Great.

All right, welcome to the work session.

We are looking the whole council, as far as I could tell, is looking forward to the briefing tonight.

And we appreciate you all being here from both the city and the county.

I'll let I'll let you all know that Councilor All Care is online.

So the whole council is here present listening.

And I'll also ask council to hold questions until Simone hits a break.

And then so I'll ask you to write the questions down when we hit a break.

Simone will say, All right, now's the time to ask questions, and then we'll go from there.

Any other things you want to add, Robbie?

Awesome.

Mayor.

Council's not on yet, but I'm sure she will read.

Okay, thanks for the heads up.

Appreciate it.

All right.

Simon, take it away.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council.

Good to see you all this evening.

For the record, my name is Simone Brooks, and I'm the assistant city manager.

Tonight, I, along with several staff, both from the county and from the city, will be presenting.

And we're going to share information about the city and county roles in addressing homelessness and deflection.

So to try to keep things moving, because we have a lot to try to cover this evening.

So I have to my right, Kiomi Arbuckle, Community Services Program Coordinator for the City.

Nicole Sting, Strategic Initiatives and Relations Manager from Washington County.

Danielle Farr, Deflection Coordinator, also from Washington County, and Sergeant Aaron McCarver from our Hillsborough Police Department.

He is the community outreach sergeant and public information officer.

So thank you, County staff, for being here today.

This will be a well-rounded presentation, so we certainly hope by time we're done.

Oh, you already went to agenda.

Thank you.

So before we move into the presentations, I just want to touch on the city's current role in addressing the issues of homelessness and behavioral health because I know for community members and sometimes for city council that can be confusing.

So through grants funded out of our general fund, community partnerships and some other limited resources, the city supports, connects, and coordinates with service providers, local, regional, and state agencies, as well as through our government relations advocates for federal funding for projects such as the year-round shelter.

The city receives approximately $675,000 in federal community development block grant funding, which can be used to provide social services to address housing and homelessness issues such as eviction prevention and emergency assistance.

However, City Council most recently and in previous councils has directed this funding to affordable home ownership and critical home repair.

And you heard about this program during one of the previous Hillsborough 101, so that's probably familiar to you, but I just wanted to kind of orient you to some of the different funding.

Housing affordability, which can be a contributing factor to homelessness, is not part of tonight's presentation, although housing affordability was also discussed during a previous Hillsborough 101 and is uh typically addressed through our housing production strategy, which is led by our economic and community development department, as well as efforts by other departments to address affordability issues.

Law enforcement is a role of the cities.

Um that is a key responsibility for us, as particularly in application of the time place manner rules for camping.

Um that was following the June 2024 Supreme Court ruling that gets cites the authority of local government to regulate public camping even when shelter is limited.

So just some there'll be more context coming on this when we get down to Sergeant McCarver.

So there's more to come details.

Um regarding behavioral health issues, such as treatment for substance abuse or mental health.

It's important to note that the city does not receive any source of funding to address those issues.

So no local, regional, state, or federal agency funds us to activate in those areas.

So unlike the city, Washington County, like Multnomah and Clackness Counties, receives Metro supportive housing services funding and state and federal funding related to its housing, health, and human services functions.

However, tonight's county presentations is not, they're not going to cover all the things that the county does related to housing, health and human services.

Um, but we will get some really important and helpful information this evening from their presentations.

So for tonight's agenda, we'll provide you with data to provide some context as it relates to homelessness and behavioral health.

And Washington County staff will provide updates regarding the homeless services system of care and the deflection program.

Next you'll hear here from Sergeant McCarver regarding our police department's role and relevant data.

Kiomi here will share current and upcoming news as well as information about the city's investments.

So some more details about what I just briefly gave you an overview.

And so those investments can include support to the local social service agencies.

So Komi will go into that.

And we've already identified this is a pre-and post-council work session, but we're going to do our best to get through Washington County's presentations.

So we're gonna, if you can hold your questions, write those down and hold until after the county completes its presentations.

I think we'll be in a pretty good spot when we come back after the council meeting.

So with that, I'll hand it over to Fiomi.

Thank you, Simone.

For the record, my name is Kiomi Arbuckle.

To start us off, I wanted to provide some context for today's discussion by looking at where we are as a from a national lens, a state lens, and a local lens.

So this slide is actually from a presentation I did in November with council.

At that time, I highlighted three key areas of concern homelessness, behavioral health, and public safety.

When we last spoke, I shared the lack of behavioral health services available.

Since then, the CAT Center for Addictions Triage and Treatment Center has come online and is an incredible resource.

I also got an email today saying that the Beaverton Recovery Center is nearly complete.

So that's also very exciting.

And then turning back to homelessness, the point in time count this year identified 940 people experiencing homelessness.

Of those, 701 were sheltered in either emergency shelter or transitional housing.

This was a 30% increase in the number of people sheltered at the time of the 2023 count.

The 2025 point in time count demonstrates that homelessness is increasing faster than the homeless service homeless services programs and resources can accommodate.

So while we've made a lot of progress with expanding shelter and services, the need is still outpacing the available resources.

To put our local challenges into context, I want to look up the national picture.

And so in 2024, 23 out of every 10,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States.

That was an 18% increase from 2023.

In Oregon, we saw a 63% increase in unsheltered homelessness over the last six years.

In 2024, 54 out of every 10,000 residents of Oregon experience homelessness.

And then locally in Hillsboro, about 45% of renters are cost burdened, spending more than one third of their monthly income on housing.

And so when you combine high housing costs, rising rents, and limited income, many individuals and families are just one to two paychecks away from becoming houseless.

So looking at behavioral health, specifically mental health, nationwide, more than one in 20 adults experience a serious mental illness each year.

20 to 25% of people without housing have a mental illness.

And in Oregon, specifically 922,000 adults have a mental health condition.

That's more than five times the population of Salem.

I do want to name, though, that everyone who experiences a mental health condition does not experience homelessness, and vice versa, experiencing homelessness does not equal experiencing a mental health condition.

For substance abuse, nationwide 16.8% of all people age 12 or older had a substance use disorder in the past year.

And in Oregon, there was an estimated 49% gap in needed substance use disorder services in 2022.

This slide really shows us a two-way relationship between the two, right?

So on one hand, untreated behavioral health, untreated behavioral health needs can make it harder for people to find and keep stable housing.

And on the other hand, the experience of being houseless makes it much harder to access consistent treatment and support.

So for example, it may be harder to maintain employment or navigate complex systems like housing programs and structural and social barriers such as lack of insurance, transportation, and discrimination hinder access to any kind of treatment.

And with that, I'd like to turn it to Nicole.

Hello, folks, for the record, my name is Nicole Sting.

I'm with Washington County Housing Services.

I'm grateful to be here for the chance to provide a bit of an overview of what homeless services looks like in Washington County, as well as some important updates about the progress we've made in the next year in the last year.

So next slide.

So just with that overview, I'm I work for the Department of Housing Services, but we're not talking as Simone mentioned about the entire scale of our work in housing and homelessness.

When we think of homeless services, we're really thinking of activities that prevent someone from the experience from going through the experience of homelessness.

And then we're talking about the interventions and variety of interventions along the way that lead people to housing stability.

So you'll see, of course, homeless prevention is key to this work, but so is street outreach, case workers to help connect people to shelter and housing, that emergency shelter and alternative shelter options, rapid rehousing, long-term rental assistance, permanent supportive housing, which is housing with rental assistance and wraparound supports that are designed to help people that have experienced chronic homelessness, have barriers in housing, permanent supportive housing is designed to help those folks be successful in housing.

And one more piece I'll uplift the coming soon brackets you see.

We're really excited to have funded 120 units of transitional housing across the county, including a partnership with Transcending Hope here in Hillsborough.

So I'm sure we'll get the chance to talk to you more about that later, but really excited about the ways our homeless services system is adapting.

And in particular, the transitional housing adaptment is recognizing the need to better integrate behavioral health services with housing and particularly provide a middle step for folks that might need some more support before they're ready to move to that permanent housing.

And to give you a sense of what homeless services look like in Washington County, we've been incredibly lucky with the supportive housing services measure to build out a physical infrastructure of care.

Many of the of the dots you see on the screen would not exist if not for the supportive housing services measure.

Some of the dots existed before.

You might recognize some names, some of the shelters that you've known in this community.

And we've been really grateful to partner on the year-round Hillsboro shelter and other initiatives to ensure that the physical pieces of our system of care exists throughout the county.

Next slide.

Now to think a little bit about what has happened with homeless services in the last year.

This slide presents braided funding.

So it represents what we've been able to do with state funds, with federal funds, and then most importantly, what we've been able to do, thanks to the initiative from voters, the supportive housing services measure.

We've helped over 7,000 people move along their housing journey.

So that includes interactions with street outreach, visiting a day center, working with housing liaes on that journey.

It's a broad array of engagements that are captured in that statistic.

The next one is a really exciting one, and this is one where we're leaning also on our federal resources to get to this number.

But we've uh housed uh over 10,000 people last year alone.

So that's last fiscal year.

Um I want to again clarify this includes federal resources, but it also includes about a third of that roughly is SHS funded uh assistance.

Um we're really grateful for that.

And to put this in context, that's about half the size of Sherwood we've been able to serve last year with housing specifically.

And uh additionally, we have over 400 shelter beds across the county.

Um I often get the opportunity to say prior to SHS, we had zero year-round shelter beds for single adults.

That is just not the case anymore.

We're able to offer shelter and with additional capacity to scale up in life-threatening moments, including severe weather, what we've seen with the heat recently and also with the cold in the winter.

And also uplift here our partnership with law enforcement throughout the community.

We hold emergency bed capacity for law enforcement who are enforcing time place manner.

So there's always a bed available should a law enforcement entity need to access it.

And this isn't on the slide.

I did just get this data before after we submitted this slide, um, but we're learning that uh over 2,000 people were served in our shelters last year as we de-duplicate that data.

So it we're really proud of this impact, and again, it is driven by voters and the supportive housing services measure.

Um, so I do want to take just a couple moments to talk about specifically what SHS has been able to accomplish on the next slide here.

We're really proud to have hit every single one of our goals this year.

This is the first time we've been able to do this with SHS.

Um, and it shows really what we've been able to quickly grow up as a system.

Want to, of course, elevate the work of our partners who are working with clients, helping them get into housing.

We exceeded our placement school both for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, which is assistance for two years or up to two years for households, as well as move in placements.

And that's, you know, if someone needs a chunk of money to get that down payment or to get that deposit rather to get their first and last months together, we can provide that one-time assistance if a family is able to be stable moving forward.

And of course, shelter capacity provided.

You saw on the last slide over 400.

There's some non-SHS funded shelter beds in our community.

That's that delta you might be curious about.

And eviction prevention is something we're incredibly proud of.

It's something we're limited in doing with supporter housing services because of funding requirements, but we were uh proud our last year of dedicated eviction prevention uh resources funded with SHS expanded that uh expect met our goal.

And I I will say these are all preliminary numbers.

I mentioned some numbers that were late breaking coming in, we're still doing the data scrub, the deduplication.

Um, our annual report will be released in October.

We'll be sure you all get a copy of that as well.

Um, and of course, just my last slide.

I want to highlight or second to last slide I want to highlight some of those non-metrics successes.

Uh, we're we're proud of the metrics.

Every single one of those people is a story that we'd be happy to share with you.

Uh, but also there's a lot of system work we've been able to accomplish last year.

We uh launched uh our first ever lived experience advisory committee focused on homeless services.

So we have folks that have been through our system helping advise us on how to improve our system.

Um we also hosted listening sessions last year to hear from providers and the general public about uh what their their housing needs are broadly and as it relates to homelessness.

Uh that map you saw earlier on, that's part of a broader report.

We uh really proud of the first purpose-built sites opening um in Tigered in Beaverton.

We're excited to celebrate you all opening your shelter later on this year.

Uh and we've recently released a capital projects report that details the 16 plus projects that SHS has supported throughout our community.

Last certainly not least, we're continuing with program monitoring.

Um we monitor folks for the the previous fiscal year, and we've continued to make improvements on the ways we're looking at our outcomes and the ways in which our service providers are able to deliver services.

And my last slide is uh the the moment I'd have to screen from the rooftop.

Uh, we can't do this alone.

Our partnerships are key.

Um, we have 25 plus service providers that we work with.

Um, some specialize in youth, some specialize in serving Latinx families, um, and a lot uh and some specialize in geographic regions, but all of these partnerships are key to how we uh how we're able to make progress in addressing the homeless crisis.

