* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.
          [CALL TO ORDER]
          [00:00:05]
          UM, CHAIR KATHY TOVO AND THIS IS THE MEETING OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE. 
          AND I'M JOINED BY A QUORUM OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE ON THE DIOCESE. 
          WE ARE GOING, I'M GOING TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT 10:04 AM. 
          SO TODAY IS OUR FIRST, OUR FIRST MEETING. 
          THAT IS A HYBRID REALLY OF AN IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL MEETINGS. 
          SO WE'RE, WE MAY HAVE A FEW GLITCHES HERE AND THERE. 
          [Citizen Communication: General]
UM, I DO HAVE FOUR SPEAKERS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. 
          ONE IS DIANA GRAY THOUGH, WHO IS OUR, OUR CITY STAFF, OUR HOMELESS STRATEGY OFFICER. 
          WHO'S GOING TO BE DOING A PRESENTATION. 
          I ALSO HAVE SIGNED UP, UM, SAM WOOLARD, KATIE ROPES AND SUSAN ANDERSON, I ASSUME. 
          MS. ANDERSON IS PART OF THE PRESENTATION. 
          THAT IS NUMBER FOUR ON OUR AGENDA. 
          UM, SAM WOOLARD AND KATIE ROPES. 
          ARE YOU HERE TO ADDRESS THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE ABOUT AN ITEM? NOT ON THE AGENDA. 
          YOU ARE ALSO HERE FOR THE AGE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR ITEM NUMBER FOUR. 
          UM, THEN SEEING NO OTHER, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HERE TO ADDRESS THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE ON MATTERS THAT ARE NOT ALREADY ON OUR AGENDA? ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC? UM, OKAY. 
          I DON'T HAVE THEM ON MY LIST. 
          MY APOLOGIES, BUT IF YOU DO, UM, WHY DON'T WE HEAR FROM, FROM OUR, UH, SIR, WITH A BASEBALL CAP? WHY DON'T WE, WHY DON'T YOU COME UP FIRST? AND IF YOU WOULD INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE COMMITTEE AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND THEN WE'LL BE FOLLOWED BY OUR SECOND AND LAST SPEAKER FOR TODAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MY NAME IS ROBERT NATHAN ALLEN I'M FROM, UH, LIVE IN DISTRICT SEVEN. 
          AND I'M SPEAKING TODAY IN REGARDS TO THE END OF FUNDING FOR THE CENTRAL TEXAS ALLIED HEALTH INSTITUTE AND A LARK VACCINATION CLINIC. 
          UM, FOR CONTEXT, THIS CLINIC IS CONSISTENTLY ONE OF, IF NOT THE ONLY CLINIC ON THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN THAT SERVES PEOPLE FOR FREE FIVE DAYS A WEEK THAT IS RUN BY PEOPLE OF COLOR SO FAR, IT IS SERVED OVER 30,000 PEOPLE IN THIS PANDEMIC. 
          AND 80% OF THOSE SERVED 80% OF THOSE SERVED ARE BLACK INDIGENOUS OR PEOPLE OF COLOR COMPARE THAT IF YOU WILL, TO THE COUNTY STATISTICS ON VACCINATIONS AND THE COUNTY STATISTICS ON OUR POPULATION, AND THIS CLINIC IS CONSISTENTLY BRINGING UP THE AVERAGE FOR THE COUNTY AND FOR THE CITY RIGHT NOW, I UNDERSTAND MY UNDERSTANDING MAY BE WRONG, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE CONTRACT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO END ON SEPTEMBER 30TH. 
          WHEN THAT DATE WAS SET, WE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE DELTA VARIANT AND THE EFFECT THAT IT WOULD HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND THE FACT THAT WE WOULD NOW BE IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION AGAIN. 
          AND SO I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT BIG SHIPS MOVE SLOWLY AND TURN SLOWLY. 
          UH, BUT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE IMPEDIMENT IS, WHAT THE SNAG IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FUNDING FOR THIS CRITICAL COMMUNITY RESOURCE CAN BE EXTENDED OR AMENDED OR REDRAWN OR WHATEVER IT NEEDS TO DO TO KEEP BEING A RESOURCE FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          WE DON'T WANT THE BUREAUCRACY OR HESITANCY OR MISUNDERSTANDING TO ENABLE AN INJUSTICE ON OUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          I HAVE A CHILD, A THREE-YEAR-OLD. 
          SO I'M ALSO LOOKING AT VACCINATIONS COMING DOWN THE LINE FOR CHILDREN HERE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND INTO NEXT YEAR, I HAVE A LOT OF PRIVILEGE AS A WHITE MAN. 
          PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE MY PRIVILEGE MAY NOT FEEL SAFE OR RESPECTED AND GOING TO A CLINIC WHERE THEY'RE NOT SERVED BY PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE THEM AND THEIR COMMUNITY, AND FOR US TO BE TAKING AWAY. 
          ONE OF THE ONLY RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN OUR CITY, RIGHT BEFORE IT IS CRITICAL FOR PARENTS WHO MAY BE HESITANT OR RETICENT OR MISINFORMED, THEY NEED TO HAVE THAT RESOURCE TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN BE SAFE SO THAT ALL OF OUR CHILDREN ARE SAFE. 
          AND LASTLY, IF THE COUNCIL, I UNDERSTAND THE COUNCIL'S JOB IS NOT TO IDENTIFY OR, OR, UH, DICTATE CONTRACTS, BUT IT IS OUR JOB COLLECTIVELY AS A COMMUNITY TO ENSURE THAT THESE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE. 
          SO WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE IMPEDIMENTS ARE WITHIN APH TO DETERMINE HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THIS RESOURCE DOESN'T LAPSE. 
          IF THAT MEANS GOING INTO THE PUBLIC AND FUNDRAISING PUBLIC DOLLARS, IDENTIFYING CORPORATE PRIVATE MATCHES FOR PUBLIC PRIVATE COLLABORATION, I AM READY TO GIVE MY TIME. 
          SOME OF YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS KNOW ME, I HAVE PUT COUNTLESS HOURS AND RAISE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR FEEDING OUR COMMUNITY FOOD THAT IS HEALTHY AND SAFE. 
          AND THIS GOES RIGHT INTO LINE WITH THAT. 
          IT GOES RIGHT INTO LINE WITH RESOURCES, FOR OUR HOMELESS COMMUNITY EXPERIENCING OR AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          THIS IS A RESOURCE THAT ABSOLUTELY MUST CONTINUE. 
          IT IS UNCONSCIONABLE FOR US TO LET THIS LAPSE I'M READY TO PUT MY TIME AND MY RESOURCES INTO MAKING THIS HAPPEN. 
          IF IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAPPEN BY SEPTEMBER 30TH, WE JUST NEED TO KNOW WHO TO TALK TO SO THAT WE HAVE A TIMELINE SO THAT WE CAN PLAN AND RAISE THE FUNDS TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS, UH, RESOURCE IS CONTINUOUS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, MANY, THANKS FOR BEING HERE TO, TO RAISE THIS CRITICAL ISSUE TO OUR ATTENTION. 
          AND WE'LL, WE'LL FOLLOW UP AND SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME INFORMATION FROM OUR STAFF CHEER. 
          YOU CAN'T SEE ME, BUT DO YOU MIND IF I SPEAK, UH, I BELIEVE THAT IS OUR MAYOR OF HER TIME. 
          YES, PLEASE DO. 
          [00:05:02]
THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, UH, UH, MR. ALLEN FOR, FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. 
          I KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION AND I'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH DR. 
          HOCKADAY OVER AT, UM, CENTRAL TEXAS ALLIED HEALTH INSTITUTE. 
          UM, I RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS A PROBLEM AND THAT IT'S, IT, IT, IT NEEDS TO BE ON OUR RADAR. 
          I APPRECIATE YOU FLAGGING IT AND BRINGING IT TO OUR ATTENTION. 
          AND, UM, I WILL TALK TO CHAIR TOVO, UH, LATER ON THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT SOME IDEAS THAT I HAVE ABOUT THAT PATH FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. 
          YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, MY NAME IS GLORIA . 
          I, UM, I ACTUALLY WORK FOR DR. 
          JERICHO THOMAS. 
          HOW COULD THEY, AND I WORK FOR CTA AS A COMMUNITY LIAISON. 
          UM, OUR BEST DEFENSE AGAINST COVID IS TO GET VACCINATED AND TO INFORM OUR COMMUNITY ON PROPER USE OF PPE. 
          UM, THAT'S WHAT WE DO AT CTA. 
          I STAY IN THE COMMUNITY CONSTANTLY THREE WEEKS AGO. 
          I CONTRACTED COVID AND, UM, WELL THAT'S WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT I HAD COVID, I WAS VERY SICK AND I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD DIE ABOUT THREE DAYS INTO THIS. 
          THIS THING GOES FASTER THAN, THAN WHAT WE ORIGINALLY HAD LAST YEAR. 
          MY SON, MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW BOTH GOT SICK WITH COVID. 
          IT TOOK THEM A WHILE BEFORE THEY BUILT UP, THEY RAMPED UP THEIR SYMPTOMS, NOT IN MY CASE, IT WAS FAST AND IT WAS PRETTY AWFUL. 
          I HAVE CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. 
          I AM OVERWEIGHT. 
          UM, I AM 43, ALL THESE THINGS WORK AGAINST THE PERSON ANYWAY. 
          UM, THANKFULLY AT CTH I GOT MY VACCINE AS SOON AS I COULD A WHILE BACK, BUT, UM, THE WORK THAT WE DO, UH, CTA EXISTS TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE THAT NORMALLY WOULDN'T HAVE ACCESS. 
          UM, WE EDUCATE PEOPLE, UM, WE'RE SOWING SEEDS OF TRUST IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, BUT, UM, THAT HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF RED LINING AND SYSTEMIC RACISMS. AND, UM, WE NEED MONEY INVESTED INTO THIS. 
          WE DO, WE CAN'T, UM, I DON'T SEE WHY WE'RE IN SUCH A HURRY TO REMOVE SUCH A NEW AND SO NEEDED A RESOURCE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE'VE CREATED A SERVICE THAT PROVIDES A LIFE SAVING MEASURES AND IN THE PROCESS HAVE PROVIDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR ON THE JOB TRAINING AND REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS WHO WOULD NOT TYPICALLY BE AFFORDED THIS OPPORTUNITY. 
          WE ARE CREATING LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE ARE ALSO HELPING TO DEVELOP THE HEALTH WORKFORCE, UM, BY TRAINING PEOPLE, UM, THAT ARE ALSO BEING EDUCATED BY OUR SCHOOL. 
          SO, BECAUSE IT'S TWO PARTS, WE'VE CREATED AN ECOSYSTEM THAT HAS MET AND EXCEEDED ALL THE METRICS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT FORTH BY AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND, WHAT'S SO DIFFICULT ABOUT EXTENDING A CONTRACT. 
          WE NEED SIX MORE MONTHS. 
          WE NEED PROBABLY AROUND $800,000 SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THE WORK SO THAT WE CAN DO IT IN AN EFFECTIVE MANNER. 
          UM, THIS IS A BLACK LED ORGANIZATION. 
          AUSTIN HAS BEEN RACIST FOR EONS. 
          IT'S TIME TO START TO SUPPORT, TO AMPLIFY THE GOOD WORK THAT'S BEING DONE BY PEOPLE OF COLOR AND REMOVING THIS CLINIC. 
          IT'S GOING TO MAKE US, IT'S GOING TO PAINT US IN AN AWFUL LIGHT. 
          AND SO I ASK YOU TODAY TO PLEASE CONSIDER, UM, EXTENDING THE CONTRACT FUNDING. 
          IT, AUSTIN HAS A LOT OF MONEY. 
          WE CAN'T GO AROUND CRYING. 
          UM, THE SKY IS FALLING. 
          IT'S NOT FALLING. 
          THERE'S LOTS OF MONEY AND IT NEEDS TO BE INVESTED IN THE BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANKS FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND THANKS FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO, CHARACTER TURBO. 
          OKAY, GLORIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR TESTIMONY TODAY AND SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH COVID. 
          I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO RECUPERATE, UM, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO IN OUR COMMUNITY AND ALL THE ADVOCACY AND BOOTS ON THE GROUND WORK THAT YOU DO. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT PART OF THE RESOLUTION THAT COUNCIL ADOPTED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO ON THE BOOSTER SHOT STRATEGY, WHICH INCLUDES A PORTION THAT IS ANCHORED IN EQUITABLE VACCINE DISTRIBUTION AND OUR EFFORTS GOING ON TODAY, UM, COMES WITH A MEMO UPDATE FROM STAFF THAT IS DUE THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 20TH. 
          UM, AND IN THAT MEMO, WE'VE ASKED FOR, UM, INFORMATION FROM APH ON IF ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS NEEDED. 
          WHAT OTHER RESOURCES DO WE NEED TO MAKE AVAILABLE IN ORDER FOR US TO CONTINUE THAT VACCINE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY? AND SO, UH, WHY TO POINT THAT OUT? HOWEVER, KNOWING THAT THAT IS STILL A FEW WEEKS AWAY, UM, I JUST WANT TO ASK APH, IF YOU COULD SHARE MORE 
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INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO, UM, WITH, WITH OUR VACCINE SERVICES AND INVESTING IN TRUSTED COMMUNITY PARTNERS LIKE CCHI AND OTHERS, UH, WHAT MORE CAN BE DONE ON THAT FRONT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS GO AWAY FROM ANY OTHER GROUPS, BUT WE ALSO DO NOT WANT TO BE REMOVED IN THE PROCESS. 
          SO I HOPE THAT THAT IS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHENEVER THE DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE TO HAND OUT THE MONEY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          APPRECIATE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I BELIEVE THAT IS OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR CITIZENS COMMUNICATIONS. 
          WE DO HAVE KELLY MOYER SIGNED UP, UM, ON ITEM THREE AND WE'LL, WE'LL CALL THAT SPEAKER WHEN WE GET TO THAT ITEM. 
          UM, COLLEAGUES, 
          [Approval of Minutes]
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? UH, VICE CHAIR, QUINTUS MOVES APPROVAL. 
          THE MAYOR SECOND SET ALL IN FAVOR. 
          GREAT. 
          THAT IS UNANIMOUS ON THE, ON THE VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON DIED. 
          OKAY. 
          [2. Discussion and possible action on the Public Health Committee's 2021 meeting schedule. (Part 1 of 2)]
UM, YOU HAVE A REVISED SCHEDULE UNDER ITEM TWO. 
          SO IF YOU'VE HAD A MINUTE TO LOOK OVER THAT SCHEDULE, IF THERE ARE ANY, ANY THOUGHTS ON IT, UH, I GUESS WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION ON THAT TO APPROVE. 
          SO I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE NEW SCHEDULE, PLEASE. 
          CHARTER OF AWARE WHERE CAN I SEE THE REVISED SCHEDULE? IT SHOULD BE LISTED UNDER YOUR, ON YOUR BACKUP. 
          UM, UNDER ITEM TWO. 
          OKAY. 
          WHY DON'T WE COME BACK AROUND THAT IF, IF FOLKS NEED TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT. 
          MARY, DO YOU HAVE A COPY? NO. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND WE'LL TAKE THAT UP IN A BIT AND LET'S 
          [3. Briefing and discussion on issues related to homelessness.]
TAKE UP OUR BRIEFING ON IF MS. GRAY IS ON THE LINE. 
          I SEE THAT SHE IS AND COLLEAGUES, WE RECEIVED THIS BRIEFING, UM, IN OUR INBOX AT 10 10 THIS MORNING. 
          WELCOME MS. GRAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO I APOLOGIZE. 
          I AM JOINING BY PHONE, UM, DUE TO SOME, SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH A LOANER LAPTOP. 
          UM, SO I BELIEVE I'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THE PRESENTATION AS WE PRESENT, BUT, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE YOU. 
          SO PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS AS WE MOVE ALONG. 
          UH, I BELIEVE WE, UM, HAVE, UH, JOINING US EITHER BY VIA PHONE OR PERHAPS IN PERSON, UH, CHARLES LOOSEN AND GREG MCCORMICK FROM OUR STAFF. 
