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Somebody needs to be on mute.

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February 23rd, 2021, the policy meeting of the member of commissioners.

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Due to our ongoing COVID-19 state of emergency and the Governor's most recent executive order, as well as the director from our public health director, we are meeting remotely this afternoon.

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and the Charlotte-McGurb government center remains closed to the general public.

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Therefore, members of the public may access and view the meeting on the government channel

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or watch mecknc.gov or on Twitter.

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Members may also listen to the meeting by going online to YouTube.

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We begin the meeting this afternoon by having each board member to identify him or herself

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for the record.

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So that our records will accurately reflect who is participating in the meeting.

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I will begin by introducing myself and I will call upon each of my respective colleagues

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to do the same.

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I am George Dunlap.

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I am elected by the people of District 3 and I have the privilege of serving as Chair

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of the Board.

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Next, I'll turn to my large colleagues to introduce themselves.

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We'll start with Commissioner Lee Altman.

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Lee you must be on mute.

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That's Commissioner Lee Altman with all the

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conference circumstance.

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All right, Commissioner Pat Coffman.

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Pat, you're still on mute.

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All right, Commissioner Ella Scarborough.

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Commissioner Ella Scarborough at large.

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And I'm delighted to be here.

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All right, Commissioner Lee and Powell.

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Good afternoon.

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I'm Commissioner Lee and Powell.

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I represent District 1, which is Hunter'sville,

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David St. Cornelius, and North Charlotte.

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and I also serve as vice chair.

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Thank you.

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Commissioner District 2.

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Good afternoon.

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This is Commissioner Leake

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and I represent the most positive district in the county.

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Good afternoon to all.

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Commissioner District 4.

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Good afternoon everyone.

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My name is Mark Gerell

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and I've been elected by the people of District 4.

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Commissioner District 5.

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Good afternoon and I'm Laura Meyer

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and I represent District 5.

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Good afternoon, I'm Susan Rodriguez McDowell, elected by the people of District 6, and I'm participating remotely.

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I'll start again, Lee Altman.

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No, Lee, they ain't working.

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All right, Pat Kauffman.

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We just lost Pat again, too.

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All right, so let me move on to our somebody.

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All right, for the record, all of our commissioners are present and therefore we have a quorum.

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At this time, I'd ask to follow himself to the board.

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Good afternoon, Emily Cunsey, to the board.

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Deputy clerk.

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Good afternoon. This is Christine Smith, Deputy clerk.

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County manager.

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in a deorio county manager and our county attorney and after that our own Wade County attorney.

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All right, if you would join me in our plays of allegiance, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all.

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All right. So a few housekeeping things. Since we are conducting a remote meeting, there are a few housekeeping rules which we must adhere to the Governor Actions of our Board to make sure that our minutes act or reflect our actions.

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have a commissioner wishes to leave.

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Privileged. State the privilege so that the menace can capture the actions and attendants of each board member. When a commissioner returns, please announce your return when it is most convenient to do so. Since we are participating remotely, when a matter comes on the floor for debate, I will call upon each commissioner and ask whether or not they have comments. Please wait to be recognized by the chair before speaking and please refrain from speaking over one another or interrupting another speaker.

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May I also suggest that each speaker ends his or her comments by saying this concludes

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my comments.

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If a commissioner does not have any comments, please state I have no comments, I do not wish

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to speak to this matter.

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Out of courtesy to all participants, if you are joining the meeting by phone, please speak

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yourself muted until it's your turn to speak.

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At which time, you will need to press star six on your phone to unmute yourself.

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Once you have finished speaking, please mute yourself again by repeating the same process.

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Star six on your phone.

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There are no items on the gender requiring action.

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However, if a matter is brought forth, requiring a vote.

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When the motion is made, the maker of the motion should identify him or herself.

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As should the individual who seconds the motion.

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the chair will verbally then repeat the motion.

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I will have to conduct a roll call vote and call upon each commissioner separately and

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ask for the vote to be cast verbally so that there's no confusion as to how a commissioner

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At the end of each roll call vote, the clerk will then state the results of each vote.

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Also, please note that the board policy requires each commissioner to vote on every item.

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Once you are connected and acknowledge your presence, when I call your name for a vote,

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if there is no response, it will be recorded as a yes vote on the item under consideration.

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Thank you.

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So, at this time, before we start our official meeting, I want to take this opportunity

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to say happy birthday to Dina Dioria.

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Dina, I will tell you that where I come from, birthdays are national holidays, and a

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lot of people don't work on their birthday, and you probably noticed that from their tenors

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of staff.

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but I just could not pass this opportunity without saying to you happy birthday and how happy we are that you're spending it with us and then you can go have a glass of wine later on.

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Thank you Chairman and I would not have it any other way but to spend my birthday with all of you.

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All right, we'll turn it over to you at this time.

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All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, everybody. We're going to start. We just added this item to the agenda today. This is an update on the encampment North and encampment. And with that, I'm going to ask.

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Anthony Trotman to walk you through a few slides and give you a sense of where we are. Thank you.

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right, good afternoon Chairman Dunlap, board of commissioners and county manager

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D. O'Reill.

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I am Anthony Troutman, deputy county manager of the Consolidated Human Services Agency.

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In today's, this afternoon, CSS Business Manager, Karen Pelotere, and I are going to provide

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an overview of our efforts to address the public health concerns at the North and in Canton.

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my computer was working, I would be going a little smoother.

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All right, and offer residents access to hotel based on shelter and supportive services.

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We will then discuss our ongoing work to address the needs of these households and outline

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our next steps.

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Before discussing our efforts at the encampment, I want to emphasize that unsheltered homelessness

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is not just a local issue.

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Communities across the country are dealing with similar challenges, and a comprehensive

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national response is needed to fully address homelessness.

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Now, next slide.

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am the current vice chair for the housing subcommittee of the National Association of Counties, Community, Economic and Workforce Development Steering Committee.

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NACO's membership totals approximately 2400 counties representing

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80% of the nation's population. Our committee recommends that the federal government should follow

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a national housing policy that embodies clear annual housing goals and provides adequate

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and predictable funding levels. We have issued a series of resolutions such as the inclusion

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of affordable housing investments in any federal infrastructure package, the implementation

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of strategies that preserve and expand our nation's affordable housing stock.

