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• n Homelessness Meeting

MATERIALS LIST

Agenda Item Materials

• 1. Welcome/Introductions
• 2. Approve Minutes (Action Item)

October 4, 2018 Meeting Minutes

• 3. Committee Updates

CoH Committee Updates

• 4. The SPARK Initiative Presentation
• 5. HEAP Recommendations (Action Item)

Ad Hoc Funding Committee HEAP Funding Allocations Recommendations

• 6. October CoC Quarterly Meeting Report Out
• 7. Homeless Awareness Month Highlights
• 8. Community Announcements
• 9. Pin it

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Commonly Used Acronyms

Acronym Definition AHAR Annual Homeless Assessment Report APR Annual Performance Report (for HUD homeless programs) CDBG Community Development Block Grant (CPD program – federal funding stream) CES Coordinated Entry System CoC Continuum of Care; system of care offering assistance to persons experiencing/at risk of homelessness CoC Federal grant program stressing permanent solutions to homelessness Con Plan Consolidated Plan, a locally developed plan for housing assistance and urban development under CDBG and other CPD programs DCD Department of Conservation and Development ESG Emergency Solutions Grant (CPD – federal and state program funding streams) FMR Fair Market Rent (maximum rent for Section 8 rental assistance/CoC grants) H3 (Contra Costa County) Health, Housing, and Homeless Services Division HCD Housing and Community Development (State office) HEARTH Homeless Emergency and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009 HMIS Homeless Management Information System HOME Home Investment Partnerships (CPD program) HOPWA Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (CPD program) HUD U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (federal) MHSA Mental Health Services Act NOFA Notice of Funding Availability PSH Permanent Supportive Housing PHA Public Housing Authority RRH Rapid Re-Housing SAMHSA Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration SNAPS Office of Special Needs Assistance Program (HUD office overseeing CoC) SSO Supportive Services Only (program) SSDI Social Security Disability Income SSI Supplemental Security Income SSVF Supportive Services for Veteran Families program (funding stream) TA Technical Assistance TANF Temporary Assistance to Needy Families TAY Transition Age Youth (usually ages 16-24) VA Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of) VASH Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing VI-SPDAT Vulnerability Index – Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool

Unless otherwise noted, Council meetings will be held on the first Thursday every month from 1 pm – 3 pm in the Sequoia Room at 50 Douglas Drive, Martinez, CA 94553. CoC meetings are held every 3rd Friday in the months of April, July, October, and January from 10:00 am -12:00 pm in rotating locations. Any disclosable public records related to an open session item on a regular meeting agenda and distributed by the Contra Costa Council on Homelessness to a majority of members less than 72 hours prior to that meeting are available for public inspection at 2400 Bisso Lane, Building D, 2nd Floor, Concord, CA 94520 during normal business

• hours. Public comment may be submitted via electronic mail on agenda items at least one full workday prior to the published

meeting time. The Contra Costa Council on Homelessness will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities planning to attend meetings. Contact the individual shown below at least 72 hours before the meeting: Jaime Jenett; Phone: (925) 608-6716; Email: Jaime.Jenett@hsd.cccounty.us.

Contra Costa Council on Homelessness Meeting Committee Updates

Committee/Workgroup Meeting Date Outcomes Ad Hoc Funding Committee October 15, 2018 Reviewed the HEAP community process and the top priorities that came

• ut of the West, Central, East and Youth HEAP meetings. Determined

which interventions to recommend including to fund through the HEAP application and have voted on by the Council. The HEAP application is due to the state by December 31, 2018. CE Oversight Committee October 25, 2018 Discussed highlights from draft 2017 Coordinated Entry evaluation report and recommended revisions to further bolster analysis. Discussed updates and action taken on gaps identified during August meeting. Discussed possible solutions and ideas for speeding up the process of securing proper documentation for clients. Next meeting: December 13, 2018 Affordable Housing Developers Workgroup October 12, 2018 A subset of the Affordable Housing Developers workgroup met to discuss housing placement through CES. Next steps include increasing developer understanding of their roles and responsibilities specific to eligibility screening and referrals, and improving CES process for ensuring clients document ready to streamline housing placement process. Youth Action Council YAC has been part of UC Berkeley’s Innovations for Youth Ending Youth Homelessness Catalyst Group. The Catalyst Group is focused on fostering partnerships between faculty, staff, students, researchers, and community partners in order to develop effective solutions to youth homelessness. In connecting research and practice, the Catalyst Group seeks to bring together perspectives from advocacy work, academia, and lived experiences of homelessness.

