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Home My WebLink About2024-01-09 HT Regular Meeting Agenda PacketCity of Palm Desert Page 1 HOMELESSNESS TASKFORCE CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA AGENDA (HYBRID MEETING) City Hall, North Wing Conference Room 73-510 Fred Waring Drive Palm Desert, CA 92260 Pursuant to Assembly Bill 2449, this meeting will be conducted as a hybrid meeting and there will be in-person access to this location. •To participate via Zoom, use the following link: https://palmdesert.zoom.us/j/85182952479 or call (213) 338-8477, Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3139 4684 •Written public comment may also be submitted to mnance@palmdesert.gov. Emails received by 8:00 a.m. prior to the meeting will be distributed to the Taskforce. Any correspondence received during or after the meeting will be distributed to the Taskforce as soon as practicable and retained for the official record. Emails will not be read aloud except as an ADA accommodation. 1.CALL TO ORDER 2.ROLL CALL 3.NON-AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT: This time has been set aside for the public to address the Homelessness Taskforce on issues that are not on the agenda for up to three minutes. Because the Brown Act does not allow the Taskforce to act on items not listed on the agenda, members may briefly respond or refer the matter to staff for a report and recommendation at a future meeting. 4.PRESENTATIONS A.RIVERSIDE COUNTY HOMELESSNESS OUTREACH PROGRAM 5.ACTION CALENDAR A.APPROVAL OF MINUTES RECOMMENDATION: Approve the Homelessness Taskforce Regular Meeting minutes of November 6, 2023. Tuesday January 9, 2024 9:00 a.m. Regular Meeting Homelessness Taskforce Agenda January 9, 2024 City of Palm Desert Page 2 6.INFORMATIONAL REPORTS & COMMENTS A.HOMELESSNESS TASKFORCE MEMBERS B.CITY COUNCIL LIAISONS C.COMMUNITY PARTNERS 1.Coachella Valley Association of Governments – CV Housing First: Third Quarter Report for 2023 D.CITY STAFF 1. Code Compliance Activity Report 2.City Net Activity Report E.ATTENDANCE REPORT 7.ADJOURNMENT – The next regular meeting is scheduled to be held March 4, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING I hereby certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing agenda for the Homelessness Taskforce was posted on the City Hall bulletin board and City website not less than 72 hours prior to the meeting. /s/ Michelle Nance Recording Secretary PUBLIC NOTICES Agenda Related Materials: Pursuant to Government Code §54957.5(b)(2) the designated office for inspection of records in connection with this meeting is the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert. Staff reports for all agenda items and documents provided to a majority of the legislative bodies are available for public inspection at City Hall and on the City’s website at www.palmdesert.gov. Americans with Disabilities Act: It is the intention of the City of Palm Desert to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in all respects. If, as an attendee or a participant at this meeting, or in meetings on a regular basis, you will need special assistance beyond what is normally provided, the City will attempt to accommodate you in every reasonable manner. Please contact the Office of the City Clerk, (760) 346-0611, at least 48 hours prior to the meeting to inform us of your needs and to determine if accommodation is feasible. Page 3 [This page has intentionally been left blank.] Page 4 City of Palm Desert Page 1 HOMELESSNESS TASKFORCE CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA MINUTES Click HERE to review the meeting audio. Click HERE to access the meeting agenda packet. 1.CALL TO ORDER A Regular Meeting of the Homelessness Taskforce was called to order by Chair Vines on Monday, November 6, 2023, at 9:01 a.m., in the North Wing Conference Room, City Hall, located at 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, California. 2.ROLL CALL Present: Taskforce members Joseph Butts, Davis Meyer, Chris Schachter, and Chair Diane Vines. Absent: Taskforce members Kathleen Bauer, Scott Marks, and Vice Chair Cindy Burreson. Liaison(s) Present: City Council Liaisons Kathleen Kelly and Karina Quintanilla Staff Present: Pedro Rodriguez, Code Compliance Supervisor; Jason Austin, Social Services Coordinator; and Michelle Nance, Recording Secretary. 