Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today we need to talk about another method to make coins in FIFA 20. This is kind of like a how-to video on how to make coins early on in FIFA 20 through a very popular method, just called flipping. Very simply, we're gonna be flipping and trading cards in periods of time, less than a day, hopefully less than two days at the max, where basically you can buy a card at one price when it kind of reaches a low point on its natural upswing and downswing on a variation of price for that card in a day or two day period. And then we will sell that card when it reaches the tip-top of that period as well. So basically we're buying low, selling high within a short period of time, flipping that card for profit. And this is something that is very, very easy to do in the early game FIFA 20. As you can tell, right now I'm on the FIFA 20 demo. I can't stand to be in FIFA 19 anymore, so you're not gonna see anymore of that. We're all about FIFA 20. Even though this is the demo, I only have kickoff and Volta, that's all we need, all right? That's all we need to stay on FIFA 20, but we're gonna talk about some ultimate moves and go over to Footbin and check out some other websites for that kind of stuff. So if you enjoy the video, smash the thumbs up on it and comment down below if you have any questions about this different method of trading. So first off, I wanna start with a couple of examples from FIFA 19 that I traded with early on in the year that were very, very good in terms of being able to flip these cards on a daily basis. And basically, what you're looking for and what cards you wanna flip, you're gonna be looking for cards that people are gonna be using in their starter teams. So cards that are probably somewhere in the 5K or even like 2,000 coins, all the way up to like 10 to 15K. That's gonna be the best bang for your buck ratio in terms of these cards. Because if you go with anything higher, the amount of profit that you're gonna make on a daily fluctuation probably isn't that much because most people at the start of the game are buying players in that two to 15, 20K range for their squads, especially during the web app phase or during EA access. And that's when I, the timeframe that we're especially looking at right here is from EA access and the web app. So basically from the start of FIFA Ultimate Team, the web app and EA access, up until the game comes out. That's where we're kinda looking for some of these cards, even some of these low rated cards like Jesse Lindgard that I'm showing you right here. Check out this card's price. I vividly remember buying this card for like 9,000 coins every single night. As you can see here, Friday, September 21st, the web app came out like two days before this last year I think. I was buying this card for like 9,000 coins in the night time. It would go up in the morning to over 10,000 and I would sell for an easy one to 1.5K a card. That's some easy, easy profit on a card like this. You're making really solid profits on a daily flip like this. And I'm gonna show you guys the hourly graph outlook for this card just to kinda teach you guys how you can do this. So basically footbin is gonna be your biggest friend.  And you're gonna look at their daily graphs, all right? So this is the daily graph for Lindgard right now in FIFA 19. Obviously, these are FIFA 19 prices, not FIFA 20. Not gonna be the most accurate in terms of fluctuations. But you can tell here that Lindgard's price is at a low point of 900 coins. So you might be able to get one on bid for 750 or 800 coins. And he reaches a peak of, if you look around 1.4K, there's a spike here at 1.8K. Let's see about Tuesday. Tuesday he was chilling around 1,000 coins, 1,200 all day, dipped down to 850 and kinda rose back up to 1,100. So basically through this two-day period, his high point was around 1.3, 1.4K. I think we could get some sales there based on this graph. And it looks like we can get some buys around 850 coins. So based on this graph that I see, this would be a decent card to flip at a very low budget. Obviously at the beginning of FIFA 20, this card, Jesse Lindgard, he has a FIFA 20 card. I think it's just about the same as this one right here. It is 82 rated, a couple of stat changes. But again, a card that a lot of people are gonna use in their starter teams, four star skills, only a three star weak foot, which is a little bit underwhelming. But basically you're gonna wanna look at cards like this Meta, popular, and that are gonna be in a lot of starter teams, popular nationalities as well. Basically good cards that link and have good stats. And that are from main leagues and main teams. Popularity is the key for these flipping. Flipping these cards because that just means that there's more people going out and buying them for their teams. Another FIFA 19 example of a card that I flipped a lot. Now obviously, Giorgio had a little bit of once to watch hype in there, so his price could have been fluctuating and continuing to go up, as you see in this graph, because of the once to watch hype and that card, this gold card going out of packs. But this card definitely fluctuated a lot too. I would buy this card for right around eight to 9000 coins, sell it the next day in the morning for around 11000 coins.  The nighttime when the EU, which is the main player base of this game, basically from midnight UK until three or four AM UK, maybe even five or six AM UK, is like the dead time on the market, especially during the EA access and before the full game release. And actually throughout the rest of the year, it's kind of more of a dead time on the market. But especially when there's limited supply early game, not a lot of people have opened packs yet, especially before the full game release. There's not as many people on the game. The market gets really dead and there's more people that are listing their cards, either listing them overnight or people that are continuing to open packs and other parts of the world that are packing those cards and selling them, trying to get coins. You can see those cards prices drop because more people are selling than they're buying because most of the user base is off the game. Those card prices drop low in the UK overnight. You can snag a couple of those, throw them on your transfer list. If you're here in the USA where I am, it's a perfect timing because it's evening for us. We can buy some of those cards, throw them up on our transfer list overnight for six hours, list them one, two, 3,000 coins above that price, maybe 10 to 15% profit and possibly collect a buyer when you wake up in the morning, you know, stuff like that. If you're somebody in the UK, you can pick up a card when you go to, right when you're going to bed, list it up overnight, maybe sell it throughout the day as 6 p.m. approaches when the peak time of the day is. That's kind of when you wanna sell these cards and look for them to go up the most is around those periods. So this method, just this purely simple flipping method, is gonna work with a lot of cards and it's gonna work early on. Now as you can see, there's a couple days here where the graph does not show. Fulpin was not working from the 18th when the web app and EA access came out on Xbox. Fulpin was not working at that time so either the prices were probably a little different. I assume that Georgina was probably like seven or eight K and he was kind of rising up with that once to watch hype. So