YAC is working with H3 and HomeBase to learn about the community’s data and data collection and analysis processes tobecome more involved in the CoC’s system-wide and coordinated entry data committees and workgroups. Note: See Committee/Workgroup Calendar for a list of this year’s Committee events and action items.

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CO CONTRA CO COSTA CO COUNCIL ON ON HOM HOMELESSNE NESS ME MEETING MI MINUTES

The Contra Costa Council on Homelessness provides a forum for communication and coordination about the implementation of the County's Strategic Plan to prevent and end homelessness, and for orchestrating a vision on ending homelessness in the County, educating the community on homeless issues, and advocating on federal, state, and local policy issues affecting people who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. The Council provides advice and input on the operations of homeless services, program operations, and program development efforts in Contra Costa County. Items may be taken out of order based on the business of the day and preference of the Council.

Date, Time: Thursday, October 4, 2018, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Location: 500 Ellinwood Way, Pleasant Hill Conference Room A/B, Pleasant Hill, CA Council Member Attendance: Present: Candace Collier, John Eckstrom, Gabriel Lemus, Deanne Pearn, Miguel Hidalgo-Barnes, Teri House, Doug Leich, John Barclay, Cecelia McCloy, Bradley Lindbloom, Carolyn Foudy, Dan Sawislak, Tracy Pullar Absent: Patrice Guillory, Alejandra Chamberlain, Manjit Sappal, Joseph Villarreal Staff Attendance: Lavonna Martin, Jaime Jenett, Natalie Siva, Contra Costa Health Services (H3); Erica McWhorter, Colin Sorensen, HomeBase Public Attendance: Ruth Goldenberg, Cindy Erickson, Maria Munoz, Susan Padan, Robin Holcomb, Usha Ramachandran, Britney Hayer, Lashanna Lee, Dawn Morrow, Billy Seilhan, Mario Monts, Gloria Schafer, Bertha Lopez, Margaret Campo, Fadi El Mayek, June Cummings, Andrea Againaldo, Denise Clarke, Jill Ray, Justin Pennell, Janette Kennedy, Samaa Gad, Zuleika Godinez, Brandon Brafelow, Joe Serrano, Rich Penski, Katie Wilbur, Aracelia Garcia, Dan Stout, Kim Moore, Steve Wheeler, John Warden, Sephanie Stovall, Leonard Ramirez, Karen Erickson

• 1. Welcome and Introductions
• 2. Approve Minutes (Action Item)
• Motion
• State of Motion:
• We move to adopt the minutes from the August 27th Council on

Homelessness Meeting.

• Discussion
• The Council moved to approve.
• Doug: Move to amend to include a “B” after John on the minutes to

distinguish between John Barclay and John Eckstrom.

• Procedural Record:
• Motion made by: Teri House

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• Seconded by: Bradley Linbloom
• AYES: Candace Collier, John Eckstrom, Gabriel Lemus, Deanne Pearn,

Miguel Hidalgo-Barnes, Teri House, Doug Leich, John Barclay, Cecelia McCloy, Bradley Lindbloom, Carolyn Foudy, Dan Sawislak, Tracy Pullar

• NOES: None.
• ABSTAINS: None.
• ABSENT: Patrice Guillory, Alejandra Chamberlain, Manjit Sappal, Joseph

Villarreal

• MOTION APPROVED
• 3. California Emergency Solutions and Housing (CESH) Funding Allocation (Action Item)
• Lavonna presented on CESH
• Lavonna: New funding source from the state, it was introduced at the

last COH meeting, it specifically targets crisis response solutions within system of care. Additional pot coming down along with HEAP—some of you have come to the community meetings—this is a separate pot. The first round is $855,000 and the application is due next week. We’ve been working hard to make sure everything is ready and aligned for the