3.NON-AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT None 4.PRESENTATIONS A.CITY NET – STREET OUTREACH PRESENTATION Social Services Coordinator Austin and Jessica Avelar-Bruce with City Net presented the City’s new contract with City Net, reviewed the services provided, and answered member inquiries. Monday, November 6, 2023 9:00 a.m. Regular Meeting Page 5 Homelessness Taskforce Minutes November 6, 2023 City of Palm Desert Page 2 ALL ACTIONS ARE DRAFT, PENDING APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES 5.ACTION CALENDAR A.APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION BY TASKFORCE MEMBER MEYER, SECOND BY TASKFORCE MEMBER BUTTS, CARRIED 4-0, to approve the Homelessness Taskforce Regular Meeting minutes of September 11, 2023. B.HOMELESSNESS TASKFORCE MEETING FOR JANUARY 2024 MOTION BY TASKFORCE MEMBER MEYER, SECOND BY TASKFORCE MEMBER BUTTS, CARRIED 4-0, to approve a one time rescheduling of the Homelessness Taskforce Regular Meeting from Monday, January 1, 2024, to Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. 6.INFORMATIONAL REPORTS & COMMENTS A.HOMELESSNESS TASKFORCE MEMBER REPORTS & REMARKS New Taskforce member Schachter introduced himself to the Taskforce. Chair Vines spoke on a future inpatient mental health facility opening in Indio, CA. B.CITY COUNCIL LIAISON REPORTS & REMARKS Mayor Pro Tem Quintanilla provided an update on Manor Care operation and potential future use of available beds for unhoused individuals in need of a skilled nursing facility. Mayor Kelly provided an update on her recent attendance at the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) meeting with the Mayor of Los Angeles. C.COMMUNITY PARTNER REPORTS Ivan Tenorio, of Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG), answered member inquiries regarding CV Housing First second quarter report. Deputy Ploesch, of Riverside County Sheriff, commented on upcoming street outreach event with CVAG and recent engagement with unhoused residents. D.STAFF REPORTS & REMARKS 1.Code Compliance Activity Report – Report provided; no action taken on this item. E.ATTENDANCE REPORT - Report provided with agenda; no action taken on this item. Page 6 Homelessness Taskforce Minutes November 6, 2023 City of Palm Desert Page 3 ALL ACTIONS ARE DRAFT, PENDING APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES 7.ADJOURNMENT The Homelessness Taskforce adjourned at 9:41 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Michelle Nance, Deputy City Clerk I Recording Secretary ATTEST: Jason Austin, Social Services Coordinator Secretary APPROVED BY THE HOMELESSNESS TASKFORCE: __/__/2024 Page 7 [This page has intentionally been left blank.] Page 8 ITEM 7A Coachella Valley Association of Governments Homelessness Committee November 15, 2023 STAFF REPORT Subject: CV Housing First: Third Quarter Report for 2023 Contact: Ivan Tenorio, Management Analyst (itenorio@cvag.org) Recommendation: Receive and file the quarterly report for the CV Housing First program, representing clients served in the third quarter of 2023 Background: CVAG is now in its third year of operating the CV Housing First program with staff. The program is focused on the CV 200, a by-name list of chronically homeless individuals residing in desert cities that have frequent contacts with law enforcement and who are likely to be shelter resistant or who have already fallen out of housing. The list was developed in partnership with CVAG’s member jurisdictions and local law enforcement. CVAG staff has committed to adjusting CV Housing First programming based on the data, and provides quarterly updates to its members about the program. The CV Housing First team uses two primary methods to get clients to housing solutions: rapid resolution and crisis stabilization units, which are residential units, apartments and hotel rooms that CVAG rents to case manage CV Housing First clients. CVAG staff will continue to provide quarterly reports as it provides services in 2023. These quarterly reports are regularly presented as part of the consent calendar agenda items. However, CVAG staff will be presenting this report to the Homelessness Committee in order to be transparent about some of the challenges that are being faced with finding permanent housing solutions. These can best be summarized as a lack of vouchers and a lack of vacancies. CVAG works with Riverside County’s HomeConnect, the county’s coordinated response program, to connect voucher-approved clients with housing. In both the third quarter and now in the current, fourth quarter, CVAG staff is seeing CV 200 clients secure vouchers – but to yet-to-open affordable housing projects in the City of