Um I'll also um uplift uh additional collaborations with Metro and our county partners on regional alignment efforts.

We passed a number of implementation plans with the Tri-County planning body that Metro facilitates.

Um, and we're also really proud of the City Lease on work we're able to do with with Kiomi here, of course, with Beaverton and our South County partners.

Um this is work we're we're glad to share.

We'll be at the LOC conference next month to share share more about that work.

Um and I'd be remiss not to take just another moment to talk about health system integration.

Um the Medicaid 1115 waiver provides um how uh housing related services, HRSN benefits.

I had to go through that acronym in my head.

Um, and we've been working with our uh coordinated care organizations in partnership to deliver those benefits.

Um, and as well, as I mentioned with the transitional housing, we're understanding that the impact uh of the housing work can only be benefited and amplified by partnerships with other systems that includes um health systems, it includes workforce systems, so we are always looking for those additional partnerships.

I know we're focused on the health systems today, um, but would encourage you all if you have ideas or ways we should be working with the community to reach out to us.

We're always um we always have those open doors.

Um but with for the sake of time, I will pass things over to my colleague Danielle.

I'm actually gonna jump in here because we're moving with such good time.

It seems actually like if there are questions that you already have, um, since we have Nicole here and there's a lot of information just covered right then.

Do you want to go ahead and ask questions?

We'll take a moment to pause for that.

Any questions?

Counselor Harris.

Thank you.

I need a couple of reading by scratch in here.

Um progress is here on SA school uh rapid revolution movement and permanent supportive housing places.

Um, you want is that people or is it families or what do we talk about?

Council, I appreciate that clarification.

We are talking about households there, so the the people served in that would be would be larger.

Could be significant by our right.

Okay, good.

I think that was oh, what will you consider success?

Oh, when is the point in time in time?

It's a great question, counselor.

The point in time count is done um every other year, so the odd number of years.

Um we're working closely.

You might have seen recent news that Multnomah County has released dashboards um with their inflow and outflow data.

That is using um what we call coordinated a coordinated entry system.

What we know in Washington County is community connect data to analyze the calls that are coming in and how folks are referred through that system and to the intervention that matches them.

So we're considering ways to have more regular needs, data needs reporting out.

Um, but to be candid that's a capacity challenge for us um as as the data requires quite a bit of um validation before it's ready to be published.

So work in progress on that.

Okay, thank you.

Any others?

Counselor Sinclair.

Thank you.

Um thank you so much for the presentation thus far.

Um looking at the regional SHS measure represents a majority of the county's homeless service funding.

Um, and I see it started includes federal housing vouchers.

Clearly, we're seeing an increase.

I mean, it's pretty scary to see that we're double the national average.

Um what are additional funding that we're looking at in the future?

Um, is there a possibility for TLT money, the lower 30% to be an option for us in the future?

Yeah, that's that's a great question.

I'll just say plainly what we all know that the resources we have are not able to keep up with demand.

Um, and to to share with you all, we're we're looking forward to providing the statistics for the previous year, but the year prior to the previous year um in an SHS program year three, we found for every 10 people we got into housing, 14 people fell into homelessness.

So your your student and recognizing we do need additional resources.

Where we're struggling is um we know that the state is facing incredible deficits in in their budget.

Um we know you all we are facing um deficits in our budget, so additional resources are necessary, but we have um we haven't identified a source for those resources that are within our our purview.

Still adapting, I get it.

Thank you so much.

Counselor Hires.

Sorry, I have one more sorry, Counselor Andry.

Oh, thank you.

Yes.

Um uh can we uh do you have the Oregon substance abuse statistics?

I think they were uh just saying if you had those specifically for Oregon, the informationwide ones there and uh in Oregon there was an estimated 49% gap and needed substance use disorder services, but I can um provide you with different specific data if you're looking for that.

Thank you.

And then what is what is transitional housing?

Oh thank you, counselor.

See, this is always an important reminder to define what you're talking about.

Um transitional housing is is a relatively old term in the housing space.

It's actually it fall it fell out of favor um a few decades back.

Um the joke we're making is we're retro, we're bringing it back.

Uh transitional housing is um a place-based program that provides two years of housing support to someone with wraparound services.

So the transitional housing we are launching includes stabilization transitional housing, that's the one in partnership with Transcending Hope, in which um folks will have two years to stabilize, but they're they're required, and this is the key, they're required to participate in a program that is working on their behavioral health needs.

Um, the other transitional housing we funded is another one where they're required to participate in a program, but the program is it will be recovery focused, and that is a site the county has purchased um in unincorporated Washington County um off of Cornell Road, north of 26.

Counselor Sergato.

Oh, he was nice.

Okay.

Counselor Harris.

Oh, thank you.

This might be for you, Kami.

Uh, one of your slides on mental health.

You um state that nationwide 20 to 25% of people without housing have mental illness, then Oregon has 922,000 with mental health conditions.

So I'm assuming those are two different things, because 922,000 is about 20% of the entire state of Oregon's population.

So am I correct?

Those are two different things, right?

Um, so they can they can mean two different things, and I would have to look at the data more specifically to see what kind of what they defined as a mental illness or as a mental health condition.

I will say though that that second statistic may be from 2024 and could be updated.

So the math may not be aligning with um 23.

Yeah.

Well, in the first statistics, one in 20 adults experience a serious mental illness each year.

So that's a slightly different measurement, right?

Okay, all right.

I just want to make sure we're talking different things.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Counselor Sergato.

Yeah, thanks for asking that question because I was also can a little bit confused by that because it's like one metric is serious, the other is just regular mental health conditions.

My question is around data.

You gave us a lot of great data.

What like how do you anchor your data?

Like what informs your goals that you set for the households that you want to house, like the table that you gave us, you gave us data on point in time.

Like how do you inform all of that?

What does that come from?

Counselor, that's a great question.

I'll maybe start and invite in Kiomi if I miss any pieces of the data she's presented.

Um we look at frankly what our budget is to help inform our our data.

So we when we're crafting our budget, um, I you know, Kim is in the back of the room.

Uh she serves as chair as our home of our homeless solutions advisory council.

Um, we go to our advisory bodies to seek feedback on on what to do.

We're also driven by um uh funding requirements for the supportive housing services measure.

I'm gonna get a little wonky.

I'll promise I'll go back up in a moment, but um, SHS requires that we spend about 75% of the resources on what's considered population A.

It's a local definition that is a proxy for chronic homelessness that is a bit more flexible than HUD's definition of chronic homelessness.

So these are folks that have typically experienced longer episodes of homelessness or more um frequent episodic um moments of homelessness and have a disabling condition of some kind.

Um and and uh ensuring we're we're providing 75% of our resources on population A requires us to kind of look at how we're balancing our system in the programs that are more likely to serve that population.

So that's that's a bit of how we start the process.

Um we also are uh in in reviewing our budgets, going back and reviewing what programs are working well, what's not working well.

I'll also say we're in we're in year five.

Um that feels like a long time, but you all know in government speak, that's the snap of a finger.

Um so we're still we're still figuring out what's the best way to go about getting this feedback, setting these goals.

Um, but but really when it comes to the metric goals, they're driven by where we're investing in programs.

Um we don't want to set goals that we haven't invested enough to be able to reach those goals.

Um and I'll also a bit of nuance here that um we we did have to reduce our goals um this year in a work plan amendment with Metro because um reductions in forecasts that came out after we had set this year's budget.

So we are we're stabilized now, but we did have to go through a moment of reduction um because uh the the forecast came back and was updated to uh a lower scale um that that surpassed our budget.

Okay, thanks.

So to summarize what you just said, I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying.

Uh success is measured by what resources are all available for the type of community you're serving.

I apologize.

I assumed how you like the I apologize.

I think I misunderstand the term how we got to those specific metrics.

Success is more than just those metrics.

What we're what we're aiming for, the vision of our our work is to create a Washington County where every one of us has affordable homes with the opportunities each of us need to thrive.

So that's what success looks like.

Obviously, that's not achievable with our resources.

So what we're looking at is how are our programs um uh are we are we successfully moving folks into housing?

Are they successfully retained in housing?

We do measure housing retention rates, um, and we're always you know looking for additional ways to monitor and improve um program evaluation.

Okay, thank you.

Counselor Sinclair.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

Um a question I have and and piggybacking on that for the homeless services, uh, what kind of turnover are we seeing for staff?

Are we having good retention?

Or what is that looking like in the services?

That's a great question, Counselor.

And I don't have that data in front of me.

I can tell you what I've heard from folks that turnover was was higher at the beginning of the program and has maybe studied set leveled out a bit.

I do want to clarify this is an industry that sees quite a bit of a turnover.

It's we aim to provide living wages, and we know that wages are not keeping up with the cost of living, and folks are moving on um to less stressful jobs where they might be making the same a little bit less or maybe even a little bit more.

So we we certainly see turnover in this industry, um, though what I've I've heard again is is it's leveling out a bit.

And is there data that provides that?

I'm not familiar with any any, but I can double check.

Thank you.

Counselor Sinclair, are you talking about turnover on the staff that provide services directly from the nonprofit staff?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, great.

Any other questions?

Questions online?

No.

No.

Okay, let's keep rolling.

Thank you, Nicole.

And Kiomi.

Thank you.

Okay, go ahead, Daniel.

Thanks.

All right.

Well, thank you, Mayor and City Council for the opportunity to be here.

Um, this is my first time presenting to you.

So forgive me and offer me some grace if I appear a bit nervous.

We're brutal.

We're really mean.

So you're taking it up already.

I think your your deep interest is is can be a little unnerving, but for all the wrong, all the right reasons.

Um, so I appreciate the opportunity to be here.

So I appreciate the opportunity to be here.

My name is Danielle Farr.

I'm the senior program coordinator for our deflection program in Washington County.

And based out of our Health and Human Services Behavioral Health Division at the county.

Let me just point at you or all right.

Sounds good.

So to give you a little bit of background on deflection, the history of it is it's the story starts really at 110 with the decriminalization of private amounts or personal amounts of substances.

That happened in 2020.

And based on some gaps that the public perceived in that, the response to that later in 2024 was HB 4002.

And for the for those of you who are really paying attention to this, remember that was passed in a short session.

So it was immediately executable, and we had very little time to do some miracles and miracles that we were really enthusiastic to move towards.

So it passed 2024, and then we launched September 1st, 2024.

So for those of you who have any experience in program development, we had to hire design, vet, pass through counsel, and then begin this process.

The alternative was wait, which was a reasonable choice, but it meant that some people would be receiving citations without having a deflection opportunity.

So I think that's important to note that each county and our county specifically was encouraged to develop a program that was unique to every community's needs and resources available.

So our community landscape different from Multnomah County's, different from Mowhir Counties.

So we designed a program that was specific to what we needed.

So we took the tools and insights gained during that short design window and created a program that we believe is specific for our service landscape.

Next slide.

So because we believe Washington County partnerships really are our strength.

So our team, our deflection team, has a wide range of experience, and this allows us to leverage that experience to break down silos that are been built into our system, sorry, systems.

And then collaboratively find those solutions to tackle those barriers each one at a time.

This deflection operations team is a consensus model.

So we have behavioral health, the district attorney, the sheriff's office, a burn providers both from mental health and behavioral health or mental health and substance abuse, but also contracted peer providers.

We have folks from housing at the table and folks from community corrections at the table, all advising, all participating on a very regular basis.

And what that looks like for us is we have daily meetings with our direct service providers.

So there's a 30-minute huddle every day targeting how do we provide outreach for these new folks that were just cited.

We don't want to lose a moment of that window of opportunity when somebody might be at like peak openness to an opportunity to change.

So we're looking for folks and coordinating with our warm handoff teams to provide those services as rapidly as possible.

We do weekly check-ins with our deflection operation team, who's more supervisor level, um, and they are tasked with um discussing outcomes and next steps.

So whether a person's completing or if a person is not going to be completing the program, those determinations are made on a weekly basis.

And then monthly, we have investment from senior leadership.

We have ACAs, um, like I mentioned that the district attorney takes at least an hour out of their month every month to make sure that their program is opening doors and making sure that our system moves as rapidly as possible because we've had to make changes rapidly in order to offer these services and grow at the pace that we have.

So in doing that, uh, through this partnership, deflection has expanded already twice in this past year.

So we started with a very limited uh plan, and then we've expanded our charge eligibility twice.

First from PCSU, which is just the user amounts, um, smallest amounts of substances to PCSA, which is slightly more, but is still considered a misdemeanor.