• deadline. At the last COH meeting, the council approved H3 as the

administrative entity to administer the funds. § Another component was considering how the funds would be spent § There are similarities with the Emergency Solutions Grant. There will be another round of funding in early 2019, so we can adjust and think about what else we need in the system of care. These recommendations take into account the other dollars that are coming to the system of care. What staff has done—we’ve looked at CESH and considered what gaps exist from the HEAP funding and other funding, and looked to fill those gaps with CESH

• funding. We are also considering maximum limitations from the

state regarding the maximum amount of funding we can give any

• ne particular program

§ We aren’t applying for rental assistance in this round § We also didn’t propose any dollars for operating funding in this round; that may be a future expense, but not in this round § Intending to put 50% of the money toward Flexible Housing Pool (Housing Security Fund). This money helps individuals to remain

• housed. It addresses the barriers that exist with other funding
• interventions. In the larger cities, those other funding sources

would not meet the need, because they are not large enough. Flexible housing pools were developed to provide some “nimbleness” to the system of care. We have not yet any disbursed any funds for our housing security funds (they’ve sat

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and gained interest), and we will strategically use these as we continue to roll out CES. With the additional funding from CESH, we will be close to $1 million and will be ready to roll it out § 40% will go to emergency housing interventions (navigation centers, shelter/diversion, and outreach) § 5% to go to system support, such as bringing data up to speed…specifically CES and HMIS data. In our System of care, we’ve identified a few agencies that need custom reports in order to improve their data. This funding helps improve those data collection efforts § The last 5% goes to administration. The cap is 5% from the state.

• Gabriel: This can be changed at any time, correct? For example, if there

aren’t enough applications for a particular program. § Lavonna: Yes, it can be adjusted. This is just an initial proposal to the state. As we roll it out to the community—these dollars will be RFPd' out—that will be the process for these dollars as well. IF we cannot spend down these dollars, we can go back to the state and move them around

• Deanne: The rental assistance is blank—and that’s because we are

going to fill the GAP by the HEAP? § Lavonna: No, that is being filled by the Flexible Housing Pool. It’s essentially the same thing.

• Gabriel: And this money has a 5-year period?

§ Lavonna: Yes, a 5 year spend down. There are two rounds and the rounds are back to back, but each round has a 5-year spend-down period, respectively.

• Dan: Did the money come from the legislature’s expanded budget?

§ Lavonna: Some of it came from the Building Homes and Jobs Act, as well as some unspent ESG funding.

• Community: I hear 5-year spend-down, how quickly do you plan on

allocating? § Lavonna: We are required to do that within 5 months.

• John Barclay: Are you eligible for both rounds?

§ Lavonna: Yes, but Round 2 is not expected to be as much money. This first round was a very fast turnaround, so many communities won’t make it into Round 1.

• Deanne: At what point are we looking at the different funding sources

and programs to make sure that we didn’t under- or overdo line items? § Lavonna: This is mostly relying on my thinking and staff

• recommendations. Looking at community priorities, looking at

what we are funding with other sources, such as HEAP. We are being very mindful of what programs are already being funded elsewhere.

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• Community: IS this for building new facilities or utilizing existing

facilities? § Lavonna: Capital development are ineligible items for CESH. However, the HEAP dollars can fund capital projects. Making sure we juggle both.

• Community: Is there going to be more funding to hire more Housing

Navigators? § Lavonna: We have been holding community meetings regarding

• HEAP. West County is getting $1.36 million, East is getting $2.9

million, and Central is getting $2.2 million. These have been a good opportunity for community members to come and decide on the best programs to fund, such as Housing Navigators. There will also be Youth forum for HEAP tonight.

• Procedural Record:
• Motion to approve staff recommendation on how CESH funds will be

allocated.

• Motion made by: Ceil McCloy
• Seconded by: John Eckstrom
• AYES: Candace Collier, John Eckstrom, Gabriel Lemus, Deanne Pearn,

Miguel Hidalgo-Barnes, Teri House, Doug Leich, John Barclay, Cecelia McCloy, Bradley Lindbloom, Carolyn Foudy, Dan Sawislak, Tracy Pullar,

• NOES: None.
• ABSTAINS: None.
• ABSENT: Patrice Guillory, Alejandra Chamberlain, Manjit Sappal, Joseph

Villarreal

• MOTION APPROVED
• 4. Committee Updates
• Jaime: Policy and Advocacy Committee met and proposed new legislative

platform language

• The Subpopulations Committee met, good discussion, changed its name

to the Ensuring Equity Committee

• CE Oversight Committee did not meet
• Some seats are going to be up in December; people can reapply
• The Nominating Committee will start nominating new members for the

COH, with recommendations to the COH by the first meeting in January.