Riverside. This leaves them in CVAG’s program while the projects are completed, and ultimately is impacting the quarterly successes. CV Housing First Clients – By the Numbers through September 30, 2023 CV 200 as of 9/30/2023 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 TOTAL Clients housed in Crisis Stabilization Units (CSH) 25 36 21 82 Clients being helped through Rapid Resolution (RR) 0 0 0 0 Page 9 Clients returned to the street (failures) 7 9 9 25 Clients moved into permanent housing from CSH (successes) 18 14 7 39 Clients moved into permanent housing through RR (successes) 0 0 0 0 Clients moved into permanent housing through Outreach (successes)* 6 1 0 7 TOTAL HOUSED FROM LIST OF 200 24 15 7 46 NON-CV 200 as of 9/30/2023 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 TOTAL Households Housed in CSH Units 0 0 1 1 Households being helped through RR 0 0 0 0 Households returned to the street (failures) 0 0 1 1 Households moved into permanent housing from CSH (successes) 0 0 0 0 Clients moved into permanent housing through Outreach (successes)* 0 1 0 1 Households moved into permanent housing from RR (successes) 0 0 0 0 TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS HOUSED 0 0 0 0 TOTAL INDIVIDUALS HOUSED 0 1 0 1 The data is divided by CV 200 clients – the by-name list of chronically homeless individuals that CVAG maintains in partnership with law enforcement and code enforcement – and non-CV 200 clients. This year, CVAG staff set an internal goal of permanently housing 65 of the CV 200 clients. This would be higher than last year’s total of 54 individuals but not quite as high as the 2021 results of housing 75 CV 200 clients. The total number of clients housed or returning to the streets is less than the total helped each quarter, as the grand total includes clients who may remain in their units at the end of the quarter. Page 10 CVAG continues to refine its data metrics in order to be transparent about how many and how quickly individuals are housed. The chart also includes a row to account for CV 200 and non-CV 200 clients who are being permanently housed by the CV Housing First program via outreach efforts, and not case management based in the crisis stabilization units. This group may include CV 200 clients who timed out of a CVAG unit but still were open to outreach services, and were eventually housed by the team. The other group being non- CV 200 clients who engaged with the Housing First outreach team and were provided resources and possibly housed. CVAG staff also tracks how long individuals are staying in the program before being housed or returning to the street. The goal is to exit clients within 90 days to permanent housing solutions. Over the past two years, it was not uncommon for the length of stay to exceed 100 days. For the third quarter, the CV 200 clients who successfully exited the program into permanent housing stayed in a crisis stabilization unit on average for 90 days. Those CV 200 clients who exited the program unsuccessfully stayed on average 37 days. This quarter’s length of stay is a slight increase over the first two quarters; however, the overall trend is that the length of stay is shortening and staying under CVAG’s 90-day goal. Part of this decrease can be attributed to the work CV Housing First staff does during outreach as they prepare clients for transitioning to living in one of CVAG’s residential units, hotel rooms or apartments. The Housing First outreach team has a focus on addressing the lack of vital documentation for the CV 200 clients prior to entry, including obtaining their birth certificates and identification cards that are needed to secure a housing voucher. A separate staff report in this agenda packet highlights the outreach being coordinated through the mobile access center. The CV Housing First team is also working to serve CV 200 clients by coordinating with other outreach efforts, including the newer City-led efforts in both Palm Springs and Palm Desert. Of the 15 permanent housing resolutions in the second quarter, the breakdown of clients’ Exit Destination is as follows: • Rental With Ongoing Subsidy (Permanent Supportive Housing) – 1 • Rental With Ongoing Subsidy (Low Income Senior Housing) – 1 • Rental With Ongoing Subsidy (Voucher for Veterans housing) – 1 • Rental With Ongoing Subsidy (Project-Based Vouchers) – 4 Continuation of Voucher Availability for the Coachella Valley CVAG staff is encountering an ongoing issue with securing vouchers, which is also leading to a