* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] AND I'M GONNA DO ROLL CALL PLEASE. IF [Citizen Homeless Commission on June 26, 2025.] YOU'RE, UH, PRESENT VIRTUALLY, SAY PRESENT VIRTUAL. UH, AND IF YOU'RE PRESENT, SAY PRESENT. ALL RIGHT. SO, UH, DISTRICT ONE, COMMISSIONER WESLEY D. KEYS, I, CAN I GO BACK TO HIM? BECAUSE I, WE CAN SEE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND SAY PRESENT. UH, DISTRICT TWO CHAIR. LINDA GARDNER PRESENT. ALRIGHT. DISTRICT THREE IS VACANT. DISTRICT FOUR, JAMES P HAWK. I'M PRESENT HERE IN THE ROOM. THANK YOU. UH, AND IF YOU ARE IN THE ROOM, UH, PRESENTING AS WELL, IF YOU COULD SPEAK UP AS WELL. SORRY, . ALL RIGHT. UH, DISTRICT FIVE, SORAY SANTOS. SHE WAS HERE. I'M HERE. HELLO. PRESENT. REMOTE. REMOTE. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UH, DISTRICT SIX. JASMINE FLORES. PRESENT REMOTE. THANK YOU. DISTRICT SEVEN, TRA MONICA BROWN. DISTRICT NINE. OH, THERE YOU ARE. OKAY. PRESENT VIRTUAL. YES. THANK YOU. OKAY, THANK YOU. DISTRICT NINE, REVEREND MITCHELL BOONE. PRESENT VIRTUAL. THANK YOU. DISTRICT 10. DORY WRIGHT, DISTRICT 11. ANGELA COTTEN HALL DISTRICT 12. MATT JACOB PRESENT VIRTUAL. ALL RIGHT. DISTRICT 13. DIANA EINSTEIN. AND DISTRICT 14 GHAN PRESENT HERE. ALL RIGHT. MADAM CHAIR, I BELIEVE YOU HAVE A QUORUM. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU NICOLE. I APPRECIATE IT. UM, BEFORE WE GET TO THE, UH, MISSION STATEMENT, I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE, UM, STAFF THAT'S HERE AND, UM, SOME ATTENDEES, I DIDN'T GET TO EVERYBODY. UM, BUT WE HAVE AMANDA VOT. SHE IS THE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR. UH, WE HAVE NICOLE REED, SHE'S OUR INTERIM BOARD COORDINATOR, AND ALSO THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO CHRISTINE LEY. UM, WE HAVE MARISSA HINES AND ELENA RUIZ. THEY'RE THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEYS. UM, WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, UM, LOLA, UM, ARRE, UM, AND CATHERINE A WHO ARE FROM DISTRICT TWO. AND THEN WE HAVE SOME PRESENTERS THAT YOU GUYS WILL MEET A LITTLE BIT LATER. AND OF COURSE WE HAVE DR. WOODY HERE FROM THE BRIDGE. UH, WELCOME EVERYBODY. AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA START WITH THE READING OF THE MISSION STATEMENTS, AND THEN WE'LL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT. UH, UH, THE CHC MISSION STATEMENT IS TO ASSIST ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF HOMELESSNESS. THE PURPOSE IS TO ASSURE PARTICIPATION FROM AND INCLUSION OF ALL STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH PAST OR PRESENT EXPERIENCE WITH HOMELESSNESS IN ORDER 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. OUR CAC DUTIES ARE, ADVISE THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY COUNCIL ON ISSUES AFFECTING HOMELESSNESS, ASSIST THE CITY IN EVALUATING NEW AND EXISTING, UH, PROGRAMS. COORDINATE WITH OTHER LOCAL AND REGIONAL BODIES ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS AND PERFORM SUCH OTHER DUTIES ASSIGNED BY THE CITY MANAGER OR CITY COUNCIL. AND WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM TWO, WHICH IS PUBLIC COMMENTS. UH, NICOLE, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS WHO ARE REGISTERED AND PRESENT TODAY? UH, YOU DID HAVE ONE REGISTERED SPEAKER. HE IS NOT PRESENT, I DON'T BELIEVE. I'M CALL NAME MEANS, UM, HIS NAME IS, UH, ALEXANDER STEIN. ALEXANDER STEIN. I DON'T SEE WITH THAT ONE. MOVE ON. ITEM THREE, IT'S APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM MAY 15TH, 2025. DO WE HAVE A MOTION? HAVE MOTION TO, FOR THE MINUTES, MOVE TO APPROVE, UH, BY COMMISSIONER SILHAN, SECOND BY JAMES HO. UH, ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY. HEARING NONE, UH, LET'S TAKE A VOTE. UM, MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FOR MAY 15TH, 2025. SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? OKAY. THEY HAVE BEEN APPROVED. UM, OUR FIRST PRESENTATION IS ITEM FOUR, ALL NEIGHBORS COALITION QUARTERLY UPDATE, AND THAT WILL BE COMING FROM, UH, SARAH KHAN, THE CEO OF HOUSE OF FORD, AND, UH, DIRECTOR OF OFFICE SOLUTION, HOMELESS SOLUTIONS. CHRISTINE LEY, YOU LIKE TO MOVE OVER TO PUT [00:05:07] OH, COOL. YEAH, YEAH. ALRIGHT. YOU CAN BEGIN WHEN YOU'RE READY. AND OUR, THERE'S OUR, UH, MICROPHONE CAMERA RIGHT THERE. VIRTUAL. OH YEAH. WELL, THANKS FOR HAVING US BACK THIS QUARTER. CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY BEEN A FULL QUARTER SINCE . SHOULD WE SPEAK UP INTO THE MICROPHONE? OKAY. YEAH. CHRISTINE, DO YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING ELSE IN RECORDING GOING? UM, JUST AS YOU GUYS KNOW, CAN WE COME BACK EVERY QUARTER FOR THESE, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF MOVEMENT BETWEEN NOW AND THE LAST QUARTER. OBVIOUSLY WE'VE HAD THE STATE OF HOMELESSNESS ADDRESS, UM, LOTS AND LOTS OF, UH, DATA IN THIS, IN THIS PRESENTATION. WE WERE EXCITED TO SEE SOME OF YOU AT THE STATE OF HOMELESSNESS ADDRESS THAT SARAH DID. SO, UH, WE'RE HERE TO, TO FOCUS ON THAT AND TALK ABOUT WHAT'S NEXT. UM, I ALSO KNOW OF COURSE, THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THE REORGANIZATION THAT'S, UH, HAPPENED BETWEEN OHS AND EMCR. AND OF COURSE, FOR THOSE QUESTIONS, THAT PRESENTATION IS RIGHT AFTER THIS ONE. SO WE'LL WANNA HOLD THOSE UNTIL WE GET TO DIRECTOR O SARAH. GREAT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO, UM, JUST TO FRAME THE CONVERSATION, WE SORT OF ALWAYS ANCHOR BACK TO SORT OF WHEN WE LAUNCHED THE TRANSFORMATION OF HOW WE APPROACH HOMELESSNESS IN DALLAS AND COLLIN COUNTY. AND IN 2020, WE EXAMINED THE HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM. AND I THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT WHAT WAS HAPPENING IS WE LEARNED ACTUALLY THAT EACH YEAR MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FALL INTO HOMELESSNESS. BUT AT THAT TIME, NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY EXITING HOMELESSNESS. AND SO WE WERE MANAGING HOMELESSNESS IN OUR SHELTERS AND TEMPORARY HOUSING SETTINGS, WHICH PROVIDE A VERY CRITICAL CRISIS RESPONSE TO INDIVIDUALS WHO FALL OUT OF HOUSING. BUT WE HAD INADEQUATE INVESTMENTS AND PATHWAYS THAT ACTUALLY GET PEOPLE OUT OF HOMELESSNESS. AND SO OUR SHELTERS CAN ATTEST TO WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT TIME. BUT OUR SHELTERS FILL UP ARE UNDER CONSTANT PRESSURE. PEOPLE OVERFLOW ONTO OUR STREETS. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DATA FROM 2015 TO 2020, UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS A GOOD TEST ON HOW YOU'RE DOING ON HOMELESSNESS AND UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS TRIPLED DURING THAT TIME PERIOD. AND WE SAW A 45% INCREASE IN HOMELESSNESS OVERALL. SO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND SO, THE STORY THAT WE'RE SORT OF TELLING TODAY IS WHAT WE'VE HAD TO DO, UM, TO CHANGE THAT TRAJECTORY AND WHAT WE WILL, WHERE WE ARE TODAY, AND WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL OF YOU. AND SO IN 2021, WE SAW THE COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER TO START CO-DESIGNING THE TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS THAT CAN MANAGE THAT LEVEL OF DEMAND ON OUR SYSTEM EACH YEAR. AND WE SAW THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE PRIVATE SECTORS COME TOGETHER TO IMPLEMENT AND HOLD WELL, A, TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO THE COMMUNITY FOR RESULTS , UM, AND TO START TURNING THE BATTLESHIP ON HOMELESSNESS, BUT ALSO TO REALLY ALIGN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT COST EFFICIENT AND HIGH IMPACT STRATEGIES. AND SO A COUPLE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAW DURING THAT TIME PERIOD IS, UM, ACTUALLY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO FLOW INTO HOMELESSNESS OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR HAS INCREASED EVERY SINGLE YEAR, TWO RECORD HIGHS. AND I HAVE A CHART IN THE APPENDIX THAT SHOWS YOU SPECIFICALLY WHAT THAT INCREASE HAS LOOKED LIKE EVERY YEAR OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS. WE'VE HAD TO MEET THAT DEMAND WITH TWO TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS. WE'VE SCALED SYSTEM-WIDE DIVERSION, WHICH IS A, A, AN, UM, INTERVENTION THAT WAS PIONEERED BY OUR FAMILY HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM, BUT NOW HAS BEEN SCALED ACROSS OUR SINGLE ADULT SHELTERS AND OUR OUTREACH. AND THAT'S A VERY LIGHT TOUCH, LOW COST INTERVENTION WHERE WE'VE BROUGHT DIVERSION SPECIALISTS TO THE FRONT DOOR OF THE BRIDGE AND THE FRONT DOOR OF AUSTIN STREET AND FAMILY GATEWAY, AND TO OUR OUTREACH PROVIDERS WHERE THEY'RE IMMEDIATELY ENGAGING HOUSEHOLD TO BECOME HOMELESS. AND A CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW CAN WE MOST IMMEDIATELY SOLVE YOUR HOUSING CRISIS. SO COULD YOU GO BACK TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS? IS THERE A COUSIN THAT YOU COULD MOVE IN? COULD WE, WITH SOME SKILLED SUPPORT MEDIATE YOU? GOING BACK TO YOUR PREVIOUS HOUSING SITUATION? LET'S SEE WHATEVER IT TAKES. BUT THE GOAL IS WE WANNA KEEP YOU OUT OF SHELTER, MEANING THAT ULT ULTIMATELY PEOPLE ARE STAYING AN AVERAGE OF MAYBE THREE TO FIVE NIGHTS IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PURE DIVERSION INTERVENTION. AND THEN THEY'RE KIND OF THROUGH THIS EFFORT ACCESSING A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBLE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND GETTING [00:10:01] HOUSED. SO TO COMBAT THAT ANNUAL DEMAND THAT I TALKED ABOUT, WE'VE DIVERTED 6,641 HOUSEHOLDS OVER THE LAST, SINCE 2020, FROM 2021 THROUGH TO 2024, MUCH MORE IN 2025. BUT, UM, TO MANAGE AND START CURBING SOME OF THAT INFLOW. AND WHAT WE LEARNED LAST YEAR WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE SINGLE ADULT SYSTEM, UM, AND I'M HAPPY TO PROVIDE THIS DATA AND FOLLOW UP, THAT THAT DIVERSION INTERVENTION WAS ONE 10TH OF THE COST OF A, OF A AVERAGE SHELTER STAY. AND SO THIS IS AN INTERVENTION THAT USES A LIMITED AMOUNT OF RESOURCE, WHICH MEANS WE CAN STRETCH THAT ACROSS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. AND THAT HAS BEEN CRITICAL TO CAPTURE THAT INCREASE IN DEMAND THAT'S COMING INTO THE SHELTERS. THE SECOND INTERVENTION SET OF INTERVENTIONS IS REALLY FOCUSED ON REHOUSING AND MATCHING A LEVEL OF SERVICES AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT HOUSEHOLDS NEED TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE. UM, AND SO JUST TO PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE, I ALSO PUT IN THE APPENDIX THE WAY THAT WE MODEL THE SYSTEM TO DETERMINE WHAT PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS NEED EACH OF THESE SERVICES. AND WE MODEL THAT 70% OF THE ANNUAL INFLOW OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR COULD BE SERVED WITH THAT DIVERSION TYPE INTERVENTION IF IT WAS AVAILABLE AND TARGETED WELL. AND ANOTHER 30% ARE GETTING SOME COMBINATION OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND VERY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES TO REMAIN STABLY HOUSED, EITHER PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OR RAPID REHOUSING. AND THERE'S A KIND OF AN EVEN SPLIT FOR WHAT WE'VE MODELED FOR IN THAT REGARD. UM, AND SO THE RESULT OF, UH, KIND OF ALIGNING AND GETTING SMARTER WITH HOW WE TARGET ADDITIONAL, BRINGING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES HAS THEN RESULTED IN OUR ABILITY TO MANAGE THAT INCREASED INFLOW FROM YEAR TO YEAR. AND TO MAKE SURE THAT ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT WE DON'T SEE HUGE SPIKES IN HOMELESSNESS. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S SETTING US APART FROM OTHER COMMUNITIES RIGHT NOW, IS WHEN YOU SEE UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS TRIPLE, THE VERY NATURAL NATURAL POLICY RESPONSE TO THAT IS TO BUILD MORE SHELTER BEDS. AND THE EXAMINATION THAT WE'VE DONE IS WE HAVE 2,400 SHELTER BEDS. AND WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS, INSTEAD OF, LET'S SAY WE BRING ONE PERSON INTO EACH OF THOSE SHELTER BEDS, IF WE CAN REHOUSE PEOPLE EFFECTIVELY AND AT A PACE THAT'S REQUIRED, WE COULD HOUSE FOUR PEOPLE A YEAR IN EACH OF THOSE SHELTER BEDS. SO INSTEAD OF JUST HAVING 2,400 SHELTER BEDS IN THE COMMUNITY, THAT WOULD CREATE 9,600 SHELTER BEDS IN THE COMMUNITY. AND THAT IS A MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY TO GET SHELTERS LIKE THE BRIDGE, THE TYPES OF RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE THE PRESSURE OF BEDS AT THEIR FRONT DOOR, UM, YOU KNOW, EVERY DAY. AND THAT I THINK IS REALLY WHAT STANDS US APART FROM OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE INVESTED A LOT IN ADDITIONAL SHELTERS AS UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS HAS GROWN. BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS THAT AT THE RESULT OF THAT, THERE'S NOT MONEY LEFT TO DO THE ADEQUATE REHOUSING OUT OF SHELTER. AND SO AT SOME POINT, COMMUNITIES HAVE TO MAKE STRATEGIC DECISIONS ABOUT, WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, HOW CAN THESE RESOURCES BE TARGETED IN A WAY THAT SERVES PEOPLE WELL AND ALSO IMPROVES THE PERFORMANCE OVERALL OF THE SYSTEM. AND THOSE ARE THE TOUGH CONVERSATIONS THAT DALLAS AND COLLIN COUNTY HAVE BEEN WILLING TO HAVE TOGETHER TO TRY TO STRIKE THE RIGHT BALANCE. AND SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, SO THOSE, THE, THAT WAY OF INVESTING, I WILL SAY HAS HELD AT BAY, I THINK A BETTER WAY TO PUT IT IS WE'VE HELD AT BAY WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER COMMUNITIES, WHICH ARE HUGE SPIKES IN PUBLIC SPACE, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'VE HAD INCREASES OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR OF PEOPLE THAT COME IN PAIRED WITH INCREASES IN REHOUSING INVESTMENT. AND THAT HAS GIVEN US SORT OF A NET DECREASE ON ANY GIVEN DAY, YEAR ON YEAR FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR. BUT I THINK ONE THING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT LAST YEAR VERSUS THIS YEAR WHEN A LOT OF RESOURCES COMING ONLINE, YOU SEE THAT OUR PACE HAS SLOWED QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY. IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN CUT IN HALF , MEANING THAT WE'VE HAD RECORD HIGH INCREASES. AND YOU START TO SEE THE EFFECTS OF THE, AS DALLAS REALTIME ENDED LAST YEAR, OUR YEAR ON YEAR DECREASE AT A POINT IN TIME WAS MUCH LOWER THAN IT WAS IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR. YEAR, THANKFULLY WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE FINALLY HAVE ALIGNED SOME OF THE STREET TO HOME RAISE THAT WE'VE, UM, THAT, THAT WE'VE BEEN CALLING ON AND WE'RE PICKING BACK UP OUR PACE. BUT WE NEED TO DO THAT EVERY YEAR TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HOLD THAT BAY, THE INCREASES THAT WE'VE SEEN. SO SINCE 2021, WE'VE SEEN A 28% DECREASE, WHICH THAT HAS REQUIRED US AT THIS POINT TO HOUSE, YOU KNOW, OVER 16,000 INDIVIDUALS. AND WE STILL SEE AS WE TRACK OUR RETURNS DATA, THAT SINCE 2021, 90% OF THE PEOPLE WHO WHO ARE NO LONGER RECEIVING RENTAL ASSISTANCE HAVE NOT RETURNED TO THE HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM. UM, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT BE [00:15:01] INCARCERATED, OR SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE MAY HAVE PASSED AWAY OR MAYBE HAVE MOVED INTO OTHER SITUATIONS, UM, BUT THEY'RE NOT SHOWING UP IN OUR HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM ACROSS THE COC. SO THAT'S, THAT'S TYPICALLY HOW WE, THAT'S HOW ALL COMMUNITIES NATIONALLY TRACK THE RETURNS MEASURE. SO IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, LAST YEAR, THE, UH, AND KEVIN'S GONNA TALK MORE ABOUT THIS ON HIS END AS WELL LAST YEAR. I THINK WE ALL REALIZE THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO, LIKE JUST HOLDING AT BAY INCREASES IS NOT ENOUGH. AND WE, NOT EVERYONE, WE'RE NOT REALLY FEELING LIKE WE'RE MAKING HUGE STRIDES WHEN THERE ARE A LOT OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE CONCENTRATED ON OUR STREETS. AND SO WE SET OUT THE STREET TO HOME INITIATIVE WITH A, AN INITIAL $30 MILLION INVESTMENT WITH THE GOAL OF NOT MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE OUR PACE RIGHT, THAT DALLAS REAL TIME ALLOWED US TO, TO LAUNCH, BUT ALSO THAT WE WOULD START TARGETING MORE STRATEGICALLY THE CITY'S LARGEST AND MOST PROBLEMATIC ENCAMPMENTS. WE STARTED DOWNTOWN IN PHASE ONE FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. UH, WE HAVE ANSWERED CALLS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND LOCAL BUSINESSES TO ADDRESS GROWING CONCERNS OVER UPTICKS IN VIOLENT CRIME AND, UM, WORRY ABOUT ATROPHY IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE OF THE IMPACTS OF STREET HOMELESSNESS IN OUR PUBLIC SPACES. SO THAT WAS A NATURAL PLACE TO START AND TACKLE REALLY THE CITY'S LARGEST ENCAMPMENTS WERE DOWNTOWN. AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, I THINK STREET TO HOME WAS SORT OF AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT WE HAVE TO DO BETTER ON STREET HOMELESSNESS. AND WE WANTED TO CREATE SORT OF A PROTOTYPE FOR HOW WE COULD TARGET A REGIONAL, A REGIONAL AREA, OR SORRY, A GEOGRAPHIC AREA, AND TRANSFORM HOW WE APPROACH THIS EFFORT BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT CITIES ACROSS TEXAS AND ACROSS THE NATION ARE UNDER VERY IMMENSE PRESSURE TO TACKLE STREET HOMELESSNESS. AND WE'VE HISTORICALLY HAD VERY BAD TOOLS TO DO THAT. MOST CITIES REALLY ONLY HAVE AN ENFORCEMENT ARM THAT CAN BREAK UP ENCAMPMENTS. SOMETIMES WE TICKET AND ARREST PEOPLE OR MOVE PEOPLE ALONG, EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY VULNERABLE AND ARE CYCLING IN AND OUT OF JAIL OR, OR HOSPITALS. AND ULTIMATELY, YOU ALL KNOW THE RESULT THAT YOU GET FROM THAT, WHICH IS PEOPLE ARE MOVING FROM BLOCK TO BLOCK AND OR WE'RE CLEANING THINGS AND PEOPLE ARE COMING BACK. BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S BEING RESPONSIVE REALLY IN THE ONLY WAY THAT A LOT OF COMMUNITIES HAVE THE TOOLS TO BE RESPONSIVE. AND SO STREET TO HOME WAS AN EFFORT TO SAY, LET'S BRING ALL OF OUR FORCES TOGETHER TO FIGURE OUT, UM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OHS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS AND OUR PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, ALL OF THE INCREDIBLE ALL NEIGHBORS COALITION SERVICE PROVIDERS, HOW CAN WE BRING OUR JOINT, UM, JOINT TOOLS TOGETHER TO MAKE REAL CHANGE? AND IF, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'VE CONTINUED TO EVOLVE OUR APPROACH AND DOWNTOWN FORCED US TO GO EVEN FURTHER. AND WE'VE LEARNED THREE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN CRITICALLY IMPORTANT DOWNTOWN. AND I WILL SAY ON MAY 20TH, WE, WE ANNOUNCED THAT WE ARE ENDING STREET SLEEPING. WE HAVE ENDED STREET SLEEPING DOWNTOWN. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS, I KNOW THAT'S VERY CONTROVERSIAL WHEN I SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA SEE SOMEONE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. BUT WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE'RE NO LONGER, IT'S NO LONGER OKAY TO LET PE LET ENTRENCHED HOMELESSNESS PEOPLE ENTRENCHED IN HOMELESSNESS STAY ON OUR STREETS, RIGHT? LIVING IN TENTS, LIVING ACROSS THE CITY. AND SO WE HAVE, UM, LEARNED THAT THREE STRATEGIES HAVE BEEN VERY IMPORTANT. ONE IS WE'VE, WE HAD TO BRING MENTAL HEALTH AND HOUSING SERVICES TOGETHER AND TO BRING THOSE RESOURCES TO THE STREET TO IDENTIFY WHO ARE THE REGULAR SLEEPERS OF THIS AREA, AND HOW CAN WE QUICKLY MOVE THEM OFF THE STREET INTO COMPREHENSIVE CARE. AND BY BRINGING THOSE SERVICES TOGETHER, WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE CARE TO PEOPLE FROM THE FIRST POINT OF INTER OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THEM. WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE FROM THE FIRST POINT OF ENGAGEMENT ON THE STREET IN A WAY THAT OUR OUTREACH TEAMS HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO BEFORE. AND SO WITH THAT NEW MODEL, 257 INDIVIDUALS MOVED INTO HOUSING WITH INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH CARE, AN ADDITIONAL 20, UM, WE LEARNED, 'CAUSE WHEN YOU TACKLE A GEO GEOGRAPHIC AREA AND SAY EVERYONE HAS TO BE OFF THE STREETS BY A CERTAIN DATE, THAT MEANS EVERYBODY, RIGHT? AND SO THERE WAS A GROUP OF 20 PEOPLE WHO HAD VERY SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES WHO ARE NOT READY FOR HOUSING, RIGHT? AND FOR THAT GROUP, WE NEEDED SOMETHING MORE. SO THAT PROMPTED US TO, UM, TO, TO START A COMPLEX NEEDS WORK GROUP, WHICH WE'LL LIVE ON, WHICH IS BRINGING TOGETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, THE COUNTY DA'S OFFICE, BAYLOR AND PARKLAND, OUR STREET MEDICINE TEAMS AND OUTREACH. AND WE LITERALLY NOW HAVE A [00:20:01] SHARED BIN NAME LIST WHERE WE'RE CASE CONFERENCING, EACH OF THOSE CASES TO FIGURE OUT HOW FOR THE FIRST TIME WE CAN COORDINATE PATHWAYS OFF THE STREET THAT ARE PERMANENT. AND WE SAW A COUPLE OF PEOPLE GO INTO INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC CARE WHO HAD BEEN ON THE STREET FOR 15 YEARS. WE SAW, YOU KNOW, FOUR OR FIVE PEOPLE GO INTO SHORT TERM BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE AND THEN ACCESS HOUSING. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES ON OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE REALLY SHOWING A LOT OF SIGNS OF SELF NEGLECT AND JUST BROUGHT IN ADDITIONAL PARTNERS THAT CAN HELP US FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED. SO THE SECOND KIND OF BIG TIER THAT KEVIN WILL DIG MORE INTO IS JUST A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESPONSE, WHICH IS CRITICAL THEN IN AN ONGOING WAY, WE HAVE TO GET BETTER AT MANAGING PUBLIC SPACES. IN ALL, I THINK WE ALL REALIZED THAT WE EACH HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY IN THAT. LIKE HOW DO, HOW DO OUR SYSTEMS WORK TOGETHER TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT AFTER WE'VE HOUSED EVERYBODY, THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE PEOPLE EVERY MONTH. I MEAN, IN DALLAS, IN COLLIN COUNTY, 700 PEOPLE A MONTH ARE BECOMING HOMELESS, NEWLY HOMELESS. SO THERE'S GONNA BE MORE PEOPLE THAT COME DOWNTOWN . AND SO AS THOSE PEOPLE COME INTO DOWNTOWN, WHAT IS OUR RESPONSE? AND SO KEVIN WILL TALK ABOUT HOW HE IS ORCHESTRATING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESPONSE. SO WHETHER SOMEONE'S HAVING A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS OR COMMITTING A CRIME OR TRYING TO SLEEP DOWNTOWN, WE CAN ACTIVATE EACH OTHER'S SERVICES TO GET THAT PERSON IMMEDIATELY OFF THE STREET. AND FOR OUR SYSTEM, THAT MEANS IF SOMEONE'S TRYING TO SLEEP DOWNTOWN, KEVIN IS COORDINATING DPD AND OUTREACH AND PRIVATE SECURITY TO FOLLOW A WORKFLOW TO GET THOSE PEOPLE INTO SHELTER. YEAH. BEFORE WE GO ON, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS GROUP, AND YOU HAVE THIS IN THE APPENDIX TO TALK ABOUT FOR COORDINATED CARE AND THE MOST VISIBLE FOLKS DOWNTOWN. YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ACROSS MULTIPLE BODIES. THIS ONE IN HHS INCLUDED ABOUT THE NEED FOR, UM, MORE CONCENTRATED CARE. SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT READY FOR HOUSING. AND THROUGH THE WORK DOWNTOWN WITH THE INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH GROUP, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE WE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THAT THAT IS REALLY NEEDED? IT'S A, IT'S A DEFINITELY A SMALLER GROUP. I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, IF YOU, IT'S A SMALLER BUT QUITE SIGNIFICANT GROUP, MEANING THAT THIS IS THE GROUP THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS, EVERY SYSTEM KNOWS WHO THIS GROUP IS. EVERY ONE OF YOU PROBABLY KNOWS WHO THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE. IF YOU SPEND TIME DOWNTOWN, YOU WOULD KNOW WHO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE. UM, CERTAINLY KEVIN AND HIS TEAM KNOWS WHO ALL OF THEM ARE. AND WHEN WE CREATED THE BY NAME LIST, THEY COULD ALL NAME . THEY ALL KNEW THE HISTORY OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON. AND SO IT'S A SMALLER GROUP. IF YOU THINK OF THE 200 AND LET'S SAY 280 PEOPLE THAT WE MOVED OFF THE STREET, 20 OF THOSE WERE IN THIS, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT FIT INTO OUR CONVENTIONAL CARE MODELS OF CARE AND NEEDED SOMETHING DIFFERENT, WHICH IS ALL OF US CREATING A SAFETY NET AROUND THESE INDIVIDUALS AND FOLLOWING THEM FROM ONE SYSTEM TO THE NEXT SO THEY DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS. AND SO IF YOU TAKE THAT PERCENTAGE YEAH. 20 PEOPLE OUT OF ALMOST 300. YEAH. SO PHYSICAL, LOTS OF SUPPORT NEEDED, BUT IT VERY, VERY SMALL. YEAH. AND WHAT WE LEARNED IS THERE ARE GAPS IN THE SYSTEM. I THINK THE NATURAL, THE NATURAL ASSUMPTION IS THAT WE NEED MORE SHELTER. BUT FOR THIS GROUP, THIS IS NOT A GROUP THAT'S GOING TO DO WELL IN SHELTER. AND SEEMS MAY SEEM NOT THAT , BUT WE DO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SHORT-TERM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS BEDS AVAILABLE. AND I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, NORTH TEXAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITY IS WORKING DAILY ON THINKING ABOUT LIKE, HOW DO WE CREATE MORE SHORT-TERM CRISIS RESPITE OR RESIDENTIAL BEDS LIKE THE DEFLECTION CENTER, UM, AND EXPAND THE CAPACITY OF THAT BECAUSE THE DEFLECTION CENTER, YOU KNOW, WAS, IS OUR MAIN SOURCE OF SORT OF A SHORT TERM MENTAL HEALTH BED WHERE PEOPLE CAN STABILIZE. AND THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS US TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE PEOPLE IN HOUSING IS AFTER THAT STABILIZATION ASK A QUESTION. YEAH. IS THAT THE ONE OFF 45 OR IS THAT THE SELECTION CENTER? 