Hello, good morning everybody, and we are going to reconvene our budget hearings From this week and today is June 18th 2019 today is our health and human services day and I'll begin with item number 25 Which is a presentation on the health and human services budget category as provided in the proposed budget pages 145 to 147 and outlined in a memorandum of the CAO Sorry Morning Members of the board Christina Mallory the county budget manager I'll be providing you an overview of the health and human services category great So here you can see the departments that make up our health and human services category everything from child support our core investments Human services health services and our homeless services coordination The health and human services category expenditures are approximately 340 million for the upcoming fiscal year This represents 41% of all the budget expenditures for fiscal year 1920 and is a 5% increase from the previous fiscal year Which is the increased cost to maintain current operations and the development or expansion of some programs Including drug Medi-Cal IHSS whole-person care and increased support for homeless services This chart shows the share of expenditures by department and agency You can see there that health and human services make up the majority For fiscal year 1920 the largest expenditures of course salaries and benefits which comprises a hundred and fifty eight million of the total and Supports eleven hundred and fifty three and a half positions an increase of thirty two Plus positions from the previous fiscal year Primarily adding about 25 positions mid-year for the whole-person care and fit program Additional expenditures include services and supplies of 99 million other charges of 85 million and other Financing except the remainder of the expenditures at 15 million fiscal year 2021 estimated expenditures are anticipated to increase by 2.4 million or 1% and will be updated as more information is known The health and human services category includes 308 million dollars in revenues this year or 91% of their total financing And other funds make up the difference or 9% to meet the necessary expenditures These revenues represent 40% of the total budgeted revenues This chart shows the share financing by department and agency and note that core investments are not represented as they are Totally supported by the general fund The 2019-20 revenues are comprised of $214 million in intergovernmental revenues 52 million comes from charges for services 25 million another financing and 17 million in other revenues including the use of money and taxes and licenses and permits Additional financing includes 31 million from the general fund contribution and less than a million dollars in other funds Fiscal year 2021 estimated revenues are status quo at this time and will be updated the following year when more information is known So this chart shows the departmental and agency share of funding supported by the general fund For a total of 31 million dollars, which represents about 19 million 19% excuse me of the total general fund net cost Further details will be provided in each budget proposal And this will give you a few highlights of the operational plan for the next two years the health and human services departments contributed 47 objectives to the 1921 operational plan major projects include reducing clinic wait times increasing access to withdrawal management services Doubling the number of low-income families participating and thrived by three and an initiative to increase the number of individuals Experiencing homelessness moving into permanent housing Critical unmet needs in the health and human services arena remain Including the navigation center to provide services for the homeless population Expanded behavioral health services supports to our aging population and permanent supportive housing However, we would like to leave you with just a few of the accomplishments health and human services Had this year Clinics have gone through extensive remodel And have added various exam rooms and completed remodel at the Watsonville Health Center and at the Amaline Clinic Drug Medi-Cal Program continues to expand capacity and over the next two years this program will Double the number of withdrawal management service days, which is currently the largest obstacles to clients entering treatment Adult protective services has added a long-term care management team called transforming lives with care Housing received an additional three million dollars to support low-income individuals and families to obtain and maintain permanent housing employment and training Human services expanded the CalFresh employment and training services through a partnership With downtown streets team to provide job readiness and work experience in the city of Santa Cruz Along also along the coast and north Santa Cruz and in the sands of Valley Thrive by three investments Continue to improve coordination and increased capacity of home visiting programs and all four home visiting programs Experienced increases in enrollments and wait lists for these services declined by 85% So the majority of our health and human services budgets will provide more information on the regular agenda today Child support is listed on the consent agenda as a status quo budget proposal and Jamie Murray our Department head is here today if you have any questions Great. Are there any questions board members? We'll get into more detail later with the with the next items Okay, seeing none. Are there any members of public who like to speak to us about what you just heard? I've number 25 Seeing none, we'll move back to our agenda, which is item number 26 Which is action on the consent agenda? This is item 31. This is the Homeless services Coordinated or sorry, it's the Department of Child Department of yes to the Department of Child support services outlined in the reference budget documents and schedule continuing Agreement list items for the final day on last budget hearings June 25th 2019 as recommended by the CAF First is there any public comment? Oh, yeah, yeah Regarding the Human Services Department my empirical on this is we're talking about the Department of Child support services Okay, my bet Any other comment? Okay, I'll bring it back to the board. I would move the consent agenda Motion by Leopold second by friend all those in favor, please say aye aye opposed that passes unanimously Thank you for your work. Thank you Now we'll move on to item number 27, which is to consider the 2019 2021 proposed budgets for the homeless services Coordination office as outlined in a referenced budget documents and recommended by the CAO Miss Mar and miss Benson. Thank you for coming today. Good morning. Good morning. I can click through Good morning chair Coonerty and members of the board I'm rainy Mar the county's homeless services coordinator and with me this morning is Elisa Benson our assistant county Administrative officer who has been working extensively with me on this issue Yeah, sorry, my chair won't let me move Before I begin my presentation I would like to extend my immense appreciation to your board to our county administrative officer and our in our CAO's office and To our county departments are many non-profit providers faith community and local jurisdictions for their very excellent work on this issue For their partnership and their support in our collective work on addressing the issue of homelessness in our community This morning I'm going to provide you with an overview of the various elements of coordination our office is leading some key accomplishments from the past year The proposed budget and some key areas where our work in the coming year will be focused I will also provide you with a brief update on the state's proposal for homelessness funding and on the 2019 point-in-time count The role of this office has been very systems level engaging with the many key people and Organizations working on this issue to collaborate on implementing service improvements and expansion To bring new resources to bear and to drive systems change All with the ultimate goals of reducing homelessness and assisting our unsheltered residents to return to permanent housing This past year marked a significant expansion of work for this office Our team worked internally with county departments to implement smart path coordinated entry intake and assessment processes in Department serving homeless individuals and families and I would mention that this was with the key partnership of the human services department We worked with the homeless action partnership and the human services department to plan for the transition of the smart path lead agency from homeless services center where it was Germinated to the human services department where it is thriving at this point the transition took effect October 1st 2018 we also worked with the homeless action partnership to establish new sustainable sources of funding for smart path and that included Applying to HUD for an expansion grant for coordinated entry and implementing new user participation fees for HMIS We worked with the South County homeless steering committee and the city of Watsonville and Salvation Army And we're able to launch the new South County Navigation Center down there What opened in August was a day services program and then in November the winter shelter program came online and through the heap funding we've been able to extend that program so that it will now be 365 days a year of services and Day and nights, so they'll be now providing day services seven days a week and shelter overnight and this is a key accomplishment of For the all-in plan with regard to South County, so we're very proud of that work Worked with the homeless action partnership the city of Santa Cruz and numerous partners to expand sheltering in North County I'm sure you're aware of all the very many contracts that have come before your board for sheltering at River Street Laurel Street vfw We initiated a comprehensive homeless services investments analysis and baseline systems assessment through a contract with focused strategies And the goal here is to develop a data-driven crisis response system that aligns our resources more effectively And I'll talk more about that a little bit later in my presentation We worked with the homeless action partnership and local jurisdictions to plan for and apply for the homeless emergency aid program and the California emergency solutions and housing grant programs bringing in $10.6 million for our community and We embedded in that work was a significant amount of community planning. We had extensive community meetings South County Mid County North County to establish the priorities for that funding and then we oversaw the process for the RFP a development of the RFP the selection process and now we're managing the work of Implementing all of those contracts Through though these were some of the key accomplishments the proposed budget document contains more detail on the fiscal year 2018-19 goals and accomplishments Since the establishment of this office in fiscal year 1516 there's been a steady expansion of our total bed nights of emergency shelter and I say bed nights because in some cases We haven't been able to expand the number of beds But we've been able to extend the number of nights for which services are provided So our expansion includes both some additional beds or in the case of you know The River Street camp or the AFC safe spaces parking program. We've added tents or we've added Safe parking areas, but we've also added a substantial number of additional nights of service at our various sheltering programs The total capacity of these programs you're seeing the total bed nights on this chart but the total capacity includes a hundred and forty year-round beds and 30 year-round safe parking spaces and additionally there are 60 tent sites available for nine months of the coming year and 55 additional winter shelter beds I would like to make a specific note that these are the programs that this office is working on and there are extensive other Sheltering programs available in the community Power Valley shelter services for example or the homeless services centers Reboly shelter There's this is not all of the emergency shelter, but what this office has been working on This year marked a substantial increase in the scope and responsibility of this office the budget has doubled An additional staff position has been added and with the influx of measure G and state funds the Responsibility of this office has expanded from oversight of a single winter shelter contract to $10.6 million in contracts for all of the various heap and cash programming There will be significant work to be done in this coming year with the local awardees and the state on both Reporting and evaluation and I'll keep your board updated as we go along And the measure G funds included in this budget will be supporting navigation center and services some of that Is going to be allocated to South County some of it will work in North County And then additionally a significant new responsibility of this office will be assuming Responsibility for the homeless action partnership lead agency, which will transition July 1st from the planning department to the CAO's office And as the lead agency there will be critical work to do supporting our homeless Management information system processes as well as our youth homelessness demonstration project These are some areas where there hasn't been really sufficient staffing to provide the level of support needed and we're going to take that to a higher level And then through the work of focus strategies It's anticipated that by the end of the coming year we'll have some recommendations on The governance model for optimal engagement of all of our partners The 2019-20 recommended budget provides for two full-time staff positions It includes an increase of nine hundred and seventy thousand four hundred ninety four a ninety six percent increase in expenditures It includes an increase of three hundred and seventy three thousand four thirty eight in revenues and resulting five hundred ninety seven Thousand dollar increase in general fund contributions these increases are primarily attributed to the additional Revenue from measure G and the state heap and cash funding And I would mention that as we continue to accept and appropriate those funds and bring contracts to your board this budget will Will be growing The estimates included in the 2021 projected budget assume a status quo operation and reflect known changes with a 67,448 Decrease to the general fund contribution. This is the year when the heap and cash funds are anticipated to taper off So primarily this is due to an anticipated reduction in those revenues and related expenditures in This next section of the presentation I'll be discussing our county operational plan objectives and additional work that this office will be focusing on in the coming year As mentioned there will be another substantial increase in the scope of responsibility of this office as we take on the the work of the lead agency for the continuum of care known locally as the Homeless action partnership and again will include key increases in support for our homeless management information system and the youth demonstration project There will be significant ongoing work Implementing and overseeing the 10.6 million state investment in homeless services and there will be substantial work I believe planning and implementing the next round which I will talk about later in the presentation So this office will continue to work with all of our providers on implementing those contracts and preparing for the next round of funding The office will also be working closely with focus strategies providing overall oversight and project management