          UM, A IN CASE THERE ARE QUESTIONS, UM, AS THEY WERE VERY MUCH A BOOTS ON THE GROUND FOR THIS INITIATIVE AND, AND CAN ANSWER SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. 
          SO I WILL JUST GENERALLY SAY, I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE HERE, BRIEFING YOU ON THE COMPLETION OF PHASE ONE OF THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 
          IT HAS BEEN A VERY BUSY SEVEN MONTHS, UH, FOR THE HOMELESS STRATEGY DIVISION AND A NUMBER OF PARTNERS. 
          WHO'VE BEEN REALLY CRITICAL IN THIS EFFORT. 
          UH, WE RELOCATED THE FINAL OF THE FOUR AND CAMP MINTS, UH, LAST A WEEK AGO YESTERDAY ON THE 31ST OF AUGUST. 
          AND SO WHAT I WILL BE PROVIDING YOU TODAY A REALLY HIGH LEVEL, UM, DATA, UH, THE INITIAL DATA CUT AS WE LOOK AT, UM, THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND SOME OF THE EARLY, UH, INDICATORS OF RESULTS OF THE INITIATIVE, UH, AS WELL AS SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVE WORKED VERY WELL. 
          I THINK THAT WE WILL BE LOOKING TO IMPROVE IN THE FUTURE AND, UH, OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PROGRAM DESIGN AS WE MOVE INTO, UH, WHAT WE'RE VERY HAPPY, UH, WILL BE, UH, PHASE TWO, SUBSEQUENT TO COUNCIL APPROVAL, UH, OF, UH, FUNDING FOR THAT PHASE DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO AS YOU KNOW, THE RESOLUTION, UH, CREATING THE HEAL INITIATIVE WAS ADOPTED ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 2021. 
          AND THE INITIAL TIMELINE FOR THE COMPLETION OF PHASE ONE THROUGH A RESOLUTION OF THE ENCAMPMENTS WAS SIX MONTHS. 
          UH, WE DID ASK FOR A LITTLE BIT OF GRACE, UM, AND TO TAKE ONE ADDITIONAL MONTH BECAUSE OF WINTER STORM YURI, UH, THE DEEP ENGAGEMENT OF, UH, ALL OF HSD STAFF IN THE SHELTERING AND OTHER EFFORTS, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, UH, THE STORM. 
          AND SO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SEPTEMBER 4TH. 
          WE, WE COMPLETED IT JUST UNDER THE WIRE, UH, AT AUGUST 31ST. 
          AND I, AND I DO WANT TO SAY DUE TO HERCULEAN EFFORTS ON THE PART OF STAFF AND MANY OF OUR PARTNERS, UM, THE FIRST PHASE OF THE HEAL INITIATIVE TARGETING AT CAMP MINTS IN NORTHWEST 
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SOUTHEAST AND DOWNTOWN AUSTIN, UM, ALL BASED ON, UH, CONCERNS OF HEALTH OR SAFETY FOR THOSE SITES, THE INITIAL FOUR SITES WERE GENERALLY DESCRIBED BY THE RESOLUTION. 
          UM, AND SO WE, UH, HAD A LIMITED NUMBER OF CHOICES OF SITES TO WORK FROM BASED ON, UH, DIFFERENT KINDS OF HAZARDS, WHETHER THOSE BE TRAFFIC HAZARDS, FLOOD PLAIN, UH, YOU KNOW, IN PARK AREAS THAT WERE, UH, OTHERWISE UTILIZED, UTILIZED BY, UM, UH, BROADER WATER CITIZENRY, BUT ALSO HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH DEVELOPING PRIORITIZATION FOR FUTURE ENCAMPMENTS, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT TOWARD THE END. 
          UM, AND SO LET'S THEN GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO I THINK, UH, THE UNIQUE THING ABOUT THE HEAL INITIATIVE IS THAT IT REALLY COMBINES, UH, UH, A DESIRE, UM, TO MOVE FOLKS SWIFTLY IN SHELTER AND HOUSING, UH, WITH A FOCUS ON, UH, OUR PUBLIC SPACES, UH, AS WELL. 
          AND SO WE ARE TARGETING RESOURCES TOWARD ENCAMPMENTS RATHER THAN BY, UH, BY NEED OR VULNERABILITY, WHICH IS WHAT OUR SYSTEM GENERALLY DOES. 
          IT ADDS TO, UH, THOSE RESOURCES RATHER THAN REPLACING THEM. 
          SO WE STILL HOUSE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY BASED ON, UH, THEIR, THEIR NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          BUT THIS ALSO ALLOWS US TO ADDRESS THE SITUATIONS IN WHICH THERE IS AN ENCAMPMENT THAT IS CAUSING CONCERN, UH, AROUND AND SAFETY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE ENCAMPMENT, AS WELL AS POTENTIALLY THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS WORK. 
          WE NOT ONLY CONTRACTED WITH SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO ARE PROVIDING RAPID REHOUSING PROGRAMS FOR PARTICIPANTS, BUT WE DID CREATE DEDICATED SHELTER SPACE. 
          INITIALLY THAT TOOK THE FORM OF THE SOUTHBRIDGE SHELTER, WHICH WAS, IS THE FORM OF ROADWAY IN THAT WE HAD BEEN UTILIZING AS A PRO LODGE, UH, FOR THE DURATION REALLY AS A PANDEMIC. 
          UM, BUT, UM, W PIVOTED THAT TO UTILIZE AS LONGER-TERM BRIDGE SHELTER, WE DO BELIEVE THAT'S THE LONGTERM USE OF THAT FACILITY. 
          UM, BUT, UH, AS WE WILL DISCUSS, DID, UM, OPEN A SECOND BRIDGE SHELTER, WHICH WE ARE UTILIZING AT LEAST PARTIALLY FOR THE HEAL INITIATIVE, THOUGH. 
          IT MAY NOT BE SOLELY DEDICATED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 
          UM, WE WORK WITH HOST, UH, AND OUR OTHER OUTREACH PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY, LIKE, UH, THE PAST TEAM THROUGH INTEGRAL CARE TO ENGAGE INDIVIDUALS ON SITE, OFFER THEM SHELTER AND, UH, LONG-TERM HOUSING, UH, AND WORK WITH A VARIETY OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, SPACE PARTNERS, EXCUSE ME, TO RELOCATE FOLKS TO SHELTER, UH, AND THEN TO CARRY OUT THE PHENOTYPE OF THE SITES. 
          SO PARKS AND RECREATION HAS BEEN A CRITICAL PARTNER IN TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION, AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY AND PUBLIC WORKS, UH, ALONG WITH, UH, THE CLEANUP CONTRACT WITH THE, THE OTHER ONE'S FOUNDATION HAVE ALL BEEN, UH, VERY IMPORTANT RESOURCES IN TERMS OF, UH, RECLAMATION OF THE SITE. 
          UH, ONCE WE ARE ABLE TO RELOCATE PEOPLE. 
          AND THEN FINALLY THIS INITIATIVE OF COURSE, WAS PASSED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION BEYOND MAY 1ST. 
          AND SO IT REALLY ASKS US TO LOOK AT WAYS, UH, TO ENCOURAGE VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE, UH, WITH, WITH THOSE SPACES, UM, BEING NO CAMPING SPACES, UH, THAT HAS PLAYED OUT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE IN THE CONTEXT OF, UH, NOW HAVING A, AN ORDINANCE THAT VANS CAMPING IN PUBLIC SPACES. 
          UH, BUT WE STILL THINK THAT WE HAVE HAD SOME LESSONS IN WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE LEARNINGS AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS INITIATIVE ABOUT HOW, UH, WE CAN, UH, MAINTAIN SPACES, UH, WITHOUT A SOLE RELIANCE ON, UH, ENFORCEMENT, UH, BY POLICE OFFICERS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, I SPOKE TO THE, UM, SEVEN MONTHS TIMELINE FOR THIS OVERALL INITIATIVE, AND I WANTED TO GIVE A RECAP OF WHAT THE MAJOR ELEMENTS OF THAT HAS BEEN. 
          SO THE, UH, THE RESOLUTION WAS PASSED FEBRUARY 4TH. 
          UM, ABOUT, UH, FIVE DAYS LATER, WE BEGAN TO EXCLUDE WINTER STORM URI, AND REALLY OUR TEAM CAME OUT OF THAT ENTIRE EXPERIENCE TOWARD THE END OF FEBRUARY AND DURING FEBRUARY, MARCH AND APRIL, EXCUSE ME, IDENTIFIES THE PARTNERS WITH WHOM WE COULD WORK, UM, FACILITATING CONTRACTS BY EXTENDING EXISTING CONTRACTS, RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH A NEW PROCUREMENT PROCESS, GIVEN 
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THE TIGHT TIMELINE, UH, WE HAD TO IDENTIFY HOW WE MIGHT, UH, SECURE, DEDICATED SHELTER SPACE AT THAT TIME PROLOGUE ONE, OR THE ROADWAY WAS STILL FUNCTIONING, UM, AS A PROLOGUE. 
          AND SO WE NEEDED TO PLAN TO DEMOBILIZE THAT SITE AND CONVERT IT TO SHELTER. 
          UH, AND THEN WE OF COURSE, NEEDED TO TALK THROUGH PROCESS OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE REALLY ONSITE, UM, FROM THE DAY THAT OUTREACH WORKERS ARRIVED THERE THROUGH RELOCATION AND ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICES, ONCE THOSE IN SHELTER. 
          SO WE HAD THE COLLABORATION KICKOFF AT THE END OF APRIL, UH, AND THEN, UH, THE NEXT WEEK ASKED COUNCIL TO APPROVE SERVICE CONTRACTS FOR, UH, BOTH INTEGRAL CARE AND, UH, FAMILY ELDER CARE TO PROVIDE RAPID REHOUSING SERVICES FOR FOOTSTEPS TO OPERATE THE SHELTER AND TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, TO ADD A COUPLE OF OUTREACH WORKERS TO THE HOST TEAM FROM INTEGRAL CARE. 
          WE, AT THAT POINT, UM, MOVED TOWARD CONTRACT EXECUTION AND, UM, HOPED TO, UH, BEGIN RELOCATIONS, UH, AT THE 1ST OF JUNE, UH, ONCE WE HAD THE SOUTH BRIDGE SHELTER, WHICH WAS THE FORMER ROADWAY UP AND RUNNING, UNFORTUNATELY OUR CONTRACTOR, UH, THERE EXPERIENCED SOME DELAYS AND WERE NOT ABLE TO INITIATE THEIR WORK ONSITE IMMEDIATELY, UH, IN THE FACE OF THAT GO AWAY, UH, HOMELESS STRATEGY, DIVISION STAFF, UH, QUICKLY PIVOTED. 
          WE, UM, WE HIRED A CADRE OF TEMPORARY, UH, STAFFERS. 
          MANY OF WHOM HAD BEEN OUR PARTNERS AT EXISTING PRO LODGES AND OURSELVES OPENED, UM, THE SHELTER ON THE 16TH OF JUNE, ALLOWING US TO THEN, UH, UH, RESOLVE OUR FIRST ENCAMPMENT, WHICH WAS AT THE TORONTO OFFICE LIBRARY. 
          AND THAT TOOK PLACE FROM JUNE 16TH THROUGH THE 18TH. 
          UH, WE, UH, THEN MOVED TO THE BEN WHITE AND MANSHACK, UH, UH, SITE, UH, THAT WAS JULY 14TH THROUGH THE 16TH. 
          UM, AND DID THAT JUST IN ANTICIPATION OF FRONT STEPS, THEN BEING ABLE TO COME ONSITE, UM, AT SOUTH BRIDGE AND ASSUME OPERATIONS. 
          SO IT, JESSE STAFF WITH TEMPORARY SUPPORT, UM, DID OPERATE THAT SHELTER FOR ABOUT A MONTH. 
          THE BEN WHITE, UH, SITE WAS SUBSTANTIALLY LARGER THEN, UH,  WAS ABOUT 20 AND, AND, AND BEN WHITE MAN SHAQ WAS ABOUT 50 PEOPLE. 
          SO WITH THOSE TWO SITES, WE DID REACH CAPACITY AT THE SALFORD SHELTER, WHICH OVERALL HAS, UM, CAPACITY FOR ABOUT 75 GUESTS ROOMS, UH, HAVING THEN, UH, REACHED THAT CAPACITY. 
          WE NEEDED TO, UM, EITHER WAIT FOR FOLKS TO BE REHOUSED, WHICH WE KNEW WOULD TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME OR CREATE ADDITIONAL BRIDGE SHELTER SPACE TO MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT SITE. 
          WE, UM, EVENTUALLY DETERMINED THAT WE WERE IN A POSITION TO DEMOBILIZE PROTAL LODGE, NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS IN THE FORMER COUNTRY AND THAT THE CITY ALSO OWNS. 
          UH, AND SO WE, UH, DID THAT IN, UH, AND I, WHEN I SAY WE, I MEAN, MY STAFF DID THAT IN RECORD TIME. 
          UH DEMOBILIZING AS A PRO LODGE ON, UH, MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF ONE WEEK. 
          AND MOVING IN, UM, FOLKS FROM THE THIRD HEALS SITE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK THAT A THIRD SITE WAS THE DOWNTOWN LOCATION ACCESS OR CHAVEZ IN CONGRESS. 
          AND SO, AS I SAID, COMPLETED THAT ON THE FIFTH AND 6TH OF AUGUST, UH, FINALLY WE, UH, WERE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE FINAL SITE ON, AS I SAID, THE 30TH AND 31ST OF LAST WEEK, UH, OAK KNOLL WAS ALSO A SMALLER SITE WITH 23 INDIVIDUALS MOVING INTO SHELTER, UH, THERE. 
          AND SO THAT, UH, SORT OF WRAPPED UP THE, THE ACTIVITIES THAT OVER THE COURSE OF THE SEVEN MONTHS, AND WE ARE NOW MOVING INTO A, UH, ANALYZING CERTAINLY SOME OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND DATA THAT WE HAVE NOW THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN RELOCATED, UH, LOOKING AT, UH, PLANS FOR PRIORITIZATION OF FUTURE SITES, UM, AS WELL AS HIRING FOR COMING IN STAFF TO, UM, TO STAFF THE INITIATIVE OVERALL, NEXT SLIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY JUST A SUMMARY OF THE CONTRACTS THAT WERE PUT INTO PLACE FOR THE FIRST PHASE OF THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 
          UH, AS I SAID TO RAPID REHOUSING, UH, CONTRACTS, UH, CONTRACT WITH FRONT STEPS OR A PAIR 
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OF CONTRACTS IS KIND OF FRONT STEPS TO RUN THE BRIDGE SHELTER, UH, AND SOME SUPPORT FOR INTEGRAL CARE. 
          WE ARE, UM, ALSO OF COURSE, OPERATING THE NORTH BRIDGE SHELTER, UH, THAT IS BEING DONE WITH ARP FUNDS THAT COUNCIL HAS, UM, HAS APPROVED, UH, THAT IS NOT INCLUDED HERE AS IT WAS NOT SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED ONLY TO HEAL. 
          UM, BUT THOSE ARE RESOURCES THAT ARE BEING DEPLOYED. 
          AND OF COURSE, UH, COUNCIL HAS APPROVED $6 MILLION FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF HEAL. 
          WE WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, POTENTIALLY EXPANDING THE EXISTING CONTRACTS SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE, UH, RELOCATIONS IN FAIRLY SHORT ORDER, BUT ALSO ANTICIPATE INCLUDING RAPID REHOUSING AND SOME OTHER SERVICES IN A BROADER SOLICITATION THAT WOULD HAPPEN THIS FALL. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE POPULATION THAT WE, UM, UH, HAVE SERVED THUS FAR IN THE HEAL INITIATIVE, UH, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT THESE ARE VERY PRELIMINARY NUMBERS, WE ARE STILL ENTERING DATA INTO THE HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, UM, UM, BUT, UH, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT SOME BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ON, UH, OUR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COUNCIL ASKED US TO DO WAS TO REPORT ON THOSE, UM, ON THOSE DEMOGRAPHIC, UH, CRITERIA. 
          BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE ALSO BE COMPARING THAT TO THE POPULATION OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN AUSTIN, OVERALL WITH A REAL EYE TO EQUITY, UM, TO ENSURE THAT BECAUSE THIS IS A NEW APPROACH, THAT IT IS, UM, NOT SUBSTANTIALLY, UH, DIFFERING FROM, UH, THE DEMOGRAPHICS, UM, OF, OF HOMELESSNESS. 