1 1 45 SOUTH CENTRAL. YEAH. UM, AND THEN, SO THEN THE THIRD PILLAR IS THAT IS VERY CONNECTED TO NUMBER TWO WHEN WE HAVE PRIVATE SECURITY AND DPD AND OUTREACH ENGAGING PEOPLE DOWNTOWN AND THEY CAN'T SLEEP DOWNTOWN. MM-HMM . THEY'VE GOTTA BE ABLE TO GO TO SHELTER AND WE HAVE TO HAVE A SPACE OPEN AT SHELTER. SO THE THIRD PILLAR IS SHELTER. WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT SHELTER IS THE PLACE WHERE NOT ONLY DO YOU GET WRAPAROUND SERVICES, BUT YOU GET HOUSED. AND SO ACCELERATING HOUSING AND DIVERSION OUT OF SHELTER AND TARGETING RESOURCES IN THAT WAY MEANS THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR FOLKS WHO ARE SAYING YES TO SHELTER. AND I THINK KEVIN CAN REPORT TO YOU TOO, THAT WE'VE HAD AN OVERWHELMING YES TO WANTING TO GO INTO SHELTER, WHICH IS AMAZING. AND IT SPEAKS TO OUR SHELTER PROVIDERS, RIGHT, WHO ARE [00:25:01] PROVIDING SERVICE. BUT THOSE SHELTER PROVIDERS ALSO NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE EXIT PATHWAYS FOR FOLKS. SO WE'RE WRAPPING PEOPLE IN CARE WITH A PERMANENT HOUSING OUTCOME, AND THAT'S HOW WE ALWAYS HAVE SPACE AVAILABLE IN SHELTER. AND MORE PEOPLE SAY YES, BECAUSE WE CAN ENGAGE PEOPLE IN A DIFFERENT WAY. YEAH. NOT ONLY ARE YOU GETTING SERVICES, BUT SHELTER'S THE PLACE WHERE YOU GET HOUSED . AND SO THAT'S GOOD. YEAH. AND THAT'S, SO THESE ARE THE, THE THREE STRATEGIES THAT WE'VE TESTED IN THAT WE ARE GOING TO WORK VERY HARD TO FUEL RIGHT. AS OUR NEXT PHASE OF TRANSFORMATION SO THAT WE CAN REPLICATE THIS MODEL ALL OVER DALLAS AND COLLIN COUNTY. SO AS OUR OUTREACH ARE ENGAGING PEOPLE ON THE STREETS IN DIFFERENT QUADRANTS OF THE COUNTY, THERE'S, THEY'RE PRACTICING THIS NEW WAY OF ENGAGING PEOPLE, BRINGING IN THE SHELTER AND SHELTER'S THE PLACE WHERE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, HAVING BEDS AVAILABLE WHERE WE CAN HOUSE PEOPLE. SO COOL. YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. THAT'S DOWNTOWN. YEAH, THE ENTIRE, SO THE CB CENTER WAS CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT FOUNDED BY THE FREEWAY WASTE. OKAY, WELL WHY IS 1 1 1 SPENT? SO THAT'S HOW WE ORIGINALLY CONCEPTUALIZED JUST SITE MANAGEMENT. OKAY. SO THE, ONE OF THE, THESE ARE SORT OF NEW, UM, THIS IS A NEW EVOLUTION OF OUR ENCAMPMENT RESPONSE WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY SAYING IF WE'RE GOING TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO KIND OF MANAGING THESE PUBLIC SPACES, THEN WITH THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESPONSE TEAM THAT KEVIN'S IMPLEMENTING, HOW CAN WE ACTIVELY MANAGE THE SPACE SO THAT WE'RE PROACTIVELY ENGAGING PEOPLE? AND TO DO THAT, I THINK KEVIN ORIGINALLY CONCEPTUALIZED HAVING TWO ZONE TWO ZONES GOTCHA. THAT COULD HAVE TEAMS TARGETED TO THEM IN A MORE STRATEGIC WAY. SO THIS WAS THE NEWER ZONE BASE, NOT THE ONE LAST YEAR. THAT WAS THREE, THREE SECTION. YEAH. THIS IS ACTUALLY AFTER THAT WAS SEVERAL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS IS TO ACTUALLY MANAGE THE SPACE. OKAY, GOT IT. AND THAT WAS THE, THAT WAS SMALLER AND THEN THIS ITERATION WAS THE ENTIRETY. OKAY. YEAH. IN THE CCB D OPERATOR, I KNOW THAT THE, THE THREE PHASES THAT WERE IN THE LAST YEAR, UM, IT WENT OUTSIDE THE SALARY OF THE CBD INTO THE SOUTHERN REGION OF UM, UH, THE CEDARS THAT THE YEAH. AND THAT PART IS STILL, AND THE CEDARS IS, AND ALL OF THAT IS STILL BEING LOOKED AFTER, BUT THIS SPECIFICALLY WAS LET GO BACK AND YEAH. CD SO, UM, JUST THE NEXT SLIDE, WE JUST, AGAIN, WE, I THINK IN TERMS OF WHAT'S NEXT IS WE WILL BE FUNDRAISING FOR THOSE THREE STRATEGIES THAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT SO THAT WE CAN PACKAGE THIS AND MAKE SURE NOT ONLY DO WE MAINTAIN AN EFFECTIVE EVENT TO TO STREET HOMELESSNESS DOWNTOWN, WHICH AGAIN, THAT WILL TAKE ONGOING AND CONSTANT MANAGEMENT OF THAT SPACE AND HAVING SHELTER BEDS AVAILABLE, BUT ALSO THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CONTINUE TO GO INTO OTHER HIGH PRIORITY AND HIGH RISK ENCAMPMENTS. SIMULTANEOUS TO THAT, WE STILL HAVE OUR, UM, COORDINATED OUTREACH TEAMS WHO WILL BE IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES FOR BRINGING PEOPLE INTO SHELTER, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THE GEOGRAPHIES THAT THEY COVER AS WELL. UM, AND THEN THE LAST SLIDE WAS JUST LARGELY AROUND PERMANENT SUPPORT HOUSING. AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S NECESSARILY RELEVANT TO THIS CONVERSATION, BUT WE LOOK AT EDUCATION WORK. YEAH. FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN. THE CONSOLIDATED, THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN IS FOR THE CITY. SO WE AS MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE, UM, A LOT OF FUNDING FOR, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. AND SO THAT'S OUR PLAN. UM, HOUSING BOARD RECEIVES FUNDS DIRECTLY FROM HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND THEN VOUCHERS ARE KIND OF PACKAGED INTO THAT, BUT THOSE GO TO OUR PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITIES. SO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SAME SYSTEM. OKAY. YEAH. SO THIS IS PART OF, YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN THE, ABOUT TO BE IN THE SECOND YEAR A BIANNUAL NOTEBOOK, BUT THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS THE VOUCHERS. OKAY. I MIGHT GO WELL AROUND, IF YOU JUST GO TO THE APPENDIX THOUGH, TO MAYBE ONE DOWN. I DID WANNA JUST POINT, IF YOU WANNA LOOK AT THIS AFTER, WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT JUST THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE ACCESSING THE SYSTEM. AND THIS IS, UM, THIS IS NEW PEOPLE ACCESSING THE SYSTEM EACH YEAR. AND I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU AN INDICATION OF LIKE SCALE WHERE YOU SEE EACH YEAR, LIKE WE'RE SEEING RECORD HIGH NUMBERS IN TERMS OF NEED, AND WE ANTICIPATE WITH SOME OF THE BUDGET CUTS THAT WE'LL BE SEEING THIS YEAR, THAT THAT WILL ONLY INCREASE. AND SO AS A COMMUNITY, WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE PRIORITY FOR FUNDING, RIGHT? BECAUSE AS MORE PEOPLE COME IN, THE WAY THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HOLD AT BAY INCREASES IS MEETING THAT DEMAND STRATEGICALLY. AND SO YOU SEE ON THIS SIDE, AS DEMAND HAS INCREASED, WE'VE ALSO INCREASED REHOUSING PLACEMENTS, WHICH HAS ALLOWED US TO MANAGE FOR THAT AND STILL GET REDUCTIONS, NET REDUCTIONS. UM, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING REALLY HARD OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS WITH THE CITY AND THE COUNTY TO FIGURE OUT, 'CAUSE EVERYONE'S FACING TOUGH BUDGET YEARS. BUT AS WE CONSIDER MANAGING OUR PUBLIC SPACES AS A VERY IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS DEMANDING [00:30:01] US FOR, WE'RE ALSO GONNA HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THEN HOW DO WE HAVE DEDICATED REVENUE SIMILAR TO POLICE AND FIRE AND UTILITIES AND ALL THESE OTHER PUBLIC SERVICES THAT ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO DELIVER OUTCOMES FOR THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE TO START THINKING ABOUT WHAT IS A DEDICATED REVENUE SOURCE FOR MANAGING THESE PUBLIC SPACES, WHICH MEANS REHOUSING AND OUTREACH AND THINGS THAT GET PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, KEEPING THE MECHANISM OFF THE STREET, KEEPING THE MECHANISM GOING. SO, OKAY, SO, AND YEAH, WITH THAT WE'VE TURN IT BACK OVER SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. YEAH. UM, I JUST, I'LL, I'LL START WITH THE QUESTIONS. UM, WITH THE, UM, I KNOW THAT THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, THEY WERE PER PURSUING AN INTERIM HOUSING MODEL, UH, SORT OF AN INTERMEDIATE. SO WITH THE THREE PILLARS OF ENHANCED INTER UH, INTER INTERVENTIONS, UM, HOW DOES THAT PURSUIT OF INTERIM HOUSING HOUSING FIT INTO THESE, UM, THESE THREE PILLARS? IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ALMOST STILL NECESSARY. WELL, LET ME, LET ME TELL YOU WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS AND THEN SARAH CAN ANSWER THAT. UM, THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE ARE COMING BACK TO HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS, UH, THEORETICALLY IN AUGUST, BUT WHENEVER THE COMMITTEES ARE STOOD BACK UP, UM, TO TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS FOR THAT. UM, BUT OF COURSE, AS I HAVE TALKED ABOUT MANY TIMES, AND AS THE COUNT AS HHS IS AWARE, THIS IS A PROCESS THAT WOULD BE OUTSIDE OF OUR CURRENT FLOW. AND SO IT WOULD BE ADDING TIME TO THAT. HOWEVER, I THINK WE'VE SEEN A WAY, UM, AND SARAH CAN SPEAK TO THIS, WHERE IT COULD BE USEFUL, BUT AGAIN, YOU'RE LOOKING AT MONEY, STAFF CAPACITY OPERATIONS, THINGS WE DON'T HAVE ANSWERS FOR OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITAL OUTLAY, WHICH IS SMALL. SO I, I GUESS MY TAKE ON THIS IS IT'S JUST ULTIMATELY WE DO HAVE SOME GAPS IN THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? LIKE THERE ARE GAPS. AND I THINK WE'VE EVEN LEARNED A LOT OVER THE LAST YEAR ABOUT WHAT THOSE GAPS ARE. I MEAN, ONE IS WE HAVE, 'CAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE INITIAL CONCEPT WAS LIKE A 50 UNIT TEMPORARY HOUSING SITUATION. YEAH. SO THE TEMPORARY STAYS THAT WE'RE SEEING ARE REQUIRED RIGHT NOW, THAT WHERE THERE'S A GAP ARE MENTAL HEALTH BEDS. THAT IS A GAP IN THE COMMUNITY. AND I KNOW FIFA AND THE COUNTY ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON HOW COULD WE EXPAND THE BEDS SIMILAR TO WHAT'S AT THE DEFLECTION CENTER TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT NEED. THAT'S A GAP THAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON AS A COMMUNITY. AND THAT CAME OUT CLEAR IN TERMS OF OTHER SHORT TERM STAYS. LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE AGREE WITH TRANSITIONS. I MEAN, A LOT OF WHAT HAPPENS AT THE BRIDGE IS, IS A TRANSITION FROM A STATE OF HOMELESSNESS TO HOUSING. AND I THINK THE CONCEPT OF HAVING SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO TRANSITION IS IMPORTANT. BUT WE, I THINK, ARE REALIZING THAT THERE'S A ROLE, SOME THAT A BIT OF THAT HAPPENS AT SHELTER, BUT THEN ONCE SOMEONE GETS INTO PERMANENT HOUSING, THE TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT'S PROVIDED IS REALLY IMPORTANT. SO WE DON'T, THAT PART DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN A NEW CAPITAL BUILD, BUT IT MEANS LET'S PUT OUR MONEY INTO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, WHICH MEANS SOMEONE'S PERMANENTLY HOUSING. WE HAVE THESE TRANSITIONAL SUPPORTS WHICH ARE CLINICAL FOR PEOPLE TRANSITIONING FROM HOMELESSNESS INTO PERMANENT HOUSING. BUT I KNOW AT THE BRIDGE THEY'RE PROVIDING A LOT OF SUPPORT. AND SO IT'S NOT ABOUT CREATING ANOTHER CENTER TO PROVIDE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SUPPORT. IT'S HOW DO WE TRANSITION PEOPLE, MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ALWAYS BEDS AVAILABLE AT THE BRIDGE, AND THEN ONCE HAVE TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT. SO GETTING SOMEONE INTO PERMANENT HOUSING WITH RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT. SO NOT A NEW CAPITAL