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An increase in funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development,

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the expansion of the low income housing tax credit program,

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and greater federal support to address increases in unsheltered homelessness across our country.

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These resolutions underscore the necessity of substantial federal investment

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to make progress on homelessness because this isn't just a Mecklenburg County issue,

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but a national issue. Chairman Dunlap, county manager Diario and many of our commissioners

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represent our county and NACO on Capitol Hill lobbying for additional federal support annual.

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So even if we make progress locally, it will be difficult to sustain if we don't have a national

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strategy to end and prevent homelessness.

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Next slide.

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Due to safety and health conditions on the encampment site,

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a health director issued an order of abatement of imminent hazard

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last Tuesday effective 5 p.m.

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The owners of the five properties housed at housed encampment were

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responsible for removing encampment residents within 72 hours by 5 p.m.

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last Friday.

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Cleaning their property and engaging pest control to eradicate the rodents in their property by 5 p.m. yesterday.

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A vast majority of the North Indian Camping residents have now been relocated to hotel shelter

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because of our amazing staff and community partners. The site has been clean and all five properties

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have submitted pest control plans that have been approved by public health,

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will monitor the initial eradication efforts, and continue to assess the situation over the next month.

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When health and safety conditions reach a point that required the encampment to be closed,

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the county committed to providing all interested residents with up to 90 days in a hotel room.

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However, we are hopeful that some will transition to a permanent housing solution as early as

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this week, because that's what it's really about connecting people with stable, safe housing

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or the appropriate resource to support them long term.

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We have deployed and will continue to devote all of our relevant county departments and

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partnerships to ensure the safety and well-being of

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incantement residents. Our efforts led to over 200 incantement

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residents being sheltered in hotels within 48 hours.

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Karen will discuss our collaborations with community

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partners shortly, but I want to highlight the County

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departments and staff that have been a part of this work.

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These include our public health environmental health

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specialists that identified the health risk at the

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in Canton and work promptly to have these issues address.

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Public health insured COVID tests were provided

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to interested residents to minimize the risk of COVID spread.

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They're also planning to offer vaccines to anyone

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who is 65 and other that transition to the hotels.

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Our procurement division expanded contracts

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with many of our key vendors to ensure

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that residents had basic resources in place

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as quickly as possible. Our Department of Social Services

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Mecklenburg Transportation System drivers provided van rides for a majority of the

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incantement residents on Thursday and Friday to the hotel. Transportation staff have

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been at the hotels to provide residents with bus passes to assist with their

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transportation needs such as getting to work or seeking work opportunities. Along

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Along with our transportation team, DSS community social workers provide a support during the

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band rides and at the hotels.

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Our DSS clinical

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Local and contractual services team also expanded their contracts to provide ongoing peer support services, one site through Promise Resource Network. Our criminal justice services staff have been at the hotel to complete a security assessment and a cross reference and cross reference clients for any additional available resources. Our asset and facilities management staff initially secured our hotel vendor and have deployed the county

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against contract security team to provide on-site security.

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Our security staff are now supported by the Sheriff's Office and CMPD safety patrols

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as well.

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The county's solid waste team was instrumental with the cleanup efforts at the in-camp.

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The city requested assistance late Saturday, so the team loaned six roll-up dumpster bins.

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On Sunday, the team pitched in, assisting with calling degrees and opened the Fox

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Hole Landfill from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., accepting just under 112 tons of disposal.

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Luisa also assisted NCDOT with logistics for removal and clean-up on its site as well.

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And our community support services staff have been managing the check-in process at the

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hotels and offering support to guests.

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Our homeless services staff are completing coordinated entry assessments to determine

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which housing resources households may be eligible for.

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Our prevention and intervention staff are ensuring access to substance use and mental health services

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for interested guests.

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Our Veteran Services staff are providing on-site support connecting eligible veterans to veteran resources.

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Because of our staff and courageous community partners' dedication,

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over 200 people who just last week were living exposed to the elements at the encampment

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are now sheltered at our hotels.

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This is not to minimize the challenges that many people experience when going from unshelpt

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of homelessness to shelter and ultimately housing.

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I want to take a moment to recognize the county manager's leadership and support for

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county operations and community partners during this last week.

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She has been available throughout the process and is sure that every available resource

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was provided not only to support encampment residents, but also to protect the entire

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uptown community from becoming potentially rat-nifested. Robert Nesbitt from the

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manager's office was also involved on site working with roof above outreach

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team and and help to coordinate processes and problem solve as issues came up.

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I also like to clarify the decision-making process and why things had to be done in such

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rapid succession.

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The sequence of events were as follows.

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After initial discussion of the right infestation on Saturday afternoon, I had far more discussions

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on Sunday, briefed the manager on Monday, and then Gibby and the public health team researched

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options for us to consider.

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We had additional conversations with the Department of Health and Human Services and our legal team to ensure an appropriate response.

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All of this occurred between Saturday afternoon and when the ordinance was issued on Tuesday.

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As Gibby's chair last week, based on her 30 plus years of experience, a public health imminent hazard is not something she takes lightly.

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She takes her commitment to the health of our entire community very seriously, and I'm

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proud of the work that she has done and of the entire team that has worked on this issue.

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But especially, Karen Palatir, who has been serving as the project lead for this effort.

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The grassroots organizations affectionately call her Karen from the county, because she

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has engaged them throughout the process, ensuring that their voices are always heard.

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Candle has shared the details of artwork engaging community partners and coordinating the

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in camp in response.

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Karen, the floor is yours, and next slide.

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Thank you, Deputy County Manager, Trotman. Good afternoon, Chairman Dunlap, members of the Board of County Commission, County Manager, Deorio, the birthday girl, and my fellow staff. My name is Karen Palachir, and I serve as Project Lead on behalf of Mecklenburg County to support the residents previously residing in the North Ending Campment. I have been working with partners and other stakeholders since the

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September and trying to determine strategies to assist with housing solutions for residents

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of the encampment. I would like to begin by providing a high-level overview of our work,

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beginning from the time that the abatement order was first issued. You'll see that immediately

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following the abatement order being issued, I convened a virtual meeting of grassroots organizations

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with whom we had already been engaged.