basically you might have to buy that card for more expensive every day. The one time period that I want you guys to be careful with though is this date right here that I have the mouse at. It is Monday the 24th because I believe last year, maybe it was Tuesday. Either Monday or Tuesday of last year is when the early access, people who bought the game, they were able to get on the game for the first time and that means EA access means FIFA points or excuse me, not EA access. EA access does mean FIFA points but the pre-order of the game means even more people come onto the game. It's like another increment where more and more people get to come onto the game of FIFA and open FIFA points basically and create demand for cards in the market. So you see this dip here. This is kind of a dip that is leading up to this card going out of packs for once to watch and that's why you see him go down is because more packs are being opened. I guess people thought that there was a low chance that he was gonna get into wants to watch. Probably people were assuming that COVID chitch would get in instead of Georgino but Georgino ended up getting in. His card goes out of packs and he shoots up but you can see that the packs that are being opened during the three days really access for those who pre-order the game kind of made this card go down with that supply coming onto the market. You see Lingard as well taking a massive hit if we go back to his FIFA 19 card. He took a massive hit look. He was up here at 10,000 coins. On Monday he's 10K. Look what he raised out by Friday. Down here at 7K and then the next week he's down here at 4,000 coins. So a lot of these cards drop off fast because they get a lot of supply onto the market especially like an 82, 83s are kind of the middle zone. Some 84s that they're not overpowered but then anything that's below that is gonna get a ton of supply but those cards are still very good to trade and to flip early on. One last example that I wanna put out to you guys, Callum Wilson, 80 rated card. I wanna look at his FIFA 19 variant. Here it is, FIFA 19 Callum Wilson. Oh, I love this card. Look at the graph, you get to begin the game. 4,000 coins, let's zoom in real quick. Let's zoom in on this graph really quick for Callum Wilson. I flipped this card so many times from around 3,000 coins to about 4K every single day. This is a perfect Premier League English striker that a lot of people wanted to have in their teams and it showed because of this price fluctuations. So basically to figure out what cards you're going to wanna do this with when FIFA 20 comes out, I'll be looking at a lot of these cards so you can stay tuned to the channel here but of course look at the popular leagues and nations but just honestly, look at the graphs. Look at the graphs of the cards that you think are gonna move a lot. Watch their daily graphs, see how much they do actually move because after one day or two days you're really gonna start to see this trend and I'm telling you right now that it's gonna happen because it will happen but if you don't believe me and you wanna make sure that you're watching it happen for yourself, watch the trends for the first two days of like a web app and EA access before we get into that early access the three days before the full game release. Watch those trends, it's gonna happen because people are gonna be building teams playing the game with their EA access time and starting out their offline teams early. So again, just creates a big time opportunity again to buy when those cards are low and flip them for when they are high. And obviously this is a trading method that we do throughout the rest of the year. We're gonna do this with Inforums with other cards that are out of packs and stuff like that but early on in FIFA it's all about these gold cards because that's what people are doing. So basically go through a list, you can help yourself out by going through a list right now. The cards that fluctuate the most are positions that everybody needs for their team. Right backs, center mids, strikers. And of course the guys that are overpowered and there are less of those cards. Like if we're looking at Premier League right backs you have a lot of options for an early game right back.  So there's some decent options down in here although I would say Wombie Saca, Pereira and Hector Bellerin might be decent ones to trade with especially Pereira and Wombie Saca. Those kind of stick out to me as possibilities but basically just go through. Like I have it set to Premier League right now and right back. I'm gonna change this to left wing, left mid. What options do we have here? Ooh, I kind of like this. I kind of like this. So Frazier, Pereira, these guys are gonna be pretty cheap. All these guys down in here. Anthony Martial might be a very interesting one to flip because he's kind of at that middle range. Middle range here. We have a lot of lower guys, some 80s, some 81s, a 181 rated card but then you have Martial who has a pretty solid card and an 84 in Felipe Anderson. Martial is in some ways arguably better than Felipe Anderson. So you might kind of watch this card and see what kind of happens. These guys are gonna be two out of reach for most people at the beginning of the game. This card might be around 10 to 20,000 coins, maybe 15K and that could be a card that you can easily flip. Again, this is something that you're gonna wanna do on a middle budget when you have like a 100,000 coins and especially you can look for these lower rated cards like Pulisic being a great starter left wing for a Premier League team. You can find Pulisic's maybe for around 2,000 coins on the market. Maybe he goes up to 3K in the height of the daytime. On a lower budget, that's gonna be something great that you can do but again, just look through some of these positions. Do some research for yourself. Find some positions that don't have many middle tier players for starter teams that are solid and see what you can do. Alexander St. Maxime, 79 rated. That card's probably gonna fluctuate a lot. He's gonna be inflated at the start of the game. He's gonna get killed by Pax when the EA access comes out but he could rebound back up from that after a lot of those Pax get opened into the early access stage. That's something to watch with that card but even a guy like Willion who is kind of under the shadow of Pepe right now, Pepe's gonna be way inflated. Mares is gonna be up there probably but Willion could be somebody who you might wanna keep your eye on to flip. He's Brazilian, he's right wing and he's just a good right winger. He's got good stats for an 82 rated card so just kinda watch the hype on some of those cards for what could be a good card to flip and again, just watch their prices on foot bin. Use this foot bin graphs tool. Use the hourly graphs. Look at yesterday, Tuesday, today and if you see some trends, make sure to hop on those trends right away as soon as you can and make some coins, all right? Make some coins and of course, you can increase your chance of selling some of these cards when you flip them by using chemistry styles. That can sometimes add another 500 to 1000 coins worth onto your card if you pack a consumable or a chemistry style that you're not gonna use.  