for their work and Working at the local level assisting with the data collection and working with the local providers We will also continue to work with key stakeholders To expand and improve homeless services with an emphasis on housing resolution services Which we believe are going to be the key to really getting people out of homelessness and into permanent housing And this marks a move from these kind of housing resolution services being available on an ad hoc basis Depending on what kind of a program you're in to a more systemized Way of providing these services across all programs where we're able to do so The first of the operational plan strategies and objectives includes that by June 2021 We would work with the homeless action partnership to increase total emergency shelter and or emergency bridge housing bed capacity by 2019 by 20% each year over the 2019 baseline And as you saw in the earlier slide, we've already done a substantial amount of expansion in this area and we will continue to do this however one of the things that we will also do is work carefully with focus strategies to identify an appropriate target how much Emergency shelter do we really need? How how much length of stay should we design our programs with given the realities of our local housing market? And how do we you know use those shelters most efficiently and get people through them as quickly as possible? You know up until this point at least the winter shelter program and the programs that our office has been funding are really just Shelter, you know, they've been providing health and human services, but not the tools and resources needed to actually move people into housing On this next slide you can see the distribution of those bed nights that I spoke of earlier in the presentation We've got about 86,000 bed nights that will be provided And I would say that the big wins from my perspective are that we've got year-round sheltering now at the Salvation Army in Watsonville Which is very exciting and they're also going to expand from 38 beds to 50 beds And additionally we have the Laurel Street shelter operated by the Salvation Army in downtown Santa Cruz and they're going to move to a year-round model AFC's programs, which are the safe parking program and the faith community shelter program are also going to operate year-round and This year-round shift is important in that it provides that year-round stability people really need to stay Stable and access services and ultimately get out of homelessness So our current operational plan objective is to work with the homeless action partnership to increase that capacity But as I mentioned, we will work with focus strategies to determine what really is the right level that we need The next objective is around planning an opening year-round homeless services centers in North and South County Our community has been discussing navigation centers since 2017 when San Francisco's navigation center sort of gained attention and everyone got real curious about what is a navigation center How does that work? And we've spent a lot of time working on it talking about it, but it's been very difficult to cite a navigation center here in North County As mentioned earlier the new South County Navigation Center was launched in August 2018 and marks a significant success For the South County Homeless Steering Committee in the city of Watsonville A key objective of this office will be to continue working here in North County to implement the navigation center that we envision The funding for this is included in the budget includes heap funds allocated by the HAP and county measure G funds in the amount of 590,000 To date we have stabilized provision of emergency shelters, so we know what that's going to look like this coming year We won't have to spend as much time and of scrambling and working with providers to make sure we have that shelter in place and the next step is we're going to work on Introducing those housing resolution services But one of the things that we've really started to realize is that not everybody knows really what a navigation center is And we thought a little bit of time to talk about that would be helpful So, you know all navigation centers are focused on getting clients out of homelessness and into housing They're typically very low barrier. They typically serve the most chronically homeless and Some of the key elements include outreach continuous engagement case management and housing navigation In discussion with the HAP we've determined that some of these elements can be planned for and implemented while we continue To work to secure a permanent site for the navigation center We plan to move quickly to focus resources on those housing resolution services the types of supports That will actually move people out of homelessness and into permanent housing We will move from providing those services on an ad hoc basis to providing them in a systematic way This slide provides a look at a maturity model where we've been where we are now and where we are headed And in the past couple of years, we have really enriched our emergency winter shelter program by bringing in a variety of health and human services and supports In a pre previous years we had an emergency shelter program that operated, you know November through April There were no additional services particularly attached to that no services coming into the shelter environment From 2016 to 2018. We've introduced new services including health checkups immunizations harm reduction assistance in enrolling and benefits and so forth But in the coming year, we will introduce those new housing resolution resources and additional mobile hygiene in The following year shown as year two We anticipate having a permanent site and we will keep your board updated with the HAPS progress on this planning work Earlier in the presentation. I mentioned focus strategies whom we have hired to evaluate our homeless crisis response system this office is providing the oversight and project management for this work and key areas of the evaluation they will be doing include a baseline systems assessment review of our data systems performance overall investment in homeless services and Identifying areas where we can make specific improvements. They will also be making a recommendation on governance for us So by the end of the coming fiscal year the evaluation will be completed We will have our recommendations from them for aligning and improving our local response to homelessness and An implementation plan for a set of actions that we can take their focus is on building a Well-aligned Well, sorry well oiled crisis response system with an emphasis on systems that we get out of silos And we work cohesively and across all providers in similar ways With lots of you know support and training provided so that people can Provide the services that are needed in all of the programming that we have In the next slide I will talk briefly about some key data points, but I plan to return later this year With an updated system performance measurement report last fall in October I provided you with an initial look at that But the the new data will be available soon, and I'll I'll be updating that report for your board This slide is from focus strategies They've given us just an overview of what they think about performance measurement And you so I would say that our initial work with them reinforces that work that we started with with the board last fall and in That system performance measures report that was provided The important thing about the system performance measurements is that they measure our progress over time and not just at a moment in time The point in time count that is the thing that most people pay attention to is a moment in time And it measures how many people are homeless on a given day the system performance measures which are based on our HMIS data Look at things over over time They assess whether homelessness is rare brief and non-occurring They measure performance at both a program level and a systems level They can inform us whether or not programs are actually helping households experiencing homelessness to secure housing and not return to homelessness And the key measures that we want to look at include exits to permanent housing Lengths of stay and programs and returns to homelessness, and these are data points that I've provided to you guys last fall As this office will be assuming responsibility for the homeless action partnership beginning July 1st One of the goals that we have is to increase the use of program and systems level data by the HAP and to use that data To function at a higher level focus strategies will certainly be helping us with that This will include using the data to guide learning collaboratives that will improve both data and outcomes You know we need to increase our data quality. We need to increase our HMIS participation rate So that more programs are participating and when we look at the data We're getting a better picture of what's really happening right now Our participation rates are moderately low and therefore we don't have a true picture of everything that's being done As I said earlier an updated system performance measures report will be provided once HUD has approved and Published all of the data for all of the COCs that we need to report on I've presented three of the four homeless services coordination objectives There's a fourth objective to implement the state emergency homelessness funding I mean I've talked about that a little bit in terms of the contracts that are coming before your board and the planning work that was done There's also a fifth objective on system performance, which is included in the supplemental objectives for the operational plan The supplemental objectives will be included in the final plan that will be presented to your board on Tuesday June 25th The state homelessness funding as you know We've already received an allocation on the heap and cash funding There is a new program that's been introduced as part of the next year's state budget It's the they're calling it the homeless aid planning and shelter or HAPS program just to make life easy for our local community We'll now have the HAP and the HAPS The state budget includes 650 million in grants for cities and counties to build and maintain emergency shelters It also includes Are there permitting communities to use this money starting July 1st for some of the planning work involved including? Strategic planning HMIS and sort of systems things that might be needed in order to support the work It's not yet clear. However, who's going to actually get the money. There's a proposal By kind of the big city mayors and lawmakers that they want most of the money directed towards the 13 big cities and to the Continuums of care Governor governor Newsom wants to spread it out to include the counties So that's being kind of hashed out at the state level the current trailer bill language calls for the 13 large cities to receive 275 million for counties to receive a direct allocation of 275 million and Continuums of care to receive a hundred million and that will all be based on the 2019 point in time count We will update your board when the state has reached their final decision on how that funding will be allocated and We do anticipate that the planning and implementation of that new state grant will be another significant body of work for this office Given that the states tying our allocation of that money to the 2019 point in time count we wanted to be sure to get this information out to you Yesterday, we released the 2019 point in time count total homeless and total unsheltered numbers For the count that was completed in January The full report which you're used to seeing which will include a breakdown of the data by jurisdiction by subpopulations We'll tell us about you know where people were when they became homeless or what kind of you know profile of mental health or Substance use of health issues. They have that information is not complete that information is being worked on right now by applied survey Research that does this report. It's in draft form It's going to be completed by the end of this month and published in early July We'll probably have a press event for that and we'll update your board when that data is available so The numbers as you can see from the chart are down slightly from 2249 in 2017 to 2167 for the 2019 point in time count. That's a 3.6 percent reduction Many communities across the state have seen really substantial increases so We are very very pleased that our number is down However, it does stand to hurt us ever so slightly with the 2019 point-in-time count allocation being By the number being used for the allocation from the state funding Our unsheltered count is also down slightly from 1799 to 1700 and I do we believe that the expansion of available emergency shelter will have improved that number a little bit We really didn't know what to expect with this count Since the numbers are down, you know as we try to make sense of it We're attributing the slight decrease to a number of things including expansions in a number of key areas eviction prevention services rapid rehousing More section 8 Vash and DMV vouchers DMV vouchers are disabled medically vulnerable vouchers that the housing authority issues Excuse me to homeless clients The success of the housing authorities landlord outreach efforts opening the doors to folks that do have those vouchers and helping them get into housing Implementation of smart path coordinated entry and a shift among some of our service providers to that housing focus sheltering that I was speaking about earlier Last year we adopted eight comparison counties as a cohort against which to compare ourselves on our progress addressing homelessness This slide shows those cohort counties that have already published their information as you can see Marin and Santa Barbara are also slightly down humble is really up a lot by 94 percent Across the state among other communities that have reported their numbers San Diego County has the largest decrease at 11 and a half percent and the largest increase is the central Sierra CoC That's Twalamee Amador Calaveras and Mariposa County. They're up 130 percent Among our neighboring counties Contra Costa San Francisco Alameda and Santa Clara counties Increases have ranged from sixteen point eight to forty two point eight percent. So the Bay Area has really been hit very hard with all of the reporting CoC's combined the state has a 15 percent increase that number will change once all of the CoC's have reported their numbers So our three point six decrease Point six percent decreases very good news But it's by no means a victory and we will remain committed to helping households experiencing homelessness To find secure housing and not return to homelessness Homelessness is a tragedy for every person every family and every community that it impacts It is one of the most difficult issues Communities are facing here in Santa Cruz County across the state of California and indeed across the nation The many leaders funders service providers Faith community members and advocates working on this issue are incredibly dedicated to solving homelessness one person one family at a time And I want to thank all of those in our community who are working on this issue who are dedicating their lives to helping those less fortunate Our work continues, and I appreciate your board for your continued support This concludes my remarks, and I would be happy to take your questions at this time. Sure. Do we have any questions? supervisor McPherson Wow, that was Mouthful that was something else. I want to thank you Randy Maher and Lisa Benson for all the work that you have done It's a very complex issue. It's all around us. It's a sad Situation, but it's everywhere