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It was imperative to quickly convene in order to build on the trust we had been establishing

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and the work that they had tirelessly been doing for the past several months.

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We reviewed the order together and went over questions and concerns and shared how the

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county plan to quickly mobilize to support people impacted by the order.

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We also collectively problem-solved ways to ensure that all residents in the North End

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encampment were aware of the option to move to a hotel and receive a range of supportive

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services.

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Based upon feedback we received from the organizations, Mecklenburg County Community

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Support Services staff went to the North End encampment site that following day Wednesday, February 17th.

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We worked with community providers and grassroots organizations to begin

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formally communicating opportunities to residents. Signups began that very

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morning as the packing and other preparation. This full day of onsite work

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allowed us to share information firsthand and to the extent possible address

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resident questions and concerns. At 8 a.m. Thursday February 18th, Public Health

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arranged for COVID testing for all interested residents prior to the move. It

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is worth noting that although transportation and access to the quarantine and

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isolation hotel were on standby, all 81 tests were negative. At 11 a.m., the

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The Department of Social Services began transporting the first residents from the encampment

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to the hotel.

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Peak Limousine also joined in these efforts.

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Staff from Community Support Services and the Department of Social Services wrote along

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with guests to ease the stress this move may have caused.

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When it became clear that we were fast reaching capacity at the first hotel, Mecklenburg County

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procurement secured another hotel. We immediately started filling those rooms as well.

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We continue to move residents the following morning. The last trip occurred at 1 p.m. on Friday,

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February 19. I am pleased to report working in concert with our community organizations and

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and grassroot organizations, we safely transported 214 individuals to two separate locations

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in just under 26 hours.

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We did not stop there.

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During the move-in process, CSS staff, alongside staff from supportive housing communities were

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able to connect individuals to coordinated entry, which is the front door of our homeless services

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system. This is the first step in procuring housing resources for anyone who is facing homelessness

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in Mecklenburg County. We also launched into developing individualized housing plans for each

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resident. On Monday, yesterday, the Department of Social Services was on-site distributing Beth

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bus passes to connect residents with other mainstream community resources to help support pathways

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to treatment, employment and housing. Today, DSS continue that distribution and in keeping

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with our commitment to housing first, community support services, substance use services

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work to complete on-site screening and referral for treatment and other supports.

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CSS Veterans Services Division will be on site later this week to assist veterans in accessing possible resources.

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Plans are being finalized to include other partner agencies and to train grassroots organizations on how to assist residents with completing permanent supportive housing applications.

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The estimated budget for this project is $1.5 million and is reimbursable through FEMA.

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As I reflect on the past week, I'm an awe of how our community responded to this public health crisis.

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I'm awed by the number of people who showed up every day.

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None of this work would have been possible without the leadership and support of multiple county departments.

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departments, our local homeless service providers and our amazing grassroots organizations,

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staffed mainly by volunteers. You can see the names of the entities who have been involved in

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this effort listed on the current slide. Also included are established partners who have expressed

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interest in offering resources. Next slide.

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I am also proud of the fact that when we got to work

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on Tuesday, February 16th, we knew that all our planning and problem solving had to both anticipate

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various scenarios while also trying to ensure that we met all residents literally where they were

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in a trauma-informed way. We devised backup plans, the backup plans for the backup plans.

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When we needed to change course or velocity, we were prepared. This commitment to flexibility

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and trust in each other was absolutely critical to ensuring that the move

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was sensitive, efficient, and safe for everyone. The quote you see on the slide

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reflects the appreciation from a grassroots organization HeartSpeak for One

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Foundation director Bethany McDonald.

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Next slide. While the hotel was the

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destination for residents during the initial phase, it is not the intended endgame

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for the homeless residents we are serving.

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Not all residents will need the same level

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or types of support or services.

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To that end, we have been conducting needs assessments.

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This is, in many ways, only the beginning.

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The quote depicted is from guests

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as they were moving to the hotels last week.

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As we start looking at the next steps,

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We have identified some short-term actions that are necessary.

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First, we will complete all of the final coordinated entry assessments this week.

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We will continue to connect individuals with resources for housing, employment, mental health, substance use, and more.

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I want to address the misconceptions in the community regarding circumstances at the hotel.

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County staff have not been informed by any resident or staff about bed bug issues at either hotel location.

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We do have experience on how to address these issues if they were to arise and will do so accordingly.

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The current meal vendor has an existing relationship with the county.

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These meals meet all USDA nutrition standards.

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We expanded contracts with our existing laundry service vendor to ensure everyone has access to laundry services.

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I have confirmed with both hotels that services have begun at both locations.

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The safety of all residents remains another priority.

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To that end, we hold all residents accountable for basic communal living expectations, all

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of which were communicated up front.

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Individuals who have displayed violent or illegal behavior have been and will be exited

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from participation.

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Individuals who are still in active addiction, but not yet ready to seek treatment, must abide

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by the drug-free zone policy. But, before an individual exits due to a violation, we will first

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revisit treatment as a path to remain. To be clear, there will be people who do-

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Despite our best efforts, we'll leave the hotel and return to homelessness. This has already

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happened for six individuals due to criminal activity or refusal to abide by hotel rules

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regarding safety. But the majority of people will be connected to permanent housing or

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other community resources. Some will be prioritized for permanent supportive housing or others

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to be assessed for higher levels of care. Engagement with case management and weekly case

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conferencing will help monitor needs and connect people to the various resources.

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Extensive criminal histories and current criminal behavior or court credit are barriers to

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identifying housing solutions. That's why we need landlords to join us in

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this effort. If you are a landlord, you can make a difference by enrolling in

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social serves housing CLT program. Housing CLT is a community collaboration

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among rental property owners, professional property managers, and homeless

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services agencies to provide housing opportunities for people experiencing

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homelessness who have significant barriers to securing safe, permanent, and affordable housing.

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To enroll, call 704-323-5540 or visit housingsealtepartner.com.