• For people whose seats are expiring, you can remain on the council, but

you have to reapply

• Ceil: Please make sure to broadcast/advertise about vacancies and pending seats

so that other community members can apply

• Lavonna: We are planning on that

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• Gabriel: Why do nominations have to go to Family and Human Services

Committee when we are the advisory body on homelessness?

• Jaime: I can ask about that. Usually this is just a stamp of approval

before the Board of Supervisors.

• Gabriel: I’ve seen other committees that just go straight to the BOS

when they have new members

• Lavonna: I think other committees are different because they have

different ways of selecting people for seats (for example, some seats may be seated by BOS members)

• Ceil: Just on the P&A Committee…I assume there won’t be another meeting until

something has happened in the legislature

• Erica: There has been some rethinking on P&A. It will likely change to

start tracking the California State Legislature’s calendar. Because there is such a lengthy process involved in making recommendations to the BOS, we are tinkering with the schedule to make sure that the P&A meeting can effectively make recommendations on legislation in time.

• 5. 2019 Legislative Platform (Action Item)
• Doug discussed the proposed changes to the 2019 Legislative Platform based on

the August Policy and Advocacy Committee Meeting

• Doug: This is the proposed language that we discussed at the last P&A meeting

and we are proposing it to the Council so that we can send it to H3/Lavonna for action

• Deanne: In subsection A, since we are choosing to spell out individual

subpopulations, it seems remiss to leave out veterans

• Doug: We can address that in a motion
• Deanne: I think we should add veterans—we have a whole set of work

for veterans

• Teri: We also have high cost utilizers to the county and the chronically

homeless—should we add those as well

• Deanne: Or do we just use “vulnerable populations”?
• Lavonna: It’s important to note how these legislative platforms are

utilized…sometimes, the more broad the platform is, we can more quickly move items through. If it is too specific, it may require additional steps, such as going to the legislative committee of the

• Board. We want to find that fine balance. Not too vague but not too

specific.

• Ceil: Add “but not limited to” after “including.”
• John Barclay: We could use the populations of the VI-SPDAT.
• Lavonna: I could potentially see some future legislation that specifies

different populations/focuses. I think the best way to avoid a rabbit hole is including “but not limited to.” As it’s written now, it specifies the

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current priorities of the Council, but still considers other potential populations.

• Community: A fair percentage of homeless people are mentally ill. If

you are going to have specifics, then that does cause some issues if you leave the mentally ill out of it. With these other subpopulations, we should include mentally ill.

• Miguel: We have a tool for measuring vulnerability, which is the VI-

SPDAT, so we don’t need to parse out what “most vulnerable” means.

• Lavonna: We just want a legislative platform that will be most effective in

communicating our stance/recommendations on legislation that may come out from the state. I would completely agree that mentally ill would be worthwhile to include because there is a lot of legislation that specifically talks about those who are mentally ill.

• Miguel: This may speak to the fact that there’s a lack of clarity around our

priorities.

• Procedural Record:
• Motion to adopt language of Legislative Platform language as

presented, with an amendment to include “but not limited to” after “including” in Section A, as well as adding veterans in the list

• Deanne: Friendly amendment to include “persons with serious mental

illness” as well.

• Gabriel: This platform is for the state, not federal, right?
• Lavonna: This is mostly for the Board of Supervisors, whether its federal
• r the state.
• Motion made by: Ceil McCloy
• Seconded by: John Barclay
• AYES: Candace Collier, John Eckstrom, Gabriel Lemus, Deanne Pearn,

Miguel Hidalgo-Barnes, Teri House, Doug Leich, John Barclay, Cecelia McCloy, Bradley Lindbloom, Carolyn Foudy, Dan Sawislak, Tracy Pullar,

• NOES: None.
• ABSTAINS: None.
• ABSENT: Patrice Guillory, Alejandra Chamberlain, Manjit Sappal, Joseph

Villarreal

• MOTION APPROVED
• 6. November 2018 Ballot Propositions on Housing
• Doug presented Ballot Measures 1, 2 and 10.
• Doug: This is not an action item, just a discussion/information session for the

different ballot measures. The BOS has taken a position of support for Measure 1 and 2. They have taken no position on Proposition 10.

