* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [Citizen Homeless Commission on January 16, 2025. ] [00:00:04] GOOD EVENING, HAPPY NEW YEAR'S, AND WELCOME TO THE CITIZENS HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION BOARD, REGULAR MEETING FOR JANUARY THE 16TH, 2025. IT IS NOW 1:36 PM PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THIS MEETING IS NOW BEING RECORDED AND ALL OF OUR VIRTUAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS MUST KEEP THEIR CAMERAS FACE ON TO BE COUNTED IN THE MEETING AT THIS TIME, IT IS MY PLEASURE TO TURN THIS MEETING OVER TO MADAM CHAIR LINDA, A GARNER. THANK YOU, RENITA. UH, JUST A QUICK REMINDER. LET'S MUTE OUR PHONES. WE CAN ALL DO THAT. UH, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. TODAY IS JANUARY 16TH, 2025. UH, THE CITY OF DALLAS CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION, REGULAR MEETING FOR JANUARY AND FIRST OF THE YEAR HAS BEEN CALLED TO ORDER. UH, RENITA ROLL CALL PLEASE. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU'RE PRESENT, VIRTUALLY, OR IN PERSON. DISTRICT ONE. COMMISSIONER KEYS, PRESENT IN PERSON. THANK YOU. DISTRICT TWO, COMM CHAIR. CHAIR, GARNER. PRESENT IN HOUSE. THANK YOU. DISTRICT FOUR, COMMISSIONER. HOW THANK YOU. DISTRICT FIVE, COMMISSIONER SANTOS. UH, PRESENT, UH, REMOTE. THANK YOU. DISTRICT SIX. COMMISSIONER FLORES. PRESENT IN PERSON. THANK YOU. DISTRICT SEVEN. COMMISSIONER BROWN. DISTRICT NINE. REVEREND BOONE, DISTRICT 10. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. PRESENT IN PERSON. THANK YOU. DISTRICT 11. COMMISSIONER COFF. PRESENT IN PERSON. THANK YOU. DISTRICT 12. COMMISSIONER JACOB. DISTRICT 13. COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN. PRESENT IN PERSON. THANK YOU. DISTRICT 14. COMMISSIONER SOHAN. PRESENT IN PERSON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. YOU HAVE A QUORUM. UH, YOU HAVE A, THIS IS A 15 MEMBER BOARD. YOU HAVE THREE VACANCIES AND YOU HAVE A PRESENT. YOU MAY PROCEED. THANK YOU. RENITA. WE HAVE A QUORUM PRESENT. LEGAL NOTICE HAS BEEN POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, AND THIS MEETING HAS BEEN DULY CALLED. WELCOME EVERYONE. WELCOME COMMISSIONERS, AND WELCOME STAFF. AND, UM, WELCOME TO OUR PANELISTS, UM, BRENDA SNITZER. UM, WE WILL BEGIN OUR MEETING WITH A READING OF THE MISSION STATEMENT AND DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHC. THE CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION IS AN ADVISORY BODY. THE PURPOSE OF THE CHC IS TO ASSURE PARTICIPATION FROM AND INCLUSION OF ALL STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH PAST OR PRESENT EXPERIENCE WITH HOMELESSNESS, TO DEVELOP POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TO ENSURE ALIGNMENT OF CITY SERVICES WITH REGIONAL SERVICES TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY, QUALITY, AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE RESPONSE TO HOMELESSNESS. THE CHC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE ONE, ADVISE THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL ON ISSUES AFFECTING HOMELESSNESS. TWO, ASSIST THE CITY IN EVALUATING NEW AND EXISTING PROGRAMS. THREE. COORDINATE WITH OTHER LOCAL AND REGIONAL BODIES ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS. FOUR. PERFORM SUCH OTHER DUTIES ASSIGNED BY THE CITY MANAGER OR THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL. UM, ONTO ITEM TWO IS PUBLIC COMMENTS. GENTLE REMINDER. LET'S ALL MUTE OUR PHONES, UH, WITH THAT ITEM. UH, TWO ON TODAY'S AGENDA WILL BE PUBLIC COMMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO HAVE REGISTERED TO SPEAK AT TODAY'S MEETING? THERE ARE NO REGISTER SPEAKERS. MADAM CHAIR. OKAY. THANK YOU, RENITA. UH, NEXT ITEM IS AN APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM, UH, DECEMBER 19TH, 2024. UH, IS THERE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? I MOVE FOR APPROVAL. OKAY. UM, MOVE FOR APPROVAL FROM COMMISSIONER KLATTEN HOFF. AND A SECOND, UM, A SECOND FROM WESLEY KEYS. UH, ANY DISCUSSION RELATED TO CORRECTIONS OR CHANGES TO THE DECEMBER MEETING? MINUTES. OKAY, I HAVE JUST ONE. UM, THIS IS CHAIR GARNER. UM, THIS IS JUST TECHNICAL. UM, UNDER ITEM SEVEN, UH, WE HAVE TASK FORCE UPDATE HERE. THREE, TASK FORCE, PUBLIC AGE ENGAGEMENT, RACIAL EQUITY, AND DATA DRIVES INITIATIVES. UM, THE SEPARATE HEADING FOR RACIAL EQUITY, UM, LOOKS LIKE IT WAS SPIKED INTO THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, SO WE COULD JUST SEPARATE THAT OUT. AND THAT IS ALL. UH, ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS OR EDITS? OKAY. HEARING [00:05:01] NONE. UM, WE HAVE, UM, LET'S SEE. OKAY. HEARING NONE. UM, THOSE IN FAVOR OF PASSING THE MINUTES AS, UM, RECOMMENDED SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. OKAY. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM FOUR, WE HAVE A, UH, DISCUSSION, UH, WHICH IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE STEW POTT PROGRAM. THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY BRENDA E SNITZER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE STEW POT. UH, SHE IS IN PLACE, COMMERS, IF YOU WANNA GRAB YOUR POWERPOINT, WE'RE GONNA PUT HER POWERPOINT ON THE SCREEN AND WE WILL GET STARTED. I PUT OH, FOR ME, UM, I'M GONNA READ A COUPLE OF LITTLE THINGS BEFORE WE ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ONE. ABSOLUTELY. UM, AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU, LINDA. APPRECIATE YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU DEAR GARNER, UM, STARTING THIS MONTH, THE ST. STUPOT WILL COMMEMORATE 50 YEARS OF IMPACT IN SERVING PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HARDSHIP OR HOMELESSNESS. AS A MINISTRY OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DALLAS, WHICH THE CHURCH STARTED IN 1856, JUST A A, A LITTLE WHILE AFTER THE CITY OF DALLAS WAS INCORPORATED, UM, WE WILL OBSERVE THIS MILESTONE OF 50 YEARS THROUGHOUT 2025, STARTING WITH OUR ANNUAL SOUPS ON LUNCHEON. THAT'S JUST A WEEK AND A HALF AWAY, UM, HOPING FOR GOOD WEATHER AND NO ICE STORMS. WE WILL CONTINUE WITH EVENTS THAT ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY, EMBRACING AND SUPPORTING THOSE IN NEED. OUR ANNIVERSARY THEME, 50 YEARS OF LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS WILL HIGHLIGHT THE STEWPOT'S LONG TRADITION OF LOVE IN ACTION FROM ITS INCEPTION, THE STEWPOT HAS BEEN A COMMUNITY EFFORT DRIVEN BY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY TO CREATE SOLUTIONS FOR OUR NEIGHBORS LIVING IN POVERTY. WE WILL CELEBRATE THIS LEGACY OF HOSPITALITY AND HOPE BY CONTINUING TO SERVE THOSE IN NEED. SINCE WE BEGAN IN 75, WE'VE FED PEOPLE, UM, FROM THE STREETS OF DALLAS, WE'VE SERVED MORE THAN 8.7 MILLION MEALS WITH STRONG SUPPORT FROM DONORS. WE HAVE PROVIDED COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES AND COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT FOR THOSE IN POVERTY, AS WELL AS HOMELESSNESS, UM, AND PROGRAMS THAT STABILIZE HOUSE AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF DALLAS NEIGHBORS. THESE INITIATIVES INCLUDE HELPING PEOPLE RECOVER OVER 112,000 VITAL ID DOCUMENTS SINCE 1975 TO ACCESS SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT FUNDING. TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE FOUR YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLLEGE OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL SINCE 1991, AND HELPING PROVIDE HOUSING FOR 320 PEOPLE SINCE ITS RAPID REHOUSING PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2021 AND OVER A THOUSAND MEALS A DAY AT THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER SINCE 2008. WE ARE, UH, PROUD TO, UM, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STEP IN WHEN CITY SQUARE HAS BEEN, UH, STRUGGLING. AND WHILE WE NEVER WANTED CITY SQUARE TO, UH, TO LEAVE OUR COMMUNITY, UM, WE WERE HONORED TO MAKE IT TAKE A MAJOR STEP IN HELPING SECURE AND STABILIZE, PARTICULARLY THE FOOD PANTRY AND THE NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER. UM, AND SO I'M, I'M GONNA NOW JUST START GOING THROUGH MY, MY, UH, POWERPOINT. SO AS, AS I SAID, WE STARTED IN 1975, AND THAT'S A PICTURE FROM THE FIRST, UH, FIRST WEEKS OF, UM, OUR SERVING DALLAS MORNING NEWS COMMEMORATED THAT, AND ACTUALLY, WE STARTED GETTING FUNDING RIGHT AWAY, INCLUDING THE DONATION OF A COW. I DON'T THINK WE, I DON'T THINK WE TOOK THE COW, BUT, UM, THE STEWPOT OFFERS A SAFE HAVEN FOR UNHOUSED AND AT RISK INDIVIDUALS. WE DO DO HAVE A HUGE CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAM FOR HOUSED FAMILIES AND FAMILY STABILIZATION WORK FOR THEM, THE STAFF LEADERSHIP. UM, SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE MET REVEREND AMOS DESA, OUR SENIOR PASTOR, OUR FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. UM, HE IS, HE IS ONE OF MY BOSSES. UM, I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. DANNY BUFORD IS MY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, AND HE'S BEEN KEY IN THE ACQUISITION OF CITY SQUARE. AND JANICE SHAFER, OUR DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY AND ENGAGEMENT. UM, JUST GOING TO REALLY HIGHLIGHT QUICKLY OUR STUPAC PROGRAMS, JUST SO YOU KNOW, THE ALIGNMENT OF WHAT WE WERE DOING. I THINK MOST OF YOU KNOW, OUR PROGRAMMING, BUT JUST IN CASE. SO WE'RE ON PAGE FIVE. THERE WE GO. UM, SO WE HAVE, UH, STARTED AS A SOUP KITCHEN. AND SO, UH, WE'VE CONTINUED ALL THE WAY THROUGH. UM, AND QUICKLY WE STARTED DOING OTHER KINDS OF SERVICES FOR FOLKS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. WE NOW HAVE STREET OUTREACH, THE, UH, STREET TO HOME PROGRAM. WE HAVE OUR CLIENT SERVICES PROGRAM [00:10:01] THAT HELPS WITH ID SERVICES. WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT SINCE ALMOST THE BEGINNING. AND WE ARE ONE OF THE LARGEST PROVIDER OF ID SERVICES IN THE HOMELESS. UM, CONTINUUM REALLY LOOKS TO US TO DO THAT. THE NRC IS ONE OF THE NEW PROGRAMS, BUT THAT'S GOING TO BE UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES EXPERIENCING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES EXPERIENCING POVERTY OR HOMELESSNESS. WE'VE BEEN DOING HOUSING SINCE, UM, 2021, RAPID REHOUSING AND PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. UM, AND THEN HUNGER. OUR FOOD PANTRY AND MEAL SERVICES. UH, WE TOOK ON THE FOOD PANTRY. WE WERE DOING FOOD DISTRIBUTION, ABOUT 300, UM, HOUSEHOLDS EVERY, UH, TWICE A MONTH. SO NOW WE WILL BE OPERATING THE FOOD PANTRY THAT SERVED OVER 12,000, UM, UH, INDIVIDUALS OVER THE LAST YEAR. SO WE'RE REALLY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF, UM, FOLK FOLKS WE CAN DO FOOD, UM, FOR. AND WE HAVE A HUGE FOOD RECOVERY PROGRAM THIS YEAR. UM, AS 2024 ENDED, WE, UM, RECOVERED ALMOST A MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD. IT WAS UTILIZED IN THE, THE MEAL SERVICES AT THE BRIDGE, AS WELL AS OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM. AND THEN HOPE OUR ARTS AND ENRICHMENT AND OUR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAM, HOLISTIC PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUALS, CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES. MANY OF YOU KNOW OF OUR, UM, KIND OF NATIONALLY KNOWN ART PROGRAM. WE HAVE THE STUDIOS AND OUR ARTISTS AND, UM, WE, WE, UH, SERVE, UH, THEM BY, UM, MARKETING THEIR ART THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. IN FACT, UH, UH, COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN, UM, HELPED US WITH A, AN EVENT AT, UH, THE TEXAS, UM, WILD CA NO COUNTERFEITERS. UM, SO, UH, WE, WE WERE ABLE TO DISPLAY A LOT OF ART AND SELL, UH, ART FOR OUR, OUR ARTISTS. AND OVER 90, PER, UH, 90% GOES TO THE ARTIST. THE, THE PAYMENT AND 10% GOES BACK INTO THE PROGRAM. WITH THE ACQUISITION OF CITY SQUARE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO OFFER ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS. FOOD DISTRIBUTION IS REALLY BECOMING JUST PART OF THE FOOD PANTRY. SO IT'S NOT GONNA BE A SEPARATE PROGRAM, BUT ALL OF OUR OTHER PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS ARE CONTINUING. UM, THE NEXT PAGE, UM, ON ON PAGE SIX JUST SHOWS AGAIN, SOME OF OUR, UM, PROGRAMMING, ENCAMP, ENCAMPMENT DECOMMISSIONING. WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT EVER SINCE WE STARTED DOING DECOMMISSIONING OF ENCAMPMENTS. UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING THE ID SERVICES, AND NOW WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE ON OUR STREET OUTREACH TEAM. IF YOU GO TO PAGE SEVEN, UM, THE, THE STU HAT HAS GROWN TREMENDOUSLY SINCE 20 20 18. WE'VE TRIPLED IN SIZE IN OUR, UM, NOT ONLY THE PROGRAMS THAT WE SERVE AND THE NUMBER OF CLIENTS, BUT ALSO THE NUMBER OF STAFF AND OUR BUDGET. UM, AND SO WE WERE OUTGROWING, UH, THE STUPOT BUILDING THAT'S RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM, FROM HERE. BUT THAT ACTUALLY IS NOT WHY WE DID CITY SQUARE. UM, WE, IT DOES HELP US. UM, IT'S NOT, IT IS A LARGER CAMPUS FOR SURE. IT'S ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE, UM, FOUR, FOUR, UM, ACRES. BUT THE BUILDING IS NOT THAT MUCH BIGGER FOR OUR SPACE BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO TENANTS. ONE BEING WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS IS STILL THERE, AND WE WANT THEM THERE. UM, AND THEN ANOTHER, UH, UH, FOR-PROFIT MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER. SO, UM, IT WASN'T QUITE DOUBLE THE SPACE AND IT'S JUST A MUCH DIFFERENT CONFIGURATION. UM, BUT WE WERE ALREADY THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GONNA DO, AND WE'VE BEEN PRAYER PRAYERFUL ABOUT, UH, EITHER GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE, UM, AND BUILDING OR, YOU KNOW, IN ANOTHER, UH, FACILITY OR BUILDING NEXT TO THE STUPOT. UM, WHEN CITY SQUARE CONTACTED US, THIS IS PAGE EIGHT, UM, IN MAY, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, AND SAID THAT THEY WERE HOPING TO, UM, DO A HANDOFF TO AN ORGANIZATION AND SELL THE CAMPUS. UM, MANY ORGANIZATIONS APPLIED. UH, THERE WAS A PROPOSAL PRO PROCESS. IT WAS AN RFP. WE DID THAT, UM, UH, PROPOSAL PROCESS. AND THE REASON WE WERE INTERESTED AGAIN, WAS THE MISSION ALIGNMENT BECAUSE, UH, POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS IS WHAT CITY SQUARE'S MISSION HAD BEEN. WE'VE BEEN LONG TIME PARTNER. WE WERE 50 YEARS OLD, THEY WERE 30. UM, AND SO THERE WAS AN ALIGNMENT OF THE MISSION. WE'D ALREADY WORKED TOGETHER. WE WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THEIR PROGRAMS. THE POPULATION WAS SIMILAR. UM, OUR LEADERSHIP FELT WE HAD THE FINANCIAL STABILITY TO MAKE THIS KIND OF A MOVE. UM, IT'S ONLY, UM, 1.2 MILES FROM OUR CURRENT LOCATION. THAT WAS A BIG CONCERN FOR OUR CHURCH BECAUSE WE HAVE SERVED DOWNTOWN, YOU KNOW, OF NEIGHBORS FOR A LONG TIME. AND THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER OUR NEIGHBORS, UH, DOWNTOWN AREA COULD GET TO US OVER AT CITY SQUARE. I'M THANKFUL THAT THE CONNECTOR WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HELPED ESTABLISH WITH, UM, CITY SQUARE AND [00:15:01] AUSTIN STREET, AND THEN INCLUDED SOME OTHER ORGANIZATIONS SO THAT THE PLAN IS THAT FOLKS WILL STILL BE ABLE TO GET OVER TO US, UH, AT THE NEW LOCATION. WE ALSO, UH, FEEL LIKE WE HAD A, A STRONG IMPACT, UM, AND COULD CONTINUE TO SERVE EVEN MORE, UM, NEIGHBORS. SO OUR PHILOSOPHY AND ALIGNMENT, UM, IN THE NEXT PAGES, I THINK MOST OF YOU HAVE SEEN C SQUARE, BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T, THESE ARE SOME, UM, PHOTOS OF CITY SQUARE, THE OUTSIDE, UM, THE FIRST TWO PAGES, THE FACILITY IS ONLY 10 YEARS OLD, SO IT'S A, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY. IT'S STILL IN REALLY GOOD CONDITION. UM, I SURE THERE'S SOME WEAR AND TEAR AND SOME THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, MIGHT HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED IN THE RECENT YEARS. THE LAST PICTURE IS A PICTURE OF THE COURTYARD, UM, WHICH IS A REALLY NICE SPACE, AND IT HAS A VERY LARGE, UM, PARKING LOT. AND SO IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN OVER TO THE STEWPOT OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH AROUND, UH, THE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, AND WE WOULD DO OUR STREET SIDE SHOWERS AT THE CHURCH, UM, IN THE FLAT LOT. AND THEN RECENTLY WITH THE BUILDING OF A PARKING OR A PLAYGROUND FOR THE CHILDREN, UM, THEN WE ARE, WE STARTED DOING STREETSIDE SHOWERS NEXT TO THE BUILDING. AND IN ENCORE PARK, THE, UM, PRICE OF CITY SQUARE, UH, 7 MILLION WAS THE ACQUISITION COST. UM, AND SO WE FIGURED OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT OTHER COSTS WE WOULD HAVE ABOUT 7,500 JUST FOR THE ACQUISITION. UH, 7507, 7 0.5 MILLION. WISH IT WAS 7,500, I CAN TELL YOU THAT. UM, AND THEN THE, YOU KNOW, RELOCATION COSTS, BECAUSE IT WASN'T COMPLETELY APPLES TO APPLES ON THE BUILDING. UM, WE HAVE ABOUT 2.5 MILLION THAT WE HAVE FIGURED OUT THINGS THAT, UH, THE BUILDING 100 WHERE THEIR, UM, NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER WAS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT. THAT'LL BE WHERE WE ARE MOVING. ALSO, OUR HOMELESS SERVICES. SO THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN TO THE STOOP OUT, THAT'S THE BIG DAY ROOM AND ID SERVICES AND THOSE CASEWORKERS. SO THAT'LL BE BUILDING 100 AND ALSO MAIL SERVICE. WE, WE SERVE OVER A THOUSAND, UM, CLIENTS, UM, THAT RECEIVE THEIR MAIL AT THE STEWPOT. I CAN TELL YOU THAT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE LARGEST, UM, UH, CONCERNS ABOUT, UH, HOW WE ARE GOING TO, UH, FORWARD THE MAIL TO THAT LOCATION BECAUSE, UH, OUR MAIL IS TIED TO THE CHURCH. AND SO JUST FORWARDING, THEN, THAT WOULD, ANYWAY, IT'S, IT'S A HEADACHE TO EVEN THINK ABOUT. UH, BUILDING 200 IS WHERE WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS IS. AND, AND BASICALLY THE AD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND VOLUNTEER SERVICES. UM, SO THERE'S MINIMAL, UM, UH, UPFIT NEEDING FOR THAT. UM, BUILDING 300, UH, WILL BE MOVING PARKLAND AND METROCARE IN OUR ART PROGRAM, AS WELL AS OUR HOUSING PROGRAM INTO THAT BUILDING. SO THERE IS SOME CONSTRUCTION THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN DO THAT QUICKLY. UM, UH, FUNDRAISING IS A BIG PART OF THAT. UH, BUILDING 400, UH, THE FOOD PANTRY, IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN THERE, THAT IF WE WANTED NOTHING ELSE TO DO WITH THE CAMPUS, IT WAS THE FOOD PANTRY. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. IT'S, IT'S, UM, PERFECTLY SUITED FOR WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND, AND ACTUALLY MORE, AND IT IS A CLIENT CHOICE EXPERIENCE WHERE OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION WAS A BOX OF FOOD. WE WERE CERTAINLY SERVING A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT IT WAS, HERE'S YOUR BOX OF FOOD FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, AND YOU CAN COME BACK IN IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. THIS FOOD PANTRY, UM, IS CLIENT CHOICE. AND, UM, WE'VE ALREADY BEEN SERVING OVER 300, UM, FOLKS A A DAY, UM, FOUR DAYS A WEEK WITH, UM, SINCE TAKING OVER. SO, UH, AGAIN, UM, PAGE 14 IS, UM, ABOUT THE NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER AND THE FOOD PANTRY. UM, SO WE DID NOT JUST, UM, PURCHASE THE, THE, THE CAMPUS, BUT WE ALSO ARE CONTINUING THOSE TWO PROGRAMS. AND WE HIRED, UM, STAFF THAT WERE CITY SQUARE STAFF. THEY ARE NOW STUPOT STAFF. SO WE, WE HIRED, UH, FOUR STAFF FROM THE NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER. SO THEY'RE CASE MANAGERS THAT ARE, UM, FAMILIAR AND VERY WITH THE, NOT ONLY THE NEIGHBORS OF CITY SQUARE, UM, BUT ALSO THE PROGRAM AND RESOURCES. AND SO THOSE, THOSE FOLKS ARE ON OUR STAFF. NOW. THE FOOD PANTRY, UH, AGAIN, WE HIRED FOOD PANTRY STAFF, INCLUDING THE MANAGER OF THE FOOD PANTRY. UM, AND THEN WE HAD OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION STAFF THAT WERE JOINING THAT TEAM. UM, WE ALSO HIRED TWO FACILITIES AND TWO DEVELOPMENT, UM, FOLKS. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU MAY BE WONDERING WAS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT. THAT'S ABOUT, UM, A A MILLION AND A HALF OF ADDITIONAL COSTS TO OUR OPERATING BUDGET. IF THERE'S ON A DIFFERENT, UM, PAGE, YOU'LL SEE IT IN JUST A MINUTE. BUT OUR BUDGET WAS ALREADY A LITTLE OVER 11 MILLION, SO WE'RE ADDING TO UP TO $12.5 MILLION FOR OUR BUDGET. AND WE WERE ALREADY TRYING TO [00:20:01] CATCH UP WITH ALL THE PROGRAMMATIC GROWTH THAT HAPPENED DURING THE PANDEMIC. UM, AND WE WERE HAD JUST BROUGHT ON, UM, SOME ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM MEMBERS AND OUR OPERATIONS DIRECTOR AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO, UM, SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO CATCH UP WITH, UH, THE, THE STABILITY FOR THE ORGANIZATION. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, WAS, UH, LAID OUT IN THE, UM, ACQUISITION WAS THE, UM, COST AND THE RETIREMENT OF THE DEBT THAT CITY SQUARE HAD WASN'T GONNA EQUAL $7 MILLION. SO 1.3 MILLION, UM, CAME BACK TO US FOR PROGRAM COSTS. SO THAT'LL HELP US IN THE FIRST YEAR OR SO FOR TAKING ON THOSE TWO PROGRAMS. UM, BUT AS YOU KNOW, THINGS ALWAYS , YOU KNOW, INCREASE AND, UH, UH, WE STILL HAVE TO FINISH OUT THE, UM, CAPITAL CAMPAIGN. I'LL SHOW YOU THAT IN JUST A MOMENT AS WELL. SO WE WERE ALREADY ASSISTING OVER 14,000 CLIENTS, AND WITH THE ADDITIONAL, UM, 12,000 FOR THE PANTRY AND ABOUT 2000 WITH THE NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER, WE WILL BE IN INCREASING, UM, DRAMATICALLY THE NUMBER OF FOLKS WE ARE SERVING. AGAIN, THESE ARE FOLKS THAT ARE HOUSED AS WELL AS THOSE EXPERIENCING, UM, HOMELESSNESS. UM, SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE IMPACT OVER THE, UM, 2023 YEAR. WE HAVEN'T DONE OUR 2024 NUMBERS YET. UM, ST STUPOT FUNDRAISING, JUST SHOWING YOU, THIS WAS ONE OF THE SLIDES IN SOME OF THE DATA THAT WE SHARED WITH CITY SQUARE. IT WAS A UNANIMOUS, UM, DECISION BY THE, THE CITY SQUARE BOARD TO, UM, AWARD US WITH THE, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, PURCHASE THE CAMPUS. UM, YOU KNOW, US SHOWING OUR, UH, INCREASED, UH, REVENUE AND THAT WE, UM, ON PAGE 17 THAT WE CONTINUE TO GROW AND, AND BUILD ON THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE IN, UM, OUR FUNDRAISING. UM, WE, YOU KNOW, ADDED A MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER AND OTHER, UM, IMPORTANT POSITIONS TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN OUR, UM, OUR DONORS. UH, AS I SAID, ON PAGE 18, OUR 2024 AND 25 BUDGET, IT'S GONE UP TO 12.5 MILLION. UM, AND WE'RE, UM, ALSO GOING TO BE WORKING ON INCREASING OUR OPERATIONAL RESERVES. UM, SO, UH, IT'S, IT'S A BIG FUNDRAISING YEAR. UM, WE BELIEVE THAT GOD BROUGHT US TO THIS OPPORTUNITY. UM, YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE REALLY THANKFUL THAT WE COULD STEP IN AND CONTINUE THE OPERATIONS FOR THOSE TWO VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAMS. AND I'M GLAD THAT CITY SQUARE WAS ABLE TO OFFLOAD SOME OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS LIKE THE AMERICORPS PROGRAM TO EQUAL HEART, THE COTTAGES ACROSS THE STREET TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES. UM, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, OTHER PROGRAMS THAT THEY WERE ABLE, UH, THE PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, UM, THAT THEY WERE CURING AS FAR AS CONTRACT HOUSING. FORD TOOK THOSE, UM, THOSE PROGRAMS AND THEN DID RFP TO, TO MEET THOSE OUT TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. UM, SO IT IS A BIG FUNDRAISING YEAR FOR US. WE DO NEED SUPPORT. WE NEED SUPPORT FROM THE CITY, FROM THE COUNTY, FROM OUR, YOU KNOW, FUNDING COMMUNITY. WE WERE ABLE TO CLOSE ON THE PROPERTY. UM, IT WAS A CREATIVE, UH, UM, FINANCING BECAUSE, UH, AS YOU KNOW, SINCE WE DIDN'T FIND OUT UNTIL JULY THAT WE WERE GONNA BE THE ONES THAT WERE GONNA, UM, BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE PROPERTY, WE DIDN'T HAVE JUST 7 MILLION LAYING AROUND. UM, WE HAD STARTED TRYING TO FUNDRAISE FOR IT, BUT IT WAS A BASICALLY FOUR MONTH, FIVE MONTH, UM, CAPITAL CAMPAIGN. SO, UH, WE USED, UH, THE CASH THAT WE HAD ALREADY RAISED, AND THEN, UM, UH, WE FINANCED THE REST. SO WE DO, IT IS FINANCED, UM, UNDER INWOOD BANK, WHICH IS WHERE WE, WHERE WE BANK. UM, AND, UH, FPC, OUR FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ALSO HELPED US WITH SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, FUNDING. UM, SO HERE ARE THE HIGH LEVEL UPDATES. UM, PRIOR TO THE CLOSING, WE HAD MET CONTINUOUSLY, REALLY WITH CITY SQUARE TO ALIGN OUR PROGRAMS AND PREPARE FOR THE ACQUISITION. WE HAVE A FUNDRAISING PLAN THAT WE DEVELOPED WITH BRAD, CECIL AND ASSOCIATES. AND WE'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN FUNDRAISING. THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING. UM, WE DID ALL OUR DUE DILIGENCE INSPECTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS. WE, UH, PURCHASED THE PROPERTY ON DECEMBER 16TH. UM, AND THE, UH, CITY SQUARE HAD ACTUALLY ALREADY STOPPED, UM, THEIR PROGRAMMING, UH, PRIOR TO THAT. SO WE WERE WORKING, UM, WITH SOME OTHER PARTNERS OF CITY SQUARES TO OPERATE THE, UM, THE FOOD PANTRY THAT ONE WEEK THAT WE REALLY DIDN'T OWN IT, AND THEY STOPPED OPERATION. SO, BUT IF WE CONTINUED SERVING, UM, WE DID GET ALL THE PERMITS FOR THE FACILITY. WE HIRED THEIR 13, UM, FORMERLY CITY SQUARE EMPLOYEES, AND ALSO KEPT THREE AMERICORPS FOLKS. UM, WE BEGAN OPERATING THE PANTRY, UM, [00:25:01] YOU KNOW, FULL BLOWN ON DECEMBER 16TH. UH, THE NEW HIRES TOOK OFF THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE YEAR. SO IT WAS ALL OF OUR STAFF THAT HAD BEEN TRAINING. UM, WE STARTED OUR SECURITY, UM, OVER THERE. SO WE ARE RUNNING SECURITY AT BOTH CAMPUSES, WHICH INCREASES OUR COSTS. UM, THE, WHAT WE HAVE, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON, BUT UH, WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED MOVING IN. UM, WE'VE BEEN PLANNING THE OFFICE SPACE AND UTILIZATION OF, FOR THE PROGRAMS. WE'RE GETTING RFPS FOR FUTURE POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS. WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP OUR COSTS TILL A MINIMUM. UM, AND OUR PROJECT TIMELINE, TRYING TO GET, AGAIN, EVERY, EVERYTHING MOVED OVER. 'CAUSE WHILE WE'RE IN TWO BUILDINGS, IT, IT KEEPS OUR PROGRAM, OUR, OUR, UH, FACILITY AND, AND SECURITY COSTS, YOU KNOW, ARE DOUBLE. UM, WE HAVE MET WITH ALL THE PARTNERS THAT WERE AT CITY SQUARE AND OUR PARTNERS AND CONTINUING TO DEVELOPED MOUS. UM, WE STARTED, NOT REALLY UNTIL DECEMBER STARTED, UM, MEETING WITH SOUTH DALLAS ORGANIZATIONS. UM, WENT TO SOME EVENTS. WE TALKED WITH ORGANIZATIONS, JUST TRYING TO NETWORK. UM, WE DIDN'T DO A TON OF THAT BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED TO KIND OF GET OUR FEET UNDER US, BUT THAT'S PART OF OUR, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAN. WE'VE DONE SOME TRAINING ALREADY WITH THE ALL STAFF. WE HAVE ANOTHER TRAINING TOMORROW. THIS IS OUR TIMELINE. I HAD ACTUALLY PREPARED THIS FOR SOMETHING ELSE. I KNOW SOME OF THESE DATES ARE PASSED, BUT, UM, WE'RE CONTINUING OUR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN, OUR STEWARDING OF DONORS. UH, WE HELPED WITH IMPLEMENT WEATHER. UM, UH, WE HAVE OUR, THE POINT IN TIME COUNT THAT WE'LL BE PARTICIPATING IN. UH, WE HAVE OUR SOUPS ON LUNCHEON, AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO TRANSITION AND HOPEFULLY BE, UM, COMPLETELY MOVED, MOVED OVER BY MARCH 31ST. SO ON PAGE 23, OUR FUNDRAISING STATUS, WE, UM, HAD TOTAL COMMITMENTS OF 3.4 MILLION. UM, AND THEN OUTSTANDING SOLICITATIONS OF PUT 2.2. UH, WE HAVE A PIPELINE OF PROPOSALS OF THREE POINT A EIGHT. SO WE STILL HAVE, UM, LEFT TO RAISE 6.5 MILLION THAT WE ARE WORKING ON. THE FUNDING COMMUNITY'S BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE, BUT WE, YOU KNOW, EVERY, WE JUST HAVE A LOT OF MEETINGS TO DO. THERE ARE A LOT OF CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT THIS QUICK, IF IT HAD BEEN OUR CHOICE. UM, BUT WE DID NOT WANT THE, THE, UM, CAMPUS TO NOT BE FUNCTIONING FOR THOSE NEIGHBORS. SO HOW YOU CAN HELP US IS BY, IF YOU KNOW PEOPLE WE CAN MEET WITH FOR INDIVIDUALS, UM, YOU KNOW, EITHER INDIVIDUALS OR FOUNDATIONS. WE, WE HAVE A BIG LIST, BUT THERE, SO ALL, THERE ARE SO MANY FOUNDATIONS IN THE, UM, AROUND THE DALLAS FORT WORTH AREA. LOVE ANY INTRODUCTIONS YOU WANT, MI MIGHT, UM, GIVE FOR US, UH, SUPPORT FOR SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION AND OPERATIONS. WE'RE WORKING TO, UM, CLOSE THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN QUICKLY SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT FINANCING FEE. UM, THE ONGOING MOR MO MORTGAGE EXPENSE AND THAT WE'RE ONLY OPERATING ONE CAMPUS. 