Um then in July, we made our most recent expansion, which was you can have the PCSU or the PCSA, but you can also have a co-occurring criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, or theft re when restitution isn't sought.

And we found that a lot of those things were coming at the same time.

Sometimes the DISCON was why they were stopped, and then they were found to have substances, and we didn't want that to be a barrier to being able to deflect their charges.

So we we continue to broaden that door as we were able to make sure that we were going to be able to provide a robust service for them.

With those expansions, one of the things that we haven't really changed is our success measures.

We think we've nailed that from the get-go, and we think that we've been able to see that success manifest in folks as we move forward.

Um, and it certainly helps us to retain good data the fewer changes we make.

Speaking of data, my apologies for the um some of the changes on some of the text, it didn't transition quite as perfectly as I um had initially designed.

Um again, with our attention to data, we're both contractually obligated, but also very invested in making sure to track our data well through this program.

It's just as much of a public service as it is an experiment.

So we want to make sure that as we're doing this work, we're learning everything that we can through it.

So far in our program, um, we've got some of our numbers here.

Um, I did also get a late breaking update.

We've reached a new high score with active participants, so we currently have 44 participants, so it's another five additional since these data were taken.

Um, and that doesn't account for the few that graduated during that time.

So National Deflection Leadership advised that we should start small and build to last.

And I think we took that really to heart.

We wanted to make sure that while we're serving people in a brand new system in a brand new program, people who have experienced vulnerability and challenges in the past, we didn't want to experiment on them.

Instead, we wanted to make sure that the brunt of the lift and the chaos and the challenges were on our team and our staff so that they experienced something consistent and something predictable.

So we've designed and built to last, and we are now in the phase where we are growing quickly.

We've doubled our numbers just in the last two months in our caseload, and we plan to continue that pace.

Uh we've seen steady growth since our thoughtful start.

Um, and I think it's important to know that the primary role of deflection is to avoid that criminal justice involvement and introduce people to treatment and recovery supports.

And deflection is not the only tool in Washington County's service landscape.

We have great committed partners, um, in fact, nearing 30 MOUs with our service providers at this stage and more coming.

Um, but deflection is a specialized tool for a very specific group of folks who there's really not a lot of resources and services for, oftentimes hard to reach, oftentimes not intrinsically motivated for services, or at least heavily ambivalent and need a little bit of support to move forward.

So that previously unavailable service is the gap that we're intending to feel fill with these works.

And you'll see this is our deflection referrals, and I think this is the crux of the work that we're doing.

Just not going to an arraignment is great.

But what's incredible is they're not going to arraignment, and they've seen nearly 300 different referrals to services, and over 60% of those have been actually made contact.

So some person might get a detox referral, a peer support referral, an outpatient referral, an MAT referral, all in one interaction.

Like here's some different options we can choose.

Let's see what fits.

Maybe they only pick one or two of those, but over 60% of these services are actually being utilized by these folks.

And I think that's just been an incredible testament of the work that our peer case managers are doing in that community-based direct service.

Next slide.

So since our citation pathway relies on citations, uh, we couldn't do this work without our law enforcement partnerships.

So our Hillsboro PD accounts for nearly half of all of our deflection eligible citations.

And we attribute this to the active need and opportunity for deflection, and also the already existing partnerships between the PD and the 4D outreach peers.

I say that, knowing or not knowing that he was going to be sitting next to me at this presentation.

And while we are still brand new, we've just been active a year now.

We're learning a lot about how deflection engagement impacts our participants and our community.

So some of what we're seeing, I think some of the most notable stats I put up here.

But we've had more than one in four of our folks at intake say they've never had a treatment encounter prior to deflection.

And I think that tells you a little bit about the treatment resistance, the vulnerability, and even in a very welcoming service landscape with what Washington County County certainly is.

For whatever reason, they haven't seen that in their story yet.

And we're seeing about 49% have completed that initial assessment, which is a fairly robust interaction, oftentimes several hours of a fairly intensive interview.

And it it requires a fairly solid commitment to at least begin that recovery process.

And of those, by the time they've completed graduated or exited for other reasons, they went from unsheltered to sheltered.

And I think that also is an incredible transition to their vulnerability and their risk factors of having additional criminal justice involvement in the future.

Next slide.

So in addition to the oh, actually, will you go back just one?

I just completely glossed over a little word cloud.

So one of the decisions we made early on in deflection is that we weren't going to be highlighting particular cases or particular participants.

I know this is something our community loves to see because it's so powerful and it's so meaningful.

And I'm selfishly going to maintain that for myself and not share with the community.

We believe that deflection is an opportunity to maintain that clean slate.

Um might not be the best use of their early recovery vulnerability.

So as such to keep that protection, but still allow folks to see the kind of difference that we're making.

We've taken a word cloud of all the quotes they give throughout their time in deflection, not just at the end, not just the people that are super thrilled, um, to just give a give a sense of what this program feels like for our participants.

So if you're if you're seeing some of those things uh shine out, I do want to, this is directly from our participants and what they're feeling.

Okay, now I can.

But in addition to that person-to-person improvement, our community is benefiting from this.

Our law enforcement partners are sharing with us that they really enjoy this work.

Um, and our peer partners are really enjoying the um ability to partner with folks that maybe they didn't get to show this kind of respect and partnership with.

So it's it's just a kind of a rehumanization and a throwing off of that scarlet letter and just boldly working together with one another.

Um, and as a person in long-term recovery, I remember those moments in my life and how validating they were.

So we're seeing just a lot of healing across the board.

And looking forward, uh, we will be continuing to expand outreach.

So currently we have a citation track.

That's our uh law enforcement intervention pathway.

Um, we're going to be expanding to a non-citation track.

So something doesn't require law enforcement engagement now that we've built up our processes, our procedures, um, and we're also going to be adding uh contingency management to our program to just bolster that incentive structure for folks who are looking to engage in services but still struggling because of the demotivation that just exists in the brain during active addiction.

And of course, ongoing engagement and in our partnerships, because that's my favorite thing.

Thank you all.

Are we breaking here?

Yes.

This would be the pause for questions, yes, please.

We have paused again.

Thank you very much for the briefing.

Any questions?

Counselor Sergato.

You did a great job, by the way.

Presentation.

So the deflection program, part of the intention is to deflect them from jail, right?

So do you have any data on how much money is being saved at the courts and in jail from not having to incarcerate people and go through that whole system?

That is so fun that you asked that.

Thank you very question.

I actually just had a meeting today with our data analyst to start really quantifying that because we've initially designed our program to really maximize and see what we're looking at impact for that person.

Now that we have a year's worth of data and citation tracking, we're at a bit of a deficit because during 110, we don't have the arrest records that would be make that an easier math equation.

But we are going to be looking at ways to model the kind of savings from defense attorneys, incarceration, hospital visits, all the ways that we know vulnerable people struggle when they're deeper in the consequences of active addiction.

Well, when that breaks, can you send it to us?

I absolutely will.

And we'll now call Counselor Solgato, Counselor Fun, since he asked that fun question.

So I'll make a note.

Yes, please do.

Counselor uh Ambry.

That is great.

Thank you.

Um I have a question about the the deflection process on slide 19.

Um so it says uh on the third bullet, uh eligible a person must choose to enter the program before the court process starts.

Uh what what what does that mean?

Uh before the what is the court process start mean?

Uh thank you, counselor.

That's a really great question.

Um it's one of those things that has been such a part of my year, I forget that that's not a part of yours.

Um so deflection begins right now on our citation track at the time of citation.

So our law enforcement partner gives uh a citation and then one of these cards.

Um it's in Spanish on the back, English in the front, the QR code goes to a fully translated website on this side, um, or English on this side.

Um, and these cards provide um an assurance that everybody gets the same message despite our whole county worth of different um partners in public safety.

So that's where that starts.

And then we begin outreach from deflection, whether they call us or not.

Most folks don't call.

Um, so we begin active outreach to them immediately.

But if we don't get in contact with them, they still have that court date on their citation and that time window, once it comes to their arraignment, we're actually laying in wait at the arraignment to try and help support them in that moment.

Like, wait, wait, wait, don't go in there.

Talk to us.

And we have a great friendly agreement with our courts that hey, if they're talking to us, they're not late.

Nothing, nothing's going on.

And so far, only four people in the 80s that we've talked to have said, no, I'd rather go into court.

And maybe they don't feel the charge is accurate, but that's what we're talking about before the court process starts.

So if they've gone through arraignment or had a made a plea on their case, that's too late for deflection.

They're already engaged with the criminal justice system.

Um, and then I had two more two more questions.

So it said um one of your slides said um uh 45 47% of all incoming deflection religible citations are from the Hillsborough police department.

Is that proportional to the population of this population in different cities?

Or is the Hillsborough Police Department just better I think they I would say that they are more active, but again, we have strong partnerships with the Hillsborough PD.

We have outreach peers, we have warm handoff partnerships established with them.

So they're very invested in this program.

And so it could be a lot of different things.

Um, there are certainly some PDs that uh have very small boxes.

Um that's either due to need or just engagement.

There were multiple years where they're not writing this citation.

It takes a lot of training to teach people how to identify drugs, and maybe this is more for you to share about.

But it takes a lot of training.

And we have a lieutenant as part of our deflection operations team, Lieutenant Knoffsinger, who's done a great job of making sure that our county is educated on our expansions, but also how to how to enforce this.

Because for some folks hired in the last year, it's new.

Yeah.

So I don't know if I can get away with saying they're better, but they've certainly demonstrated a strong commitment to our deflection program.

And then the last one, it just uh he says 50% of participants went from uncheltered to sheltered uh if they were part of the deflection program.

That that is an astounding statistic.

And um I think needs to be looked into more.

This this is amazing.

Well, I will unfortunately temper your expectations.

It's a very small data set.

Um, and it's it's partnered with um all of our hopes and dreams, right?

I hope that we maintain these numbers, but I think there is a world in where we we don't get to, right?

But but I think this is also 50% of those who were unsheltered.

So not 50% of the participants in our program, but 50% of 45%.

So still very meaningful, and we're very proud.

Uh Councilor Harris, and then afterwards, Counselor Sinclair.

Thank you.

I was looking at slide 20.

You're showing that total ineligible people were 972 eligible people for for 940.

Are you counting as ineligible in the one that was charged with a PCS?

And then all the people that were we that were screened out from the requirements to come down to 240 total.

Is that right?

Is that the way to read that?

Yes.

Thank you, counselor.

So if we actually go to the slide just before, um, we're looking at that eligibility, and a lot of folks become uneligible because of either a history of violent offenses.

Most folks have some sort of co-occurring charge.

So whether it's a charge that's on that citation or a previous unresolved charge, if they have multiple FTAs or they're in court or on probation for other charges, those do render them uneligible.

And deflection, our program believes that it is not as market a benefit to deflect somebody who's already in the criminal justice system with just one additional charge.

We'd rather spend the use those resources deflecting them entirely.

So would your data show which agencies wrote those 972 citations?

Curious, because then you could figure out what ratio the referrals were as to their total PCS charges.

I mean, if you have the data, I'm assuming you could sort that in some way.

I know we have that data, and I certainly don't have it on hand, but I I know that just because the citation came from a specific department doesn't mean their ineligibility was a result of that specific citation.

Right.

But I'm saying that Phil's Bow's writing half the citations in the county, the fact that they're doing half the referrals is still impressive, but it is a factor to consider when looking at that number.

So Sinclair.

Thank you, Mary.

Um, I first want to say thank you.

Your guys' presentation shows serious depth of your commitment to the real work you guys are doing.

It's very evident.

Um the question I have is last year when we talked about this when this is really new.

Um, we were talking about the deflection eligibility aspect uh and partnering, we're talking about partners like Project Homeless Connect.

That's something that we're hopeful that becomes a natural fit.

How has that adapted?

Has there been an increase in success rate and working with those two working together as entities to create more opportunities for our community for experience experiencing um homelessness or addiction or mental health issues?

So has that changed since last year?

Especially with the access center expanding.

I'm I'm hoping that this becomes more opportunity in our community.

Yeah, I think that's uh an excellent question, and I I wish I had much more robust news to share with you.

Unfortunately, with all of the rapid changing in housing and deflection at the same time and some changes in leadership.

We've had some um ships passing in the night.

So I think my next appointment with housing to really drill down into exactly how to affect change is next Wednesday.

So we're we're really looking forward to drilling that down.

We've got the MOUs in place now.

We have visibility into ensuring that no more uh FTAs occur and that they're aware of people's presentation and participation in deflection.

