
0:23:40	frame
0:23:42	and then i am i am willing to do another
0:23:45	uh health and wellness activity in
0:23:47	seaside so if the health department
0:23:49	wants to
0:23:51	um put this you know help us with the
0:23:52	vaccinations and then we'll be able to
0:23:55	do it again just because we did it
0:23:57	in astoria we know how we can do it in
0:24:00	such a short time so
0:24:01	towards the middle of the summer or even
0:24:03	before summer
0:24:05	so hopefully we'll have one more event
0:24:07	in season
0:24:08	and julia says yes and then we just have
0:24:11	to pick a date
0:24:12	and a location will be easy in seaside
0:24:15	um we have a very good relationship with
0:24:17	the convention
0:24:18	center and then we just need a few weeks
0:24:21	to
0:24:21	put it together i think it's important
0:24:24	for us to offer the same services
0:24:26	in seaside and same as warrington
0:24:30	because clapton community action covers
0:24:31	the entire uh county
0:24:36	and and also transportation was offered
0:24:39	to the
0:24:40	wellness health and wellness by by the
0:24:43	transportation here is etv
0:24:49	thank you thank you vivian any other
0:24:52	questions for viviana or susan
0:24:56	i have a question this is julia again um
0:25:00	did you have people come up from south
0:25:02	county did they use the transportation
0:25:07	you did yes all right
0:25:12	thank you but if we have one in we have
0:25:15	an nc
0:25:15	one in seaside then we have we we can
0:25:18	open that to
0:25:19	people from coming from canaan beach and
0:25:22	farther than seaside
0:25:23	yeah and outside the outside skirts of
0:25:26	seaside
0:25:26	so i think we should do it julia what do
0:25:29	you think
0:25:30	i think so too i'll tell lisa she's
0:25:32	going to
0:25:33	okay thank you
0:25:36	thank you thanks again baby i appreciate
0:25:40	it
Clatop County – Navigation Center Update
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=1540 
0:25:40	monica are you still online there
0:25:54	monica
0:25:57	can you hear me now yep we can can you
0:25:59	hear me now okay
0:26:01	yep you are out there okay i apologize
0:26:05	if you lose me my verizon connection
0:26:06	hasn't been great lately
0:26:08	um so i just wanted to provide an update
0:26:11	in regards to
0:26:12	the county and the work that is being
0:26:15	done
0:26:16	through the strategic planning process
0:26:18	we
0:26:19	the the board recently adopted the
0:26:22	strategic plan goals which i believe i
0:26:24	mentioned in the last meeting
0:26:26	and in in those goals it's to establish
0:26:29	a navigation center and so
0:26:32	we do we are currently going through our
0:26:34	budget process
0:26:35	and we do have funds allocated to
0:26:39	to try and get this up and running in
0:26:42	the 2122
0:26:44	calendar year and so i'm excited to hear
0:26:46	that
0:26:47	the astoria city council also has
0:26:51	this in their goals as well because it's
0:26:53	really going to be
0:26:54	a partnership among
0:26:57	all of our community partners here in
0:27:00	the county
0:27:01	and so one of the things that we're
0:27:02	going to be looking at
0:27:04	is who all of those community partners
0:27:07	are going to be
0:27:09	i know that there's been a lot of
0:27:10	conversation about
0:27:12	duplication of services and how the
0:27:15	beacon house is currently a drop-in
0:27:17	center and i think it's important to
0:27:19	recognize
0:27:20	that there are certain limitations that
0:27:23	the beacon house
0:27:24	has and for for good reasons
0:27:28	they are trying to help a population
0:27:32	that has been referred there because of
0:27:35	certain mental health conditions and so
0:27:37	they want to make sure
0:27:38	that when they are welcoming their
0:27:41	guests
0:27:41	there that that they are taking care
0:27:45	of the environment that they're in and
0:27:47	the navigation center
0:27:49	is going to be open and used most likely
0:27:52	by those individuals as well but it's
0:27:55	going to be open to
0:27:56	everybody and so it's
0:28:00	it's hopefully going to be able to have
0:28:02	a place where people can come
0:28:04	to not only um take a shower or wash
0:28:07	them clothes
0:28:08	similar to what is also available at the
0:28:11	warming shelter
0:28:12	but but this will hopefully be round um
0:28:16	also be able to get meals be able to
0:28:20	have appointments for mental health
0:28:23	as well as public health visits be able
0:28:26	to possibly
0:28:27	in some instances the other types of
0:28:30	specialty services such as
0:28:35	[Music]
0:28:38	monica i think we're uh well i know
0:28:40	we're starting to lose you there
0:28:41	uh maybe you're going through it so okay
0:28:44	you're back
0:28:45	okay sorry uh so so we're just trying to
0:28:49	reach out to different community
0:28:50	partners at this point to see
0:28:52	if their level of interest in
0:28:55	participation
0:28:56	in the navigation center is there so
0:28:58	that way we can identify
0:29:00	who the groups are going to be um that
0:29:03	are
0:29:03	set up here and then still trying to
0:29:06	identify
0:29:07	where this location would best be
0:29:09	because to
0:29:10	viviana's point this is a a county
0:29:14	effort that we are making and so we want
0:29:17	to make sure that we
0:29:18	are in a viable location to address the
0:29:21	entire county population
0:29:25	because of
0:29:31	monica i think uh you're cutting out a
0:29:33	little bit again um
0:29:36	i have i apologize um that i
0:29:40	had to travel today during this meeting
0:29:43	but if i can i can send you i can write
0:29:46	up a
0:29:47	a report for you chief and then if you
0:29:49	want to email it out to the membership
0:29:52	yeah i'd be happy to do that and just
0:29:54	for my clarification
0:29:55	um is there a difference between a
0:29:57	navigation center and a drop-in center
0:30:00	and and then
0:30:03	yeah i would say that it's essentially
0:30:05	the same same sort of thing
0:30:07	um that the term has been um used both
0:30:10	ways
0:30:11	and that's something else that we can
0:30:12	further define as we work through this
0:30:14	with community partners
0:30:16	um a lot of people are saying navigation
0:30:19	center because we're just trying to help
0:30:21	them now
0:30:23	the services that they would be needing
0:30:26	and it would be
0:30:26	on a drop-in basis so you aren't
0:30:28	necessarily needing to have an
0:30:30	appointment to come
0:30:31	in this
0:30:32	[Music]
Beacon Clubhouse Update
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=1835 
0:30:35	okay gotcha and then um just for
0:30:37	clarification oz
0:30:39	shared with us that the beacon clubhouse
0:30:41	is not a drop-in center so oz would you
0:30:43	mind
0:30:44	maybe for everybody's benefit just
0:30:46	telling us a little bit about
0:30:47	you know what you know what the beacon
0:30:49	clubhouse does
0:30:51	[Music]
0:30:53	the beacon clubhouse is a member only
0:30:56	organization for people with mental
0:30:59	illness
0:31:00	we are a referral base
0:31:03	people cannot just drop in you have to
0:31:05	be a member to be here
0:31:07	um and and we have semi i mean we have
0:31:09	guidelines that we have to follow in our
0:31:11	people to come into partners so we are
0:31:13	definitely not a drop-in center we've
