HomeMy WebLinkAboutShelter Coalition Meeting - notes 082024Shelter Coalition Meeting
August 20, 2024
Present: Greg Brotherton - facilitator, Julia Cochrane - scribe, Melanie Jackson, Heather Dudley-Nolette - Bayside, Thomas Olson - PTPD, David Ehnebuske, Beulah Kingsolver - Dove House,
Mark McCauley - County, Bob Saring - American Legion. Derek Allen - sheriff (dallen@co.jefferson.wa.us) joined at the end!
Bayside - Heather
16 guests a night - (4 out of the 18 were female) new host - Sean - for the graveyard shift. Demonstrated skill in de-escalating. Still have a full-time host position open. All shifts
are being covered. Cleanup - pest mitigation - etc., has had good reports. ROI - Bayside removed American Legion and using ROI on a consent revocable reach out to services. Staff will
reach out to Bob Saring or AL Staff to notify them when someone has left the premises exhibiting x behavior - without identifying the status of the person - visitor, guest etc. The
ROI’s that were turned in still have the AL on it and people can ask for those ROIs can be revoke that consent. Bayside is not asking them to sign another form. JCES - Jefferson County
Emergency Shelter - is the name!
Melanie - Food
Have transferred forms from COAST for people to sign up. This will go live next week. Meals starting on Sept. 2 Signup.com Individuals will be able to sign up on weekends to help
staff prepare meals. You can prepare meal on site, or at a donor/commercial kitchen and delivered. Meals will be served at 6 PM - meals can start being prepared at 4 PM or delivered
at 5:30. Groups can contact shelter staff to see what items are on hand. Volunteers will need to sign in and out, and Sign a new liability release form, confidentiality form, etc. The
Port Townsend Community page will contain a link to the sign up form. Also all teams need a person with a food card. People over 15 can prepare food. Only one person in the meal team
needs to have a food handlers permit.
IDs - Heather
Commerce says HMIS has an ID tool in it to take a photo and issue someone an ID. But if they are not consenting - they can still be sheltered. They would still like to take a photo.
Staff is asking to put a name with a face - to be able to identify someone who has been permanently exited because of dangerous behavior. Beulah - it's easier to get pictures of the
people trespassed than everyone. And most of those people already have a picture somewhere. Heather will continue the conversation with the HMIS Team.
Consolidated Homeless Grant - requires photo ids which is the other shelter Bayside operates.
Are you doing background checks for people doing food? Has not been done in the past. The state only requires it if you have face to face contact or work with children.
The Future - will there be community meetings about what will happen next. There is a couple of just practical questions around how the current dollars can be used. Once we get answers
from Commerce and Olycap about funding - open the conversations.
Julia brings up yacht club. Transportation is also a concern. 4.5 million dollars to build phase 2 Caswell Brown. 2.5 million gap. Super uncertain funding. Olycap is hesitant to push
forward until that gap is filled. No idea is being thrown out. We don’t know if the Housing Trust Fund award could go towards the yacht club.
When the shelter feels stable and the staff is full - they are not looking at reviewing past trespasses. There needs to be systems in place. No one has been exited by Bayside so far.
Next meeting will start at 12:15.
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