          AND I MEAN THAT IN PARTICULAR AROUND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION. 
          SO GIVEN THAT WE ARE TAKING A RESOURCE AND GOING DIRECTLY TO THE STREETS AND OFFERING PEOPLE HOUSING, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IN PARTICULAR THAT WE ARE NOT UNDERSERVING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION WHO DESPITE, UM, UH, COMPRISING LESS THAN 10% OF AUSTIN'S OVERALL POPULATION, UH, COMPRISED 35% OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO, UM, WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          THESE ARE OUR INITIAL NUMBERS, AND AGAIN, WE NEED TO REFINE AND SCRUB THEM, BUT, UM, OFF THE BAT, 33% OF THE INDIVIDUALS OFFERED SHELTER, UH, THROUGH THE HEAL INITIATIVE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMPARED TO THAT ROUGHLY 35%, UM, IN THE HOMELESS POPULATION OVERALL, UH, THERE WERE A COUPLE ITEMS HERE. 
          I THINK THAT WE WILL NEED TO EXPLORE FURTHER. 
          ONE IS LOOKING AT HOW, UM, THAT COMPARES TO THE OVERALL POPULATION OF UNSHELTERED INDIVIDUALS, UH, IN AUSTIN, BECAUSE I SUSPECT THAT WE MAY SEE A SLIGHTLY HIGHER PROPORTION OF THE UNSHELTERED POPULATION ACTUALLY BEING AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN OUR COMMUNITY, IN WHICH CASE WE WOULD HOPE THAT OUR HEAL INITIATIVE WOULD MIRROR THAT. 
          UH, AND THEN ALSO JUST LOOKING, DOING A LITTLE BIT OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, GIVEN THE SMALL SAMPLE SIZE TO, UM, UNDERSTAND WHETHER THERE'S ANY STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TO THE DIFFERENCE THAT WE MIGHT BE SEEING CURRENTLY NEXT SLIDE, IF WE COULD ADVANCE TO THE NEXT TIME, I THINK PERHAPS YOU ADVANCED TWO SLIDES. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT I CANNOT SEE, FOR SOME REASON MY VIDEO FEED IS SLOW, BUT THE PHONE IS WORKING. 
          SO YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE ONE SLIDE AND LET ME SEE IF I CAN TRACK IT. 
          SO NOW WE HAVE A SLIDE UP OF DIANA ABOUT GENDER. 
          AND SO GENERALLY SPEAKING, UM, THE GENDER OF OVERALL, UH, POPULATION OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN AUSTIN IS ABOUT 40% FEMALE. 
          NOW I THINK THAT THIS IS LIKELY AGAIN, THE OVERALL POPULATION. 
          AND SO WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT GENDER BREAKDOWN LOOKS LIKE IN THE UNSHELTERED POPULATION, WHICH I EXPECT TO BE, UM, SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER, UH, IN TERMS OF THE MALE DOMINATION OF THAT DEMOGRAPHIC. 
          IF WE GO TO, UM, UH, ACTUALLY GO TWO SLIDES FURTHER, WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS WITHIN THE HEEL POPULATION, DUCT SCAR, APPROXIMATELY A THIRD ARE FEMALE. 
          IN FACT, UM, THAT PERCENTAGE IS BELOW WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE OVERALL UNSHELTERED POPULATION. 
          IT'S SOMETHING FOR US TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT. 
          SO WE WILL BE TRACKING THAT DIFFERENCE. 
          SLIDE 
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NUMBER EIGHT, UM, LOOKS ALSO AT AGE, WHICH IS SOMETHING WE DON'T HAVE THE BREAKDOWN FOR, UH, FOR YOU TODAY. 
          UM, WE WILL BE DRAWING THAT FROM HRIF, UH, SO THAT THE CATEGORIES ARE COMPARABLE. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, WANT TO ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE HEAL INITIATIVE WHO ARE NOT UNDESERVING, UH, OUR ELDERLY POPULATION EXPERIENCING, UH, UNSHELTERED, UH, UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS, PAUSE HERE FOR JUST A MINUTE, THE SLIDES WEREN'T QUITE SINKED. 
          SO THIS IS, THIS IS THE AGE DATA. 
          WOULD YOU MIND REPEATING YOUR SUMMARY COMMENT ON THIS ONE? THANKS DIANA. 
          SO I, THE, THE, WHAT I, UM, COMMENTED ON REGARDING AGE IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE DETAILED BREAKDOWN, UM, IN THIS FORMAT YET FOR THE HEAL INITIATIVE, BUT WE WILL BE PROVIDING THE COMPARISON. 
          AND I THINK THAT GIVEN, UM, THE VULNERABILITIES INTRODUCED BY BEING UNSHELTERED, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WITHIN THE HEAL INITIATIVE, UH, WE ARE, UH, SERVING AT LEAST AS MANY, UM, FOLKS IN THOSE OLDER CATEGORIES, UH, AS, UM, AS WE SEE IN THE GENERAL UNSHELTERED POPULATION. 
          SO THIS WILL BE AN AREA FOR FURTHER REPORTING FOR YOU IN THE FUTURE. 
          AND AGAIN, THIS DATA IS THAT IS THE OVERALL HOMELESS POPULATION PROVIDED BY ECHO. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK WE CAN ADVANCE NOW AND WE'LL ADVANCE ONE MORE. 
          SO THIS IS I THINK, WHERE WE, WE BEGIN TO SEE, UM, UH, DATA THAT IS REALLY CRITICAL IN TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT THAT WE ARE HAVING 147 PEOPLE WERE MOVED INTO SHELTER, UH, DURING THE MONTHS OF JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST 95% OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE OFFERED RELOCATION TO BRIDGE SHELTER ACCEPTED. 
          UH, AND THAT CERTAINLY FLIES IN THE FACE OF WHAT CAN BE A PERCEPTION THAT PEOPLE AREN'T WILLING TO GO INTO SHELTER. 
          SO, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          WE HAVE REMAINING IN SHELTER, 119 INDIVIDUALS AND 95% OF THOSE HAVE NOW COMPLETED COORDINATED ASSESSMENT, WHICH IS, UM, ONE OF THE SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN BEFORE WE CAN GET THEM ENROLLED IN A HOUSING PROGRAM OR CONCURRENT WITH THAT. 
          UH, INTERESTINGLY, WHEN WE DID, AS AN EXAMPLE, THE BEN WHITE SITE, ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THOSE PEOPLE HAD COMPLETED A COORDINATED ASSESSMENT. 
          UM, BUT WHEN WE DID THE DOWNTOWN SITE, ABOUT 90%, WE HAD ALREADY, UM, HAD A COORDINATED ASSESSMENT THAT WAS PARTIALLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT, UM, POST IS VERY ACTIVE DOWNTOWN. 
          AND SO, UM, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS IN TERMS OF PROCESS, BUT, UH, IT'LL BE INTERESTING. 
          I THINK TO SEE AS PEOPLE COME IN, UH, WE HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF WHAT THE PENETRATION OF OUR COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM HAS BEEN, UH, IN THE UNSHELTERED POPULATION AND HOW MANY FOLKS ARE STILL IN NEED OF A FIRST-TIME COORDINATED ASSESSMENT, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT MANY FOLKS MAY NEED AN UPDATE. 
          WE HAVE GOT NOT LIKE 60% OF INDIVIDUALS ENROLLED IN A HOUSING PROGRAM AT THIS TIME. 
          AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS NOT THAT THEY ARE HOUSED YET, BUT THAT FAMILY ELDER CARE OR INTEGRAL CARE HAS TAKEN THAT REFERRAL AND FORMALLY ACCEPTED IT AND TAKING THEM ONTO THEIR CASELOAD. 
          WE DID HAVE SOME LAG AT THE BEGINNING. 
          UM, BOTH BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE ENTERED, WE DID NOT HAVE THEM, UH, UH, HAVE THEIR COORDINATED ASSESSMENT, UH, COMPLETED. 
          AND WE, UM, IN THE EARLY WEEKS WE'RE GETTING OUR CONTRACTS EXECUTED IN OUR PRO LODGES. 
          OVERALL, OUR AVERAGE TIME FROM ENROLLMENT IN A HOUSING PROGRAM TO PLACEMENT, UH, IS ESSENTIALLY BETWEEN 60 AND 70 DAYS. 
          UH, AND I THINK THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMEPLACE WE WOULD LIKE TO MEET THAT IDEALLY EXCEED IT. 
          BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST STARTING TO SEE EXITS TO HOUSING. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY REPRESENTS A FIRST COUPLE OF WEEKS IN SHELTER IN JUNE FOR THE TERASA, UH, UM, UH, OCCUPANTS, THE OCCUPANTS, EXCUSE ME, OF THE TRUST, THIS ENCAMPMENT WHO THEN BECAME ENROLLED, UM, IN, IN HOUSING PROGRAMS IN JULY AND THEN HAVE BEEN IN, IN JULY AND AUGUST. 
          AND NOW WE'RE BEGINNING TO EXIT TECH TO HOUSING. 
          WE ALSO WANT TO BE REALLY COGNIZANT ABOUT PATRICIA, AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE WE'VE SEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, BASED ON THE NUMBERS OF THE GROSS NUMBER IS SOMETHING LIKE 17%, UM, OF, OF THE TOTAL POPULATION, EXIT SHELTER. 
          AND THOSE ARE COMBINATION THINGS. 
          SOME FOLKS VOLUNTARILY DECIDE THAT THEY, UH, THEY, FOR WHATEVER REASON, UM, DON'T WANT TO BE IN THE SPACE ANYMORE. 
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WE HAVE A FEW FOLKS WHO HAVE, UM, ARE HOSPITALIZED, HAVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, UH, OR SOME OTHER, UM, INCIDENT THAT CAUSES THEM TO LEAVE. 
          BUT WE HAVE CERTAINLY ALSO HAD EXITS IN VOLUNTARY EXITS, UH, BASED ON BEHAVIOR, ET CETERA. 
          AND SO I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE WORK WITH OUR, UM, REFERRED STEPS WHO WAS OPERATING THE SOUTH BRIDGE AND WITH OUR STAFF AT NORTHBRIDGE, UH, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE OPERATING, UM, THOSE SHELTERS AS EFFECTIVELY AS WE CAN, TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE SUPPORTS ON SITE, UM, TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT ENVIRONMENT AND TO EXIT TO PERMANENT HOUSING. 
          SO THIS IS SOMETHING, THESE NUMBERS, AGAIN, ARE VERY PRELIMINARY. 
          IT'S A LITTLE EARLY TO TELL, BUT THEY ARE, IT IS SOMETHING WE'LL BE TRACKING AND PARSING THE DATA MORE CLOSELY BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS AN INVOLUNTARY EXIT. 
          UM, THAT MIGHT BE SOMEONE, UH, BEING ASKED TO LEAVE VERSUS A SITUATION IN WHICH SOMEONE, UM, HAS A, YOU KNOW, A, A NEUTRAL EXIT OR AN EXIT BECAUSE OF ANOTHER, UM, ANOTHER, UH, REASON THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO DO WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SHELTER, ASKING SOMEONE TO WAIT. 
          SO NEXT SLIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          I AM GOING TO ASSUME THAT THE, NOW WE'VE GONE TO THE NEXT SIDE. 
          I CAN'T SEE IT CURRENTLY, BUT JUST OF TALK TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT ARE THE LESSONS LEARNED ARE AT THIS STAGE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I MENTIONED, FIRST OF ALL, I THINK THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BANNER HERE IS THAT WE'VE HAD NEAR UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE OF RELOCATION. 
          UM, WE HAVE SEEN THAT WE CAN ENGAGE FOLKS QUICKLY IN ENCAMPMENTS, UM, AND DO THIS WORK RAPIDLY, YOU KNOW, OVER THE COURSE OF A WEEK OR SO. 
          UM, SO WE NEED NOT HAVE A SUBSTANTIALLY LONGER ENGAGEMENT, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY GET ANTICIPATE AT THE BEGINNING. 
          UH, HOWEVER, WE ALSO HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF ENUMERATING, WHO IS, UH, WHO IS AT THE ENCAMPMENT. 
          UH, THERE ARE FOLKS WHO, UM, WHO MOVE BETWEEN ENCAMPMENTS AND, AND THIS, THEY ARE NOT SLEEPING WITH A TENT. 
          IT CAN BE DIFFICULT TO TELL WHO IS A PERMANENT DOCUMENT IN THE ENCAMPMENT VERSUS A VISITOR AND TO VARYING DEGREES WE HAD IN MIGRATION, UH, AT EACH OF THESE SITES. 
          SO THE WORD GETS OUT AND, UM, PEOPLE SHOW UP, UM, UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO ACCESS SHELTER AND HOUSING, UH, AT A SITE, WHICH SOMETIMES IS QUITE SIMPLE. 
          YOU'RE SIMPLY ABLE TO COMMUNICATE, UM, THAT THE, YOU KNOW, THE PROGRAM DESIGN IS THAT WE GO IN AND WE SERVE FOLKS WHO ARE OCCUPANTS OF THAT ENCAMPMENT. 
          UH, BUT OTHERWISE, UH, CAN ALSO BE QUITE THREATENING AND TO THE SUCCESS OF A PARTICULAR SITE, BECAUSE IF TOO MANY PEOPLE SHOW UP, UM, NOT ONLY DOES IT CREATE CONFUSION INTENTION, IT MAY MEAN THAT WE CAN'T MOVE EVERYONE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH, UM, SHELL ROOMS AT THE SHELTER TO DO SO. 
          AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO MANAGE CAREFULLY GOING FORWARD, UH, IN TERMS OF RELOCATION AND CLEANUP. 
          AND I, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO, AGAIN, EMPHASIZE THE INCREDIBLE PARTNERSHIP ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS, UM, JUST, UH, INCREDIBLE RESPONSIVENESS AND, AND, AND WILLINGNESS TO HELP. 
          AND I THINK, UM, INVESTMENT IN THE SUCCESS OF THIS INITIATIVE, BUT WE DO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES, ACTUALLY RECREATION HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE PARTNER, BUT PART OF THE REASON THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT IS THAT MANY OF THEIR IN-PERSON, UM, PROGRAMS ARE NOT OPERATING AT FULL CAPACITY RIGHT NOW. 
          AND SO PARTICULARLY IF WE ANTICIPATE INCREASING THE VOLUME OF ENCAMPMENT RELOCATIONS, WE MAY NEED TO LOOK AT OTHER ALTERNATIVES, UH, FOR HOW WE ARRANGE FOR TRANSPORTATION, FOR INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR BELONGINGS FROM ENCAMPMENTS. 
          UH, ONE THING I THINK WE LEARNED WITH CLEANUP IS THAT IN ORDER TO, UM, MINIMIZE THE LIKELIHOOD OF REPOPULATION OF A SITE, WE NEED TO COMPLETE THE CLEANUP QUICKLY. 
          UH, WHEN, UH, TENTS WERE LEFT, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO COMPLETE A CLEANUP IN ONE OR TWO DAYS. 
          AND PARTICULARLY BY THE END OF A WORK WEEK, WE DID SEE REPOPULATION OF TENTS THAT HAD BEEN LEFT BEHIND. 
          AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AT THIS POINT THAT EXPERIENCE IS SOMEWHAT IMPRESSIONISTIC. 
          UM, BUT IT IS, UH, WE DO BELIEVE THAT COMPLETELY PLANNING A SITE, UH, IN SIGNALS, UH, THAT IT IS NO LONGER A SITE THAT WHERE, UH, CAMPING 
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IS, UH, ANTICIPATED. 
          AND WE'VE NOT SEEN REPOPULATION IN SOME OF THE OTHER SITES, UH, WHERE, WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO COMPLETE CLEANUP, UM, WITH A MORE DEFINED END DATE, UH, THE SPACE ACTIVATION. 
          I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CONTEMPLATED AS PART OF THIS INITIATIVE WAS HOW WE MIGHT REACTIVATE SPACES, UM, FOR CONTINUED PUBLIC USE FOR ALL AUSTINITES, UH, APPROPRIATE TO THE DESIGN AND INITIAL INTENT OF THE SPACE. 