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Now, shifting to the longer solutions, it is critical that our community be clear-eyed about this

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situation. We move 214 individuals into two temporary housing facilities in the

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midst of a global pandemic. While Macklenburg County had to act in order to

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protect the health of those at the encampment and the community, we cannot solve

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homelessness alone. Homelessness and housing and stability were

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increasing even before COVID. As was the need for permanent affordable housing, we need to build

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upon momentum of this movement with the grassroots organizations, align policies and strategies

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to meet the demand of the community. And as Deputy County Manager Trotman highlighted,

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we need to have significant expansion of federal resources to fully address homelessness.

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The BOCC and the county's leadership and advocacy at the federal level through organizations

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like NAICO is essential in this regard.

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This concludes my remarks and I welcome any questions.

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Thank you.

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First of all, let me thank the manager and her staff for this presentation.

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I have heard the rumors.

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members, I have heard the rumors being repeated by some of my colleagues when it would have

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simply taken a phone call to ask someone the questions were addressed today. But instead

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there are those who would much rather rely on the rumors out on the community as if the

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for some reason, their story is better than the story that you just heard.

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My hope is in the future that we would take advantage of the opportunity to call up on staff

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to verify what you might hear in the community. Clearly, much more has been done

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and what we've heard about.

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So at

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this time, if there are questions,

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I will certainly intertaining by going by districts

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and I will start with district two.

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You had questions.

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This point Mr. Dunlap, the only thing I want to say

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to the staff and to dinner, and I'm grateful that we have the kind of staff that has put forth an effort that this country can look at and model after.

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One thing I want to say you could always count on the council.

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My question is, where were those who are totally responsible for housing, that worries me.

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But I'm glad that this information is out there, and I'm...

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I pray that we will continue to sit in this message out to this community and across this country, as to what we were able to do in Mecklenburg County, under the leadership of Mrs. Dina Dioria, who is celebrating her 16th birthday today. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Lee. Commissioner Jarelle.

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Thank you,

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Karen. And I just want to take a minute to thank staff for the work that was being done.

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Also, on a level set with the community, relative to really understanding that this is a difficult

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transition.

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And I think it's important for us to understand that the expectation for us as commissioners

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should not be for us to be reactive, but as long as we're being responsive, I think is what

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the responsible approach is as we encounter these situations that we know will naturally

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your car when you have this many individuals in these environments with the challenges that

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they're facing and the challenges that we're facing. And so I think it was indeed

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of a very

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challenge population and

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you were following up so I do want to point that out to everyone. I would

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like you to speak to though, if you can there's a few areas that I'd like either you are caring to

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go or sense

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of, and I'll just go through these questions and whatever you can answer that

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be great.

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kind of what they are, and I think you've already said the expectations, but Karen,

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I think you laid that out to

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these of this issue I think would be helpful.

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So that concludes my comments and questions.

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Karen, you can answer that question.

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Okay, thank you.

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So, regarding the staffing, so thank you first, Commissioner Jerald, but regarding the

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staffing question. We currently have staff from our existing partners with Salvation Army and

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Ruth above are providing staffing. A primary source of our staffing right now are from our key

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grassroots organizations. We are working also with the staffing company to help support those

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organizations as well as having county staff there to provide support as well.

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And then can you

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remind me of your second, your second question I apologize.

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What on the other can you give us a sense of what the resources that are needed right now?

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I believe the immediate resource as far as maintaining, we are doing our best to maintain.

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I think as regarding other solutions, many of the individuals that are there have struggles

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with mental health and substance use services so anything that we can do to help get people

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quickly connected and possibly into higher levels of care is really is really

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where the emphasis is to make sure that everyone in both hotels are safe and

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thought there was a third question Mark

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was there additional question that you

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That's it.

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Thank you for that presentation and thank you for all the work you've done. I also want to thank all the grassroots organizations. And thank you for recognizing them. I think that's very important. I just have a couple of questions. One, Karen. Thank you for clearing up about the rumors about the.

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conditions of the hotel. I heard that this morning for the first time, so I'm glad. I appreciate

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that. I'll sit on the back of the straight. And what is the staff that you're talking about?

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Who? What are the actual jobs that you're that probably should normally and some of our staff

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are doing? And Ruth above.

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So the key piece is really about maintaining almost such a shelter

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operations, so to speak, so making sure that people are in their rooms, they're following

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guidelines, making sure that they are with familial distribution, if they've got a question

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about the TV not working. Everything that would mean to really help kind of make a shelter,

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making a shelter. In addition, we have staff from the shelter, both shelter systems,

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They're providing that case management support, so either even hoping with a

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crisis intervention, talking about what other housing options may be, hoping

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people perhaps reconnect it. Family to friends, to services, so really about that

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holistic approach. And really what we're looking to do is mirror how our current

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shelter system operates, but bring those services there on site as well. And then

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And we're also working to have agencies come and be on site to offer those direct services

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as well.

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We're figuring out ways to if we need to have substance use services on site, meeting

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with Cardinal to see what expectations Cardinal would have for them to be able to provide

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those services on site as far as privacy and things like that.

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And are they being paid by the county or their own organizations or FEMA, is that FEMA

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many or how they being compensated. So any of the providers that are coming in or being

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paid through their own organization, same with the shelter staff, the grassroots organizations

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are either paid through their organization or our volunteers. We are working with county procurement

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on getting a relationship for the key volunteers that are there to be able to make them part

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a part of our time agency and then be able to help reimburse them really for the coverage

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that they're providing as well. The strongest relationships I believe that the folks that

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are there have are with these grassroots organizations and that's not the takeaway from

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any of our other partners but I have been amazed by about the just the compassion that these

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volunteers have brought to the table and the connections that they truly have with the individuals

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that are there. It's amazing. I agree. Thank you very much for everything. Absolutely.

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All right, Commissioner McDowell.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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I have a few questions. I think I think this is great information. I appreciate

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the presentation Anthony and Karen. You guys are on the ground. You are present. You guys

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know exactly the pulse of what's happening and so I really appreciate hearing

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perspective and but I do I do want to challenge us a little bit on you know

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when we're in the white hot spotlight sometimes things happen and I think

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it's really important that we we take a look at our responses and so I think we

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We have to ask, you know, I hear the chairman, but I really want to say that as a commissioner,

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I feel like for the hard job is to hear the different perspectives.