• The first proposition is proposition 1. It’s a general obligation bond

program proposition to fund construction of Affordable Housing. Of

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that $4 billion, $1 billion is set aside for veteran housing. The other $3 billion is more general.

• Dan: $1.5 billion is allocated for multifamily housing projects. That’s a

huge amount…maybe could even double the amount of funding for housing for the state.

• Community: It doesn’t create any new programs. All of the funding will

go to already existing programs. Just adding to the pot.

• Dan: Yes, but some of those pots are empty and haven’t had funding

for multiple years

• Doug: Proposition 2 allocates $2 billion for supportive housing for homeless

residents in need of mental health services. Unlike prop 1, this is not a general

• bligation bond. Instead, it will authorize funding to come from the mental

health fund (the “millionaire’s tax”) to go to housing instead.

• Miguel: So new construction…very exciting.
• Lavonna: This is specifically for the creation of affordable permanent

supportive housing with services attached. This ballot measure is not to intended for services. It is solely for construction and rehab of existing buildings for affordable housing.

• Doug: Proposition 10 will repeal the Costa Hawkins Act from 1995, which

prohibits cities and other jurisdictions from imposing rent control to structures after a certain date. This act would repeal the act, which would allow cities to impose rent control to a broader spectrum of housing than the state currently allows

• Dan: Currently when someone leaves a unit, the landlord can raise the

rate of the unit to equal the current market.

• Doug: Currently cities do have measures that protect new tenants after

a previous tenant leaves or is evicted. Units are subjected to rent ceilings, so that new tenants only have to pay so much.

• Doug: Multi-Faith Action Coalition, Housing California, Non-Profit Housing

Association of Northern California, East Bay Housing Organizations, and Ensuring Opportunity endorse all 3 of these propositions.

• Community: And the Western Center on Law and Poverty has also

endorsed all 3 propositions

• Community: In thinking about this, in the areas where this is rent

control—does that increase the availability of units for people that need it? Like for example, one of the counterarguments to 10—if people cannot increase rent, they might not rehab their units in between tenants § Community: Just to clarify, Proposition 10 does not impose any new rent control. There is a lot of research about rent control policies…in general, in cities that have rent control now, there housing production has not been impacted. No rent control is

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going to cap at zero increases. People are still able to make increases to their units even with rent control.

• Doug: These are the ballot measures that have the most direct impact on

housing and homelessness, and so we want to make sure everyone looks at these and votes!

• Deanne: If this body believes that the BOS should take a favorable

stance on 10, can we make that recommendation to the Board?

• Jaime: The COH can direct staff to prepare the information/documents

to submit to the legislative committee of the BOS.

• Jill (community): The legislative committee has been canceled this

month, so this would go directly to the Board chair.

• Teri: Staff has a lot on their plate right now; want to caution whether

this is a good use of time.

• Jaime: Jill, can you clarify?
• Jill: The COH would submit a letter to the Board chair, and they may or

may not take it up, because they’ve already discussed it. They also may not have taken a stance on 10 because it has to do with cities instead of counties—it’s out of their jurisdiction.

• Teri: So this may not be a good use of time.
• John Barclay: Before we move past the legislation, SB1152 is about hospital

discharges of homeless patients. The bill would require specific plans for how to discharge homeless patients. There are some advocacy opportunities around discharge of homeless patients. Advocating at particular hospitals in Antioch, Martinez, Richmond might be worthwhile.

• 7. PIT Count
• Jaime discussed the upcoming homeless Point in Time Count.
• Jaime: It’s upcoming in January. It’s every year, we do a census of everyone we

can identify in our community. We are having our first planning meeting on Nov. 2nd for anyone who is interested in being a part of the thinking/design of this process, such as surveys, how to conduct the count, how to do volunteer

• recruitment. We are looking at some of the incentives to recruit volunteers (such

as handing out appreciation bags at community colleges).