'CAUSE AGAIN, DOUBLE THE SECURITY COSTS. AND THAT'S PRETTY LARGE. I'M SURE Y'ALL, BECAUSE Y'ALL PROBABLY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE CITY'S BUDGET. THAT'S VERY LARGE. UM, SO THAT'S, UH, THANK YOU FOR BEING VITAL PARTNERS IN ALL THIS, AND I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. AND YES, I'M TIRED. , IF THAT'S ONE OF YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, BRENDA. YES. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. VERY THOROUGH. UM, IT, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS A HAND IN GLOVE FIT, SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY. ESPECIALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE, WE'RE ALL TIRED AND . I KNOW THERE'S A LOT GOING ON FOR YOU. YES. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M GONNA OPEN, WE'RE GONNA MOVE QUICKLY SINCE WE KIND OF STARTED A LITTLE LATE. YEAH. UM, SO I'M GONNA OPEN THE FLOOR FOR QUESTIONS AND, UM, WE'RE GONNA START HERE IN CITY HALL, AND I'M LOOKING TO COMMISSIONER KEYS WITH HIS MICROPHONE RAISED. DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR OF TWO MINUTES? HELLO, FRIEND. SO I'M SO THANKFUL, AND, UH, GOD BLESS YOU. I'M, I'M, I'M EXCITED YOU GUYS ARE DOING THIS. IT'S, UH, AS LINDA ALREADY SAID, CHAIR GARNER SAID IT'S, IT'S A HANDING GLOVE FIT. AND I'M GLAD YOU GUYS COULD TAKE UP THE MANTLE THAT THEY HAVE CARRIED FOR SO LONG. UM, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE OLD SPACE? UH, IT'S GREAT QUESTION. UM, WE PREVIOUSLY HAD TRIED TO MARKET THE L AROUND US AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKING TO, UM, FOLKS THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN IT. AND SO, UH, I THINK THE PLAN IS ONCE WE MOVE, THE CHURCH WILL CONSIDER IF, IF THERE'S SOME BUYERS INTERESTED IN THAT SPACE AS WELL AS THE L 'CAUSE WE OWN THE WHOLE BLOCK. IS THAT IT A MINUTE? SURE. DO GO TAKE ADVANTAGE. UH, I I, I I THINK IT'S VERY AWESOME HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GUYS HAVE RAISED, AND I THINK I SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW YOU GUYS ARE UNDER THE 5 0 1 C3 OF THE CHURCH. WE ARE, YOU WANT YOUR OWN SEPARATE 5 0 1 C3, YOU KNOW, AND THAT IT'S JUST REMARKABLE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE BEEN ABLE TO RAISE. [00:30:01] UM, AND, UM, THROUGH INDIVIDUAL DONORS AND TO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE YOU. DO YOU SEE ANY, UH, ISSUES AND PROBLEMS BEING A CHURCH? AND I KNOW YOU'VE ANSWERED THIS QUESTION A MILLION TIMES YEAH. BEING A CHURCH AND THEN TRYING TO GET GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS AND MAYBE AN ENCOURAGING WORD TO OTHER FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS OUT THERE THAT, HEY, YOU CAN DO THIS. SURE. SO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT. YEAH. SO BEING A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION, UM, BUT THE WAY WE ARE A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION, PRESBYTERIANS TEND TO BE VERY, UM, OPEN AND AFFIRMING OF ALL DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS, FAITH, RELIGION, OR NO FAITH. AND SO THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE AS A CHURCH AND AS AN ORGANIZATION. SO, UH, WE DO NOT PROSELYTIZE WITNESS, YOU KNOW, UM, ANYONE CAN COME IN AND RECEIVE SERVICES. OUR STAFF DO NOT HAVE TO BE CHRISTIANS OR PRESBYTERIAN. UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY WE LET THEM KNOW. WE PRAY AT MEETINGS, POTLUCKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, AND THAT IS WHAT DRIVES WHO WE ARE. BUT, UH, IN ALL THE TIME THAT I'VE BEEN DOING THIS ALMOST SEVEN YEARS AT THE STEWPOT, UM, I'VE ONLY HAD ONE, UM, UH, COMPANY SAY, AND IT WAS, IT WAS ACTUALLY A CHURCH MEMBER, UM, WHO THEY WORKED FOR THAT WOULDN'T FUND US BECAUSE WE WERE A CHURCH. BUT BECAUSE WE KEEP OUR, OUR FUNDS SEPARATE AND WE CAN SHOW THAT OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EVERYTHING, AND WE DON'T, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO REQUIREMENT TO WITNESS TO OUR, OUR CLIENTS, OUR, UM, OUR GUESTS, UM, AND OUR, OUR STAFF ARE COMFORTABLE BEING WHATEVER FAITH BACKGROUND THEY, THEY HAVE, UH, THE MAJORITY OF US AT THE LEADERSHIP LEVEL ARE CHRISTIANS, OR I'M A PRESBYTERIAN, UM, BELONG TO A DIFFERENT, UH, CHURCH. IT'S UP NORTH. BUT YEAH, WHEN WE GET LOTS OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS, WE DIDN'T USED TO EVEN ASK FOR THOUGH. BUT SINCE THE PANDEMIC, WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING FUNDING FROM, UH, HUD AS WELL AS THE CITY. UM, AND, AND SO WE NOW HAD AND STATE HAD NO PROBLEMS. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER KEYS? IS THAT IT? OKAY, GREAT. ALL RIGHT. I'M STILL HERE AT CITY HALL AND I SEE, UM, COMMISSIONER SILHAN TWO MINUTES. YEAH, WE DON'T TAKE THAT LONG. HOW DO WE, UH, GET TICKETS FOR THE SOUP ON? UM, YOU COULD PUT YOUR NAME ON THE WAITING LIST. OH. UH, IT'S BEEN SOLD OUT FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO MOVE PEOPLE TO THE, YOU KNOW, UM, FROM THE WAITING LIST OFF, UH, AS WE'RE CONTACTING PEOPLE, AS YOU KNOW, YOU'VE PROBABLY BEEN TO LOTS OF EVENTS OR YOU MIGHT HAVE SHARED, SOME PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS FILL OUT THEIR TABLES. SO, UH, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, YOU CAN LET US KNOW AND WE'LL PUT YOU ON THE WAITING LIST AND LET YOU KNOW WHEN WE CAN GET YOU IN. WELL, YEAH. OR WE CAN JUST GIVE YOU THE MONEY. YES. AND WE DO TAKE DONATIONS. THERE IS, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN SAY YOU HERE AT CITY HALL, BUT IT'S BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. WE DO HAVE A GREAT RLE GOING AND THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT ON OUR WEBSITE TOO. SO, SO WE CAN LIKE ACTUALLY DO THAT. YES. WELL, THERE YOU GO. AS LONG AS YOU LIVE IN TEXAS, WE CAN'T SELL TO ANYBODY OUTSIDE OF TEXAS. OH, WELL, THERE YOU GO. COOL. THANK YOU. THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS MATTERS TO ANYBODY BUT ME, BUT LARRY JAMES WILL BE VERY HAPPY. HE TOLD, HE TOLD ME HE WAS VERY GLAD WE WERE THE ONES THAT WERE YEAH, HE'S A, HE'S A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL MAN. HE IS. YEAH. WE, UH, WE WERE AS SAD AS ANYBODY ABOUT, UM, BUT WE ARE GONNA BE HONORING DONORS AND MM-HMM . LARRY, UH, IN THE FUTURE, WE JUST GOTTA GET OUR FEET UNDER US A LITTLE BIT, BUT OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY, WE HAVE LOTS OF EVENTS HAPPENING, AND OUR, OUR ACTUAL ANNIVERSARY IS OCTOBER, SO WE WILL BE DOING, OUR PLAN IS TO HAVE AN ANNIVERSARY BIRTHDAY PARTY ON THE CAMPUS. AND SO YOU ALL BE INVITED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER HAN. EXCUSE ME. UH, COMMISSIONER WRIGHT, TWO MINUTES. FABULOUS PRESENTATION. AND, UM, I JUST ECHO WHAT MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS HAVE SAID JUST ABOUT HOW GRATEFUL WE ARE FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING. UM, I AM A FAITH CENTERED PERSON, BUT, UM, BELIEVE WE ALL NEED TO PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AND LET LOVE BIND US AT THE CORE. AND, UM, I JUST LOVE HOW THIS MODEL AS IT'S GROWING, SHOWS HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO RETAIN THAT HEART AND JUST BE GENUINE ABOUT WHY YOU'RE DOING IT, BUT ALSO NOT BE EXCLUSIVE AND, AND PUT WALLS UP. AND SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, MY QUESTION FOR YOU, UM, I AM, UH, MY DISTRICT, LIKE HIGHLANDS IS PART OF MY DISTRICT, AND I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ON SOME ENC ENCAMPMENT WORK. AND SO COULD YOU ELABORATE ON YOUR ENCAMPMENT, DECOMMISSIONING, COORDINATED STREET OUTREACH, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE? AND THEN THE SECOND PART, UM, IS, UM, I ALSO WORK WITH THE FARM IN SOUTH DALLAS AND, AND PY IN THAT COMMUNITY. MM-HMM. MY KIM HIGH IS MY PARTNER, BUT, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT CALL US NOW AND JUST PEOPLE THAT JUST WANT IMMEDIATE HELP. YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES YOUR INTAKE PROCESS LOOK LIKE? UM, AND, AND JUST WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET SOMEBODY TO THE RIGHT PLACE TO GET THE, THE RIGHT KIND OF CASEWORK THAT THEY NEED? SURE. UM, SO I ANSWER THE FIRST ONE. SO, UM, WE ARE PART OF THE HOUSING BOARD CONTINUUM. UM, I, I ACTUALLY AM THE CHAIR [00:35:01] OF THE ALL NEIGHBORS COALITION. UM, AND SO THE STEWPOT FOR THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED DOING ENCAMPMENT DECOMMISSIONING, WE WOULD GO OUT AND DO ID SERVICES TO SOME OF OUR CASEWORKERS. UM, AND SO THEN WHEN THEY ADDED THE STREET TO HOME PROGRAM, UM, AND HAD SOME FUNDING, WE APPLIED FOR THAT. AND SO WE HAVE, UH, UH, AN ADMINIS NOT ADMINISTRATOR, SHE IS ACTUALLY, SHE WAS ALREADY DOING STREET OUTREACH, BUT UM, UH, ROBIN CRADOCK, SHE'S, SHE'S WONDERFUL. UM, SHE HAS TWO OTHER STAFF UNDER HER. SO THE THREE OF THEM ARE DOING THE STREET OUTREACH WITH HOUSING BOARD. SO WHEN THEY WERE DOING ALL THIS, THE DOWNTOWN ENCAMPMENT DECOMMISSIONINGS, WE WERE, UM, YOU KNOW, VERY MUCH A PART OF THAT, BUT ALSO ALL THE, YOU KNOW, OUTER, UM, OUTSKIRTS TOO. WE HAVE, UM, SINCE I STARTED, UH, SEVEN YEARS AGO, UH, PHONES JUST WENT TO VOICEMAIL. AND SO IT WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY. SO WE ACTUALLY HIRED SOMEBODY. WE HAVE A GREAT CASE MANAGER THAT DOES INTAKE, UM, ON THE PHONE, BUT ALSO DOES REFERRAL SOURCES. AND SO, UM, WITH THE NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER AND THE, UH, THE ADDITION OF THOSE EMPLOYEES, IT MAY CHANGE A BIT BECAUSE THE NRC NEIGHBOR RESOURCE CENTER, WHAT IT IS BASICALLY A REFERRAL AND, AND CASE MANAGEMENT PROCESS TOO. SO THAT'S ACTUALLY ADDING, WE, OUR, UM, CASE MANAGERS IN OUR ID SERVICES, WE'RE PR PRIMARILY DOING ID SERVICES. SO, UM, WE HANDLE ABOUT, UM, 25,000 CALLS A YEAR. I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT. I HATE BEING ON THE PHONE, , SO, BUT MICHELLE, UM, DIRECTS A LOT OF THOSE PHONE CALLS. AND NOW WITH THE ADDITION OF THE NRC, I'M SURE WE'LL BE, UM, GETTING A LOT MORE. SO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT HOW TO, WHAT'S THE BEST WAY? SO, UM, UH, MICHELLE WOULD, UH, DIRECT THEM BASED ON WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE IN AN ENCAMPMENT, SHE WOULD DIRECT THOSE CALLS TO THE STREET OUTREACH PROGRAM FOLKS. THOSE FOLKS DO HAVE KIND OF AREAS. SO, UM, HOUSING FORD HAS, UH, AND TRULY, I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHICH OUR AREA IS, BUT WE HAVE AN AREA THAT WE COVER, AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE STREET OUTREACH, HAVE THEIR AREAS NOW. THEY, THEY WORK ACROSS ZONES AS WELL. BUT, UM, SO IT WOULD BE TRYING TO LET PEOPLE, UM, KNOW IN THAT AREA, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE WERE SOME FOLKS THAT WERE INTERESTED IN GETTING ON THE, UM, HOUSING PRIORITY LIST, THE, YOU KNOW, IN HMIS AND DOCUMENTING THEIR HOMELESSNESS TO GET THEM, UM, STARTED, UM, ID SERVICES, THEN THEY WOULD DIRECT 'EM TO US. SO TRYING TO GET THEM ON THE HOUSING LIST AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. YEAH, I'M GOOD. UM, UH, IF YOU EVER WANNA TOUR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, LET ME KNOW. MY FRIEND'S THERE. YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD CONNECTION IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GOOD HEADLINE DONOR. MOST DEFINITELY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. AND I SEE, UM, MR. CLINTON. YES. TWO MINUTES, MS. SCHNITZER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING TIME TO, UH, SHARE THIS WITH US, THIS INFORMATION WITH US. I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. WHAT DOES THIS, WHAT ARE THE STOOP POTTS HOURS OF SERVICE? GREAT QUESTION. EIGHT TO FOUR, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, OR MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, I MEAN, WE DO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES SATURDAY PROGRAMS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. OUR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAM ARE NOT EIGHT TO FOUR. SO WEDNESDAY NIGHTS, IT'S BASICALLY WEDNESDAY NIGHTS FOR YOUTH, UM, MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH. AND ON SATURDAYS FOR, UM, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND THEN DURING THE SUMMER, IT'S MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ALL DAY. SO, UM, AGAIN, THAT'S OUR, FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. YEAH, THAT'S FOR OUR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAM. THAT'S FOR HOUSED, UM, FAMILIES THAT ARE IN POVERTY, 180% OF POVERTY. UM, AND SO WE'VE HAD GENERATIONAL CHANGE WITH THAT PROGRAM, AND WE ARE WORKING TO EXPAND THAT. CHI OMEGA JUST FUNDED US, UM, AND WITH OUR CHRISTMAS MARKET, AND WE ARE, UM MM-HMM. SEEKING OTHER ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO, UM, TO GROW AND, UM, UH, DO MORE DAYS AND, AND MAYBE A FULL WEEK OF AWESOME. DID I HEAR YOU REFERENCE HMIS? DO YOU GUYS TRACK THROUGH THINGS THROUGH HMIS? YES. WHEN I CAME TO THE STUPAC, WE WERE NOT USING HMIS, BUT WE, UH, WE GOT ON, YOU KNOW, I GOT US INTO HMIS, AND SO ALL OF OUR STAFF THAT ARE CASE MANAGERS ARE TRAINED AND THE, THAT WE UTILIZE. AWESOME. AND I SAW YOU REFERENCE THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE. OKAY. WE HAVE TRIPLED THE NUMBER OF CLIENTS. WE SERVE, NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON STAFF SINCE 2018. DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN 2018? YEAH, SO, UH, I STARTED IN 2018. OH, OKAY. AND, UM, I GROWTH THINGS, BUT THE PANDEMIC ALSO, SO ONE OF, ONE OF THE FIRST GOALS I HAD IN 2018 WHEN I STARTED WAS HOUSING. WE WERE NOT DOING HOUSING AT THE STUPOT. AND I, I THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE SILLY TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS IF WE DIDN'T HAVE HOUSING. SO [00:40:01] THAT WAS ONE OF MY GOALS. BUT THEN, UM, ALSO, AND SO WE, WE SOUGHT OUT THAT, AND WE RECEIVED OUR FIRST GRANT THROUGH, UM, UH, THE TEXAS AND KIND OF THE HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM. AND THEN THE PANDEMIC HAPPENED, AND WE STARTED APPLYING FOR, WE STARTED MOVING OUR FUNDING TO HELP PEOPLE WITH RENT UTILITIES, JUST BECAUSE THERE WERE OTHER PROGRAMS WE COULDN'T DO DURING THE PANDEMIC, AND WE WERE STILL MEETING EVERYBODY AND DOING FOOD. UM, AND SO OUR FOOD, UH, DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM GREW TREMENDOUSLY, AND