I'm trying to think of somebody that's good for a starter team. Maybe like somebody like Lerma. Maybe you get an engine, you throw that onto Lerma's gold card and that could instantly make his card worth an extra 500 to 1000 coins depending on how much the engines go for for a starter card like this. So make sure when you have chemistry styles on cards or if you buy one on the market with a chem style, make sure you search the market and say, hey, is this card worth any more with a chem style? That's very important for flipping cards as well. And then of course, having contracts on the cards and position changes as well. If you move somebody to center forward, he needs usually a center mid or a striker that might help somebody's team out for chemistry. So just make sure that you are selling those cards on their actual market price based on that position with the chem style as well. So hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. Make sure you hop onto Foothead, Footbin, wherever you look into the database and look for some of these players, look through positions, look through leagues, look through literally everything. Give yourself plenty of opportunities to look through cards and find out which ones you wanna eye, which ones you think are gonna be popular that you could flip like this Luke Shaw card. Great left back for starter teams in the Premier League. Watch that card. There's so many cards you can do this with. It's literally gonna happen all the time every day. So that's why I wanted to bring this video to you guys today talking about flipping for FIFA 20. It's gonna happen. It's gonna be a great way to make coins early on in FIFA Ultimate Team. I will revisit this topic as kind of a how-to format. Probably a couple weeks into FIFA when we have Informs, other special cards and meta golds and wants to watches to talk about as well. Because flipping is arguably the best way to make coins in FIFA Ultimate Team when you're just getting on and wanting to make coins like this. It can be one of the best ways to make coins in my opinion. So hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. Smash the thumbs up if you did and be able to look out for a lot more uploads coming this week. Probably some more uploads related around squads but again we're gonna be looking to more some investing. Maybe some player the month uploads as well because that's gonna be coming up soon. We need to be ready for that and of course ones to watch. I haven't seen a lot of stuff on that yet and you guys need to be informed about ones to watch and some players that could be in it this year because the field's wide open for that. So I'll talk about that in another video soon. But I'll catch you guys in a video soon. Also subscribe to the channel if you're new. Cheeky plug, all right? And check my links down below in the description. 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introduction. I have known the hospitality of the mayor before here at Gracie Mansion and senators from New York, Monahan and Domado, members of the House of Representatives representing this great state, the state and city officials and representatives of organized labor who are here, members of my cabinet, secretaries Donovan, Pierce and Lewis, Secretary of Interior Jim Watt would have been here, but he's working on a lease for strip mining of the Rose Garden. It's always a pleasure to be here in the company of another chief executive. There's a difficult thing about cutting expenses. The expenses can vote. We also have learned, I know, because I've watched him in the magnificent job he's done in restoring fiscal stability here to this city, that if you always do what you believe in your heart is right, you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.  Thou knowest I cannot even curse thee. But dost thou know I can sell thee to someone who will? I used to say, find when I was governor myself sometimes that I'd go home and make very eloquent speeches in the shower. And there were days like this Labor Day here in New York City when there's nothing like it in all the world. Control their government. Cut through the red tape, kept our promises as the mayor so graciously said. The Westway project begins today. Now people tell me that the name Westway has become a code word for a bureaucracy strangling in its own regulations. From this day forward, let Westway symbolize opportunity and enterprise and let it remind each of us as we watch Westway become a reality that our government works for us, not the other way around. Some of us here have come from another Labor Day celebration. Some have not. But what was done here today? Tens of thousands of working people who are out of jobs will be working again. It was first proposed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers needed work. This city's unemployment rate is more than 20 percent higher than the national average. One month ago, as the mayor said, when I campaigned in New York City, I pledged my support. And today, because of the leadership of Mayor Koch, members of the Congress, because of the close cooperation between New York City and New York State, and because of the persistent efforts of people like Frank Hanley and Tom McGuire, Bill Fenner, who have worked so hard, Westway is going to be a reality. The project will, as the mayor said, create parkland and new areas for commerce and industry. It'll save millions by easing the flow of people and goods, but most important, it will create jobs. And today, as we begin a new season of work, we begin what I hope will be a new age for the American workers. The key to everything we're trying to accomplish is jobs, as I said yesterday, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Promises and programs, subsidies and studies, welfare and make work have all been tried by well-meaning individuals. But any worker knows a job is the best social program there is. More jobs in this country by 1986, in addition to the 10 men you that are already normally expected in our growth. I see an era in which wage earners will be taking home more money in real dollars, and an era in which fewer of us will be looking for work. Our policy has been, and will continue to be, what is good for the American worker is good for America. There's a new spirit sweeping this country, a spirit born from the values, energies and dreams of our working people. It is the dynamic result of millions of individuals coming together, committed to preserving a society where we can each seek our own goals, assured of freedom to climb as high and as far as our own drive and ambition and talent can take us. We've placed trust in regulations and government dictates. Well, I think it's about time we place trust in ourselves and in each other. But we have to give ourselves a chance. We have to have jobs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, when he spoke to a nation that was gripped by the economic woes of the Great Depression, for more than three centuries we've been building on this continent, a free society, a society in which the promise of the human spirit may find fulfillment, commingled here, he said, a blood and genius of all the people of the world who have sought this promise. We have every right to be proud of what we've accomplished and have confidence in what lies ahead. There's no crisis. Our people can't rise above. No problem we can't solve and no challenge too great. The people of New York have turned this city around proving that she can live within her means. The Westway Project is another step of the revitalization of this great American city. So as I present this check for 85 million dollars for the purchase of the right of way, the first installment of a $1.3 billion federal commitment. Let us all take heart in this country from New York's example and from this victory over the inertia of bureaucracy. And on this let each of us commit ourselves again to the renewal. It's represented here today by a


