National Alliance to End Homelessness Representative Diiv Sterman presented the above item.
Commissioner Prizzia, Community Support Services Director Claudia Tuck, Continuum of Care Representative Jacob Torner, Commissioner Cornell, Assistant County Manager Tommy Crosby, County Manager Lieberman, and Commissioner Wheeler presented comments.
Commissioner Prizzia moved the following:
1. To accept the report and ask the Continuum of Care (COC) to come back in the Spring or late Winter with a plan of what they are going to do to adopt some of the recommendations in the report.
2. Staff to work towards joint meetings with the 4 counties listed in the report which are Levy, Bradford, Gilchrist, and Putnam in the coming year. The County is to help facilitate an engagement workshop with affordable housing providers not engaged with the COC, Emergency Service Providers, and the disengaged people who have left the COC, and any other appropriate participants to have some dialogue and collaboration with the COC about what are the challenges and develop a revised action plan for Alachua County and the surrounding Counties. An update is to be provided based on the engagements.
3. Continue to contract with the Street Outreach team in the amount of $350,000 in coordination with GRACE Marketplace and the COC.
2nd Commissioner Cornell
Chair Alford recognized GRACE Marketplace Director Jon DeCarmine, President of Programs at the Task Force for Ending Homelessness Jacob Torner, and Kali Blount who presented comments to the Board.
Commissioner Chestnut exits meeting 12:54pm
The motion carried 4-0 with Commissioner Chestnut out of the room.