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I can't just take a staff perspective.

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We have to listen to the community as well.

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I think that's part of our job is to always be testing, to always be listening, to always

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please be challenging, festigating.

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Just hearing, I think that they're over different perspectives, looking at the same situation. And so there's different viewpoints that are valid. So I just want to say that I really appreciate staff and the support, support you guys 100% and I want to say that with no bites about it. But in addition, I appreciate that I'm getting letters

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There's phone calls and other perspectives from other people that I'm listening.

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I have to listen to them as well as a commissioner and that's my job, I believe.

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So I want to say that I want to know what we'll do differently next time and I know that

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maybe this isn't the time to do a dissection of what we could do differently next time, but

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I think that's not will come, and I think we really have to, I think this was a communication

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problem most of all. And I feel like that was where a lot of the process broke down, was

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around the communication piece, and that's communication for our partners and communication

448
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:26,980
with the population and the community. And those are things that I would like to see how

449
00:46:26,980 --> 00:46:28,180
we can do better on.

450
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,500
I think that's I don't really have a question. I think you guys did a great

451
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:42,400
job of, you know, let's know kind of what's happening and where we stand right now and I'm really

452
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:50,300
pleased to hear about the folks who are getting services that they wouldn't have gotten if they

453
00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:58,820
accepted this. I think the rat infestation of course is a horrible thing, but in a way it's like

454
00:46:58,820 --> 00:47:06,140
we turned it into a positive by being able to see how folks are going to be helped as a result

455
00:47:06,140 --> 00:47:14,780
of that experience and of that terrible situation. So I know that sometimes the worst happens and it

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00:47:14,780 --> 00:47:20,240
into a good thing and I'm really I'm really happy about that and I'm proud of what the

457
00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:30,300
county can do to help folks. I'm really looking for the hope about having a comprehensive response

458
00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:37,840
to homelessness, a comprehensive plan and what I'm really looking for is what is ours to do

459
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:47,560
As a county, what piece of it is ours to do, do we have a piece in every single part

460
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:52,140
of the comprehensive plan, or do we to be focused in a certain part?

461
00:47:53,400 --> 00:48:00,160
And those are some of the questions that I'm wrestling with, is we take our fire power

462
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:07,260
or our power, I don't mean the word power that way, but I mean like our resources,

463
00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:11,780
and tackle a part of the comprehensive plan,

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be a big part of it,

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or are we supposed to be involved in all of it?

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00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,860
So kind of really wrestling with that.

467
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,260
And so I'd love to hear if you guys have thoughts

468
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on that at some other time.

469
00:48:24,460 --> 00:48:28,000
So I don't have the actual question for today,

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but thank you for letting me say my comments.

471
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,680
And if you have a response, that's great too.

472
00:48:36,910 --> 00:48:41,830
Well, I think that we definitely can talk about this later.

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00:48:42,390 --> 00:48:47,370
In previous presentations, I talked about the reduction in headphones nationally.

474
00:48:47,990 --> 00:48:54,550
I talked about the lack of access to behavioral health services and access to treatment.

475
00:48:55,250 --> 00:49:02,890
I talked about the affordable housing issue, and I talked about our ability to control

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00:49:02,890 --> 00:49:10,310
the inflow because most of what we're talking about is the outflow you know and it is difficult when

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00:49:10,310 --> 00:49:15,650
you know people hear about all the great things that are happening in Mecklenburg County not only

478
00:49:15,650 --> 00:49:21,810
our business leaders come in here but everybody else is coming as well and so it is difficult to have

479
00:49:21,810 --> 00:49:29,070
a plan that says that we're going to end homelessness when we don't have a national plan to end homelessness

480
00:49:29,070 --> 00:49:31,730
which is why it led off of what we're doing with NACO.

481
00:49:35,740 --> 00:49:36,420
Thank you, Anthony.

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00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,020
This really, as a commissioner, I'm telling you,

483
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,580
this is a huge learning curve.

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00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,060
And I just appreciate the players

485
00:49:45,060 --> 00:49:47,820
and who all is part of this conversation.

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00:49:48,060 --> 00:49:48,460
So thank you.

487
00:49:48,620 --> 00:49:51,220
And it takes a little time to learn.

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00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:54,920
And so appreciate those of you who have so much more experience.

489
00:49:55,340 --> 00:49:56,100
So thank you.

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00:49:57,740 --> 00:49:58,380
All right.

491
00:49:58,380 --> 00:49:59,840
All right, committee.

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00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:00,600
Commissioner Altman.

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00:50:03,830 --> 00:50:32,350
Can you hear me now? Yes. Oh, wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, when I open up the national newspaper every morning, I think like many people, I see so much dysfunction and frankly, corruption and incompetence and indifferent at the national level. And I think that it can break the bond between people and the government when the people lose hope that their government will be there

494
00:50:32,350 --> 00:50:36,610
for them in a competent way, in a caring, compassionate, and responsive way.

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And that's a problem.

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00:50:39,150 --> 00:50:47,130
And so for me, the big story here is how responsive this local government was to a crisis.

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00:50:48,130 --> 00:50:49,570
I saw compassion.

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00:50:50,430 --> 00:50:51,830
I saw responsibility.

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I saw basic care and concern for human suffering.

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And that that is what led this county government to issue the order of

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00:51:02,250 --> 00:51:08,950
embatements, move so swiftly, get people rehomed all inside of seven days.

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00:51:10,410 --> 00:51:12,930
So, you know, was it done quickly?

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00:51:13,590 --> 00:51:13,950
Yes.

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00:51:14,310 --> 00:51:19,090
To me, that shows nimbleness in government, which is often in short supply.

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00:51:19,690 --> 00:51:22,470
And it also shows leadership.

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00:51:23,230 --> 00:51:26,890
The county manager and her team acted swiftly.

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00:51:26,890 --> 00:51:33,130
She threw the weight of this organization to lead and to amplify the work of our non-partners

508
00:51:33,130 --> 00:51:33,890
on the ground.

