The City Council Oversight Committee met to discuss three items: a presentation on the homeless response program from the City of Tulary, California; a proposed immigration resolution; and a potential charter amendment requiring a supermajority vote for future tax increment finance (TIF) proposals. No votes were taken on any agenda item.
Yes. Welcome to the city council oversight committee meeting for August 13th. First item on our agenda is a discussion regarding Tulary Care's homeless response. And we're gonna let our guests introduce themselves and tell them our tell us about their program and then we'll do some QA. So welcome. Perfect, thank you. Go ahead and start. Hi, my name is Tiffany, and I am the administrative assistant for our general services department here in Telere, and I assist with um the Telera Care's Consampment. Hi my name is Carlos. I'm the community maintenance manager here for the city of Slory. My name is Manny Correa, I'm the general services director for City of Teleri. We're gonna be in charge of uh overseeing the shelter, and we've been doing the temporary encampment for two years already. Oh like two years we took over. So um can you describe the process of how your city was it your city council that directed you all uh to open an encampment? Uh let me turn this off. There you go. Uh what happened is back in 2000, 2000 uh 2021. I think it was something like that. We start getting more complaints from the from all the neighbors about homeless encampments all over the city. Uh not only residential but commercial buildings, all the stuff. So uh the first thing I did uh being kind of in charge of the homeless outside was to ask the city manager if we can use one of the parks to concentrate all that community in one place and see how it goes. And uh that's what we start doing every time that we found people around the railroad or any place, and especially we were having a couple deaths around the railroad, we want to remove everybody from around the railroad to prevent that. So we start using a park that's called Centennial Park, and we start putting everybody at that location. I understand it's a park, they're gonna destroy the grass and everything, but it will reduce the complaints from the citizens. At the same time, because we were in um COVID with Carlos, we decided to bring portal parties and and uh hand washing stations and trash bins for the trash and everything to reduce contact and to reduce uh to try to be cleaner, right? So as soon as we they saw the success of having everybody in one location, that's when they started thinking what can we do to build a place where everybody can be there, it can be controlled by the city, and we can get everybody out of the street. So that's when uh city council asked the city manager to come with an idea. So we went all over the city looking the best location. We don't want close to schools, we don't want close to uh residence, uh residential places. So we found a place that is around some commercial area. So we went out and talked to all the neighbors, and I'll say 80% they were with it because we promised that we were gonna be available to respond. So that's when the city decided to buy two acres of land. And the city uh manager turned around and says, Manny, Carlos, let's build it. Hey, we never built uh uh something like that in the past. So between everybody in the city engineering, planning, everybody got together, and we got two acres, we do did the markings, we put the size of the tents, we organized everything. We put a fire pit, so they have a fire pit within the distance from the tent to comply with the NFPA and everything, the fire codes. And built the subfloors for the tents. We build uh uh Carlos built soft floors for the uh big uh uh pallets. It's they're what 10 by 10? Eight and a half by eight and a half. Eight and a half by eight and a half, so the tents don't go directly in the ground, it will go into the pallets, and there was plywood in the top, and it was uh they painted with a special paint to prevent uh moisture and all the stuff. Uh so we set it up for about 220 guests of the encampment, that's how we call them the guest. And so far, right now at this date, we have 82. We have 77. Oh my goodness, 77. 77 guests and the encampment. Okay. Um, how did you get your funding? What is this cost? Um what are some things you've learned about how to reduce costs?