• For anyone in this room, if you know of any non-agency outreach that is

happening (for example, religious groups), we want to know so that we can collaborate with them on gathering some of this data

• If anyone is interested in thinking about the volunteer piece, let me
• know. We are thinking about having more sites with more volunteers.

Trying to capture as many people as possible in our data collection.

• CORE Outreach teams will still be going out.
• Teri: What is the target number of volunteers?

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• Jaime: At least 100…probably more like 200. We usually have a bunch
• f no-shows on the day of the training, etc. Trying to make sure that no

volunteers are out there by themselves.

• Currently figuring out the sites that we have.
• Teri: I’ve been using the “Next Door” app to recruit volunteers for
• things. It’s a great app. I don’t want to be the volunteer recruitment

coordinator, but I can work with Next Door to get started on this.

• Jaime: Volunteers go out, collect data, conduct surveys, etc. They drop off their

packet at H3 and H3 takes it from there.

• Doug: The CORE Team helps to collect information from the encampments.
• Jaime: We get people who say “I’m okay with going to encampments on my
• wn.” That’s not something we encourage. We’re not going to have community

volunteers go to encampments during the PIT. We have trained, paid staff for

• that. We also have other needs; for example, we will need people to call

different sites to help coordinate.

• Jaime: If you know anyone who might want to participate with the surveys and

needs training—such as your staff members—let me know and we can get them involved.

• 8. Homeless Awareness Month
• Jaime: As we did in year’s past, we’re doing a Toolkit for agencies. There’s also

advocacy going behind the scenes. For example, we have people who are going to City Council meetings. You can go and ask your City Council to make a proclamation about Homeless Awareness Month. We already have talking points ready for you. First step is getting on the city council agenda, and then you can go and speak to them about making a proclamation. Candace is going to Antioch’s city council.

• Teri: It’s always effective to be a resident of that city. They want to hear from

their constituents.

• Jaime: We are also handing out awards. We have an award for landlords,

volunteers, and innovation. For example, if you’ve seen something awesome and innovative for our system of care, that might be worthy of the Innovation Award.

• Jaime: At the Nov. 13th BOS, we are going to do advocacy by consumers, the

Housing Awareness Month Proclamation, adopt HEAP proclamation, and present awards.

• Final slide was a list of City/Town Council Meetings. Many of the municipalities

still need someone to go to ask for a homeless proclamation.

• Teri: The City of Antioch is currently doing a drive. If you want to do a drive, we

just need to figure out where to get the barrels, and then the CORE team can distribute the barrels around the county as necessary.

• Jaime: Yes, and we’ll also have a guide on what materials/supplies are best to

donate (such as synthetics). Toolkits are going to be blasted out by email, they will include hyperlinks, look for them in the coming week.

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• Teri: If you have a barrel or are interested in getting on, please contact me!
• 9. Community Announcements
• No community announcements.
• 10. Pin It
• Quarterly CoC Meeting is on October 19th, 2018 In Antioch
• The next Council meeting is Nov. 1st (room tbd).
• 11. Adjourn Meeting – Doug Leich

AGENDA

• 1. Welcome/Introductions
• 2. Approve Minutes (Action Item)
• 3. Committee Updates (Action Item)
• 4. The SPARK Initiative Presentation
• 5. HEAP Recommendations (Action Item)
• 6. October CoC Quarterly Meeting Report Out
• 7. Homeless Awareness Month Preview
• 8. Community Announcements
• 9. Pin It

• 2. APPROVE MINUTES (ACTION ITEM)

Doug Leich, Chair Review and adoption of minutes from the October 4, 2018 Council meeting.

• 3. COMMITTEE UPDATES

Jaime Jenett, H3 Youth Action Council Standing Item. General updates available in meeting packet. PIT Count Committee Ad Hoc Nominating Committee Ad Hoc Governance Charter Committee YAC Report Out

PIT COUNT COMMITTEE

• Determining what day the count will take place
• Developing/editing the actual survey and marketing materials
• Identifying key survey locations
• Developing volunteer recruitment strategies and opportunities.