So we're we're working steadily.

I also know that our contracted peers um are partnering directly, not as a programmatic, but they are frequently over at Project Homeless Connect, looking for opportunities to serve, checking in with people, they're on a first name basis.

So I know that the direct service providers have had a lot of success maintaining that commitment and connection.

Um some of the systems barriers have gotten in our way from really building that out.

But it's on our top to do list.

There's still a monthly meeting in place.

So next year we'll have more information.

Sooner than that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for the presentation.

Really appreciate it, and I agree that the level of data was very helpful.

I do have one question.

Do we have and you said the number was small uh as far as the database and of people we're looking at?

Do you have numbers on recidivism?

People who don't make it through.

No, well, Mayor, it I think two different numbers.

Recidivism would be a different number that we could track, but I do have numbers on the number of people who did not complete the program.

Okay.

So it's it's about a 50-50 split right now of folks who have successfully completed the entire six-month program.

Um, and that means they completed an assessment, they engaged in services, they maintained um connection with our peer case managers on an ongoing basis for that six months.

Um the same number of folks, I think we're at oh 23 and 23.

Um, the same number of folks made it somewhere along that continuum.

Many got the assessment, some engaged in services, some folks made it all the way there and then had another charge.

And so that would it tracked as aneligible, so it was disqualifying for completion, but I wouldn't say it was not a success.

Um, some of those folks have maintained contact with our peer case managers and still see this as a really positive support.

Um, and it's important to know that if a person is not able to complete deflection, that doesn't mean that it's you know straight to jail.

We have a an ongoing continuum of conditional discharge, um, and then a series of other pieces built into 4002.

I'm certainly not the spokesperson for that, but at the end of the day, the outcome is very similar.

It's just a more formal supervision model.

So it's it's still engagement and services and results in uh expungement of the record um when you complete those treatment services.

So that's similar outcomes but different level of engagement.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

Also, thanks for the reference to the Scarlet Letter.

May we all be strong as strong as Hester Pryn.

Um thanks everybody.

We'll uh stop with the work session.

We'll pick it up after the city council meeting, and I'll see everybody in the civic auditorium.

Thank you.

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May we please have a roll call.

Mayor Pace.

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Councilor Alcair.

Councillor Sinclair.

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Counselor Case?

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Councillor Harris.

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Counselor Anverie?

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Counselor Solgado.

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And I will um check to see if Counselor Alcare has logged back on.

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Thank you.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Uh so moving to item two presentations and appointments.

We'll start this meeting with a legislative update from Representative McLean.

Welcome, Representative McLean.

Yes.

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Thank you.

And a rolling chair and everything.

So we got that special for you.

Thank you.

Well, first of all, I want to thank you for allowing me to be on your agenda tonight.

And I know how precious your time is.

I saw your work session before on right here on the screen, and I know you have more work to do, so I'm going to try and be in concise and really give you a short version, but then offer to send anything you'd like for additional information.

So first of all, um my name is Susan McLean, and I am the representative for House District 29, which includes part of Hillsboro, Cornelius, and Forest Grove, and also some of the rural land to both the north and the south of all three cities.

I am in my 11th year at the legislature, and the areas that I have spent the most time with as a teacher of 42 years is education, and then I also have worked very hard on infrastructure and trying to make sure that we use our resources well, whether it be water, whether it be land, or whether it be how we can figure how we live in our state as well as in our urban areas and a wide variety of choices for housing.

So I've worked on housing quite a bit as well.

The area, though, in the last three years that have taken most of my time has been infrastructure.

You folks in Hillsborough actually were one of 13 tours and public hearings and round tables that we had around the state to try and pass a comprehensive multimodal safe type of package or program for the State of Oregon in the session in 2025.

We had a bill, House Bill 2025, and it did not pass in the last couple of days of the session.

Because of that, we ended up having to go to a special session situation where we are trying to lay out two definite but very different elements to continue that work.

Because infrastructure is important for our economy, infrastructure is important for housing, infrastructure is important for vital community.

And right now, when we are finding a lot of changes in how Oregon business and also how Oregon products are be accepting and been accepted in the world situation and economy, we really have to be on our toes and be nimble.

So it's a situation where I've committed to continue to work on this until we get it done.

At this point, we have a bill, and the bill in the special session is a bill that we're calling a budget reconciliation bill.

And the budget reconciliation bill does just that.

It puts 4.4 or 4.5 billion dollars over 10 years in this year's budget to be able to take care of the $300 million that we are lacking in this budget because it was expecting the 2025 bill to pass.

The House met at the beginning of September and we did pass the special session bill through the House chamber.

We made two amendments.

The two amendments were to allow us in hopes of getting bipartisan support.

The first amendment was a sunset on the transit piece.

Right now we have a payroll tax of 0.1 that we put in in 2017, and that point one is a is basically just taken out of each paycheck as it goes through the year.

We added point one, which makes it a point two out of the payroll tax, and that is about um five dollars and sixty cents a month, or about sixty-eight dollars a year from the payroll tax to pay for a public transit system.

Many of us do not feel that the payroll tax is the best vehicle.

And so we put a two-year sunset on that transit tax, and we have two years to figure out either how we're going to keep it or how we're going to replace it.

But we've gotten a lot of opinion from the public that they would prefer to see a different way of funding public transit.

So that is what we have on on the on the books there in the special session bill.

The second amendment is actually something I've been working on for three plus years as both the co-chair of the joint transportation committee and also uh the co-chair of the by-state I-5 bridge committee, and that is trying to make sure that our weight mile, which is uh really Oregon was on the cutting edge of a weight mile, which means that people pay for their use of the roads by how many uh tons or how many pounds they have in the vehicles that they are using.

And that is different than the fuel tax or what we call the gas tax.

So the second amendment was making sure that we went forward with a commitment to reconcile the difference between the light and the heavy vehicles.

And we had both the trucking association and we also had Triple A who actually supported the amendment in the bill in the special session that the House passed.

So those are the two amendments.

It is about four point, as I said, four billion dollars over a 10-year period.

Understand that again for bipartisan support, that in the special or rather in the regular session, we went from $11.4 billion over a 12-year period, which is the actual cost of the things that cities, counties, and the state say they want to do resiliency maintenance and making sure that we have a multimodal and a transit public system.

But we we cut that down to five about five billion.

And that bill we thought was going to pass in the last two days.

It did not.

And so that is why we're here with a special session with the very lowest amount, which is 4.5 that we absolutely have to have to keep the lights on and make sure that we have the services that the general public says that they want.

So I am happy to answer any question on transportation, the special bill, or anything else that has to do with the I-5 bridge or other parts of our work in the joint transportation.

I would like to go on to a few other things and then maybe take questions if that's okay, Mayor.

That works for us, Representative.

Thank you.

So I will I do have a lot of bills that I've worked on.

We I didn't have a lot of personal bills other than about five.

And two out of those five passed, and they had to do one was with a deep fake.

There's a lot of children and a lot of people that were online that were having pictures posted of them that were embarrassing, personal, inappropriate, not real.

And stocking, we uh changed and improved and modernized the bill so that if you can be stocked online just as you can be stocked walking down the road.

So that was important.

That was safety that had to do with both adults and children, and I think it was important to get that through.

And we have support for that at all levels, and it was signed.

So that was good.

We had some also some housing and rental bills, and I will be handing out a two-sider that we will send to you by email that will give you those bills, uh, tell you what their numbers are, what they do, and if you have any questions on those, I'm happy to answer those or send you any other information on those bills.

I also would like to talk for just a minute uh about the fact that we all have experienced changes from the ethics department or what we want to call the ethics board, that has to do with how we meet with each other and how we meet with uh with those that we do business with if we're an elected official.

We have a wide bipartisan support of trying to figure that out because it's become very difficult to do our jobs and be able to have conversations with people, share ideas, be creative, problem solve, and be able to do it uh with the ethics commission going thumbs up.

And so we are working on that, and we have got both our speaker and our president's office that are also working on that, and I believe that it will end up in the rules committee in the short session, is what my assumption is.

But I am also working with Representative Mannix and Representative Sosa on that.

There's a lot of us that are interested in putting in some energy there, and we'll keep you up to date on how that's going.

Also, I know that everybody is interested in, you know, basically the federal government and what the state is doing to support Oregon and being Oregon and maintaining our status and our our laws and our values as we go forward.

I want you to know that that is something that we do 24-7 in everything that we do.

It is not one thing, it is a filter, and we have to put that filter forth when we're looking at budgets.

And we've got to make sure that our Attorney General and other folks, including the governor, who have opportunities to form compacts and to form groups, for example, like on our health care, we're looking at vaccination rules, and we have formed basically a group of Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, and California, to set up our own standards on that, to make sure that our public has what they need in the way of services, what they have in the way if whether it be a COVID shot or anything else, that if they need it because of their particular health consideration, that we have that available for them.

So we are working on that both at the State level, we're working on it with other States, and we're working on it as we go forward to understand what is happening with the Federal Government and their next steps in that area.

I want to allow as much time as possible for questions, and so I will send you anything else you need.

I'm happy to answer questions tonight.

It's whatever the council and the mayor wants to do.

Okay.

Thank you, Representative.

Are there any questions for Representative McLean?

Counselor Case.

Thank you so much for that update.

Uh, Representative McLean, it's great to see you tonight.

Um, I'm going to start with the last point you made uh first and ask where are we at with the vaccine updates and the ability for the community at large to get them?

It's a question that I get on a regular basis and am personally interested in, and I know that health uh public health is not something the city deals with, but it is something of interest to a lot of folks.

Do we have a timeline on that?

So I have uh right now you have the pharmacy board, you have the nursing uh folks, and you have state you know organizations as well working on that together.

There are um a couple of people, a couple of my peers have actually put something out in the last two days that I'm going to put in my newsletter this next week.

But one of the items that we're finding out is that they the Federal Government wants us to have some kind of doctor's uh request for the individual to get an actual shot of some sort or some or a treatment in any any light.

And so we are working on what that means.

Some states have the ability to do a blanket one that's available uh at the pharmacy.

At this point, that has not been what we've been told is available in a quicker turnaround.

And so uh right now my suggestion is that I will be putting as much as I can in my newsletter about everything that's coming up to date.

I have a friend who uh actually works uh with the state organization with the nursing association, and she has been putting out things too, and we'll make sure we get as much to you as quick as possible.

My my second response is have them call their doctor.

Have them call their doctor.

And uh right now the pharmacies are holding tight with what they consider to be federal guidance.

Any other questions, Councillor Harris?

And then Councillor Sinclair.

Thank you.

Nice to see you again, Representative McLean.

So I think it was today the governor issued an order, sort of an across the board freeze on hiring at the state level in preparation for a large decrease in potential decrease in federal funding.

Do we have any idea where those when those if we hit get decreases when we would know when that would be, and do we know what programs they may impact the most?

So are you talking about all programs?

I don't know.

I mean, I guess that's my question.

You're not talking about just transportation.

No, no, it's just so um quite frankly, I mean, we have been gathering that information and it's been changing over the year.

You know, since January, uh, we've had things change three or four times in one area alone.

But right now, if there's there's three types of grants and budget you know items that come from the Federal level.

If it's not a grant and it's not a grant that we have been accepted into and is okay as far as our standards and our status in that program, then we are with everyone else for the general, basically the general description of what they are not willing to fund any more.

We have $15 billion that we have already lost in Federal funding, as you know.

And that $15 billion comes primarily from grants and or programs, you know, and there are now lawsuits that are changing that a little.

For example, uh, we just had a lawsuit that was one that said that they could not stop nutrition programs and or head start programs.

And so we are looking into what that means and how much of that we could get back if we continue to try and go forward saying, you know, we're we're in good status, we have used those dollars well, you have given us good um, you know, report cards as far as how we have spent the money, you know, or any other requirement that they may have or will put in front of us.

But it is going to be an ongoing situation.

The I-5 bridge, for example, we were in really good shape because we not only had been given, we'd gone through the process, we had won the grant, and we had been given written um confirmation of the grant, and two or three of them, we have spent them, and or we had it in the bank.

Okay.

So we were pretty good in that situation.

But there are some other grants that are in transportation and other areas that we're still protecting, continuing to uh fight forward for, and continuing to let them know and see that we have a program that they valued and it's still valuable.

So we are having to be persuasive as well as really uh be on our toes as far as keeping track of all the changes, whether it be an executive order or something that they've done through a partial executive order and a legislative action.

We are working as closely as we can with our Oregon delegation, and we're not leaving any stone unturned.

