1. POLICY COUNCIL MEETING
Friday, December 11th, 2015
9:00 – 11:00 am

2. PUBLIC COMMENT

3. CONSENT AGENDA

4. HOUSING STATUS REPORTS

8. Update on Milpas Street and State Street Projects
Emily Allen
Executive Director, Common Ground
Sarah Gowing, Westmont Intern

9. Westmont’s New Downtown Program
Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Started Fall 2015
9 Students
Engaging locally

10. C3H Internship Database with low-income housing
Coordinating w/ emergency shelters
Learning about outreach
Main project:
Collecting data on 24 individuals
Milpas/Downtown
Cost/benefit analysis of housing first model

11. Incoming Data Cottage/Public Health/Ambulance ADMHS Restorative Police
Difficulties:
No satisfactory centralized data bank
Need release forms

12. Update on Outreach and Placement of Veterans
Katie Paye
Uffizi Order

13. C3H 2015-2016 WORK PLAN Revenues and Expenditures to Date
Status of Goals
El Niño Update

14. Current Revenues and Expenditures

16. Proposal to Merge CoC and C3H
Chuck Flacks and Erin Weber

18. Key Questions/Concerns
What will happen to County Housing and Community Development?
All funding for CoC will continue to go to them for HMIS and Consolidated Application – C3H not asking for new funding.
What will happen to Policy Council?
All members will be asked to join the CoC Board (pending CoC Board approval).
C3H governance will fall under CoC Board with an Executive Committee to be determined by Board.

19. Benefits of Proposed Merger
Efficiency — two organizations doing the same thing will be brought together
Results — countywide collaboration will allow for a better accounting of the impact of the work = more people housed
Resources — in regions where this has been done, philanthropy and other governmental sources of funds came to the table
Accountability — the new organization will work to merge data and facilitate greater data participation, reporting, and sharing
Representation — county agencies, local governments, business leaders, homelessness advocates, homeless people, first responders, housing providers, nonprofit providers, healthcare providers and others will have a voice where they can work together to end homelessness
Clear Reporting — a representative board that includes elected officials means that all stakeholders will know what is happening and where to go when they have issues.

20. Proposed Merger of C3H and CoC
Next Steps:
Policy Council considers merger
C3H Staff prepares draft amendments to Continuum of Care Charter including changes to CoC Board.
CoC Board considers and approves merger at January meeting

21. Jeff Shaffer, Regional Director
Regional Updates
Jeff Shaffer, Regional Director

22. Supervisor Steve Lavagnino
Stand Down Report
Supervisor Steve Lavagnino