HomeMy WebLinkAboutShelter Coalition notes 041525Shelter Coalition Meeting
April 15, 2025
Present: Keppie - DEM, Bayside - exec asst., David E., Dove House, Mark McCauley, Trevor Breland, Anya - Health Dept. Julia - scribe, Greg - facilitator
Winter Welcoming Center - today is the last day. Looking for a year round space.
Shelter - doing well, full. Volunteers needed to do dinners.
Peggy Webster - Olycap
Commerce will agree with the grant and funding and then they will build a 31 bed congregant shelter.
Question - what to do by June 30th.
Community Build currently has 3 under construction and has materials for 5. Looking to the County to expand CBV.
If electricity starts June 7th - by June 30th they will have electricity.
Greg - Past years are not a good indicator for the need during the summer. Looking for funds and permission to run the shelter another 6 months till the end of the year. Could the 8
tiny shelters be transitional - yes.
Refining the ask for the Housing Fund Board - will have around 760,000 for the year. We should throw our weight behind Bayside and the AL shelter for the rest of the year. Gary will
be communicating with the legion. It would be good to get specific timing for the opening of the CBV shelter.
Peggy - Jessie redoing design, selecting contractors.
Julia concerns about trans people.
Maggie - elderly disabled people with chronic diseases - do not do well in congregant settings. 45 out of 100 homeless people who die - die from infectious disease.
Peggy - advocacy should be with the Dept. of Commerce.
Anya - agrees with Maggie about lack of hygiene services at Casswell Brown VIllage.
Peggy - the sanitation building is in the county with permits - showers, laundry - for the current Phase 2 - CB - hopefully available July/August. The congregant will have its own sanitation
facilities. Kitchen for phase 2 will be a rehab of the PUD building.
Laundry at Shelter - 3-4 loads with guests per night, Julia/Help Now Fund - providing soap. Laundry vouchers for most people will not be available after the WWC closes today. (Health
Dept. using laundry vouchers for their clients.)
CB2 - will have its own sanitation building, 3-5 showers, toilets. 40 people.
Urban rest stop - daytime storage for backpacks and bikes - mail drop. Urban Rest Stop conversation next week. Anya - Seattle Urban Rest Stop - lease their machines with repair contracts.
Meeting will likely happen at Olycap.
Beulah - funding?
Greg - doing a workshop with BOCC on April 23rd, 2:30 to 4:30 (County Commissioner meeting room) to deal with asks from Bayside and Dove House. Judy Shepherd - to look at funds from
Sales Tax and Recording Fees. No decisions have been made.
Maggie - went to a coffee chat with John Mauro about Affordable Housing. If there was Permanent Supportive Housing there they could get a loan at a lower interest rate. There should
be a percentage of space reserved for PSH.
Greg - these issues will be looked at in the 5 Year Homeless/Housing Plan that the Housing Fund Board is in process.
Beulah - Will we be borrowing from next years funding for the shelter costs.
Peggy - provided to Heather detailed budget for the CB3 grant. Will send it to Greg. This is an updated grant.
Greg - Anything the HFB does mid year will impact next year's funding. This is not a sustainable solution.
Maggie - we need a consumer conversation.
Beulah - how do we sustain what we are building, paying for? We should look out 3 to 5 years.
Greg - the place to have this conversation during the 5 Year Plan process - task force has lived experience on it.
Peggy - may have found a source of funds for the operating of CB.
Beulah - shelter - 8 children 2-17 yr old and 7 adults, 3 dogs. Turnaways about 5 a day.
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