imagine that ever being a poor choice in terms of increasing that level of investment. And I would like to piggyback in a conceptual way to say a touch more about the state and the federal reform efforts that may to be determined bring new resources to our community. So starting with the federal reform of the child welfare prevention wing, if it lands as expected, the state is still working with the federal government to get the state plan approved. So we will know that in the next year, it allows for foster care systems in California to reinvest money that would otherwise be at the back end of the system to increase investments in prevention entering the system. So that's a concept, but that's to me part of the engagement work we would do looking at what is happening going forward to make sure we're not just spreading the dollars from zero to three to zero to five, but we're adding new resources. And I think there's some promising policy budget issues on the horizon that might make that come a reality. And I think you covered part of my next question, but my sense of it is, is you have these federal and state changes that are coming down as well as pre-K implementation, which will be a major change that could have a lot of positive effects and some ripple effects across child care providers and other services. But I also get a sense that there's a lot of philanthropic interest in this area and that Santa Cruz, because we're a little bit ahead of the curve, can we leverage our leadership to get additional investment for some of these programs, if we have, especially if we have good data. And David, are you about to answer?  And actually without any names, there's some large philanthropies that have disengaged somewhat from our county in recent years with respect to zero to five. And I think if we are strategic, we can re-engage those philanthropies as well as engage, as you suggest, Supervisor Coonerty, a number of interested parties that want to support this type of very smart preventative investment as Supervisor Friend alluded to. That's all my questions. I look forward to hearing from the community and then bringing it back for accepting and additional direction. Thank you, Supervisor Coonerty. We'll open it now for public comment. Any member of the public wishing to comment on this item? Seeing none here in the chambers, is there anyone on Zoom? We have no speakers on Zoom for this item, Chair. Okay. Then I'll return it to the board for action and we do have a recommended action as Supervisor Coonerty said. Sure, so I'll move the recommended action with additional direction that staff expand thrive by three to thrive by five, increase data collection and alignment, and identify what additional resources will be necessary in order to maximize leveraging funds and impact in the community. Second. I'll second. Motion by Supervisor Coonerty, second by Supervisor Friend. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk roll call vote please. Supervisor Friend. Aye. Coonerty? Aye. Caput? Aye. Person? And Koenig? Aye. That item passes unanimously as amended with the additional recommendation. Thank you. Thank you to the team from first three and now first five for presenting or thrive by three, now thrive by five as well as first five will now proceed to item 13 to consider report on planned collaboration with the city of Santa Cruz on its proposed use of $14 million of one-time state funding to help people experiencing homelessness in the city of Santa Cruz, Secure Stable Housing is outlined in the memorandum of the director of human services. And once again, we have our director of human services, Randy Morris, as well as Robert Ratner, our division director of housing for health on the line. Yes, so to a very different topic but lots of energy and interest in this topic as well. And just if the clerk of the board could elevate Dr. Robert Ratner who I see he has been. So he is available remote for question and answer but I'll give the presentation. And this is an action that is only to accept and file the report in the materials outlined some details of this transaction which as I will share in a little more detail, we were fortunate that our state senator John Laird and assembly member Mark Stone last state fiscal year were successful in having $14 million of state funds earmarked specific to the city of Santa Cruz and I wanna underline that the money was appropriated to the city of Santa Cruz but there was an expectation that how the city would use those funds would be done in collaboration with the county. So that's where we come in what this report is about is what our role was in working with the city as they looked to how to use up $14 million. I'm gonna spend a little bit of time talking about the process and I do wanna make sure your board is aware and the public is aware that this presentation is intentionally after the process played out and the city brought forward the recommendation to the city council on March 8th and the city council approved the recommended actions but I'm gonna walk through sort of how that played out. So, and we do, I'm sorry, yeah, we do have a PowerPoint. Don't know if that's up. Yeah, and I'll just pause for a moment so the PowerPoint can be seen because I'm gonna start on the first slide. Oh, thank you. And if you can go to the next slide, please. So this is just kind of a quick overview of what played out. So as I said, we're very fortunate to have our state senator and state assembly member who worked very hard. A little bit of context behind this if people are not aware, the way some of the state formulas are applied to how funding for homelessness services are distributed are not necessarily based on the actual volume of people experiencing homelessness in a community but the size of the population so that disproportionately send state money to a community like Santa Cruz County where the population might be small but the number of people experiencing homelessness is large and that was a recognition of our state leaders that they wanted to sort of calibrate some until and if there's changes in the state formula. So that was a piece of what led to their successful negotiations to get this $14 million to our community. The state senator Laird in particular who has a history of formally being the mayor of the city of Santa Cruz and a board member also was very aware from his own personal experience as an elected officials and now three jurisdictions that there needed to be better collaboration and alignment of work between the city and the county. So he included an expectation and made it very clear and convened a video meeting with all of us that this needed to be done in a collaborative effort. So what were the purpose of the funds? We were advised that there needed to be investments in the lasting infrastructure not just immediate interventions that the money went away and didn't have any lasting improvements. That those outcomes, there would be outcome focused in the collaboration and that everything that this $14 million would do would be completely aligned with the collaboration of our strategic plan that your board has passed and that everything the city was doing would sort of line