in this state and throughout and more big bigger numbers Throughout the state and the nation too But we know that it's going to be take more investment and even to really make a dent in this my question is if the 270 million dollars 75 million dollars for in the state budget were to be approved What do you don't have any idea what fraction of that might come to Santa Cruz County? I know that there's it could change with the legislative process That's going to be finalized here pretty soon in the next week. I guess about this Yes, it's difficult to estimate it until all of the COC's have reported their data Because we will be a percentage of The total and we don't have a total yet. So it's it's really impossible to estimate it at this point I will I will provide your board with an update ads absolutely as soon as we know Okay, and you know with a new new program new crisis that we've experienced as I said throughout the state and nation Comes all these acronyms, you know heap and kish and hap and what hap was the only one haps you've got it haps It's no wonder that people are confused about what's going where and what programs are trying to address what but Basically just to put it in perspective, you know, I guess people have said that Housing is the key to ending homelessness and if you look at what we have issued in building permits in this county It hasn't been 2,200 I bet in the last two decades and so and then what if you even take three people in a house? It's probably not even 700 so It's it's difficult to see how we're going to be able to build our way out of it So to speak that we're going to have to just have this coordinated effort which you've overseen and Appreciate more than anything because trying to get your arms around the program that'll work. I mean San Diego has done Comparatively well to other counties and it's great. I know you're taking a look at that We're all looking for others solutions, but each individual county or city is a little different and I think one thing that we need to make sure is that we we don't Really have people get into one camp so to speak and we know the terrible experience we had in Santa Cruz We don't want to let that happen, but to try to provide those opportunities for those who need a house and Or a bed night, I guess is way probably the best way to put it at this point, but I really appreciate your efforts that we have all been really Twirling our twiddling our thumbs about what do we do with this and how do we get you know a real grip on it? So Thank you for your efforts. I hope that we can really do this In a very humane way, and I know we will But there's there's also the factor that some of the people who are homeless want to stay that way They just we offer them help and you can't force it So to try to force the program that we all think is indeed is more difficult than most might think So with that, I just want to say thank you again for your efforts We're gonna this is gonna be a long process, but we'll keep at it And I especially want to thank the Salvation Army and the veterans of foreign wars and others who have in some of the Hoteliers who have put up bed nights as well or offered bed nights They're helping us address this issue as quickly as we can. Thank you Thank you, Supervisor. Supervisor Caput Thank you. How you doing? Okay, yeah, currently there's a count going on right now. Is that correct? The count has been completed. It was done. Excuse me in January. That's always done the last week of January every other year The count is complete But the report the the comprehensive report is being worked on right now So we have the total number of people that were counted in January. That's 2167 of which 1700 were unsheltered but the the comprehensive report that gives us the much richer information will be available in July No, and then we're we're showing what we're doing with programs that we're working with There is a teen challenge and there's other programs that are Religious based and they're helping out so they're they're not counted in the Services that we're providing. Is that correct like teen challenge in Pajaro Correct, so they're in the information that I provided on total shelter That is only programs that are being kind of funded and implemented through this office teen challenge does not accept Any kind of government funding so they're not an agency that we contract with but they do provide sheltering in South County Okay, but they're helping out Absolutely with the I think it's called the rescue mission over there on relative rescue mission. Yes And they're trying to open up Shelter for women in Watsonville. That's true. They've got a prior Furniture business that they're trying to convert to a shelter But they're I don't know what the timeline of their project is. I know they're they're still working on okay I think they're mired in planning We're working with them. We're we're not We're not giving him money. They don't want money. They're doing it on their own, but correct when you combine everybody working together and trying to you know confront this Situation that's it's nice to see that we're that we have people moving on all fronts trying to you know help out Thank you. Thank you a Quick question two quick questions one is when we get the data on the comparable counties We get it to us in a report because that'd be it's very helpful to see Sort of how we're doing versus other similar sized counties that the data that you're referring to is that the Code point-and-time count or the system performance measures well both But I mean I'm planning to report to you on the system performance measures at a later date when that data is available Get us a memo Those numbers so happy to do that and then the second thing is so one of the most and Let me just preface this by saying I totally recognize that you've been running around putting out fires and Establishing shelters and dealing with state money and everything else. So this is and this is this hasn't been on the forefront But if we're want to talk about Families that are at risk of homelessness How do we establish what that baseline number is? How do we know what success looks like? I know we have we have some security deposit programs and you know first month's rent programs evictions, but how do we know How much of the population we're helping at the right time? Etc. Etc for that for for prevention people who aren't even Who hopefully never experience homelessness, but are very much at risk That's a really good question right now Families that are at risk of homelessness would never be entered into our homeless management information system So they're not going to be part of I think that's one of the sort of the the failures of our data If you will is that we can know how many people we've helped into housing if they were homeless But not necessarily how many people we prevented from falling into homelessness or who were homeless And we diverted them away from the homeless systems of care because of home or bound or because we were able to provide some Conflict resolution and they were able to reunite with a family member for example We will be working with focus strategies as well as our lead HMIS agency to look at how we can implement some of these things to capture that kind of data I think it's very important for us to understand both how we're stopping the inflow as well as Dealing with the population that is homeless and how we're exiting them from homelessness because it's all part of the same Continuum if you will absolutely and yeah going forward it would be great. We're making these significant investments in early childhood In order to prevent trauma one of the most important was to prevent trauma obviously as families Who are at risk of homelessness and their kids and so knowing? What how big that population is on what we're doing? And Whether we can increase it would be would be important So we'll see what we can do in terms of finding a way to capture that data But we don't have a great mechanism for it at this time and I would assume so But if we can figure out something going forward that'd be great. Thank you So that's a little thank you chair Thank you for the presentation. Obviously. This is an issue in which there is a considerable amount of public attention Towards and I Appreciate all the efforts that have been going on to address the problem We have here in Santa Cruz and I look forward to getting additional information about the point in time Count because there's always lots of good information in there. It is it we should We should celebrate the fact that the number is is moving in the right direction It doesn't mean the work is over it means that we it means that we have some promising signs of some strategies That may be successful and we need to continue to push on that I'm particularly happy also to see the number of unsheltered People going down because I think you're right that that is the reflection of have creating more emergency shelter space But the idea that there's even a hundred less people who are not sleeping outside tonight Is is it is a good? Measure and something we we should also celebrate. It was interesting looking at the other counties that we compare to and noticing the declines in and two out of the three especially when we saw the the the numbers from most Bay Area counties which were alarming Alameda County at 43 percent and you know others and even Los Angeles I think was up and 20 or 30 percent and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on On homeless assistance, so We're moving in the right direction Let's let's keep on pushing and I think we have a reasonable strategy To keep on working on that. I wanted to ask about the navigation center last year Remember last year there seemed to be There was an initially agreement about a location for a temporary navigation center in which staff put time into Then it didn't move forward And we reopened the winter shelter at the VFW and later at Laurel Street Are we still going to try to work to get that that interim navigation center open or Should we expect that the the winter shelter program will operate again? next fall This coming winter we do expect the winter shelter program to operate We've as I mentioned Extended some of our programs to operate year-round and but the VFW shelter program would not be one of them We would only do that during the winter season It's very likely. This would be the last year. We would need to do that. We hope that next year We really will have a site It was also the case that right now the Armory Excuse me is under construction and that has been a traditional winter sheltering location at some point in the future It will become available again, and that's a larger facility that we could potentially use I'd like to add one thing to that as Rainey mentioned we have them all around a navigation a navigation center and a particular kind of sheltering operators operation Some of those beds would probably be emergency basis But most of those would be referral basis beds where folks might be staying there with an expectation of you know 3045 60 days on a path to housing It's very likely we will continue to need some kind of supplementary Emergency shelter so whether it's an at the Armory and particularly in the winter So I do want to make sure that we're clear that Emergency shelter sort of that walk-in shelter We may still need to be doing that as well as a navigation center both in North County and South County We will work through some of those numbers with focus strategies as we better understand the flow through our system sure And I think that It will be important for us going forward to figure out you know what? What other programs we could be using to keep people in their houses? I'll be looking forward to the To the point in time Information to see what percentage of people have been homeless for less than a year that number has traditionally been 40% or greater and those to be able to target that group to keep them in housing would be Could make a huge difference in the number of homeless People experiencing homelessness in our community One of the thing that's not reflected in the operational Plan in the homeless category, but as part of the health services piece is about doing an anti-stigma campaign And I'm wondering sort of what your role or will you have a role in that or the hap or the heap or the you know all the Alphabet soup I can't even figure it out anymore keep track of it anymore, but it's it seems to me that's an important part of Our efforts especially as we look at citing facilities Increasing programs looking for new strategies. Yeah No specific plans at this moment, but certainly a conversation that I would have with Mimi and and her staff I think they're it's interesting that you should mention that because I was just talking with someone about the importance of anti-stigma Training in schools and and so forth and how effective it is in the area of mental health and other LGBTQ issues and I think homelessness is one of those issues that you know people face Substantial stigma and we need to get past that Related to that is the need to work with our local school districts It's the when I've seen the statistics in the live oak school district There's there's maybe as many as a hundred kids who are homeless or housing insecure Yeah, I to me that's that's a huge Challenge and really important that we be reaching out to help people keep in their housing or or Find housing because you know middle schooler who's homeless I mean, it's it's just hard to fathom what that's like for that kid to be successful in life Do we have outreach to the local schools? So we have a new project called the it's part of the youth homeless demonstration project But also has received some heat funding. It's the youth homeless response team It's operated by a community action board in partnership with county office of education and their goal is to do you know in reach into schools and other institutional settings where youth may be at risk and You know try to intervene and assist them, you know before they become homeless and on the street and You know be excited to report on the outcomes of that program to you at a later date Yeah, I'd be look forward to hearing that the last thing about the about the how the funding would work and the fact that our our modest success in Reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness in Santa Cruz County could actually work against us in terms of funding I Think that that we would be wise to advocate at a state level that it should also be Look at that per capita, you know because we hear that that our community has a Larger number of homeless than as than some of our neighboring counties or or even our the counties that we match against and We face this in a lot of different ways that the way formulas are They work against Programs that are actually proving success and if we're being successful like at moving people into housing or Limiting the number of people who would experience homelessness We shouldn't be penalized with our funding and I think it's important for legislators to know that that These promising efforts Shouldn't go without funding we should actually be investing in them so they could be models for others fair points At the state level as you said it probably will hurt us It is possible. However, that it will help us with our HUD funding that we will be more competitive as a COC because we've Reduced our number and also because we have reduced our unsheltered number and we've increased our emergency shelter capacity Those are all things that will improve our scores with HUD and potentially lead to more funding there. Thank you I Supervisor McPherson get one more question Is there any measurement that's been? You know following up on the stigma issue about how many