Our our attorney general has been extremely active.

Uh he's going to the Supreme Court, okay, with the tariff uh work, for example, and with our our tariff uh lawsuit.

And so we are taking the lead on that, and uh we should get some more information about that shortly as well.

Great, Councillor Sinclair.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh Representative McLean, thank you for taking time to be here tonight to share your insight.

It's much appreciated.

Um listening to your insight, it focuses a lot on heavy transportation, like highway use.

What can you share more of some of the community-centered transportation uh improvements that we'll see with this pertaining to walking or cycling?

So, first of all, let's remember that 50 percent of the money that is that we're looking at there goes to the counties and the cities, and it goes through our Transportation Commission process.

So let's remember that you get to decide along with our Region 1 folks uh through ODOT, specifically what you think rises to the top.

And we all know that uh maintenance and safety are the two things that we say come first.

Safety first is is always going to be there from the State.

That's something we've taken on as a theme uh for over three years, and we are going to continue with that.

So what we're going to see in this first go-around is finishing up and reconciling the budget so we can do the things that have already been okayed through the the queue and through Transportation Commission, and we want the money to be there to make sure that the counties and cities get there 50 percent and that the state continues with the projects that we've got on the queue for the next two years, and that we have the money to do those types of things.

Now, resiliency, bridge safety, culvert safety, all of those things are basic.

And we have to decide which one goes first because of how unsafe it is, or in you know what the project can how difficult it is, how complicated it is, and maybe even you know what are the resources that are available from the cities and counties.

But that process is status quo and hasn't changed at all.

Safe routes to school has the money that we put in in 2017.

We are not able to add money.

The 2025 bill from the regular session, both Dash 23 and Das-28 had a hundred million dollars more for a lot of those safety programs.

But unless we want to pay for it, those are not going to happen until we're willing to figure out how we get the general public to understand this is the service you want, and this is the realistic cost of it for the next bienni.

But I'm there to carry your opinions, your thoughts, your ideas, and your values, because I think we have very similar values on those issues of safety and maintenance.

Thank you very much.

Are there any other questions for Representative McLean?

I do need to say one thing, and that is that.

No, I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

This is important.

Because it was late breaking news, and I forgot I just read about no.

Okay.

Late breaking news.

We're trying to get it through the Senate.

We passed it in the House, we're trying to get it through the Senate.

As you know, we have a Senator who had an operation in August and had some complications.

We were hoping that he would be released from his doctor tomorrow.

It looks like it's going to be a couple weeks longer.

So I want to be honest, open, and say, you know, yes, this has been a difficult uphill battle with not, you know, there's been no easy easy time or easy anything.

But we are determined that we are going to do the right thing by the people of Oregon, the right thing by our cities and counties, and I am going to continue to work day and night until we get this darn thing over the finish line everywhere.

Okay.

So just understand if you have any updates that you want, if you have any questions that your um your folks have, let us know.

We're willing to send you information, come back.

I've had at least coffee with most of you, and anybody I haven't had coffee with, I'm happy to do so any time.

I like the little bakery on third, and I like their porch, so let's get a spot.

But thank you so much.

Thank you, Representative McClain.

I also want to say thank you for your work with Representative Sosa in talking with Ogek, the Oregon Government on Ethics Commission.

Um the fact that they're saying that council members can't talk to each other about ideas, that council members can't talk to staff or constituents, in my opinion, shows how incredibly out of touch they are.

And I I think the word is ridiculous.

So thank you very much for working with Representative Sosa on that.

I will tell you, as a speech and communication teacher for 42 years, it was offensive, okay?

So how are we supposed to do our work if we don't talk?

Yeah, thank you again, Representative.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate the time.

Great.

Okay, moving to item three public comment.

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And speaking of the microphone, so those on Zoom can also hear your comments.

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And this and the city recorder can display the translation on screen.

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Comments are limited to three minutes.

This is an opportunity for members of the public to inform the council about their views.

Note the council will not be entering into a dialogue during this time.

However, the city manager may direct staff to follow up with you regarding your comment or questions.

We'll begin by hearing from Trisha Raby, or Trish Raby, excuse me.

And then also coming up, uh I'll have Sia Lindstrom come up as well.

You can come up, pick a spot.

Trish, I think you know to press the center button.

Okay, and go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor Pace, and all the council.

I really appreciate your time and efforts and everything and your reaching out to me.

It's been amazing.

Um I have been coming to you guys, and I apologize about the diatribe last time, the vulgarity, but it was something that I had to deal with on a daily basis.

It wasn't just a one-time thing.

Um I kind of thought and reflected about it, and once one somebody reached out to me, which I was very happy about, um, we sat down and we talked.

And it's something that was it resonated with me.

Um I'm glad you guys can't talk because it's great.

I've got the floor.

Um, I thought about it, and I have to go to the library, right?

I love the library.

I give my card, and they give me a book and I have to return it.

I go to Costco.

I'm flagged in, right?

I buy anything, alcohol, whatever.

You have to show your ID.

Right.

Now, this is not just about what's going on, it's about the homeless in general.

Why do we not have something that has like maybe a fingerprint that when they go into something?

So we have an accurate count of how much as a society, as a community, Hillsboro, Washington County, greater area, how many people are actually homeless with all the money that we're giving the millions and millions of dollars to build these places.

How many people are we servicing?

And how much are we servicing per person when we're not spending that on our own children for their education?

Now, I do realize that people may have some thing about that's going to, you know, they have to put their fingerprint that totally negates our rights.

I don't think so.

Because when you're in a society, there's rules.

And if we take those rules away from any one of our people in society, then they know that they're above the rules.

There are rules to things.

So if they want to go into say Project Homeless Connect, they flag their finger.

So instead of them saying we serviced 120 people today for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Well, maybe you only service 40 people, but they came in for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

How do we have an accurate count?

And that's what I'm saying to you guys.

Think about it.

I don't want to just come up and complain complaint.

I want to give you solutions and maybe help you figure this out.

Thanks for listening to me.

We'll hear from CEO next, and we'll have Jack Graham come up.

Sia, you have three minutes.

Great.

Thank you all.

Good evening, Mayor Pace, City Council.

My name is Sia Lindstrom.

I'm a proud resident of the City of Hillsboro.

I'm also here tonight as a proud member of the board of directors for Project Homeless Connect.

At PHC, we're excited about a couple of things that are coming up.

First, we're thrilled to be partnering with the city and with the county on the new shelter that will open this winter season.

With 35 indoor congregate beds, 40 individual shelter pods, it will provide on site meals, showers, laundry facilities, wraparound services, and 24-7 on site staff.

Second, we're excited to be renovating our day center in downtown Hillsboro so that we can provide expanded services and a larger facility that is purpose built.

Now, what that means is that it's designed specifically with the needs of our clients and staff in mind so that we can help them be successful in this work.

You all know that we badly need a new facility.

For example, in the last quarter, Project Homeless Connect provided clients with over 20 with over 1,200 showers and 600 loads of laundry.

Very concrete data I'm giving you here.

Even with that, we couldn't meet all the needs that walked through our doors.

Clients needed over 550 showers and 500 loads of laundry that we didn't have the facilities to provide.

And that's just one very concrete example of how our current facility is inadequate for the services that are needed.

Now, I know you've heard concerns from some of our neighbors near our day center, and I want to acknowledge those concerns.

Our downtown area is evolving and changing in many good ways, and of course, in some challenging ways as well.

As a community, we are all struggling to ensure that everyone gets the needs met, whether it's basic things like food and shelter, or more complicated things like untreated mental health issues or substance use issues.

These problems run deep in our community.

So I've worked in local government for a long time, as you all know.

Um we all know that there are no easy solutions here.

We have to work together, coming at it from multiple directions, take on the pieces that we do well, and try to move the needle.

So that's why I'm on Project Homeless Connect's board of directors.

The piece that Project Homeless Connect does well is to meet people where they are, create a safe and trusted place for people who don't trust services and systems for a variety of reasons, and try to walk with them towards services that will help them find stability and self-reliance.

I know how important our nonprofit partners are in making this community a better place.

What they do is difficult work, and I want to support them and help them do their work even better.

So that's why I'm here to thank you all tonight for the partnership.

I'm excited to watch the new shelter and the day center renovation come together.

We're going to see big improvements in our homeless services over the next year.

I appreciate the partnership between PHC and the City of Hillsboro.

Thank you very much for your continued partnership and support.

I went over.

Thank you, Sia.

Thank you.

Next up is Jack Graham, and Jack, while you're speaking, uh April Davis can come up and join at the other seat.

Um before you speak, Jack, um, I just we've had two people talk about homelessness, and I would love to let everyone know that um we had a work session prior to this meeting, and the work session will continue on how the city and the county are partnering to deal with homelessness.

There's some excellent data in those briefings, and you'll be able to get those online.

So just thought I'd include that since we've had two people talking about homelessness.

All right, Jack, you have three minutes.

Great, thanks for having me.

I've never done this before.

So I appreciate um the opportunity to speak to all of you all at once.

This is great.

Uh I run the new children's museum, the Flip Museum, just around the corner.

Fun learning, inspiration, and play, and I'm really grateful for the City of Hillsborough helping us find an affordable place to lease our museum.

Maybe since we're talking about homelessness, just let everyone know part of our our uh mission and is a lot of outreach to family shelters we in across Washington County, we do a lot of work with families who have children and bringing play to those children who don't have a lot of fun in their lives at that period of time and helps them process trauma and so forth.

So as you're going through conversations around how to serve these populations, the Flip Museum would love to be a part of that and uh whatever that larger goal is.

Um our larger goal is to bring back the children's museum for the whole metro area.

We lost it during COVID but by the zoo, and so it's great to now not just have a mobile museum but have a location here in Hillsboro.

Um I wanted to speak today because uh the space that we are renting.

Um we're not allowed to use most of it from a coding standpoint or you know, occupancy code standpoint because it requires a lot of sprinkler systems, fire safety, it's all a good reason, but we can't complete our mission, our goal of having a real full children's museum in the space that we're currently in.

And I just wanted to flag it for all of you that we really want to build a bigger children's museum that can make this a real tourist destination.

We're getting schools from Clatskany and Gresham and Longview coming here, but most say they can't come because we can't fit all the second grade classes.

And so there's a lot of and a lot of families come once or twice, but it's not enough variety.

And so I think by my calculations and talking with Carla Antonini with the cities, it's been about 40,000 of economic impact that we've been able to bring to the downtown on the small scale that we can operate in so far in our first eight months.

Well, I think we can make a much bigger impact with a slightly bigger space.

Um I don't know where the long term with the right space is or how many years it would take to do that, but I would love to work with you on the city, county, state level to find this funding.

And I know this is the worst couple of years to try to do something like this.

Um, but it's my goal to build a really nice children's museum here and build another one in Portland and create a network combined with our children's museum or mobile children's museum to serve all the children in our whole metro area.

And it's starting here in Hillsborough, which is really great.

And um uh welcome any f further conversations, Counselor Case.

I appreciate you giving me some advice recently as well around all this, and I maybe I'll just stop rambling.

I don't have to use my awful three three minutes.

Thanks for listening to me.

Okay, thank you, Jack.

And April, you're all set.

You just press that middle button and you have three minutes.

Um I'm gonna share uh a few um paragraphs of an article published in the um Times magazine uh written by Russell M.

Nelson, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, titled We All Deserve Dignity and Respect.

First, each of us has inherent worth and dignity.

I believe we are all children of a living heavenly father, but no matter your religion or spirituality, recognizing the underlying truth beneath this belief that we all deserve dignity is liberating.

It brings emotional, mental, and spiritual equilibrium, and the more you embrace it, the more you more the more you more you embrace it, the more your anxiety and fear about the future will decrease.

Life can be terrifying, and I have watched many, especially young people struggle with anxiety about whether they belong or or have value.

But a heart that knows it is loved and remains focused on its purpose, beats with steadiness, confidence, and hope, no matter what is happening or not happening in life.

Second, love your neighbor and treat them with compassion and respect.

A century of experience has taught me.

He's 101 years old.

It's his birthday this week, or this month.

Um Los Angeles.

A century of experience has taught me this with certainty.

Anger never persuades, hostility never heals, and contention never leads to lasting solutions.

Too much of today's public discourse, especially online, fosters enmity instead of empathy.

Imagine how different our world could be if more of us were peacemakers, building bridges of understanding rather than walls of prejudice.

Especially with those who may see the world differently than we do.