509
00:51:34,390 --> 00:51:39,770
There are many, many people in the encampment whose collaboration was absolutely critical

510
00:51:39,770 --> 00:51:41,470
and I'm glad they've been highlighted today.

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00:51:42,210 --> 00:51:47,750
I'm also grateful to the public health director, to Mr. Tropman and to the manager who had

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00:51:47,750 --> 00:51:53,770
the courage to say, we cannot allow people to live like this one more day and they persevered

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00:51:53,770 --> 00:51:55,410
in the face of many challenges.

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00:51:55,410 --> 00:51:58,570
So, the people of this community need to hear it.

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00:51:59,070 --> 00:52:04,330
There was a need, this organization saw it, and it acted boldly to meet the need.

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00:52:04,490 --> 00:52:05,370
It did a great job.

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00:52:05,690 --> 00:52:06,970
It did not do a perfect job.

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00:52:07,530 --> 00:52:09,390
It did a great job nonetheless.

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00:52:10,470 --> 00:52:15,090
A service was rendered, which restored the dignity of many, and hopefully has put them on

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00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:15,730
a better path.

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00:52:16,350 --> 00:52:22,990
What we saw on display is what we expect from our government, courage, service, and leadership.

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00:52:22,990 --> 00:52:30,270
I humbly thank the every single employee of Mecklenburg County, every nonprofit partner,

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00:52:30,870 --> 00:52:34,750
and every private citizen who stepped forward and contributed to this outcome.

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00:52:40,170 --> 00:52:40,790
Thank you.

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00:52:41,050 --> 00:52:42,150
Commissioner Scarborough.

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00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,780
I have no comments at this time.

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00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:54,420
I do want to thank Ann also for congratulating those who have been on the ground.

528
00:52:55,120 --> 00:53:04,700
open this open with this because it's important and there are people who understand it to understand how important it is to serve it.

529
00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:06,960
So thank you very much for the opportunity.

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00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,140
Thank you.

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00:53:10,180 --> 00:53:11,180
Commissioner Cotten.

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00:53:12,460 --> 00:53:13,740
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

533
00:53:14,220 --> 00:53:15,920
And thank you for the great presentation.

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00:53:16,940 --> 00:53:24,780
I started to get interested in homelessness around 2009 because of a job where I was helping

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00:53:24,780 --> 00:53:31,220
people, a finding employment, and who had been incarcerated, and many of them lived

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00:53:31,220 --> 00:53:31,920
at the shelters.

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00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,140
So that's when I started, and that's what motivated me to run for office.

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00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:43,100
The more I learned about homelessness, the more I realized I don't know, and the more

539
00:53:43,100 --> 00:53:49,120
realize how complicated it is and I don't think there's anybody can say I know

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00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:53,840
everything about homelessness because it is extremely complicated and most of

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00:53:53,840 --> 00:54:00,760
our issues are more complicated than people realize. Certainly when we got

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00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:09,660
the news last Tuesday about the move there were a lot of people that contacted us

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00:54:10,180 --> 00:54:33,060
and they were very upset, and I did not overreact to them because, first of all, even though they did not have the facts and, you know, everybody can have opinions, but there's only one set of facts and they didn't have the facts, but, and they might have been upset, but at least they cared, they cared about homelessness.

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00:54:33,060 --> 00:54:37,580
And we haven't had as many people until recently, really care.

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00:54:38,220 --> 00:54:45,000
And so I thanked all of them, even though I tried to help them better understand the truth.

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00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:52,440
And I tried to let them know that we were not clearing people.

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We were clearing the rats and caring for the people.

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00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,740
And I also wanted to

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Thank our media partners. They did an awesome job to contact members of the county commission, members of the nonprofits, our county staff, to help the public better understand the situation. And some of that was, you know, very difficult work for them. They were having to park so far away. And the weather was bad. And they

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00:55:29,780 --> 00:55:37,180
just persevered, and I was really glad to see that. And, you know, Dina, you did an awesome job

551
00:55:37,180 --> 00:55:49,360
and of coordinate and all this, and I think it was... I thought it was outstanding. And, you know,

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I wasn't looking for any perfection, but I was... I knew that you would care for the people,

553
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:02,760
and you did. You did care for the people. And in a respectful way. You know, because our

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00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:09,840
homeless neighbors are human beings, there's somebody's son, somebody's mother, somebody's

555
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:17,260
brother, and they're just in a bad spot. And many of them are only there temporarily. And many of them

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00:56:17,260 --> 00:56:23,260
are there maybe continually because of other obstacles that they face in their with their

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00:56:23,260 --> 00:56:29,760
mental health or their finances or whatever or trauma that they've experienced but they're

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00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:37,520
all human beings and I know that all our staff and our partners kept that in the forefront

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00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:48,340
that these are human beings and to be respectful of them and it was amazing how quickly you made

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00:56:48,340 --> 00:56:57,020
the move and how all the negativity stopped. And again, I didn't judge the negativity because

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00:56:57,020 --> 00:57:03,020
again, they were well-intentioned people who just did not have the correct information. And once

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00:57:03,020 --> 00:57:10,060
they got the information, thanks to our, to the media, then they realized that this was handled

563
00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:16,380
very well. And I'm just thrilled that more people are talking about homelessness and trying to look

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00:57:16,380 --> 00:57:24,080
for solutions. And it is a very complicated because it involves a lot of different governmental

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00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:30,260
partners, and it involves caring people. I was really glad that you mentioned Robert Nesmith.

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00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:36,720
I have known Robert for a long time, and I'm so glad that he came to the county because he's a young

567
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:45,420
man that has been working on homelessness for years, and even though he's very young. And I was

568
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:49,360
really glad you gave him a shout out and thank you, Dina, for all that you did.

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00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:55,580
Thank you to the staff, to Gibby, and all of the workers, and goodbye rats, right?

570
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:57,380
Thank you.

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00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:58,420
That concludes my comment.

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00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,160
Thank you, Commissioner Powell.

573
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:05,200
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:11,500
I could have co-written the speech with Commissioner Altman

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00:58:11,500 --> 00:58:34,540
because I have many of the same feelings and so I want to start with gratitude and I want to start with Karen because the email that you sent in the middle of all this was very touching and it made a lot and it made me know that what I was thinking was true.