0:31:15	had a lot of
0:31:15	organizations directing people to us
0:31:18	um and thinking that we were a drop-in
0:31:21	center
0:31:21	and please we are we are not we can't we
0:31:23	can't be a drop-in center
0:31:25	we'll get in trouble um if we have
0:31:26	people dropping in here
0:31:28	um the closest thing i mean i i
0:31:31	represent failing empty bellies
0:31:32	and i'm also the staff generalist at
0:31:35	beacon clubhouse
0:31:36	um so filling empty bellies is welcome
0:31:38	to are willing to do
0:31:40	and help help people with uh drop-in
0:31:41	center styles so
0:31:43	we can't do that at the beacon clubhouse
0:31:47	um sorry if i didn't explain what we do
0:31:49	here though
0:31:50	we uh so members come in and um they can
0:31:53	engage in our units so we have a
0:31:55	culinary unit
0:31:56	we have an art unit um wellness unit and
0:31:59	then we have a resource
0:32:00	computer center um so it's it's
0:32:03	basically
0:32:04	um an engagement you know we want people
0:32:07	to come in and engage
0:32:08	and and they're welcome to help us to
0:32:12	figure out what it is exactly that they
0:32:14	want to do like um one of our members is
0:32:16	really into tie dye so we do tight air
0:32:18	once
0:32:18	um every couple weeks or so um we do
0:32:22	collages i mean we do gardening walks we
0:32:25	do yoga
0:32:26	um it's just kind of wide open but the
0:32:29	the little thing is is to get them
0:32:31	engaged and um
0:32:33	and running the clubhouse themselves
0:32:36	you guys work um closely with cbh how's
0:32:39	that partnership
0:32:40	we work very closely with cbh that's
0:32:42	where most of our referrals are from
0:32:44	um cbh and their open door they're
0:32:47	um and we help people we do help people
0:32:50	get housed and we do
0:32:52	do re resource uh we do help people find
0:32:54	resources but they have to remember
0:32:56	first before
0:32:57	that we can actually help them with that
0:32:59	stuff um
0:33:01	so yeah we work very closely with cvh
0:33:05	great all right thank you oz appreciate
Clatsop County – more thoughts
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=1987 
0:33:07	it uh monica any other
0:33:09	final thoughts
0:33:13	i would just like to share in regards to
0:33:17	some of the work that the homeless
0:33:19	liaison is doing
0:33:21	the county is excited to work with
0:33:25	cca on this and one of the things that
0:33:28	we are hoping to gather more data on
0:33:32	is we all know that we have a housing
0:33:35	issue
0:33:36	throughout the county and trying to
0:33:39	establish what type of um housing needs
0:33:43	are most immediate like viviana
0:33:47	mentioned
0:33:48	in some instances some of the people who
0:33:50	are currently
0:33:52	unhoused aren't ready to move into
0:33:55	certain types of housing situations
0:33:57	and so trying to identify just beyond
0:34:00	the fact that we need more housing
0:34:02	what type of housing that is whether
0:34:04	that's transitional whether that's
0:34:05	permanent supportive whether it's
0:34:07	emergency emergency shelters
0:34:09	and then also just um trying to
0:34:13	see what sorts of programs there might
0:34:15	be you know we are a tourist destination
0:34:18	where a lot of people come to camp
0:34:20	and so even to come here if you are
0:34:22	living out of an rv
0:34:24	is not very affordable and so trying to
0:34:27	figure out um
0:34:28	what sort of options there might be for
0:34:30	those who have
0:34:32	shelter um just don't have a place to
0:34:35	um park that shelter that is appropriate
0:34:39	and so those are things that we're
0:34:41	hoping to work on
0:34:42	with cca and the homeless liaison
0:34:44	position
0:34:45	as we move into the 21-22 fiscal year
0:34:49	and try to further address our housing
0:34:52	issue
0:34:55	all right great thank you monica any
0:34:57	questions for monica
0:35:03	may i add something else though when the
0:35:06	uh
0:35:07	when cheryl and our case managers helped
0:35:10	this individual from seaside we did not
0:35:13	house them from one rv to another rv we
0:35:17	house them
0:35:17	to permanent housing because she was
0:35:19	ready for it
0:35:21	but if she would not have been ready our
0:35:23	options were extremely limited
0:35:25	very limited thank you makes sense
0:35:32	okay any other questions
Astoria Opportunity Village Update
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=2137 
0:35:37	okay uh we're gonna move towards uh our
0:35:40	guest ron maxted doing an
0:35:41	update on the uh dignitary opportunity
0:35:44	village
0:35:45	and then ron let me know when you want
0:35:47	me to put up a copy of the minutes
0:35:51	thank you very much uh thank you uh
0:35:54	mayor bruce jones and j
0:35:56	jeff spalding chief spalding
0:36:00	um i just want to give a little update
0:36:02	of the
0:36:04	one-year history of astoria opportunity
0:36:06	village project
0:36:09	we are a subcommittee of this host group
0:36:12	forming last year uh establishing
0:36:15	our name uh astoria opportunity village
0:36:20	and a vision statement and a short
0:36:22	section of the vision statement is
0:36:24	astoria operational village is a
0:36:28	collaboration between housed and
0:36:30	unhoused
0:36:32	to provide stable and safe places
0:36:35	for unhoused to live as they transition
0:36:38	to a more
0:36:38	sustainable living situation in
0:36:41	partnership
0:36:42	with local county municipalities
0:36:48	so as a story of opportunity village
0:36:51	providing cost-effective
0:36:54	and humanitarian approaches to
0:36:57	this transition temporary housing only
0:37:03	this year 2021 we have
0:37:06	formed a guidance committee to
0:37:09	this larger group of astoria
0:37:13	opportunity village following the
0:37:16	guidance of our mayor bruce jones who
0:37:18	suggested that we
0:37:20	incorporate
0:37:23	the local social service
0:37:27	agencies and county
0:37:31	organizations so we have formed this
0:37:35	guiding committee
0:37:36	and we have some key players in this
0:37:40	um will that are
0:37:43	currently taking care of the welfare of
0:37:47	our unhoused in classic county
0:37:49	viviana matthews which we all know terry
0:37:53	steenbergen from the harbor amy baker
0:37:57	from behaviorals uh classic behavioral
0:38:01	healthcare monica steele um
0:38:05	from the county and lauren wilson who
0:38:08	was
0:38:08	at wet the county but is recently
0:38:10	retired but is on
0:38:11	our guiding committee and also a very
0:38:15	experienced
0:38:16	health uh social worker uh
0:38:20	bill black bill brings a wealth of
0:38:23	experience and knowledge from
0:38:26	many years of working with the unhoused
0:38:29	this in combination with our mentor
0:38:34	uh group which is opportunity village in
0:38:38	eugene
0:38:40	which has been mentoring our progress
0:38:44	through square one squareonevillages.org
0:38:47	dan bryant has given us tips on
0:38:50	accomplishing what they have
0:38:52	successfully done
0:38:53	in their county in eugene
0:38:56	[Music]
0:38:57	we had our first guidance committee
0:39:01	and chief if you yeah thank you thank
0:39:03	you
0:39:04	uh and this is our first meeting and
0:39:07	we've identified some things that we are
0:39:10	asking the host group
0:39:13	two were looking for suggestions and
0:39:15	help and