of the homeless have been involved with substance abuse? I mean and Behavioral health issues does that get into the formula at all or I mean it's out there people think that everybody That's homeless is on drugs. I mean a lot of people think that way So is there any kind of a measurement and if not, I don't know if there could be I think it would be a good thing to have so There will be a report the full report for the point-in-time count will include metrics of The folks that have been surveyed, which is usually a roughly 25% of the total population They survey and they will get data on things like substance use or mental health issues I think those numbers typically run around 35 percent Each of the population surveyed typically about 35 percent have those types of problems that they're they're addressing You mentioned a formula, so I'm not sure if you meant does that number tie into the allocation formula in some way or if that was Not sure about that question. Well, no, I just I just wanted to know more about just the percentages And it's going to be coming in the report. So that yeah, so it will be the current I believe it was something in the neighborhood of 35 percent in the 2017 point-in-time count and We'll know more once the final report for this year is published. Thank you Any other questions I would if there any public comment, please line up Gary Richard Arnold's I think it was clear when McPherson and Leopold talked about the Confusion and not being able to keep track. I think what we heard here is just a house of mirrors and suck-a-tash We've been told about stakeholders. We don't know who they are We've been talked about government Private partnerships which in any dictionary is fascism. We don't know if money is going to these people are from these people are making a circle We know that there's a haps program by Governor Newsom whose right-hand man Is Lenny Mendoca who was Leon Panetta's co-chair for California forward their last newsletter by the way mentions regional At least a dozen times they don't mention city or county because Lenny Mendoca Belongs to a group that wants to get rid of 80% of the cities and counties when you're looking at homeless And we've got an open border that's taking in a hundred thousand people Across the border and we have sanctuary cities, which you declare here You're jeopardizing every voter and and taxpayer in this county. It's Unconscionable you're taking away their services. You're adding taxes to them When McPherson was running the Sentinel as an editor he reported vote harvesting by Michael Rotkin and Gary Patton by going to people that are in trouble And of course those ballots would be filled out the same thing is being done by large farmers like Driscoll and they have farms around the world and they rotate people Ballots are handed out and they're marked by the The head of the gangs also. We know that Ickley has contracts with this county They are a front for both the World Bank and the United Nations And this seems exactly what we're doing here to make us more vulnerable and to collapse the cities and move the authority to the regions Yeah, I appreciate that public common Gary. That was really good I want to be able to share remembers the public Bruce McPherson And John Leopold kind of hints that that is kind of confusing Doing the political arithmetic. They just seem out of touch because everybody knows if you want to end homelessness It requires effective government government effective government that's not coming from a privileged point of view I mean, I've just seen hearing her it just she's out of touch Homelessness got to deal with with three prongs and I deal with a lot of homeless people I know a lot of people struggling living from paycheck to paycheck. You got the the people living from paycheck to paycheck You got the people that are mentally ill and on drugs These this is what a homelessness is all about people that do fall on hard times They take about a year before they get out of homelessness You know, I'm not afraid to be friend people that are homeless that are living in the car So I know them I hang out with them, right?  It's a lie because people when they're dealing with ineffective government. They stop showing up They start doing things totally different. They go to adjacent County Effective government and the only way we're going to be able to dig our way out of this Like you said or build our way out of it is effective government We need a reordering at the human service department talking Starting with the top down the Allen Timberlake she needs to go and we need people are going to come in here and be sensitive And not window dress and not create this healing illusion that you're helping the American public the American public deserves better Thank you Ray can't see no CEO can be bridges I'd like to just commend the team that actually has been working on the homeless issue. It's been a partnership Thanks to the faith community the nonprofits that have been really cheerleading This project forward and doing the hands-on work to make it effective and efficient I think you guys hit on some major points that I think need to be part of this plan Which is the narrative change, you know that narrative we see the data. We know the data is there We see that that's going to downward trend the last three Point-in-times show that But that's not the reality that people are feeling which is something that Bruce is kind of hinting at and the reality is that With the need to invest more we're going to need the public to be behind These solutions and seeing the results of these solutions and so I really urge you to carry that message During your blogs and during your own messaging in your own districts to ensure people are aware that the Results are happening and that they're slow and they're ongoing, but we need further investment Number two, I think that there's something for you all to know the no place like home did do a study and did actually Analyze the family homelessness component of it of people that are in danger of losing housing That's only one aspect the second aspect is that the COE uses a McKinney-Vento Definition which includes doubling up which is a different definition of what we're talking about today So it's important that you really talk to the county office of education and use that number as well So it's a combination of housing affordability or percentage towards the housing as well as people living in situations that are doubling up That wouldn't be considered in that those two totalities give you a total number that can be used to kind of baseline your analysis and your Double-pronged approach or multiple-prong approach. So those are just some things that are already available So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Thank you. Thanks you So if that closes public comment if there are no more questions from the board I'd entertain a motion. I would move the recommended actions for our homeless service coordination office So motion by Leopold second by McPherson all those in favor, please say aye. Aye opposed that passes unanimously and thank you for your work Thank You supervisors Moving on to item number 28 This is to consider the 2019-21 proposed budgets for core investments as outlined in the reference budget document approved an infusion of $30,000 from the local innovation trust approved the recommendations for the set-aside award And schedule the continuing agreements list items for final approval on last-day budget hearings June 25th as outlined in the memorandum of the director of human services Good morning chair Coonerty members of the board I'm Ellen Timberlake the director of the human services department and this morning Emily Bali our deputy director will be presenting to you the budget for core Good morning chair Coonerty members of the board as Ellen mentioned I will be presenting the budget for the collective of results and evidence-based investments better known as core That's the last time I'm going to say the entire name This morning's presentation Will you click for me? This morning present this morning's presentation includes a brief overview of core investments We just have to wait and get the Left There we go. Thank you. Okay a brief overview of core investments that proposed fiscal year 1920 budget as well as the projected budget for fiscal year 2021 a review of the recommend recommendations for the annual set-aside awards and a review of the operational plan objectives related to core investments in fiscal year 1617 the board approved a transition from the historical community programs funding model to the core investments model for funding safety net services a Joint request for proposal was issued in partnership with the city of Santa Cruz with approval of three-year contract awards effective fiscal year 1718 through fiscal year 1920 the core model identifies collective results and promotes the use of evidence-based practices and outcome measurement Over the last two years core has evolved beyond a funding model to also become a movement to achieve equitable health and well-being in Santa Cruz County using a results-based collective impact approach that is responsive to the community as You know fiscal year 1920 will be the third year of the core investments contracts in December of last year your board approved the extension of core contracts through fiscal year 2021 to align with the county's two-year budget cycle The work on core has been achieved in phases with the last update on phase three being submitted to the board last week HSD will return in October of this year to provide your board with the summary of the progress and outcomes of the second year of core contracts In order to achieve the core vision and mission across the lifespan and throughout the county There must be equitable opportunities to experience the eight core conditions noted on this slide And in addition to community stakeholders the CAO's office provided input on the core conditions Creating alignment with the county's strategic plan focus areas The core conditions have created a framework for aligning initiatives funding priorities strategic plans programs and practices. I Want to take this opportunity to thank Nicole young and Nicole Lezen aka the Nicole's For their work on leading the phases of core and thank the core steering committee and all the community Stakeholders that have participated in core conversations for their commitment to this movement Now I will review the proposed and projected budgets for core the proposed fiscal year 1920 core investments budget is comprised of just under four point two million in base funding Which includes the eighty five thousand dollar augmentation for meals on wheels? A hundred and fifty thousand dollars in set-aside funds Carry forward of a hundred fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty five This carry forward funding is a result of actions taken by the board earlier this year forty four thousand five hundred and twenty five Dollars in one-time funding for technical assistance and seventy thousand dollars from rebudded budgeted eighteen nineteen funds will go towards substance use disorder services As in past years there is a supplemental request from probation to bring in thirty thousand dollars from the local innovation trust fund To be incorporated into the following three core agreements at ten thousand dollars each Santa Cruz barrios unidos education outreach program Community action board Alcance Street outreach program and encompass PAPA supporting father involvement program The total core investments projected budget for fiscal year twenty twenty one is slightly over four point four million and also includes seventy thousand dollars in carry forward funding for substance use disorder services But is reduced by the amount of the one-time technical assistance funds and innovation trust funds Next I will review the recommendations for the core set-aside funds on March 12th of this year The board approved the release of solicitation of a solicitation for letters of interest for fiscal year 1920 core set-aside funds in the total amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars The purpose of this funding is to address emerging or otherwise unmet safety net needs in the community The solicitation for the set-aside funds was broadly distributed and outlined a brief and simple application process as Requested by local nonprofits and directed by the board This year HSD received 27 applications Representing 31 programs requesting a total of over 687 thousand dollars more than four times the hundred and fifty thousand dollars allocated The applications demonstrated a great need for services and the recommendations were developed with the understanding that all needs presented Could not be met by this fund The recommendations for award represent a distribution of funds across service type target population and geographic area The allocation of the recommended awards by service type is shown on this slide 44% of recommended funding will go to support behavioral health and physical health services and 37% will go towards services supporting seniors and the disabled as well as children and youth This chart shows the funding awards by target population Almost half of funding is being recommended for services provided to adults including seniors and 27% is directed to services for families and children The remaining 25% will go towards youth services The chart on this slide shows the awards by geographic location Almost half of the set-aside funds are recommended for programs that provide services throughout the county with the remainder almost evenly divided between north and south county as Reflected on pages 16 and 17 of the supplemental budget and on the next two slides Staff recommends awarding funding to 19 agencies in amounts ranging from 2,000 to 15,000 dollars If approved by your board staff will negotiate purchase order agreements with the recommended awardees. I Want to thank HSD staff as well as staff from the health services agency Probation and homeless services coordination for lending their expertise in developing the recommendations Finally, I will review the three operational plan objectives that impact core investments All three objectives related to core fall under the focus area of operational excellence The goal of continuous improvement and the strategy of providing nonprofit technical assistance to support services collaboration and impact We view our nonprofit partners as an extension of us and are committed to supporting their continued development For the community impact objective an online menu of community and program level results associated with the core conditions will be developed this tool will guide consistency among funders as well as providers in Identifying the outcomes they want to achieve from programs and services provided As I noted earlier the county strategic plan aligns with the core investments framework Strategic plan indicators will be derived from the core results menu Which allows for greater alignment in long-term community-wide goals and measurement to demonstrate collective impact At the broad level the menu starts with the core condition and then moves through specific options for community indicators Local data about gaps or inequities and strategies to create equitable opportunities and outcomes over the longer term At the program level outcomes are measured at the participant level and can be achieved in the short and or intermediate term The next objective involves the development of an online library of evidence-based programs and practices associated with the core conditions The ebp library will be incorporated into the promising practices module within data share Santa Cruz County and will be tied to the core results menu Data share is an interactive web-based