I have seen bitter divisions often when neighbors choose to listen to one another with respect rather than suspicion.

Even small acts like reaching out across lines of faith, culture, or politics, can open doors of healing.

There is power in affording others the human dignity and all that all God's children deserve.

After more than a century of life and decades of study, both the human body, uh both the human body and the soul, human soul.

I have found this to be true.

We are happiest when we remember our divine worth and extend that recognition to others being beginning with our own families.

My faith teaches me.

May I continue?

I only have 14 seconds.

It'll probably be about 30.

Uh yeah, you only have three minutes.

Okay.

Thanks for asking.

Uh my faith teaches me that over two millennia ago, Jesus Christ preached these same laws of happiness, of happiness, to love God and to love our neighbor.

After one hundred and one hundred and one years, I can say that these are not abstract the theological ideas.

They are practical wisdom.

Thank you very much, April.

I appreciate your time.

Yep.

Okay, moving to item four, consent agenda.

The items on the consent agenda are normally considered in a single motion.

Any item may be removed for separate consideration upon request by any member of the council.

Is there a request to move remove any items for separate consideration?

Okay.

Similarly, do any members of council have any lingering questions for staff on any of the items?

Okay.

Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?

So moved, Anvery.

I have a second.

Second case.

Is there any discussion?

May I please have a roll call?

Councillors Alcare.

Aye.

Case?

Aye.

Anvary?

Aye.

Sinclair.

Aye.

Harris.

Aye.

Salgato.

Aye.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

Moving to item five, public hearings.

Consider finance committee's recommendation to adopt a resolution approving an interfund loan between Park SDC fund and the Witch Hazel Village South Park supplemental SDC fund in an amount not to exceed $800,000 for land acquisition.

Resolution number 290 is available, and this item is related to item 4.6 in the consent agenda.

I will open the public hearing on item 51.

The registration deadline for virtual comments is now passed, and zero persons have registered to speak.

Does anyone in person do we have anyone in person who wishes to speak on this item?

Okay.

Are there any questions for staff on this item?

All right.

The public hearing is now closed.

Do I have a motion to adopt resolution number two nine zero zero?

So moved case.

Do I have a second?

Second, Anvary.

I think she beat you.

I think she should beat it.

Yeah, so second from Anvari.

Is there uh any discussion?

All right, may I please have a roll call?

Counselors Alcair.

Aye.

Case?

Aye.

Anvary?

Hi.

Sinclair?

Aye.

Harris?

Aye.

Salgato.

Aye.

Resolution number two nine zero zero is adopted.

Moving to item 5.2, biennium 2025 to 2027 supplemental budget.

The ordinance will be considered as item and an item in 7.1.

I will open the public hearing on item 5.2.

The registration deadline for virtual comments is now passed, and zero persons have registered to speak.

Does anyone in person?

Do I have anyone in person who wishes to speak on this item?

Okay, are there any questions for staff?

All right.

The public hearing is now closed.

Item six, there's no unfinished business.

Item seven, seven point one, consider finance committee's recommendation to adopt an ordinance adopting a supplemental budget for the biennial budget periods July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027, and declaring an emergency.

This ordinance was posted one week before the meeting according to charter requirements and will be considered in one reading.

Ordinance number 6507 is adopted.

Nope, excuse me, is available.

It's not adopted yet.

It's available.

Do I have a motion to adopt ordinance number 6507?

So moved case.

Do I have a second?

So moved Anvery.

Thank you.

Is there any discussion?

Mayor Pase, can you outline uh the reasoning for it being called in emergency?

Yes, uh, because we are considering in one motion.

And so uh we gave the notice a week ahead of time, but the reason for the emergency is because we're considering in one motion.

Robbie, do you have anything to add to that?

That's all.

It's just a matter of uh uh not waiting to have it read twice in this case.

We didn't feel it was necessary.

Thank you.

Okay.

I have a question too.

Go ahead.

So we just adopted the budget, and I think in May is when we first started talking about it.

Can can you help me understand or somebody help me understand why since because it looks in the staff report like this was considered in 2024 and why it wasn't included in the original budget and why we have to do a supplemental budget for that?

Yep, I can explain that.

So this uh this property specifically, while we've been working with a lot of property owners in the South Book area.

Um it's only recently after the budget was actually adopted that um we were able to reach agreement with one of the property owners.

So we weren't we didn't know we were gonna be able to do it this quickly.

So that's why we're coming back at this point to uh do this budget amendment and be able to purchase this property now.

Thanks.

Thank you for the questions.

Are there any others?

Okay.

May I please have a roll call?

Counselors I'll care.

Hi.

Case?

Aye.

Anvary.

Hi.

Sinclair.

Hi.

Harris.

Hi.

Salgado.

Hi.

Thank you.

Ordinance number 6507 is adopted.

The motion passes.

Uh there are no second readings, so moving to item eight, new business.

Consider finance committee's recommendation to adopt a resolution to readopt the current investment policy for the city authorizing investments exceeding 18 months and up to 5.25 years of maturity and repeals resolution number 2878.

Resolution number 2899 is available.

Do I have a motion to adopt resolution number two eight nine nine?

So moved on, very second.

Second case.

Is there any discussion?

Okay.

May I please have a roll call?

Councillors Alcair.

Hi.

Case?

Aye.

Anne Very.

Hi.

Sinclair.

Aye.

Harris.

Aye.

Salgado.

Aye.

Resolution number two eight nine nine is adopted.

Moving to item nine.

I'll turn the time over to Robbie Hammond for the city manager report.

Robbie.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good evening, everyone.

Um, two items I wanted to share with you all tonight.

First, it was a very rough day at Shoep Park Library last Friday, as I'm sure most of you saw, but also a great demonstration of service by our team of city employees.

A multi-car collision on 10th Avenue led one of our vehicle one of the vehicles, a garbage dumpster hauler to hit the corner of Shoot Park Library, shattering two panes of glass.

Staff at the library acted immediately, calling a 911 and assisting patrons until emergency responders arrived.

And then our first responders from police and fire and rescue departments were on the scene quickly to manage the situation.

Thankfully, no library were hurt, no library staff were hurt, but poop um but two patrons did have non-life-threatening injuries from the glass, and they received medical treatment.

Once the library's uh the library was cleared and closed for the day, our teams from facilities, risk and safety, parks maintenance and custodial services moved quickly to clean the debris, broke board up the broken windows, and inspect the building.

A nearby tree sustained some bark damage.

It's actually pretty remarkable if you see there's a lot of trees there, so it's not a lot of space for a car to fit through.

Um one of the trees did have some bark damage, and while facility staff do not believe it is at a risk, the city forester is inspecting it just to be sure.

In the coming weeks, risk and safety staff will file an insurance claim, coordinate with contractors to replace the windows, and install a new privacy pod to replace the one damaged in the crash.

Second, I wanted to read a note from a community member that we got this past uh uh week um that uh regarding an experience with our municipal court staff.

Chief Financial Officer Suzanne Lennin passed this note along to us.

Uh many of us know what it feels like to get a ticket.

It's not fun to go through that process, but Hillsborough resident Michael Fuchs emailed us last week and he wrote I inadvertently let my tags expire and got a fix-it ticket.

My first visit to court since 1986.

I was absolutely blown away by the amazing service by everyone from courtesy security court security to the clerk staff.

I travel for work and stay in five-star hotels that aren't as professional and courteous as your staff.

Absolutely perfect use of my tax dollars.

Well, thank you, Michael, for taking the time to go under our website, find the contact us form, and let us know how you feel.

As municipal court manager Amy Anderson noted, the staff often get a thank you for being nice, but for someone to take the time to write such a uh as and send such a thoughtful message really speaks volume to everyone that works down there.

Uh, thank you to our great municipal court team for serving the community so well.

Thank you.

Thank you, Robbie.

And I'd also like to have a third item.

I'd like to congratulate Robbie for taking time over the weekend to summit Halfdome in Yosemite with some friends.

Congratulations to you on that amazing accomplishment.

Right on.

Okay.

So moving to item 10, advice and information.

Community members who want to be informed and engaged on city council matters, can sign up to receive the happening and Hillsborough email newsletter.

Spanish language updates are also available through our creciendo juntos email newsletter.

And with that, the city council meeting is adjourned.

We'll be back in work session, and which will begin at let's say 8.05.

Thank you.

The recording has stopped.

Enjoy his Doritos.

All right, let's keep going.

Okay, we're just going to hand it right off to Sergeant McCarver.

Keep the show on the road.

All right.

Thanks for having me here.

For the record, my name is Aaron McCarver, and I am the community outreach sergeant with the police department.

And what that means is I supervise three teams.

The community impact team, which consists of two sworn officers, the bicycle team, which also consists of two sworn officers, and I also supervise code compliance, uh, which has a total because it's not close enough to my base.

Well, eight FTE.

We're not quite fully staffed, but uh eight FTE.

I'm gonna primarily speak to the work of the community impact team and the bicycle team because what they do is really the same job.

Uh, just their mode of transportation is a little different.

Um, and I'm gonna focus primarily on uh houselessness and camping ordinances, but also I'll I'll speak a little bit to deflection.

We've already had a lot of great information about the deflection program.

Um, but I will speak to that a little bit.

So what makes the teams I work with different is that we're law enforcement first and foremost, and that's our primary function, but we approach some of these community livability issues through almost a social workers lens and a law enforcement lens.

So we work very, very closely with a lot of community partners to include uh Project Homeless Connect.

We have an excellent relationship with them, uh open door housing works.

We also have an excellent relationship with them, and then we work uh constantly with uh 4D recovery, and I'll and I'll get into that a little bit more.

So the teams uh really, like I said, focus on uh mostly downtown livability issues related to homelessness, drug use, um, and some behavioral health concerns that we have.

Um we could probably next slide there.

Uh I'm not gonna read all this, but this kind of is a uh overview of the time place manner ordinance that the city has.

This is kind of our playbook.

This is what we go by in terms of when we're enforcing the ordinances.

Um 7 p.m.

to 7 a.m.

in certain locations.

Um it can get a little bit complicated on where camping is and is not allowed.

But for the most part, we're you know, the teams and I are out there every single day.

We're we're talking to these folks every single day.

We're on a first name basis with them.

And so we are most of the people we work with are pretty good about knowing where they can and can't go.

It doesn't mean they don't push the boundaries a little bit, but that's why we're there to kind of remind them.

And we really approach this um primarily from an education standpoint.

So we are familiar with most of the folks who are houseless in the city, uh, like I said, on a first name basis, but there are some who uh come and go, and so we really focus on kind of the education piece first and use enforcement as more of a last resort.

Um, and the whole time trying to figure out how we can best help these folks by referring them to Project Homeless Connect mostly.

Um the access center that they operate.

We refer folks there all the time.

And um, we also, like I said, refer to open door.

Uh, they also have an access center out in Cornelius, and they also run some um the emergency beds that were that was spoken about earlier.

Uh they retain a couple of emergency beds for law enforcement if we need it.

We don't utilize those.

There's only a couple of them.

And when that when that program first started, we found they were full all the time because any time somebody didn't have a place to sleep, uh, somebody in the department was referring them to these emergency beds.

And we really figured out that not every situation is gonna going to be an emergency, and so we really do try to keep those emergency beds to emergency situations.

Uh, and then some of the other uh service providers that we uh it's almost a pre-referral referral.

So we will refer to to Project Homeless Connect, who then will make their referrals to whoever they need to make the referrals to.

Um probably go to the next slide.

So this is an overview of camp calls for service.

So any law enforcement officer anywhere, um, all of our calls for service are categorized.

And uh camping is one uh type of call that we respond to.

Excuse me.

And this uh the my predecessor really was a driving force in getting this call type created because it we were responding to these calls that were uh categorized as unwanted persons or suspicious persons when really they were camping calls.

And so the camping call type was established uh in 2023.

And um, as you can see, we utilize it far, far more than our partner agencies.

Uh I think there is some bias to that because it started with Hillsborough, and um we really took some ownership over that.

And on top of that, uh what I really drive home to my team is to try to keep numbers accurate that if they're going out with a camp, categorize it as a camp call, not some other type of call.

Um I can't speak to what everybody else is doing, but obviously we are utilizing this call type far more than others.

I also don't know that that means our camping is more prevalent than other jurisdictions.

We just happen to be using that call type more.

Uh just some more information about uh camping calls.

So this is a heat map.

You can see primarily most of our calls for camping are located on the west side of the city, primarily focused around downtown.

Uh and this is a this is not the heat map, these are actually just where camping calls have been created during this time period throughout the city.