          WE HAVE BEEN HAVING DISCUSSIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH US ABOUT, UH, WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT THAT SITE. 
          THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS ENGAGED, BUT IT IS A LONGER TIMELINE. 
          SO WE NEED TO BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT THE SHORT-TERM LOOKS LIKE AFTER AN ENCAMPMENT IS RESOLVED, UM, COMPARED WITH WHAT MIGHT BE LONGER TERM REACTIVATION OF THE SPACE. 
          WE'VE ALSO SEEN IN TERMS OF CLEANUP THERE'S, UM, SOME SUBSTANTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, UM, FROM HUMAN WASTE TO, UH, UH, RODENTS, WHICH I THINK REALLY EMPHASIZES FOR US THE, THE, THE HEALTH CONCERNS OF PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREET, BUT IT'S ALSO A CONCERN FOR OUR CLEANUP PERSONNEL. 
          AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF THE SUCCESS OF BRIDGE SHELTER. 
          UH, WE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WERE HAVING STAFF, UM, FEVEROUSLY ENTERING DATA INTO HMI, UH, AS LATE AS FRIDAY AND EARLY THIS WEEK. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THAT DEDICATED STAFF WE THINK IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL TO MAKING SURE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING, UH, WITH THE PROGRAM OVERALL, UH, WE HAVE HAD SOME REAL CONSTRAINTS AROUND THE AVAILABILITY OF ASSESSORS, UH, TO COMPLETE COORDINATED ASSESSMENT IN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. 
          AND WE ARE SEEING THAT PLAY OUT WITH THIS INITIATIVE AND SO NEED TO ENSURE THOSE RESOURCES ARE SECURED. 
          AND WE CERTAINLY, UM, WE HAVE NOW GOT, UH, ONSITE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, UH, AT BOTH OF THE SHELTERS, BUT, UH, MUCH UNDERSCORE HOW CRITICAL THAT IS, PARTICULARLY IN THE FIRST WEEKS AFTER WE LOCATION, WHERE IT IS A GOOD THING, PEOPLE ARE EXCITED, BUT THAT TRANSITION CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT. 
          AND WE CAN SEE PEOPLE STRUGGLING, UM, WITH, UH, WITH SOME OF THEIR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, UH, CHALLENGES, UH, BOTH BECAUSE, UH, THEY'RE DEALING WITH A NEW CHALLENGE OF TRANSITIONING INTO A NEW SPACE. 
          AND BECAUSE FRANKLY THEY ARE SAFE ENOUGH TO COME OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE, UH, AND, AND BEGIN, UH, GRAPPLING WITH SOME OF THOSE ISSUES AND ARE READY TO DO SO. 
          UH, AND THEN AGAIN, UH, JUST TO, I THINK, UH, TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY COMMITTED TO SEEING, UH, THE PROCESS OF RELOCATION, SHELTER AND REHOUSING RESULTING IN HIGH RATES OF PERMANENT HOUSING. 
          AND SO WE'LL BE, UH, TRACKING THOSE ATTRITION RATES, UH, ACROSS THE, UM, TH THE EXPERIENCE OF, OF INDIVIDUALS COMING INTO THE INITIATIVE, UH, TO ENSURE WE'RE COURSE CORRECTING, UM, ANYTIME THAT WE CAN. 
          SO NEXT STEPS REALLY INCLUDE US, UH, AS WE ARE NOW WORKING ON THE PRIORITIZATION THAT WOULD HELP US IDENTIFY UPCOMING ENCAMPMENTS, UH, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, MULTIPLE CITY DEPARTMENTS. 
          WE OF COURSE, WILL NEED TO, UM, TURN FOR CONTRACTING FOR SERVICES FOR PHASE TWO, UH, AND ARE WORKING ON THAT. 
          AND I BELIEVE THAT WILL BE A COMBINATION OF AN EXTENSION OF EXISTING CONTRACTS AND NEW SOLICITATION. 
          AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN, UM, OPERATING THIS, UH, THIS INITIATIVE WITH, UH, TEMPORARY STAFF, UH, WITHIN HSD AND, UM, STAFF WHO ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY DEDICATED TO THE HEAL INITIATIVE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OVERALL, BOTH OF WHICH, UH, ARE, ARE REALLY MORE THAN FULL-TIME JOBS. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, KUDOS TO THE STAFF THAT WE, THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH US, BUT WE WILL BE, UH, WE, AND WE EXPECT TO BE POSTING FULL-TIME POSITIONS AS PERMANENT POSITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY COUNCIL, UH, WITHIN THE NEXT WEEKS WITH THAT, I WILL PAUSE AND TAKE QUESTIONS. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. 
          THIS IS REALLY SUPER WORK, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN. 
          UH, YES. 
          LET ME JUST SAY, UH, DIANA, UH, YOU AND CHARLES AND GREG AND YOUR WHOLE TEAM, UM, HAVE JUST DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB AND IT IS, UH, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND NOTICED. 
          AND SO I WANT TO SAY THAT I KNOW IT HASN'T BEEN EASY, AS YOU SAID, YOU MENTIONED 
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THE CHALLENGES, UH, BUT YOU GUYS HAVE STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE AT EVERY, AT EVERY STAGE. 
          AND WHAT YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED IS FABULOUS. 
          UM, I AM ALSO VERY, UM, I HAVE A TON OF QUESTIONS, BUT I'M JUST GONNA ASK A FEW SPECIFIC ONES RIGHT NOW SO THAT MY COLLEAGUES CAN ASK QUESTIONS TOO. 
          UM, I WANT TO FOCUS IN ON A COUPLE OF THINGS. 
          I THINK THAT WHAT WE'VE SEEN SO FAR SHOWS THE, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS APPROACH, UM, IN TERMS OF PEOPLE ACCEPTING. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THAT IS ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE HAD INITIALLY, THAT PEOPLE WOULDN'T ACCEPT, UM, GOING TO A LOCATION. 
          THIS IS A HUGE, I THINK YOU SAID IT WAS 95% OR SOMETHING VERY, VERY HIGH IN TERMS OF PEOPLE ACCEPTING IT. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S, THAT IS FABULOUS. 
          I THINK THAT, UM, I'M VERY PLEASED TO SEE THE ATTENTION, UH, TO ANALYZE IN EVERY STAGE. 
          AND SO, UM, ANALYZING THE ATTRITION RATE IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO TELL US, UH, WHAT WE NEED TO ADD OR THINK ABOUT FOR THAT STAGE OF GOING FROM TEMPORARY SHELTER TO PERMANENT HOUSING. 
          SO I HAVE A QUESTION AROUND THAT. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT YOU, UM, YOU PROVIDED SOME PRELIMINARY INFORMATION, WHICH IS VERY HELPFUL. 
          I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON GETTING A BREAKDOWN OF THOSE, UH, FOLKS THAT, UH, EITHER THAT INVOLVE THE INVOLUNTARY EXITS. 
          UM, DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA ON WHEN YOU MIGHT HAVE THAT BREAKOUT RIGHT DOWN AND UNRELATED TO THAT, IS, IS THAT, TO WHAT EXTENT IS THAT INFORMATION CAPTURED IS THAT DATA CAPTURED WHEN SOMEBODY LEAVES. 
          SO IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO THAT, IT IS CAPTURED COUNCIL MEMBER IN QUEUE. 
          UM, AND SO I THINK THAT WE CAN, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT FOR YOU. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, I WOULD SAY WITHIN THE NEXT THREE OR FOUR DAYS, UM, UH, WE WILL, UH, AND YES, I THINK WE WANT TO LOOK AT KIND OF HOW WE CATEGORIZE IT, BECAUSE THERE ARE EXITS THAT ARE, UM, THAT ARE NEUTRAL, YOU KNOW, OR THAT POP, SOME ARE POSITIVE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, WE WOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, HAVE HAD ONE, UM, INDIVIDUAL EXITED REUNITE WITH FAMILY. 
          SO WE DIDN'T END UP SERVING THEM THROUGH RAPID REHOUSING, BUT THEY ARE BACK IN PERMANENT HOUSING, RIGHT? THE POSITIVE EXIT. 
          WE'VE HAD INDIVIDUALS EXIT TO GO TO HOSPITAL, WHICH, UM, AND INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, HAD INTERACTION WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND, UM, ARE GOING TO SPEND SOME TIME INCARCERATED. 
          AND SO WHILE THOSE ARE NOT POSITIVE THINGS, THEY ARE NOT EXITS THAT ARE RELATED TO BEHAVIOR, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE SHELTER, UM, OR THE INDIVIDUAL ELECTING TO NOT WANT NO LONGER PARTICIPATE. 
          SO WE WILL PARSE THAT IN A WAY THAT'S MEANINGFUL FOR YOU. 
          UH, AND, UM, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          OKAY. 
          TWO OTHER QUICK DATA QUESTIONS, AND THEN I'LL, UH, TURN TO OTHERS. 
          SO IN TERMS OF THE DATA THAT'S, UM, THAT'S AVAILABLE. 
          SO IF SOMEONE EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE WE, DO WE HAVE A MECHANISM FOR OUR SOCIAL WORKER WHO IS FOLLOWING THAT INDIVIDUAL THAT THEN KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM AFTER THEY ARE DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL? YES, WE WOULD. 
          WE WOULD TYPICALLY STAFF WAS EITHER AT THE SHELTER OR WITH THREE RAPPER HOUSING WOULD, UM, WOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH THAT PERSON. 
          AND ASSUMING IT IS A SHORT, YOU KNOW, UH, OR A SHORT TO MEDIUM TERM STAY, WE WOULD HOLD THE ROOF FOR THEM. 
          WE CERTAINLY WANT THEM TO COME BACK. 
          AND SO I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO, I SEE THAT BOTH GREG AND MACARTHUR MCCORMICK AND CHARLES ARE ON THE LINE. 
          AND SO WITHOUT, OF COURSE GIVING ANY PERSONAL DETAILS, THEY MAY HAVE FEEDBACK AS TO WHAT THAT HAS LOOKED LIKE IN TERMS OF OUR EXPERIENCE TO DATE GREG OR CHARLES, DO YOU WANT TO GET SOME CONTEXT? SURE. 
          I CAN. 
          UM, AND WE DO HAVE THAT DATA, SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE IT TO ALL THE DINOSAURS VERY SOON. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS, UH, DID GET ARRESTED FOR WARRANTS THAT WERE OUTSTANDING. 
          UM, BUT THE INDIVIDUALS THAT GO TO THE HOSPITAL, WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH AND HOLD A ROOM FOR, UH, WE WANT TO GET THEM BACK AND GET THEM ENGAGED IN HOUSING. 
          AND IT'S SOMETHING MAYBE TO KEEP IN MIND IS THESE INDIVIDUALS, UM, OR INDIVIDUALS THAT WE SOUGHT OUT, UH, THROUGH THESE TABLETS TO BRING INTO BRIDGE SHELTER. 
          AND SO THIS WAS REALLY KIND OF AN ABRUPT CHANGE IN THEIR LIFE. 
          I THINK THAT WE SHOULD, WE CAN REALLY FOCUS MORE ON SOME OF THE WRAPAROUND SERVICES AND ACCLIMATING THEM, WHO BRIDGE SHELTER AS A FIRST STEP OF GETTING READY TO GO INTO HOUSING. 
          THIS IS REALLY KIND OF A MICROCOSM OF WHERE WE CAN LEARN THINGS ABOUT HEALTH NEEDS, INDIVIDUALS NEED, UH, TO 
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WORK WITH, GET HEALTHIER, GET READY TO GO INTO HOUSING SO THAT THEY'RE SUCCESSFUL ONCE THEY DO AND TO GO OUT AND GO IN THE HOUSE. 
          I THINK IT'S A REALLY GOOD FIRST STEP. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THEN LAST, LAST QUESTION ARE THE, THE DATA FROM ECHO, DOES THAT DATA HAVE BREAKDOWNS BY SHELTERED VERSUS UNSHELTERED FOR THE KINDS OF DEMOGRAPHICS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DAY THAT WE SHOWED WAS OVERALL DATA, BUT THERE SHOULD BE SOME, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET AT LEAST SOME OF THOSE DATA POINTS BY SHELTERED AND UNSHELTERED. 
          SO WE'LL WORK WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES GOING FORWARD. 
          UM, I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE CRITICAL BECAUSE THE, THE, THE OVERALL POPULATION, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING THAT DEMOGRAPHIC OF COURSE IS KEY, BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE UNSHELTERED POPULATION HERE. 
          UH, AND SO WE WILL WE'LL WORK AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          I THINK TO DEVELOP REPORTS, UM, THAT LOOK AT WHO WE ARE DRAWING INTO THE INITIATIVE, UM, AS COMPARED TO WHAT WE UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE OVERALL UNSHELTERED POPULATION, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT NOT EVERYONE, UM, WHO IS UNSHELTERED IS IN H M I S AND WILL BE, YOU KNOW, PART OF, OF ECHO'S DATABASE. 
          OKAY. 
          I WILL PASS THE, PASS THIS ON TO OTHERS. 
          LIKE I SAID, I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THAT I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES, WE'RE ALL VERY INVOLVED AND SUPPORTIVE OF PASSING HEAL, AND THEY'RE INTERESTED ALSO IN UNDERSTANDING, UH, WHAT WE'RE LEARNING SO FAR. 
          I DO WANT TO SAY AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 
          I CAN SEE THAT THIS HAS BEEN DONE IN A VERY SYSTEMATIC, CAREFUL WAY, IN A WAY IN WHICH WE ARE LEARNING FROM, WHICH WAS THE POINT OF STARTING WITH FOUR LOCATIONS AS A PILOT AND LEARNING FROM IT. 
          I THINK WE HAVE MUCH, MUCH TO LEARN FROM HOW THIS KIND OF APPROACH CAN CONTRIBUTE TO A LONGTERM AND STABLE HOUSING FOR INDIVIDUALS. 
          AND SO, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE ELLIS EFFORTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCIL BENDER. 
          UM, MS. GRAY, I KNOW YOU SAID YOU WOULD SUPPLY US WITH THAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, AND I ASSUME YOU MEANT THE, THE ENTIRE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE. 
          YES. 
          SUPER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, YES, VICE CHAIR. 
          FONTAS THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND TO ECHO COSTUMER KITCHEN, I WANT TO THANK STAFF AND CONTROVERT KITCHEN FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND BRINGING FORWARD THE HILL INITIATIVE. 
          IT'S WONDERFUL TO HEAR ABOUT THE NEAR UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE RATE THAT WE HAVE AND TO TRANSITIONING INTO OUR BRIDGE SHELTERS. 
          AND SO THAT'S WONDERFUL NEWS, AND I AM THRILLED TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THAT WITH OUR COMMUNITY. 
          MY FIRST QUESTION IS ON THE, UM, THE NORTH BRIDGE SHELTER, WOULD YOU MIND SHARING WHAT OUR CAPACITY RATE IS AT THAT SHELTER? SO I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA SPEAK A LITTLE BIT IN THAT L LET GREG CORRECT ME IF I GIVE YOU THE WRONG, UM, TOTAL NUMBER. 
          SO THE NORFORD SHELTER, UM, IS A CENTER HOTEL OF COURSE, WITH 75 ROOMS. AND SO, UM, NOT ALL OF THOSE WILL, EVEN AT FULL CAPACITY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR GUESTS BECAUSE WE USE SOME OF THEM FOR STAFF OFFICES, FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDERS, ET CETERA. 
          UH, RIGHT NOW, HOWEVER, I BELIEVE WE HAVE OF 64 ROOMS OR 55 ISH OCCUPIED, GREG WILL PIPE UP AND ME HERE, WE DO HAVE SEVERAL ROOMS THAT ARE OFFLINE FOR REPAIRS, UH, POST, UM, DEMOBILIZATION AS A PRO LODGE. 
          AND PART OF THAT IS THAT WE, UM, HAVE PLANS AND STILL, AND, AND ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH PLANS TO REPLACE THE FLOORING, UH, IN A NUMBER OF ROOMS. AND SO, UH, FACILITIES IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH CONTRACTORS TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, UH, UH, AND WE CAN GET YOU AN UPDATED, UH, TIMELINE ON THAT, BUT WE DID HAVE SOME ROOMS THAT WERE NOT OCCUPIABLE, UM, BECAUSE THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF, OF HAVING SOME WORK DONE. 