0:39:16	uh and any guidance that uh
0:39:20	you might bring forth and that we've
0:39:23	decided
0:39:24	that we're not going to form a
0:39:25	non-profit
0:39:27	until we get more established more more
0:39:30	people wanting to participate
0:39:33	uh and uh we are looking to
0:39:38	become a fiscal partner
0:39:41	with a another non-profit so a fist
0:39:44	fiscal partnership would mean that we'd
0:39:47	be able to use their non-profit
0:39:49	status for fundraising um
0:39:53	and uh go forward in that way so
0:39:57	uh i would like to know
0:40:00	i'm not we're not sure uh if there's a
0:40:02	state agency that might be willing to
0:40:05	step in and help us in that but uh so
0:40:08	we're
0:40:08	looking for uh suggestions from the host
0:40:11	group on that i have talked to
0:40:15	danielle hall the acting interim
0:40:18	president of the warming center and
0:40:21	we've been
0:40:22	uh talking about the possibility of
0:40:25	maybe uh going further with some
0:40:29	discussion on that until we establish
0:40:32	this important link for our
0:40:36	organization we are in a holding pattern
0:40:40	once that is established we are looking
0:40:43	forward to
0:40:44	putting together a transitional house
0:40:48	model and we would be looking to
0:40:51	put it on a trailer uh so we can move it
0:40:55	to different locations for instance like
0:40:57	maybe the safeway parking lot or
0:40:59	something
0:40:59	and having an open house on saturdays
0:41:01	and saying
0:41:02	this is what a transitional house looks
0:41:05	like
0:41:07	and and also that will
0:41:11	increase our base garner support for
0:41:14	the project for actually a village
0:41:18	and uh so in that regard we are looking
0:41:22	for
0:41:22	uh suggestions from the host
0:41:26	uh committee about the possibility of a
0:41:28	trailer we need a trailer to pull this
0:41:32	uh uh model around and and
0:41:35	of course we haven't figured out whether
0:41:37	just to buy a
0:41:39	a uh one
0:41:42	transitional home that is available or
0:41:44	to actually
0:41:46	involve the community into building one
0:41:49	and uh this particular step
0:41:53	that building of a transitional home
0:41:56	can be an opportunity to enlist people
0:42:00	that would be interested i already have
0:42:02	a list of people that
0:42:03	want to participate in in that sort of a
0:42:06	project
0:42:07	and uh that might uh help us go forward
0:42:11	and um let me see i
0:42:14	think that is that you can see our
0:42:18	minutes
0:42:18	and if you have any suggestions
0:42:22	uh going forward uh you could give me
0:42:25	a contact by text works best
0:42:29	my number is 503-338-9153
0:42:36	thank you
0:42:39	all right thank you ron anybody have any
0:42:41	questions for ron
0:42:45	[Music]
0:42:52	okay seeing none please feel free to
0:42:54	reach out to ron if you do have any
0:42:56	questions and if you want to get a copy
0:42:57	of the minutes
0:42:58	i'm sure he'd be happy to send those to
0:43:00	you from his meeting
0:43:01	and ron i appreciate the work you're
0:43:03	doing on that thank you
0:43:05	thank you so uh let's see
Astoria Police Report
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=2589 
0:43:09	homeless activity so i'll just uh
0:43:11	briefly
0:43:12	talk a little bit about where we're at
0:43:14	numbers-wise the good news is that the
0:43:16	numbers are down
0:43:18	and fairly substantially not really sure
0:43:21	why
0:43:22	but i'm not complaining just
0:43:25	as far as numbers go uh in as a reminder
0:43:28	in the year 2020 we had
0:43:31	786 homeless related calls for service
0:43:35	this year we've had 169 um
0:43:38	to date as of this morning uh homeless
0:43:41	calls and 14 aggressive
0:43:43	related homeless calls for a total of
0:43:45	183
0:43:46	and if you divide that by 126 days is
0:43:50	where we're at today
0:43:51	we're averaging about 1.4 1.5
0:43:56	per day compared to last year which was
0:43:58	2 2
0:43:59	and 2.2 so it is down quite a bit so
0:44:02	good news on the almost call front
0:44:05	any questions on that
0:44:12	okay i do chief spalding
0:44:16	you're welcome yes viviana um do you
0:44:19	think the numbers are low because
0:44:22	people are staying in their homes
0:44:24	because of pandemic
0:44:25	and people are not seeing um
0:44:29	misbehaving actions and people not
0:44:32	reporting because they're not
0:44:34	on the street yeah i don't know you know
0:44:37	honestly i'd be guessing
0:44:39	um i will say there is one fairly
0:44:41	significant factor is two individuals
0:44:43	who are responsible for a significant
0:44:45	amount of our calls
0:44:46	have not been in our community and so i
0:44:49	know that that was
0:44:50	um a significant one one of those
0:44:53	individuals
0:44:54	had over 300 calls for service over a
0:44:58	few years but nonetheless
0:44:59	uh substantial um so
0:45:02	that that's one factor i don't know to
0:45:05	what extent covid
0:45:06	is a factor not so much for the um the
0:45:10	um unhoused but maybe more for the fact
0:45:12	that you know businesses are
0:45:14	more businesses are closed for different
0:45:16	periods of time and there's less people
0:45:17	calling in
0:45:18	types of things so honestly i would just
0:45:21	be guessing
0:45:23	if anyone else has a theory i'm all ears
0:45:26	yeah
0:45:27	[Music]
0:45:29	anyway we will continue to monitor i
0:45:31	think it's helpful to know and it's also
0:45:34	nice to know when the numbers are down
0:45:38	i i won't take credit when the numbers
0:45:40	are down because then i'd have to take
0:45:41	credit when the numbers go back up so
0:45:44	you have to be careful with that one so
0:45:46	at any rate uh
0:45:47	it's all good news so um
HOST Member Survey
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=2751 
0:45:51	with that being said um survey
0:45:54	the mayor mentioned earlier that we had
0:45:57	done a impromptu last minute survey
0:45:59	and i will say that the survey was in
0:46:02	part prompted by
0:46:04	some criticism of the work that our
0:46:07	group has done
0:46:08	and i won't say that it's unfair
0:46:10	criticism because you know i think
0:46:11	from an outsider perspective or even
0:46:14	those that attend
0:46:15	you know sometimes i think there is
0:46:16	appearance that we're not doing as much
0:46:18	as we can
0:46:19	i think we all realize this is an
0:46:20	extremely difficult uh
0:46:22	problem to solve and there are no easy
0:46:24	answers um
0:46:25	so i i really wanted to kind of find out
0:46:28	where
0:46:29	um the group landed in terms of
0:46:32	the the value of our committee you know
0:46:34	the work that we're doing
0:46:36	and of course more importantly to do a
0:46:37	little reset and look and see what our
0:46:39	priorities should be
0:46:41	so with the survey let me
0:46:44	bring that up here real quick
0:46:47	[Music]
0:46:52	so the
0:46:55	survey just a quick survey we had 13 of
0:46:59	our roughly
0:47:00	24 members so almost a 50 response rate
0:47:03	and that's actually really good
0:47:04	considering i only put it out yesterday
0:47:06	so also as the mayor mentioned um really
0:47:09	do want all of our members to fill this
0:47:11	out and so i don't anticipate that we're
0:47:14	going to make any decisions based on the
0:47:15	data because we don't have all the input