So that might be one call or that could be 20 calls, but these are all the different locations where camping has um where we've addressed camping specifically.

Uh now I'm gonna shift into this is my only slide about uh deflection, but we really so our philosophy um is we believe in this program and we believe it can help people, and we know that the more people we can refer to the program, the more likely the more people we're gonna help.

And I say we, we're not actually doing the the recovery process, but we're getting the ball rolling uh so folks can get into the deflection program.

And it's really it comes down to a numbers game.

Those with um substance use disorder rarely does treatment work the first time, and similarly, if somebody is cited and referred to deflection, uh they might not want to participate the first time, but maybe they will the second time, or maybe they will the third time.

And so we really have focused on this um primarily for that reason.

So because we believe in the program, we know it can help people, we know it has helped people, and and so we focus heavily on it.

We also don't want open air drug use in our city.

So those two uh really guide our approach to the PCS, by the way, is possession of controlled substances for those of you that don't know.

Uh the majority of these, um I don't have the exact numbers, but I can tell you the overwhelming majority are PCSU, which is that deflection referral.

Um, and I can also tell you that the community impact team and the bicycle team is responsible for the vast majority of these citations because uh it's kind of a passion of mine, and so it's in turn kind of a passion of theirs as well.

Uh but uh we really try hard to identify the folks who who can be helped with the program, and we refer as many as we can.

So that is Sergeant McCarver's last slide.

So if there are questions, now is a good time.

Any questions for Sergeant McCarver?

Counselor Ambry.

Um thank you.

Uh thank you for so my first question.

Oh, yeah.

First question was uh uh the the two maps that you were showing, I I didn't get the distinction between those.

Sure, yeah, sorry about that.

So this one is a heat map.

So basically, our our analysts put this together for me, and it shows where kind of the higher concentration of camping calls are located, whereas the other one are individual locations where camping has um where we responded to camping calls.

And like I said, some of these dots on the map could be one camping call during this time period, and some of them could be 30 or 40, yes, potentially.

So location.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

And then um on your last slide with the graph, uh, when you say PCS arrest, um uh sorry, second last slide.

Uh when you say PCS arrest, that is that is the citation.

Correct.

That's like the first contact.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

Good question.

All right.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Of course.

Counselor Sinclair.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, a question I have when you visited in February, we were just the city was just ending um access to the block 67 area due to the upcoming development.

Um where has that camp been transferred to?

Like what what new area is allocated for an additional place to of rest for camping?

And due to that transition, are we seeing an increase in these um calls due to displacement?

Excellent questions.

Um Simone might have a better perspective on some of this in terms of block 67.

Part one, and you can speak part two.

Um so, in terms of allocating a different area, so block 67 wasn't a designated camping area.

It simply didn't fall um against our ordinance or our manager's rule.

So by virtue of that, it became a camping area, but not because we designated it as one.

So we haven't identified an area for campers, but there are other areas where they are legally allowed to camp.

Does that help?

It does.

Okay.

And sorry, the second part of your question about displacement.

We were really concerned about this when we knew the block 67 was was closing.

Uh we didn't know what was going to happen.

Right.

What we have found is um half a dozen.

Well, between half a dozen and 12 of uh the folks who used to camp at block 67 um have moved to uh walnut, southwest walnut near Armco.

There's actually uh a section of grass at the city right of way where a sidewalk was never developed, so it's actually a wider uh section of grass, and a lot of folks are camping there now, but they're also camping in some of these other vegetation strips where we previously didn't see them.

So I would say that it is just scattered a little bit.

We're also seeing a little more camping now on private property, which has ebbed and flowed over the years, but since the closure of block 67, we have seen a little bit more uh private property camping as well.

Thank you.

Counselor Sergado, then counselor case.

Uh thank you for the presentation.

One of the common uh complaints I've heard from small businesses around homelessness, especially around the Calle Diaz area, is uh just the disruptions to their business, so you know, trespassing, other kind of crimes, are those tracked just with general trespassing, general disorderly conduct, or do you kind of delineate the those calls from homeless?

Because these are just you know camping calls and possession calls.

Sure.

Uh does that question make sense?

It does make sense.

Good question.

So if if we're talking specifically about trespassing, yes, those those calls are tracked as trespassing, but we don't determine housing status on trespassing calls, and so they're it would be difficult to say where that overlap is, which I think is the heart of your question.

Um, but all of our call types are tracked in one way or another.

Uh whether I mean I certainly can't say that every trespassing on the west side is going to be somebody who's homeless, because that's absolutely not true.

I don't know where that overlap is, though.

Um do you know why it's not tracked in that way?

Because it is a I mean it's it's a common concern that I've heard over years, even before I became a city counselor, right?

That sure so specifically, just to make sure I'm understanding why we're not determining housing status on when somebody commits a crime.

Yes.

Um that's above my pay grade.

I can't answer that.

I I would be very hesitant to do that.

Um we we do track um racial information on traffic stops and subject stops and arrests, but housing status does not fit into that category.

And so uh to my knowledge, nobody's actually tracking that within the city.

Let's say it couldn't be done, but um, there isn't a mechanism that I'm aware of that would cleanly track that information.

Okay, yeah, the only reason I ask is because again, it's a common thing that I hear, and I just want to quantify that, right?

Is it like once a week?

Is it every day?

Is it multiple times a day?

Because it seems like it's a real concern for the small businesses in the areas where you know the concentration, the calls are concentrated.

I'm sure.

And and I wish I could speak to that.

I just can't.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Counselor Case.

Thank you for this information.

This is great.

Um, I am curious.

We talked about this a little bit earlier with the county, and this probably was a question I should have asked the county, so I apologize.

Um, but uh are we seeing a correlation between the point in time count and I think the does the point in time count?

This is kind of for all three of you.

Uh point in time count, it it it breaks down to the city and unincorporated.

Is that right?

No, it does not.

Okay, cool.

So then never mind the rest of my question won't make sense if it does all correlate together because we don't know.

So good talk.

Thanks.

All right.

All right.

Any other questions?

Uh Counselor Amory.

Yes.

Um, yeah, so um uh so you you had mentioned that you know a lot of the people by name.

Do you have an estimate of how many people we might have uh who are homeless?

And then uh yeah, it like who who are who live in Hillsborough and who might be passing through.

I would be guessing.

Yeah.

Um we we definitely see regulars.

There's no question.

The majority of the folks we talk to, we know they've been around a while.

We also see folks that pass through.

Um, and we we don't necessarily track that in any way, shape, or form.

You know, we might say, wait, there's somebody new over at such and such, you know, maybe go chat with them, but um, but we don't we don't track those who are just here for a couple of days versus those who are here longer because there's so much transition in this population anyway, because uh when housing becomes available, some folks will no longer be unhoused and they'll have a place to live.

Um so it's it would be a challenge to know exactly how many are here permanently versus passing through.

But what would be like ballpark?

Like is it is it dozens, hundreds?

Oh, not hundreds, no.

Um I guess I would also have to know exactly are you talking about asking about folks that might be here for a week or for overnight or um this would be really hard to quantify, unfortunately.

Um, and I would be kind of guessing at this point.

Okay.

All right, and it might kind of make a follow follow-on question is so the the PCS citations are do are they do you think they're they're more for our residents or more for the folklore who might be passing through?

I would say anecdotally, yeah, most of the folks we have contact with, we have regular contact with.

And I I can confidently say the majority of the citations go to folks that we have regular contact with.

It's not uncommon to issue 10, 12, 15 citations to the same person over course of a year.

Um, unfortunately.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Counselor Sergato.

Well, follow up more of a conversation that I want to have.

So you you know these, you know, a lot of them by name, you get to know them a little bit more personal.

You're on the front lines, right?

We have all these resources that we're putting up shelters, we have SHS funds.

From your perspective, what is because I I happen to believe that we can house everybody, right?

And we can get everybody housed from your perspective.

What's keeping people that are quote unquote regulars that you get to know so deeply that you even know their names?

What's keeping them from actually making that move from living on the street to actually getting into getting some help and then getting housed?

Lack of affordable housing.

No question.

I mean, there are definitely some out there that prefer not to be housed, but for the most part what I hear time and time again is they're waiting, they're on a waiting list.

They've been on a waiting list for one, two, three years, and there just isn't a place for them.

Yeah, and just to be sure, housing that they can afford, not what we're calling affordable housing, right?

Because even some of the affordable housing we're building is you know, people are cost burdened or rent burdened once they're in correct.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Counselor Sinclair.

Thank you.

I just also want to follow up uh with Counselor Salgado's uh comments.

Uh a couple weeks ago I attended an event for a cleanup of block 67 in preparation of the new development uh that's being anticipated.

Um and in during the celebration, I'd met a couple, a young couple who's expecting their first child, and I had no awareness that they were unhoused.

And in sitting there breaking bed with them, they conveyed their situation and said that this was their home.

They used to camp there at Block 67.

And they explicitly conveyed gratitude for our Hillsborough Police Department and for the Yellow House, which they were uh insinuating uh Project Homeless Connect to where they now have transitional housing and they're waiting for the opportunity to receive uh they're on the waiting list currently, but they're also receiving assistance with uh medical uh visitations, uh medical appointments.

But um that was very striking to see that in real time and to hear that personal story one-on-one.

So thank you for the work you all are doing.

Um I may pass this off.

Oh, sorry, man.

Go for it.

Um I wanted to follow up to Sergeant McCarver's um outlining like the affordability issue and the important of our importance then of our housing production strategy and all the work that the city is doing and staff being being guided by your policies, but I also want to kind of hearken back to um some of Kiomi's earlier statistics and just the complexities that why things become out of reach and unaffordable are also complicated by mental health conditions and complicated by substance abuse that can then sometimes end up spiraling down and changes your trajectory in life.

And so I think it also isn't necessarily just a straight line.

And so I just want to because I really appreciate Kyomi doing that research and bringing that data.

So I just wanted to hearken back to the applicability there and this just how complicated this is when we talk about homelessness and yeah.

Thank you.

Are there any other questions?

Okay, Simon.

I also wanted to respond to it.

I actually I do want to say Sergeant McCarver, thank you for the briefing.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, absolutely.

Kyomi.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sergeant McCarver.

And um, in response to questions about data, um, I think there is pit count data, point-in-time count data will be coming out.

And it's very rare to get city-specific data, but I'm we're really really pushing to get that because it's hard to track anything or do anything when you have no local data um specific to us.

And so um if we're able once we're able to get that, I will share that with you all.

Um, and then I'll break down you know the difference between what sheltered homelessness looks like versus unsheltered homelessness.

Um can I add sorry, just really quick to that.

Yeah.

Um something I've also been thinking about.

Sorry, uh the because of the the jail here um and the end of the max line, I'd be curious, just as you get more data, that would be something of interest.

I'm not sure if it's something you guys have been tracking, but how much is is because I got out of the prison tonight or because it was the end of the max line and they were just done for the day.

That'd be in the hospital.

Thank you.

Good call.

Oh, yeah, and the motel.

We the list could go on and on, but a couple to start with.

So just kind of curious of yeah, thank you.

Yeah, we can work together on that.

I've thought a lot about the origin, right?

Of if somebody is from Hillsborough and homeless, right?

And then I've also thought, what does it matter?

Right?

If we have I seriously, and I'm not I'm not saying it's a bad question, right?

But if we have county resources trying to help folks who are homeless, and let's say somebody's here from Tiger, I mean, our resources are now being spended on, are now being expended on somebody from Tiger, but they're homeless, and they just happen to be, they ended up homeless from Tiger, or they ended up homeless from Hillsboro.

And so when we're talking about county, um, that's county resources going to people in the county.

And if you have people coming in from Portland, that's a whole other thing.

Now we're crossing counties and all that kind of stuff.

I mean, do let's say we could track them and say somebody, I'm here for Multnomah County, let's say.

Do we bill Multnomah County?

Right?

Like, and I'm not saying we don't.

Uh I I've often thought about how much time should we spend on understanding the origin of somebody and how much time should we just spend helping them, but helping them costs money and whose money is it?

Right?

Yeah.

So if I let me my my question is so that if we know to help better, to help them better.

To if the more you know, if they let's say they do live in Hillsborough, they may have friends or some family.