          GOTCHA. 
          SO WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS OUR VACANCY RATE RIGHT NOW BETWEEN BOTH OF THE BRIDGE SHELTERS? UH, WE, WE REALLY, UM, SLOWS FOLKS IN, UM, TO MAKE THE SITE SITE FOR HAPPEN. 
          SO I DON'T, YOU KNOW, GREG, DO YOU HAVE FEEDBACK ON THAT? YEAH, SURE. 
          SO WHEN WE WERE MOVING FOLKS INTO NORTH BRIDGE, UM, CHARLES AND I WERE ON THE GROUND, LITERALLY COUNTING PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DIDN'T SEND MORE PEOPLE TO NORTHRIDGE AND THE ROOMS WERE AVAILABLE. 
          SO, UH, BY THE TIME WE WERE DONE WITH THE FOURTH ENCAMPMENT, WE WERE 99% FULL AT BOTH SOUTHBRIDGE AND NORTHRIDGE WITH AVAILABLE ROOM. 
          YEAH, YOU DO BRING UP, I THINK, AN IMPORTANT POINT THOUGH, COUNCIL MEMBER THAT, UM, I, I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE, UM, BROUGHT FORWARD, WHICH IS THAT ONE OF THE, I THINK, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL DOWNSIDES ARE, IT WAS TRADE OFF OF THIS APPROACH 
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IS THAT IT DOES REQUIRE US TO HOLD ROOMS EMPTY. 
          RIGHT? SO IF WE ARE PUTTING PEOPLE AT AN ENCAMPMENT AND WE INTEND TO, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT MOVING PEOPLE ALL AT ONCE OVER THE COURSE OF ONE TO TWO DAYS IS CRITICAL. 
          I MOVE AS A SOCIAL GROUP. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW, THE MOMENTUM REALLY HELPS THE PROCESS ALONG, BUT THAT, THAT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT MANY ROOMS OPEN. 
          UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT WHAT THAT RHYTHM WILL LOOK LIKE AS WE, YOU KNOW, AS PEOPLE BEGIN TO BE REHOUSED, ET CETERA. 
          UM, MY HOPE IS THAT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE APPROACH AND, UM, THE ABILITY TO MOVE PEOPLE INTO PERMANENT HOUSING PRETTY QUICKLY, UH, AS THEY COME TO, YOU KNOW, UH, SERVICE PROVIDER, READY FOR, TO ENROLL THEM, UH, WE'LL MAKE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, STILL A NET POSITIVE FOR US, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE SEEING, UH, IS, IS HAVING TO HOLD SOME BLOCKS OF ROOM. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S SUPER HELPFUL BECAUSE THAT WAS KIND OF WHAT I WAS GETTING AT WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF HEAL, HOW QUICKLY CAN WE SCALE THE VAL, THE VOLUME OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE ABLE TO MOVE INTO SHELTER. 
          SO HAVING A SENSE OF WHAT IS OUR CAPACITY AND OPEN ROOM RATE, UM, UM, I WAS TRYING TO GET A BETTER SENSE OF, OF, UM, I, YOU KNOW, VERY CLEARLY THIS HILL INITIATIVE IS EFFECTIVE AND IT'S WORKING AND IT'S CERTAINLY NEEDED TO MEET THE SCALE OF THE CRISIS THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW. 
          AND I JUST WOULD LIKE TO VOCALIZE AND MY SUPPORT FOR US MOVING FORWARD WITH PHASE TWO, AND TO LOOK AT HOW CAN WE INCREASE THE VOLUME, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE INVESTMENT THAT WE'VE MADE DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, IN, UH, OUR HOMELESSNESS STRATEGY OFFICE AND HAVING, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE STAFF SUPPORT SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO, UH, QUICKLY MOBILIZE. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE BEEN SO WONDERFUL AND WORKING WITH MY OFFICE AND WORKING WITH OUR NEIGHBORS AT COLON LANE FOR THE ENCAMPMENT THAT WE HAVE IN DISTRICT TWO, THAT, UM, AS WE KNOW, HAS CONSIDERABLE, UH, SAFETY CONCERNS GIVEN THE PROXIMITY TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD THERE. 
          AND SO I REALLY WOULD LIKE, AGAIN, TO SAY, I WOULD HOPE THAT COLUMN LANG WOULD BE AN ENCAMPMENT THAT WE HAVE CONSIDERED IN THE NEXT PHASE OF HILL AS PART OF PHASE TWO. 
          AND SO ANY, UM, INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN SHARE ABOUT WHAT THAT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE, OR WHAT MORE IS NEEDED FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD ON THAT SECOND PHASE? UH, I WOULD SUPER APPRECIATE, SO MY INTENT IS TO BRING TO THIS COMMITTEE AT OUR NEXT MEETING, OUR PROPOSED, UM, I ORGANIZATION, UM, UH, METHOD. 
          AND SO, AND ALSO I THINK, UM, A BIT ABOUT HOW WE WOULD FEED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENCAMPMENTS IN, INTO THAT PRIORITIZATION PROCESS. 
          SO MOST ENCAMPMENTS, UM, UH, HAD AT LEAST ONE CITY DEPARTMENT WHO IS ENGAGED WITH THEM IN, IN A SUBSTANTIAL WAY, WHETHER THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE ON PARK PROPERTY OR THEY MIGHT BE IN THE WATERSHED, OR BECAUSE HOST HAS BEEN ENGAGED THERE. 
          AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR APD PARTNERS THAT THERE ARE CONCERNS. 
          AND SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING ON AT HOW WE CAN EFFECTIVELY ACROSS DEPARTMENTS SYNTHESIZE THAT INFORMATION, UH, AND THEN BE CLEAR ABOUT, UH, WHY, YOU KNOW, WHICH SITES WE WOULD BE PRIORITIZING FOR THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 
          UM, AND, UM, AND WHY. 
          AND SO, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO BRIEFING YOU ON, UM, ON THAT THE NEXT MEETING, UH, CHARLES LOOSEN AND, UH, DR. 
          MARRIOTT LANAI GROW ON OUR STAFF, WHO IS A FUSE FELLOW, UM, ARE, ARE WORKING WITH, UH, ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS TO BOTH FIGURE OUT HOW WE DO THIS IN THE SHORT TERM FOR OUR VERY NEXT ENCAMPMENTS. 
          AND THEN EVEN LOOKING AT, UM, IN THE LONGER TERM, HOW WE CAN UTILIZE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS TO MAKE THAT WORK MORE EFFICIENT, UH, AND THE INFORMATION SHARED ACROSS, UH, ACROSS OUR PARTNERS. 
          AND CHARLES, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD THERE? I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD. 
          THAT'S A GREAT SUMMARY. 
          THANK YOU, DIANA. 
          THANK YOU, CHARLES. 
          GOOD DEAL. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. 
          I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT NEXT UPDATE THAT WE HAVE, AND TALKING ABOUT THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX FOR THE HILL INITIATIVE. 
          AGAIN, JUST WANT TO THANK COUNSEL FOR KITCHEN, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND BRINGING FORWARD THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 
          IT IS EFFECTIVE. 
          WE DON'T KNOW THAT HAS YOU UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE RATE FOR HELPING US MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS. 
          AND I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT OUR CITY STAFF IS DOING TO HELP IN THIS EFFORT. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          IT LOOKED AS IF YOU HAD SOME QUESTIONS AND WE PROBABLY WILL NEED TO WRAP UP, UH, NO LATER THAN 1115, JUST SO WE HAVE TIME FOR THAT SECOND PRESENTATION. 
          AND I'VE TRIED TO KEEP MY COMMENTS BRIEF QUESTIONS ALSO WANT TO REALLY THINK, UH, UH, UH, UH, THIS GROUP, UH, DIANA 
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GREG, UH, CHARLES JUST DOES REALLY GOOD WORK WITH, UH, HE'LL. 
          I THINK THAT THIS IS THE KIND OF VISIBLE PROGRESS THAT COMMUNITY, UH, WANTED TO AND NEEDS TO SEE, UH, IT BEING DONE IN A WAY THAT IS ACTUALLY GETTING PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS AND OUT OF TENTS, BUT IN HOUSING OR ON A TRACK TO HOUSING, UH, WITH THE HOPE THAT THEY DON'T RETURN BACK TO, UH, THE TENTS. 
          UH, SO IT IS THE, EXACTLY THE KIND OF WORK, UH, THAT WE NEED TO DO. 
          UM, AND WE NEED TO SCALE IT. 
          UH, ALSO WANT TO ADD MY THANKS COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN FOR, FOR, UH, OFFERING THE ORIGINAL HEAL RESOLUTION. 
          AND, UH, I BASICALLY HAD TWO QUESTIONS. 
          THE FIRST ONE WAS, HOW DO WE SCALE THIS? HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE, UH, THE, THE TEAMS AND THE STAFFING AND THE SPACES, UH, TO BE ABLE TO, UH, GET MORE PEOPLE, UH, OUT OF TENTS, UH, WHEREVER THOSE TENTS MIGHT BE SOUND LIKE, UH, I HAD A YEAR AGO TO ADDRESS THAT AT THE NEXT, UH, BRIEFING WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, UH, PRIORITIES, UH, AND, AND SPAN. 
          BUT I ASSUME THAT PART OF THE ARPA DOLLARS THAT WE PUT TOWARD THIS GOES TO THIS KIND OF WORK. 
          THE SECOND QUESTION I HAVE IS HOW DOES THIS HEAL WORK RELATE TO THE, THE, THE GOAL THAT THE COMMUNITY IS SET TO HOUSE 3000 PEOPLE IN, IN THREE YEARS? IS THIS PART OF THAT, OF THAT SYSTEM, UH, THAT, UH, YOU SPOKE ABOUT, UH, SETTING UP, UH, EARLIER ABSOLUTELY MAYOR. 
          UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE IN FACT, UH, PART OF THE SUMMIT, UH, UH, GOALS NOT ONLY SPOKE TO REHOUSING THREE, AN ADDITIONAL 3000 PEOPLE OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, BUT DID SPEAK TO AN EXPLICIT ENCAMPMENT STRATEGY. 
          UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, A VERY SIMILAR TO HEAL IN TERMS OF GOING OUT AND REHOUSING PEOPLE FROM ENCAMPMENTS. 
          AND SO OF THE 3000 INDIVIDUALS THAT, UH, ARE SORT OF OUR MINIMUM GOAL OVER THOSE THREE YEARS, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT, ABOUT 2000 OF THOSE BEING HOUSED THROUGH RAPID REHOUSING PROGRAMS AND WITH, UM, THE, WHAT WE THINK IS AT LEAST 200 PEOPLE FOR PHASE TWO, AND, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE SHELTERED 143. 
          UM, SO THE HOUSE NUMBER WE KNOW WILL BE SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF THAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, EASILY 300 PEOPLE, I THINK IN PHASES ONE AND TWO, UH, OF THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO, UM, TO, TO UNDERSCORE THE OVERALL SUMMIT PLAN HAS SOMEWHERE CLOSE TO $40 MILLION, UM, RECOMMENDED TO BE DEDICATED TO RAPID REHOUSING. 
          AND SO WE, WITH THE ESG CD DOLLARS THAT HAVE GONE OUT THROUGH, THROUGH THE CITY ALREADY, AND, UM, THESE DOLLARS, W W YOU KNOW, WE PROBABLY, THERE'S PROBABLY STILL ANOTHER $20 MILLION THAT WE WOULD ANTICIPATE, UH, MOBILIZING OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 
          SOME OF THAT CAN BE DONE. 
          IT DOESN'T ALL HAVE TO BE THROUGH HEAL, UH, BUT I COULD SEE US SCALING. 
          AND I THINK THAT ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT, UM, WE AS STAFF WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT NOT JUST IN THE NEXT MONTH, BUT ONGOING IS WHAT IS THE SCALE THAT WE CAN AS A SYSTEM ABSORBED IN TERMS OF THIS DIRECT ENCAMPMENT REHOUSING EFFORTS, UH, AND IN THAT IS CONTINGENT ON A NUMBER OF RESOURCES. 
          SO THAT IS TO SOME DEGREE ABOUT WHAT IS OUR SHELTER RESOURCE LOOK LIKE? HOW QUICKLY ARE WE HOUSING PEOPLE, UH, CAN WE GET THE UNITS IN THE MARKET? SO ALL OF THOSE RESEARCH QUESTIONS ARE THINGS THAT WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU WITH THE $6 MILLION THAT COUNCIL APPROVED, UH, DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS IS OUR, UH, INITIAL INVESTMENT THAT WILL GET US MOVING INTO PHASE TWO. 
          UH, IT NEED NOT BE, UH, THE END OF THAT INVESTMENT OR THE LIMITATION ON THE, ON THE SIZE OF, UH, THE POPULATION OF PEOPLE SERVED AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO, FOR THIS WORK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          I HAVE, UH, A FEW QUESTIONS. 
          UM, CAN YOU TALK US THROUGH, UH, MS. GRAY, HOW, WHETHER PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO BRING THEIR BELONGINGS WITH THEM, AND IF, AND IN THE INSTANCES WHERE THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO BRING, IF THERE WERE INSTANCES WHERE THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO BRING ALL THEIR BELONGINGS, WERE THEY ABLE TO UTILIZE, UH, VIOLET STORAGE? I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, BELONGINGS THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND AT THE ENCAMPMENTS. 
          AND I JUST WANT TO, I KNOW THAT THAT YOU ALL WORKED HARD TO MAKE PROVISIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS ON THEIR ITEMS. SURE. 
          CHARLES, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THAT? ABSOLUTELY. 
          AT A NUMBER OF ENCOUNTERS AND MINTS, UH, WE DID MAKE BIBLE EXPLETIVE STORAGE AVAILABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TO OCCUPANTS PART TO MOVE. 
          ADDITIONALLY, OCCUPANTS WERE, 
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UH, ENABLED AND EMPOWERED TO BRING KEY BELONGINGS WITH THEM. 
          SO THAT INCLUDES, UH, NECESSITIES OF DAILY LIVING, UM, CRITICAL DOCUMENTS, MEDICATIONS, AND MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION LIKE BICYCLES. 
          UH, HOWEVER, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT IN KEVIN OCCUPANTS CHOSE TO LEAVE SOME OF THEIR BELONGINGS BEHIND. 
          AND IN MANY CIRCUMSTANCES IT WAS NOT FEASIBLE, UH, TO MOVE THE, UH, ENTIRE ACCUMULATED, UH, BELONGINGS, UH, AN INDIVIDUAL OR CAMPSITE INTO SHELTER. 
          THANK YOU THOUGH, FOR VERIFYING THAT, THAT IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND OTHER KINDS OF PERSONAL BELONGINGS WERE THAT THERE WERE PROVISIONS MADE FOR THOSE. 
          SO, UM, COULD YOU ALSO ADDRESS THE ISSUE? THERE WAS A REFERENCE EARLIER ON TO HOW, UM, THAT ONE OF THE HOTELS, ONE OF THE HOTELS THAT WE'VE JUST PURCHASED WILL BE DEDICATED IN PART TO THE NEXT PHASE OF HEAL. 
          COULD YOU ADDRESS, COULD YOU JUST CLARIFY THAT MS. GRAY? YES. 
          TO CLARIFY IT, IT'S NOT ONE OF THE HOTELS WE JUST PURCHASED. 
          I AM, WAS REFERRING TO THE COUNTRY IN WHICH THE, UM, THE, THE CITY PURCHASED ABOUT A YEAR AGO, BUT HAD BEEN OPERATING, UM, HERE TOO FOR AS A PRO LODGE. 
          AND SO WE KNEW THAT WE COUNCIL WANTED, UH, DIRECTED US TO LOOK AT ADDITIONAL SORT OF EMERGENCY RESOURCES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PASSAGE OF PROPERTY. 
          AND SO THE CONVERSION OF ONE OF THE FORMER PRO LODGES INTO SHELTER WAS, UM, WAS AN APPROACH THAT WE, WE TOOK, UH, IT PRETTY IMMEDIATELY, UH, AFTER THE PASSAGE OF PROP B IN THE NATION OF RESOURCES FOR THAT PURPOSE IN, YOU KNOW, OUR THINKING IS THAT WE COULD, UH, CONTINUE TO UTILIZE NORTHBRIDGE PARTIALLY FOR HEAL. 