up with the issues that we're working on together. So what was the planning for the use? I'm gonna walk through what the process was and then I'm gonna end with what the city recommended and the city council passed. So the process, first there was multiple staff meetings and I wanna highlight the staff from the county that were represented were not only myself as the human services director, Dr. Ratner as the housing for health director but also our CAO Carlos Palacios saw how important this was and he participated almost every one of the meetings. So the full county leadership was participating as staff. And then the other is I wanna make sure the public is aware of what something called the two by two is. Many people who are pay attention to this do know but for those who don't in January of 2018 your board and the city council at the time both passed the creation of a two by two committee which by definition was the mayor and the vice mayor of the city of Santa Cruz and two board members from the county. And at present that is district three, Ryan community and district five Bruce McPherson. So that structure exists. That's a monthly meeting and early on in the pandemic with all the COVID sheltering we actually moved it up to two times a month. So as soon as these funds were made available we immediately use that committee structure because that committee is focused on issues that overlap between the city and county for a place to have conversations and bounce ideas off our shared elected officials. The process then led to multiple meetings some conceptual agreements and then the city held items at their city council sharing publicly how their efforts were moving forward to look at how to invest the $14 million. And once we reached agreement between staff and with our shared elected officials at the two by two committee the city manager then contacted our two state officials to explain to them where we are to get their approval. And at that point the city manager brought forward the item at March 8th at the city council. So that was the process and we'll go to the next slide to describe at a very high level what the investments are but they can be seen in the March 8th materials at the city council where they're more detailed. So they basically break down into some short-term investments and some long-term investments. So this is the second to last slide some short-term investments. As many are aware who are tracking this issue city and county share in this issue but the city in particular has been trying to address issues that are often named encampments but we're gonna call it public space safety management and resource connection. We have the encampment right behind this building as one of the prime examples and largest examples in our community. So one of the short-term investments was it struck us as county staff in working with the city that they actually had a very humane and well-informed set of protocols for how to address encampments but they did not have the staff to actually execute the protocols. So we fully supported in the discussion they're building their capacity to be able to actually implement plans in a humane way that supports people who are homeless in encampments. So that was the first, the second. And this has been a topic of great debate and discussion at the city council meetings. The city has directed staff in the city to develop safe sleeping and parking areas. And so this was a revenue stream to invest in that. So that was the second item in the short-term. And then the last item is Coral Street. The Coral Street area, which has a combination of county services and investment city investments and then our nonprofit housing matters, all three groups. See this as the best location to really advance our navigation center services. So there was some agreement of that 14 million to invest in some short-term items like campus improvements, repairs to a hygiene bay that are there and then the purchasing, and this is a transition to some longer term of some pallet shelters to expand some shelter capacity at the area. So the next slide, which is the last slide is as we were instructed tied to the purpose of the funds is some long-term investments. So the first was there was a recognition that there is a lot of state and federal money being made available to develop properties to have for shelters and affordable housing. But there are some organizations that need some pre-development funds to the city's credit. They wanted to make these funds available to not just city projects, but county-wide. So there was a $500,000 pre-development fund set aside that is in the process of being put out to the community to help support project development. And then the last two are Coral Street. The second to last one is there's obviously a footprint there and some properties surrounding that that if acquired could expand the footprint. And that is money that the city has asked to purpose for property acquisition. And then the last is a master plan design process. There is money from the 14 million set aside to pull all three of our parties together, the county, the city and housing matters to do what's called the design charrette to look at how to organize that campus to maximize the way it is serving those that we wanna serve. And then this is also a necessary precursor we anticipate to hopefully a future project home key application because the state has in its budget more home key funds. So if we can get that work done and get a good design we think we will be very competitive to even bring in more money to make that location the best it can be. So if you go to the last slide that closes it out and we open it up to any questions. And again, Dr. Ratner is here depending on what questions you have he's been the one working most specifically with the city on all these details. So thank you. Thank you, Director Morris. Questions from members of the board? Mr. Chair, I just wanted to begin by thanking our CAO Carlos Blas shows us for his commitment to not only opening up the county's role and their responsibility in addressing the homelessness issue, but also ending the rancor that had existed for many years between the county and city on this issue. It's very difficult ever just reaches out to every part of our community. And as evidenced by this agreement as well as the overall housing for health blueprint that's been agreed upon by the city and county we're now collaborating in ways that I haven't seen in many years since we started this. And that's due to no small part to the work of the Human Services Director Randy Morris who made the presentation and our Housing for Health Director Robert Ratner. We've been working diligently with counterparts at the city to approach this challenging issue I think strategically and cooperatively. It's a very complex one. And I also want to acknowledge my office's strong partnership with supervisor Coonerty and his staff representing the board on the two by two community throughout the years. We've had a better place than we have been in the future or in the past. We have a really good working relationship now with the city. And I think it's going to set the tone for how we execute this. And I especially want to acknowledge the work of former Mayor Donna Myers who brought about this funding from the state and Senator John Laird for making the request to get this one-time funding. It's critical that we have this as a starting point. And the trick will be how we sustain the funding for our partnership going forward. That's going to be the key element of all this. We have a great plan, but not everything we need to fund it. So I'm hopeful our community will become more competitive for funding once we can demonstrate how much we can get accomplished and the resources that were allocated. But this is a tremendous start. It's unusual in the state. We're, we just have to see and show everyone else how well this can work. So thank you to everyone who was involved in this. It's been a long process and it's going to take some time to resolve it in the long term as well. So thank you to everybody who's been involved. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor McPherson. Supervisor Coonerty, do you want to add something? Yeah, sure. First of all, I want to thank staff, the coordinated effort is important. And I think the investments reflect a good sense of both the needs in our community as well as the desire to make long-term investments as well as short-term, more short-term responses to crisis on the ground. I think, I guess let me just offer a little bit of context having done this now for a lot of years. I think this kind of investment is great. It is a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed going forward. We could have 10 times this investment every year for 10 years. We'd be able to both help a lot of people and we probably wouldn't see much improvement on the ground in terms of encampments in our public parks and neighborhoods and open spaces. The systems are fundamentally broken in the state of California, especially around the areas of mental health and substance abuse. And so it is, I think this is an important step forward, but I also think we need to set appropriate expectations for everyone in the community. For those who are unhoused in seeking services, for those who are frustrated with the lack of progress they see, this is going to be a require a statewide or even national investment of billions and billions of dollars over the coming years, as well as fundamental changes in both our criminal justice system and our mental health and substance abuse systems. We're doing our part in Santa Cruz to try to piece together these fragmented resources and help people in need and reduce impacts in our community. This is a step in that direction, but we should understand just how big of a problem, not only Santa Cruz, but really the nation and especially the West Coast of the United States is facing in this crisis of homelessness. Thank you, Supervisor Coonerty. Supervisor Caput. Great work, Randy. You and your staff want to wish you the best here on this planned collaboration. And anyway, we're facing problems from all different directions and it's good to know you and your staff are working on it. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Caput. Some few questions. The first is I understand the city's goal and this plan is, they had a slide at their March 8th meeting that said, one of the differences the community is gonna see is that San Lorenzo Park will be a park again, which of course means removing the encampment that's there presently. I think I've heard estimates of about 300 or so tents in the San Lorenzo encampment at this time. In looking through some of the new shelter services that are gonna be set up, it seems, and my numbers might be off here, but about 100 spaces of new pallet shelters at Housing Matters Campus, 75 or so spaces at the Armory. I believe somewhere around 40 at the River Street Camp. And that only comes out to about 215. And so the question is, where is everyone gonna go? I've heard significant concerns from community members that clearing the camp in June, July timeframe, right before fire season really kicks in is gonna be a disaster because it's gonna push people into the riparian areas again, where fires are more likely to start. So the question is just on basic capacity, are we gonna have enough beds to actually effectively clear or to San Lorenzo camp safely? I'll queue up a high level answer and then ask Dr. Ratner to follow through. I'm gonna just key off of Supervisor Coonerty's pragmatism, this and Supervisor and Chair Koenig, perfect question, thanks for your candor. Cause I mean, now that we're administrators of the local Housing for Health office, we wanna not lose hope, but we also wanna be practical because this is a complex issue. My queue up for Dr. Ratner is what the city is doing is one piece of an ecosystem and it's trying to detail shifting from people being an encampment into other identified shelter spaces. What needs to be balanced into that, and this is the part where it's our optimism and hope. We have some modest progress that we've seen during the COVID sheltering system that we have been able to help some people get into affordable housing. So that's the complimentary piece and I'd like to queue up Dr. Ratner, the success we've had, both in partnership with Health and getting some grants in our other grant that we received, which has 65 slots to help people who are in the San Lorenzo River area to actually not move to another shelter, but into housing. So the ideal, and I'm underlining, this is the ideal, this is the optimism, is to be able to have a plan for everybody, but if somebody had a way to execute this, this problem would exist and we'd all be replicating it. So Dr. Ratner, if you wanna fill in the details with the encampment response grant and then anything else you'd like to add. Sure, I appreciate the question and I think the supervisor, Conan's math is accurate, but there's not gonna be a one-to-one ratio of dedicated temporary beds to the numbers of people that we have estimated sleeping in the park, but there are other resources that Randy alluded to, so the encampment response grant that we received from the state, which is also a byproduct of this collaboration. We're working with our community provider after the authorization from the board to execute a contract. So there'll be 70, 75 slots for participants in that program and the focus will be on people living in the encampment area and the board has also approved of the Healing the Streets effort with County Behavioral Health and Front Treat as a non-profit provider. So we're mobilizing those resources as well and Randy alluded to our partnership with the healthcare system. The state has invested a lot of resources into housing as a healthcare issue in partnership with our managed care plans throughout the state. So for us in Santa Cruz County, that's the Central California Alliance for Health and some of the organizations we're working with are connected in with the alliance and a lot of the individuals who are living in the camp are eligible for MediCal, health insurance are already on MediCal and that comes with housing navigation services, so many for housing deposits. So our hope is piecing all these things together, we'll have pathways to offer to everyone that's in the park currently. And we don't have great data on the needs of folks in the park. For example, we have some early indications that there's been an increase in the number of veterans who are unhoused in our community. So linking people up with the programs they're eligible for, particularly there's a significant number of resources for veterans. So I think as we do more outreach and get to know people in the camp, I'm hopeful that we can have pathways for everybody, not always a temporary shelter, but the options I