Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and all necessary documents, subcontracts, and subsequent amendments, including to the award amount, with the State of California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency’s Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC), to receive and expend $8,516,928 from the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Round 3 Program, Continuum of Care allocation, for the period of November 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026, with the option to renew for one additional five-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $8,516,928, offset by grant revenues. (Citywide)
The President said has. The motion is carried on. A 55 identifies report from Health and Human Services recommendation to execute an agreement with each CFC to receive and expend 8.5 million from the homeless. Housing Assistance and Prevention Round three Program Continuum of Care Allocation Citywide. There's a motion reset. And is there any public comment? Franklin SIM. Well, I'm sure to a lot of residents, $8.5 million to fix homelessness. Sounds like a good thing. And I think that it is. I think that it's important also to remember that in the city of Long Beach, Measure eight was a lot of money, still is. A lot of our roads still aren't fixed. And that over a span of five years, $112 million has been dedicated to homelessness services. And to put it into context, we drive on the freeways. The fire department came here. They told you about the brush fires. I myself see open drug use by the homeless and the unhoused as human waste. Our children are seeing public nudity. Our cities are dotted with encampments. The fact is that we need a strategic plan. We don't have one. 2017 The Council asked Mr. West to give it. They didn't ask for a plan. You asked for an approach. We didn't get one. Instead, we got essentially a list of what all the departments were doing on homelessness. I can. I want to give you some examples of what I mean when I say we don't have a strategic plan. The Mayor's Homelessness Fund was founded in 2018. That's almost four years ago. I sat on a homelessness committee association this week. They said that only one out of four of the amount the organizations that were supposed to be funded had been funded. They actually had to change a letter that's going to go to the council people and the commissioner asked to take three of them now are to take the numbers out because the money isn't going to them . The mayor's homelessness fund said they didn't have a workflow, so for years, no work for working on that. They said they're still working on a rubric to help grade the proposals. Then Mr. Duncan from the WHO has the Homelessness Service Bureau. He says he's got three general outreach people. They lost a public health nurse. He even made a plea that if we know anyone who needed work, that the Homelessness Bureau was looking for four. For employees. They're understaffed. We need a strategic plan. So I want to say to the mothers in Long Beach and the parents. We want to take who we want to take our kids to to a part. Into a clean park. We need a strategic plan. We deserve that. We don't have it. And it's ridiculous. That concludes the public comment. Those of us who are in the second. The motion is carried.