          BUT WE ALSO WANT TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE RESOURCES, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAY BE EXPERIENCING ENFORCEMENT ON THE PART OF APD, UM, WHO NEEDED TO LEAVE AN ENCAMPMENT OR FACE CITATION. 
          UM, BUT WHO IN PARTICULAR, WHO ARE, UH, ARE QUITE VULNERABLE, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT'D BE MEDICALLY OR TO VICTIMIZATION OF SOME SORT. 
          AND SO WE HAVE NOT MADE A FINAL DETERMINATION, BUT ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT STAFF WILL BE HAVING OVER THE NEXT MONTH OR SO IS OF THE, SAY 65 AVAILABLE ROOMS TOTAL AT NORTHBRIDGE. 
          HOW MANY OF THOSE DO WE WANT TO SET ASIDE FOR THE HEAL INITIATIVE AND HOW MANY DO WE WANT TO HAVE SET ASIDE FOR OTHER PURPOSES FOR, UM, SITUATIONS IN WHICH AGAIN, APD OR HOST ENCOUNTER SOMEONE WHO IS VERY VULNERABLE AND WE'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO BRING IN SHELTER. 
          I APOLOGIZE. 
          I W MY DOG JOINING ME, UH, AND, UH, OR EVEN, UH, PRIORITIZING THOSE FOLKS WHO WERE OTHERWISE AT THE TOP OF THE COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM LIST. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND MY LAST QUESTION, AND THEN I'VE JUST A QUICK OBSERVATION BEFORE WE MOVE ON. 
          CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF, SOME OF THE WORK THAT HAS GONE ON AT THE DIFFERENT SITES? I KNOW EARLY ON THERE WERE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW TO REACTIVATE SOME OF THESE SITES OR HOW TO, HOW, UM, HOW IT WOULD BE COMMUNICATED TO OTHERS, EITHER THROUGH PHYSICAL CHANGES OR THROUGH OTHER MEANS THAT THESE SITES WERE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC CAMPING. 
          AND I, I WONDERED IF YOU COULD GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES ABOUT HOW YOU'VE, HOW YOU, OR YOUR PARTNERS ACROSS THE CITY HAVE PUT, PUT, UM, HAVE IMPLEMENTED THAT VISION. 
          SURE. 
          AND SO, UH, I'M GONNA HAND THIS TO CHARLES TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT AS AN EXAMPLE ABOUT THE TERASA SITE. 
          UM, AND THEN POTENTIALLY ALSO ABOUT THE DOWNTOWN SITES. 
          THERE ARE SOME SITES, FOR EXAMPLE, THE UNDERPASS WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT FUNCTIONS AS UNDERPASS, AND WE MOSTLY NEED TO KEEP IT CLEAR, UH, BUT I WOULD MUTE FOR A MOMENT AND LET CHARLES, UM, SPEAK TO THAT. 
          MR. LOOSEN, ARE YOU STILL WITH US? IT SEEMS TO ME, HE MAY NOT BE. 
          SO I THINK WE'LL, WE'LL JUST KEEP THAT AS A PENDING QUESTION, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. 
          MS. GRAY, ARE YOU STILL AVAILABLE? 
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I, AND I SEE CHARLES IS OFF MUTE THAT FOR SOME REASON. 
          WE'RE NOT HEARING HIM. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, WE, WE CAN FOLLOW UP ON THAT PERHAPS, PERHAPS IN THE FOLLOWUP INFORMATION, YOU CAN GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES ABOUT HOW THOSE SITES ARE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S THE HOST TEAM GOING OUT AND REMINDING PEOPLE THAT THESE AREAS ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC CAMPING OR THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, PUTTING, PUTTING DIFFERENT THINGS IN PLACE ON ALONG THE TRAIL, OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT KINDS OF WAYS KATHY, I CAN SPEAK APOLOGIES AT APPEAR. 
          CHARLES WAS HAVING SOME CONNECTION ISSUES. 
          KATHY, I CAN SPEAK TO THAT IF YOU WANT. 
          SURE. 
          UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN, IF YOU WANT TO GIVE US A FEW INCHES JUST QUICKLY, I'LL GIVE YOU ONE EXAMPLE THAT THE MEN CHEKA UNDER, UH, THE OVERPASS, IT, UM, BEEN WHITE AND WHEN CHAKA, THE SHORT-TERM IMMEDIATE, UM, UH, EFFORT HAS BEEN TO A COMBINATION OF DELINEATE, UH, DELINEATING THE, THE BIKE, UM, PEDESTRIAN PATH UNDER THERE AS AN, AS AN INITIAL APPROACH, LONGER-TERM APPROACH IS LOOKING AT VARIOUS PATHETIC AESTHETICS THAT COULD BE EMPLOYED UNDER THAT AREA, INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE CAN WORK WITH TXDOT ON THAT MIGHT RELATE TO, UH, BEAUTIFYING THE AREA, MAKING IT MORE WELCOMING. 
          SO THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF, OF ONE AREA, BOTH SHORT TERM AND LONGER TERM PLANS FOR THAT AREA. 
          YEAH. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND I KNOW THESE WILL BE DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON WHAT AREA OF TOWN AND WHAT THE STRUCTURE IS LIKE. 
          SO IT WOULD JUST BE, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HEAR SOME OF THE EXAMPLES AND THE OTHER PLANT AND THE OTHER AREAS AS WELL. 
          YOU KNOW, I THINK THESE NUMBERS, FIRST OF ALL, I JUST, I'M NOT SURE THAT ALL OF OUR STAFF ARE STILL ON THE CALL, BUT I ALSO WANTED TO COMMEND THEM FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS WORK. 
          THIS WAS A BIG, UH, A BIG EFFORT THAT HAD TO BE DONE VERY QUICKLY WITH VERY LIMITED RESOURCES. 
          AND AS MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID, I THINK YOU DID A, JUST A TREMENDOUS JOB, YOU KNOW, AS I THINK BACK TO THE CONVERSATIONS BOTH IN THE TIME WHEN WE FIRST STARTED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THINKING ABOUT AN ENCAMPMENT STRATEGY, UM, TO THE TIME WHEN IT WAS GOING THROUGH COUNCIL, THIS, THIS LAST SPRING, THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT HOW CLOSELY THE POPULATION HOUSED WOULD MIRROR THE OVERALL. 
          UM, AND, AND THE CONCERNS THAT I HEARD WERE, WERE THOSE OF EQUITY. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THESE INITIAL NUMBERS I THINK ARE VERY PROMISING. 
          AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING HOW THOSE NUMBERS COMPARE TO THE UNSHELTERED ONCE WE GET THAT DATA. 
          BUT I, I AM REALLY HEARTENED TO SEE THAT, UH, SOME OF WHAT WAS CONCERNING ABOUT THIS TO SOME MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY IS, SEEMS TO BE REALLY, UM, IT REALLY IS SUCCEEDING. 
          AND I KNOW, I REALLY APPRECIATE, I APPRECIATE THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO SUPPORTED THIS COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN. 
          I SAID, I COMMEND YOU ON YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS. 
          I KNOW IT WASN'T A UNANIMOUS VOTE AT COUNCIL. 
          UM, BUT I AM REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THAT, THAT IT IS, UH, A PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO CONTINUE INTO THE FUTURE. 
          AND I HOPE WE'LL CONTINUE TO GAIN SUPPORT BOTH IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL ON COUNTY, AS WELL AS ON COUNCIL, BECAUSE IT IS, IT IS CLEARLY MUCH, MUCH NEEDED AND IS HAVING A GREAT IMPACT. 
          SO I THINK WE, I KNOW THERE'S PROBABLY MORE THAT WE ALL WANT TO ASK ON THAT, BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION WE NEED TO MOVE ON. 
          AND SO LET'S, LET'S 
          [2. Discussion and possible action on the Public Health Committee's 2021 meeting schedule. (Part 2 of 2)]
QUICKLY CIRCLE BACK TO THE SCHEDULE. 
          SO COLLEAGUES, HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY'S HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE. 
          THE TWO CHANGES ARE NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 
          SO NOVEMBER HAD TO CHANGE BECAUSE THERE WAS A MOBILITY MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING THAT WAS SCHEDULED AFTER WE HAD, UM, APPROVED OUR SCHEDULE IN MAY. 
          AND SO YOU SEE ON THE REVISED SCHEDULE, UH, A CHANGE TO NOVEMBER 9TH FROM NOVEMBER 10TH, I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE CHANGE. 
          AND THEN IN DECEMBER, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S BEEN CLEARED WITH EVERYONE'S OFFICES. 
          AND SO HOPEFULLY EVERYONE'S ABLE TO ATTEND THE 12, 14 DATE IS NOT ONE THAT'S BEEN CLEARED WITH EVERYONE'S SCHEDULE QUITE YET. 
          UM, BECAUSE OUR COVID BRIEFINGS HAVE BEEN RE-INTRODUCED, THERE'S NOW A CONFLICT IN THE MORNING ON THAT DAY. 
          AND SO THE PROPOSED SCHEDULE AHEAD OF YOU WOULD CHANGE THE MEETING TO THE AFTERNOON. 
          SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL WORK FOR JUST ABOUT ALL. 
          SO, UM, WITH THAT, I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION GUYS, CHERIF QUINTUS MOVES APPROVAL OF THE REVISED SCHEDULE, THE MAYOR, SECOND SET ALL IN FAVOR, AND THAT IS MIRA ASSUME YOU'RE VOTING FOR, UM, THAT'S UNANIMOUS ON THE DYESS AND, UH, THE MAYOR PRO TEM IS OFF THE DIOCESE. 
          SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET'S HEAR FROM OUR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PRESENTED, OH, MY APOLOGIES. 
          WE HAD ONE SPEAKER ON THE HOMELESSNESS BRIEFING AND STAFF. 
          WOULD YOU REMIND ME THE NAME OF OUR SPEAKER KELLY, KELLY MOYER OR MORE YOURS? THANK YOU. 
          IS KELLY MOYERS IN THE CHAMBERS? 
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OKAY. 
          I DON'T SEE. 
          I DON'T SEE KELLY. 
          SO LET'S 
          [4. Adult Day Center Feasibility Study Presentation.]
MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELCOME. 
          AND IF YOU WOULD INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND YOUR ORGANIZATION, AND THIS IS ITEM COLLEAGUES, THIS IS ITEM FOUR ON OUR AGENDA. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          UH, THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          TOBO MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HERE TODAY. 
          UM, WE ARE GOING TO BE, WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE ADULT DAY CENTER FEASIBILITY STUDY. 
          UH, MY NAME IS SAM WOOLARD I'M WITH WILLARD NICHOLS AND ASSOCIATES, AND DR. 
          KATIE BERRY IS, UH, KATIE ROXBURY IS, IS ONLINE. 
          AND SHE'S GOING TO SHARE SOME OF THE DATA WITH YOU. 
          UM, WE WERE CONTRACTED BY AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS, UM, WHO WAS CONTRACTED BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN TO COMPLETE THIS STUDY. 
          SO NEXT, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS ACTUALLY THE, UH, SUPPORTIVE CONTENT, UM, THAT YOU'RE SHOWING. 
          COULD YOU PLEASE SHOW THE, THE MAIN PRESENTATION WE, WE SENT AHEAD OF TIME? UM, TWO SETS. 
          SO ONE, THIS IS THE BACKUP DOCUMENTATION THAT SHOWS THE DATA THAT WAS COLLECTED AND THERE, YEP. 
          THERE IS A SEPARATE STUDY THAT IS TO SHOW THE, UH, TODAY. 
          SO YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THIS PRESENTATION, BACKUP SLIDES, WHICH SHOWED A LOT OF THE DATA SINCE WE HAVE A LIMITED TIME TO PRESENT TODAY. 
          AND WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THAT, I'LL JUST GIVE A BACKGROUND. 
          YEAH. 
          COLLEAGUES, WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE FULL REPORT AS WELL AS THE POWERPOINT. 
          YEAH. 
          WITH THE BACKUP WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THAT. 
          I, I WILL, UM, JUST, JUST SHARE WHAT, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE, OF THE STUDY. 
          UM, WE'LL TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE BACKGROUND AND THE GOALS AND THE METHODOLOGY, UM, AND THE QUAL QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA. 
          AND THEN WE'LL SHARE TODAY THE, THE FINDINGS AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS JUST AS BACKGROUND. 
          UM, WE, UH, AS, AS YOU ALL ARE REALLY AWARE, THE OLDER ADULT POPULATION IS GROWING RAPIDLY. 
          IT'S PROJECTED THAT IT WILL GROW 150% BETWEEN 2010 AND 2030. 
          THIS STUDY WAS, UM, PUT TOGETHER BECAUSE THERE HAD BEEN TWO PREVIOUS STUDIES, UM, THAT HAD BEEN DONE BY DR. 
          AND HEL AT THE LBJ SCHOOL AND, UM, AND HER AND TWO OF HER STUDENTS. 
          SO WE'RE ON SLIDE THREE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR FINDING THAT. 
          UH, NOPE. 
          IT'S STILL, IT'S STILL NOT THE CORRECT ONE. 
          UM, THE, THE STUDY THAT STUDIES THAT DR. 
          ANNE HELEN, HER STUDENTS DID LOOKED AT THE, UM, UH, THEY, THEY LOOKED AT, UH, INTERGENERATIONAL WORK AND, UM, SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED IN ON THE REBECCA BAINES JOHNSON CENTER. 
          THIS WAS AT THE TIME THAT THE RBJ CENTER WAS BEING RE-IMAGINED AND REENVISIONED, AND THEY RECOMMENDED BUILDING A MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER THAT INCLUDED AN ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER AND A CHILDCARE CENTER. 
          UM, THE CITY COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION, UH, NUMBER 41, UH, IN ORDER TO ANALYZE THE DATA FROM THOSE REPORTS ARE SO REVISIT IT, SEE IF, SEE WHAT HAD CHANGED AND, UH, MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT HOW TO PROCEED AND WHETHER TO BUILD A SEPARATE CENTER SITE. 
          RIGHT? THE, THE GOALS OF THE REPORT, UM, WERE TO LOOK AND SEE IS THE RBJ CENTER, THE RIGHT LOCATION, UM, FOR AN INTERGENERATIONAL DAY CENTER. 
          UM, IF NOT, WHAT WAS THE RIGHT LOCATION? UM, WHAT CITY BUILDINGS AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE AND ARE NEEDED IN OUR, IN, IN THE ZIP CODES, WHAT SERVICES ARE CRITICAL TO PROVIDE TO OLDER ADULTS IN THE IDENTIFIED LOCATIONS, UM, IS AN INTERGENERATIONAL DAY CENTER, THE BEST USE, UM, FOR A PROJECT. 
          HOW CAN THE PROJECT BE SUSTAINABLE? AND OUR PARTNER IS STILL COMMITTED TO THE PROJECT AND HAS THE COVID 19, UM, EPIDEMIC IMPACTED THE NEED. 
          SO I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO, UM, DR. 
          BARRY WHO'S ONLINE AND HAVE HER WALK 
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US THROUGH THE METHODOLOGY AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS YOU'RE ON. 
          GOOD ALMOST AFTERNOON. 
          WE ARE ON FIVE, FIVE, I BELIEVE  OKAY. 
          UM, SO WE USE A FEW DIFFERENT METHODS AND MIXED METHODS, UM, PROCESS TO LOOK AT WHAT SOME OF THE PREFERENCES AND NEEDS ARE FOR THE ADULT OLDER ADULT COMMUNITY IN AUSTIN, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO, UM, ARE LIVING 200% BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES. 
          SO WE REVIEWED AND SUMMARIZED DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, CENSUS DATA TO LOOK AT WHAT THE POPULATION LOOKS LIKE. 
          DEMOGRAPHICALLY, WE IDENTIFIED EXISTING ASSETS AND MATH, THESE RESULTS. 
          AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW WE DEFINE ASSETS IN A COUPLE OF SLIDES. 
