Thank you for joining us for the City Council workshop meeting for May twenty-seventh.

May we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Or that I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

Thank you all.

Approve the minutes of the regular meeting, May twentieth, twenty twenty-five.

I see none.

I move to approve the regular meeting minutes for May twentieth, twenty twenty-five.

Second.

Motion and a second.

Any further discussion?

I see none.

All those in favor say aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Motion passes, seven zero.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

Public agenda.

No action will be taken relative to the items on the other on the agenda other than the referral to the city manager for information.

Requests will be placed on the agenda on a first come first served basis.

Each speaker will be allowed five minutes to speak.

We do not have any scheduled public agenda members this morning.

Would anyone in the audience like to address the council?

I see none.

We will move on from public agenda.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

Consent agenda items one through 31.

Council members, are there any items to be pulled for further discussion?

I have one.

Consent agenda item number 16.

It's really it's both 16 and 17.

It's the same similar item.

It's the homeless care coordination team.

Excuse me, Mayor, before we get to that one.

Did you want to make the motion to approve the other items?

I will.

I just wanted to see if there's any other items.

So 16 and 17, I am pulling, but I'll discuss them as one item and then pass them individually.

I see none other, so I will move to approve the consent agenda without number 16 and 17.

Second.

Motion and a second, any further discussion.

I see none.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Motion passes 70.

We'll go in numerical order, starting with item 16.

I'd like to know uh if someone can explain how this homeless care coordination team is being run.

Um this will now be funded by liquor tax sales.

Uh if we can have information regarding this team, please.

Sure.

Um my name is Steve for the record.

I am the assistant director of the Department of Housing and Community Services.

This is a project that has been ongoing and has been funded by LiquorTax in the care coordination teams for about three years and two years.

And this is a budget revision item to allow the care coordination team to add another person in order to complete the spending.

The project is being managed by the Department of Housing and Community Services, and these individuals walk alongside our uh social work interns, our case managers, and our housing navigators in order to assist those who are experiencing homelessness to get housed.

How is this uh working in collaboration with the police department's homeless outreach team?

The homeless outreach team is a member of our community's uh street outreach, part of our care coordination teams, part of our uh uh everything that we do working with those experiencing homelessness.

I have had a lot of questions from community members regarding um our encampment ordinance as well as um the challenge regarding homelessness.

So I wanted to see how item number 16 and 17 both help individuals who are facing homelessness get connected to not just the sheltering services that the city has invested in, but also other opportunities for housing.

The care coordination teams in the Department of Housing and Community Services, they participate in coordinated street outreach, they participate in the coalition to end homelessness in Wichita Cedric County, they go to case conferencing, they meet the individuals who are on the streets who are in encampments and identify housing resources for those individuals.

Each care coordination team is made up of a housing navigator who is a case manager, a social work intern, a peer recovery specialist, in order to properly identify and be able to engage and work with those individuals in identifying housing resource.