BUILD FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I DO THINK WE NEED CAPITAL BUILD OR WE DO NEED INVESTMENT IN NEW MENTAL HEALTH DEBTS SET UP. YEAH, I I AGREE WITH THAT. I'M GLAD YOU PUT THERE ON THAT. AND THEN MY LA UM, MY OTHER QUESTION, UM, HOW DID YOU GET 20 SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE CONCENTRATED IN ONE AREA OF THE CITY? BECAUSE I MEAN, YOU'RE NOT, YOU GO TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AND HAVE SOME DOWNTOWN, SO HOW, WHERE, WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM? ARE THEY COMING FROM A DOWNTOWN APARTMENT? ARE THEY, UM, UM, ARE THEY GETTING DISCHARGED FROM A ACUTE MENTAL HEALTHCARE FACILITY, UM, TO THE, TO DOWNTOWN? BECAUSE THERE'S, WE HAVE, UH, 24 7 SHELTER SERVICES. HOW DO WE GET 20 SEVERELY MILLION PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN ONE AREA? WHERE ARE THEY COMING? SO I MEAN, I THINK YOU, IN URBAN COURTS, YOU GUYS CAN TALK A BIT ABOUT THIS 'CAUSE IT'S DYNAMIC, RIGHT? THESE ARE VERY UNIQUE CASES ONE BY ONE THAT WE'VE HAD TO CASE CONFERENCE. BUT GENERALLY URBAN CORES TEND TO BE A PLACE WHERE YOU SEE A, A MORE DENSE POPULATION OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS BECAUSE THERE ARE SERVICES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, THERE'S TRANSPORTATION NODES IN A DOWNTOWN AREA. THERE'S ALL THE THINGS THAT MEAN THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE PEOPLE COMING TO YOUR DOWNTOWN URBAN CORE. UM, AND SO I THINK DOWNTOWN'S JUST NATURALLY BRING MORE PEOPLE INSIDE THAT WAY. I THINK KEVIN COULD PROBABLY TELL YOU THAT IN EACH QUADRANT OF THE COUNTY, THERE'S A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE VERY SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, BUT THERE'S REASONS WHY [00:35:01] THERE MIGHT BE A HIGHER CONCENTRATION IN DOWNTOWN. THEY'RE NOT, IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO FOR THEMSELVES, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY GOT THERE, YOU KNOW? YEAH. WELL AND I MEAN, I, TO SARAH'S POINT, I'VE SEEN, I HAVE SEEN THAT ALL OVER THE CITY. I THINK WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT DOWNTOWN IS IT'S A BUILT ENVIRONMENT, UM, THAT DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OF PLACES THAT WOULD BE EASY TO HIDE. PEOPLE ARE HERE QUITE OFTEN AND SO IT'S JUST MORE VISIBLE. UM, BUT IN TERMS OF SERVICES AS WELL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOWN HERE WITH SERVICES WHO NEED IT, BUT THEN YOU ALSO HAVE, UM, PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE BECAUSE THE STREET BEATING DRAWS PEOPLE HERE. UM, AND ALL OF THAT IS OF A PIECE. BUT KEVIN'S TEAM WILL BE ABLE TO TELL US WHAT THEY'RE SEEING, UM, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, DATA THAT WE NOW HAVE. OKAY. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. YEAH. ALRIGHT, WELL I'LL TURN YOUR QUESTIONS HERE. AND I SAW YOUR FINGER FIRST, SO MR. STILL HAVE, UM, THIS DOES AND DOESN'T HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. YOU JUST, YEAH, I'VE HAD THIS QUESTION FOREVER AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE IS AN ANSWER. IT'S OUT OF OUR, OUT OF OUR HANDS. BUT, UM, WHEN I CAN I GO TO THE ALL NEIGHBORS COALITION? YEAH. AND I WAS THERE THIS WEEK AND I THINK SOMEBODY FROM COLLIN COUNTY WAS THERE. AND I ACTUALLY HEARD, LIKE MANY MOONS AGO, A GUY COME FROM LIN COUNTY TALKING ABOUT ALL THE STUFF THEY'RE DOING, BUT, AND I WANTED TO RAISE MY HAND AND HALF DIDN'T BECAUSE WAS BEING REALLY NICE. THERE'S NO SHELTERS. WE'RE NOT A SINGLE SHELTER. SO WE'RE PAYING FOR, WE'RE PAYING THE BILL. YES. SO, I MEAN, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, AND I CAN'T CONFIRM THIS, THE BRIDGE IS THE ONLY SINGLE ADULT SHELTER IN THE COC. OKAY. AND FAMILY GATEWAY NORTH, THE ONLY FAMILY SHELTER, WELL, AUSTIN STREET IS THE SINGLE WELL, BUT FOR 18 AND UP THERE AND THEN SAME OLD STREET FOR IRV. RIGHT? YEAH. I WILL SAY THOUGH, KEEP GOING WITH YOUR QUESTION. SORRY. OH, IS THERE ANY WAY TO, TO, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE BUDGET PROBLEMS WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS YEAR? 'CAUSE I KNEW AS SUE'S ONLY BELMONT, WHY CAN'T WE LIKE CIRCLE THE, THE WAGONS AND SAY YOU NEED TO GET, GET SHELTERS FOR YOUR PEOPLE. WE DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY . YEAH. WELL, I MEAN WE, SO ONE OF THE BIGGEST, I MEAN ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLES OF THE CONTINUUM OF CARE IS TO MEET WITH ALL THOSE JURISDICTIONS MULTIPLE TIMES A YEAR TO SUPPORT ALIGNMENT OF RESOURCES. OKAY. TO PRIORITIES. WE HAVE A NEW CONTRACT WITH IRVING WHERE THEY'RE FUNDING DIVERSION AND BOTH OF MANY OF THE CITIES ACROSS DOW AND CONN COUNTY HAVE TARGETED RESOURCES FOR HOMELESSNESS. AND NOW WE'RE USING THOSE RESOURCES TO BRING THEM TOGETHER AND ALIGN THEM TO THE, THE STRATEGY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT TODAY. OKAY. SO THOSE CITIES ARE PAYING AND YEAH, I WOULD, WE DEFINITELY ALWAYS ADVISE THEM NOT TO BUILD A NEW SHELTER. YEAH. IT'S NOT AT THAT SCALE. LIKE, I THINK TO IF WE, IF WE PLAY THAT OUT, RIGHT, RIGHT. WE WE'RE GONNA HAVE A $28 MILLION BUDGET ASK NEXT YEAR. AND SO IF WE FOCUSED ON BUILDING A SHELTER NEXT YEAR OR EVEN STANDING UP A SHELTER AT FAIR PARK OR SOMEWHERE IN COLLIN COUNTY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, THEN WE HAVE 700 PEOPLE AT THE BRIDGE. MM-HMM . ANOTHER 400 AT AWESOME STREET, THEN WE HAVE 900 PEOPLE. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BIG YOU CREATE THE SHELTER. 'CAUSE IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY'LL COME, WE'LL FILL IT. YEP. AND SO LET'S SAY YOU HAVE 900 PEOPLE AT YOUR NEW SHELTER. WE'VE SPENT $20 MILLION TO TRY TO STAND THAT UP, MAYBE $30 MILLION TO STAND UP THAT SHELTER. AND WE'RE SO LEFT WITH NO RESOURCES TO HOUSE ANYBODY. AND I THINK THAT'S THE DYNAMIC OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING HAPPENING ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN A CITY LIKE IN A, IN A TEXAS CITY WHERE WE DON'T HAVE DEDICATED RESOURCES FOR HOMELESS RESPONSE, THERE'S NO WAY WE'RE GONNA GET A $20 MILLION, UH, RAISE PLUS ANOTHER $30 MILLION TO WAIT SHELTER. SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE ENGAGING THOSE CITIES IN IS WHAT DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU COULD TARGET TOWARDS SOME OF THESE STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS LIKE DIVERSION OR, UM, REHOUSING, RAPID REHOUSING. AND I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY MAKING PROGRESS WITH THAT. WELL, WE HAVE MEASURABLE TOOLS FOR THAT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I'M HOPING WE SEE SOME PROGRESS THERE BECAUSE IT JUST MAKES ME INSANE. YEAH. WE MAP MAKES ME NUTS. WE MAP THE RESOURCES THAT ALL OF THOSE CITIES ARE CONTRIBUTING FOR SURE. YEAH. AND THE SCALE'S A LOT DIFFERENT. I MEAN THE SCALE IN COLLIN COUNTY, 88% OF THE HOMELESSNESS IS IN DALLAS COUNTY VERSUS LIN COUNTY. SO THANK YOU. YEAH. ALRIGHT. UH, MR. EINSTEIN, YOU NEED TWO MINUTES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AS ALWAYS. UM, I LOVE WHAT YOU SAID, I'VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE. HAVING AN ONGOING REVENUE STREAM LIKE WE GIVE TO POLICE FIRE MM-HMM . UM, I THINK IT'S BRILLIANT. WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHT BEHIND THAT AND AND HOW TO GET IT TO BE FUNCTIONAL [00:40:01] AND THEN WHERE WOULD THE MONEY BE STREAMED THROUGH? I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE LOOKING, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO LOOK AT ALL, ALL SOURCES AVAILABLE AND I THINK WE'RE LOOKING TO SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORING, UM, COMMUNITIES OR OTHER CONTINUUMS OF CARE THAT HAVE DONE THAT. I THINK WE NEED TO, OUR STRATEGY RIGHT NOW IS REALLY TRYING TO MAP OUT WHAT THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LOOK LIKE AND THEN SHOPPING THAT AROUND TO, WITH POLICY MAKERS TO GET SUPPORT BASED ON WHAT WE THINK MAY BE IN THIS CONTEXT. SO THERE, BUT CONTINUUMS OF CARE LEVERAGING A VARIETY OF THINGS LIKE FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAX, WHICH I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT WOULD BE WHAT WE WOULD DO LOCALLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, MIAMI HAS HAD A FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAX THAT FUNDED THEIR HOMELESS TRUST FOR 25 YEARS. THAT COMMUNITY USED PARKING TAX, UH, VERY, VERY, VERY RIGHT NOW, LIKE ARE THERE, YOU KNOW, PENN TO A DOLLAR THAT COULD GO TO HOMELESSNESS OR THAT ARE CURRENTLY PARKING TAX. SO THOSE MIGHT NOT BE THE RIGHT STRUCTURE FOR DALLAS, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE IMPLEMENTED THAT. I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S, SO WE'RE GONNA NEED TO LIMP ALONG AND FEEL LIKE FOR A COUPLE OF MORE YEARS AND KIND OF BRINGING THE RESOURCES TOGETHER UNTIL WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT, WELL, THE IMPORTANT THING I THINK TO SAY IS THAT WHEN WE SAY IT'S GOOD, GOOD FOR DALLAS, WE ALSO TALKING ABOUT THE LARGER CONTINUUM. YEAH. SO THE POINT IS TO YEAH. JUST TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY CAN EQUITABLY CONTRIBUTE TO, WHICH I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT. MM-HMM . YEAH. AND I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER WAY ALSO TO ENGAGE THE CITIES RIGHT. AND BRING THE CITIES IN TO THIS AS WELL. SO THAT, THAT IS FASCINATING. I THINK THAT IS, UM, AS YOU CONTINUE RESEARCHING OTHER CITIES THAT WE WOULD LOVE TO ASK YOU, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT MORE, UM, HOW THAT WORKS AND YEAH, THAT'S FASCINATING. UM, ALSO, HOW CAN WE, AS A COMMISSION BE HELPFUL TO YOU AND, UM, THE COC AND HOUSING BOARD? WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU BACK WITH OUR DISTRICTS AND REPRESENTING OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS? I MEAN, I THINK OBVIOUSLY THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS GROUP IS YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND EVERY DAY, AND THAT'S EVERYTHING, RIGHT? , BECAUSE I THINK, UH, JUST BEING OUR EYES AND EARS OF THE PERCEPTION ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW ON THE GROUND IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE'RE WORKING REALLY HARD TO ADDRESS ISSUES AND WE RELY ON INPUT ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING FROM ALL OF YOU. ULTIMATELY. I MEAN, AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S NOT THE DATA THAT IS NECESSARILY MOVING PEOPLE, IT'S HOW OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS REALLY FEELING ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING ON HOMELESSNESS. AND I WAS GLAD TO SEE A BIT OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE CITY SURVEY THIS YEAR, BUT THOSE THINGS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT. LIKE HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITIES THAT THEY LIVE AND WORK IN IS IMPORTANT FOR US. KEEPING OUR FINGER ON THE PULSE OF THE ISSUE. AND OBVIOUSLY AS WE ARE ADVOCATING FOR BUDGET AND OTHER, JUST MAKING HOMELESSNESS A PRIORITY IS IMPORTANT IN THE CITY BECAUSE THERE'S LOTS OF COMPETING PRIORITIES RIGHT NOW. SO THANK YOU. YEAH. THANK YOU. UH, ANYONE ELSE HERE? OKAY, UH, WE'RE GONNA GO TO VIRTUAL LAND AND WE WILL, UM, LAWYER, I CAN'T TELL. UM, YOU HAVE, UH, COMMISSIONER JACOB, REVEREND COMMISSIONER BOONE, UH, AND COMMISSIONER FLORE. OKAY. LET'S START WITH COMMISSIONER FLORES. HI. GOOD AFTERNOON. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UM, FOR THE WORK AND SHARING THE, THE INFORMATION WITH US. UM, I'M, I'M INTERESTED IN LEARNING A BIT MORE ABOUT PHASE ONE AND THE TIMELINE THAT YOU HAVE ESTIMATED FOR PHASE ONE. IF, IF THAT IS SOMETHING YOU'RE ABLE TO SHARE NOW, AND THEN WHEN WILL WE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FUTURE PHASES? UM, I IMAGINE YOU MAY HAVE TO REVIEW SOME OF THE METRICS FROM MAY PHASE ONE TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHAT THE NEXT FEW PHASES WILL LOOK LIKE, BUT I'D JUST LOVE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. SO PHASE ONE WE WERE CONSIDERING THEM AS OF MAY 20TH. OKAY. UM, AND SO NOW WE'RE REALLY OBVIOUSLY CONTINUING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP DOWNTOWN CLEAR BY ENSURING THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE A BED AVAILABLE AT THE BRIDGE, OR AUSTIN STREET TO BRING PEOPLE, WHICH MEANS THAT WE'RE STARTING TO ACCELERATE HOUSING PLACEMENTS OUT OF THE BRIDGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE SHELTER BEDS ARE AVAILABLE AS WE FINISH OUT PHASE ONE, PHASE TWO IS GOING TO BE MAINTAINING AND END DOWNTOWN AND THINKING ABOUT OTHER HIGH RISK, HIGH PRIORITY ENCAMPMENTS ACROSS DALLAS COUNTY. THAT'S ALSO, UM, IN LEAD UP TO FIFA. AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO SAY WE'RE NOT CLOSING ENCAMPMENTS JUST BECAUSE FIFA IS COMING, BUT WHAT WE WANT TO AVOID [00:45:01] IS A SITUATION WHERE WE SEE A TEMPORARY SHELTER STOOD UP, YOU KNOW, A MONTH BEFORE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SAW THIS HAPPEN IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE THE SUPER BOWL WHERE $17 MILLION WAS SPENT ON AN INTERIM SHELTER OVER THREE MONTHS. AND SO WE WOULD LIKE, WE WANT TO AVOID THAT BY MAKING SURE THAT WE KNOW WHERE THE HIGH RISK ENCAMPMENTS ARE ACROSS THE CITY AND WE CAN START TACKLING AS MANY OF THOSE AS POSSIBLE 12 MONTHS OR 12 MONTHS. I SHOULDN'T BE LESS THAN 12 MONTHS. UM, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH OF AN IMPACT ON STREET HOMELESSNESS. SWS, WE DON'T FEEL THE NEED TO GO IN THAT DIRECTION, SO. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THEN JUST ONE MORE QUESTION IF THAT'S OKAY. CHAIR, UH, GARDNER. YES. YOU MENTIONED 700 NEW, UH, PEOPLE BECOMING HOMELESS EACH MONTH. IS THAT A COMBINATION OF BOTH COLLIN COUNTY AND DALLAS? AND I MAY HAVE MISHEARD, BUT I THOUGHT I HEARD 700 BEING CALLED OUT. YEAH, THAT'S DALLAS. THAT'S DALLAS AND COLLIN COUNTY. ALL THE DATA THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS DALLAS AND COLLIN COUNTY JUST BECAUSE WE WORK REGIONALLY. YEAH. OKAY. AND YOU SAID 88% OF THOSE ARE IN DALLAS? YES, CORRECT. OKAY. JUST, ALRIGHT. THAT, THAT IS IT FOR ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER FLORES. UM, WE'RE GONNA GO TO, UH, THE REVEREND COMMISSIONER BOONE. I'M GONNA UNMUTE QUESTIONS. SARAH, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UM, SO THIS IS SORT OF ANECDOTAL, YOU KNOW, I SPENT A LOT OF TIME DOWNTOWN. UM, BUT I DO HAVE CONCERNS THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF ENGAGEMENT I SEE WITH, UH, OUR NEIGHBORS, UH, DOWNTOWN, UH, SEEMS TO BE WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT OR SECURITY. UM, SO OUT OF THOSE 280, UH, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN, IN PHASE ONE, HOW MANY OF THEM SPENT A NIGHT IN DALLAS COUNTY JAIL? I DO NOT HAVE DATA ON THAT. NOT DATA ON THAT. ARE WE, WE CAN TELL YOU ARE WE TRACKING ALL COMMISSIONER? WE CAN TELL YOU THE NUMBER OF, OF BOOKINGS THAT IDENTIFY AS HOMELESS, BUT IN TERMS OF HOW THOSE CONNECT TO DOWNTOWN, UM, KEVIN MIGHT HAVE SOME ANECDOTAL INFORMATION, BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT WE, I'M NOT SURE THAT WE DO. UM, AND I THINK WE CAN MAYBE GO INTO THE NUANCES OF THAT IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION A LITTLE BIT MORE. I DO KNOW THAT EVERYONE WHO WAS OUT THERE THOUGH, AND SARAH CAN TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, WAS MET WITH, UM, ROBUST CASE MANAGEMENT BECAUSE THOSE FOLKS WERE ALL HOUSED. SO REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY CAME FROM, THEY WERE MET WITH, UM, OUTREACH THAT ENSURED THAT THEY MOVED INTO COUNSELING. UM, AND SORT OF GIVEN THE, THE GOOD NEWS OUT OF THE, UM, POINT IN TIME COUNT, UM, AND SEEING THE DECLINE IN TRENDS OR AT LEAST THE, THE SORT OF STABILIZATION, UM, WHY DO, WHAT DO YOU THINK WE'RE, WHY DO YOU THINK WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE IN, UH, CAPACITY OR, OR FOLKS RESOURCES BEING USED AT THE BRIDGE? IS IT DIRECTLY TIED TO PHASE ONE? SORRY, CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? UM, WHY ARE WE SEEING, WHAT, WHY ARE WE SEEING AN INCREASE IN SERVICES AT THE BRIDGE AND A DECLINE IN, IN HOMELESSNESS OR AT LEAST A SORT OF FLAT LINE WITH HOMELESSNESS? WHY ARE WE SEEING AN INCREASE IN, IN SERVICES AT THE BRIDGE? IS IT RELATED TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA? WELL, OKAY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HELPS ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. SO THIS MIGHT BE A BETTER WAY FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS. OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, THERE ARE 8,700 PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING INTO HOMELESSNESS. SURE. AND WE'RE MEETING THAT, WE'RE MEETING THAT 8,700 WITH INCREASES IN DIVERSION AND INCREASES IN REHOUSING. AND SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS, DESPITE OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR THERE BEING MORE DEMAND, THAT DEMAND IS MET WITH REHOUSING, WHICH MEANS THAT AT A POINT IN TIME WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS ON ANY GIVEN DAY, WHICH IS WHAT YOU SEE AND FEEL AT A SNAPSHOT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. AND SO WE MEASURE POINT IN TIME BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IS ALLOWS US TO UNDERSTAND THE TRENDS. THE POINT IN TIME IS IMPORTANT [00:50:01] BECAUSE THE ONLY THING THAT WE USE THE POINT IN TIME FOR IS TO KNOW IF WE HAVE ALIGNED ENOUGH RESOURCES TO MEET THE ANNUAL DEMAND. SO IF WE SEE THE POINT IN TIME COUNT SHOOT UP NEXT YEAR, IT MEANS THAT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE CAME IN AND WE DIDN'T ALIGN DIVERSION AND REHOUSING AT SCALE THE SCALE THAT WE NEEDED TO. SO IT'S JUST AN INDICATION OF ARE WE RESOURCING THE SYSTEM TO THE EXTENT THAT WE NEED TO. SURE. SEB, JUST A DIFFERENT WAY THEN. WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON WHY WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE IN, IN, UH, SERVICES AT THE BRIDGE? DO YOU MEAN AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ACCESSING THE BRIDGE? IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN? YEAH, WELL GENERALLY IT'S JUST WHY IS HOMELESSNESS INCREASING? AND I THINK WHAT WE HAVE REALIZED IS, WELL, WHAT THE RESEARCH HAS CONSISTENTLY SHOWED IS RATES OF HOMELESSNESS AND THE NATION FOLLOW THE COST OF HOUSING VERY, VERY SPECIFICALLY. AND SO THE, AND WHEN PEOPLE CANNOT COVER THE GAP BETWEEN THEIR WAGES AND THE COST OF HOUSING, THAT'S WHEN HOMELESSNESS INCREASES. AND THAT GAP HAS WIDENED AND ONLY GOTTEN WORSE OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS. AND SO THERE IS THIS FLOOD OF PEOPLE ALL YEAR WHO FALL OUT OF THEIR HOUSING AS A RESULT OF THAT. AND SO WE WILL NOT TURN OFF THAT TAP UNTIL WE SOLVE THE BIG STRUCTURAL ISSUES THAT ARE CAUSING PEOPLE TO FALL OUT OF THEIR HOUSING. AND THAT IS SORT OF A LONGER TERM STRUCTURAL LIKE POLICY DECISIONS THAT WE'VE GOTTA MAKE AS A COMMUNITY TO TURN OFF THE TAP. UM, BUT UNTIL WE DO THAT, IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE THIS DEDICATED INVESTMENT THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. LIKE UNTIL WE SOLVE THAT ISSUE AND TURN OFF THE TAP, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE INTERVENTIONS THAT CAN, AND, AND TO GO, TO GO BACK TO SOMETHING THAT SARAH WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, IT'S NOT JUST THE BRIDGE THAT'S SEEING THAT INFLUX THAT'S INDICATIVE OF, OF ALL SHELTERS, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE REALLY FOCUSING ON HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN WE HOUSE OUT OF THE SHELTER TO CREATE MORE SPACE FOR THE EXISTING GROUP. YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE. ALL RIGHT. AND THAT'S YOUR TIME COMMISSIONER. THANK YOU. UH, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONER MATT. JACOB, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. THANK YOU. THANKS FOR Y'ALL'S PRESENTATION TODAY. I JUST HAVE A FEW QUICK QUESTIONS RELATED TO SOME OF THE DATA AND THE STORYTELLING ON THE SLIDES. UH, SLIDE FOUR WHERE YOU GIVE, UM, THE POINT IN TIME, UH, COUNT NUMBERS, WHAT'S THE SPLIT BETWEEN DALLAS AND COLLIN COUNTIES ON THOSE FIGURES? SO I CAN GET YOU THE EXACT NUMBERS, BUT IT'S, IT USUALLY HOVERS AROUND LIKE 85% OF THE HOMELESSNESS IS IN DALLAS COUNTY AND THE REMAINING IN COLLIN COUNTY, BUT I CAN CERTAINLY GIVE YOU THE BREAKDOWN WE HAVE. WE JUST PUBLISHED LIKE A VERY FULL REPORT THAT DIGS INTO ALL THE POINT IN TIME DATA IN TERMS OF DEMOGRAPHICS, SUBPOPULATIONS TRENDS AND ALL THAT. OKAY. AND THEN IS THERE A WAY TO SEGMENT THAT DATA EVEN FURTHER GRANULARLY FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS BY YES. CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT. OH, BY THIS CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT? I DON'T THINK WE HAVE IT BY CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT, BUT I CAN CERTAINLY LOOK FOR YOU. WE DEFINITELY HAVE IT. CITY OF DALLAS, LIKE IN ALL THE INDIVIDUAL CITIES BROKEN OUT WITH MAPPING SOFTWARE, I WOULD THINK THAT YOU'D BE ABLE TO. UM, AND THEN YOU TALK ABOUT THIS 15,968, UH, INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE, UH, I BELIEVE THAT'S ON SLIDE FOUR. I'LL LOOK AT IT AGAIN. UM, UH, MY APOLOGIES I SHOULDN'T. UM, 15,968 INDIVIDUALS HOUSED 90% DO NOT RETURN TO HOMELESSNESS. IS THAT A UNIQUE COUNT OR IS THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE CYCLED INTO OUT OF AND THEN BACK INTO THE SYSTEM? I MEAN BOTH. WELL, YES, IT'S BOTH THE, THE 6,968 INCLUDES PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE, UH, BEEN HOUSED IN 2021 AND THEN IN 2023 THEY FELL BACK INTO THE SYSTEM AND THEN WE HOUSED THEM AGAIN IN 2023. YES. THAT WOULD BE TWO HOUSING PLACEMENTS. OKAY. BUT DO WE TRACK THAT, UH, BASED ON HMIS UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS? DO WE TRACK A UNIQUE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS? YES. YES. OKAY. DO WE KNOW THAT UNIQUE NUMBER? YOU MEAN OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HOUSED TWICE? YEAH. OR MORE THAN TWICE. MORE THAN TWICE. LIKE PEOPLE OR, I MEAN ONE MORE THAN ONCE BASICALLY, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TRACKING THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TRACK, SO OH YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. UM, HEY, CAN I BACK UP BACK BACK TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT WANTING THE DATA BY COUNCIL DISTRICT? YEAH. THE, THE REASON WHY THIS IS JUST NOT A NATURAL PLACE FOR US TO GO IS WE WORK REGIONALLY AND HUMANS. SO YOU MIGHT HAVE SOMEONE WHO, IF YOU'RE LOOKING [00:55:01] AT THE UNSHELTERED NUMBER, THAT MIGHT BE ONE THING, BUT PEOPLE TEND, UNLESS THERE'S AN ENCAMPMENT, YOU MIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT BE IN ONE COUNCIL DISTRICT FOR ONE PART OF THE DAY AND ANOTHER COUNCIL DISTRICT AND THE OTHER PART OF THE DAY AND YOUR SERVICES. SO IT'S, THERE'S A DIFFERENT ADDRESS OF WHERE A SERVICE PROVIDER MIGHT BE VERSUS A DIFFERENT ADDRESS WHERE SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE BEEN FOUND VERSUS A DIFFERENT ADDRESS WHERE SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE BEEN REHOUSED. AND SO IT REALLY GOES BACK TO WHAT QUESTIONS YOU WANNA ANSWER. WELL, I MEAN, AND I ASKED THE QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY BY COUNCIL DISTRICT BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE PUTTING SO MUCH CREDENCE ON THE POINT IN TIME COUNT AS A WAY SO THAT YOU, UH, SO, UH, KNOWING WE HAVE ALIGNED ENOUGH RESOURCES TO MEET OUR ANNUAL DEMAND. YEAH. AND, UH, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE, UH, WE HEAR SO MUCH THAT, UH, UH, HOMELESSNESS ISN'T JUST A DOWNTOWN ISSUE. IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S EFFECTIVE, UH, AFFECTED IN ALL OF, UH, ALL AREAS OF DALLAS. SO IF WE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING, AT LEAST BASED IN, BASED ON YOUR MEASURE, UH, WHERE, UH, THE NUMBERS ARE IN A GIVEN, GIVEN COUNCIL DISTRICT, THEN WE'RE, THEN WE'RE ABLE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS ADEQUATE FUNDING AND RESOURCES IN EACH OF THE AREAS. SO, UM, AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONER JACOB, THAT IS YOUR TIME. AND , THAT CANNOT BE MY TIME. I'M SORRY, , THAT IS NOT TWO MINUTES. UM, BECAUSE IT, IT I MAKE O'CLOCK. THANK YOU. UH, WE APPRECIATE YOU. UM, AND, AND REALLY THAT LEADS TO A , UH, POINT OF ORDER. I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND, UH, MOVE TO SUSPEND THE RULES, UH, FOR AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF QUESTIONING, UM, UM, THAT IT'S GONNA BE DENIED BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE TWO MORE BIG ITEMS TO TACKLE AND I APPRECIATE THAT. BUT THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND AT LEAST NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED AND VOTED ON ACCORDINGLY. HOLD ON JUST A SECOND FOR A SECOND. SO, OKAY, SO THE MOTION IS TO, UM, DO A SECOND ROUND OF, UH, QUESTIONS. AND IT IS THE TIME IS, UM, 2:00 PM WE ARE HERE UNTIL 3:00 PM WE HAD THE ROOM RESERVED TILL 3:00 PM AND WE STILL HAVE, UM, OUR PRESENTATION FROM KEVIN ODEN. UH, WE STILL HAVE THE BRIEFING MEMO, UM, TWO BRIEFING MEMOS, A TASK FORCE UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT, UH, DISCUSSION AND VOTES OF, UH, WE HAVE FIVE, SIX MORE ITEMS. UH, IS THERE A SECOND FOR THE MOTION FOR A SECOND? ROUND SECOND. OKAY. SECOND BY COMMISSIONER, UH, REVEREND BOONE. UM, ANY DISCUSSION? IT'S NON DEBATABLE. IT'S NON DEBATABLE. WE JUST VOTE. OKAY. SO LET'S TAKE A VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR OF HAVING A SECOND ROUND OF DISCUSSION FOR, UM, ITEM UH, FOUR. SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. UH, THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. NAY, NAY. DO WE NEED TO GO DOWN? UM, DO WE WANNA DO A ROLL CALL VOTE, OR, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA DO ROLL CALL VOTE. UM, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AND STATE YOUR NAME. ALL RIGHT. DISTRICT ONE. UH, GO AHEAD. SORRY. YEAH, SORRY. DISTRICT ONE, WESLEY KEYS, PLEASE SAY AYE. YAY OR NAY. I IS HE IS HE ON? HE WAS ON. HE'S ON. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NEXT. OKAY. DISTRICT TWO. LINDA GARDNER, UH, NAY. DISTRICT THREE BACON. DISTRICT FOUR. JAMES HAWK. A DISTRICT FIVE. SO SANTOS NAY. DISTRICT SIX. JASMINE FLORES. AYE. DISTRICT SEVEN BROWN. I DON'T CLOSE SEARCH ROUND? YES. DISTRICT NINE, REVEREND MITCHELL BOONE. AYE. DISTRICT 10 DORY RIGHTS? NOT HERE. DISTRICT 11. ANGELA NOT HERE. DISTRICT 12. MATT JACOB. AYE. DISTRICT 13, DIANA EINSTEIN. NOT HERE. ROLL CALL. UH, AND DISTRICT 14. KELLY STILL ON? ALRIGHT. 1, 2, 3, 4. NO. 1, 2, 3, 4. YES. DID, DID, UH, WESLEY KEYS VOTE? HE DID NOT. AND NEITHER DID STEPPED OUT AND DIANA STEPPED OUT. SO, SO HALF THE VOTE AS I COUNTED HER VOTE AS A YES. IT SHOULD IT BE A NO, THAT'S, IT CAN BE A NO. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO VOTE YOU WANNA VOTE? SO AS LONG AS EVERYBODY'S PARA . ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 NOS, THREE YESES. RIGHT? OKAY. SO THE NOS HAVE IT, WE'RE JUST GONNA DO ONE ROUND AND WE'RE NOT DONE WITH THAT ONE ROUND. UM, BUT I APPRECIATE THE, UH, YEAH, THE DISCUSSION AND THE QUESTIONS FROM YOU COMMISSIONER JACOB. [01:00:01] UM, SO NOTHING WAS ANSWERED, BUT, OKAY. UH, THANK YOU SIR. UM, SO WE'RE GONNA GO TO VICE CHAIR BROWN FOR HER QUESTIONS. TWO MINUTES. TWO MINUTES. THANK YOU. UH, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE POINT IN TIME COUNT. CAN YOU TELL ME, UH, THE NEW POINT, TIME COUNT, HOW MANY OF THE HOMELESS SINGLE BLACK MEN ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS? I CAN DEFINITELY TELL YOU I HAVE IT RIGHT OFF THE BAT, BUT WE JUST PUBLISHED OUR DETAILED REPORT THAT, THAT DIG INTO DEMOGRAPHICS AND EQUITY MEASURES. SO LIKE, MAKE SURE THAT I COULD DO THAT ANSWER. OKAY. ACTUALLY, I CAN ANSWER IT IN A MINUTE IF YOU WANT. OKAY. I THINK THAT'S, SO, I, I WILL PIGGYBACK OFF OF, I KNOW MATT CAN'T TALK, BUT I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT FRUSTRATES HIM IS THAT SOMETIMES SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE WANT ANSWERED, WE DON'T NECESSARILY GET ANSWERED. AND SO IT'S NOT LIKE HE'S TRYING TO BE RUDE, I'M JUST USING MY TWO MINUTES TO EXPRESS THIS. HE'S NOT, HE'S NOT TRYING TO BE RUDE. HE JUST REALLY WANTS TO KNOW SO HE CAN PROPERLY ADVOCATE FOR HIS COMMUNITY. SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE SINCE I KNOW HE CAN'T TALK AGAIN, THE WHY. HE'S LIKE, I REALLY WANT MY QUESTIONS ANSWERED. SO THAT WAS ALL. WE GOOD? OKAY. UH, MR. HOFF, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO ASK? I WAS GONNA CLARIFY THE QUESTION, KIM, ABOUT THE DATA WE WANTED IN DISTRICTS, BECAUSE I WAS PART OF THE DRIVE ON THAT MM-HMM . IT WAS, IT WAS NOT NECESS, BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY KNOW FLOAT. YEAH. WHERE'S THE CASE REPORTED? THAT'S SORT OF A THING. WHERE DID IT START? IT DOESN'T REALLY MESS OUT IS THEY ENDED UP IN ANOTHER PLACE TO GET SOLVED. IT'S LIKE, DID WE REPORTED IT IN OUR DISTRICT ABOUT HOMELESSNESS, SORT OF JUST TO KNOW WHERE TO INITIATE THAT. SO LIKE, WHAT IS STREET HOMELESSNESS IN YOUR DISTRICT? LOOK, ESSENTIALLY. OKAY. IF THIS WAS , HE'S THE, AND SO YOU'RE SO POINT IN TIME DATA. SO AT A POINT IN TIME, THE UNSHELTERED COUNT SPECIFICALLY, NOT SHELTERED PEOPLE, BUT IN YOUR DISTRICT, WHAT WOULD, WHAT WOULD THE UNSHELTERED COUNT IN THE DISTRICT? IN THE, YES. I THINK A LOT OF IT COMES FROM THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING INTO THE SYSTEM, RIGHT. WELL, 3 0 1 IS VERY DIFFERENT THOUGH. I THINK THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT DISTINCTION, RIGHT? ONE IS NOT A, IS NOT A DUPLICATED, BUT IF THAT'S WHERE WE VALIDATED, YEAH. 3 0 1 IS NOT A VALIDATED DEDUPLICATED COUNT OF HOMELESSNESS. REALLY. THAT'S A PUBLIC CALL ABOUT SOMEONE WHO IS ASSUMED TO BE HOMELESS BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE. SO I THINK THE POINT IN TIME THAT MIGHT BE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. THAT BE GOOD? YEAH. THANK YOU. . ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK? OKAY. UH, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. YEAH. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. UH, IF THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, UM, PLEASE SEND, UH, THOSE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS TO CHRISTINE AND SARAH, UM, AND CCE, OUR, UH, INTERIM BOARD LIAISON, UH, NICOLE AND MYSELF AS WELL. AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO GET THOSE ANSWERED. THANK Y'ALL. UM, AND ON THE NEXT ITEM, UH, KEVIN DEN, UH, THE MAN OF THE HOUR HERE, UH, HOPEFULLY WON'T TAKE AN HOUR PRESENT. UH, WE HAVE THE DO STREET RESPONSE INTRODUCTION AND NEXT STEPS, UH, WITH KEVIN ODIN, THE DIRECTOR OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CRISIS RESPONSE. WELCOME, YOU MAY BEGIN WHENEVER YOU'RE READY. GOOD AFTERNOON TO MISSION, AN HONOR TO BE INVITED TO BRIEF TODAY. AGAIN, MY NAME IS KEVIN ODEN. I'M JOINED TODAY BY MR. ANDREW ROLLO, UH, JUST THE DAY TO DAY OF THIS FUNCTION, AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT, UM, THE, THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT'S BEEN PLACED UPON OUR, UH, OUR GROUP. AND, UM, WE'RE EXCITED TO WALK YOU THROUGH HOW WE'RE IMPLEMENTING THIS CITYWIDE STRATEGY THAT REALLY REFLECTS BOTH THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION AND THE DEAN'S EXPECTATIONS. SO WE'RE CALLING THIS THE DALLAS STREET RESPONSE, AND I JUST WANNA STRESS TO THE GROUP THAT THIS IS A REALIGNMENT THAT'S NOT AT ALL THEORETICAL, UM, MUCH IF NOT ALL OF WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TODAY IS OPERATIONAL AND IS HAPPENING ALREADY. SO, NEXT SLIDE. THIS PRESENTATION IS BROKEN INTO 16 PARTS. FIRST PURPOSE. SECOND, ITS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. THIRD AND OVERVIEW OF THIS REALIGNMENT WITH THIS, OUR ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND HOW WE OPERATE. UH, NEXT END IS OUR FIELD RESPONSE, OUR OPERATIONS APPROACH, WHICH INCLUDES HOTSPOT AND CLOSURE MAINTENANCE, AND HOW WE'RE MEASURING SUCCESS. UH, I'LL CLOSE THE PRESENTATION WHERE WE ARE IN THE TIMELINE AND WHAT WE EXPECT TO COME NEXT. UH, ULTIMATELY MY GOAL IS TO GIVE THIS COMMISSION AS, AND THE COMMUNITY, [01:05:01] UH, CONFIDENCE THAT THIS TEAM HAS BUILT TO DELIVER . AT ITS CORE, THE DALLAS STREET RESPONSE IS ABOUT MAKING OUR SERVICES FASTER, MORE COORDINATED, AND MORE RESPONSIVE TO COMMUNITY NEEDS. UM, ONE OF OUR MAIN GOALS HERE IS ABOUT BUILDING TRUST, BOTH WITH RESIDENTS, THE COUNCIL AND, AND ULTIMATELY THOSE SERVE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. AND SO WE'VE REIMAGINED HOW WE WORK IN THE FIELD SO THAT WE'RE NOT JUST REACTING TO ISSUES THAT ARE BROUGHT TO US, BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY RESOLVING, UH, THE CHALLENGES THAT WE INTERACT WITH ON A DAILY BASIS. NEXT SLIDE. DALLAS STREET RESPONSE IS BUILT ON FOUR PILLARS. FIRST IS PROACTIVE ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION. SECOND IS SUSTAINED CLOSURE MAINTENANCE. THIRD, AS YOU, YOU HEARD ALLUDED TO IN THE LAST PRESENTATION, IS INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SUPPORT. UH, AND LAST, BUT TO ME, THE MOST IMPORTANT IS STRONG PARTNERSHIPS. UM, AS WITH ALL OF THE PROGRAMS UNDER MY PORTFOLIO, UH, NONE OF THIS STUFF IS ACCOMPLISHED IN A VACUUM OR ALONE. UM, THERE'S VERY LITTLE IN MY 15 YEARS IN THE CITY, IF ANYTHING THAT I'VE EVER ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHED ON MY OWN. I RELY SIGNIFICANTLY ON OTHERS TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE SERVE A LOT OF CREDIT WHEN WE EXPERIENCE SUCCESS TOGETHER. THESE STRATEGIES ELEVATE HOW WE MANAGE PUBLIC SPACES WHILE IMPROVING HEALTH AND SAFETY OUTCOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND NEIGHBORHOODS. AND ULTIMATELY, THAT RIGHT THERE IS OUR MISSION, UM, IMPROVING PUBLIC SPACES, UM, AND THE HEALTH AND SAFETY THEREOF, UM, FOR OUR INDIVIDUALS AND NEIGHBORHOODS. NEXT SLIDE. WHAT THIS MEANS IN PRACTICE IS MAINTAINING SAFE AND ORDERLY PUBLIC SPACES THROUGH COORDINATED FIELD WORK, CONSISTENT PRESENCE AND COLLABORATION ACROSS DEPARTMENT. FOR US, IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST CLOSE AN ENCAMPMENT. WHAT WE'RE WORKING TO DO IS TO MAKE SURE, MAKE SURE THAT IT STAYS CLOSED AND THAT PERSONS THERE OFFERED A REAL PATH, UH, FULL, AS YOU HEARD, CEO CON MENTIONED AND THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, I DON'T WANT TO SEE DISPLACEMENT FROM ONE SIDE OF THE STREET TO THE OTHER, NOR DO I THINK THAT IS, UH, WHAT HAS BEEN ASKED OR TASK TO BUS TO DO. NEXT SLIDE. THIS SLIDE OUTLINES THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND HOW THEY'RE NOW DIVIDED AND ULTIMATELY BETTER ALIGNED ACROSS THREE CRITICAL ENTITIES. UH, FIRST IS THE OFFICE OF HOMELESS SOLUTIONS, SECOND GROUP EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CRISIS RESPONSE. AND THEN THIRD ON THE RIGHT IS OUR CONTINUUM REPAIR AGENCY, UM, HOUSING BOARD. I'LL, I'LL SPARE YOU GOING DOWN EACH ONE OF THESE, BUT OUR, OUR HOPE IS, IS THAT, UH, FROM A HIGH LEVEL TO TAKE FROM THIS, THAT OHS IS FOCUSED ON POLICY LONG-TERM HOUSING STRATEGIES, CONTRACTS, AND COMPLIANCE. UH, OHS IS ALSO LEADING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND EDUCATION EFFORTS AND ENSURING, UH, SOLUTIONS REMAIN FRONT AND CENTER IN THE CENTER. MY DEPARTMENT NOW MANAGES THE OPERATIONAL ARM, BASICALLY INCLUDE FIELD DEPLOYMENT, SERVICE REQUEST RESPONSES, AND ENCAMPMENT RE RESOLUTION. MY DEPARTMENT COORDINATES THE CLEANUPS TO CLOSURE MAINTENANCE AND ULTIMATELY WE'LL OVERSEE TEMPORARY IMPLEMENT WEATHER SHELTERING OPERATIONS. WE'RE ALSO BUILDING, UM, A CITYWIDE DASHBOARD FOR REAL TIME VISIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, A CRITICAL TOOL FOR THE COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC. AND THEN FINALLY, ON THE RIGHT, OUR LEAD AGENCY HOUSING BOARD CONTINUES TO LEAD COORDINATED OUTREACH AND PLACEMENT EFFORTS, AND THEY'RE REALLY THE BACKBONE OF OUR HOUSING RESPONSE. THEY WORK CLOSELY WITH THE DALLAS STREET RESPONSE TEAM TO CONNECT UNSHELTERED INDIVIDUALS TO CARE, AND THEY ALSO GUIDE ACCESS TO MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PATHWAYS FOR THOSE WITH COMPLEX NEEDS. UH, TOGETHER THIS DIVISION OF LABOR ENSURES THAT WE'RE NOT DUPLICATING MERCK. INSTEAD, WE'RE ALIGNING ROLES AROUND WHO IS BEST POSITIONED TO DELIVER. NEXT SLIDE. WE'VE TRANSITIONED AND THE COUNCIL, UH, APPROVED THIS TRANSITION, UM, IN EARLY JUNE. AND THEN AGENDA MEETING THE, UH, MOVEMENT OF STAFF FROM OHS TO MY DEPARTMENT TO CENTRALIZE THOSE BUILD OPERATIONS