0:47:17	from our members yet
0:47:18	but i think hopefully this will plant
0:47:20	some seeds and
0:47:21	what's your appetite to be thinking
0:47:23	about what our priorities should be
0:47:25	you'll see as i go through this that
0:47:27	there are some common themes
0:47:29	and uh there's some things that i think
0:47:31	are pretty substantial tasks but i also
0:47:33	think there's quite a few things on
0:47:34	there that
0:47:35	are easy things that we can knock off
0:47:37	too so um
0:47:39	the mayor and i talked a little bit
0:47:40	about it earlier and the the plan
0:47:42	is that again we put this information
0:47:45	out
0:47:46	try to get 100 participation on our
0:47:48	survey and then we'll dedicate
0:47:50	a substantial portion of our next
0:47:52	meeting to
0:47:53	uh address these priorities so with that
0:47:56	being said i'm just going to go through
0:47:58	here
0:47:58	and i am going to read the results of
0:48:01	this because i know we have at least one
0:48:03	person's on the phone and for those that
0:48:05	don't have the computer access
0:48:06	it's going to be hard to read this on a
0:48:08	phone so
0:48:11	so everybody can see the screen i trust
0:48:17	any head nods okay all right
0:48:20	teresa i saw your thumb up so good uh so
0:48:23	the first one is uh just more of a
0:48:26	question about how long people been
0:48:27	involved in the committee as most of the
0:48:28	individuals have been with us since the
0:48:30	inception which is
0:48:31	uh about three and a half years ago now
0:48:35	hard to believe that much time has
0:48:36	passed i'm not sure what i was going to
0:48:38	do with this information i guess it's
0:48:39	just more out of curiosity
0:48:42	so uh to what extent the committee has
0:48:44	provided value
0:48:46	and the out of the 13 responses to
0:48:50	said that it provided a great deal of
0:48:52	value four said a lot
0:48:54	five said a moderate and two said a
0:48:56	little and
0:48:58	overall i would say that this obviously
0:49:00	is a positive response 11
0:49:02	people felt that at least at the bare
0:49:03	minimum we provide a moderate amount so
0:49:06	i i think the individuals have said a
0:49:08	little
0:49:09	this is all very fair critique of the
0:49:12	work that we're doing
0:49:13	if you look at the time that we've been
0:49:15	meeting over the last three years on
0:49:17	some
0:49:18	some level it looks like we haven't
0:49:19	accomplished a lot but again this is a
0:49:22	difficult thing and when we talk about
0:49:23	relationships
0:49:24	and working together i think that's been
0:49:27	been huge
0:49:28	um but anyway so
0:49:32	to what extent has the host committee
0:49:33	strengthen your relationships with other
0:49:35	partners in our effort to address the
0:49:37	homelessness challenges
0:49:39	so this one again was
0:49:42	pretty significant in terms of the vast
0:49:44	majority of people felt that a bare
0:49:46	minimum
0:49:47	and prove their or not shouldn't say
0:49:49	improve but increase their relationships
0:49:51	at least a moderate amount with five
0:49:53	people saying to a great extent
0:49:55	and three people saying a lot
0:49:58	three people saying a modern amount and
0:50:00	two saying a little and nobody said none
0:50:03	at all so
0:50:04	um i sound like a broken record but to
0:50:07	me this is
0:50:08	for me personally has been one of the
0:50:09	biggest values of this group
0:50:14	the next one does the host continue to
0:50:16	play a useful role in helping members
0:50:18	address the problem of homelessness
0:50:21	overwhelmingly 11 people said yes and
0:50:24	one person said no
0:50:25	so i think that's a pretty positive
0:50:28	response
0:50:29	and um at least pretty telling in terms
0:50:32	of
0:50:32	we need to continue our work and
0:50:36	not abandon the work that we've been
0:50:37	doing so the last question or the second
0:50:40	to last question anyway
0:50:42	uh was you know pick three top things
0:50:45	that you would like to work on
0:50:47	so i did break these down by the three
0:50:50	different priorities
0:50:51	there you'll see that there are some
0:50:53	repetition because nobody knew
0:50:55	what everybody else was sharing and
0:50:58	because they're listed in priority by
0:51:01	one two and three doesn't necessarily
0:51:03	mean
0:51:03	that they are a priority it's just that
0:51:05	these were the ones that
0:51:06	the groups put as their first priority
0:51:09	and then
0:51:09	the same with the slides two and three
0:51:12	which i'll get to in just a second here
0:51:14	so um i'll just go through these pretty
0:51:17	quickly
0:51:18	again for those that don't have a screen
0:51:21	the
0:51:22	ideas are promoting accountability
0:51:24	helping filling empty belly source a
0:51:26	building for a drop-in center
0:51:28	marginalized pops does anybody know what
0:51:31	that means
0:51:35	i don't know if that's their dad or if
0:51:37	it's something else
0:51:39	populations maybe observations maybe
0:51:42	okay yeah that could be it uh
0:51:46	securing housing locating shelter for
0:51:48	those that want it
0:51:50	recommend recommendations to statutory
0:51:52	entities zoning laws vacation rentals
0:51:54	property tax
0:51:55	incentives to develop adus for property
0:51:57	owners
0:51:59	engaging the in-house with services
0:52:01	mental health etc
0:52:03	identifying a location as a potential
0:52:05	navigation center and who partners
0:52:07	would drop in center focus on a single
0:52:11	resource driven tangible item to deliver
0:52:14	follow through with the new homeless
0:52:16	advocates guiding the new liaison
0:52:18	positions
0:52:20	so going to the next slide priority two
0:52:24	sourcing land for a possible ten site
0:52:26	and look into creating low barrier
0:52:27	housing
0:52:29	supportive housing for mental health
0:52:30	substance use etc
0:52:33	daytime drop-in and resource center
0:52:36	providing wrap-around services
0:52:39	increasing the days open for warming
0:52:41	shelters
0:52:42	drop-in center identifying the top types
0:52:45	of housing needed transitional permanent
0:52:47	supportive low income assist the various
0:52:51	agencies
0:52:52	entities in this field in our area in
0:52:54	consolidating their efforts instead of
0:52:55	multiple ad hoc citizen groups
0:52:58	set guidance for new advocates
0:53:01	increasing local capacity by identifying
0:53:04	funding streams and lead organizations
0:53:07	and then the last priority three is
0:53:10	educating our community on the mental
0:53:12	health and homelessness
0:53:13	crisis in our county specifically how
0:53:16	closely they intertwine
0:53:18	landlord outreach specific area for our
0:53:21	camping with oversight
0:53:23	shelter identify programs to help the
0:53:26	unhoused get into and stay connected
0:53:28	to services designate a single spot for
0:53:30	congregation
0:53:31	assembly of homeless individuals seeking
0:53:33	meals or other resources that are
0:53:35	sufficiently equipped for that purpose
0:53:37	and identifying barriers to housing
0:53:38	development
0:53:40	so um i personally think some really
0:53:43	good ideas here uh
0:53:45	again there is some repetition and
0:53:46	that's good that that means that we're
0:53:48	all on the same page in terms of some of
0:53:49	the ideas that we're hearing from