alluded to and I think the last thing I'll mention is we created that centralized flexible housing fund for people who need help with deposits or maybe moving back with family and friends out of the area. So all those things we're planning to deploy to try to support the work that the city is doing in the park. Okay, thank you. I know another part or outcome of the March 8th discussion by the city council was directing the mayor to write a letter. I haven't seen this letter, but I believe it was asking the county for more assistance with safe parking spaces. Is that accurate? You can go ahead, Robert. Yeah, I think Supervisor Koenig there, I've definitely heard from staff that talk of this letter, but I have yet to see a letter come to us that formal request. And if I can just break down just maybe I'll ask to make sure we're understanding your question. Safe parking breakdown between RV and cars is an issue cities and unincorporated areas all throughout California are struggling with. And I just wanna break down and see if this is part of what your question is. Identifying a physical piece of property is one thing. Identifying services and community support for that area. Those are the package of all kinds of activities. So I would just say the conversation since I've been here in two years, all of those parts need to be broken out to determine who's doing what. The question has come up now and again about available physical locations, but what goes along with that is community support and then services if necessary. So that I just wanna confirm when that letter comes will certainly be engaged through the two by two committee if it's a city issue, but that's what we'll be tracking is what the ask is. Okay, I mean the question really is, is there more that we can do to provide safe parking spaces or other space for shelters? I mean, you mentioned that really the crux of the issue is not just having the physical property, the real estate, but having the funds to manage a program. The city's budget includes a million dollars for a safe parking program, $1 million, $49,000. Is there, do you know if the city's funds or if those funds are already allocated or is those funds that we could take advantage of in offering some kind of safe parking program through the county? So I'll ask Robert if he's been in that level of detail and I think you've confirmed what my question is because there's paying a provider to be able to help support people there. There's questions about county health and human services and some of the grants Robert mentioned are outreaching to people if they're in a particular area and then there's actually the physical property. That's the one that's pulled me in the most about identifying particular physical spaces that could be used during certain hours and none of those have led to a formal agreement but those are ongoing conversations. Robert, if you have any more specificity in terms of where we are with those discussions? I think there's operational and policy questions. Who are the target populations for the safe parking in terms of the city's proposing? I think to answer one of your questions, Supervisor Koneg I believe that city staff are still working on identifying locations either in the city or outside the city boundaries that would be appropriate. There's also been requests for options for people who are sleeping in their RVs but when you work with RVs, you need to have a location that can accommodate that kind of need as well and the additional expenses related to that. So I think from the accounting perspective there's still openness to looking at partnering with the city on finding locations outside their boundaries but we need to think about who they're planning to refer and operational details. And I think there's some policy questions there around whether county elected leaders such as yourself want to have safe parking for people who are parking in city boundaries coming to another part of the county when we also have people sleeping in their vehicles and not in appropriate areas of the county. So there's a policy issue around location of where these programs are and how they're funded over time that I think we may be bringing back to the board at a later point if we come up with specific locations. Okay, sounds like it to be continued as more specific proposals emerge but there are some resources available there so expect to see something in the future. My final question is about employment opportunities when I had an opportunity to visit the COVID shelter that we managed at the armory. What struck me most was, it was a fantastic shelter before being fed had a place to stay, stay, shower. They didn't have anything to do other than wait around for the shuttle back into town. Meanwhile, here at my office at 701 Ocean Street I'd look out the window at the folks camping in San Lorenzo camp and see people climbing trees taking ditches, cutting firewood, just being industrious and maybe in all the wrong ways. But it struck me that this is very much a part of human nature to want to be productively engaged in some activity. So we had an item early on today's agenda, $750,000 for Goodwill. For some kind of a displaced worker program I don't know if that would be relevant at all. I'm just curious, this board has allocated funds from the American Rescue Plan for job training programs. Are there opportunities to further do outreach for these sorts of employment programs at any of the shelter or housing facilities we're contemplating here? I'll make a couple high level comments and same as Robert to fill in on some detail. First is, this is something that struck me too, Supervisor Koenig early on and kind of had my own aha moment when people like you and others kind of ask questions about what's going on in the shelters, just going back to resources and the categorical nature of federal and state funding. The COVID shelter system out the gates was thought to be a couple of week thing and we'd trace ourself out of a pandemic. And so none of the funding included anything other than paying for the shelter. So by definition what you literally saw was what we were paid to do. So the issue is then stitching together and braiding together and weaving together other services to which there weren't funding. So that's kind of the context of the COVID shelter systems were never thought to be two years. They were thought to be the short term don't get COVID and spread anyhow, lesson learned. I would say one benefit. I don't know if this was part of my boss and Carlos's vision, but moving the Housing for Health Office to Human Services leads to an answer to your question which is having the Housing for Health Office embedded with where the Medi-Cal eligibility determinations are done, where our workforce development board is and where we have some other programs creates an opportunity to start answering that question better. And I'll end with one concrete example because I've been in conversation particularly with Supervisor McPherson's office.  