UNDER ONE COORDINATOR RESPONSE. THIS INCLUDES 23 STAFF AND THE SUPPORT TO MAKE ALL OF THIS FUNCTIONAL FROM DAY ONE. UH, AGAIN, THE REALIGNMENT IS ABOUT CLARITY OF MISSION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN DELIVERY. NEXT SLIDE. THIS SLIDE SHOWS HOW THE TEAM IS STRUCTURED. ANDREW ROLLO, AGAIN, SITTING TO MY RIGHT LEADS THE PROGRAM. LISA RAND AND BARRY DYSON MANAGED DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS. AND AROUND THESE THREE ARE CORE DEPARTMENTS THAT RESPOND IN THE FIELD, AND THEY ARE THE KEY PARTNERS THAT WE RELY ON FOR OUTREACH SERVICES AND CLEANUP. AGAIN, WE DON'T EXPECT THIS OR SEE THIS AS BEING THEORETICAL. THIS IS THE TEAM THAT'S DOING THE WORK AND [01:10:01] HAS BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. EACH DEPARTMENT SUPPORTING DOWN STREET RESPONSE HAS A CLEARLY DEFINED ROLE FOR MARSHALS AND EPD, PROVIDING ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT TO TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS, HANDLING CLEANUPS AND FENCING AND DATA ANALYTICS, ENSURING THAT WE'RE PERFORMANCE DRIVEN. THIS IS A MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL UNIFIED EFFORT WITH THE PUBLIC AT THE CENTER. NEXT SLIDE. EVERY 3 1 1 REQUEST RELATED TO ENCAMPMENTS. THAT'S ULTIMATELY ROUTED THROUGH OUR STRUCTURED PROCESS. AND IT STARTS WITH A BUILD ASSESSMENT, IDENTIFYING THE TYPE OF PROPERTY AND WHETHER THERE'S AN IMMEDIATE HAZARD. FROM THERE, THE SITE IS EITHER HANDLED THROUGH ENGAGEMENT, ESCALATED TO HOTSPOT STATUS, OR MOVED TOWARDS CLOSURE MADE. THIS ALLOWS US TO MATCH RESPONSE TYPE TO SITE CONDITIONS. NEXT SLIDE. WHAT THAT MEANS IS, UH, THE TABLE YOU SEE ON THIS SLIDE, THE PHASE PROCESS THAT OUR TEAMS ARE FOLLOWING TODAY WHEN RESPONDING TO SERVICE REQUESTS FOR ENCAMPMENTS. AND I'LL DEVIATE QUICKLY TO SAY THAT THE DATA WE ARE COLLECTING AND THE WAY THAT WE ARE TRACKING OUTCOMES FOR THREE ONE ONES IS BEING GREATLY ENHANCED. IN FACT, YESTERDAY THE STAFF WALKED ME THROUGH THE NEW REPORT THAT I EXPECT WE WILL BE FILLING IN ON EVERY SINGLE 3 1 1 THAT WE GO ON, UH, WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS. THAT INFORMATION IS WHAT WE WILL BE MAKING TRANSPARENTLY AVAILABLE VIA A DASHBOARD, UM, THAT ULTIMATELY WILL HELP. MY EXPECTATION IS THIS BODY, THE COMMUNITY, THE COUNCIL, THE MANAGER, OTHERS IN SEEING WHERE WE'RE AT AND, UH, THE PROGRESS WE'RE MAKING. THE PROCESS FLOW GOES LIKE THIS. WE START WITH THE INITIAL INTERVENTION WHERE PARTNER OUTREACH TEAMS MEET INDIVIDUALS WHERE THEY ARE, ASSESS THEIR NEEDS, OFFER SERVICES, AND DOCUMENT THE ENGAGEMENT. IF SOMEONE DECLINES OUR HELP, WE DON'T GIVE UP. WE'LL MOVE TO THE ESCALATION PROTOCOL, WHICH REQUIRES AT LEAST ONE MORE OUTREACH VISIT WITHIN 24 HOURS. IF THERE'S STILL NO VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE, WE MOVE TO CLOSURE. NOTICE ISSUE. THESE ARE POSTED VISIBLY WITH REMINDERS TO COLLECT BELONGINGS AND SEEK SUPPORT. AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT BOTH COMPLIANCE AND COMPASSION AND NOT JUMPING STRAIGHT TO ONE OR THE OTHER. AFTER THE NOTICE PERIOD, WE MOVE TO COMPLIANCE AND CLEANUP. UH, AGAIN, IT'S IMPORTANT I THINK TO SAY THIS IS THAT ENFORCEMENT IS A LAST RESORT AND VERY MUCH A SCALPEL APPROACH ONLY USED IF SAFELY DEMANDED. AND AT THIS POINT, STAFFING AND OUR CONTRACTORS CLEAR THE SITE, OFFER FINAL SERVICES AND DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. AND THEN WE DON'T STOP THERE. WE GO BACK AND POST CLEANUP MONITORING. THE TEAM CHECKS THE SITE REGULARLY TO PREVENT RE ENCAMPMENT, AND THAT PRESENCE IS THE LONG TERM TO SUCCESS. FINALLY, WE CLOSE THE LOOP WITH FINAL DOCUMENTATION. SO EVERY CLEARANCE IS LOGGED IN 3 1 1. THERE IS AN INITIAL RESPONSE. UM, THERE'S ALSO A FINAL DISPOSITION OF A CASE, UH, THAT WE'RE ALSO CHANGING THE WAY THAT WE DO THAT SO THAT WE CAN REPORT ON HOW MANY VISITS WERE MADE, WHAT SERVICES WERE OFFERED, AND WHETHER THE SITE STAYED CLEAR. NEXT SLIDE, AND I'LL, I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A, A QUICK NUMBER, UH, BEFORE IT COMES. SO WE'VE SEEN 3 1 1 REQUESTS DRASTICALLY INCREASED SINCE COVID. SO, UH, IN, IN THE FIRST YEAR POST COVID 2021, THERE WERE ABOUT 8,000 3 1 1 SR. SPECIFIC TO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT. UH, IN 2024, THERE WERE OVER 11,000, SO ABOUT A 45% INCREASE IN 3 1 1 THAT HAD COME THROUGH. SO THAT IS A LARGE EXPECTATION, UH, OF OUR SERVICE DELIVERY. NEXT, SO IS OUR HOTSPOT OPERATIONS. THESE ARE SHORT TERM INTENSIVE RESPONSES TO HIGH NEED AREAS. OKAY, THESE ARE THE PLACES WHERE WE'VE SEEN CONSISTENT RE ENCAMPMENT, ELEVATED CRIME, OR OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC NUISANCE. THE GOAL HERE IS NOT IMMEDIATE ENFORCEMENT. THE GOAL IS STABILIZATION, OUTREACH AND SERVICES COME FIRST AND ENFORCEMENT IS USED WHEN NECESSARY. ON THE RIGHT OF THIS SLIDE, YOU SEE A LIVE EXAMPLE OF COTTONWOOD PARK THAT IS IN DISTRICT 11. THIS AREA, WE USED THE HOTSPOT MODEL TO BREAK THE PATTERN OF RETURNS. UM, IN THE INITIAL PERIOD WHERE WE STARTED THIS WORK, WE SAW IMPROVED COMPLIANCE CLEANER STREETS AND A DROP IN CALLS FOR SERVICE. THIS IS THE MODEL WORKING THE WAY THAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO, AND I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT JUST IN THIS WEEK, WE'VE STARTED EFFORTS IN TWO OTHER HOTSPOT LOCATIONS, INCLUDING MY TEAM RIGHT NOW IS CONDUCTING AN OPERATIONS, UH, ALONGSIDE 6 35 AND POINT IN THAT AREA TO, UH, BRING SOME STABILITY. WE EXPECT THAT WILL BE A VERY LONG TERM INITIATIVE. NEXT SLIDE. CLOSURE MAINTENANCE IS HOW WE KEEP, AND YOU CAN'T MENTION COMING BACK. WE REGULARLY PATROL HIGH RISK SITES CONTINUE TO OFFER ACCESS TO DAY SHELTER. [01:15:01] AND AGAIN, THIS COMMON THEME ENFORCEMENT IS USED WHEN NEEDED. IT'S BASED ON THE OFFICERS DISCRETION, AND IT'S ABOUT SUSTAINING GAINS AND MAINTAINING TRUST WITH NEARBY RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES. AND IT'S ONLY USED AS A VIABLE SOLUTION DUE TO OUR PARTNERS AT HOUSING BOARD, ENSURING ACCESS TO HOUSING PLACEMENT FOR ALL PERSONS ON THE FRONT END DOWNTOWN DALLAS REQUIRES A PERSISTENT PRESENCE. AND MATTHEW SEAL ON THE RIGHT IS FROM OUR WORK ROOM, THE CITY HALL AND LIBRARY AREAS. THROUGH CLOSURE MAINTENANCE, WE'VE ENSURED THESE AREAS STAY CLEAR WHILE CONTINUING TO CONNECT INDIVIDUALS TO SERVICES. NEXT SLIDE. WE'RE TRACKING OUTCOMES WEEKLY. THAT INCLUDES HOW FAST WE RESPOND TO HIGH PRIORITY OF REQUESTS, HOW LONG WE CAN STAY CLOSED, AND HOW MANY SERVICE OFFERS ARE MADE. OUR TARGETS ARE AMBITIOUS, 90% OF HIGH PRIORITY THREE ONE ONES WITHIN 24 HOURS. 80% OF HOTSPOTS STAYING CLEAR FOR 30 DAYS. WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING COMPLACENT IN THESE NUMBERS, WE'RE MEASURING AND COMPETING AGAINST OURSELVES. NEXT SLIDE. OUR OUTREACH ALSO IS NOT JUST CITY LED. WE'RE WORKING WITH HOUSING FORWARD, THE ALL NEIGHBORS COALITION AND OTHER PARTNERS TO ALIGN MESSAGING SERVICES AND EXPECTATIONS. THE GOAL IS HAVING A PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH THAT RESPECTS INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS WHILE PROTECTING NEIGHBORHOODS. AND THEN THE LAST SLIDE, PLEASE. IMPLEMENTATION OF EVERYTHING YOU'VE SEEN IS ACCURATE. THE DALLAS STREET RESPONSE TEAM IS IN PLACE. FIELD OPERATIONS ARE UNDERWAY, AND WE'RE ALREADY TRACKING PROGRESS. YOU'LL BEGIN SEEING ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTS THIS QUARTER. WE EXPECT BEFORE THE END OF SUMMER. WE'RE NOT WAITING FOR RESULTS. WE'RE EXERTING ALL EFFORTS THAT WE HAVE AS A TEAM TO DELIVER THEM. I'M HONORED TO BE A PART OF THIS TEAM AND THE SPECIAL INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE WORKING DAY AND NIGHT TO ACCOMPLISH OUR AMBITIOUS MISSION. AND WITH THAT, THAT WILL CONCLUDE THE PRESENTATION. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME, UH, AND I AM HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE BODY MAY HAVE. THANK YOU, DR. IT, UM, TAKE QUESTIONS. UH, WE'LL START WITH VIRTUAL LAND. JUST RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AND, UH, TO OKAY. WE'LL START WITH, UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH COMMISSIONER JACOB. YOU TWO MINUTES. WE'RE GONNA START THE TIMER. DO YOU WANT US TO PUT IT ON CAMERA? WOULD THAT BE HELPFUL? SIR, CAN YOU UNMUTE? CAN YOU UNMUTE, POINT OF ORDER? HOW IS THAT TIME TRACKED? UM, WITH, BY OUR BOARD LIAISON RIGHT HERE, WHO HAS THE TIMER RIGHT NEXT TO IT? WOULD YOU LIKE US TO PUT AN AUDIBLE ALARM ON IT? WE CAN DO THAT FOR YOU. NO, I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING, I, I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE TWO MINUTES IS FOR ME TO ASK QUESTIONS, BUT THE RESPONSE FROM THE PRESENTER IS NOT COUNTED AGAINST THE TWO MINUTES. IS THAT CORRECT? AND THAT'S CORRECT. YES, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT NICOLE HAS BEEN DOING. SO, OKAY. SO, UH, THANKS KEVIN FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. WITH RESPECT TO ENCAMPMENTS, I KNOW THAT, UH, FROM A STREET RESPONSE PERSPECTIVE, YOUR OFFICE IS NOW, UM, UH, IN CHARGE WITH CLEARING ENCAMPMENTS. BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING TOO THAT OHS HELPS DRIVE STRATEGY. WHAT ROLE DOES YOUR DEPARTMENT PLAY IN DRIVING THIS STRATEGY FOR THE CLOSURE OF ENCAMPMENTS? WE'RE A PARTNER TO A BIGGER SUBSET, AS YOU SAW WITH THE HOUSING BOARD PRESENTATION BEFORE, AS WELL AS, UH, ON THE BACK END WITH THE WORK THAT'S GOING ON WITH SHELTERS AND HOUSING. ULTIMATELY, I'M KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE AND I'M HAPPY TO LIVE THERE. UH, WE WANT TO BE A HELPFUL TOOL TO WHAT IS BEING THE ADVANCES TO BROADER STRATEGY BY, UH, HOUSING BOARD AND, AND THEIR PARTNERS AT THE ALL NEIGHBORS COALITION. WITH RESPECT TO ENCAMPMENTS, IT WAS PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT UP THAT, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF HIGH RISK ENCAMPMENTS. HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HIGH RISK ENCAMPMENT? TYPICALLY, THAT'S GOING TO BE THOSE THAT ARE, UM, FOUND TO BE AGAINST, UH, DALLAS CITY CODE CHAPTER 31 DASH 13, ONE THAT SPECIFIES DESIGNATED PUBLIC PROPERTIES WHERE, UM, ENCAMPMENTS HAVE TO BE RESOLVED WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME. TO BE MORE CLEAR, UH, THOSE PROPERTY TYPES INCLUDE SOME CITY PROPERTIES DOWNTOWN, UH, VACANT UNIMPROVED, CITY LOTS, AND ANY, UH, PROPERTIES THAT ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE PARK FOR, UH, WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO FACTOR IN AS WE'RE DOING OUR ASSESSMENTS, THE PROXIMITY TO NEIGHBORHOODS AND SCHOOLS, UH, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER EXTRANEOUS ISSUES THAT MAY BE GOING ON. WE MAY GET, UM, CALLS FROM DPD, FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS OR OTHERS WHERE WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO ESCALATE URGENCY IF, IF NECESSARY. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT HOUSE BILL 1925 CITATIONS WOULD HELP CURTAIL AND ENHANCEMENTS AND BRING ABOUT AN [01:20:01] EFFECTIVE END HOMELESSNESS? SO, I, I APOLOGIZE. I I HOPE WE'RE SPEAKING THE SAME THING. I, I REFER TO IT AS, AS THE PENAL CODE 48 0 5, THE, THE CAMPING BAND. IS THAT COLLOQUIALLY THE SAME ITEM? YES. OKAY. SO WE DO USE CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE, OF THAT, PARTICULARLY IN DOWNTOWN, UH, WHEN WE WERE DETERMINING ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND OTHERS. UH, AND I AM AWARE THAT, UH, WE HAVE UTILIZED, UH, AS AN ORGANIZATION THAT LAW, UM, WHEN WE'VE HAD NON-COMPLIANCE, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT SHOULD BE WIDESPREAD. AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE PRESENTATION, UH, THERE NEEDS TO BE A FRONT END OF, OF OPPORTUNITY AND MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF ENGAGEMENT AND SEEKING COMPLIANCE BEFORE YOU GET TO THAT LAST STEP OF ENFORCEMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, COMMISSIONER JACOB, WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE NUMBER AGAIN? WHICH YOU, UH, THE, THE DALLAS CITY CODE IS CHAPTER 31 DASH 13.1. THAT IS DESIGNATED PUBLIC PROBLEM. GOT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. UH, NEXT COMMISSIONER, UH, VIRTUAL, UH, WE'RE GONNA DO THE COMMISSIONER REV, UH, THE REVEREND COMMISSIONER BOONE. TWO MINUTES. MR. ODEN, THANK YOU, UH, FOR YOUR TIME. I APPRECIATE IT. UM, AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I, I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT, UH, THE CITY EFFECTIVELY CRIMINALIZING, UH, HOMELESSNESS. I'M CURIOUS, UM, SINCE EMCR TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENCAMPMENTS, SO JUST SINCE IT'S BEEN WITH A MCR, DO YOU, DO YOU HAVE A, A SENSE OF HOW MANY, UH, INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN, UH, ARRESTED? I'D HAVE TO, I'D HAVE TO RUN NUMBERS TO GET THAT FROM DALLAS POLICE. BUT AGAIN, UM, SPEAKING ANECDOTALLY, UM, I SHARE YOUR VIEWPOINT OF NOT HAVING OVER-CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS, THE STATUS OF A PERSON, UM, AS WITH ANYTHING IS NOT NECESSARILY REASON FOR PENALTY. UM, WHAT WE DO AND, AND HOW WE OPERATE, UH, AGAIN, I HOPE THAT I, UH, MADE IT CLEAR DURING THE PRESENTATION IS THAT WE EXPECT ON THE FRONT END OUTREACH, WE EXPECT ENGAGEMENT AND WE EXPECT OPPORTUNITY TO GET OFF THE STREET AND MOVE INTO SAFE AND STABLE HOUSING. WE'RE WORKING WITH THE PARTNERS TO MAKE SURE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO FOLKS WE ENGAGE WITH. IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO HAVE THAT LEVEL OF VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE ON THE BACKEND, OBVIOUSLY THERE, UH, IS ALWAYS THE ABILITY TO TAKE ESCALATED ENFORCEMENT, BUT IN NO SHAPE OR MEANS, SHOULD WE, OR WOULD I EVER RECOMMEND JUMPING STRAIGHT TO THAT, UH, WITHOUT THE FRONT? YEAH, I HEAR THAT. I, I GUESS A BIGGER CONCERN THAN IT IS AND IT'S NOT REALLY, I DON'T KNOW. CAN, CAN YOU, MAYBE I'LL SAY IT THIS WAY. CAN YOU, CAN YOU DESCRIBE THEN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN, UM, EM, C'S RESPONSE AND THEN, UM, THE CONTINUUM OF CARE'S RESPONSIBILITY AND BEING PRESENT DURING THESE, UH, ENGAGEMENTS WITH ENCAMPMENTS? YEAH. SO, UM, REALLY, WE, THE, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS FUNDED, UH, 16 I BELIEVE, OUTREACH WORKERS THAT DO WORK FOR HOUSING FORWARD, RIGHT? THESE PEOPLE ARE EXPERTS IN PLACEMENT, DEESCALATION, CONNECTING TO SERVICES, UM, AND THEY'RE VERY SUCCESSFUL AT THE WORK THEY DO. THE, THE OUTCOMES THAT WERE REPORTED TO YOU BY CEO CON IN THE LAST PRESENTATION, UH, REALLY SHOW THE SUCCESS OF THAT TEAM. WE WANT TO UTILIZE THAT TEAM AND PUT THEM IN THE POSITION THAT THEY CAN BE SUCCESSFUL, RIGHT? SO WE COORDINATE WITH THEM. UH, MY TEAM IS ACTUALLY, IF IT'S NOT ALREADY THREE O'CLOCK SOON TO BE, THEY'RE HAVING A MEETING WITH THE LEADS OF THAT OUTREACH TEAM THAT THEY HAVE EVERY THURSDAY. UM, WE AGAIN, EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE, UH, THE OUTREACH FOLKS ON THE FRONT END OF ANY OF THESE HOTSPOTS, RIGHT? SO WE'RE NOT JUST GOING IN AND BULLDOZING THINGS AND MOVING PEOPLE ALONG. WE WANT TO UTILIZE ALL THE TOOLS WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO SOLVE THIS IN A WAY THAT THE EVIDENCE TELLS US IS, IS MOST SUCCESSFUL AND LEADS TO LONG TERM CHANGE. THANK YOU. ANY MORE QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER? OKAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. NO MORE IN VIRTUAL LAND. I'M HERE IN, UM, THE LIBRARY. ANY COMMISSIONERS WHO WISH TO HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE'LL START WITH VICE CHAIR BROWN. THANK YOU FOR COMING. UH, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I MET YOU TODAY. UM, THE D STREET RESPONSE STRUCTURE, WHICH I LOVE, BY THE WAY. WE [01:25:01] HAVE SOME GOOD PEOPLE ON HERE, JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, THOSE, AND I, I KNOW I'M GONNA GET , BUT I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE FOCUS BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF THE FOCUS IS GOING DOWNTOWN, LIKE THAT'S THE PRIMARY TARGET. UM, WILL THERE BE DEDICATED DAYS TO SPECIFIC DISTRICTS WHERE DISTRICTS ARE GETTING THAT SAME KIND OF LOVE? 'CAUSE MY WORRY IS THAT WE'RE PUTTING SO MUCH EFFORT INTO DISTRICT TWO THAT SOME OF THE OUTSKIRT DISTRICTS WHO EQUALLY HAVE SOME OF THE SAME STRUCTURAL ISSUES THAT NEED THE SAME LOVE AND ASSISTANCE ARE GONNA NOT GET THOSE IN THIS EFFORT. THAT IS A TREMENDOUS QUESTION. AND ALSO A VERY FAIR QUESTION THAT I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. WHEN WE INHERITED THIS, WE, WE DID REALLY AN ANALYSIS HOW WE WERE OPERATING AND HOW, HOW WE WERE HANDLING THE CLEANUP AND CLOSURE. UM, AND, AND REALLY WHAT WE HAD AT THE TIME WAS WE HAD A TEAM THAT WAS SINGULARLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE CLEANUPS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, EVERY WEEK. UM, AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS KIND OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, AND THEY GROW KIND OF IN A PACK EVERYWHERE AND DONE. THE, THE FIRST THING THAT WE LOOKED AT AND PUT INTO PLACE IS THAT ALL OF OUR STAFF, WHICH WE ARE ASSIGNED TO ALL SEVEN PATROL DIVISIONS, UM, GEOGRAPHICALLY, THAT ALL OF MY PEOPLE IN HERE CAN MAKE CUSTOM INTERVENTIONS FOR PLACES THAT THEY'RE CERTAIN. SO IF YOU GO SOMEWHERE AND YOU NEED CODE, YOU NEED TO KNOW NORTHEAST, YOU NEED TO KNOW YOU'RE NORTHEAST BOAT IF YOU NEED OR FEEL UNSAFE IN AN AREA. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT NEEDS CONTROL SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THEM COMPANY, UH, AND YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SCHEDULE DOOR CLEANS AND, AND CLOSURES IN YOUR DISTRICT. SO IN A WAY, WE'VE EMPOWERED ALL OF OUR STAFF ACROSS THE CITY SO THAT WE'RE NOT JUST FOCUSED OR HAVE . THAT HAS ALLOWED US TO REDEPLOY STAFF DO COM YES. TO DO THE WORK HERE. WE ALSO HAVE MANY, IF NOT, OR OF OUR SERVICE REQUEST EXISTS IN THE CENTRAL DIVISION AS IT EXISTS TODAY. THE CENTRAL DIVISION AS IT EXISTS TODAY IS LARGER THAN JUST THE CD. RIGHT. SO, UM, NO, I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION. I HOPE THAT I WAS ABLE TO CLEARLY ANSWER IT BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING EQUITABLE SERVICE ACROSS THE CITY AND NOT IN ONE AREA. SO THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY, UM, TARGETED APPROACH TO THE DISTRICT. IT'S REALLY BASED UPON THE PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST SO HAPPY TO BE PATROLLING. NO, WE, WE WILL, AS I MENTIONED DURING THE HOTSPOT, UH, PORTION OF, OF OUR RESPONSE NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M BIG ON IS, IS OBJECTIVE MEASURES TO DETERMINE WHERE, WHERE WE NEED TO BE. AND, UH, WE UTILIZE, UH, A MODEL THAT HELPS US IDENTIFY HOTSPOTS AND WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON THE HIGHEST PRIORITY IN OBJECTIVELY MEASURED PLACES IN THE CITY. THOSE ARE HOPEFULLY SCATTERED ABOUT AND NOT CONCENTRATED IN ANY ONE AREA OR ANOTHER. WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, WE'RE DOING LARGE SCALE INITIATIVES. THEY'RE DONE NORTH, THEY'RE DONE SOUTH OF . HEY, IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT WHEN YOU GUYS DEVELOP THIS HOTSPOT THAT YOU GUYS CAN COME BACK AND SHOW US WHAT THE HOTSPOTS ARE GONNA EXACTLY BE? I WOULD SAY IT'S PROBABLY FAIR TO SAY THAT WE COULD WELCOME TO BE A PROCESS OF OBSERVING AND SEEING AND BEING ALONG TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND WHERE OUR WORK CAN HELP INFORM THE BOARD, AND NOW CAN HELP GIVE US WAYS THAT WE CAN OPERATE BETTER. I'M SURE THERE ARE PARTNERS AND PARTIES THEY DON'T RUN ACROSS THAT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW EXISTS. UH, I THINK, THINK I'M COMMITTING YOU TO THAT, BUT YEAH, I'LL ADD THAT EACH DISTRICT HAS AT LEAST TWO OUTREACH WORKERS, AND THAT'S NORTH, SOUTH, ALL SEVEN DISTRICTS. AND THAT'S INCLUDED IN CENTRAL, WHICH IS LOOPED IN WITH UH, CBD IN DOWNTOWN. SO WE HAVE A TEAM DEDICATED TO THAT, BUT EVERY DISTRICT HAS AT LEAST TWO, NOR HAVE SUPERVISOR SUPPORTING SOUTHERN DISTRICTS HAVE A SUPERVISOR IF THERE'S ANY LACK OF SOMEBODY OUT OR WE NEED TO KIND OF MOVE PEOPLE AROUND, THERE'S, THAT'S A DATABASE. SO THE SUPERVISOR, THEY'RE GONNA BE IN CHARGE OF IT. WE HAVE A MANAGER, BARRY, OVER THE FIELD OPERATIONS, SO ALL THE DISTRICTS, AND THEN LISA IS OVER DOWNTOWN C. GOTCHA. YOU'RE SAYING DISTRICTS AS A POLICE DISTRICT, NOT A COUNCIL. YEAH. JUST WANNA CLARIFY THAT. OKAY. AND THEN LAST QUESTION, UM, SO ENCAMPMENT CLOSURE VERSUS DECOMMISSIONING, ARE WE GOING TO COMBINE THAT INTO ONE THING OR IS IT GOING TO REMAIN SEPARATE? AND [01:30:01] I SAY THAT BECAUSE THANK YOU. I SAY THAT BECAUSE IT'S A 30 DAY, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S 90 DAYS THAT CAN POSSIBLY RETURN. IT WAS HOW IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT WAY TO ME. SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING. I KNOW THE DECONDITIONING, THE SUPPORT COMES OUT. WE DO THE CLOSURE, WE DO THE SIGNS. WE SAY, HEY, THIS IS IT. YOU CANNOT RETURN. WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE YOU GET SERVICES AND WE'RE CLOSING THIS COMPLETE AND ENCAMP BE PLEADING THEY CAN RETURN AT 90 DAYS. YEAH. SO WHEN WE ISSUE A NOTICE OF CLOSE SIX VALID FOR 90 DAYS, THAT WE COULD AT ANY POINT IN THAT 90 MINUTES COME BACK AND BASICALLY NOTICE IT SAYS, YEAH, SEVEN TWO HOUSES. BUT THAT NOTICE IS GOOD FOR NINE MINUTES. SO WE COULD COME BACK. LET ME, LET ME SPEAK QUICKLY TO HOTSPOTS, BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. THE PLACES THAT WE KNOW AS HOTSPOTS FOR IN MAGNETS, WE KNOW WHERE , THOSE PLACES ARE AFFECTED BY THE WAY THAT THOSE ENVIRONMENTS PLACES ARE MAGNETS FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOR. MANY TIMES YOU SEE INTERVENTIONS THAT COULD BE MADE TO THAT BUILT ENVIRONMENT THAT WILL STOP HIGH RISK ACTIVITIES. THAT COULD BE LIGHTING, THAT COULD BE GENERAL LUBRICATION, IT COULD BE MOWING, VACANT BUMPS. ALL RIGHT. WHERE WE HAVE THESE RECURRING ENCAMPMENTS WANTS BE CLEAR THAT THOSE OTHER INTERVENTIONS MUST BE MADE IN CONCERT WITH CLEANING MENT AND PATROLLING URINE, OR IT WON'T BE SUCCESSFUL. HAVE TO BREAK THE MECHANISM BETWEEN PEOPLE PLACE. WE'RE FOCUSED ON THE PLACE AND HELPING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S YOUR TIME. WE'RE GONNA CALL QUICK RECESS TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH QUORUM TO CONTINUE. SO, UH, IT'S UH, 1435 RIGHT NOW. SO COULDN'T GET IN. SHOULD TRY. SHE CAN TRY TO GET IN. TURN ALL THE LEGS. , DO I NEED TO STOP THE RECORDING? NO, NOT YET. OKAY. DO I NEED TO STOP SHARING? NOT REALLY, NO. OKAY. I'M GONNA MUTE MYSELF. IS THAT OKAY? OH YEAH. YEAH. IT'S ME. OKAY. UM, LET ME, YEAH, AGAIN, WE WELCOME BACK SUPPORT OBVIOUSLY AND OPEN SPREAD WORD ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. I KNOW A LOT OF THE LIKE WORK, SO WHAT IS A GOOD YOU HAVE TO ANY OTHER GROUPS ALONG WITH THIS? I HAVE A QUESTION. SO I THINK ALL TOLD IN MY DEPARTMENT, I'VE GOT SOMEHOW BETWEEN ALL OF THE DIVISIONS, I'LL SAY THAT, THAT THIS GROUP IS GREAT. THEY, WHAT I'VE TOLD PEOPLE FROM THE START, THEY'RE LIKE, HEY, EVERYONE EXPECT TO , BUT JUST MOVE FROM HERE TO HERE. AND , I SAID, THESE THINGS TAKE TIME, BUT I'M JUDGED FROM THE FIRST MONTH. THIS, TAKE THEM DOWNTOWN, ABOVE ALL ELSE. GOT THE RIGHT PEOPLE. I, I THAT ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. , I WAS LIKE, THEY SEND THERE AND THEY NEED TO DOWN BY THEMSELVES. YEAH, THEY GOT THE MEETING AND SEND ME, YOU SAID, TALKED TO THEM. BECAUSE THOSE ARE OUR STAR PLAYERS. THEY, I WOULD CALL THE COMFORT DOOR, , TREMENDOUS. THE FIELD STAFF, GREAT PEOPLE THAT TRY TO RUN THINGS AS A FIELD STAFF, FOCUS ON THINGS BUBBLE UP TO ME FROM FIELD STAFF. KIND LIKE REMIND OTHER PEOPLE, BUT HOW DO THEY HAVE IT AT CITY HALL? BECAUSE OUR PEOPLE OUT THERE, SO WE JUST DON'T THAT THAT'S GONNA HELP. [01:35:03] I MISSED THEM. WE DON'T, WE'RE, UH, THEY'RE DISCUSSING. THEY DON'T KNOW IF, UH, QUORUM WE MIGHT HAVE, WE MIGHT HAVE LOST QUORUM, UM, BECAUSE, UH, JACOB FELL OFF. UM, AND THEN, UH, UH, SILHAN LEFT AND EINSTEIN'S, WE HAVE THREE VACANT. THREE. WE HAVE THREE VACANT AND THEN DORY. NO, WHAT I'M SAYING IS HOW MANY OH, WE NEED, UH, WE NEED EIGHT. WE EIGHT. YEAH. AND THERE'S ONLY SEVEN. OKAY. THAT'S, THAT'S LEGAL. . I'LL BE RIGHT NOW. UM, IT'S 1440, UM, BACK FROM RECESS AND UNFORTUNATELY WE'VE LOST QUORUM. SO THIS MEETING'S ADJOURNED, UM, AT 2:40 PM APPRECIATE EVERYBODY BEING HERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. BYE Y'ALL. BYE. * 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.