tool that integrates local state and national data Providing a one-stop resource to explore and understand information about our community The tool was launched in March of this year with support from the health services agency Community foundation of Santa Cruz County and the health improvement partnership Additionally the core continuum of results and evidence that was shared in the report to your board last week is a matrix that can increase Capacity to select implement and evaluate programs and practices along the continuum of evidence The final core related objective is a joint effort between the human services department and the health services agency To support technical assistance for our nonprofit and community partners to foster collaboration and results based collective impact investments Areas of technical assistance to be provided over the next two years include Using an equity lens in all aspects of planning service delivery and evaluation Implementing methods of data collection and evaluation Selecting implementing and evaluating evident evidence-based programs and practices and Identifying and accessing new and leveraged revenue sources such as medical administrative activities and Cal fresh employment and training funding as I mentioned earlier over $44,000 in funds carried forward into fiscal year 1920 will be used to provide technical assistance for nonprofits in In addition both hsd and hsa have included funding for this purpose in their proposed budgets and Hsd has budgeted funds to support equity training that will be available to all county departments Before I end my presentation I want to thank our nonprofit partners for the important work They do in the community to achieve the vision of core which is that which is that Santa Cruz County is an equitable Thriving resilient community where everyone shares responsibility for ensuring the health and well-being of all people at every stage of life This concludes my presentation and at this time I ask that the board approve the recommended budget for core investments Including supplemental items. So thank you for your support and I'm happy to answer any questions Thank you and thank you for the thoughtful work you put in over the last couple years to really develop a system that's Coherent and making sure that the public's dollars are invested in a way that serves the community in the best way possible So was really a bullet. Sure. Thank you chair. Just a Brief question first. Thank you for the presentation and I echo the the words of my colleague about the about the way in which the department has worked to change system of funding that was in place for a long time and required a lot of thoughtfulness a lot of collaboration and Communication and I think you've been doing excellent jobs in those areas and I like that you always know that It's a continually improvement improving Program, it's not a static of peace and That shows wisdom if nothing else I had a question about the operational our goals with the project and it's really about timing if we're I'm trying to figure out when the the Menu of community and program level results and the online library of evidence-based programs Will be done in time in preparation for the next round of applications It seems me it's important to have that done beforehand and I'm just if you could help me figure that out. That would be great sure the Results menu and the EBP library will be incorporated by the time we release the next RFP They will be fully complete by June of 2021, which is the date. That's in the operational plan. So the The next RFP would come out when in the fall of 2020 so the fall of 2020 and And we'll have some of this work done and it'll be it'll be Fully done By the time we actually make the awards When you say some of it will be done. I'm just trying to think of it as a resource I know that you've been holding technical assistance workshops and I like the idea of providing training for organizations about equity and and All those pieces and it seemed like this is an important piece of the core framework That that we'd be able to see what the information is and know what kind of difference we're making in our investments The community level indicators and the program level Outcomes that we've talked about and Emily alluded to in her presentation will be done And I think the other thing I want to acknowledge is that the evidence-based online practices tool as you mentioned earlier We will have a substantial part of that done, but I think that also will be an evolving. It's not a one-stop You know system will need to continuously be updating those practices as they emerge So I feel pretty confident by the time that we release an RFP Probably around November of 2020 that we will have a substantial a number of tools in place that will make it More a friendly for the applicants as well as more. I think clear and transparent for your board. Okay. Thank you Supervisor friend Thank you And this is a pretty significant shift from the way that the county's done business historically And I think that it's definitely moving toward a better Outcome-based system and I think I'm actually very excited about having this tool and being able to look at The results affected these programs and I did have a question regarding just sort of the structure Of the set-aside program that the board created it as we were doing a transition It was created as a transitionary sort of safety net And I'm not I'm not convinced that moving forward It's the best structure for the board to continue to have a set-aside program per se. I think that All these are funded at a 15,000 or less and I just wanted to get kind of your thoughts from I imagine a significant amount of of work is put into reviewing contracts that are basically $6,000 Both on both sides both even though you've streamlined the application process There's a lot of work And it seems like it would might be a better structural design to have the the board just fold that money into core but with a carve out that specific to Programs that would be applying for something under $15,000 So there's a greater understanding that For these programs, they don't have to meet the same reporting requirements same application requirements. It's a de minimis amount but that What I think is tough is that you now have small programs competing with sort of emerging needs In a way that makes it difficult both for you to judge which is better and also creates an expectation Within programs that may be receiving a million dollars and other core funding as to what they can compete for again So now would be a time for us to consider this modification in advance of two years from now And so I just wanted to get your feedback on the set-aside in that process Okay, you were right that when we moved to the core model that we did recommend the set-aside to your board To try and accomplish three things One is to recognize that the new core model Was looking at contracts and applications over $15,000 So we did not want the shift to core to exclude smaller types of requests that traditionally had been Supported under community programs. So that was one of our primary reasons and secondarily with a move to three-year contract We wanted to acknowledge that over time there would be potentially emerging needs in one time only request Moving forward into the next cycle. We defer to your board's You know wish in that regard, but I think we could do that in such a way that we would retain Some of the primary purposes of the funding and simply integrate it into the base if that's your Preference and we could certainly stipulate with that Uh level of funding a sort of a different application as well as you know continue to support Some of our organizations that have smaller requests That would be easier to administer on the staff side, correct? It would be okay And I mean to me, I think that that the goals Well, this was a transition period and we needed time to learn what was the best process, but I just don't I don't think it serves the community's best interest to have you know, $100,000 in staff time Dedicate i'm just making this up to allocate $150,000 And then you have six times the amount of requested when realistically what we're trying to do Is also allow these smaller programs In equal opportunity to compete and I think if they knew that they were in a Their own world that they would actually have an even better opportunity for some of these applications That are $3,000 or $6,000. So I think when it comes back for action I mean, I think that it's something the board should consider having come back as What that would look like and just folding this into the base with a carve out specific to these small programs As a person Yeah, I first of all, I think the you and your office is to be congratulated and this county too for setting aside Including 4.4 million dollars for this purpose We made a big bump in this a couple of three years ago And I'm glad to see that going on and I think that The ongoing approach that we've had to course services that might be in line for some improvements though have Really been able to present a predictable way of what we're going to be funding for our partners with more transparency and integrity and I'm especially excited to see the $85,000 augmentation for meals on wheels included As far as the The set of sides, it's really important. I think that we have the $15,000 for the seniors council We mentioned yesterday about in the programs for the objectives and the operational plan that we're going to have some policies that Improve our healthy communities for our senior citizens in the county and I think that it's about It's it's really Proper that we really devote some special attention to that Could you describe you've described the outreach process and we know that there's Four or five times the amount of proposals Is there any assistance in helping them apply and maybe this will follow up with supervisor friends Question and I'm wondering specifically on the outreach and to some of the isolated parts of the county And of course i'm talking about center in zoe valley So are there any ways that for the outreach? I just saw there was five percent going to the center in zoe valley and so I just Want to know if there's an effort to try to Increase that we have extensive lists of over 800 names that this goes out to it's also Placed in the sentinel for approximately two weeks under public notices And we also publish it on our county website As well so and we're always as we learn of new programs and agencies we add them to the list I think many agencies get multiple notices But we're always, you know, yeah, thank you for your efforts, but I'd just like to Invigorate them a little more and I just also want to note that As we approach the next period we we will also reach out And make sure that if there are any organizations that don't show up in the 800 list of nonprofits that we have that will definitely increase our outreach In that regard so and also I think in terms of the san lorenzo valley just to underscore that we Have a lot of organizations the bulk of them who are receiving funding through the set aside provide services countywide So the breakout by region is a little deceptive in that regard because those just represent exclusive service in those areas Yeah, I know that the meals and wheels program up there is great and and just so many others too So thank you very much for your efforts Supervisor Caput Yeah, thank you We're doing a lot here and I appreciate everything you're doing What we what I'm trying to figure out here is At the last minute when we're looking at this if there's some money we can actually increase with The meals on wheels and also the watsonville senior center Okay, they're both connected in a way the meals on wheels does deliver Lunches at the senior center in watsonville And the senior center in watsonville. I believe has the staff of two Paid employees and that's it So when it comes to grant writing and paperwork They don't have a staff that can do that Uh, but we as People in the community see what's going on. We see how good a program that they're running on a shoestring budget So the the problem we're having with the uh Senior center in watsonville, which has a huge number of seniors a growing number of seniors to go there for lunch And also companionship and friendship and whatever There they did lose some funding From a city source Because the city's having financial problems And what i'm what i'm worried about is i'm not going to watch uh watsonville senior center closed down Because the city at large is having a problem balancing their budget And We're not we're not talking about a whole lot of money because they don't have a lot of employees and a lot of staff But they the ones that they that are down there with their volunteers are doing a tremendous job So what i'm what i'm asking for is another 15 000 for the Watsonville senior center And then also we've all been I think approached and we're all aware of a request for another 35 000 for the meals on wheels Again a very important program And a lot of volunteers not getting paid But actually putting in their time so I know we have the set aside here, but uh The set aside is uh, I think we need to find some money Some of the set aside goes to other programs that are getting A lot of money from us for other parts that are underneath their umbrella of their programs, right And and I understand that so i'm i'm not knocking one big Organization when we're giving them extra set aside for another program what i'm getting at is We have to watch out for some of Smaller programs like the senior center in watsonville And I know meals on wheels is a bigger program But they're also faced with a growing population That is requesting more and more help so With my colleagues here, I what i'm saying is let's find some money here Can we find 15 000 extra to the 6 000 that we give to the watsonville senior center To keep their doors open They did lose like I said funding and I don't want to see those doors close And then the meals on wheels were all aware of that, right? uh, so I would I would go with anything with That the other supervisors would recommend that we Help out with the meals on wheels For the chair, I think we're going to go down a slippery slope if we we do this I mean we we establish this program to get some certainty and assurity of How we're going to face this and I think what a supervisor friend said we we need to take a new look at it I think we should and if there's improvements to how the application process goes then we should follow that um, but I I agree and I'm I could I could give you three things that I want to have added to so I just don't want to go there. I think that's where we got away from and I think we should just stick with it Yeah, I'm not sure uh a different process is a better process uh my uh to my colleagues concerns I mean, I think we the idea of having money for emerging needs or emergency needs to me makes sense and the fact that um That people can apply for it Also makes sense to me because we can find out about new programs or new things that That we didn't know about that the staff didn't know about that's that's that's a good way for something A new strategy to come up as well um I'm comfortable looking at Additional funding for programs that ask for amount that are being an awarded amount. I mean the watsonville senior center Asked for six and they're getting six or did they ask for more and they're I believe they may have asked for 10. Yeah Yeah, sure We can't hear you. Yeah, you want to hear your microphone. You want to speak into the microphone? Yeah, yeah because They did lose some funding from the city because the city has problems trying to balance their budget Yeah, and I know the meals on wheels program actually put in