Just lose my mind.

Okay.

The uh I'd like to convene this meeting of the planning committee.

Um the date is March 4th, 3 p.m.

in the afternoon here in the city chambers.

And well, we're gonna got numbered items here to discuss on the agenda, but before we do that, uh we we were handed a organizational chart by uh by um I assume this came from Mrs.

Brown, the director.

So I appreciate that.

And if you could uh come up and sort of take us through your organizational chart and tell us what happens at each little uh elliptical circle or square, so we understand the method to the madness of the planning department.

So the green is what I highlight the conversation that we had around the unhoused.

Okay, uh Angela Brown, planning and development director.

Um so you do have the full uh organizational charts uh for the planning and depart planning development department.

Um most of this is a restructuring to help streamline the services.

Um I came into the uh department, it was mostly operating in silos, so this is a way to bring some of the pieces together so we can have some interdepartmental connectivity to make sure that all um divisions are working together to accomplish having an open and welcoming environment for development.

And so what you'll see here is moving to one development director.

Um we originally had five within that department, so we'll have one development deputy director.

I'm sorry, deputy director.

Who is so if you could so I put your name here under the top director.

Okay.

So deputy director will be Yika Hoover.

Okay, and then uh moving to a more of an administrator management of the different uh divisions.

Um and so you'll see um those administrators are there, and then the divisions are starting with coding compliance, so thinking about the planning and zoning, so anything kind of related to code would be there, zoning ordinance, rental registration, our science management would be in that division, and then we have all of our code enforcement officers within one division.

Um originally were spread out across the different uh divisions, so now they're all in one department.

Um the next piece looks at economic development and the streamlining of our permanent and licensing process.

Again, those were originally in different divisions, so now they're all in one division.

Um, and then we are still have our housing, adding in community development because that is mostly a granting, uh the HUD program that we have there, it doesn't really do any other programs but administer the HUD grants, and then we have our transportation, which is Jurin.

Um what you'll see in the green is the instead of doing a unhoused division, um looking at something that's more flexible for us to uh touch on different uh specific projects, specialty projects, special programs, uh gives us the flexibility to move within hot topics.

So right now, unhoused might be there, but they're in case other topics pop up.

We can have a team that's focused on addressing some of those special projects, uh making data informed decisions and developing a plan for us.

Sorry.

Oh, that's Mary War.

And so the goal there is to uh right now uh having a policy, someone that does policy research that has come very handy.

We have Von Anderson doing that piece for us.

Um any type of as we are currently in the um session, any type of research on different fund initiatives that we have, he's been able to pull those off.

Any special RFPs we want to develop, ordinances that we might want to come up with.

We have someone to help do that, and then having a team that's just focused on the unhoused.

Okay, and your question, uh Mr.

Harley.

Uh yes, uh, and thank you, um, Director Brown uh for this layout.

And I I just want to make sure that the unhoused or the homeless question don't get mixed up in all this.

Right.

This is a major, I hate it.

That's why it's poor.

I hate to use the military word, but it's a major attack against a lot of our communities with the squatters, the panhandlers affecting our business.

This is major.

And I don't want to, and I and and you and I we've had this discussion where you can put it under this strategic initiative, but I want to make sure that we get success out of that.

Ward five has a uh five uh six-month uh moratorium.

Okay, hopefully we can have some answers on how to move forward with this uh unhoused questions uh uh before that expires.

Yeah, and I think some of the things we're having it in a sort of a strategic initiatives innovation group, uh it allows it to come out of the day-to-day operations that we have within the other groups and just have a special team dedicated to addressing this issue.

Okay housing access and systems initiative again.

So I'm not necessarily a fan of calling it the unhoused initiative, and so I think the goal is to really open up access for those who are in need of access and really changing our system to be able to address the unhoused population.

Um and so whether that's convening uh those individuals who do food programs, other support services, and thinking about how we restructure the system to better address the situation versus us operating in kind of silo.

So it gives it a more holistic approach.

And you mentioned what Von Anderson is gonna be over this uh policy uh innovative lab.

Okay, yeah, he's pretty pretty sharp there.

Um I did have another question concerning uh permitting.

You know, we've had some uh I had a lot of a lot of calls, continue to have calls to my office about our permitting process.

Is there a change in here for us permitting and and how is it supposed to work?

It is so right now it's under, so if you look at the second kind of uh group of circles, uh building licensing and permitting is now under one division.

Um and so we're working right now to streamline the application process, um, kind of redoing who's over that.