But I think you're familiar with in North County downtown streets team and in South County Community Action Board CAB has a program Watsonville works and the funding behind some of those programs come from a federal allocation that runs through the human services department called the acronym is CFET CalFresh Employment and Training. So those dollars, if you can find local match dollars and both of those city programs, the downtown streets team and the Watsonville program have city match dollars and then our partners in health come in and match as well. And you put that together and by definition that is to CalFresh or CalFresh eligible clients to help them with employment and training. So we are in the process of trying to stitch together and braid together those programs with the Housing for Health division which if we do it right, we'll better get to I think what the answer to your question is making sure there's an intentionality between getting those programs connected with outreach to people in an encampment. So we hope we get, we move further along. But Robert, do you want to fill in any details as well? This is a big unmet me. There's a lot of people and there's not enough services. I think it's a great question. And I think I've real lined with the idea of bringing resources to people who are on house including opportunities for meaningful activity and employment. And I think one of the things that we articulated in our memo to the board is the need to move toward more kind of service enriched programming for folks who are on house and not just having shelter alone but bringing employment opportunities, access to healthcare coverage, health services to where people are and linking them with those opportunities. And Randy, I mentioned an example of that. I think the homeless garden project is an example of another long standing program where there's been links to education and training and work opportunities for folks. So I really appreciate you raising it Supervisor Koenig and I think it's an area where we can keep working toward it precinct those connections between the work we're doing with people who are on house and those employment opportunities that the board has supported through other action. All right, thank you. Any further questions or comments from members of the board? Seeing none, we'll open it for public comment. Please approach the podium. Hello, my name is Becky Steinbrenner. I'm a resident of rural Aptos. Thank you, Mr. Morris for your great reports. They are always the best. And I am really as a rural resident also concerned about if there are not enough places for the Benchlands residents to go that they will go into the wildland. Puginip has always been at risk of that happening and we've seen many fires there. So I'm heartened that you are all mindful of that as well. I really think that we need to accommodate people maybe in smaller clusters. I've talked with a number of homeless people. Many of them are not comfortable in going to a big place like this with 300 residents. There's gang activity, prostitution, drugs. They don't wanna be there. But if there were smaller clusters and these people have their own friends, their communities they could be accommodated in smaller clusters maybe more spread out around the city and not concentrated in the Coral Street area which is already a problematic area. I think we would have more people willing to go to those spots. I also think, and thank you, Supervisor Coenig, Chairman Coenig for bringing up the issue of idle hands. And I feel that we could encourage these people to become part of our wildland vegetation training crews. They could go out and do trail maintenance vegetation removal for fire defensible space and get real hands-on experience networking that could get them jobs. I'd like to see us partnering with local businesses and industrial complexes to maybe have them come in as apprentices and get their feet in the door with networking that could lead to other jobs. I'd like to see mobile mechanics come around to the broken down cars and RVs and work with the owners to get them working again. And I'd like to see portable toilets along Delaware where the people go and have them have a dignified place and that is more sanitary for the public. We do need to get buy-in from the tenants and they need to feel that they have worth. They need to gain necessary life skills so that they can get themselves out of this. We don't want to give just a simple handout. We want to hand up. And that's what I think you're working very hard at doing, Mr. Morrison. I applaud you. Are there any members of public on Zoom? We do have speakers on Zoom. Serge Cogno, your microphone's available. Good morning, Chair Coenig, Board of Supervisors. My name's Serge Cogno, Co-Chair of the Mental Health Advisory Board, though these comments are mine alone. Supervisor Caput on a side note, I spoke with your assistant on Friday attempting to schedule a meeting we spoke of. Look forward to hearing back from you for a date and a time. Great thanks for the presentation and the work from Randy and Robert. As you all know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I applaud this collaboration to increase trauma-informed services to provide the most respectful, empowering and outcome-driven services as possible. What is not trauma-informed is that these services the city is moving forward with are coupled with criminalization and homelessness with both the city's camping ban and the city's recreational vehicle plan. There's a logical disconnect. On the one hand, to claim services are trauma-informed, while on the other hand, to criminalize people all suffering from various forms of trauma or understandably resistant to services. Some participants with mental health challenges are consistently discriminated and exited and banned from programs. They're often exited from programs for not being able to function with staff who have limited training and they have limited recourse without an independent grievance process provided by the county. They then become subject to the city's anti-homeless ordinances. I encourage the Housing for Health Department and the Board of Supervisors to stand firm in their collaboration with the city that trauma-informed care be a requirement throughout the services and ordinances by both the city and county. I would also like to point out that the county has its own anti-homeless ordinance, 10.40.120, which is a county overnight recreational vehicle ban, which the Coastal Commission staff, notified county staff was against the Coastal Act. I bring this up so that the county can bring itself into compliance, but also to support multiple elements of the county's strategic plan by basing all services and ordinances as trauma-informed. Please ensure that we encourage our city partner and that we also use a trauma-informed philosophy in all of our efforts, accurately managing our homeless crisis and supporting those challenged with mental illness. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Kagnan. We have no further speakers for this item, Chair. All right, then I'll return it to the Board for Action. I'll move for approval. Second. Motion by Supervisor Caput, second by Supervisor Friend. Any further discussion? I'll just say, I mean, we're obviously an act of communication and collaboration with the city and any proposals that they wanna share with us for ways to create more beds or safe parking spaces. Looking forward to reviewing those. All right, if there's no further discussion, we'll call it, please. Supervisor Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Inconig. Aye. That item passes unanimously. Thank you, Chair. Thank you. Thank you, Director Morris. That brings us to the end of our regular agenda. Our next regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors will be June 7th, 2022, 9 a.m. Tuesday in these chambers and on Zoom. Meeting adjourned.