          WE CONDUCTED A SURVEY WITH OLDER ADULTS, UM, WHEREIN WE LEANED HEAVILY ON COMMUNITY PARTNERS. 
          WE MET AND ENGAGED WITH OLDER ADULTS AT T FOUNDATION COMMUNITY SITES, AND A WELLNESS SITE HELD TWO FOCUS GROUPS, CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF RECREATION CENTERS TO FIND OUT INTEREST AND CAPACITY TO POTENTIALLY EXPAND EXISTING ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES AND SPOKE TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND STAKEHOLDERS AS WELL. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO, WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE CENSUS DATA, WE LOOKED AT PROJECTED, UM, POPULATION ESTIMATES FROM 2015 TO 2019 DATA, WHICH WAS WHAT WAS AVAILABLE TO US. 
          UM, WE LOOKED FOR THE HIGHEST DENSITY OF OLDER ADULTS LIVING IN, UM, ZIP CODES BELOW 200% FPL. 
          AND THE ZIP CODE DEAL FEE HERE ARE THE ONES THAT HAD THE HIGHEST DENSITY OF OLDER ADULTS. 
          UM, LIVING BELOW 200% FPL, THE ONES THAT ARE BOLDED ARE THE TARGETS OF CODES, ZIP CODES. 
          WE DECIDED TO FOCUS, UM, OUR FUTURE RESEARCH EFFORTS ON AND ACROSS THOSE TARGETS, ZIP CODES. 
          WE IDENTIFIED THAT APPROXIMATELY JUST OVER HALF THE POPULATION WAS FEMALE. 
          UM, AND THEN I, YOU CAN SEE THE RACE BREAKDOWN AND ETHNICITY BREAKDOWN HERE AS WELL. 
          AND THEN, AND THE MAP TO THE RIGHT WHERE YOU SEE A STAR, THOSE ARE THE ZIP CODES THAT WE IDENTIFIED FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS. 
          UH, PLEASE ADVANCE THE NEXT TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
           THIS IS A REALLY COMPLICATED LOOKING FIDE. 
          UM, SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY HOW WE IDENTIFIED ASSETS. 
          WE LOOKED AT YOU SITES, MEDICAL SERVICES, ADULT HEALTHCARE REC CENTERS, NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, AND YOU CAN SEE THE LIST HERE. 
          UH, WE LOOKED AT THOSE THINGS THAT WERE ACCESSIBLE TO LOW-INCOME OLDER ADULTS, AND WE MAPPED THESE THINGS USING ART GIS. 
          SO YOU'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO ZOOM IN ON THE VARIOUS ZIP CODES TO LOOK AT WHAT EXISTING ASSETS ARE IN THOSE ZIP CODES. 
          AND WE USE THIS TO DETERMINE WHERE A SERVICE EXPANSION MIGHT HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT BASED ON SERVICE AND RESOURCE DEFICIT IN THE TARGET, THE EIGHT TARGET ZIP CODES THAT WE ANALYZE, PLEASE ADVANCED SEVEN, FINE FOR OUR OLDER ADULT SURVEY, WE REALLY FOCUSED ON PREFERENCES AND SERVICE PREFERENCES AND ACTIVITY PREFERENCES OF OLDER ADULTS, AS WELL AS THOSE BARRIERS THAT MIGHT INHIBIT THEIR PARTICIPATION. 
          WE HAD A CAMP, WE HAD 388 SURVEYS COMPLETED THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND SOME OF OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND, FRONTLINE STAFF. 
          UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE SAMPLE HERE WAS HEAVILY WEIGHTED TOWARDS WOMEN, UM, THAT JUST OVER HALF WERE WHITE OR IDENTIFIED AS WHITE, UM, 196 FELL WITHIN WHAT WE CATEGORIZED AS LOW INCOME, ALTHOUGH JUST TO BE TRANSPARENT, SOME PEOPLE WEREN'T WILLING TO PROVIDE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS RELATED DATA BECAUSE IT'S SENSITIVE INFORMATION AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SHARE IT. 
          UM, SO THAT MAY BE A LOWER ESTIMATE OF THOSE FOLKS THAT COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS LOW INCOME THAT WE CAPTURED IN THE SURVEY. 
          WE, UH, CONDUCTED TWO FOCUS GROUPS THAT THE RBJ SWIMMER AND THE GEORGE MORALES DOVE SPRINGS OR CREATION CENTER, THERE WERE 26 PARTICIPANTS AGAIN, HEAVILY WEIGHTED TOWARDS FEMALES. 
          UM, WE DID HAVE A TRANSLATOR AT THE DOVE SPRINGS LOCATION AND THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING THESE FOCUS GROUPS WAS TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESULTS THAT WE GOT FROM THE SURVEY. 
          SO WE ACTUALLY PRESENTED THOSE RESULTS TO THE GROUP AND ASK THEM TO HELP US FURTHER UNDERSTAND IT FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, THESE, THERE WERE AMONG THE MANY FINDINGS OF THE REPORT. 
          THESE ARE SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS THAT INFLUENCED OUR, OUR SUBSEQUENT RECOMMENDATIONS. 
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FIRST, WE ASKED THOSE ARE ADULTS THAT INTERGENERATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AGED ZERO TO FIVE THROUGH, UM, COLLEGE AGE. 
          AND WHAT WE LEARNED WAS THAT OLDER ADULTS IN OUR SURVEY SAMPLE WERE REALLY MORE INTERESTED IN PEER TO PEER INTERACTION, UM, THAN THEY WERE INTERACTION WITH YOUNGER PEOPLE. 
          UH, THERE WAS A STRONG INTEREST IN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PHYSICAL HEALTH, FUN, SOCIAL RECREATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL LEARNING, CELEBRATING HOLIDAYS, HEALTH SCREENINGS, AND LISTENING TO MUSIC AND CONCERTS. 
          UH, SOME OF THE BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION, IT MIGHT NOT BE SURPRISING TO YOU THAT TRANSPORTATION WAS OVERWHELMINGLY THE TOP CHOICE. 
          THERE'S ALSO A GENERAL LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EXISTING ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. 
          UH, THE LOCATION OF THE CENTER, IF NOT, UM, ACCESSIBLE VIA THEIR EXISTING TRANSPORTATION COULD ALSO BE A BARRIER. 
          THERE MAY BE HEALTH LIMITATIONS, OR MOBILITY AND ACCESS RELATED ISSUES AS WELL. 
          WHEN WE SURVEY THE EXISTING SERVICE PROVIDERS, NAMELY RECREATIONAL CENTERS, THERE IS AN INTEREST AND FOLKS HAVE THE POTENTIAL CAPACITY TO INCREASE THEIR EXISTING SERVICES. 
          THAT WAS SOMETHING WE LEARNED THROUGH OUR SERVICE CENTER INVENTORY SURVEY, AND ALTHOUGH I'M MINORITY OF THE SAMPLE AND THE STUDY EXPRESSED INTEREST IN INTERGENERATIONAL ACTIVITIES, THOSE THAT WERE INTERESTED WERE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY. 
          AND WHAT WE HEARD QUALITATIVELY WAS THAT PEOPLE INTERESTED IN INTERGENERATIONAL ACTIVITIES WERE REALLY JUST INTERESTED IN, UM, GAINING PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT YOUNGER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE WORLD. 
          SO LEARNING MORE ABOUT THEIR WORLDVIEWS AND THEIR BELIEF SYSTEMS, THESE ADVANCED TO THE NEXT SLIDE, OH, I'M GOING TO PASS. 
          I'M GOING TO FEED THE FLOOR TO MY COLLEAGUE, SAM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO BASED ON THIS, THERE WERE THREE OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          UM, THE FIRST WAS THAT INSTEAD OF CREATING A NEW SITE INVEST IN INCREASING OLDER ADULT SERVICES AT EXISTING SITES IN TARGETED ZIP CODES, THEN THE SECOND WAS BECAUSE TRANSPORTATION WAS THE BARRIER THAT CAME UP THREE TIMES MORE THAN ANY OTHER BARRIER WAS TO REALLY ASSESS AND INVEST IN TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF THOSE OLDER ADULTS, ESPECIALLY IN GETTING THEM TO, AND FROM THERE, THE RECREATION CENTERS. 
          AND THE THIRD WAS REALLY, UM, TO LOOK AT INCREASING COMMUNICATION WITH OLDER ADULTS AND REALLY LOOKING AT, UM, USING THEIR PREFERRED COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS. THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION FROM THE OLDER ADULTS ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATION IS. 
          UM, SO IDENTIFYING AMBASSADORS, CREATING PEER TO PEER OPPORTUNITIES, UM, AS WELL AS, AS USING SOME OF THE OTHER, UM, MECHANISMS AVAILABLE. 
          SO IN ADDITION, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO THEN WE WENT AND LOOKED AT BASED ON THOSE OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, WHAT WOULD THE RESPONSES TO THOSE SEVEN QUESTIONS THAT WE IDENTIFIED AT THE BEGINNING? SO THE FIRST QUESTION WAS, IS RBJ THE IDEAL LOCATION FOR AN ADULT DAY CENTER IN A GEN ED ADULT DAY INTERGENERATIONAL CENTER. 
          AND THE ANSWER WAS THAT IT IS IN A HIGH TARGET ZIP CODE FOR LOW-INCOME SENIORS. 
          UM, BUT IT'S NOT IN THE HEIGHT, A HIGH, HIGHEST LEVEL ZIP CODE FOR CHILDCARE NEEDS. 
          UM, SO THEREFORE IT WOULD NOT BE THE PRIMARY TARGET FOR, UM, THIS TYPE OF, UH, CENTER. 
          UM, AND RBJ, AS IT'S GONE THROUGH ITS OWN, UM, STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING ABOUT WHAT, WHAT SERVICES THEY'RE GOING TO OFFER AT THIS POINT, THEY HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT HAVING, UM, AN ONSITE CHILDCARE CENTER. 
          THEY MAY BE OPEN TO THAT AS A, AS A POSSIBILITY. 
          UM, BUT IT'S NOT ONE IT'S, THEY'RE, THEY'RE FOCUSED MORE ON ACTIVITIES RIGHT NOW. 
          SO IF NOT RBJ, UM, WHERE SHOULD, UM, ADDITIONAL SERVICES BE, BE TARGETED? SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DATA, UH, 77 4 5 HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF SENIORS, 65 AND OLDER, UH, BELOW 200% OF POVERTY FOLLOWED BY 7 8, 7 5 3, AND THEN 7, 8, 7, 5 8. 
          THEY ALSO HAVE THOSE SAME ZIP CODES ALSO HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PRE SENIORS FOR POVERTY. 
          THE HIGHEST ZIP CODE FOR POVERTY WAS 7 8, 7 4 5. 
          AND THEN YOU CAN SEE FOLLOWED BY OH 2, 5, 3 AND FIVE EIGHT. 
          WHEN WE LOOKED AT CHILDCARE DESERTS, 77, 5, 3 SCORED THE HIGHEST IN ALL OF THE CATEGORIES AS A CHILDCARE DESERT. 
          AND SO 7, 8, 7, 4 5 IDENTIFIED AS THE MOST IDEAL LOCATION FOR INCREASING OLDER ADULT SERVICES. 
          BUT WANTED TO NOTE THAT, UM, IN 77, 4, 5 DITMAR REC CENTER IS, IS ALREADY 
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AVAILABLE AND AGE IS BUILDING A CENTER THERE THAT, UM, WILL BE OPENED IN 2023. 
          UM, SO AFTER THAT, LOOKING AT 77 5 3, WHICH DOES NOT HAVE AS MANY RESOURCES, UM, AND THE, UH, REC CENTER THAT IS, IS THERE, UM, HAS TO CLOSE THERE HAS TO MINIMIZE THEIR SENIOR SERVICES DURING THE SUMMER BECAUSE OF, UH, YOUTH SERVICES THAT ARE THERE. 
          SO BASED ON ALL OF THOSE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, UM, AN, A PLACE FOR, UM, INTERGENERATIONAL LOOKING AT 7 8, 7 5 3, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO THE THINGS THAT OLDER ADULTS ARE MORE INTERESTED IN, UM, AS KATIE MENTIONED, UM, THEY ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN PEER-TO-PEER SERVICES. 
          THEY REALLY LIKE FIELD TRIPS, LOVE BEING ABLE TO GET OUT. 
          THEY LOVE THE GAMES, THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES, DANCE. 
          UM, AND THEN FOR LOW-INCOME OLDER ADULTS, THEY ESPECIALLY MENTIONED HEALTH SCREENINGS AND ACCESS TO BASIC NEEDS WERE REALLY CRITICAL FOR THEM UNDER AN INTERGENERATIONAL MODEL. 
          UM, WE RECOMMEND NOT, NOT CREATING A NEW LOCATION, A NEW PHYSICAL LOCATION, BUT SINCE THERE IS INTEREST AMONG A MINORITY OF FOLKS, REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE TO PARTNER WITH SCHOOLS AND CHILDCARE CENTERS TO PROVIDE SOME CONVENIENT TRANSPORTATION. 
          SO THE OLDER ADULTS CAN ACCESS, UM, CHILDCARE CENTERS IN SCHOOLS EXPLORE, UM, THE ADDITION OF INTERGENERATIONAL ACTIVITIES AT SENIOR CENTERS, AND REALLY TAKE SOME TIME AND ASSESS AND SEE HOW I'M INTERESTED IN HOW, UM, HOW ACCESS TO THOSE SERVICES ARE BEFORE LOOKING AT BUILDING A SEPARATE, A SEPARATE SITE. 
          UM, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT, WE WENT BACK TO ALL OF THE ORIGINAL, UM, ORGANIZATIONS WHO HAD SAID THAT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING, UM, OLDER ADULT SERVICES AND LOCAL FOUNDATIONS HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THOSE SERVICES. 
          UM, THEY ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. 
          AND SO, ESPECIALLY WHERE THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY THAT HAS A FACILITY AND THEM TO PROVIDE SOME SUPPORT FOR SUPPORT SERVICES. 
          THEY ARE INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND ALL OF THE ORIGINAL PARTNERS. 
          SO FOLKS LIKE FAMILY ELDERCARE AND, UM, MEALS ON WHEELS ARE INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT, UM, PROVIDING ADDITIONAL SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT THEY ARE NOT, THEY'RE NOT COMMITTED TO ANY ONE LOCATION. 
          SO THE PREVIOUS REPORTS HAD TALKED ABOUT THE 7, 8, 7 0 2 IN RBJ. 
          THEY SAID, WE WANT TO GO WHERE THERE IS THE MOST NEED. 
          SO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND THE QUESTION THEN CAME UP ABOUT HOW COVID 19 HAS IMPACTED, UM, OLDER ADULTS. 
          AND IT HAS HAD A PRETTY PROFOUND IMPACT. 
          WE HEARD THIS AT THE FOCUS GROUPS IN PARTICULAR, UM, FOLKS REALLY FELT ISOLATED, CONTINUE TO FEEL ISOLATED. 
          THEY DESPERATELY WANT TO SOCIALIZE WITH THEIR PEERS AND THEIR FRIENDS. 
          UM, BUT THEY'VE GOT A FEAR OF NOT KNOWING WHO'S VACCINATED AND THEY'RE AFRAID TO INTERACT WITH OTHERS. 
          UM, THEY HAVE SOME INTEREST IN SORT OF THE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS. 
          THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WE WERE ASKED TO LOOK AT, BUT REALLY WHAT THEY WANT IS, IS INCREASED OPPORTUNITIES TO, UM, PROVIDE PEER TO PEER INTERACTIONS. 
          AND IN ORDER TO WE ASK THEM, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO FEEL SAFE, GOING TO A CENTER? AND THEY SAID, THEY NEED TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT SAFETY PROTOCOLS ARE IN PLACE. 
          AND THEY REALLY WANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH THE STRUCTURED ACTIVITIES, BUT REALLY SOME OF THOSE JUST LIKE WE WANT TO HAVE COFFEE. 
          UM, WHEN WE DID THE FOCUS GROUP AT, UM, THE DOVE SPRINGS, UM, SETTING, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME MANY OF THOSE FOLKS HAD SEEN EACH OTHER IN SEVERAL MONTHS. 
          AND THERE WERE TEARS AND HUGS AND LOTS OF TALK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS JUST TO BE ABLE TO SEE EACH OTHER AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER. 