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00:58:34,540 --> 00:58:44,180
And it is hard, it's hard to know the staff side and then hear the public outcry and know how hard you're working.

577
00:58:45,420 --> 00:58:55,280
And, you know, like Commissioner Rodriguez McDowell said, we have to listen to a lot of negativity and you have to be open to hearing that.

578
00:58:55,400 --> 00:59:02,140
But at the same time, you know how outstanding the staff is that is responding to an emergency.

579
00:59:02,140 --> 00:59:12,040
And so thank you for your note. Thank you for your dedication, your compassion. I mean, all the words, your heart, your caring.

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00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:26,200
Thank you for that because it is, it's what we need and it is what people expect and they expect that for people who are in such a hard situation.

581
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:30,980
So I want to thank you and all the people that you work with and all the community partners

582
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:43,800
and Mr. Trotman and I also want to thank Dina for having the courage and the step-up leader

583
00:59:44,780 --> 00:59:53,780
that we have to have in a situation where public health is so at risk and to have the possibility

584
00:59:53,780 --> 00:59:59,200
of a countywide problem with a plague or a disease caused by rats.

585
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:26,060
I want to be dealt with swiftly, and there was no time for wishy-washy. It had to be dealt with. And so while it's not perfect, the love behind it is perfect. And that's what matters. And that's what the focus should be on making sure that we're protecting public health and that we're helping people in a difficult situation. And so thank you to every single person that made it possible.

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01:00:26,060 --> 01:00:33,820
I admire you, and I just admire your courage and leadership, and I do have a question because

587
01:00:33,820 --> 01:00:40,400
I think it's an important question. Because there's so much stress, you know, I got emails like

588
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:45,580
the county was bubbling over with tax dollars, and I thought no, we're not bubbling over with tax

589
01:00:45,580 --> 01:00:54,170
dollars. Like this is difficult, you know, and this is not sustainable. So Mr. Trotman, you know,

590
01:00:54,170 --> 01:00:58,030
We started off with, you know, we need a federal assistance.

591
01:00:59,490 --> 01:01:01,590
What do you think about the state assistance?

592
01:01:01,870 --> 01:01:05,090
I mean, I don't want to put you on the spot, but I feel like we needed at every level.

593
01:01:05,270 --> 01:01:05,950
Do you agree with that?

594
01:01:08,630 --> 01:01:09,410
You're on mute.

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01:01:14,310 --> 01:01:16,130
I said, I totally agree.

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01:01:16,610 --> 01:01:21,470
One of the issues that many of our residents face is accidentally to help here.

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01:01:22,430 --> 01:01:28,150
And a debate that we've been having for years is expanding the Medicaid program, or those

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01:01:28,150 --> 01:01:33,070
single adults that are out there. They would have access to behavioral health and or physical

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01:01:33,070 --> 01:01:39,450
health treatment if we would expand the Medicaid program. Also, as we think about, you know,

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01:01:39,830 --> 01:01:45,910
these various behavioral health facilities throughout our state, have we increased the number

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01:01:45,910 --> 01:01:52,230
of beds for psychiatric treatment centers? Do we have enough? Because what's happening is,

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01:01:52,490 --> 01:01:56,350
you know, the support for these individuals has been forced down to the local level.

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01:01:56,350 --> 01:02:03,070
And we're doing our best to, for one, provide supportive services with our shelter partners

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01:02:03,070 --> 01:02:06,710
to ensure that they have access to everything that they need.

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01:02:07,230 --> 01:02:09,610
So it's definitely a joint effort.

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01:02:09,770 --> 01:02:14,810
I think all levels of government from the county and to the city, to the state, to the federal

607
01:02:14,810 --> 01:02:17,910
government, all bear responsibility in dealing with this issue.

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01:02:19,190 --> 01:02:21,790
And thank you for that, because it is enormous.

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01:02:21,790 --> 01:02:33,390
It's we could spend every single dollar just on this one issue and still not solve it and so we need partners and I'm glad that you mentioned inflow because inflow matters.

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01:02:34,010 --> 01:02:43,290
I mean, when other cities and counties are sending their homeless to Mecklenburg County, it becomes I don't even know the right word.

611
01:02:43,310 --> 01:02:46,510
It's just not sustainable. It becomes overwhelming.

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01:02:47,030 --> 01:02:48,930
And so I'm glad that you brought that up.

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01:02:50,290 --> 01:02:55,550
And again, just thank you, thank you for your sensitivity and caring and courage.

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01:02:55,970 --> 01:02:56,630
I appreciate you.

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01:02:56,910 --> 01:02:57,290
Thank you.

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01:02:59,550 --> 01:03:00,310
All right.

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01:03:00,410 --> 01:03:07,410
Let me start off by also adding my thanks to what has already been stated.

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01:03:08,710 --> 01:03:16,950
I can't think, you know, enough for her leadership in this initiative and to give

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01:03:16,950 --> 01:03:22,110
to Anthony and to all of the Mecklenburg County staff that was involved.

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01:03:23,130 --> 01:03:28,370
I also wanted to call out Karen is good to see your face.

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01:03:29,550 --> 01:03:34,950
I got the email and I was so I

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01:03:37,220 --> 01:03:38,720
was taken by your email.

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01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,120
So I felt the need to share with all of my colleagues.

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01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:48,260
So I sent it out immediately and even as late as after 12 o'clock somebody

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01:03:48,260 --> 01:03:57,280
was commenting to me about your message. So thank you for that. I'm going to take a moment to

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01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:04,320
address a couple of things. And that is the notion about whether or not the county is really

627
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:11,140
doing something or not. And so not just to my colleagues but to the community as well,

628
01:04:13,610 --> 01:04:19,510
Mecklenburg County doing something doesn't simply mean that it's only Mecklenburg County staff.

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01:04:20,610 --> 01:04:22,710
which is why we have partnerships,

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01:04:23,910 --> 01:04:25,570
which is why we have vendors.

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01:04:26,830 --> 01:04:31,230
And so you may not see a Mecklenburg County staff person doing it,

632
01:04:32,070 --> 01:04:34,950
but it's the leadership that comes from Mecklenburg County

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01:04:34,950 --> 01:04:38,910
that works with our partners and our vendors to get it done.