Uh if they if they're not there, uh if they live somewhere else, but they happen to be here, um, then there's there are other ways uh that that you know um rather than rather than finding a friend or or family there, you know.

them costs money and whose money is it right yeah so if if I'm let me my my question is so that if we know to help better to help them better to if the more you know if they let's say they do live in Hillsborough they may have friends or some family uh if they if they're not if they're uh if they live somewhere else but they happen to be here um then there's there are other there are other ways uh that that you know um rather than rather than finding a friend or or family there you know so it it's it's kind of the opposite of it's like well okay uh the more you the more information you have and I'm a I I I am I'm a little bit surprised um as to why why we don't have more data as to the number because wouldn't that help us in form make better you know uh no uh increase our capacity to to what the to what that number is so so that that was my my yeah I'm not saying it's a bad question.

Yeah I've I've been around and around on that right my nonprofit brain says it doesn't matter where they're from help them my municipal brain says it does matter where they're from and we should bill them for where they're from right so yeah um but I see your point is that if they're from Hillsboro do they have family or friends that they could connect with yeah we might be able to help them better that way yeah can I add on to that too I was just talking with Chris Hartre.

I think that's his last name.

So I was trying to educate myself on the affordable housing and the complexities around it.

And I think for me why it would be important to know where people are from or where they come in from is you know for example we just we're gonna invest 15 million into this affordable housing complex right that's city of Hillsboro and we're doing it to house homeless people in city of Hillsboro.

So I think it is important to understand that the people that are going into those homes are from the population in Hillsborough that we're talking about.

So that's just not we don't distinguish that that's the problem.

I agree with you is that if we spend Hillsboro dollars we should spend Hillsboro dollars on people who are homeless in Hillsboro.

But right now correct me if I'm wrong Sergeant we are not delineating that if you are homeless and you come up on the list you go in whether you're from Gresham or Tiger doesn't matter so we're expending our dollars for people that are not from Hillsboro.

And and that drives me crazy.

Yeah and it's a complex I mean it's a big puzzle because I mean we use the data from the city of Hillsboro to justify investments and using resources on it.

So you know but it's hard to track yeah I mean unless we RFID everybody that's just a joke by the way no no I'm suggesting that but I get it and and the other thing is do they tell you the truth?

Yeah right I mean I've done ride alongs I and I've heard from people you know I it was with your predecessor like two two or three times ago I think he's retired now.

Um we walked up to a guy named Michael and he said Michael's from Tiger and I said hey Michael where you from he said grusham so where is Michael from right I don't know and do we serve him any less you know it's yeah so it's hard I hear I think the question is valid and I think the data is important but the quality of the data is a question as well.

So if I could add to mayor on your point as well I I think this is all really important discussion.

I think it's also important to call out why it's so important that our police officers have those relationships with those individuals there was a story a year or two ago Aaron I'm not gonna remember uh when it was but where we had a success story where uh we had um one of our officers got to know someone found out who their family was where they were from was out actually able to make a phone call connect that person with the previous family were out of state you know we uh we were able to get them on a bus back to home so that's why those relationships if they work so hard to develop are so important um and they do a really good job at it and then at the same time uh we have we don't have a way to force that a lot of times we can't force them to tell us that stuff even if they tell us the truth or you know are not truthful um that's the other challenge is is sometimes people just don't want them to know you know some of those details so it just makes it it makes it really hard to track but I just wanted to just give kudos to them for trying to have those personal relationships because that's when they can potentially start making the connections and to um council Ivory's point um if if they're in Hillsborough maybe we can figure out where you know where their parents are who a brother is or something they do a really good job at that.

Thanks Robbie a question I have is pertaining to this conversation in trying to find new funding tools is the TL the uh tourism lodging tax a possibility at the 7030 rule to 50 miles away is what we consider about the same thing about but what I'm saying is if there was a lower percentage throughout our counties that contributed to this aspect is that something that can be used as a tool um I think that's a really big discussion I think initially what I would say is it would be pretty hard to justify um from a from a state law perspective using our money on home on our TLT money on homelessness right so a certain percentage of it as you know has to be put towards um tourism related activities I don't I I I can't say always because there are some cities who are who are like tourist destinations that might be able to justify that um I don't think Hillsboro would be able to then there's the other 30% you know that we but that money goes straight into our general fund and that's what helps to pay for our police officers and our firefighters so um the 70% that we have just we don't 70 no but 30.

So a certain percentage of it, as you know, has to be put towards tourism related activities.

I don't I can't say always because there are some cities who are who are like tourist destinations that might be able to justify that.

Um I don't think Hillsborough would be able to.

Then there's the other 30%, you know, that we but that money goes straight into our general fund, and that's what helps to pay for our police officers and our firefighters.

So the 70% that we have just we don't know, but 30.

Correct.

Yeah, the seven, and plus the 70s pretty much spoken for with the hop stadium and everything, right?

You know, that's where that money's coming from.

That 30% is general fund, then it would be hard to take it's already being spent essentially on police and fire and others that are even like uh Chris Hardy's position and others like that.

That 30%, you know, the general fund is already paying for those things, so it'd be hard to take a block out of that to set it up separately.

It's an interesting question though, because the 70% is supposed to be used to attract people within a 50 mile radius.

So what if part of attracting people is making sure they feel safe in the city?

Well, yeah, I was just gonna ask, you know, the city of Portland saw a downturn in tourism, and part of it was because of so I don't know if there's like a data report on that we could check on, but that would be a good justification, I think for using that.

I mean, a lot of it's spoken for already, as you said, but it's an interesting point you bring up.

All right.

Well, and maybe just Ed, I don't want to make it too complicated, but um, you know, the city does have the ability to increase our TLT if we ever need to.

Now that's sometimes tricky to do uh because when you increase it, you really need to show why you're increasing it.

So if you're gonna build a new, like beaver, for example, increase theirs to build the new research, you know, um center for performing arts.

We didn't need to end up increasing ours for what we needed to put into the hop stadium.

Um there's one other point I was gonna make, but I think that's it.

I'm sure it was a good one, Robbie.

You lost it, Robin.

You're right there.

We have taken over your briefing um and started having conversations with each other.

So what else do you have for us?

No worries.

Um, I do want to add that Project Homeless Connect does do a lot of work with uh reuniting families and reuniting individuals with their families.

And so I just wanted to call that out.

Um the work is being done, but you know, there's only so many humans.

Um diving into the end of our presentation.

Um, what's current and upcoming?

We've got uh Project Homeless Connect will be closing mid-October for construction for their new access center.

Um Clover Leaf Shelter will be closing in winter of 2025.

That is the shelter that's located at the count Washington County Fairgrounds.

Um, yeah, it's like total totally out of sight, out of mind.

Um is that the one where the armory is?

Yeah, yes.

Okay, thank you.

Um and then the year-round shelter opening will be November of this year, which will include an open house, ribbon cutting, snacks, all kinds of fun stuff.

Um, so I just want to go over our investments in homelessness.

This is what I'll be talking about.

This highlights uh what the city invests in.

We've got the one year uh we've got the year-round emergency shelter, community services and impact grant programs and community partners and all the work that they do and we do with them.

So you've been getting a lot of year-round shelter information thrown at you.

So I'm not gonna go over all the details again.

I know you heard about it during council as well.

Um, but as part of our ongoing efforts to expand shelter capacity in Hillsboro, um, it's really exciting to just give you an update about on where we are, um, where we're at and what's um to come.

So this shelter will be operated by Project Homeless Connect.

We had our first community engagement meeting on August 7th with Washington County and um PHC.

Our second meeting will be tomorrow, actually, tomorrow night, and that's focused on the most impacted businesses and neighbors.

So um PHC actually went out on foot and did some door-to-door outreach with um all the businesses all the way up to MM Marketplace, actually.

Um then gave them a personal invitation.

And then we expect to have an opening grand opening event.

Well, we're in we'll invite the entire community entire count council, and then all of this information is posted on our engage Hillsboro shelter webpage.

So it's also a really cool web page that the communications team has put a lot of work into because people anybody in the community can ask a question there.

So we have an FAQ portion where you can just ask a question and then I'm able to answer that either privately, if it's a more private question, or I can answer it publicly if other people may have that same question.

So there's a lot of cool information.

People have asked great questions on there.

Can I just clarify one thing that you just mentioned you're specifically talking about outreach around the new shelter facility, right?

Yes.

So the um I share this because if other businesses are frustrated that they didn't get outreach, that might be a mile away.

That's not who we're talking about right now.

We are talking about the businesses around the new shelter over on the west side of town, not the ones maybe in downtown Hillsboro.

Correct.

And um, I can actually share a radius of where they were able to do the outreach.

So for community service and impact grants, we've got there's two grants that I manage through the community services program, which is the community services grant and the community impact grant.

So the community services grant is um annual, it's an annual program.

It's 200,000 and 20,000 per project per organization.

This grant supports local agencies that improve residents' well-being.

The focus area for this year are mental health and behavioral health, housing stability, and early childhood education and child care.

The applications closed at midnight last night, and we received 34 applications this year.

So yay.

Um, the community impact grant is different.

This is a three-year award totaling in 120,000 focused on one priority area.

So for the 2023-2026 cycle, the priority area was housing stability, and the NSTAR is the current recipient.

Um, together, these programs allow us to support a wide range of services each year.

And then I just wanted to remind you that CDB CDBG program falls under um economic and community development.

The next slide is my favorite slide.

Because this is just a highlight of all the or some, not all, some of the organizations that serve Hillsborough that have received community services grants that we work with on a daily basis.

And so I just wanted to take a second to just give them a shout out, name them, um, and make sure that they know that they're a critical role in supporting the residents that live here in the city, whether it's housing, health, education, or family services.

Um, together they form the network that makes our grant programs and community efforts successful.

So I'm gonna focus on the two organizations, two partners that are funded through general funds.

Project Homeless Connect funded at 120,000 per biennium and home plate youth services at 188 and 726.

Um Project Homeless Connect is the only day center operating in Hillsboro.

Um, I know you know a lot about Project Homeless Connect in the Yellow House, and so they offer services like IDs, vouchers, they'll be operating the year-round shelter and then preparing for construction.

For home plate, they are the only nonprofit in Washington County focused on youth homelessness.

So they are extremely important organization.

They provide street outreach and drop-in services for ages 12 to 24.

Um, and then the outreach workers are able to connect with them where they are.

So if that's schools, camps, truly wherever they are, it's it's really important.

And then the last year they were able to reach 160 over 160 youth, which is incredible.

Um, and then this is my last slide.

I just wanted to uh end with how we support the community um in general.

And so our community resources webpage, there's a little snapshot shot of that right there.

Community members can access that webpage and there's resources for all sorts of things: housing, food, rental assistance, um, different things like that.

We've also got our camping materials.

We've got a camping brochure that is heavily used by PD sometimes, the library, parks, different um organ, different staff members that need um information to offer to individuals, and then we've also have our interactive camping map, which is super important for individuals experiencing houselessness because if they do have access to a phone, they are able to actually check where they can camp to make sure that they're able to be there, they'll be safe, and um they can follow rules where the they're listed there as well.

Um, our newsletter that was going out monthly, it's going out bi-monthly sometimes every month if we have things to share, but we don't want to we don't want to be too annoying with the information.

Um so we've got the homelessness newsletter, which is really awesome, and then just direct communication.

I communicate a lot with the community, and so I get a lot of uh community members asking me questions, um asking for services, and that's you know, really directing them to Washington County or Community Connect.

Um, I also just have a list of resources that I just automatically give out because sometimes they may not be comfortable asking for what they're really looking for.

Um, so that's really important.

And then the library.

The library is an incredible resource for our houseless community.

Um it's an alt, it's another space, a third space, we'd like to say another space for them to go to.

Um, it's also really important during inclement weather when it's extremely hot or extremely cold.

We're able to open it um and have a safe space for people to go to and hang out in the lobby and just be safe.

So um, together, these efforts reflect the city's commitment to supporting our residents, connecting with people to the resources they need and addressing houselessness with compassion and coordination.

So thank you all for sitting through so much today.

Um, we really appreciate you.

Thank you.

Yeah, I would just wrap up.

I want to give really kind of a some applause to Sergeant McCarver and Keomi.

They work just diligently and compassionately, not just with the folks who are in house, but the folks who are also impacted in their own ways by other people's experiences.

And the work that they do is not just this external work, but they also support departments internally with what they're experiencing.

And um, Kiomi kind of alluded to it with library, but there's a lot of coordination that goes on, and every department in the city is impacted in some way, and it just really takes a lot of coordination, and these two just embody that.

So thank you both.

Thank you.

All right, well, thank you, thank you so much for the briefing.

I really appreciate it.

Um, thanks everybody for your questions, and thank you, Robbie.

Have a good night.

Thank you.