First P Planning M Meeting Friday N November 2 2, 2 , 2018 1 p pm - 3 p pm 2400 B Bisso L Lane, B , Building D D, 2 , 2nd F Floor Concord, C , CA 9 94520

AD HOC NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Open S Seats:

• CoC/ESG Program Grantee
• Community Member
• EHSD
• Faith Community
• Health Care
• Public Housing Authority

Ti Timing:

• Applications Due: November 30
• Ad Hoc Nominating Committee Meeting: Week of December 3rd
• COH finalizes decisions on seats: December 6
• Recommendations go to FHS: February 2019
• BOS Approves Recommendations: February 2019

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR AD HOC COMMITTEES

PIT IT C Count C Committee

• Preparation for 2019 PIT Count
• 2 meetings, 3-5 volunteers

Ad H Hoc N Nominating C Committee

• Nominate potential Council Members for 2019-2021 Term
• 2 meetings, 5 volunteers

Ad H Hoc G Governance C Charter C Committee

• Annual review Governance Charter and Bylaws with

recommendations for changes and updates to Council and Board of Supervisors

• 3-4 meetings, 5 volunteers

YAC REPORT OUT

• Ongoing: UC Berkeley Catalyst Group

participation

• Upcoming: Exploring CoC system and

Coordinated Entry data

• 4. SPARK INITIATIVE PRESENTATION

Christa Mayes, YAC Member, Turning Point for Youth, The SPARK Initiative Presentation from the SPARK Initiative on its programming and services in Contra Costa.

The SPARK Initiative

Empowering Homeless and Systems-Involved Youth to Achieve Stability and Self-Sufficiency

Our Mission “Through meaningful, individualized relationships and integrated service provision, we empower homeless and systems-involved youth to create their

• wn solutions to achieve stability.”

Who we are A group of 7 driven, caring young people seeking to assist other young people on their path to stability and consistency in Contra Costa, Alameda, and San Francisco counties.

What we do

Empower youth to create their own solutions (with a little help of course) to succeed in the areas of housing, wellness, employment and education. Through our work we also hope to help heal a broken system our youth operate in.

We operate on a youth led model, meaning it's all about the young people we work with. The service and action plans we develop are individualized and cater to each specific youth's needs.

How we do it

Community Counts

• Connecting & creating partnerships with agencies & service providers is key
• Strong, tight knit community supporting youth = success

Reach out!

Contra Costa:

Christa: (510) 621-3279 christa@voicesyouthcenter.org Erica: (925) 318-1737 erica@voicesyouthcenter.org

• 5. HEAP RECOMMENDATIONS (ACTION ITEM)

Lavonna Martin, H3 Presentation of HEAP Recommendations from Ad Hoc Funding Committee and H3. Possible action to approve staff recommendations.

COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS: INTERVENTIONS

Re Region In Intervention Es Esti timated To Total Vo Votes To Total Vo Votes We West Vo Votes Ea East Vo Votes Ce Centr tral Vo Votes Yo Youth

Ea East

Establish an East Count CARE center by buying an existing building

• r constructing new facility

$ 6,000, 000.00 67 56 11

Al All

Install storage lockers + Create pet friendly environments at CARE Centers $ 9,6 00.00 41 18 8 15

Al All

Purchase CORE Vehicles + Expand CORE evening hours $ 310,000.00 38 30 8

We West

Increase West Warming Center hours and CARE Center gap hours $ 30,0 00.00 32 32

Al All

Safe parking program $ 125,0 00.00 29 3 9 17

Al All

RV park program $ 567,0 00.00 24 9 5 10

Al All

Move-In Assistance ??? 21 10 11

Yo Youth

Rehab building to create a CARE center for youth $ 1,000, 000.00 20 20

We West

Rehab unused North Richmond duplexes for bridge housing $ 1,300, 000.00 20 20

Ce Central

Expand Concord CARE Center $ 2,000, 000.00 20 20

Yo Youth

Create CORE outreach team for youth $ 160,0 00.00 17 17

Ce Central

Expand Concord Warming Center $ 30,0 00.00 16 16

Al All

Master lease hotels $ 250,0 00.00 9 9

Al All

Expand CORE team evening hours $ 160,0 00.00 8 8

Al All

Install storage lockers for client belongings $ 6,0 00.00

HEAP BUDGET

5% for Youth $ 359,838.50 5% for Admin $ 359,838.50 Total After Youth/Admin $6,477,093.00 West County $1,360,189.53 Central County $2,202,211.62 East County $2,914,691.85 Contra Costa (Total) $7,196,770.00