0:53:51	several people i think that's going to
0:53:53	help um
0:53:54	in terms of identifying the priorities
0:53:56	of our group
0:53:58	the last slide was just anything else
0:54:00	that anybody wanted to add
0:54:02	uh the one of them comment was i think
0:54:05	our effectiveness is just ramping up and
0:54:07	it's important we continue to build on
0:54:09	this momentum
0:54:10	whether through the committee or a
0:54:11	similar one i agree
0:54:14	the other second one was i look forward
0:54:16	to sharing filling empty bellies
0:54:18	uniquely on the
0:54:19	ground hands-on perspective with the
0:54:22	host
0:54:23	and it may require a different group of
0:54:25	folks to sit at the table but this is
0:54:26	clearly a lack of housing unit problem
0:54:28	that is going to require a systemic fix
0:54:31	we can add 100 case managers advocates
0:54:33	and it still won't lead to
0:54:34	increased housing in absence of
0:54:36	increased housing units so
0:54:38	all good points again
0:54:41	uh very insightful i appreciate
0:54:45	the input from the individual so far
0:54:49	and if you haven't done the survey as
0:54:51	one of our members please do
0:54:53	and i will then once i have all the data
0:54:56	i will put it all together in some form
0:54:59	and send it back out to the group so
0:55:00	that we have a productive conversation
0:55:02	at our next meeting
General Discussion
https://youtu.be/Y04rv5c7WSs?t=3304 
0:55:04	so with that any questions on the survey
0:55:07	or
0:55:07	anybody want to just jump in discussion
0:55:10	wise in terms
0:55:11	of how best to identify
0:55:14	what are going to be the group's
0:55:18	priorities
0:55:26	[Music]
0:55:33	is there still discussion of using the
0:55:35	old library
0:55:36	the old police station as a uh
0:55:40	uh a drop-in center or is that
0:55:43	is that a possibility i i hope you're
0:55:45	referring to the
0:55:46	the old the jail i mean the
0:55:50	is that what you're referring to as
0:55:51	possible police station yeah
0:55:53	i'm sorry yeah that's all right i didn't
0:55:55	know i was moving
0:55:58	i did the library okay yeah monica was
0:56:02	that you
0:56:03	yeah so in regards to the old jail
0:56:06	um that is something you know that
0:56:08	regularly comes up and one of the things
0:56:10	that the
0:56:12	county is planning to do in the 2122
0:56:15	fiscal
0:56:16	year is a space feasibility study
0:56:19	and in that in that work we'll kind of
0:56:23	be looking at okay
0:56:24	what what does the county see as a need
0:56:27	for
0:56:27	medical jail and then from there
0:56:30	is that
0:56:31	[Music]
0:56:35	be converted into a drop-in center and
0:56:38	raven and i haven't had an opportunity
0:56:40	to meet up yet because you know they
0:56:42	took the old jail
0:56:44	up in multnomah county and they um have
0:56:47	converted that and it's working out well
0:56:50	um
0:56:50	that jail was built more recently than
0:56:53	our
0:56:54	jail um and so that's one of the factors
0:56:57	that we'll have to work through
0:56:59	because our existing jail
0:57:02	is not a very um humane
0:57:05	or happy environment there is not
0:57:08	very much natural lighting at all and so
0:57:11	just trying to figure out if
0:57:13	it was to be converted to a drop-in
0:57:15	center how
0:57:16	is it going to best be used so that it's
0:57:20	not
0:57:20	creating an environment that uh causes
0:57:23	people to
0:57:24	um have anxiety or feel um
0:57:28	upset because of previously perhaps
0:57:31	having
0:57:31	been incarcerated in there or something
0:57:33	to that effect so
0:57:35	that is something that we're looking at
0:57:37	and i'm going to be evaluating
0:57:39	through this whole process thank you
0:57:44	thank you monica
0:57:45	[Music]
0:57:50	any other thoughts on the survey any
0:57:53	surprises
0:58:04	okay i'll just i'll just make the note
0:58:06	that i mean i'm
0:58:07	i'm very glad to see that the majority
0:58:09	of people find the
0:58:11	the group useful i mean the purpose of
0:58:13	this group is to be useful for its
0:58:15	members
0:58:16	and as long as it continues to be useful
0:58:18	for the members
0:58:19	which i think it will be as long as the
0:58:21	members have input to the agenda
0:58:23	and to the topics um you know we're
0:58:25	we're really happy to continue
0:58:27	um the group moving forward and
0:58:30	uh if you know if the majority of the
0:58:32	group felt it wasn't uh useful anymore
0:58:35	then
0:58:35	well first of all you probably wouldn't
0:58:36	be on the call because you all have
0:58:38	better things and other things to do
0:58:40	but then we would disband so as long as
0:58:42	you know the group continues to find it
0:58:44	useful
0:58:44	and your input to the process your input
0:58:47	to the agenda is what's going to make it
0:58:49	useful
0:58:52	deep spalding hi teresa mayor if
0:58:55	sorry it's monica again i just would
0:58:58	like to also
0:58:59	add that um you know i think that
0:59:02	it's great that you all have established
0:59:05	this group and i think it has set an
0:59:08	example because i know that the city of
0:59:10	seaside
0:59:11	is trying to do something similar and so
0:59:14	i think that it'll be
0:59:15	a good opportunity if they do get
0:59:17	something set up where the two groups
0:59:19	can kind of learn
0:59:20	from one another and what is working and
0:59:22	what isn't working
0:59:23	in each of their own areas
0:59:25	[Music]
0:59:27	right that's a a good point monica and i
0:59:29	will
0:59:30	share with the chief ham is also on the
0:59:32	call i'm not going to put him on the
0:59:33	spot but he and i have had a lot of
0:59:35	conversations uh
0:59:37	sharing some of our challenges but also
0:59:39	sharing some of the work we've done and
0:59:40	sharing some of the work they've done so
0:59:42	always good to you know keep
0:59:45	communication with our south county
0:59:46	partners so
0:59:47	it's uh good stuff um
0:59:52	so uh let's see uh teresa you had
0:59:55	you did you have a question comment um
0:59:58	yeah i guess uh i guess a question and
1:00:00	maybe a comment i didn't
1:00:02	fill out the survey because i'm so new
1:00:03	to the group i didn't know that i could
1:00:04	speak to all of those things but um
1:00:07	i definitely um you know i know that it
1:00:09	keeps coming up that monica's been
1:00:11	talking about the
1:00:12	you know the resource or navigation or
1:00:13	drop-in center that's going on
1:00:15	and that oz is talking about that and
1:00:17	i've definitely um
1:00:19	you know reached out to various people
1:00:20	about that so i'm kind of wondering
1:00:23	how how that can work if that's like
1:00:25	maybe a subcommittee of different
1:00:27	organizations that can
1:00:29	you know um work with the county or how
1:00:32	you know how everybody that wants to see
1:00:34	that happen can be working together
1:00:36	most effectively yeah well i think part
1:00:40	of
1:00:41	the answer to that question is as
1:00:43	somebody mentioned in one of the
1:00:44	comments is that there's a lot of
1:00:46	different
1:00:46	entities working on different things so
1:00:48	you know we i think it's helpful to have
1:00:50	a coordinated approach because clearly
1:00:52	you know we don't want to reinvent the
1:00:54	wheel and you know we want everybody
