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The Alameda Wellness Center (McKay Avenue Project)
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Date: June 28, 2017
To: Social Service Human Relations Board
From: Ana Bagtas, Management Analyst
Re: The Alameda Wellness Center (McKay Avenue Project)
BACKGROUND
The Charter of the City of Alameda assigns the Social Service Human Relations Board ("the Board") the responsibility "to assess the social service needs of the community and to facilitate provision therefor" [Section 15-1(A)]. The Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) further states that the intended purpose of the Board is "to create an environment which will encourage and bring about mutual understanding, respect and good will among groups of people in the community and to improve social services in the community" (AMC 2-9.1). It is the Board's duty to:
* Encourage the formation of private social welfare organizations to meet needs not already provided for and to foster all worthy philanthropic enterprises (AMC 2-9.4.a); and
* Assess and report to the City Council the social service needs of the people and the methods of meeting those needs (AMC 2-9.4.e).
To fulfill these responsibilities, the Board periodically surveys Alameda residents to determine the scope of the community needs and to evaluate and publicize resources to meet those needs. The Board completed its most recent assessment of the community's needs in November 2017 and accepted the 2017 Community Needs Assessment report at its April 26, 2018 meeting. The City Council accepted the Needs Assessment report at its June 5 meeting. The assessment found that health care facilities was the third most high need facilities rated by Alameda residents, next to Recreation and Parks' fields/courts and community pools. The report also noted homeless shelters/homeless services as the second most pressing social services need in the City of Alameda, behind transportation.
Also at the April 26, 2018 meeting, the Board heard a presentation (Exhibit 1) from Doug Biggs, Executiv...
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