Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and all necessary documents including  subcontracts, any subsequent amendments including any change to the amount of the grant, with the County of Los Angeles, to accept and expend grant funding in the amount not to exceed $225,000, for Veteran Outreach Services, for a one-year period estimated to begin in December 2020, with the option to extend the agreement for three additional one-year periods at the discretion of the City Manager.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Now we have the next consent calendar item, please. And I think that that was pulled by Councilman Austin. I think the councilmember wanted a report from staff. Is that right? Councilmember. Correct. I just thought that this was a notable item. There are actually a few items on the consent calendar that I would love to have the opportunity to have a full council discussion on, but I would love to have a staff report on number 18 that is dealing with actually improving our homeless services outreach to veterans. Yeah, it's kind of cool if you can give the staff report. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and Council Members. Thank you for the opportunity to share the Homeless Veterans Initiative, our Veterans Outreach Program. The Homeless Veteran Initiative has been funded through an investment by Los Angeles County for over ten years. This year's funding is for $225,000 for one year of service at its highest Long Beach, HUD over 1110 veterans experiencing homelessness during the 2013 point in time count. And over the past seven years, this is where we've been reduced by 84% by 935. And our most recent 2020 point in time count, we had 175 veterans experiencing homelessness. This program funds is actually two full time employees, but three staff members because they split a little bit focused on veteran homelessness. Their role is to conduct outreach to veterans, to provide case management services, link them to support services in their families, and connect them to permanent housing. In the past year, we were able to house 329 veterans with this award of this program and other multi-service center services. The success in partnership is with due to the Long Beach as the success is in is really related to partnership with the Long Beach VA and with our nonprofit service providers, including the 1736 Family Crisis Center, Mental Health America of Los Angeles and US vets. We are at a point where all veterans experiencing homelessness can be offered interim housing solutions and be ranked with permanent, supportive or sorry, permanent housing solutions. So I'd like to thank Supervisor Hines office for its ongoing support of this for this program. It's very important, and we've had a lot of success with that in the city of Long Beach. With that, I'm open for questions. Councilman Roston, thank you so much for that report. And I've said on many occasions, I think the success of our homeless outreach are helping to mitigate or minimize homelessness is our ability to outreach. And so expanding capacity in that regard is great and I'm happy to move to support this item or approve. Thank you. Thank you. I have a second, but Councilman Pierce comes from the Germany comments also. No comments. Fully support. Thank you. Okay. And we'll do a roll call. District one. I restrict to. I District three. High District four. By. District five. By District six. By. District seven. District eight. High District nine. A motion carries. Thank you very much. I think the motion is carried there. That concludes the Senate calendar items. We're now going to switch over to our Corbett related items, which have a time certain, and then we'll go into our hearings and then and then the regular agenda, which is probably general public comment and we do have a significant amount of items. So we'll go through all of those items. So let's go ahead and get our COVID 19 study session started. And if we can please get that set up, I'm going to start off the presentation, but I'm going to give the staff just a minute to get set up.