a request for funding that didn't get funded I don't know how much their request was for 35 000 35 000 Yeah, and I recognize the value of that program Yeah Supervisor prime Well just building off of what my colleagues said If when you read the programs that applied and you read the programs that funded they're disproportionately not emerging needs They're disproportionately small programs. You could look at them though Either way as long as it's a 15 000 I'm just saying structurally it could fit into something that would save a significant Amount of staff time and allow say the diversity center, which may have an emerging need But it's really just applying for a small program grant to actually be able to Know where that carve out would come from specifically I mean and I to supervisor McPherson's point. I'm in agreement about that about what the board has been trying to do Is avoid sort of these earmarks at the end, but what I would encourage my colleagues who want to potentially move money to To then look at the 150 000 here and say what you're going to defund. I mean that's that's why we did this So if there's a program here For example, if you want to Fund the Watsonville senior center for additional funds Then go through the list here and say which program Won't be funded as a result. That's what we ask staff to do I mean we challenge them when they get these applications. We give them a hundred and fifty thousand dollar cap Um They look and make a very difficult decision based on the board's priorities and direction that we gave them to fit Uh 600 plus thousand dollars into 150 thousand dollar box. So it's strange that we then would not Do the same thing. This is what we are supposed to do during a budget time and I think that that's what a budget is it's a world of competing priorities that means that You know hard decisions are made and it's not a statement of of an individual value of a program as much as the macro reality of what this is so if there are programs supervisor cap it that you that you Would prefer to move the money from then that's your welcome to in my opinion make that Motion to do that. I think that in regards at least to the set aside if there's something over 15 000 dollars I think that that's that's a different discussion in general, but but that that would be how We would generally do it you would have A certain budget number and you would work within that budget number and these are just recommendations I mean, they're not this isn't written in stone. I mean if you don't want a program that's being proposed for funding Or maybe you do but you have a program that you prefer to be funded. I think that that's this would be the time to actually propose that going through this list I don't I don't completely agree With your reasoning because I think at the end of the day we set an we set an amount arbitrary as it was and and that's what we asked them to go out and Seek applications and we could see that there's a lot more needs out there than there are Then then the arbitrary amount we set up about and so here at the budget hearings the we should talk about that And if there is support to put more money into that then that's one way we can go and if there's support to say The hundred and fifty is the hundred and fifty and we're gonna Move money around then that's another way we can go to but they're not it's At the end the five of us are the decision makers We've asked the staff with the process and they and they've honored that process And if we and and we get to choose we have to make sure that there's money, but we have to choose What we would do So just like anything Yeah Again we we have some that we're always helping out with hundreds of thousands of And uh I noticed in the supplemental we're actually giving them more And then what i'm getting at is those are I'm not mentioning names because uh They're good programs. We we have to look out for the small programs too And they're the ones that fall through the cracks they don't have Like I said somebody with college degrees sitting there and writing grants for We're talking about a program at least with the watsville senior center that Again has really no staffing other than volunteers So and at the same time something unexpected came up where they lost funding From the uh from the city And so there's That's that's what we do we represent people in our area and we know what's going on if you were to tell me That something's happening up in uh north county or santa cruz or aptos or whatever I would go with what you're seeing because you live there So i'm looking at a senior program That definitely needs some help and we're talking about really not a whole lot of money I I can't you know sit on their staff as a volunteer and write grants for them But what I see is the work that they are doing And all you have to do is go down there About a half an hour from now when they're they have the lunch program going they have music there They have fellowship and then they have meals on wheels showing up At noon to uh, you know And we're talking about a growing population in santa cruz county, which is the senior population A couple of us up here are approaching that age real quick. We're actually in it So I I'd like to see these Hang around for a while in order for the younger colleagues to be able to enjoy Thank you So I'm I'm making a motion. I'll make first we have to have public comment, but um, I guess I'd say the following thing which is um to supervisor McPherson's point $50,000 That are your priorities Four more of us could easily come up with $50,000 That are our priorities in our district From the 31 groups that applied and most of whom didn't get funded Or or outside that That's a $250,000 expenditure, which gets gets serious over time. What so there's So let me just make this We make the following proposal which is I think that The smaller Programs that supervisor friend mentioned and the amount of time and staff and some of the disadvantage that may be some of the programs That you're talking about where they don't have the staff I think supervisor friend is offering a potential solution down the road to make it easier for people to apply and easier On our staff and uh for these smaller grants for the $50,000 that you're asking for now That's uh 15 plus 35 right correct Okay, so if we could separate them I'd do that too, right? So I don't think we're going to make any decision about the small programs right now And the and the 35 is actually countywide that is countywide But I guess what I'd say is this is it's it's my understanding that there's some money Uh potentially in the last day for each district for some capital projects and maybe you could work with uh the cao um to allocate your money uh to these programs as as the thing that you want to spend spend the funds on um, so we don't get into a situation where uh during this core process each of us is um We ask the staff as people mentioned staff to do the hard work make hard choices And next year I think if if if these programs got funded What's going to stop 25 programs from being here saying We do good work and we're really important and we didn't get funded and we're going to be back to where we were the first time So what I would recommend is that you will figure out this the small programs will be a program Will be a change potential change going forward, but that you work with the cao uh between now and uh and and next tuesday To to figure out how you can um get get that allocation All right All right. Well, it looks like uh, I don't know if There's two separate ones here. Do I have the support when i'm talking to the cao About the meals on wheels 35 000 which is county-wide And then the other one the smaller one because of a crisis in watsonville with the senior center Uh 15 000 that one would be my That's the one. I know real closely. I think you're bringing this forward, but I think the cao has something he wants to offer Well, I was I was actually going to state that I think there's separate issues. I was going to bring Talk to the board about the potential of funding for some capital projects in your districts regarding Capital one-time items like parks for examples in your districts I'm reluctant to use this of the money that we are that I am going to suggest on last day Out of continuancies for ongoing costs because these are really ongoing costs. They're not really one time And I'm worried once you put them there then they become part of the base and now the 150 000 becomes 200 000 Because then you have to cut them next year, right? And then they're in and the money that I'm talking about is potentially one-time money and therefore um Would be more comfortable using that money for capital projects like parks or other One-time uses Yeah, I would try I would like to keep that sure. Let me let me just say that I meant it to be a one-time use That if if that's where it wasn't meant to to add to the base or add to the but if Supervisor Caput wanted to instead of doing a capital project Allocate the money It comes up every year. I'm always arguing for the senior center in Watsonville because of again, they're they don't They don't have somebody that's actually writing up grants and they're they're too busy Working and you know rolling up their sleeves and Doing all the work at the senior center. Okay so so Now it's an opportunity for public comment anyone who would like to speak to us, please Line up Gary Richard Arnold It's very hard for people to participate. There's under this agenda item There's 28 different pages somebody would have to review. It's not in the back of the auditorium one has to walk you know 25 yards in order to Go through to see what you guys are even talking about and to rename it core investments instead of a community programs is sneaky way that the CAO and other people do I wonder how many of you could tell me right now what smart path was In the audience are you here that was part of the previous presentation? But the people here work hard in the community. They budget their money They're capable of making their own charities The people you should let them make the charities you go out and tax them Take their money away and then offer this charity thing.  You use the same words. You're not even that smart I agree with Zach friend this time. I seldom agree with him But that's slush fund you have there of $150,000 portrayed year after year's outrageous That's the most outrageous thing here and you guys didn't even agree with him on that I think uh, I think this is a scam Uh, you need to break your contracts with the uan and world bank Which is ickly and this county has contracts with them You need to break your contracts with ambag which is stealing our authority and self government And you need to break your contracts with the county for illegal cities Which is no more than a political lobby taken away citizens rights and able to talk to you under the rosin bird act Which you adopted which is fascist Hi, i'm diana zachery from the diversity center of the lgbt q center in town I first want to say thank you for moving to the core process because uh while we got some small funding For for years from you the core process Opened it up so that we could get a little more funding and so it's really helped us with our youth program and our senior program So I wanted to say thank you to ellen timberlake and also emily bolly for the whole core process because it It really was a game changer for us Just to say a little bit, you know, we're able we have about 600 youth that we serve lgbtq youth And I think it was really important that you were talking about homelessness right before this Because I wanted to mention every day we get kids lgbt youth coming to our center And they've been kicked out of their homes and they're homeless because of being gay and so You know it's something that we face every day And I think I really wanted to bring to our consciousness The data shows about 41 of young people 18 to 25 who are homeless are gay So homelessness is a really a gay issue also the core set aside has been really important for us also The the department has recommended that we get core set aside funding for latinx youth in watsonville and young adults And also transgender folks and those are emerging needs for us. We're getting Constant calls and people walking in that are transgender that are homeless that need support And we have 18 now we have 18 support groups a month for transgender people That you know can be funded by this this core set aside Same thing with latinx youth in watsonville. We've been serving kids ages 12 to 18 who can't be out to their family Maybe they're not out as gay in school But they come to our youth group and they get support And then they asked us for further support From ages 18 to 25. So this money helps us support them. Thank you Morning, my name is joe herd and I do want to speak supporting meals and wheels Being a senior. I know I look young, but I'm 66 and I go there and Just to give you a little facts about things in perspective San Francisco, Seattle Is more expensive Except for food cost of living Santa Cruz is six percent less than hawaii The thing is, you know People the food is cheaper here But a lot of these people I think they have to put their for their rent and their other things They have to pay they have to put some of the money for their food that they have Being a trainer and a coach I enjoy going and seeing that these people they have a very safe place They have a very healthy good meal And um, you know being older it's hard To get a good meal. So there I can be guaranteed. I'm going to get a good meal I'm going to go in safe place Where it's run great and the Gentlemen that runs it back here. He's uh, he's great at keeping things nice and in order So I hope that that it continues to go. So The seniors they don't have to go to sleep in without a healthy good meal at least one guaranteed a day Um, so thank you Hi, good morning board of supervisors. Lisa berkowitz community bridges meals on wheels I'm here today to ask you to please consider our request for set-aside funds for senior meals In the past meals on wheels has been very fortunate in having Wonderful support from the board of supervisors and that has helped us to provide Thousands and thousands of seniors with millions of meals Making a huge difference in their ability to stay independent We are also doing very important work when we advocate for the seniors we serve We're ensuring that they have a voice that is heard There are lots of seniors here today. There are staff. There's volunteers behind me that want to share some thoughts and feelings with you About senior issues about seniors who can't be here to express their thoughts So please listen with your hearts and consider our request. Thank you hello I volunteer at the ben loman meals on wheels. My name is pennie drew I am 96 years old I have been eating meals on wheels lunches for 21 years I hope with your help it goes on for another 21. Thank you Thank you Got a lover I'd like to read a letter from mr. Hernandez He is a caregiver for his mother This letter to whom it may concern this later letter is to state the tremendous life-saving service meals on wheels program has given us We are both extremely low income residents of santa cruz county My mother is a 95 year old bedridden extremely infirm woman who is incapable of caring for herself I am a cancer patient and her caretaker It is nearly overwhelming on most days to cope with simple daily activities Thank god that meals on wheels provides us with their lifeline So we can have something solid and nutritious to eat when otherwise we would have to do without Please understand and Please understand how valuable and necessary the service they provide for folks like us truly is and continue to help fund their great work One more