AD HOC & H3 RECOMMENDATIONS: ADMIN AND YOUTH

Funding P Pot In Intervention Re Recommended Al Allocation

Admin Sum Admin $359,838.50 Youth

Rehab building to create a CARE center for youth $1,000,000.00 Expand CORE outreach for youth** $0.00

Sum Youth $1,000,000.00

**May be funded through the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Grant

AD HOC & H3 RECOMMENDATIONS: WEST, CENTRAL & EAST COUNTY INTERVENTIONS

*County-wide intervention

Funding P Pot In Intervention Recommended A Allocation

West County

Increase West Warming Center hours and CARE Center gap hours $30,000.00 Rehab unused North Richmond duplexes for bridge housing $1,300,000.00 Purchase CORE Vehicles + Expand CORE evening hours* $53,333.33 Install storage lockers + Create pet friendly environments at CARE Centers* $3,200.00 RV park program $0.00

Sum W West $1,3 ,386,5 ,533.3 .33 Central County

Expand Concord CARE Center and Increase Concord Warming Center hours $1,337,331.50 Purchase CORE Vehicles + Expand CORE evening hours* $53,333.33 Install storage lockers + Create pet friendly environments at CARE Centers* $3,200.00 Safe Parking Program $0.00 Move-In Assistance $0.00

Sum C Central $1,3 ,393,8 ,864.8 .83 East County

Establish an East County CARE center by buying an existing building or constructing new facility $3,000,000.00 Purchase CORE Vehicles + Expand CORE evening hours* $53,333.33 Install storage lockers + Create pet friendly environments at CARE Centers* $3,200.00 Move-In Assistance $0.00 Master-lease hotels $0.00

Sum E East $3,0 ,056,5 ,533.3 .33

Sum All Includes Youth, Admin, and West/Central/East $7,1 ,196,7 ,770.0 .00

ACTION FOR CONSIDERATION

Approve staff recommendations for HEAP funding.

• 6. OCTOBER COC QUARTERLY MEETING REPORT OUT

Deanne Pearn, Council Vice-Chair Report out on the Quarterly Council Meeting: Advocacy 101 Training, which featured a presentation from Ensuring Opportunity and a panel of elected officials and legislative staffers from around the County.

• 7. HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS MONTH

HIGHLIGHTS

Jaime Jenett, H3 Overview and discussion of Homelessness Awareness Month (November) activities and opportunities for participation. Overview of Nov. 13th “A Call for Change” reception.

UPCOMING EVENTS

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PRESENTATION

Tuesday N Novembe ber 1 13th

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9:3 :30 a a.m .m. 651 P Pine S Street, M , Martinez Join us for a celebration of Homelessness Awareness Month, including presentation of a proclamation of November as Homelessness Awareness month and awards to an Outstanding Volunteer, Outstanding Landlord and Innovative Project/ Program.

November 1- 30, 2018 County Administration Building 651 Pine Street, Martinez November 13th 8:45-9:30 am RECEPTION!

"A CALL FOR CHANGE"

HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS MONTH AWARD RECOMMENDATIONS

Outstanding Volunteer Recommendation Winner: : Paula Robinson Honorable M Mention: : Doug Leich and Francis & Celeste Barnes Outstanding Landlord Recommendation Winner: : Kimberly Pruitt (Permanent Connections) Honorable M Mention: : Mark Hall (Trinity Center) Innovative Project/Program Winner: : Senior Housing Workshops Honorable M Mention: : C.O.R.E. Creek Teams

• 8. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Standing Item. Community Announcements.

• 9. PIN IT

Standing Item. Future items of discussion and scheduling to be considered. Next C Council M Meeting: D : December 6 6, , 20 2018 More information available online at: https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/council.php

Admin Sum Admin $359,838.50

Sum Youth $1,000,000.00

Sum West $1,386,533.33

Sum Central $1,393,864.83

Sum East $3,056,533.33

Sum All $7,196,770.00

East County

Budget Interventions HEAP Potential Funding Scenarios Worksheet

West County Youth Central County