recommendation detailed in a separate staff report to amend CVAG’s legislative platform. As noted above, HomeConnect has notified CVAG that several of the CV 200 clients were referred to a few different project-based properties, but only in the area around the City of Riverside. These properties are expected to officially open sometime by the end of this year, and a third is opening in early 2024. Should these open, it would create an uptick in the fourth quarter data. If they lag, it would not be reflected until next year. Project delays are not uncommon: Last summer, St. Michael’s in the City of Riverside had an original opening around October 2022. Minor setbacks the property pushed back its opening a few times, with five CV 200 clients having to wait until January 2023 for their move into the complex. CVAG staff continues to track the expansion of more project-based voucher opportunities in the Coachella Valley. They include the Monarch apartments opening in Palm Springs and Hadley Villas in La Quinta, which has started accepting housing vouchers. Page 11 Fiscal Analysis: The CV Housing First program, including the staffing and CV 200 program, is incorporated into the CV Housing First budget, which has been funded by contributions from cities and Riverside County grants. Page 12 CITY OF PALM DESERT CODE COMPLIANCE DIVISION ACTIVITY REPORT Pedro Rodriguez Code Compliance Supervisor prodriguez@cityofpalmdesert.org 760-776-6442 Page 13 CODE COMPLIANCE DIVISION ACTIVITY REPORT This reporting period is for November and December 2023. This report will reflect all the current activity regarding unlawful storage of personal property and unlawful encampments and assist the Riverside Sheriff’s Department. Code Compliance Officers responded to 28 complaints of unlawful camping and storage of personal property on private and public property. During this reporting period, there was one abatement of personal property. Code Compliance Officers responded to 4 calls to assist the Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies in removing and storing personal property. Code Compliance Activity – November and December 2023 Code Compliance Cases for Unlawful Camping/Storage of Property 28 Violation by Case Type Unlawful Camping on Private Property 1 Unlawful Camping on Public Property 3 Storage of Personal Property on Private Property 5 Storage of Personal Property on Public Property 13 Panhandling Complaints 0 Assist Riverside County Sheriff Dept with removal/storage of property 4 Assist with 602 Penal Code Letter for Business 0 Removal of shopping carts with personal property 2 Abatements of Unlawful Campsites or Storage of Personal Property Case 23-2204 Presidents Plaza Cost $500.00 Case 23-2235 Magnesia Falls bridge Cost $435.00 Case 23-2258 Painters Path under bridge Cost $225.00 Case 23-2268 Cook Street Bridge Cost $600.00 Case 23-2252 72400 Painters Path Cost $325.00 Page 14 Code Compliance Division YTD 2023 Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YTD Assist RSO 2 1 2 4 0 2 2 4 1 0 1 3 22 Pan Handling 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Storage of Personal Property on Private Property 1 4 2 3 1 1 2 0 3 0 3 2 22 Storage of Personal Property on Public Property 1 6 3 3 4 3 3 10 0 4 7 6 50 Unlawful Camping on Private Property 3 5 10 2 10 11 6 4 1 0 0 1 53 Unlawful Camping on Public Property 4 3 2 1 1 3 5 2 2 0 1 0 24 PC 602 letter 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 8 0 0 0 13 Storage of Shopping cart with personal property 1 7 0 0 1 1 4 5 4 1 0 1 25 Page 15 [This page has intentionally been left blank.] Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 CITY OF PALM DESERT ATTENDANCE REPORT Advisory Body: Prepared By: Year 2022 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 Month Nov Jan Mar May July Sep Nov Date 7-Nov 9-Jan 6-Mar 1-May 10-Jul 11-Sep 6-Nov Bauer, Kathleen N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A E 0 0 Burreson, Cindy P P P P E P E 1 0 Butts, Joseph P P P P P P P 0 0 Fisher-Anaya, Rosemary N/A N/A N/A N/A P N/A N/A 0 0 Marks, Scott A P P P P P A 1 1 Meyer, Davis E P A P P P P 2 1 Schachter, Chris N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A P 0 0 Vines, Diane P P P P P P P 0 0 Palm Desert Municipal Code 2.34.010: P Present A Absent E Excused -No meeting Bimonthly: Two unexcused absences from regular meetings in any twelve-month period Total Absences Total Unexcused Absences Homelessness Taskforce Michelle Nance Page 19 [This page has intentionally been left blank.] Page 20