letter from a woman who's also a caregiver for an elderly parent I just want to express my appreciation for the muchly needed help we have received from meals on wheels Without your help these would have been many rough days We don't have transportation. So we are thankful for the delivery service I'm a caregiver for my mother who is 91 and with full dementia with her health issues in my own We get overwhelmed your service is makes life so much easier Thank you First time for me being up here. I'm mike reos Meals on wheels loud nelson site. I brought you guys some plates read them. I have some artists over there Thank you My name is thomas and I attend the senior meals on wheels lunch program as a senior citizen of america and also As a homeless. No a houseless person Um, this is one of the best programs there ever has been It needs to be refunded because for many of us At least for three hours a day. We have a little bit of home there Thank you Hi, i'm robbie shoemaker and i'm at live oak And this is a letter for Supervisor friend It's from somebody that gets meals served at home says dear zack. I'm 92 years old Male that lives alone my wife died three years ago And I find it difficult to get out to get food I find it difficult to cook Or get out to get food the meals on wheels program is very important To me because it is hard for me to get out with all the traffic And aptos And it's signed george dep Thank you Good morning. Excuse me. My name is kathy currents and i'm a 30 year Program manager with meals on wheels working primarily with the homebound seniors and supervisor kunity. I have A letter from mary. She says my name is mary and i'm 104 going on 105 And have been on meals on wheels for the last 20 years I live alone and depend upon my meals and the volunteer chris who brings them Please help meals on wheels as they have always been there for me And supervisor leopold. I have one for you from john dear supervisor. Thank you for your support I had a stroke six years ago. I am unable to cook for myself I called meals on wheels and they came to my rescue I have received meals for six years now and have always relied on their support and aid Thank you for listening best wishes john fraser Thank you I think i've been to his house Good morning. My name is alma mollina. I am also with meals on wheels And I have a letter from a watsonville home delivered participant Dear supervisor meals on wheels is personal to me as I am on dialysis and must have The protein the meals provide me with Since my wife has rheumatoid arthritis and we are in low income We need the meals for our well-being Please support the program And then I have another letter from a scotch valley participant I would like to take this time To thank those who have been helping me What what i've been doing is saving the milk for breakfast with a box of cereal By bread lunch meat. There's lunch and dinner One of and there's one of my dinners. So there you go Carol has been great She makes herself available to her clients.  Thank you So ray cancino from community bridges again So thank the board of supervisors for the continued partnership and helping to address the needs of our community Your partnership not only shows the community your commitment to meet growing needs But allows us to leverage funds to attract donors funders and leverage state dollars Today i'm here to discuss the growing concern around the arbitrary fixed investment in social services Throughout these last four years the proposed total investment has been recommended at the same level The additional funds have been fixed at 150 000 and the set aside at 30 000 for emerging needs These budget constraints in no way taken to consideration the massively growing Income inequality nor the massive growing total county revenues over the last several years It doesn't address the housing crisis or the growing demographics in our community I'm here to ask that we look to increase these total social service sector investments to be tied to growth And decline of the overall county budget allowing the county to better meet the needs of our community I ask that you take a look at the process that has determined that those fixed amounts Um be worked on and that we work together to find a solution Today we're asking for an additional 35 000 for meals on wheels to ensure that we're meeting the current demands of our community In 2015 we received hundreds of thousands more and uh or thousands more in 2009 We received hundreds of thousands more even when the total budget was far less than today's current budget The trend is growing and a growing disproportionate gap between the people we can serve and those that need our services That is why every single hungry child family and every single senior in our community is a failed policy decision And we have the opportunity today to rectify it We urge you to invest more in social service sector and that you begin locally by investing 35 000 more to meals on wheels Which will help to feed 3 500 more seniors in this community My name is tony crane uh resident of aptos My only concern about core and I talked about this uh your previous presentation is that the key proponent or Part of it is that it's evidence-based So that means that feedback has to be honest and transparent So you all know who I am and why I've been here a lot And that's because my experience is that um things are not honest and necessarily transparent And that some maybe some of the People who get the larger donations have the ability and the propensity to tweak numbers and do things like that in order to make it seem as if the things are working I'm just asking if there is some way that you make sure that the information that you get Is checked to make sure that The information you're getting is true and correct so that the money can then be Allocated properly so that's just my concern and I imagine it's a part of what you do But I didn't see it as part of the presentation and how that is taken care of so that's my concern. Thank you Good morning. My name is Betsy Clark and I'm here today to represent NAMI national alliance mental illness And mostly just to thank the board and the department For the support and providing funding for NAMI through the core investments I also have a letter And this is a person who had received some services from NAMI and was not able to make it this morning Um, her name is leslie politas and she lives in capitol. She says thank you respected board of supervisors for your time I was born and raised in the county never expected to find myself in need of health and human services When my 27 year old son experienced a mental break last october NAMI as a national organization hit my radar quickly in conversation with friends across the country And our outreach to the local chapter was life changing for our family The professional approach cost course availability and quality content of the course has helped us immensely to be involved in our son's care We were so impressed with the program. We signed up to become certified teachers for future Community members who will have the same needs as we do. Thank you for your ongoing Compassion and support of this world-class organization and I also wanted to take another minute to Kind of just remind people of what NAMI does And also to let people Know that they can go to our website and you know find out about services. They might not have known about So we're not a treatment organization But we do provide education and support for families Also for people who are experiencing mental health symptoms And we also do a lot of presentations at high schools at The community college UCSC For teachers parents and then just various ones in churches and trailer parks or wherever And we also do some advocacy as many of you know with our advocacy on the telecare and also on second story So that's what we do and actually i'd like to timing perfect. Thank you And i'd like to um, this is just a list To remind board members Hi, my name is mary howe and i'm one of the founders and on the planning team of village santa cruz county Which is a national model for Peer support to help each other Stay in our homes and stay engaged in the community as we age And i'm really just here to Say if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer them and talk to you about it So okay. Thank you Good morning board of supervisors. My name is paulina moreno. I'm one of the project directors of the thriving immigrants initiative in the 2020 census project with cab We know these are difficult and important decisions. So we thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning I'd like to thank you for your continued support of cab and our multiple programs And we thank you for your vision to support youth families and immigrants to thrive in this community This morning. I'd like to briefly speak on three points The first one being our concern that a reduction and set aside funding For cabs case management and support services to immigrants who have been impacted by ice enforcement ultimately means a reduction in services We know that this administration has focused greatly on expanding immigration enforcement efforts And we recently saw in the news the president vowing to remove millions of undocumented immigrants starting next week So we are greatly concerned that a reduction in 13 000 means that we will need to reduce our services That have been established to address an emergent growing and unmet need Last year cab received 23 000 from county set aside to provide education and outreach and intense case management to seven to 12 families And um our case manager has been able to serve over 30 families who have come to cab for services beyond referrals We urge you To please consider fully funding our request for our case management work The second point is regarding the nonprofit technical assistance. We understand this is an important Support for us. However, the 45 000 should not be coming from direct services This money should be reinvested in community programs And we respectfully request that funding to support technical assistance comes from another line item in the budget And lastly, we're concerned that we have another contract with flatline funding Um While multi-year funding is greatly appreciated when it does not include cost escalators It creates an additional financial burden on already stretched nonprofits nonprofit employees Are twice as likely than the general population to qualify for public services. So we are We need to stop the cycle and adjust for cola. Thank you Hi board of supervisors. I want to start by thanking you all and the staff My name is Jenna Rodriguez and i'm the director of development for youth now We are being recommended for funding for the first time this year And youth now is an after school center based out of watsonville at service middle school and high school youth But this set aside funding is specific to our five week summer program So with your support, we are able to provide um The minimum of 45 maximum of 50 watsonville youth a memorable summer experience And specific to transportation needs. So we'll be taking our youth every week on a field trip Our big one this year is the san francisco exploratorium. We do a lot of volunteer service We'll be volunteering at the senior center Joining them in their friday night dances. And so we're really excited and I just want to thank you all for that support Hi, my name is carol and I want to thank the staff and the board for all your hard work On all these issues. I'm here to add my voice to those Asking for additional funding for the meals on wheels Can't say enough great things about that program and also it seems like such a Small amount that you're asking for for the watsonville senior center And I know that the spaces that are available that are safe for seniors to go and eat and have Some sense of community are are Just hugely important. So thank you very much Okay Yeah, I want to be able to share with members of the public that I do appreciate your political reasoning Zach friend I do appreciate your leadership on this issue trying to streamline the whole procedure That's good uh, politic and in terms of just expressing that but I want to be able to share with members of the public, you know, just all these Programs, I mean we had to go back there 60 feet away to try to ascertain this Right. Look at all these programs. A lot of these are just bundogal expenditures that a lot of them are not even existence Come on, you know, the hustle is real Right the board Directed and told allen timberlake To do certain things and she didn't report back to the board during this budget and she totally bypassed that that shows disrespect Right when you look at uh transparency california She's making a quarter of a million dollars and if we're going to save any type of cost It starts with the top on down. We need new leadership from the outside We need to reorder the human service department and uh, uh bringing new leadership from the outside. Thank you Thank you. That concludes public comment um Can I just ask In our when we created this new round of core funding in addition to the set aside and the emerging needs What was the increase over the previous core funding from the year before? Remember that number I want to say it was uh 300,000 three to 400 we'd have to go back in and we can certainly do that and bring that number back I don't have it. Yeah, I mean, I think My point is that if we're gonna say we can't say we want three-year budgets and then when we do a three-year Uh budget cycle in order to give people certainty that it's flat funding So we can take that 300,000 dollars and cut it up into a hundred thousand dollars per year and then we're increasing it But it's the same net It's the same money at the end So in the next core, I guess we can break up if they're assuming the budget's okay This what we were planning to give into three different chunks so that people can experience an increase But I think it's really important that we be honest with each other and with the public that we are increasing money This is not flat funding. We just increased it earlier so that the programs could have more money up front as a way to to better address the needs and so um It's I think I think that's an important it's important to recognize that going forward Do people have do any supervisors have any questions? Uh as a result okay, I'll bring it back to the to the board for a motion. Yeah, I'll uh comment We're we're talking about the human side here. That's why we uh, we represent the community that we're from and I don't think we're so rigid that we can't uh We can't move something here When we're we're talking about public input and we're saying we're doing this out in the open in the public And people are showing up and they're telling you what they've been telling us for months in the past Especially with meals on wheels We we have to respect their opinion and they're they're coming down here and telling us that there is a problem And we need to address it Otherwise, why even have public input? Why even have people come up here? So what I do appreciate with core is that we have in a way, uh A great number of these programs that are pretty much set so we don't have them coming every year And uh saying we want more what we're looking at today is we have two that are asking for more and uh one Is uh The watserville senior center that's 15,000 and then we have the meals on wheels Asking for an additional 35,000 so they're really two different requests Again, what i'm getting at is the human side. We're asking we're trying to represent the people that we uh The communities we come from And the people that show up for public input. We can't just ignore them. We can't just say Okay, you came here. You said your peace and uh go home We we we've got to have