1:00:55	trying to work together on some of these
1:00:57	things
1:00:57	for me as far as at least putting my
1:00:59	host hat on you know i think
1:01:01	we need to identify what we as a group
1:01:03	feel are the priorities and then
1:01:05	i think we decide how we move forward
1:01:06	and that could be setting up
1:01:08	additional subcommittees or whatever um
1:01:11	you know of course i would defer to the
1:01:12	mayor and
1:01:13	his thoughts on how he want to move on
1:01:15	and hopefully that we're going to be in
1:01:16	alignment with the council goals as well
1:01:18	uh you know in order to get support but
1:01:21	because this is
1:01:22	even though this started as somewhat of
1:01:24	an astoria central committee it really
1:01:26	has expanded and we're very much working
1:01:29	very closely with our county partners
1:01:30	and all of our partners so this
1:01:32	this group really has become a
1:01:35	much bigger in terms of reach
1:01:38	than just the city of astoria yeah so
1:01:42	uh the county in in their strategic plan
1:01:45	they added that as a specific item
1:01:47	and and monica i want to speak for
1:01:49	monica she can jump in
1:01:50	but they added that on as a specific
1:01:53	item in their strategic plan that they
1:01:54	want to accomplish a navigation center
1:01:57	drop-in center and the city um looked at
1:02:00	that
1:02:00	and we added that as one of our council
1:02:03	goals
1:02:03	and we're looking at it as we we're
1:02:05	supporting the county's work
1:02:07	whether that's as part of a work group
1:02:08	certainly resources by putting it as one
1:02:10	of our goals we're committing that you
1:02:12	know when when the
1:02:13	county comes up with a plan for a
1:02:14	drop-in center we figure out what the
1:02:16	resource requirements are the city will
1:02:18	contribute our fair share of
1:02:20	that um so i don't really see setting up
1:02:22	another committee
1:02:24	i would i would just um really kind of
1:02:26	defer to
1:02:27	to the county via monica as far as what
1:02:30	they need and what their what progress
1:02:32	they're making
1:02:33	and at what point do they need input
1:02:34	from this group or resources from this
1:02:36	group
1:02:36	[Music]
1:02:40	thanks mayor and i'll just say that as
1:02:43	the county is going through this process
1:02:45	what we are doing is we are identifying
1:02:48	who those community partners are
1:02:50	so for example the warming shelter
1:02:52	classic community action
1:02:55	the beacon house the harbor cbh
1:02:58	so a lot of those entities that we
1:03:01	already
1:03:01	work with and trying to figure out what
1:03:03	some of the barriers for their clients
1:03:06	are you know if you're trying to
1:03:09	get somebody set up for a mental health
1:03:11	appointment
1:03:13	and they also need to address some
1:03:16	other health issues oftentimes
1:03:19	they they lose sight when they're going
1:03:22	from one location to the next location
1:03:24	and so trying to figure out what are all
1:03:27	those resources that are needing to be
1:03:29	in a single location to best get this
1:03:32	person
1:03:32	connected and stayed connected and
1:03:34	services and so
1:03:36	we're working on identifying who those
1:03:38	community partners are
1:03:40	as well as other local government
1:03:42	jurisdictions because
1:03:44	uh they're having to deal with some of
1:03:47	these populations through those
1:03:49	those law enforcement calls and such and
1:03:52	so we
1:03:53	will we will identify those immediate
1:03:56	groups that we know of and then once we
1:03:58	start having those
1:03:59	those committee meetings identifying
1:04:01	okay well
1:04:02	who's handling this and if that person
1:04:04	isn't currently part of a committee or
1:04:06	that
1:04:06	that group isn't currently part of a
1:04:09	committee
1:04:09	then saying okay well who do we need to
1:04:11	get connected to to bring them in so
1:04:14	so i see this as an evolving process
1:04:16	because obviously at the first meeting
1:04:18	we're not going to have
1:04:19	everybody that should be involved
1:04:21	involved and then to
1:04:22	the mayor's point there are going to be
1:04:25	resources that are necessary
1:04:27	to to help this and so in some instances
1:04:30	it might be involving um private
1:04:33	organizations it might be involving
1:04:34	faith communities
1:04:36	and so just trying to figure out what
1:04:38	are what is it that we need
1:04:40	where are we going to put it and how is
1:04:42	it going to get paid for and sustained
1:04:44	for a long period of time
1:04:50	thank you monica any other uh thoughts
1:04:58	okay um looks like we're already at
1:05:00	round table so the meeting
1:05:01	meeting is moving forward a little
1:05:03	quicker than i thought but that's okay
1:05:05	i know you all have a lot of things to
1:05:07	do so um
1:05:08	i'm going to go through my roster mayor
1:05:11	i will save any final comments for you
1:05:13	towards the end if that's okay with you
1:05:15	and um so i'll just start off with
1:05:17	counselor herman
1:05:19	do you have anything for the group
1:05:24	i do not chief but thank you thank you
1:05:27	councilor raqqa
1:05:31	no i just i've just have been pondering
1:05:33	what has
1:05:35	recently been said and um
1:05:38	focus is important on things and i i
1:05:40	guess i am wondering whether
1:05:41	at some point once the um the host
1:05:45	group's priorities are
1:05:46	are decided whether there may be times
1:05:49	when there is application for
1:05:51	a subcommittee to bring focus to a
1:05:53	particular issue and work on it between
1:05:55	meetings and then come back to the host
1:05:57	group with
1:05:57	uh with the progress and i think what
1:06:01	the advantage of that would be that the
1:06:03	participating agencies would have a
1:06:05	chance to get together in between and
1:06:07	work together so
1:06:08	i'm not sure that that idea doesn't have
1:06:10	application as we go forward
1:06:12	[Music]
1:06:15	thank you counselor and i will say that
1:06:17	you know over the past several years
1:06:19	we've actually had
1:06:21	several subcommittees and i do think
1:06:23	that where a lot of
1:06:24	good work has been done in the committee
1:06:26	we had you know the employment
1:06:28	subcommittee the clean slate program the
1:06:30	actually the county-wide liaison program
1:06:33	you know was a subcommittee so there's
1:06:35	there's been four or five of those that
1:06:37	have all done a lot of good work so
1:06:39	um yeah definitely an option
1:06:44	all righty so uh going down the roster
1:06:46	uh teresa
1:06:47	anything else for the good of the order
1:06:50	oh yeah um you know i just had a comment
1:06:52	about the health and wellness event that
1:06:54	cca put on
1:06:55	um i was talking to viviana and susan
1:06:58	about that kind of early on
1:07:00	and they had suggested the warming
1:07:02	center being open that night for people
1:07:03	getting the vaccine
1:07:05	and um yeah so we we were we only had a
1:07:08	few guests come in
1:07:09	but um i thought it was a really
1:07:11	beautiful example of all these
1:07:12	organizations working
1:07:14	together um i had a staff member uh
1:07:16	giving haircuts at the
1:07:18	that cca that they had um yeah
