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Social Service Human Relations Board
Minutes of the Special Meeting, January 29, 2015
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1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
President Biggs called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. Present were Vice President Villareal, and members Williams, Hyman, Radding, Blake, and Sorensen.
1-A. WELCOME NEW BOARD MEMBER MARK SORENSEN
President Biggs welcomed Mark Sorensen to the Board.
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The Minutes of the special meeting of November 20, 2014 were approved as presented.
M/S Radding / Williams Approved 6-0-1 (New Member Sorensen abstained.)
3. AGENDA ITEMS
3.A PRESENTATION BY PRESIDENT BIGGS OF SUMMARY REPORT ON HOMELESS COUNT CONDUCTED IN CITY OF ALAMEDA ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2014.
President Biggs shared that only change that was made to the draft homeless count summary report was the addition to item #1 to request that the Housing Authority set aside five or six units for the long-term homeless identified in the homeless count. The purpose for putting the summary report on tonight's agenda is for the Board to take action on determining what the next steps will be. President Biggs added that he had participated in the Alameda County homeless count, and that its process was totally different than the one that the Board had undertaken in September. The County conducted its count at sites providing services to the homeless, and, other than Midway Shelter, the City of Alameda has no such service delivery sites.
A discussion ensued as to whether the Board should conduct a second count. Given the fact that it had rained the morning of the first count, it was suggested that the data may have been skewed due to some of the homeless not being at their usual locations, and that the second count should be conducted in the summer. It was agreed that the community volunteers participating in the count felt that the experience had been worthwhile, and that they seemed enthusiastic to participate in a second count, if another count w...
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