a heart. We got a we got to be able to listen to them And I think uh, I think all of us realize how important our programs are from our certain areas So I'm I'm standing up for south county right now But if somebody from the other part of the county, which uh Meals on wheels is really a county wide request Uh, I would I would support them because I know that they live in that community and they know how important something is So i'm going to make a motion that we uh We approve this but we add an additional 15,000 dollars for the Watsonville senior center And i'll make it an additional proposal that we have 35,000 Or any number that a colleague would want to uh compromise on for the Meals on wheels program county wide And if I get a second on either one, I guess it's two different ones Then we can vote on it So you want to have One motion or two motions Uh, two we'll make them two motions Okay, what are the two motions then okay first one 15,000 for the uh Watsonville senior center And second motion is uh 35,000 or any number That can be amended from uh Another supervisor for meals on wheels Well, uh the the question about the meals on wheels is very clear to me. It's it's it's an outstanding program I've seen in the benefit of my family the the difference it makes for for seniors to be able to stay in their homes and live independently um and to support families And support individuals with the basic Food security, which is critical Uh ensure that they eat well, so I would support more funding for the the meals on wheels uh program Okay, so we have that's a second on that motion And one last thing Uh We're dealing a lot of times. We're spending a lot of money on reaction reactive Programs were homeless. They're they're homeless. They're out there That costs a lot of money to try to help them I'm talking about something that's preventative It's actually something that we're doing for people before They either become Incapacitated or they become homeless or they become Lost in the system when they get older So this what I'm we're I'm talking about a small amount of money that's preventative We're actually going to save money in the long run because we don't have to help somebody that Nobody went to the house And uh saw that they were Failing and that's what meals on wheels does. They're more than just a meal. They're actually a personal contract contact The senior center is actually a place also that's preventative because it's dealing with seniors And it's combating loneliness and it has programs for them And uh again, they're a small program. So I think we're saving money. So let me just okay Let me let me just say so we had 27 applications for almost 700 000 dollars Every one of those applications Would be a benefit to the community. I agree, right? But we're not funding 700 000 dollars. We had cab here today We had the village program here today if we fund this program I would imagine next year any organization that's smart will turn out 20 people Uh for their organization asking us to fund it So we have to have fidelity to a program. So I would have I'm encouraging you to do is I I don't think you have three votes I think I recognize your commitment to this program and I think you can work with the CAO to find one time money Um from another source so that it's not so we have some respect for this program and we aren't back to every year Um, whatever community programs turn out the most people Can get funded Uh, so I think that's I don't know I might have three votes. Okay, that's fine If you got three votes, I'm I'm happy for you Program, all right, then assuming that that was a motion even though technically I'm not sure it meets the qualification of a motion in a second. I didn't actually hear you second Supervisor Leopold, but are you second? I would second the recommended actions plus the additional Funding $35,000 for the meals on wheels program So then I'll speak about a couple things here because I think that um It wasn't just two programs that spoke to me. I mean it was I received a number of phone calls And emails and these aren't these aren't easy conversations to have I mean you got to recognize that like the easiest vote to cast is a vote where you're just adding money on to something I mean, it's not like we ran for office here because we wanted to cut programs For seniors. It's not like we ran for office because we wanted to not fund our parks or not have Safe streets, or we not I mean this is not why any of us are serving up here, but it is You know, it's easy to create a sort of villain standpoint when you're saying that I'm standing for Some sort of fidelity with a process program and financing Um, and it's really hard in the conversations. I've had with some of the executive directors of some of these programs to say This isn't a judgment on your program. This is a reality of Where we are just like you would with a home budget or anything else you would do Um, so it's unfortunate just sort of the The way that you're presenting it. Um, and I know you don't intend to in that way supervisor Caput because your heart is always in the right place when it comes to Uh, your approach to these things It's just it is more complex than what you're actually presenting right now in this situation Not just in the message it sends but in the reality of where it is And it's inconsistent with some of the things that the board has done on other elements I've heard you be more so than any other board member by the way the one who starts the speeches with We're talking taxpayer money here and then you vote against an item And we have a respect for a process and then you vote against an item so I just wanted to be known that that these that it's not like there isn't thoughtful process up here It's not like there isn't a care for programs Um, it isn't we've had this discussion year after year after year where the need is increasing Things are changing. We just received an entire budget presentation yesterday about Our own budget deficit that we have Best case scenario six million worst case scenario double to triple that Um, a recession is going to mean that there's going to be a greater responsibility on these community programs That don't have the financing for it and an inability for the county to provide the funding for it This is where we're headed. I mean, this is the reality of of where we are It's not an ideal situation to be in but I can't support the motion in irrespective of how it's presented. It has nothing to do with a judgment on either the watsonville senior center or Meals on wheels, which is a program that does remarkable things as is the senior center by the way, but i'm gonna As a result of this i'm going to introduce a substitute motion, which is for the recommended actions And i'm going to provide additional direction that staff come back when you provide your Quarterly updates. I think they are on the core program That that talks about how what would be a best way to Move from a set aside program into Uh, the core program. It doesn't mean that Doesn't mean it doesn't allow for emergent needs Doesn't mean that it isn't for small dollars just to streamline that process so that we're actually Dedicating more time on things that actually should be done than what they are So this is for the recommended actions with additional direction Uh for that to come back in the next report I'll second that and agree with you that You know all these programs. I love every one of them Meals on wheels is most important. We all participate in the program, but I In i'm confident. I feel That there's are going to be An opportunity before this budget closes a week from today That we can address that program, but i will second the motion and Appreciate every program that's made an application to us. All right, so we have a substitute motion on the floor Yeah so The one that had a second has now been replaced by a substitute motion that we need to vote on first The substitute motion is to establish the set the staff recommend or to approve the staff recommended recommended actions As well as bring forward a proposal for these smaller programs If that if this yeah if this motion fails Correct because we have a substitute motion And so we're we're going to be voting on that motion, which is the parliamentarian is going to come into play here Well that standard parliamentary procedure and part of the rules Is that when there's a substitute motion you vote on that or an amendment to motion you vote on that first before the main motion It's a substitute motion Right, so there's a substitute motion So the rules are that you vote on a substitute motion first before the main motion Supervisor you major You made your motion You had a second Supervisor friend made his motion, which is substitute to your motion That we're going to vote on first As a substitute amendment motion Okay Chair I just like to add I agree with the parliamentary procedure And What supervisor friend proposes is not a is is not a bad thing But i'm not going to vote for it because One of the things that is it it's a disturbing trend to me Is the We've shortened our budget process from 10 days to four days. We don't even look at every budget We don't even look at the and talk about each department in which we fund here And to continually take away choices that the board can make and turn it over to staff is Is is not a criticism of the staff, but we have to retain the power of the of the board and on one small part Which is a rounding error in the 827 million dollar budget I think we can retain some control over that And be able to listen to community concerns when they come forward, especially for critical programs like providing food to seniors so so I understand your desire and I don't and I don't mean to I don't place a value judgment. I just say for me I would say I care about the the elected board making decisions about funding on an annual basis And we shouldn't continue to limit our opportunities to do that. We should We should look to take those opportunities where they exist I mean, I guess I'll just answer it because I think it's important to be answered I don't understand how this changes this we still vote on core We still get to say whether we support that on a multi-year process This just changes it administratively of where it goes. So we still we still make all the decisions We still do our fiduciary responsibility under the state constitution. We still pass the budget Line by line on the core component. It'll outline what this will be And we'll see what comes back In a few months, whether that's something that you think is reasonable at that time I just felt that it was unreasonable to have a significant amount of time and money spent on something Where that money could then actually be Placed back into something if it weren't used this way, but we still will have the same controls Okay, uh, so we have a motion and we have a second. This is super what just for the record This is supervisor's friend substitute Motion and so all those in favor, please say I I Sorry, no. Oh, okay. So that passes three to two Thank you very much So, uh, that we now move on to item number 29 This is to consider the 2019 to 21 proposed budgets for the human services department HSD is outlined in the reference budget documents and schedule the proposed Uh, continuing agreements list items and amendments to the unified fee schedule for final final approval on last day budget hearings June 25 2019 as outlined in a memorandum of the director of human, uh services Good morning chair community members of the board I'd like to start by thanking our ceo and his staff for their assistance in developing our proposed 2019 through 21 budget As noted yesterday the fiscal stewardship of your board and the ceo For next fiscal year has put the county on solid financial ground However with projected revenue shortfalls and rising cost ahead I want to assure you that the human services department will continue to exercise that same fiscal prudence in our budget I'd also like to take this moment to thank my fellow colleagues in other county departments and our nonprofit sector As reflected in our county vision statement making santa cruz county a healthy safe and more affordable community depends on strong partnerships Fortunately in this county. This is one of our greatest assets Our proposed budget is a reflection of the hard work and dedication of our leadership team who are present today And every member of our fiscal staff who are simply top notch They're talented and committed to the work and care deeply about supporting our programs This care for the greater good extends to all members of the human services staff Whether they're working on the front lines or supporting Our services through critical administrative support and they show up every day dedicated to missing making a difference Turning now to our budget presentation Before I take your questions I'd like to give you an overview of our department and our current year accomplishments Followed by a review of our proposed two-year budget and several state and federal issues that we're tracking Additionally, I'll describe how the human services department will support the county's operational plan By highlighting three objectives and the partnerships that we rely on to achieve them To complement our proposed budget We've provided your board with a preliminary copy of our annual report Which provides more detailed information on our programs and services The final published version of this report will be posted to our website in july Everything we do is grounded and informed by our mission as a government steward of critical public safety net programs The human services department aspires to strengthen our community by protecting the vulnerable promoting self-sufficiency alleviating poverty and improving quality of life In support of this mission We offer a variety of mandated programs and services all of which are designed to help us achieve these four overarching goals The annual number of individuals receiving services differs depending on the program But taken in whole our department serves approximately one in three county residents As reflected in this list of sample accomplishments Whether we're helping those who are homeless find employment or secure housing Or facilitating access to home-based visiting for families with young children Our staff always strive to improve and expand services for our fellow community members The recent opening of the we're still here exhibit on senior isolation is an example of this striving spirit Nationally at the local level we're experiencing an epidemic of loneliness More than one in five people in the united states report feeling lonely isolated or lacking in companionship This isolation has an adverse impact on people's physical health and mental health Especially among the elderly who are often hardest hit by social isolation In santa cruz county the problem has become extreme with 36 of surveyed seniors reporting that they feel lonely on a regular basis To address this issue and in partnership with the maw local artists and over 180 older adults in our community The human services department is sponsoring the we're still here exhibit stories of seniors and senior isolation The exhibit opened in april and will run through january By the time it closes over 75 000 people will experience the range of impacts that social isolation can have on our life as we age They'll be reminded by the voices of people like joys Talk to elders get together with someone Talk to your elders and your family. You have a grandmother or maybe your mother is an elder Sit down and talk to them and and ask them. Well, tell me something you haven't told me They'll receive sage advice and wisdom from community members like mickey When I was growing up my father's book plate Which said the be