1:07:21	they spoke with her about we had i was
1:07:24	able to make connections with a lot of
1:07:25	different organizations there
1:07:27	one of the guests that stayed at the
1:07:29	warming center that night was able to
1:07:31	call cbh i got a recovery allies card
1:07:34	and then get into a program at helping
1:07:36	hands so yeah
1:07:38	it ended up really beautiful we had a
1:07:40	little tiny pizza party
1:07:41	so thanks so much for um to them for
1:07:44	putting that on
1:07:45	and uh yeah hopefully i'm gonna be
1:07:47	working with public health about doing a
1:07:48	little vaccine
1:07:49	clinic here in the future um yeah i love
1:07:52	that i didn't fill out the survey but
1:07:54	yeah but that someone had put on um
1:07:56	having the warming center be open more
1:07:58	often
1:07:59	so that's something that i've um have
1:08:01	been working with the city on about you
1:08:02	know trying to get our conditional use
1:08:04	permit extended
1:08:05	and just trying to meet that need for
1:08:07	resources
1:08:08	in um until there is a navigation and
1:08:11	drop-in center
1:08:12	and so uh yeah i look forward to working
1:08:14	with anybody
1:08:15	who's interested in uh helping me with
1:08:17	that
1:08:19	oh well and also uh happy to join the
1:08:21	group thanks guys
1:08:23	thanks teresa and do feel free to fill
1:08:25	out the survey regardless of your
1:08:27	limited tenure so it's all good um
1:08:31	let's see jonah
1:08:35	you're good i'm good thank you okay
1:08:37	thank you mike davis
1:08:41	i'm good thank you officer hanson
1:08:47	i'm good thank you all right jared
1:08:56	still with us you might have had to sign
1:08:58	off
1:08:58	[Music]
1:09:00	okay uh arlene
1:09:04	i'm just curious if if there has been an
1:09:06	increase in uh
1:09:07	the homeless population going back up
1:09:10	into the woods again
1:09:13	well if there are i honestly can say
1:09:16	that i'm not aware but we haven't had
1:09:17	substantial amount of calls
1:09:19	and i will say that part of it i think
1:09:22	is because of the weather
1:09:23	and we are not proactively going out
1:09:26	and seeking the camps but we do get
1:09:29	calls every once in a while and
1:09:31	especially the ones that are very close
1:09:32	to people's neighborhoods when they see
1:09:34	people coming and going and we get those
1:09:35	kind of calls but
1:09:37	i don't think it seems to be any worse
1:09:39	than in the past
1:09:41	but i i honestly don't have a good
1:09:42	handle on that either
1:09:45	thank you sure
1:09:48	viviana um
1:09:52	no other than today is our first day for
1:09:54	our summer mobile
1:09:56	approach country so that it's something
1:09:59	that
1:10:00	we do once a week in astoria warrington
1:10:03	and seaside to
1:10:04	the first day and we see roughly about
1:10:08	250 families
1:10:10	per city so thank you
1:10:14	great thank you viviana and uh julia on
1:10:16	behalf of public health uh
1:10:18	are you still online
1:10:23	okay oz
1:10:30	uh no i'm good thank you okay cindy
1:10:37	thank you chief uh as i've just written
1:10:39	uh
1:10:40	previously the chief and uh the mayor
1:10:43	between uh traveling and and family
1:10:46	deaths and
1:10:47	cobit i am so far out of the loop now
1:10:51	of of all the good work that you guys
1:10:53	are continuing to do
1:10:55	that i think it would be best at this
1:10:56	point if i stepped off as a member
1:10:59	because
1:10:59	now you even have a new secretary
1:11:02	but i i am still very interested in the
1:11:05	challenges that we face as a community
1:11:08	and as service providers so i would like
1:11:09	to continue
1:11:11	attending the meetings as a guest and i
1:11:13	i just thank you all for
1:11:15	for continuing the great work that you
1:11:16	do
1:11:18	thank you well i appreciate your service
1:11:20	to the group and your contribution
1:11:22	and uh sorry to see you go but
1:11:25	happy that you're willing to stay stay
1:11:28	on as a guest
1:11:30	i'll be around and if i can be of help
1:11:32	by i i
1:11:33	please do let me know okay we'll do
1:11:35	thank you
1:11:37	uh david
1:11:40	thank you um i'll turn my camera on here
1:11:44	sorry i didn't realize it was off
1:11:46	um i will say it's intersectional to
1:11:49	what we're talking about it's not
1:11:50	not a direct correlation but the the
1:11:52	pain point for businesses right now
1:11:55	um small businesses in particular is
1:11:57	employees
1:11:58	and so um two things are going to happen
1:12:01	one that we got this moratorium on
1:12:02	evictions that are going to come to a
1:12:04	head looks like maybe june 30th is that
1:12:06	right
1:12:07	um but we also have the extended
1:12:09	unemployment benefits that are going to
1:12:10	come to it to an end at the end of
1:12:12	august
1:12:13	so there's there's there's a lot of
1:12:16	frustration with employers that they
1:12:18	just can't
1:12:19	meet demand because they can't get
1:12:20	people to come to work um
1:12:23	but there's also a lot of now demand for
1:12:25	people to be able to pay their rent so
1:12:27	somewhere in there we've got to do
1:12:29	something with with folks
1:12:30	that are able to work and that are
1:12:32	willing to work to get them
1:12:34	um to get them connected back with those
1:12:36	jobs uh because
1:12:37	really that's that that's gonna be a
1:12:39	problem for our businesses we're gonna
1:12:40	have some of them shutting down
1:12:42	simply because they can't they they can
1:12:44	no longer go
1:12:45	six and seven days a week with just the
1:12:47	employer or just the owner doing it
1:12:50	so again intersectional not not directly
1:12:52	related to the to the issue we're
1:12:53	talking about here
1:12:54	but part of the puzzle and if there's
1:12:56	any anybody has any any brilliant ideas
1:12:58	there
1:12:59	um to connect people with who want jobs
1:13:01	and who need
1:13:02	money with the jobs that are available
1:13:05	this is the time to do it
1:13:06	[Music]
1:13:08	great thank you david brooke
1:13:11	[Music]
1:13:15	uh thank you i just want to uh say the
1:13:18	cco is very interested
1:13:19	in the navigation and drop-in center and
1:13:22	i'm excited about all the work that's
1:13:25	moving forward
1:13:27	and just be sure to loop us in as you're
1:13:29	having those discussions
1:13:31	and then also a reminder that we do have
1:13:33	our regional housing impact
1:13:35	fund to help with the grant
1:13:39	that people can apply to or
1:13:41	organizations can apply to to
1:13:43	help fund housing projects
1:13:46	that's all i have thank you great thank
1:13:48	you brooke terry
1:13:54	hi um i think i said this last time but
1:13:57	i just wanted to
1:13:58	reiterate that i mean we're seeing an
1:14:00	increased need in
1:14:02	people wanting to get out of some of
1:14:05	their housing situations and
1:14:07	unfortunately have to choose to stay in
1:14:09	some of these abusive situations so they
1:14:11	don't actually end up being helpless
1:14:13	and so we're just doing a lot more
1:14:15	safety planning on how
1:14:16	how folks can actually live safely with
1:14:19	their abusers
1:14:20	um so you know not necessarily
1:14:25	trustlessness but could contribute to
1:14:28	the problem and we know statistically
1:14:29	that many women who are living on the