          SO THOSE WERE OUR RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS. 
          UM, AND WE, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US, WE ARE HAPPY TO RESPOND TO THOSE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THIS IS ALL REALLY EXCITING. 
          UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, KITCHEN, I BELIEVE THIS MAY HAVE BEEN YOUR INITIATIVE. 
          YEAH, THIS WAS MY, UH, THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION WAS MINE JUST TO KIND OF FOLLOW UP ON WHAT DR. 
          HEN AND HELL HAD DONE. 
          AND SO THIS, THIS IS SOUNDING A BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE, THE, UH, PURPOSES THAT SHE, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S VERY USEFUL AND VERY HELPFUL INFORMATION, BUT IT'S, UH, IT'S A BIT BROADER THAN THE TARGETED POPULATION THAT SHE WAS LOOKING AT FOR HER STUDY. 
          ALTHOUGH I DO THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT THE AR RBJ AREA THAT, THAT, THAT THIS REALLY, I 
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THINK THIS POINTS TO TWO THINGS FOR ME, THE INTERGENERATIONAL MAY REALLY MAY NOT BE, UM, USEFUL ROUTE TO GO, MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO, THAT MAYBE RBJ MIGHT BE OPEN TO AN ONSITE, UH, CENTER, BUT, UM, I THINK WE NEED TO STEP BACK FOR A MINUTE. 
          DR. 
          RON HILL WAS TALKING ABOUT AN ADULT DAY CARE CENTER, WHICH IS NOT FOR, WHICH IS NOT A CENTER FOR SENIORS WHO ARE MOBILE OR FOR, OR WHO ARE INDEPENDENT. 
          AND ADULT DAY CENTER IS FOR, UM, IS FOR SENIORS WHO IT, IT'S, IT'S A WAY FOR CAREGIVERS, UH, AND FOR SENIORS TO HAVE A SAFE PLACE THAT THEY CAN BE DURING THE DAY AND ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO, SO MAYBE, MAYBE THAT'S INHERENT IN THIS, AND I'M JUST NOT HEARING IT IN YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT DID YOU SURVEY CAREGIVERS AND DID YOU, IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE THE, MAYBE I'M NOT HEARING YOU. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT ACTIVITIES THAT THIS POPULATION WOULD EVEN BE ENGAGING IN. 
          SO I, I'M WANTING TO UNDERSTAND, UH, I, I THINK THIS IS A VERY USEFUL ANALYSIS THAT YOU ALL DID AND VERY HELPFUL. 
          I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE LIMITATIONS OF IT IN TERMS OF THE SERVICES AND THE POPULATIONS THAT WE WERE ORIGINALLY LOOKING TO. 
          UM, IF YOU WANT TO, UH, WE, WE DO IN THE REPORT ACTUALLY RECOMMEND AN ADDITIONAL ADULT DAYS, DAY CENTERS, NOT JUST NOT THE INTERGENERATIONAL. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN, AND SO, OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THIS IS PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON THE INTERGENERATIONAL ASPECT OF IT. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          I BELIEVE THE FIRST, UH, ITERATION OF DR. 
          JOHN HILL'S RESEARCH WAS LOOKING AT A PACE PROGRAM, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN WRAPAROUND SERVICES AND ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER. 
          AND IT, IT PIVOTED TO AN INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAM LOOKING FOR A LOCATION NEAR THE RBJ. 
          THE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER IS A LICENSED PROGRAM PROGRAM THROUGH THE STATE OF TEXAS. 
          THERE'S ALSO THE ADULT DAY CENTER, WHICH IS MORE RECREATIONAL CENTER AGE HAS THE TWO LICENSED ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTERS CURRENTLY IN CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          AND WE'RE BUILDING A THIRD ONE IN SOUTH AUSTIN THAT WILL BE LICENSED AS WELL. 
          SO I THINK THE, THE PROGRAM THAT DR. 
          UNHEALED PIVOTED PIVOTED TO AT THE INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAM INCORPORATED BOTH AN ADULT DAY CENTER, BUT ALSO A COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMMING WHERE ADULTS CAN COME AND GO FROM RBJ IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS. OKAY. 
          SO, SO, SO IT SHIFTED AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL THINKING. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THEN WITH THAT IN MIND, THE UPSHOT OF Y'ALL'S RECOMMENDATION THAT THERE IS, OR IS NOT A NEED FOR THAT, THERE, THERE IS A NEED FOR ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTERS. 
          RIGHT. 
          WHICH IS WHAT, WHICH IS YEAH. 
          UM, THE ADULT DAY CENTER, IT FEELS THE, THE, WHAT WE LEARNED IS THAT THERE ARE EXISTING CENTERS, SO MANY OF THE RECREATION CENTERS THAT ARE IN PLACE THAT COULD BE ENHANCED AND THAT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERGENERATIONAL ACTIVITIES, BUT NOT TO BUILD THAT ONE CENTER, WHICH INCORPORATES BOTH. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO THEN JUST SO TO CLARIFY FOR ME THEN, SO SINCE THE TERM SOUND SO CLOSE TOGETHER, IT IS, SO HOW DO YOU, HOW DO YOU DEFINE HOW AS AN ADULT, THEY SENT HER DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING ALREADY AT OUR RECREATION CENTERS, OR IS IT THE THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR? UM, IT'S, THIS IS, THESE ARE MORE SOCIAL, UH, OPPORTUNITIES AT OUR SENIOR CENTERS. 
          WHEREAS THE ADULT DAY CENTERS HAVE MORE, UM, MORE PROGRAMMING THAT'S FOCUSED ON OLDER ADULTS AND MORE RESPITE. 
          SO I WILL USE, FOR INSTANCE, MIKE PLAYED LIKES PLACE MEALS, ALMOST CENTRAL TEXAS MANAGERS. 
          THAT ISN'T AN, IS NOT AN ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER, BUT IT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT LICENSED, BUT IT IS A ADULT DAY CENTER. 
          SO IT'S A CONTINUUM THAT WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO IT SOUNDS LIKE FROM OUR LAST QUESTION, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE FROM WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, THAT THE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTERS, WHICH I REALLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU GUYS ARE OPENING ONE IN THE SOUTH. 
          I MEAN, I WAS AWARE OF THAT AND I KNOW THAT'S VERY MUCH NEEDED. 
          SO, UM, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE FROM Y'ALL'S PERSPECTIVE, THERE'S NOT A NEED TO GO THAT ROUTE WITH CITY RESOURCES, INTERGENERATIONAL MODEL. 
          NO, NO. 
          THE ROUTE THAT, THAT YOU ALL ARE GOING WITH OPENING THE, THE DAY THAT THE LICENSED DAY HEALTH CENTERS, WELL, I WILL SAY, UM, THAT THE CITY NEEDS PROBABLY IN CENTRAL TEXAS NEEDS MORE, SO ABSOLUTELY. 
          YOU'VE GOT SO, OKAY. 
          THAT IS INCLUDED THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
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AS I UNDERSTAND THAT, LET ME JUST MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, AS YOU DID YOUR ANALYSIS AND LOOKING AT AREAS WHERE THERE WAS A NEED FOR THIS RESOURCE FOR OUR SENIORS, IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY INTERSECT WITH AREAS WHERE WE NEEDED CHILDCARE. 
          AND SO THE CHALLENGES, SO I THINK THIS PRESENTATION HELPS UNDERSTAND KIND OF THE CHALLENGES OF CREATING THAT KIND OF, THAT PARTICULAR KIND OF RESOURCE. 
          UM, THANKS FOR FOCUSING ON THE INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES, YOU KNOW, THIS, AND, UM, I APOLOGIZE COLLEAGUES. 
          I THINK I MAY HAVE MENTIONED THIS AT THE TIME WE WERE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION, BUT THERE WAS A POINT WHERE PARD WAS REALLY EXPLORING THAT ACTIVELY AND HAD SOME IDEAS ABOUT THAT. 
          AND I'M NOT SURE THAT SOME OF THOSE HAVE MOVED FORWARD, BUT TO ME THAT SEEMS LIKE A REALLY PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR CITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AND CREATING SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMMING IDEAS. 
          I KNOW ONE PROGRAMMING IDEA THEY HAD WAS TO CREATE KIND OF A QUILT MAKING CLASS, UM, WITH SENIORS AND CHILDREN, AND HAVE THAT KIND OF INTERGENERATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN THAT, IN THAT CONTEXT OF A FOCUSED PROGRAM OPPORTUNITY. 
          SO I'M REALLY, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT, ABOUT, UM, SEEING SOME OF THOSE ADVANCED, AND SO I WILL LOOK THROUGH THE, THE MORE SPECIFIC REPORT THAT YOU PROVIDED TO US AS WELL, UH, FOR IDEAS. 
          BUT IF, IF YOU KNOW OF CITIES THAT ARE, THAT HAVE REALLY GREAT EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMMING, INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMMING WITHIN THEIR CITY DEPARTMENTS, THAT MIGHT BE REALLY USEFUL FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT IF YOU DON'T MIND. 
          DR. 
          AND HELL'S PREVIOUS REPORTS, THERE'S SOME REALLY WONDERFUL EXAMPLES IN THERE AS WELL. 
          OH, GOOD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I'VE SEEN IT. 
          I DIDN'T REMEMBER THAT. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THAT WOULD BE A GOOD REFERENCE TO GO BACK TO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR OUR SPEAKERS. 
          WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS ANALYSIS AND FOR THIS WORK AND FOR, FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          IT'S EXCITING TO HEAR ABOUT AGE OPENING UP A SOUTH LOCATION. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE 
          [5. Identify items to discuss in future meetings.]
HAVE JUST ONE LAST AGENDA ITEM FOR TODAY, AND THAT IS TO IDENTIFY ITEMS, TO DISCUSS IN FUTURE MEETINGS. 
          UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, KITCHEN, I BELIEVE YOU HAD REQUESTED AN UPDATE ABOUT ECHOS, UM, HMES CHANGES. 
          AND SO WE HAVE KIND OF A STANDING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE A LOT OF OUR WORK THIS YEAR IS FOCUSING ON HOMELESSNESS. 
          WE HAVE A STANDING HOMELESSNESS BRIEFING EACH MONTH WHERE EACH MEETING. 
          AND SO THAT WILL BE PART OF NEXT MONTH'S BRIEFING ON HOMELESSNESS. 
          UM, WE'VE ALSO HAD A REQUEST FROM THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION TO HAVE A PRESENTATION, A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON SUGARY DRINKS. 
          AND SO THAT IS ALSO ON OUR AGENDA. 
          AND UNLESS THERE ARE ANY OTHER HIGH PRIORITY ITEMS, AGAIN, I THINK WE DO BEST WHEN WE HAVE KNOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PRESENTATIONS, BUT TIME FOR DISCUSSION AND WORK. 
          SO IN KEEPING THAT IN MIND, MAYOR, DID YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION? WELL, I WAS JUST WONDERING, I APPRECIATE THE ITEMS ON, ON THE DATA HRS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD BROADEN THAT. 
          SO AS TO ALLOW AT THIS POINT, IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL DATA FIELDS THAT WE SHOULD BE COLLECTING, OTHER THAN WHAT'S IN THE HMRI S THIS WOULD BE A GOOD MOMENT, I THINK, TO SURFACE THAT. 
          SO IF IT COULD BE DATA COLLECTION MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE BROADLY THAN JUST HMI ACID, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU PUTTING THAT ON THE AGENDA. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE WANT A BRIEFING THAT INCLUDES DISCUSSION OF THE HMES ECHOS, HMES CHANGES, UH, DATA COLLECTION MORE GENERALLY ACROSS THE SYSTEM AND WHAT OUR VISION IS FOR THAT DOES THAT ENCAPSULATE, OKAY. 
          ARE DIANA AT OUR OFFICE, THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO SAY THIS IS ADDITIONAL GUY THAT, THAT, THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL NOW THAT THERE ARE MORE FUNDERS BEING ENGAGED. 
          THERE'S THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY TO FUNDERS, WHY DON'T YOU START ASKING FOR THIS KIND OF DATA TOO, AND HMI, I MIGHT BE MORE LIMITED TO IT'S CHARGED. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          KEEP IT BROAD MAKES SENSE. 
          AND, UH, SINCE IT'S RELATED, PERHAPS AT LEAST IN OUR MATERIALS FOR THE MEETING, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SEE THE DATA THAT WAS REQUESTED HERE TODAY, ABOUT HOW THE UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS NUMBERS BREAK DOWN. 
          AND IF THERE'S BEEN ANY ADDITIONAL, I KNOW A CONCERN, UH, VICE CHAIR, QUINTUS THAT YOU HAD RAISED IS UNDERSTANDING THE CRITERIA FOR HEAL PHASE TWO. 
          AND I KNOW DIANE ADDRESSED THAT TO SOME EXTENT, BUT IF THERE'S MORE REFINEMENT ON THAT, WE CAN ASK HER TO INCLUDE THAT IN NEXT MONTH, UM, AS WELL. 
          YES. 
          DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER SUGGESTION? YES. 
          I WANTED TO SUGGEST, UH, GETTING A BRIEFING AND AN UPDATE ON CHILDCARE FUNDING AND HOW THAT IS PROGRESSING. 
          IF YOU ALL KNOW, WE MADE A SIGNIFICANT AND TRANSFORMATIVE INVESTMENT IN OUR CHILDCARE SYSTEM THROUGH OUR ARPA FUNDS. 
          AND SO I THINK HAVING A BRIEFING FROM STAFF ON HOW THAT'S GOING, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE AT LEAST HAVE THE NEXT FEW MONTHS LINED OUT. 
          SO THIS WOULD BE IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE A PERFECT TIMING TO UNDERSTAND HOW OUR CHILDCARE FUNDING IS TRULY ADDRESSING THE NEEDS 
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OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          GREAT, GOOD SUGGESTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE'LL ADD THAT TO THE LIST AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          OH, I KNOW HE CAN'T SEE IT, BUT I'D LIKE TO OFFER SUGGESTIONS AS WELL. 
          YES, PLEASE DO. 
          UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO OFFER THE SUGGESTION OF US FOLLOWING UP WITH THE AUSTIN DIAPER BANK AND OUR OTHER PARTNERS ON OUR MENSTRUAL EQUITY WORK. 
          UM, WE HAD A PILOT PROGRAM THAT WE EXECUTED. 
          I'D LIKE VERY MUCH TO JUST GET A BRIEFING ON, UM, WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT. 
          AND, UM, I RECOGNIZED BY WAY OF SOME OF THE COMMUNICATION THAT IS COMING INTO MY OFFICE, THAT BY WAY OF, UM, COVID RELATED POVERTY, THAT WE HAVE SOME PERIOD EQUITY ISSUES, UM, THAT I'D LIKE TO BRING BEFORE THIS BODY. 
          WOW. 
          THAT'S GREAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THAT AREA. 
          IN THAT I THINK IT IS A REALLY GOOD TIME FOR AN UPDATE ON THAT. 
          AND I KNOW THAT WE HAD SOME, SOME QUESTIONS EARLIER FROM OUR, THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO CAME AND SPOKE. 
          AND SO, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU, I THINK WHAT WE'LL ASK, UM, IF IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH YOU, MARIKO TIM HARPER, MEDICINE AND COLLEAGUES, MAYBE OUR STAFF CAN, CAN UPDATE US ABOUT THE VACCINE, THE FUNDING FOR THE VACCINE CLINIC THAT WE WERE DISCUSSING EARLIER. 
          I WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO CONTINUE THAT COMPENSATION. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THEM, FOR OUR AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH STAFF TO, TO UPDATE US ABOUT AS SOON AS, AS SOON AS THEY CAN. 
          IF ANYBODY, IF SOMEONE ON THE CALL CAN CONVEY THAT BACK TO, UM, ASSISTANT TO OUR INTERIM DIRECTOR, ADRIAN STIRRUP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELL, THANKS VERY MUCH. 
          I THINK, WITHOUT ANYTHING ON OUR AGENDA, WE STAND ADJOURNED AT 1151. 
          THANKS TO ALL THE STAFF WHO HAVE HELPED US PULL THIS OFF TODAY. 
          THANKS AGAIN. 
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