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Approved minutesApproved to request the Chair to sign a letter of support to be submitted to Mr.
Approved minutesApproved as revised to include the correct attachment in SIRE.
Approved minutesApproved Consent Agenda
Approved minutesApproved a $250,000.00 expenditure and authorized the County Administrator to execute an agreement with the production company subject to review by the Clerk and Comptroller and the County Attorney. To expedite funding, authorized the County Administrator to cash flow the approved amount within the approved budgets in the general fund. Advertised for Public Hearing an ordinance amendment to amend
Approved minutesApproved Staff’s recommendation.
Approved minutesApproved the item per Staff’s recommendation with revisions to the unsigned agreement for Magnolia Oaks, removed the Pasco County Florida Federally Assisted Housing Inc. DBA from the first paragraph of the agreement and corrected page numbers 42 through 45, and the revisions to the signed agreement were correcting the page numbers 46 through 49.
Approved minutesApproved the Consent Agenda including Addendum item AC-186
Approved minutesApproved the Consent Agenda including the Addendum Consent. Items C8 and C34 were pulled for discussion or revisions.
Approved minutesApproved Staff’s recommendation.
Approved minutesApproved the Consent Agenda
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Approved minutesApproved the Consent Agenda.
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Several speakers Mike Moore: Yeah. So we say when we say homeless, are we saying these people are homeless today or they ha are they're possibly at risk of being homeless?
Unidentified speaker name and address for me. Uh Don Anderson, [address removed]. Uh commissioners, county staff, thank you for the opportunity to uh address you regarding this uh regarding our homeless neighbors. Um I'll make my remarks brief so as not to be too redundant with what Ms. Esperg has uh presented. I think you'll agree if there's a silver lining. To the covet pandemic, it has to be. these monies that become available to address homelessness in our community. And not just homelessness, but those at risk of homelessness, which we all recognize will be a growing concern. The proposed monies, as Marcy has so emphatically stated. Will make it possible to house two hundred and twenty five homeless individuals and families. And prevent homelessness for a hundred families all in a hundred and eighty days, beginning in just weeks. These monies are are inclusive in that they cover the cost of outreach. Which brings our teams into the the streets, into the camps to identify and assess these individuals,
Unidentified speaker So m this is not for low income seniors, these are for people that are experiencing homelessness. And we have noticed a trend trend that more and more of our homeless are are growing in age. Right. So so uh certainly the most vulnerable people will be taken off the streets and put into housing.
Unidentified speaker Our first priority would be for those that are homeless because that's the biggest population and the least resourced. Uh-huh. Um and then after that we would go into uh vulnerable populations that m that perhaps we could prevent homelessness.
Unidentified speaker homeless population are chronically homeless, so they're very much under-resourced. Housing for single adults. Families represent 17%, just under 18% of our homeless population, but they take almost 50% of our bed. inventory. and ninety-one percent of the households experiencing homelessness are adults without children. Uh s non-congregate shelter, sixty-one percent of our per uh people experiencing homelessness are unsheltered and um yet the non-congregate shelter beds were at a hundred percent capacity. Those were uh the beds that we were paying for in hotels. uh but congregate shelter beds were utilized at 50%. So because of that information uh we're going to focus on uh production and preservation of affordable housing uh to either acquire or construct it or rehab current housing. And then on the other funding sources, if you go to the next page, we are looking for you to approve the plan, direct the chairman to sign the documents, and then this will transmit the plan to uh HUD. We have put out a request for proposals, actually, this is the second time around for Proposals from our partners for this funding. That's usually what we do. So those have come in. I think we got about
Unidentified speaker Hi. This is Jennifer Watts from the Coalition for the Homeless of Pasco County. Thank you for the opportunity to speak this afternoon on this issue. I will say that um on the last several years to the point in time count, most specifically this year, we are seeing hundreds of single adults out on the streets, unsheltered, unhoused. We've all seen this as a growing need in our community. I will say even going back to Youth Lane that was originally aimed to be a single shelter because we all have recognized it as a need and then we put it to a family shelter. So we can all recognize the need in our community and I think finding a location that we all agree on is going to be very difficult and I think this is a great start.
Unidentified speaker condition as well as being long-term homeless. Again, most vulnerable, we want to bring them off the streets, out of the encampments, keep them safe, and then put them in motels, surround them with case management, housing. Focus and put them into a program called Permanent Supportive Housing where they're going to get more high-touch case management in their housing journey. And then lastly, those the first three are all single adults. Again, most of our population are single adults, and the next group are 35 homeless families with the intervention of either unsheltered or from a shelter case management into rapid rehousing. Along with keeping people, bringing people into housing, we want to next also prevent people from becoming homeless. In our next slide, we talk about 100 people in 180 days preventing homelessness. And we would do this with two strategies. The first strategy is for 40 families that are recognized. As probably temporarily homeless here, and they have connection and supports in other locations. So we help them with diversion by getting back to where they have family and support so they could be housed. The second group of 60 at-risk families, we believe, is probably a very low number based on what's happening now with
Jack Mariano site in the community center. Uh Congressman Bill Arrakis, which Premier doesn't know this yet, has reached out to me and asked if we would consider putting a commun a federally qualified health center, Premier, and expansion in there. We are looking at that. Um This is a uh big boom for our community and will really go a long way to help with combating homelessness uh as well, especially uh this is a veterans family housing community, which is one that we desperately need within this county and it will help with uh some of the homelessness along the nineteen corridor. Uh so uh Can
Several speakers Christina Fitzpatrick: Because I heard it would sup help reduce the senior homeless population by having say you had a five story building if you put two senior units on each floor.
Unidentified speaker to go ahead and make a plan on how to use the money, we want to make sure that this plan is data driven. So we're looking at what is the status of homelessness in our community. So if you look at the information from our twenty nineteen point time count, we find that over six hundred and eighty eight persons were unsheltered, meaning that they were living in the woods in cars in a place not fit for human habitation and 206 were sheltered. the m uh the majority of our uh of our People that experiencing homelessness are single adults with 609 single adults being unsheltered versus 53 being sheltered as opposed to the groupings in families with 77 being unsheltered and 132 being sheltered. So I know that the word unprecedented has been used a lot the last six months, but we are seeing unprecedented
Unidentified speaker the plan that we transmit to HUD and kind of an FYI. There are 600 of these. We're part of 600 entitlement communities. 87 plans have gone forward and Thirty seven of them have been approved. So keep your fingers crossed that this one will get approval. We did a really good job with outreach um and gaps analysis, which were the two major reasons other plans were not being approved. So here's some eligible activities that we could do. We could produce or preserve affordable housing, we could do tenant-based rental assistance, we can do supportive services, and we could purchase and develop non-congregate shelter, which would be individual units, not bunk beds and one big room. So the populations are those identifying serving individuals and households that are homeless, at risk of homelessness, fleeing or attempting to flee, domestic violence, and other populations where supportive services would prevent individuals or families from becoming homeless. including veterans and families of veterans.
Paula Baracaldo Commission Commissioners, if we may um and if you're agreeable with this, we would like to present this uh policy to you during the next upcoming homelessness workshop. Uh that way we can have an opportunity to discuss this.