1:14:31	streets actually did experience domestic
1:14:32	violence at some point in their lives so
1:14:34	um just to let you know that that's
1:14:37	happening and then
1:14:38	um we also find that it's just really
1:14:40	hard to get people housed or even into
1:14:42	hotels sometimes especially if
1:14:44	um landlords and hotel owners know that
1:14:46	folks are
1:14:47	living in domestic violence situations
1:14:49	because that seems scary to them
1:14:51	so some sort of community
1:14:54	outreach around that would be
1:14:58	helpful
1:15:01	thank you terry uh
1:15:04	mayor for you for closing comments and i
1:15:06	will come back to any guests that would
1:15:08	like to
1:15:09	add anything thanks chief
1:15:12	thanks everyone for your input today and
1:15:14	uh i guess two things the first
1:15:16	i noticed one of the survey comments was
1:15:18	from philly filling empty bellies
1:15:21	looking forward to making a presentation
1:15:24	so
1:15:24	there's there's one agenda item for the
1:15:26	next meeting chief we can
1:15:28	take filling empty bellies up on their
1:15:29	offer to do a presentation on
1:15:31	what they're seeing on the ground and
1:15:34	the the next topic i brought up at the
1:15:37	last meeting that we are looking to
1:15:38	transition chief spaulding out of the
1:15:40	leadership of this group sometime this
1:15:42	year
1:15:43	he's been doing it for over three years
1:15:44	it's been a huge uh
1:15:47	contribution that he's made and i want
1:15:50	to give him the opportunity to
1:15:52	be able to step down and pass
1:15:55	pass that role on to someone else so if
1:15:57	you can be thinking about
1:15:59	uh who you think might be a good leader
1:16:02	of the group or if you're interested in
1:16:03	being it at some point next meeting or
1:16:06	the meeting after that we'll
1:16:07	we'll be looking more closely at
1:16:09	identifying a new leader
1:16:11	to take chief spalding's place sometime
1:16:14	this year
1:16:16	thank you mayor and and uh likewise i i
1:16:19	look forward to the opportunity to give
1:16:20	somebody else an opportunity to
1:16:22	come up with some fresh ideas and help
1:16:24	move the committee to the next level
1:16:26	i've enjoyed doing it and i
1:16:28	sure hope to remain very much involved
1:16:31	in it but
1:16:33	it is a one more commitment on top of my
1:16:36	extremely busy schedule so
1:16:38	i want to make sure that you know that
1:16:40	whoever takes it over has the time to
1:16:42	you know to make give it the appropriate
1:16:44	amount of time that it deserves so thank
1:16:45	you for that
1:16:47	uh yes anybody uh i would say do a hand
1:16:50	raise or just a
1:16:51	shout out i think would be sufficient
1:16:54	ron yeah i would like to mention
1:16:58	uh has uh teresa barnes been
1:17:02	officially uh has she given her
1:17:05	it's uh she's our executive director at
1:17:09	the warming center
1:17:10	and uh has she been introduced as the
1:17:12	executive director
1:17:14	which is a big step for the warming
1:17:16	center which we now have the executive
1:17:18	director
1:17:20	so yeah we did introduce her as a newest
1:17:22	member of our group but
1:17:24	uh i don't know that we formerly
1:17:25	recognize her in that new role and i
1:17:27	i think i thought it was common
1:17:28	knowledge at least to me anyway
1:17:30	so uh teresa and i have already had a
1:17:32	couple good conversations so
1:17:34	uh teresa anything else you want to add
1:17:36	to that
1:17:38	no thanks ron yeah no just it's i'm
1:17:40	happy to be
1:17:41	a member thanks everybody thank you
1:17:44	thank you ron
1:17:45	uh chief ham how you doing
1:17:49	i'm doing well thanks thanks hi
1:17:52	everybody i just want to make a couple
1:17:53	of comments
1:17:54	one in regards to cheryl coming out and
1:17:56	working on mechanical and 12 with that
1:17:57	rv last week i
1:17:59	actually happen to make a contact with
1:18:01	the
1:18:02	one who's been there for pretty much a
1:18:04	year who's still there but
1:18:06	last council meeting in april um there
1:18:09	was quite a few
1:18:10	community members who had come and
1:18:12	raised concerns
1:18:13	comments and with the city council about
1:18:17	that
1:18:18	area and so it was great timing that
1:18:22	she had come over that day i had
1:18:24	actually made contact with somebody
1:18:26	there unrelated and they had mentioned
1:18:29	that they had been in contact with her
1:18:31	and so it was neat to see that that
1:18:33	liaison and community person was out
1:18:36	there working that so thanks to cheryl
1:18:37	for
1:18:38	making that contact and getting that
1:18:40	other rv out of there it sounds like so
1:18:42	um there's just the one there right now
1:18:45	we've been up to three or four in that
1:18:47	area at any one time hoping that it's uh
1:18:49	gonna get the other one out of there at
1:18:51	some point in the near future and uh
1:18:53	clear that area the other thing i wanted
1:18:55	to kind of comment about is is that
1:18:56	tonight
1:18:57	um the seaside kitty city council is
1:19:01	meeting
1:19:01	having a workshop at 6 00 p.m the
1:19:03	convention center
1:19:05	they've obviously if you haven't paid
1:19:07	any attention to it has made
1:19:08	homelessness a part of their strategic
1:19:10	plan
1:19:11	goal setting session tonight's topic on
1:19:14	homelessness
1:19:15	i think is specifically um asking
1:19:18	for community faith-based uh
1:19:22	organizations to be there um so anyway
1:19:25	it's uh tonight six o'clock convention
1:19:27	center it's open to the publix it's also
1:19:29	live streamed on the city seaside
1:19:31	youtube page
1:19:32	so if you're interested in sitting in
1:19:34	and watching from home or anything and
1:19:35	just see what seaside's doing tonight
1:19:37	um you can find the city website link
1:19:40	there and
1:19:40	click on it and watch otherwise it'll be
1:19:43	uh
1:19:44	on the internet for ever after this
1:19:46	anyway you can watch it tomorrow or
1:19:48	whatever so
1:19:49	anyway those are only two things i had
1:19:51	to bring up thanks for having me
1:19:53	thanks chief uh appreciate you being
1:19:55	here and uh
1:19:56	i'm glad you're using all my good ideas
1:19:59	over there so
1:20:02	all righty um let's see any other guess
1:20:14	okay seeing none i tentatively
1:20:18	set the next meeting for july 8th at 10
1:20:20	o'clock
1:20:21	i have not confirmed that with the mayor
1:20:23	yet so that is subject to change
1:20:25	but i just want to have a placeholder
1:20:27	meeting and then
1:20:30	be thinking about the survey results and
1:20:32	what the priority should be and please
1:20:34	fill out the survey for our members
1:20:36	and um lastly i want to say that uh
1:20:41	in the meeting itself there's a lot of
1:20:43	good comments if you guys
1:20:44	uh haven't opened your chat window
1:20:46	there's some good discussion going back
1:20:48	and forth you know has some meetings in
1:20:50	progress so some
1:20:51	good information in there and i
1:20:52	encourage you guys to check that out
1:20:55	and um with that being said
1:20:58	if there's no other final closing
1:21:01	comments from anybody
1:21:02	i will move to adjourn
1:21:09	second okay all in favor
1:21:15	all right thank you everybody have a
1:21:17	great day and stay healthy
1:21:18	thank you