ALSO RENT AND UTILITIES. AND THEN WE STARTED GETTING CITY FUNDING FOR RENT AND UTILITIES. UM, AND THEN WE STARTED GETTING MORE HOUSING, UM, GRANTS. AND SO AGAIN, JUST THE, THE, THE INCREASED PROGRAMMING AND THE INCREASED NEED IS WHY WE INCREASED AND RESPONDING TO THAT. YEAH. AWESOME. AND, UM, I THINK THAT'S ALL. I THINK THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS TOO ON ALL YOUR GOOD WORK AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE DOING FOR OUR CITY. THANK YOU. WELL, WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM, AND OF COURSE, IT IS MY TEAM THAT DOES ALL THE HARD WORK, SO I'M SURE, UM, CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANKS. CLINTON, OR COMMISSIONER CLINTON HALL. APPRECIATE IT. YOU CAN JUST CALL THE GAR . OKAY. UH, WE'RE IN VIRTUAL LAND, UH, COMMISSIONER SAN SANTOS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, YES. AND, UH, I WANNA, UH, ALSO, UH, REITERATE, UH, MY GRATITUDE FOR ALL THAT YOU AND, AND THIS DUPONT TOO. IT'S, IT'S, UH, INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE. UM, I, I HAD A QUESTION, UH, REGARDING Y YOUR BUDGET. UM, HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM LAST YEAR'S BUDGET, AND WHERE ARE YOU SEEING THE BIGGEST, UH, INCREASE OR DECREASE? I, IF THERE'S ANY DIFFERENCE? UM, PRIOR TO 2024, UH, WE HAD MADE THE DECISION TO INCREASE, UH, WITH A DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, BECAUSE WE DO SHARE SOME OF THE SERVICES ACROSS THE, FROM THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH DOES SOME OF OUR FACILITY STAFF, WE HAVE SOME THAT ARE DEDICATED THAT ARE ON MY BUDGET, AND THEN SOME THAT ARE THE CHURCHES, SAME THING. HR IS KIND OF A SHARED SERVICE. FINANCE IS A SHARED SERVICE. UM, AND SO I, I PAY A PORTION TO COVER THAT, BUT WE STARTED SAYING, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GONNA KEEP GROWING, WE NEED OUR OWN DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS. WE WE'RE GONNA HAVE A, OUR OWN ACCOUNTING, UM, PERSON JUST TO BE EVEN MORE FOCUSED ON OUR, UM, FUNDS. AND THEN, UM, UH, MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER. SO WE WERE ALREADY GEARING UP. WE HAD ALREADY PUT THAT IN OUR 2024 BUDGET, AND THAT WAS ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS, ALTHOUGH, AND A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR EDITION. SO, SO THAT WE WOULD HAVE THREE PEOPLE WITH VOLUNTEER SERVICES BECAUSE WE, WE DO HAVE SO MANY VOLUNTEERS, WHICH SAVED THIS MONEY IN THE LONG RUN. SO THEN WITH, UM, GOING INTO 2025, UH, WE ARE, YOU KNOW, TAKING ON THE CITY SQUARE OPERATIONS INTO A LARGER CAMPUS AND ALL OF THAT. THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT'S TAKEN US TO 12.5. I HOPE WE DON'T SPEND IT. I, YOU KNOW, I WANNA RAISE IT, UM, AND PUT SOME OF THAT MONEY INTO, UH, INTO THE COFFERS, UM, TO KEEP OUR, OUR WORK GOING. BUT, UM, WE DON'T SPEND JUST A SPEND. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SANTOS. ANY MORE QUESTIONS? WAS THAT IT? OKAY. OKAY. UH, ANY MORE QUESTIONS IN VIRTUAL LAND? MADAM CHAIR, YOU HAVE COMMISSIONER BROWN. COMMISSIONER BROWN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. LET'S GET YOUR MIC UP. WE'RE GONNA GET YOU ON SCREEN HERE. CAN Y'ALL SEE ME? WE'RE YES. NOW WE CAN SEE YOU AND WE CAN HEAR YOU GO AHEAD. WONDERFUL. I JUST WANTED TO HAVE A COMMENT. I DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. YOU'VE ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS. I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET WITH YOU GUYS. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT I WAS VERY PROUD AND I WAS A HUGE SUPPORTER OF THE STEW POT, AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AS Y'ALL MOVE FORWARD IN THE NEW SPACE. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GLENN, AND THANK YOU. UH, AND I JUST HAVE JUST A COUPLE QUICK COMMENTS, AND THEN ONE, MAYBE LITTLE IDEA OKAY. AS YOU TRANSITION. SURE. UM, I, MOST EVERYONE HERE KNOWS THAT I'M NOT RELIGIOUS. I DON'T IDENTIFY WITH ANY RELIGION, BUT I GET WHAT YOU GUYS DO. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I APPRECIATE ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE MOTIVAT MOTIVATED BY THEIR FAITH IS HOW MOTIVATED THEY ARE. AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, AND I LIKE TO PARTNER WITH PEOPLE THERE AND HERE. UH, CLEARLY YOU GUYS ARE, YOU GUYS ARE GETTING BIG FOR A REASON. WE CAN SAY THAT YOU, WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE AND, AND AS YOU UNDERSTAND IT, SO, EXCUSE ME, UM, Y'ALL ARE NOW A BIG PLAYER, UM, HERE IN DALLAS, AND ALSO YOU'RE INVOLVED IN HMIS. I HAD TO GIVE YOU A HEARTY APPLAUSE FOR THAT. UH, WE, WE WANT THAT, OF COURSE. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WITH COMMISSIONER KLATTEN HO'S QUESTION ABOUT YOUR HOURS BEING OPEN FROM EIGHT TO FOUR, [00:45:01] YOU SERVE THE NEED FOR THE SOUP KITCHEN KITCHEN. AND AS YOU KNOW, I'M SURE YOU'RE AWARE OF WHAT HAPPENS DOWNTOWN ON THE WEEKENDS. IT'S, IT'S PRETTY CHAOTIC WITH THE FEEDINGS. UM, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING WHAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THERE WITH, UM, WELL-INTENTIONED INDIVIDUALS WHO, UM, FEEL LIKE THERE'S A NEED THERE. SO, UM, JUST AS AN IDEA, UM, MAYBE THE CAMPUS, THE, THE LARGE CAMPUS OF CITY SQUARE COULD BE OPEN ON THE WEEKENDS AND WELCOME PEOPLE, UH, INDIVIDUALS AND CHURCH GROUPS WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ONE AREA WHERE, UM, THEY CAN ALL MEET AND PROVIDE FOOD AND SERVICES AT A BIG PLAYER HERE IN DALLAS THAT HAS HMIS, IT FEELS LIKE THAT'S WHERE WE'RE HEADED. WE COULD CONSOLIDATE, MAKE IT LESS SILOED, UM, AND CREATE THAT WHERE THERE IS A NEED, CREATE, FILL THAT GAP. UM, SINCE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SOUP KITCHEN THAT ISN'T TECHNICALLY OPEN ON THE WEEKENDS, AND THEN WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO FEED AND CAN WE JUST BRING THEM INTO ONE PLACE SO THAT EVERYONE CAN BE COORDINATED. IT COULD HELP THE DONOR BASE, IT COULD OF COURSE, HELP PEOPLE GET FED. IT COULD HELP HOMELESS PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY COULD GO FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR NEEDS, UM, WITH A HUGE PLAYER AND A GOOD CITY PARTNER. UM, THIS IS JUST AN IDEA HERE. YEAH. AND MY TWO MINUTES ARE UP. SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S, I'M THE LAST ONE. UM, WE'RE JUST GONNA KEEP THIS AT ROUND ONE. UM, EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. I'M SO IMPRESSED AND GRATEFUL FOR YOU. AND I KNOW THAT ALL MY COMMISSIONERS ARE HERE AS WELL. SO, UM, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER ARD, AND CONGRATULATIONS. THIS IS EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU'ALL. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO SUPPORT THIS WORK, TOO. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. NEXT ITEM, UM, THIS IS ITEM FIVE, DISCUSSION, APPROVAL OF THE CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION 2024 ANNUAL REPORT. UH, THIS DISCUSSION, OF COURSE, I'LL LEAD. SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR, UH, DRAFT OF THE 2024 ANNUAL REPORT IN FRONT OF YOU. UM, AND BEFORE WE PROCEED, I JUST WANNA WELCOME, I THINK THAT'S DR. WOODY BACK THERE. HI, DR. WOODY. YO, HI, NEW YEAR. THANK YOU. HAPPY NEW YEAR. WE HAVE ANOTHER GENTLEMAN HERE AS WELL IN THE AUDIENCE. I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU AS WELL. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UM, SO IF YOU CAN HAVE YOUR DRAFT OF ANNUAL REPORT, WHAT I'M GONNA DO, UM, GIVEN THAT THIS WAS GIVEN TO US, UM, RECENTLY, I'M JUST GONNA GO PAGE BY PAGE AND, UM, WE'LL ADDRESS, WE'LL LOOK AT IT AS A WHOLE. I'M GONNA MOVE QUICKLY THROUGH IT BECAUSE, UM, I BELIEVE OUR STOP TIME IS AT, UH, 1500 HOURS. IT'S, UH, 2 23 AT THE MOMENT. SO WE HAVE ABOUT, UM, 36 MINUTES LEFT. AND, UM, THANKS BRENDA. UM, SO I'LL MOVE QUICKLY THROUGH THE DOCUMENT, AND THEN WE'LL KIND OF BACKTRACK PAGE BY PAGE ON ANY, UH, CHANGES. AND I'LL JUST OPEN IT THE DISCUSSION PAGE BY PAGE. SO JUST, YOU'LL RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WANNA CHANGE SOMETHING ON A PAGE, AND THEN WE'LL TRY TO MAKE THAT EDIT SO WE CAN, UM, GO QUICKLY AND, AND BE CONCISE. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE QUICKLY THROUGH THE DOCUMENT. UM, WE'VE GOT OUR TITLE, OUR HEADING, I'M SORRY, OUR COVER PAGE. UM, EVERYTHING LOOKS ACCURATE. UM, WE WILL BE EDITING THE DATE FOR APPROVAL. AND, UH, NEXT PAGE IS THE CHAIR'S MEMO. AND, UM, SO, UM, IT JUST BASICALLY, UM, WHEN I WROTE THIS, I, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF STRESS A COUPLE THINGS. UH, HOPEFULLY YOU'LL HAVE TIME TO READ THROUGH IT. I DON'T, I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT NOW. UM, BUT I WANTED TO STRESS THAT, UM, GIVEN THE, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS AND HOPE REPORT THAT THIS BE DISSOLVED, THAT, UM, WE ARE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. UM, ONE OF WHICH IS, UH, ONE WORD ADHERING TO, UM, ALL OF OUR, UM, WHAT'S STIPULATED IN ARTICLE 20, IN CHAPTER EIGHT IN THE BOARD COMMISSIONS CHAPTER. BUT ALSO WE'RE SHIFTING MORE TOWARDS A LOCALIZED DISTRICT SPECIFIC ENGAGEMENT. UM, AND THIS IS MAINLY BECAUSE HOMELESSNESS LOOKS DIFFERENT ALL ACROSS DALLAS. WE ARE ALL AWARE OF THAT. UM, AND SO THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT THIS COMMISSION IS FOR THIS PAST YEAR. UM, EXCUSE ME, PARDON ME. UM, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE WE'RE GONNA BE ENGAGING WITH OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, AND THAT, AND WHEN I SAY CITIZENS, I MEAN HOUSED AND UNHOUSED. UH, SO WHEN I REFERENCE CITIZENS OF DALLAS, THAT IS, IT'S ALL INCLUSIVE IN THAT WAY. UM, IN THAT WE ARE TO BE SINGLE ISSUE COMMUNITY EXPERTS FOR ALL CITIZENS. UM, AND THEN ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH ON THIS MEMO, UM, TALKING ABOUT THE NEW ITERATION BEGAN AT THE MAY RETREAT, UM, FROM THERE, UM, WE, UM, ENACTED THE, THE THREE TASK FORCE, WHICH IS, WHICH ARE TO BUILD UP THE NEW STRATEGY OF, UH, THE SINGLE ISSUE COMMUNITY EXPERT, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THE TASK FORCE OR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, RACIAL EQUITY, AND DATA TRANSPARENCY. AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE NEEDS THAT WAS STRESSED BY COMMISSIONERS WAS SORT OF, EVERYBODY'S KIND OF FLOATING OUT THERE, DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT [00:50:01] TO DO. UM, SO, UM, THE PEER PROGRAM WAS ONE OF THOSE SORT OF HELPING ONE ANOTHER AND, AND LEARNING ABOUT ISSUES AT THE SAME TIME, ALL ACROSS HOMELESSNESS ISSUES ALL ACROSS DALLAS AND HOW UNIQUE THEY ARE, UM, WITH THE C ONE B ONE TEACH ONE PROGRAM. BUT WE'RE ALSO, UM, IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH, WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO, UM, STAY CURRENT WITH EVENTS, UM, LOCAL EVENTS AND NATIONAL EVENTS, UM, THAT ARE HAPPENING AT ALL LEVELS, UH, WITH HOMELESSNESS, UM, DOWN TO, UM, MAINTAINING, KEEPING, UM, UM, CURRENT ON THE KEY PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS, FORT WORTH, AVENUE HAMPTON, AND INDEPENDENCE. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE WE REALLY KIND OF STARTED MOVING FORWARD OR MOVING QUICKLY IN SEPTEMBER. UM, SO WE'RE ONLY REALLY ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS INTO THIS. SO, BUT WE STILL HAVE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT, UM, HERE AT THE END OF THE YEAR, UH, OR AT THE CLOSE OF 2024. UH, SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF THE PREMISE OF THE CHAIR'S MEMO, THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. AND THE NEXT PAGE IS PRETTY SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR. WE'VE GOT THE MEMO, WE HAVE THE MEMBERS, WE HAVE OUR MISSION STATEMENT, STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION, UM, THE COMMISSION, UM, PAGE SEVEN MEETINGS, AGENDAS, MINUTES, AND PRESENTATIONS. AND THEN THERE ARE THREE SEPARATE CHAPTERS, SO TO SPEAK, FOR OUR TASK FORCES. AND THEN OUR 2024 OBJECTIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. UM, THE 2025 PROPOSED OBJECTIVE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS, UH, BOARD COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS ON 15 HIGHLIGHTS OF BOARD COM, UM, HIGHLIGHTS OF BOARD COMMISSION NAME. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT IS, BUT WHEN WE GET TO THAT PAGE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT IT. AND I'M, I'M NOT SURE IF EVERYBODY REMEMBERS, BUT LAST YEAR OUR, UH, REPORT, I THINK IT WAS LIKE A HUNDRED OVER A HUNDRED PAGES, THERE WERE SOME MORE, UM, STUFF SPIKED IN THERE WITH THE APPENDIX AND WHATNOT WITH THE HOPE REPORT. UM, IT WAS MUCH LONGER, BUT, UM, ALL RIGHT. SO NEXT PAGE NUMBER FOUR. LET'S LOOK CAREFULLY AT THESE. MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL LISTED, UM, UM, CORRECTLY WITH OUR NAMES SPELLED CORRECTLY. SO IF EVERYONE CAN TAKE A MINUTE, UH, TO READ THROUGH, FIND YOUR NAME, UH, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR, UH, MEMBER SENSE IS AT LEAST ACCURATE TO MONTH AND YEAR, AND THAT YOUR REAPPOINTMENT, IF YOU RECALL, YOU WERE REAPPOINTMENT, YOU HAD TO REAPPLY, YOU WERE REAPPOINTED, IT WENT TO, UH, FULL COUNSEL. THEY VOTED ON IT, IF YOU REMEMBER THAT MONTH AND DATE. UM, JUST TRY TO DOGGY THIS IF YOU THINK ANY OF THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED. UM, OKAY. GOOD QUESTION. OKAY, SURE. WHERE OUR, I KNOW OUR VICE CHAIR RESIGNED IN DECEMBER, BUT IT'S SHOWING VACANT AS OF 12, SEVENTH, 23. SHOULD IT BE 24? UM, SO, OR IS THAT A DIFFERENT DATE? OH, THAT'S THE REAPPOINTED. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. UH, VACANT 24. SO, SO 24, YOU SEE THAT? YEAH. 22. THANK YOU SO MUCH, UHHUH. . OKAY. UM, SO YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. AND IF, DO YOU GUYS WANNA JUST TALK PAGE BY PAGE NOW, OR I WAS GONNA JUST GO THROUGH THE DOCUMENT AND THEN GO PAGE BY PAGE. SURE, SURE. WE WILL DO, WE CAN DO THAT THIS WAY. YOU WANNA TALK IN YOUR MICROPHONE? THAT'S OKAY. YOU'RE APPOINTED ON A CERTAIN DATE IN A CERTAIN YEAR. HOW LONG IS THE TERM? UM, YOUR TERM BEGINS AROUND, UM, SEPTEMBER. UM, I KNOW THE REAPPOINTMENTS HAPPEN AFTER, UH, NEW, YOU KNOW, WE GET A NEW COUNSEL, WHICH IS JUNE OF EVERY ODD YEAR, UHHUH . SO, AND THEN COUNSEL'S OFF IN JULY. AND THEN THE REAPPOINTMENTS BEGIN, THE APPLICATION PROCESS BEGINS LIKE JULY, AUGUST. AND BY THE TIME PEOPLE GET REAPPOINTED, IT'S ABOUT SEPTEMBER. SO, UM, TWO YEAR, IT'S A, IT'S A TWO YEAR TERM. AND THEN YOU'RE IN HOLDOVER, HOLDOVER STATUS. YOUR TERM, YOU KNOW, THE HOLDOVER STATUS GOES, I THINK NINE MONTHS AFTER YOUR APPOINTMENT DATE, I BELIEVE. IS THAT CORRECT? RANITA? . THAT IS MADAM CHAIR. IF, IF A COUNCIL MEMBER, WELL, IF A BOARD MEMBER HAS REACHED THEIR TURN AND THEIR TERM LIMITED, A COUNCIL CAN REAPPOINT SOMEONE, AND THE, THE COUNCIL, THE BOARD MEMBER IS NOT IN HOLDOVER STATUS. SO YOU HAVE A YEAR TERM, IF YOU'RE TERM LIMITED, YOU KNOW, UH, AND WE ARE FOUR. YOU'RE, YOU'RE DONE. YEAH. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO I'M, ANY CHANGES TO THIS DOCUMENT? REMEMBER, CHECK YOUR NAME, CHECK YOUR, UM, APPOINTMENT, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE, IF YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC VERSUS SOMEONE WHO EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS VERSUS, UM, A REPRESENTATIVE OF A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION. THAT'S KINDA WHAT I WANTED TO ASK. OKAY. UM, DO I NEED TO DECLARE THAT ON MINE? UM, WELL, THERE'S A LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS FOR THAT. OKAY. SO I BELIEVE THERE'S TWO FOR EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS AND TWO FOR FAITH-BASED. AND ACTUALLY, I, I [00:55:01] THINK THAT'S ON THE NEXT PAGE. UM, I, I'M SORRY, LET ME JUST JUMP AHEAD REAL QUICK AND DOUBLE CHECK. SO IF YOU GO TO PAGE SIX, UM, STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION, IT'S 15 MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE CHAIRS APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR, AND ONE MEMBER APPOINTED BY EACH OF THE 14 DISTRICTS. UM, TWO MEMBERS MUST HAVE PAST OR PRESENT EXPERIENCE AS A HOMELESS PERSON. AND AT AT LEAST ONE MEMBER MUST REPRESENT A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION. IT DOESN'T SAY THAT THAT'S LIMITED. UM, AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE THAT, AND WHICH I UNDERSTAND, IF YOU WANNA, LIKE, WE JUST NEED TO SAY WHAT I DO. MADAM CHAIR, UM, YES, NITA, THE APPOINTMENT IS MADE BY COUNCIL. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO YOU, OKAY. THAT'S OKAY. UM, YOU COULD CHECK IN WITH, UH, UH, YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER ON THAT IF YOU'D LIKE, UH, TO CHANGE YOUR DESIGNATION. JUST A POINT OF CLARIFICATION. WHEN YOU APPOINTED TO THE BOARD, YOUR, YOUR QUALIFICATIONS SLOT YOU INTO WHETHER YOU'RE APPOINTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC OR ONE THAT HAS EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS. AND THAT IS WHAT IS GOING TO BE, UH, THAT'S YOUR QUALIFICATION. THAT'S WHAT, UM, APPOINTED YOU TO THE BOARD. THERE'S NO CHANGES UNLESS YOU, YOU, YOU RESUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION AND IT GOES TO COUNCIL. AND THE COUNCIL VOTED ON YOUR NEW APPOINTMENT AND, AND QUALIFICATIONS. OKAY. UM, I HAVE SOME JUST ONE SUGGESTION, RENITA, TO CHANGE, JUST AS JUST A TECHNICAL EDIT UNDER, UM, SILHAN, IF YOU COULD PUT A BELIEVE YOUR GENERAL PUBLIC. AND THEN, UM, UNDER MINE IT SAYS, I WAS REAPPOINTED IN MARCH OF 2024, AND I GUESS THAT WOULD BE THE CHAIR APPOINTMENT. UM, 'CAUSE MY REAPPOINTMENT WAS IN, UM, AUGUST OF 2023. THANK YOU. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED IN ANY WAY. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. OKAY. UH, THE EDITS WILL BE MADE BASED ON THE RECORDING OF THE CITY SECRETARY'S OKAY. OFFICE. AND I'LL RELOOK AT THOSE. UM, SURE. DATES AND QUALIFICATIONS. THANK YOU. OKAY, GREAT. ANY OTHER CHANGES TO PAGE FOUR? EVERYBODY'S NAMES ARE SPELLED CORRECTLY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UH, PAGE FIVE, MISSION STATEMENT. UM, THIS IS USUALLY JUST DUPLICATED FROM THE PRIOR YEARS, SO NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED. THIS IS ACTUALLY IN OUR BOOK, OUR HANDBOOK, UH, THE MISSION STATEMENT, THE PURPOSE, MISSION STATEMENT, DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS, WHICH EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF, SHOULD HAVE MEMORIZED AT THIS POINT. UM, MAYBE I SHOULD SET IT TO SONG FOR NEXT TIME. UM, GUIDING PRINCIPLES. UM, ALL CITIZENS MUST HAVE A VOICE, BEST PRACTICES, DIVERSE POPULATIONS, COMMUNITY-WIDE CO, UH, COOPERATION. UM, IF, IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THAT BEFORE, YOU SHOULD. UM, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND. IT'S GOOD READING. IT'S JUST SOME NICE LITTLE REMINDERS OF, UM, WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO. UH, STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION. PAGE SIX. UH, THIS IS PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO DASH 1 48. OF COURSE, IT LISTS THE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW WE'RE MADE UP. AND THEN WE HAD, WE HAVE A PARAGRAPH ON WHEN, UH, CHAIR DAVID KING WAS APPOINTED BY, UH, MAYOR JOHNSON AND WAS IN HOLD OF HER STATUS. AND THEN I WAS APPOINTED ON MARCH 24TH, AND THAT'S 2024. UH, RANITA. MM-HMM . AS CHAIR. AND IS, OKAY. AND ARE WE CHANGING, ARE WE, ARE WE CHANGING THE DATE FORMAT? UM, IT SAYS UNTIL RIGHT RESIGNATION ON DECEMBER 19TH, 2024. UM, DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE THAT TO WRITTEN OUT? DECEMBER 19 COMMA 2024 RENITA? JUST SO WE'RE, UM, SORRY, JUST SILLY LITTLE EDITS HERE THAT I'M, YES, WE CAN, WE CAN, UH, MAKE ANY EDITS. OKAY. THAT'S RECORDED. OKAY. GREAT. UM, AND THEN NEXT PARAGRAPH, CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION RECEIVE STAFF SUPPORT. I WOULD LOVE TO LIST A LOT MORE. I, I SO APPRECIATE RENITA GRIGGS. I SO APPRECIATE ANGIE CILLO. UM, CAN WE ADD, OF COURSE, AMANDA, UM, MARCY JACKSON. OH MY GOSH. I'M GONNA HAVE TO REMEMBER. MADAM CHAIR. YES, MA'AM. WE'RE, WE'RE THE, THE STAFF THAT SUPPORT THE BOARD IS ASSIGNED TO THE BOARD. SO WE HAVE OTHER STAFF THAT'S UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF DIRECTOR CROSSLEY. CAN, CAN WE ADD, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW, UM, WE WILL, WE, I WILL ASK, UH, DIRECTOR CROSSLEY THAT'S REQUIRED, BUT WE UNDERSTAND YOUR SENTIMENTS, AND WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. OKAY. IF, IF WE CANNOT ADD NAMES, AND PERHAPS THE, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF COMMISSIONERS WOULD BE IN AGREEMENT HERE. IF WE COULD JUST ADD A, A STATEMENT OF, THANK YOU, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO'S HELPED US. THAT CAN BE, UM, IN YOUR, UH, EXCEPTIONS, UH, BUT THE STRUCTURE IS WHAT IT IS. BUT YOU CAN PUT AN APPENDIX AND MAKE SOME SPECIAL COMMENTS. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, [01:00:01] ANY, UM, ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, UH, FOR PAGE SIX FROM COMMISSIONERS HERE. OKAY. UM, I DON'T ANYBODY IN VIRTUAL LAND? OKAY. UH, WE'RE ON PAGE SEVEN. CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION MEETINGS, AGENDAS, MINUTES, AND PRESENTATIONS. UM, WERE HELD ONCE A MONTH AND WE'VE GOT THE DATES AND THE TIMES, UM, AND THE COURTS. UH, OKAY. CAN I, UM, COMM, UH, COMMISSIONER SOHAN. THANK YOU. UM, CAN YOU TELL ME, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE IT WRITTEN DOWN ANYWHERE, WHAT HAPPENED IN MARCH AND JULY THAT WE CANCELED? UM, JULY'S ALWAYS A MONTH OFF. YEAH. JULY IS OFF. IT'S COUNCIL RECESS IN MARCH. UM, UH, MARCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SPRING BREAK. UM, I, I DON'T BELIEVE WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN A, WE WERE ABLE TO GET A QUORUM BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE ON VACATION. GOTCHA. UM, ANY, I, I PERSONALLY ON THIS PAGE WOULD LIKE TO, UM, LIST THE, UM, THE SPECIFIC PRESENTATIONS AND WHO PRESENTED, AND I CAN GO IN AND DO THAT MAD CHAIR, UM, RENITA? YES. UH, IF YOU WOULD, UH, LOOK AT THE LINK THAT IS, UH, ON THE, UM, PAGE, YEAH. LINKS TO REGISTRAR WHERE YOU CAN GET YOUR MINUTES, YOUR AGENDAS, AND YOUR PRESENTATION. THAT'S WHY WHEN I COMPILED THIS DOCUMENT, I DIDN'T ADD ALL OF THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S PUBLIC INFORMATION. AND YOU CAN GO TO THE LINK AS WELL AS, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT I WILL ADD THE WEBPAGE THAT HAVE ALL THE, THE CITIZENS HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION DETAILS, THE AUDIO AND ALL OF THAT. SO RATHER THAN HAVING A LOT OF PAGES, THEY COULD, UH, THEY CAN GO DIRECTLY TO THE LINK AND HAVE THAT, HAVE THOSE DOCUMENTS AND AUDIOS ASSESSABLE. THANK YOU. WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION. UM, I STILL FEEL LIKE I WOULD JUST LIKE A LITTLE BLURB OF WHAT WAS DISCUSSED. UM, I'M NOT A BLURB, BUT, UM, A BULLETED POINT, FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK WE DO BASICALLY TWO MAJOR PRESENTATIONS, UM, OR DISCUSSIONS PER, PER MEETING. 'CAUSE THAT'S, UM, BEST WE CAN DO FOR THE TIME ALLOTTED. SO IF I WERE TO MAYBE GO AND DO THAT AND SEE IF I COULD KEEP IT CONSOLIDATED TO ONE OR TWO PAGES, UM, WOULD THERE BE ANY, UM, ANYONE OPPOSED TO THAT? OR HOW DO YOU FEEL? DO YOU LIKE THE LINK, KEEP THE LINK WITHOUT THE LISTED PRESENTATIONS? OR WOULD YOU LIKE FOR ME TO GO AND TAKE A LOOK AND, AND JUST ADD THE MAJOR PRESENTATIONS WITH WHO PRESENTED? SO I'M SEEING HEAD NODS, BUT, UM, CAN WE ADDING MAKES SENSE FOR ME ADDING THE BULLETED? THAT WAS COMMISSIONER FLORES. SO LET'S JUST TAKE A QUICK VOTE. UM, MOTION TO ADD, UM, MAJOR PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS, AND VOTING ITEMS, UM, TO PAGE SEVEN, UH, PROVIDED BY CHAIR GARNER ANY SECOND? I SECOND. OKAY. SO, UH, WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADD MAJOR PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS, AND VOTING ITEMS TO PAGE SEVEN, UM, AS SUCCINCT AS POSSIBLE. UH, ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY. HEARING AND SEEING NONE, LET'S TAKE A VOTE OF THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED SAY NAY. OKAY. MOTION PASSES. SO WRITE THIS DOWN. I'LL KEEP IT VERY HIGH LEVEL. ALL RIGHT. NEXT PAGE. UH, TASK FORCE. WE HAVE THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT TASK FORCE. UH, COMMISSIONER HALLOCK HAS A PRIOR ENGAGEMENT, WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT. UM, WE HOPE HE'S DOING WELL. WE MISS HIM TODAY. UH, THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS ARE, UH, CHAIR, UH, CHAIR ICK. UM, COMMISSIONER OWENS HAS RESIGNED. AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN AND COMMISSIONER SHAN. SO HOPEFULLY, UH, COMMISSIONERS EINSTEIN AND SILHAN CAN PROVIDE INPUT ON, ON THIS PART OF THE DOCUMENT. UM, WE HAVE THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT TASK FORCE, THOSE LISTED. AND THEN WE HAVE, THE REQUEST WAS FOR MISSION GOALS AND ACHIEVEMENT. WE HAVE TWO MISSION STATEMENTS WITH OPTION ONE AND TWO. UH, WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT TASK FORCE FOR YEAR 2024 [01:05:01] AS FOLLOW FOLLOWS. AND IT IS LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY, UM, WITH SOME BULLETED ITEMS, UM, CALLED TO JOIN THE TASK FORCE. THEN WE HAVE, UM, SOME PARTICIPATION IN DISTRICT TWO WALK. UH, WE HAVE IT CREATED WITH CHAIR OWENS AND OCK, UM, EINSTEIN AND SILHAN. UM, AND THEN WE HAD SOME CHANGES. AND, UM, THEN WE HAVE THE FIRST MEETING LISTED IN OCTOBER, UM, THE FIRST DELIVERABLE REQUEST IN OCTOBER, SIGNING UP TO SPEAK. AND THEN THE COMMUNICATION SLA TO GET JUST SLA. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH THAT REAL QUICK? WHAT IS SLA? MM-HMM . OKAY. UM, SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT. OKAY. GOT IT. THANK YOU. I WRITE THAT DOWN. OKAY. UH, SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT TO GET OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OUT IS SET AT APPROXIMATELY SIX WEEKS. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE A NOVEMBER, UM, BULLETED ITEMS, AND THEN THE NEXT PAGE, CONTINUING THE CHRONOLOGICAL, UM, DISCUSSION OF THE MEETINGS. AND, UM, AND THEN JANUARY, 2025, NO, NO MEETING. UM, ANY RECOMMENDATIONS ON THIS PART OF THE, UH, ANNUAL REPORT? COMMISSIONER HAN HALL. I'M SORRY, CLAN. THAT'S OKAY. SO, SORRY. ARE, SO ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS LIKE TONIGHT WHEN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS? YES. WE'RE, AND WE'RE VOTING ON IT. YEAH. TODAY WITH THE, WELL, WE'LL BE, THERE'LL BE A VOTE TODAY WHEN WE MAKE THE, BECAUSE WE'RE MAKING THESE ADDITIONS, RIGHT? WE'RE WALKING THROUGH IT, WE'RE MAKING SOME EDITS, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA VOTE TO ACCEPT, AND THEN WE'LL DO THE WORK, AND THEN IT'LL COME BACK. UM, IT MAY BE, AND WE WILL GET TO THAT PART OF THE DISCUSSION ON THE FINAL VOTE. BUT WHAT WAS YOUR QUESTION EXACTLY? UM, IS THAT IT? CAN WE LOOK AT THIS, YOU KNOW, OFFLINE INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THIS PAGE BY PAGE? UM, OF COURSE. YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO GO PAGE BY PAGE SINCE WE RECEIVED IT SO LATE, AND I REALIZE WE'RE KIND OF GETTING LATE ON TIME, BUT I JUST WANTED TO BE, I WANTED EVERYONE TO HAVE A CHANCE TO BE DE HAVE A DEDICATED LOOK AND DISCUSSION. OKAY. SO THAT HELP. OKAY. UM, I JUST HAVE ONE RECOMMENDATION. UM, CAN WE PICK A MISSION STATEMENT? WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS. IS THERE, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU GUYS CAN JUST, YOU CAN JUST SEND IT, UH, UH, CHAT WITH YOUR CHAIR, FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE YOU WANT TO ADMIT, AND THEN JUST WE'LL CROSS THAT OUT. SO WE'LL JUST EDIT IT OUT. AND I THINK, UM, AS FAR AS THE CHRONOLOGY, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM JULY TO JANUARY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT JANUARY OF COURSE, BUT, UM, IF PERHAPS ONE OF YOU COULD, UM, JUST PUT THAT INTO MORE OF A, UM, PARAGRAPH OF ACHIEVEMENTS PERHAPS. OR IF YOU WANNA DO BULLET POINTS RATHER THAN CHRONOLOGY, THAT WAY IT FLOWS A LITTLE BETTER. THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION. NOW, IF YOU DON'T, IF YOU WANNA KEEP IT AS IS, OBVIOUSLY THAT, THAT IS ENTIRELY UP TO, TO YOU TWO AND COMM COMMISSIONER. HA. OF COURSE. OR CHAIR HAK. SO, UM, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? E EINSTEIN AND . OKAY. SO YOU'LL JUST PUNT THAT TO HIM. UM, AND THIS IS COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN. WE, UH, COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN, WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MEET IN A FEW MONTHS AND, AND WE SWITCHED CHAIRS KIND OF QUICKLY MM-HMM . UM, SO IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD JUST, UM, WHEN COMMISSIONER HAL IS BACK, IF WE COULD JUST HAVE A QUICK CHAT JUST TO MAKE SURE THE THREE OF US ARE ON THE SAME PAGE, AND THEN WE CAN LET YOU KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. OKAY? SURE. OKAY. THEN WE'LL TABLE THAT. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS SECTION? OKAY. UH, COMMISSIONER SHAN, UH, MICROPHONE, PLEASE. IT'S NOT A RECOMMENDATION, BUT, UM, IT'S AN ILLUSTRATION OF HOW WE'RE SORT OF AT THE HANDS OF PEOPLE IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, AND THAT WE HAVE TWO OR THREE ITEMS WHERE WE'RE WAITING ON US, DR. MARTIN, AND YOU CAN PUT THAT, YOU CAN JUST PUT THAT IN THE REPORT. UM, WE HAVE SOME ITEMS PENDING. OKAY. UM, YEAH, AND THERE'S NOTHING, IT'S, THESE ARE NEW. WE REALLY GOT THE BALL ROLLING. LIKE WE REALLY STARTED GETTING THE BALL ROLLING HERE FOR THIS ITERATION OF CHC, LIKE IN OCTOBER. SO I WASN'T EXPECTING EVERYONE TO MOVE MOUNTAINS. OKAY. YOU KNOW, UM, WE'RE GETTING OUR SEA LEGS. IT'S ABSOLUTELY OKAY. I'M SUPER PROUD OF EVERYONE AND ALL THE PROGRESS THEY MADE, UM, THIS YEAR. AND, AND, AND THAT'S OKAY TO PUT THAT STATEMENT THERE. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO PAGE. IT IS 2:46 PM DO WE HAVE THE ROOM TILL THREE JUANITA, OR IS IT THREE 30 SINCE OUR MEETING WAS SCHEDULED? 30 MINUTES LATER. [01:10:02] OKAY. GOOD. ALL RIGHT. PAGE 10. TASK FORCE DATA DRIVES INITIATIVES. AND, UH, UM, REAL QUICK, JUST ADD THAT S DATA DRIVES INITIATIVES. OKAY. WE HAVE, UM, THE DATA DRIVES INITIATIVE, TASK FORCE MEMBERS. WE HAVE, UH, TWO, TWO CHAIRS, UH, DISTRICT ONE AND 11. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE MYSELF, MATT, JACOB, AND DORY WRIGHT AS MEMBERS. UM, YOU HAVE A MISSION STATEMENT. WE HAVE MEETING DATES LISTED AND, UM, 2024 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES LISTED. AND THAT IS DOWN TO ONE PAGE. SO I'LL HIT THE HIGHLIGHTS. UH, MISSION STATEMENT, STANDARD DRIVES, INITIATIVES, TASK FORCE STRIVES. THERE'S AN R. WHAT'S UP WITH THESE? R'S AND S'S COME ON. UM, STRIVES TO OBSERVE, CONSOLIDATE, AND ASSESS CITY OF DALLAS HOMELESSNESS DATA AND REPORTING ORGANIZED BY COUNCIL, DISTRICT AND SUBJECT MATTER TO ENSURE ALIGNMENT OF CITY SERVICES TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY, QUALITY, AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CITYWIDE RESPONSE TO HOMELESSNESS. AND THEN WE HAVE MEETING DATES. UM, I JUST HAVE A RECOMMENDATION TO ADD THE YEAR OF, UH, SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2024, UM, PROVIDER WITH FOOD, HEALTHCARE. ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MEETING DATES? YES. UH, COMMISSIONER CLINTON HALL. UM, I LIKE THE STYLE OF HOW THE RACIAL EQUITY TASK FORCE DID IT AND GOALS, ACHIEVEMENTS, NEXT STEPS. SO I WILL REVISE THAT IF YOU KNOW EVERYBODY ELSE ON MY THAT THEY, TO SORT OF REFLECT THAT LITTLE MORE THAT, YOU KNOW, BULLET POINT, IT'S A LITTLE EASIER TO SEE. OKAY. I LIKE THAT. YEAH. ANY OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS FROM BILL COMMISSIONERS? COMMISSIONER WRIGHT? THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER GARNER. THANK YOU. . UM, WOULD IT BE HELPFUL TO, BECAUSE I, I ACTUALLY HAD, YOU KNOW, SOME FAMILY STUFF COME UP AND I MISSED A COUPLE OF THESE MEETINGS, BUT WOULD IT BE HELPFUL TO LIST WHO IS IN ATTENDANCE AT EACH MEETING? NO. I, I DON'T THINK THAT'S NECESSARY. THINK YEAH. YEAH. GREAT POINT. COMMISSIONER SILHAN, YOUR LIGHT'S ON. I'M SORRY, I DO HAVE A QUESTION, BUT IT'S JUST BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THE ACRONYM. WHAT'S THE D-D-I-T-F DATA DRIVES INITIATIVES? TASK FORCE, IT'S PRONOUNCED. HELLO? WE JUST CALL IT . . OKAY. SO JUANITA, DO WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE ON THAT CHANGE? NO. OKAY. GREAT. OKAY. ANY OTHER ADDITIONS? ALICIA SECRETIONS, DELETIONS? NO. HEY, CAN I LOOK OUT IN VIRTUAL LAND? ANY, ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS PAGE? DECEMBER 10TH. I MEAN, SO NUMBER 10. SORRY, IT'S NOT DECEMBER ANYMORE. JUST HOLLER IF YOU'RE, TURN YOUR MIC ON AND HOLLER. OKAY. UM, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO PAGE 11. THIS IS THE TASK FORCE FOR RACIAL EQUITY. WE HAVE ONIC BROWN AS CHAIR, UH, FROM DISTRICT SEVEN. AND THEN WE HAVE JASMINE. IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR NAME IS SPELLED DIFFERENTLY THAN BEFORE. OKAY. SO WE'RE GONNA X OUT THAT E UM, REVEREND MITCHELL BOONE AND SOROYA SANTOS. AND WE HAVE THE RACIAL EQUITY MISSION GOALS, ACHIEVEMENTS 2024. AND GOALS 2025. I LOVE THIS LAYOUT. UM, WE HAVE THE, IS THIS THE, WHAT I'M READING NOW, THE BULLETED POINTS? UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN. IS THIS THE MISSION STATEMENT? I'M TRYING TO LOOK. OKAY. UH, NO, I THINK THAT'S A PART OF OUR GOALS. GOALS. OKAY. DID YOU HAVE A MISSION STATEMENT? I GO WITH THE MISSION STATEMENT, THOUGH. I THOUGHT I DID IT. IT WOULD BE AT THE TOP. SO YOU WANNA, YOU WANNA SPIKE IN A MISSION STATEMENT FOR US? YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL GET A MISSION STATEMENT IN. OKAY. OKAY. AND SO THIS HEADING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW, RACIAL EQUITY MISSION GOALS, ACHIEVEMENTS 2024, AND GOALS 2025. I'M SORRY, ACHIEVEMENT 2024 AND GOALS 2024. YEAH, I'M LOOKING AT IT NOW. IT'S DEFINITELY THAT'S NOT THE MISSION STATEMENT. YEAH, I'LL, I'LL THE MISSION STATEMENT AND I WAS LIKE, I CAN'T SEE, BUT YEAH, I GOT IT. YEAH, NO, THAT'S NOT IT. OKAY. SO THAT'S GOALS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. AND WE'LL PUT, UH, IS IT GOALS? IT'S A BRIEF OVERVIEW. JUST THE, THE GOALS, ACHIEVEMENTS OF WHAT WE WERE GONNA DO. AND THEN IT BREAKS DOWN THE ACHIEVEMENTS THAT [01:15:01] WE DID, AND THEN IT BREAKS DOWN THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACED. AND THEN OUR NEXT STEPS, BECAUSE WE WERE GETTING OUR C LEGS. SO THE ONLY THING THAT NEEDS TO BE SWAPPED OUT IS THE MISSION STATEMENT AT THE TOP. TOP. OKAY. UM, CAN, I GUESS IF YOU WANNA GET THAT DONE AND, UM, I'LL GET THAT OVER TO RENITA. OKAY, COOL. I'VE BEEN ON VACATION, SO WE, WE PROBABLY CALLED IT EARLIER. 'CAUSE MS. RENITA'S, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT MY EMAIL AND SHE DEFINITELY ALREADY SENT ME AN EMAIL. SO THAT WAS ON ME. I SENT THIS AND I, I LEFT Y'ALL, I'M SORRY, BUT I'M BACK. I'M GONNA GET IT DONE TODAY. WELCOME BACK. IT'S ALL GOOD. OKAY. UM, ANY COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS HERE FOR PAGE 11? RACIAL EQUITY TASK FORCE COMMISSIONER SILHAN MICROPHONE ON? OKAY. UM, I WAS AN EDITOR AT ONE TIME FOR A MAGAZINE, SO I CATCH EVERYTHING. SO, UM, THE ACHIEVEMENTS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY BROAD WITH NO EXAMPLES. SO ESTABLISHED PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. I THINK EVERY ONE OF US, EVERY ONE OF OUR TEAMS COULD SAY THAT THAT WAS PART OF WHAT WE WERE DOING. AND, UM, ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE ENCAMPMENTS. AND I'D LOVE TO KNOW HOW MANY INCREASED VISIBILITY OF RACIAL DISPARITIES THROUGH COMMUNITY OUTREACH. HOW DID YOU DO THAT? SO THOSE, THOSE WOULD BE MY COMMENTS. 'CAUSE IT'S VERY GENERIC. OKAY. UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN, WERE YOU ABLE TO HEAR COMMISSIONER SHAN'S RECOMMENDATIONS? I HEARD HER. OKAY. OKAY. ANY COMMENT ON THAT? YOU'RE WELCOME TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK FROM HER COMMENT IF YOU'D LIKE. OH, NO, NO, I'M JUST LISTENING. OKAY, GREAT. UM, I, I THINK, UM, COMMISSIONER ILHAN HAS A POINT. SO IF YOU JUST WANNA MAYBE LIST A COUPLE LOCAL, LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, UM, AND YOU COULD MAYBE LIST SOME, UM, BLOCK LEVEL, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT THE SPECIFIC ADDRESS FOR HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS. UM, MAYBE JUST THE GENERAL AREA WOULD BE GREAT. UM, AND, UH, I THINK THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS AND I THINK THEY WOULD DEFINITELY MAKE A REALLY GOOD REPORT FOR RACIAL EQUITY. EVEN BETTER. UM, ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PAGE 11? RACIAL EQUITY TASK FORCE? OKAY, MOVING ON. IT'S 2 53. IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO PUT A MOTION ON THE TABLE TO EXTEND THE MEETING. JUST BE THINKING ABOUT THAT NOW. UM, SO WE ARE AT FISCAL YEAR 2024. OBJECTIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PAGE 12. SO IF YOU RECALL FROM OUR A**L REPORT LAST YEAR, UM, THAT, UM, SAVOIA, MYSELF, GA AND ANGELA WORKED ON, UM, A LIST OF 2024 GOALS THAT ALIGNED WITH THIS STRATEGY OF, UM, YOU KNOW, BEING MORE OF A COMMUNITY SINGLE ISSUE, COMMUNITY EXPERT, EXPERT. UM, I PULLED FROM THAT AND THEN, UM, JUST KIND OF HIT SOME HIGHLIGHTS. IT'S VERY HIGH LEVEL AND BASIC. UM, AND HOPEFULLY EVERYONE WILL READ THROUGH THIS AND AGREE THAT WE ENSURED THAT OUR ADVISORY DUTIES, UM, STUCK TO THE DALLAS CITY CODE CHAPTER EIGHT IN UH, 20. WE SAW THAT OFTEN. AND, UM, AND THIS IS OF COURSE IN ALIGNMENT WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WE WERE CALLED FOR OUR DISSOLUTION AND THERE WAS AN AUDIT PERFORMED THAT SAID THAT WE WEREN'T ADHERING TO THOSE RULES. AND, UM, WE MADE A CONCERTED EFFORT TO DO THAT THIS YEAR. UH, WE ALSO HAD A JOINT MEETING WITH DALLAS AREA PARTNERSHIP, UM, AND DISCUSSED THAT VERY THING, ELIMINATING REDUNDANT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES, WHICH WAS A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE HOPE REPORT. UM, WE HAD A RETREAT FOCUSED ON UNDERSTANDING HOMELESSNESS FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE, INCLUDING TRAINING ON GOVERNANCE, COMMUNICATION, AND EXPERTISE DEVELOPMENT. AND THIS WAS FROM WE HEAR GETTING FEEDBACK, HEARING FROM THE COMMISSIONERS THAT EVERYONE KIND OF FELT LIKE THEY DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. SO WE TRY TO SHIFT GEARS ON THAT. UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COMMISSIONERS WERE SAYING OVER AND OVER IS THAT, WELL, WE REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING. UH, WE FELT LIKE WE WERE KIND OF FLOATING. AND SO THE P THE PEER SUPPORT AND ONBOARDING PROGRAMS WITH THE C ONE B ONE TEACH ONE, AND THE ONBOARDING HANDBOOK OF COURSE, WAS TO HELP WITH THAT. UM, WE REVIEWED REPORTS RELATED TO ENCAMPMENT DECOMMISSIONING CLEANINGS AND ENSURED ALL DISTRICTS ARE ENGAGED IN OUTREACH WITH BIWEEKLY HEART REPORT EMAILS. AND, UM, DID A TIFF REPORT, UM, THAT IS BEING MORE OF A HANDS-ON KNOW YOUR DISTRICT. THAT WAS THE NUMBER ONE GOAL WAS COMMISSIONERS KNOW THEIR DISTRICT THAT WAS PART OF THAT. UM, AND OF COURSE REVIEWING PLANS, PROGRAMS AND PILOTS FOR INLET WEATHER SHELTER PART TEAM, THE SANCTIONED STREET FEEDING EVENT. THAT WAS ALSO A SINGULAR GOAL ON THE, UM, 2024, UM, WE, WE RECEIVED SOMEWHAT REGULAR UPDATES. I BELIEVE WE RECEIVED, RECEIVED THREE ON THE TEMPORARY AND SHORT TERM AND ALTERNATE HOUSING, WHICH IS A BUDGET GOAL AND, AND CITY COUNCIL GOAL. UM, I THINK, I BELIEVE IT WAS [01:20:01] FIRST PROPOSED IN 2023 BUDGET DISCUSSIONS. UM, WE'VE BEEN A PART OF THAT PROCESS. UM, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN SAYING, TALKING ABOUT THE POINT NICK TIME COUNT FOR A COUPLE MONTHS TRYING TO GET COMMISSIONERS TO, UM, ENGAGE THEIR, UH, CONSTITUENCY, UH, THEIR DISTRICT CONSTITUENCY TO GET MORE INVOLVEMENT THERE. UM, WE'VE GOT REGULAR REVIEW AND ADVISEMENT ON THE HOUSING PROJECTS, UM, AND WE ADVISE ON HOW WELL WE LISTEN TO AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON, UM, THE REAL TIME RAPID REHOUSING, UM, WITH THE HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM QUARTERLY REPORT THAT WAS PROVIDED BY HOUSING FORWARD. UM, AND REAL QUICK, RENITA, DID I GET THAT, UM, ACRONYM CORRECT? NOW I KNOW IT'S BEEN CHANGED SEVERAL TIMES. IS IT THE REALTIME RAPID REHOUSING WRITTEN AS I WROTE IT, THE RTRH? 'CAUSE IT USED TO BE THE D-T-R-R-H SOMETHING. IS THAT WHAT IT IS? IT'S NO LONGER CALLED THE DALLAS REALTIME ENROLLMENT. YES, IT WAS THE DALLAS REALTIME RAPID REHOUSING INITIATIVE, WHICH IS A MOUTHFUL. SO IT CHANGED TO THE REALTIME REHOUSING INITIATIVE. OKAY. AND IS IT REAL DOT OR IS IT JUST REAL? IT USED TO BE. NOW IT'S JUST REAL ALL CAPS. OKAY. AND IS REALTIME ONE WORD? NO. USED TO BE ONE WORD. IT'S REALTIME REHOUSING. RTR. BUT IS REALTIME ONE WORD OR IS IT REAL SPACE TIME? REAL SPACE TIME. OKAY. YEP. THAT'S WHAT MY BRAIN DOES GUYS. . OKAY. UM, ADDRESS ONGOING DISTRICT SPECIFIC HOMELESSNESS CONCERNS THROUGH, AND THIS IS PART OF OUR MENTORING PROGRAM, C ONE B ONE, TEACH ONE FRAMEWORK AND THE NEW TASK FORCES, WHICH ARE GOING TO COURSE, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, DRIVE WELL, WHAT WE DO HERE. UH, ONCE WE GET THOSE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE, LIKE I SAID, SEA LEGS NOW AND WE'RE REALLY GETTING THAT GOING THIS YEAR. UM, WE REVIEWED THE SUPREME COURT RULINGS AND STATE LEVEL RESPONSES TO ENCAMPMENT CLEARANCE IN CONTEXT OF CHANGING NATIONAL, NATIONAL POLICY AFFECTING THE LOCAL LEVEL. SO WE WERE MINDFUL OF CURRENT EVENTS AND HOW THAT AFFECTED US. UM, AND WE'RE NOW WORKING ON THE CHC ANNUAL REPORT ENSURING THAT ALL TASKS AND PRIORITIES ARE REFLECTED IN THE YEARS ACCOMPLISHMENTS, UH, SYNOPSIS. THESE ONGOING ACTIVITIES ENSURED THAT 2024 GOALS WERE MET AND THAT THE COMMISSION REMAINS A STRONG ACTIVE ADVOCATE FOR EFFECTIVE AND EQUITABLE HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS. UM, BEFORE I OPEN THE FLOOR FOR DISCUSSION OF THIS PAGE, CAN I GET A MOTION TO EXPEND EXTEND THE MEETING, UM, TO, UH, 2 4 3 15? I, LET'S DO 3, 3 50. THREE 20. YEAH. OKAY. SO MOVE TO, UH, EXTEND THE CHC MEETING TO, UH, SO MOVED 3:20 PM THERE'S A SECOND BY KEYS. UH, ANY DISCUSSION? NO DISCUSSION. LET'S TAKE A VOTE. UM, PLEASE SAY, AYE, IF YOU, UH, WANT TO KEEP THIS MEETING GOING TILL THREE 20. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. THOSE OPPOSED? OKAY. NONE. OKAY. MOTION CARRIES. SO WE'RE GONNA GO TILL THREE 20. SO ANY DISCUSSION ON PAGE 12? YES. OPENING FLOOR. SO WE HAVE COMMISSIONER KOFF, WHICH GOT ON THE MIDDLE PART, UH, THE HEART REPORT, IT SAYS BIWEEKLY. THOSE ARE WEEKLY. THEY'RE WEEKLY. UH, WHERE AM I? OKAY, THANKS. SO, WEEKLY, WE'LL SCRATCH THAT. GET THAT RANITA. OKAY. UM, RANITA, DID YOU GET THAT? OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, ANY OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS? UM, ANY, ANY OF THESE 2024 ACTIONS THAT ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO ADD? BECAUSE EVERYBODY DID GREAT THIS PAST YEAR, STAYED MOTIVATED, ATTENDED WHEN YOU COULD. UM, YOU'RE ALL VERY MINDFUL OF WHAT OCCURRED. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO HAVE HIGHLIGHTED HERE THAT YOU'RE PARTICULARLY PROUD OF? ALL RIGHT. AND IF YOU ARE IN VIRTUAL LAND AND YOU WANNA ADD SOMETHING, JUST GO AHEAD AND SPEAK UP 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE YOU GUYS ON MY SCREEN AND CAN'T SEE YOU. OKAY. UM, ANY OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PAGE 12? OKAY. HEARING NONE, WE ARE GOING TO, UM, PAGE 13. THESE ARE THE FISCAL YEAR. WELL, IT SAYS FISCAL YEAR 2025, BUT DO WE WANNA SAY FISCAL YEAR 2025? SHOULDN'T BE 2024. NITA, I'M LOOKING IN YOUR DIRECTION. I KNOW YOU CAN'T SEE ANY, MY EYES ARE. WELL, SO THE, IT SAYS FISCAL YEAR 2025, BUT FISCAL YEAR IS LIKE A REALLY 2024. 2025. IT STARTS ON OCTOBER 1ST. SO IS THIS ANNUAL REPORT 2025 OR IS IT FISCAL YEAR? [01:25:05] OH, 2024 RATHER. OKAY. BUT IT SAYS FY 2025. DO WE WANT TO KEEP THAT FY IN THERE? YEAH, A 13 SHOULD, SHOULD JUST BE 20. YEAH, LET'S TAKE FISCAL YEAR OFF. OKAY. SO THESE, UM, PROPOSED OBJECTIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE A DERIVATIVE OF OUR 2024 PROPOSED OBJECTIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. UM, JUST KIND OF STRUCTURED IT MORE, UM, IN ALIGN ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED THIS YEAR BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE GOALS, UM, AND OBJECTIVES AND, BUT CAN YOU GET IT ALL DONE? RIGHT? THERE'S SOMETIMES IT'S JUST A HUGE UNDERTAKING. SO I TRIED TO PARE IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT, UM, BASED ON THE 2024 PROPOSED OBJECTIVES AND GOALS. SO AGAIN, WE HAVE, WHICH I THINK IS WORTH INCLUDING, UM, COMMISSIONERS WILL BE INFORMED AND ACTIVE IN THEIR DISTRICTS AND USING DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE, TRY TO, UM, ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, ON WHAT THOSE GOALS WOULD BE. AND YOU'RE ALL WELCOME TO READ THAT. UM, I'M TRYING TO BE MINDFUL OF TIME HERE. I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE WANNA JUST GRANT GLANCE THROUGH IT REAL QUICKLY. UM, AND THEN THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE COMMISSIONERS WILL BE KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ENGAGED. OKAY. UM, AND COMMISSIONERS WILL BE KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ENGAGED. UM, DYNAMIC ONBOARDING AND MENTORING PROCESSES, WE WANNA KEEP THAT UP. EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE EVERYONE'S NUMBER AND FEEL COMFORTABLE REACHING OUT TO ANYONE. I WOULD HOPE ANYONE CAN TEXT OR CALL ME, AND I WILL DEFINITELY ENGAGE WITH YOU. I WANT EVERYONE TO FEEL LIKE THEY'RE, UM, THAT I'M RESPONSIVE AND THAT WE'RE ALL RESPONSIVE. UM, OF COURSE, BRING A RIDE. RIDE WIDE RANGE OF EXPERTS, STAKEHOLDERS AND RESIDENTS. UH, CURATE AND CONSOLIDATE VALUABLE RESOURCES TO KEEP US INFORMED AND INSPIRED. UH, DIVE DEEP INTO IMPACTFUL TOPICS. CURRENT EVENTS, ENCAMPMENT, DECOMMISSIONING, PIT COUNT, RESPONSIBLE TREAT, STREET, CHARITY, HOMELESS MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION SYSTEMS. CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE DIALOGUE THAT HELPS ONE ANOTHER AS WE ABSORB CITY PROCESSES, UH, COMMISSIONERS WILL EVALUATE CITY PROGRAMS, PILOTS AND INITIATIVES. SO ANYTHING NEW WE'RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT. UM, AND OF, OF COURSE, ANYTHING ONGOING WE SHOULD WANT TO HEAR ABOUT AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR ABOUT. UM, REVIEW AND AMPLIFY PROGRAMS LIKE GIVE RESPONSIBLY, DART AND RIGHT CARE, EXPLORE ZONING CHANGES THAT IT COULD UNLOCK NEW OPPORTUNITIES. THOSE ARE LEFT OVER FROM LAST YEAR. GOALS 2024 GOALS. UM, CONTINUE TO ADVISE ON RAPID REHOUSING. OF COURSE, THAT'S OUR REALTIME REHOUSING, WHICH I'M GONNA EDIT THAT. UM, FOCUS ON TEMPORARY HOUSING, UH, DEVELOPMENT. SO THIS IS A NEW GOAL. UM, IT IS A GOAL OF CITY COUNCIL. IT IS A GOAL OF HHS. IT IS ON, IT IS IN THE PROCESS. UM, THE TEMPORARY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IF YOU REMEMBER OUR, UM, BRIDGE TO HOUSING STABILITY PRESENTATION, I BELIEVE IT WAS, WHAT, EIGHT WEEKS OR SOMETHING. UM, AND, UM, I KNOW THAT COUNCIL MEMBER JESSE MORENO HAD TALKED ABOUT HAVING HAD LIKE AN INTERMEDIARY PLACE TO GO TO WHILE PEOPLE ARE, UM, IN PLACE WAITING FOR HOUSING DURING THE DECOMMISSIONING PROCESS THROUGH, UM, HOUSING FORWARDS, REAL-TIME REHOUSING. SO WE WANTED A PLACE TO HAVE FOR THEM TO GO. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS. UM, THAT'S WHAT THIS ONE IS, AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO FOCUS ON THAT, UM, FOR THIS YEAR TO HELP MAKE THAT A REALITY. UM, ADVOCATE FOR HOMELESSNESS POLICY IN UNMET AREAS. THIS IS A CONTINUATION, OF COURSE, COURSE OF WHAT WAS PROPOSED LAST YEAR FOR OUR GOALS. AND THAT IS PART OF YOU BEING A SINGLE ISSUE COMMUNITY EXPERT. KNOWING YOUR DISTRICT, KNOWING WHERE YOUR HOTSPOTS ARE, UM, KNOWING WHERE YOUR NEEDS ARE, KNOWING WHAT TYPES OF, YOU KNOW, PREDOMINANTLY YOU HAVE UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS IN CREEK BEDS. OKAY, CAN WE DEVELOP POLICY FOR THAT? UM, YOU HAVE SINGLE PERSON SLEEPING ON A CORNER, UM, WHO DOESN'T REALLY MOVE. AND WE NEED TO HAVE, WE NEED TO START FOCUSING ON MOVING, YOU KNOW, THE NEEDLE ON THOSE TYPES OF HOMELESSNESS ISSUES FOR YOUR DISTRICT. UM, SO THAT'S WHAT THIS NUMBER SEVEN IS FOR. AND THEN, UM, ENCOURAGE REG REGIONAL COLLABORATION. I FEEL LIKE THE CITY IS REALLY NOW DOING GREAT ON THAT. PEOPLE AS YOU KNOW, UNDERSTAND THAT HOMELESSNESS IS EVERYWHERE. AND NOW I THINK EVERY CITY IS STARTING TO TAKE NOTICE AND DEVELOP POLICY. UM, I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH ALL OF THE, UM, WARMING SHELTERS AND OVERNIGHT SHELTERS DURING THE INCLEMENT WEATHER THAT WASN'T [01:30:01] JUST CITY OF DALLAS SPECIFIC. UM, AND I THINK THAT IS BECAUSE DALLAS TAKES THE LEAD ON THAT AND OTHER CITIES ARE TAKING NOTICE AND GOING, WE GOTTA DO THIS TOO. SO, UM, THE REGIONAL COLLABORATION, WE NEED TO CONTINUE THAT. THAT'S WHY IT'S INSPIRE NORTH TEXAS MUNICIPALITIES TO CONTINUE HOMELESSNESS POLICY. UH, NUMBER NINE, REVIEW THROUGH THE LENS OF RACIAL EQUITY. AND THIS IS FOR OUR, UM, EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER AND ACKNOWLEDGE, AND SHOULD ALWAYS BE TOP OF MIND THAT FOR THE UNSHELTERED POPULATION, IT IS ROUGHLY 70% IS, UM, BLACK AMERICAN. SO THROUGH OUR TASK FORCE RACIAL EQUITY PROCESSES AND, UH, INITIATIVES WILL BE EVALUATED THROUGH THAT LENS AND WE ALL TAKE NOTICE AND REMEMBER THAT AND THEN APPLY IT AND ADVOCATE FOR IT. SO FOR OUR NEXT STEPS, REFINE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO ALIGN WITH DISTRICT SPECIFIC GOALS, ENSURING THE COMMISSION'S IMPACT IS FELT AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL. AND THEN REVIEW AND REVISE CHC BYLAWS. UH, SINCE WE'VE TAKEN A PIVOT WITH THIS COMMISSION AND IT'S GOING IN A NEW DIRECTION, UM, WE'RE PROBABLY DUE TO REVIEW OUR BYLAWS AND, UM, AS WE GET BETTER AT THIS, UH, WE CAN BUILD THE BYLAWS TO SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS. SO THAT IS THE PROPOSED OBJECTIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR 2025. UM, ANY COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY INPUT ON THAT? PAGE 13, 14. I SEE, UH, COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN. I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. MM-HMM . UM, SO SOME OF THIS I ASSUME WILL BE DONE BY SOME OF OUR TASK FORCES. YES. THAT'S WHAT DRIVES YOU CLEARLY NUMBER NINE. MM-HMM. UM, AND, AND WORDING IS VERY IMPORTANT. UM, AND SO SOME OF THIS WILL BE, UM, FOR ALL OF US, AND SOME OF IT WILL BE FOR SOME OF US. UM, SO MY TWO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ARE FOR NUMBER FIVE AND NUMBER EIGHT. SO, AND FIVE, YOU SAY, YOU'RE SAYING PUSH FORWARD THE OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THESE THINGS, INCLUDING CRAFTING A GOOD NEIGHBOR AGREEMENT DOES. SO IF YOU COULD CLARIFY WHAT THAT MEANS, LIKE WHAT KIND OF WORK THAT MEANS FOR THE COMMISSION, UM, HOW DO YOU WANT US TO PUSH IT FORWARD WITH WHOM, UM, IN WHAT CAPACITIES AND WILL WE BE RECEIVING A GOOD NEIGHBOR AGREEMENT? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DONE BEFORE? UM, AND THEN WITH NUMBER EIGHT, UM, INSPIRE IS, IS A BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY WORD, UM, TO, TO INSPIRE NORTH TEXAS MUNICIPALITIES, BUT THAT IS A BIG TASK, UM, ONE THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF WORK ALONGSIDE CITY COMMISSIONER, UH, OR, UM, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. SO I GUESS I'M JUST WANTING A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARITY IN THESE GOALS. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR, UM, INPUT ON THAT. SO, UM, FOCUS ON TEMPORARY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. SO WE'RE PART OF THAT PROCESS WHEN WE HEAR, WHEN WE WORK WITH OUR COUNCIL MEMBER INDIVIDUALLY, AND WHEN WE HEAR AND WORK WITH THE PRESENTATIONS PROVIDED BY OHS ON THAT SUBJECT MATTER. SO WE PROVIDE INPUT ON THAT AND WE'LL ADVISE IN THAT WAY. UM, IT'S, IT'S LESS PROACTIVE, RIGHT? WHERE WE'RE DOING THE, YOU KNOW, THE ACTUAL WORK. WE'RE JUST, WE'RE WE'RE MORE RESPONDING TO IT. SO, UM, PUSHING FORWARD THE OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA BE DEVELOPED AND THEN I THINK IT'S GOING TO, WELL, WE DON'T KNOW. I DON'T WANNA COMMENT ON THAT, UM, PART, BUT WE'RE PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THAT. SO WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. IF YOU WANNA SUGGEST, AND I'M HAPPY WITH CHANGING THE VERBIAGE ON THAT. DID YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION? AND IT'S THREE 10, SO JUST NO PRESSURE. OKAY. UM, WE, I COULD DO SUPPORT, I CAN JUST CHANGE IT TO SUPPORT. OKAY. OKAY. DOES THAT, AND I THINK, WELL, THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING FOR YOUR INPUT RIGHT NOW. OKAY. IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE MORE PROACTIVE? UM, OR, OR IS THIS JUST WHAT, WHAT THE GOAL OF THIS IS JUST TO LISTEN AND ADVISE. I'M JUST ASKING CLARIFICATION. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH, I UNDERSTAND. AND, AND THAT'S OUR, THAT'S PART OF OUR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IS TO ADVISE CITY COUNCIL. AND SO, UM, AS FAR AS GETTING MORE DETAIL, YOU KNOW, DE YOU KNOW, THAT'S, IT'S PROVIDED TO THE COMMISSION AS A BODY INDIVIDUAL WORK DONE AS FAR AS, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, UM, THIS SHORT TERM INTERMEDIATE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY GOES TO DISTRICT 13. YOU WILL BE INVOLVED WITH THAT AT YOUR, THE LEVEL WITH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER ON A MORE INTIMATE LEVEL. AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITH THAT PROCESS TOO. SO, RIGHT. LIKE RIGHT NOW, WE REALLY DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND WE WON'T KNOW [01:35:01] UNTIL THAT INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS A BODY. AND THAT USUALLY COMES IN THE FORM OF, UH, DIRECTOR CROSSLEY GIVING US THAT INFORMATION. AND I THINK WE'VE HAD THREE, THREE PRESENTATIONS IN AT LEAST SINCE LAST DECEMBER ON THAT. SO, AND IT'S STILL IN THE WORKS. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY CAN'T SAY TOO MUCH BECAUSE MINUTE THE PUBLIC HEARS ABOUT SOMETHING, THEY THINK IT'S SET IN STONE, AND WE KNOW THAT THINGS ARE ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS IN THE WORKS, RIGHT? UM, SO THIS IS JUST A STATEMENT THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE PART OF THAT PROCESS. DOES THAT HELP A LITTLE BETTER? LET'S THIS POINTING. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN TO COMMENT ON YOUR OTHER, UM, CAN I SAY REAL QUICK ON THAT MY PREDECESSOR REAL, REAL, REAL QUICK, MY PREDECESSOR, SHE, I'M, I'M SORRY, COMMISSIONER, CAN ME REAL? SHE HAD ONE, SHE HAD ONE. UM, COMMENT ON THE, UH, YOUR NUMBER NINE. WHAT WAS YOUR COMMENT ON THAT SPECIFICALLY? NUMBER EIGHT AGAIN, NUMBER EIGHT RATHER. OKAY. JUST A CLARIFICATION OF, I GUESS OUR ROLE, BUT IT, IT SEEMS LIKE, I GUESS I'M ASKING PARTIALLY BECAUSE WE'RE ON THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TASK FORCE, AND THIS SEEMS LIKE, UM, INSPIRING NORTH TEXAS MUNICIPALITIES TO BE PART OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. SO, UM, THE TASK FORCE FEED INTO EACH OTHER, RIGHT? DATA DRIVES INITIATIVE, RACIAL EQUITY, UM, UH, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, UM, DATA DRIVES, INITIATIVES. WE GET THE INFORMATION, WE KIND OF CHEW ON IT A LITTLE BIT AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT PALATABLE FOR THE, UM, THAT WAS REALLY GROSS. UM, WE CHEW IT, WE SPIT IT OUT, WE LET Y'ALL EAT IT. UM, AND THEN , SORRY. UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE, THE HMIS HEART TEAM REPORT, WE WERE COLLECTING EMAIL DATA, RIGHT? WE'RE COLLECTING DATA VIA EMAIL. IT GOT CONSOLIDATED, IT GOT PRESENTED, AND THEN WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF INTERPRETING THAT IN THE RIGHT WAY SO THAT THAT INFORMATION CAN GO CONSOLIDATE TO THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO COUNCIL TO UNDERSTAND IT, RIGHT? AND WELL, UM, WE SEE THAT MAYBE THERE'S HM IS IS LACKING IN THAT. SO THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT COULDN'T GO, HEY, LOOK, WE HAVE PEOPLE, THEY PROBABLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HMIS IS. AND, AND 3 1 1 OR MAYBE AN EMAIL TO COUNCIL MEMBER COULD TIE THAT IN. SO LET'S LOOK AT ENGAGING THE PUBLIC WITH HOW THAT PROCESS WORKS. SO THAT KIND OF TIED IN. AND THEN THE DATA, THE RACIAL EQUITY COULD SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, THE HMIS ENTRIES ARE, UM, PREDOMINANTLY BLACK. WELL, LET'S, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA OBVIOUSLY GET THAT INFORMATION OUT AND HOW WE HELP IT. SO EVERYTHING SORT OF, YOU KNOW, BLENDS TOGETHER AND FITS TOGETHER LIKE A PUZZLE PIECE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, PROMOTE. SO DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION AND HOW WE'RE PART OF THAT? OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, COMMISSIONER KEYS. I WAS JUST SAYING ON, ON, UH, NUMBER FIVE REAL QUICK. UM, YES. AND, AND AT THE MIRAMAR IN 1950, FORT WORTH, MY PREDECESSOR WAS SO HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH THIS, SHE GOT TIRED AND HANDED OFF TO ME. SO IT'S A, WE MAY HAVE SOME BIG JOBS DEPENDING ON WHAT COMES TO US. SO JUST GET, BE READY. YEAH. AND YEAH, AND I, I BELIEVE, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH, BUT I BELIEVE WHAT YOU MEAN IS WE HAVE BIG JOBS COMING TO US, RATHER INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A BODY AND IT'LL CHANGE AND WE JUST, WHAT DO WE WANNA SUPPORT? AND SO BASICALLY THAT'S WHAT THESE GOALS ARE. WE WANNA SUPPORT SHORT, SHORT-TERM HOUSING. WE WANT TO SU SUPPORT, UM, INFORMATION ON RACIAL EQUITY AND THE APPLICATION OF THAT. THAT'S WHAT THESE GOALS ARE. SO DOES THAT HELP? OKAY. ALRIGHT. ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT. YES. IS YOUR, YES, YOU MAY. YES. THANK YOU. CHAIR. QUICKLY, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD SOMEWHERE IN HERE. UM, AND IT COULD BE UNDER ONE OF THESE, UH, NUMBERS TO INVESTIGATE A SOLUTION FOR SERVICE RESISTANT, UH, NEIGHBORS. UM, CONSISTENTLY AND CONSTANTLY SERVICE RESISTANT. WHAT DO WE DO? AND THEN HOTSPOTS. OKAY. SO HOW ABOUT IS THERE DIFFERENT WAY THAT WE CAN MANAGE AND ADDRESS HOT SPOTS? OKAY, SO NUMBER 10, UM, FOCUS TASK FORCE. UM, ACTUALLY LET ME SAY ELEVATE, UM, I CAN COME UP WITH SOME TIME OKAY. IF YOU WANT ME TO AND SEND IT THROUGH TO YOU AND ANITA. OKAY. UM, YES, I LIKE THIS IDEA A LOT. UM, SO DO WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE ON THAT RENITA SINCE WE'RE ADDING SOMETHING? NO. OKAY. SO IF YOU COULD JUST WORD SOMETHING, UM, AND THEN SEND IT ON AND THEN WE'LL ADD IT. I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT GOAL TO ADD FOR 2025. ABSOLUTELY. WE SAW THAT, UH, WITH INCLEMENT WEATHER, WE SAW SERVICE RESISTANT PEOPLE IN A CRITICAL PERIOD. SO, AND THAT WOULD BE A, LIKE, JUST GOING BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POINT TO COMMISSIONER EINSTEIN, UM, THE SERVICE RESISTANT SHEL, WELL, I KNOW THAT THAT'S KIND OF A DISCOURAGED TERM. UM, BUT DURING INCLEMENT WEATHER, WE HAD PEOPLE REFUSING, AND THERE WAS ONE LADY I WAS WORKING ON, AND I DON'T EVEN [01:40:01] KNOW IF SHE WENT IN. UM, 'CAUSE I ALSO WAS ON, ALSO LEFT THE CITY FOR A LITTLE WHILE, BUT, UM, I WAS AT MY WITS END, WHAT DO I DO? YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST DIFFICULT TO WATCH. WELL, I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT COULD TASK FORCE COULD SAY, WE KNOW YOU SAW THIS. GUESS WHAT? HERE'S A PROCESS AND THEN GET THAT INFORMATION OUT. SO, UM, THAT WOULD EXCELLENT IDEA HERE. ALL RIGHT. LAST PAGE. UH, SECOND, THIRD, WHATEVER, PAGE 15, BOARD COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS. I'M NOT REALLY CLEAR ON WHAT THIS PAGE IS 'CAUSE I THINK WE KIND OF ESTABLISHED THAT IN THE PRIOR, SO WE WILL X THAT ONE, UNLESS ANYONE, UH, CHRISTIAN WRIGHT, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? WAS YES. YEAH. OKAY. SO JUST TO KIND OF TAG ON TO, UM, TO THE, THE HIGHLIGHTING, THE RESISTANT, I THINK, UM, OR I, I WORKED WITH, UH, LIZABETH JORDAN IMPACT THIS WEEK TRYING TO GET A, UM, YOUNG WOMAN PLACED MM-HMM . SHE PULLED OUT OF A TENT WITH, UM, A KNOWN TRAFFICKER AND, BUT SHE COULDN'T TELL HER STORY. SHE WAS TOO TRAUMATIZED. THERE WERE NO PROGRAMS THAT WOULD TAKE HER. UM, SO WE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND TO, TO GET HER IN A HOTEL, BECAUSE A LOT OF 'EM ARE SHELTER AVERSE, BUT THEY'LL GO TO A HOTEL. MM-HMM. YOU KNOW, A SAFE PLACE. SO, UM, HAVING, UH, ELIZABETH JORDAN PRESENT TO US, I THINK WOULD BE GREAT. 'CAUSE SHE CAN SPEAK TO, SHE'S DOING THAT. OKAY. SHE'S WORKING WITH THE RESISTANT. OKAY. SO WE'LL PUT THAT ON THE, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU. UM, BUT IF YOU COULD JUST DO THAT FOR THE AGENDA ITEM RECOMMENDATION. OH, OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. UM, BUT I WAS GONNA SAY TO, TO ADD A HUMAN TRAFFICKING COMPONENT INTO, YOU KNOW, LIKE HIGHLIGHTING OKAY. OUR GOALS OF LIKE, WHO IS THE MOST VULNERABLE OKAY. IN DOCUMENTING THAT. SO DO WE WANNA, OKAY, WE'LL ADD THAT IN FOR, UM, CONT UH, WE'LL ADD THAT IN. OKAY. WE'LL DEFINITELY ADD NUMBER FOUR. ITEM FOUR, YOU SAID? OH, NUMBER FOUR. OKAY. GOT IT. THANK YOU. GOT IT. THANK YOU. I'M SORRY, DIDN'T HAVE INTERRUPTED YOU. OKAY. UH, ALL RIGHT, SO WILL, NEXT PAGE 15, UH, HIGHLIGHTS OF BOARD COMMISSION NAME, I'M SORRY, DELETE APPENDIX. APPENDIX WILL BUILD ITSELF WITH THE REST OF THE REPORT. OKAY. SO THAT IS GOING OVER THE REPORT. UM, JUST GOING TO MOVE TO EXTEND THE MEETING TO THREE 30. UM, ANY SECOND? SECOND. OKAY. TO EXTEND THE MEETING TO THREE 30. OKAY. SECOND. FROM CLAPTON. HOFF, ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY, NO DISCUSSION. WE'RE GONNA TAKE A VOTE. UM, ALL IN FAVOR TO MOVE TODAY'S MEETING TO THREE 30, SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? OKAY. MOTION CARRIES. UM, SO WE HAVE, UM, GONE THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A MOTION, UM, FOR APPROVAL WITH, UH, EDITS. SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO PROVIDE THAT MOTION, GO RIGHT AHEAD. I MOTION TO APPROVE THE REPORT WITH THE EDITS. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER FLORES. ANY SECOND? SECOND. I, ALL RIGHT. I THINK, UH, CLATON HOFF, WAS THAT YOU THAT GOT IT IN FIRST? WAS THAT YOU? OKAY, SO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE TO APPROVE THE CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION 2024 ANNUAL REPORT WITH EDITS, UM, AS DISCUSSED. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER KLATTEN HOFF. ANY DISCUSSION? NO DISCUSSION, WE'LL TAKE A VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR TO APPROVE THE CITIZEN HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION 2024 ANNUAL REPORT. UM, AS EDITED SAY, AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. NEXT ITEM NUMBER SIX, BRIEFING MEMO PROPERTIES UPDATES. CHRISTINE CROLEY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO FROM HERE? YOU CAN USE MY MICROPHONE IF YOU WANT. UM, THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS FOR, UH, THAT, UM, DISCUSSION THERE. UH, I JUST, I DO WANNA SAY THAT I'M VERY PROUD OF EVERYONE THIS YEAR, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH RENITA, UH, FOR COMPILING THAT, UH, ANNUAL REPORT YOU MADE A LOT OF PEOPLE'S LIVES EASIER. UH, CHRISTINE CROSLEY, OFFICE OF HOMELESS SOLUTIONS DIRECTOR. UM, THIS WILL BE A VERY SHORT REPORT WE, UM, REPORTED IN DECEMBER AND, UM, ASIDE FROM, UH, THE FORT WORTH AVENUE PROPERTY MOVING CLOSER TO CLOSING. SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT. UM, COMING BOARD, REALLY NOTHING MUCH, UH, HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE HOLIDAYS, [01:45:01] UM, WE HAVEN'T HAD A LOT OF TIME AND I THINK WE JUST HAD OUR FIRST COUPLE OF COUNCIL MEETINGS BACK. SO, UH, REALLY LOOKING AT THE SAME UPDATE THAT WE HAD IN DECEMBER, UM, WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT WE ARE CLOSER TO, UH, FORMALLY AND FINALLY HANDLING THAT BUILDING OVER TO, UH, CATHOLIC HOUSING INITIATIVE, UM, HERE IN THE SPRING. SO WE'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT WATCHING THAT. UH, TAKE, TAKE SHAPE, AND THEN EVERYTHING ELSE, 41 50 INDEPENDENCE DRIVE. WE'RE STILL, UH, GOING BACK TO HHS ON THE 28TH. SO THAT IS WRAPPING. AND, UH, HAMPTON, THERE WAS A CLOSED SESSION IN DECEMBER. UM, AND, UH, NOTHING MORE ON THAT AT THIS POINT. UM, VANTAGE POINT, I KNOW THAT'S ON HERE, UM, BECAUSE THAT IS A HOUSING PROJECT. AND SO, UM, I KNOW DARWIN'S NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT. UM, BUT I WILL SAY THAT THEY'RE ALWAYS GETTING CLOSER TO BEING FULL. UH, AND THEY'RE WORKING WITH HOUSING BOARD ON LEASING AND REFERRALS FOR THE REMAINING PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS WITH VOUCHERS, UM, ACQUIRED TO SUBSIDIZE THOSE. SO THEY'RE ALSO IN A VERY GOOD PLACE. AND I, I DO BELIEVE THAT MIRAMAR IS NOW GOING TO BE CALLED ST. JUDE OAK CLIFF, SO WE SHOULD PROBABLY START REFERRING TO IT THAT WAY. GET RID OF THE MIRAMAR MONIKER. I APOLOGIZE. OH NO, I SAID MIRAMAR. SO THAT'S, I I NEED TO CALL IT ST. JUDE OAK CLIFF, BUT WE'RE EXCITED. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONERS. ANY DISCUSSION? NOTHING HERE AT CITY HALL, ANYTHING OUT IN VIRTUAL LAND? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHRISTINE. NEXT ITEM, ITEM SEVEN, WE HAVE A TASK FORCE UPDATE. UM, I'M NOT SURE IF COMMISSIONER BROWN, WHY DON'T YOU GO FIRST SINCE YOU, UM, YOU'RE SHORT ON TIME HERE. THANK YOU. YES. UM, OUR NEXT MEETING IS GOING TO BE NEXT WEDNESDAY, AND WE'RE TRYING TO GET CONFIRMATION AS TO WHICH, UM, SITE WE'RE GOING TO BE AT. I WAS GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH THEM TODAY. IT'S EITHER, IT'S OUT OF TWO, SO WE'LL GET THAT POSTED UP AND I'LL GET THAT OVER TO RENITA. BUT OUR NEXT MEETING IS GONNA BE NEXT WEDNESDAY, AND WE'RE EXCITED. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, JAMES HOUK ISN'T PRESENT. ANY COMMISSIONERS, UM, EINSTEIN OR SHAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE? WE'LL BE MEETING, UM, NEXT MONTH, THE HOUR BEFORE THIS MEETING. OKAY. UM, AND WE ALSO THINK THAT OPTION TWO IS THE BEST, UM, MISSION STATEMENT FOR US. OKAY, GREAT. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, DATA DRIVES INITIATIVE. YES. THANK YOU, KOFF. THANK YOU. SO WE'RE MEETING TOMORROW. WE ARE REVIEWING THE DATA DRIVES INITIATIVES, TASK FORCE ART, CONSOLIDATION OF DATA. UM, HAD A MEETING WITH OHS STAFF ON MONDAY THAT WAS REALLY INFORMATIVE AND THEY RESPONDED WITH A LOT OF INFORMATION TO HELP US KIND OF FILL IN SOME GAPS AND EXPLAIN THINGS. SO WE'LL BE REVIEWING THAT TOMORROW TO THEN HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO PRESENT TO THE FULL, UH, WE WILL PRESENT TO THE FULL CHC, UH, FEBRUARY. OKAY. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. UM, ANY COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS ON THAT ITEM? OKAY, HEARING NONE. UH, ITEM EIGHT, DISCUSSION ON DISTRICT SPECIFIC HOMELESSNESS CONCERNS. THIS IS OUR C ONE B ONE, TEACH ONE MATRIX. ANY COMMISSIONERS HAVE A BURNING DESIRE TO, UM, TOUR ANOTHER DISTRICT, REACH OUT TO ANOTHER COMMISSIONER. POWWOW MENTOR COFFEE. OKAY, WE HAVE, IT'S YOUR MICROPHONE. YES. OKAY. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. UH, I JUST WANNA, AGAIN, PLACEHOLDER HERE THAT, UM, DANNY, MY CONTACT AT TI, HE'S, HE'S BACK IN COMMISSION AND, UM, AND I'M GONNA BE WORKING WITH HIM TO SET UP A TIME TOUR AND THEN I'LL, I KNOW WE HAD SOME INTEREST TO COME, AND SO, UM, I WILL SET UP THAT TOUR AND EMAIL THE COMMISSIONERS THAT HAD INTEREST. OKAY. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS? AGAIN, I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO REACH OUT. IF YOU DON'T DO IT HERE, UM, DO IT, UM, VIA TEXT AND MEET WITH PEOPLE. I'M LOOKING AT COMMISSIONER FLORES. I HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR FACE IN A WHILE, AND I JUST REMEMBERED WHAT A GREAT VISIT AND I LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT YOUR DISTRICT AND I LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT YOU. AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING YOU'LL GAIN FROM THIS EXPERIENCE IS GETTING TO KNOW THE PERSON, WHICH IS GREAT. OKAY, UM, ITEM NINE, UH, PROPOSE ITEMS FOR NEXT FUTURE MEETINGS. AND WE HAVE COMMISSIONER WRIGHT WANTS TO SEE HUMAN IMPACT. ANY OTHERS, ANY HANDS RAISED IN VIRTUAL LAND? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UH, ITEM 10. THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF UPCOMING MEETINGS. OKAY GUYS, IT'S HERE. POINT IN TIME COUNT. I HOPE YOU'RE ALL SIGNED UP. I'M SIGNED UP AND I'LL BE WITH MY COUNCIL MEMBER IN MY DISTRICT. UM, PROBABLY [01:50:01] CLOSE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD. SO I HOPE THAT EVERYONE GOT IN THERE EARLY AND THAT YOU WILL ALSO BE IN AN AREA THAT YOU ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH SO THAT WE CAN GIVE THE MOST ACCURATE POINT IN TIME COUNT WE HAVE EVER HAD IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF DALLAS. UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR DISTRICT RIDE ALONGS. UM, OUR NEXT MEETING IS FEBRUARY 20TH, 2025. IT WILL GET HERE SOONER THAN YOU THINK. RIGHT NOW WE'RE SCHEDULED TO BE IN THIS ROOM AND I DO WANNA ADD THAT. UM, PLEASE REVIEW DALLAS REGISTRAR, YOU GOOGLE DALLAS REGISTRAR. IT WILL PULL UP EVERY SINGLE MEETING THAT IS HAPPENING AT THE CITY LEVEL FROM HERE UNTIL IT IS SCHEDULED. I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR OUT THAT IS. FIND OUR MEETINGS. YOU'LL HAVE A HYPERLINK FOR WHERE IT IS. I'M SORRY. THERE'LL BE A HYPERLINK FOR, UM, AGENDAS AND MINUTES FOR PRIOR MEETINGS, SO YOU CAN ACCESS THAT WAY AND ALSO VIDEO. BUT ONE THING YOU'LL NOTE IS THAT WE HAVE THE PROJECTED MEETING TIMES, IF ANY OF THOSE CONFLICT WITH ANYTHING THAT MAYBE YOU'RE DOING THIS YEAR IN 2025, YOU'RE GOING ON A BIG TRIP OF A LIFETIME IN SEPTEMBER OR WHATEVER. UM, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK THAT YOU MAY MISS THAT MEETING. AND I WILL TRY TO WORK IN ADVANCE TO RESCHEDULE SO THAT YOU CAN BE INCLUDED IN THAT MONTH'S MEETING BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF ATTENDANCE, UM, WHICH IS OUTLINED IN OUR CHAPTER EIGHT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. I BELIEVE IT'S THREE PER 13 MONTHS. I WANT EVERYONE TO STAY IN THIS COMMISSION. I DON'T WANT ANYBODY LEAVING. SO IF YOU FEEL LIKE I, LIKE I SAID, IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU MAY BE MISSING A MEETING, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. AND I, I'LL TRY TO, UM, UH, MAKE ARRANGEMENTS AHEAD OF TIME AND OF COURSE KEEP EVERYBODY IN THE LOOP ON IT. SO THERE'S THAT. UM, A HOUSING AND HOMELESS HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS. SO, UH, COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETS FEBRUARY 24TH, 2025, AND, UM, D IS NOT LISTED BECAUSE I BELIEVE THEY, UM, UH, KARA MOVED FOR DAP IS NOT, DAP IS NOT MEETINGS. ALL RIGHT. UH, ANYBODY WANNA ADD ANYTHING FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS? OKAY, VIRTUAL. OKAY. AND, UH, NO EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENTS. SO IT IS 3:28 PM AND THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. Y'ALL ARE GREAT. YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.