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01:04:40,470 --> 01:04:44,910
And so when people tell me what Mecklenburg County is not doing,

635
01:04:45,430 --> 01:04:48,070
I ask the question, did anybody do it?

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01:04:49,530 --> 01:04:54,530
Because chances are if anybody did it, Mecklenburg County was involved.

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01:04:55,190 --> 01:04:57,490
They may have had a different title behind their name.

638
01:04:57,970 --> 01:04:59,750
They may have said that they were about-

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01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:13,020
A member of a particular organization. But somewhere in Mecklenburg County was behind that. And so I want to thank all of our partners and our vendors for working with us on this initiative.

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01:05:15,220 --> 01:05:29,980
I also would say that there are those people who look for perfection, I never do, because I realize that I'm not perfect. There's a scripture that says

641
01:05:29,980 --> 01:05:30,460
says,

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01:05:37,070 --> 01:05:47,530
judge not. At least you be judged. And so I would caution people who are always

643
01:05:47,530 --> 01:05:55,050
critical and looking at the bad side. Now, is it fair to critique what happened? Certainly

644
01:05:55,050 --> 01:06:02,410
it is. Were there some mistakes made? Oh, I could see some. But at the appropriate time

645
01:06:02,410 --> 01:06:08,130
with the appropriate people, you address those concerns because others may not have seen them.

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01:06:09,230 --> 01:06:13,570
And so I would encourage all of my colleagues. If you think that happened,

647
01:06:14,250 --> 01:06:18,110
then talk to the person that you think might have been responsible.

648
01:06:19,110 --> 01:06:23,590
Because you may learn that what you thought you saw, what you really saw,

649
01:06:23,930 --> 01:06:29,010
or what you heard really wasn't what happened. So I want to encourage you to do that.

650
01:06:30,010 --> 01:06:33,210
But yeah, there are some things we could have done differently.

651
01:06:34,410 --> 01:06:41,010
And I hope in the event that something of this nature happens again, we would do some

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01:06:41,010 --> 01:06:41,650
things differently.

653
01:06:43,390 --> 01:06:50,890
I think one of the biggest frustrations I have about this whole situation is the number

654
01:06:50,890 --> 01:06:59,690
of organizations or groups who said that they were involved with homelessness, they were

655
01:06:59,690 --> 01:07:06,070
actually raising money, asking people to donate to their group or organization, and

656
01:07:06,070 --> 01:07:12,430
I have not seen your name's printed anywhere. I have not heard anybody mention your name.

657
01:07:12,990 --> 01:07:18,430
And so what I'm saying is, yes, they're scammers even with the homeless population who are taking

658
01:07:18,430 --> 01:07:25,050
advantage of this situation and getting money and using it for other purposes. That's

659
01:07:25,050 --> 01:07:25,590
disheartening.

660
01:07:30,790 --> 01:07:38,710
It infuriates me when people take advantage of a crisis situation such

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as this.

662
01:07:41,770 --> 01:07:49,530
I would also say, and I think both Laura and Commissioner Coffin contacted me

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about the recognition for those people who assisted the county in this effort.

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And so I agree that we will look for a more tangible way to say thank you to all of those volunteers that were involved in this effort.

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01:08:12,330 --> 01:08:18,090
Some were involved who were not necessarily a part of a particular group or organization,

666
01:08:18,570 --> 01:08:25,030
but nonetheless, we'd like to say thank you for what you contribute to making what could

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01:08:25,030 --> 01:08:30,850
have been a terrible situation turn out as well as it did.

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So I think I have covered everything I had planned to say.

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So thank you all again for your efforts and then dinner if you would because I know how

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01:08:53,330 --> 01:09:02,250
it is important to some commissioners probably more than others that they know every time something

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01:09:02,250 --> 01:09:08,830
happens. So we don't necessarily have to wait until we come together at a meeting if you would

672
01:09:08,830 --> 01:09:17,010
send out Anthony an update keeping people in form because because I hear the

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01:09:17,010 --> 01:09:23,170
comments about people never sharing information so if we could send out a

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01:09:23,170 --> 01:09:30,610
memo just keep people informed about any changes or update status of the

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01:09:30,610 --> 01:09:36,250
situation of those people that are being housed I was pleased to hear staff

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01:09:36,250 --> 01:09:44,390
acknowledge the fact that everybody's not going to stay there because some are going to decide that's not what they want

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01:09:44,390 --> 01:09:56,850
which is why they chose the situation that they were in in the first place. And what do we like it or not? No matter how concerned we are, we have to respect the adults' decisions.

678
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So with that, amount of manager.

679
01:10:01,070 --> 01:10:30,990
Your next report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The next item in the agenda is the board's definitions around your priorities that you set at the retreat. We said we would come back and we would talk to you about definitions and possible target setting for some of the items that you have deemed your priorities. And so we will be hearing today from Adrian Cox, our budget director, as well as Monica Allen, our strategic planning and evaluation director to walk you through

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01:10:30,990 --> 01:10:35,800
that information. Adrian I can

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manage your deorio. Dr.

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Allen's actually going to start

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us off and then I'll pick it

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01:10:40,460 --> 01:10:40,780
up shortly.

685
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:43,620
All right. Thanks Adrian happy

686
01:10:43,620 --> 01:10:45,120
birthday Dina. Good afternoon

687
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:46,220
chairman Dunlap County

688
01:10:46,220 --> 01:10:47,400
commissioners and 20 managed

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your deorio and others.

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01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:50,180
Next slide.

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01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:54,560
And in Dina alluded to this a

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01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:56,520
little bit but in January 2021

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01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:57,600
during the Board of County

694
01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:58,780
commissioners annual retreat.

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01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:00,900
The consultant Megan Palmer to

696
01:11:00,900 --> 01:11:03,140
key through and exercise to

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01:11:03,140 --> 01:11:09,540
identify the FY 2022 board priorities. At that time, staff shared its plan to meet with

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01:11:09,540 --> 01:11:13,760
the board in February as a follow-up to setting those priorities to share indicators and performance

699
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:19,760
information with you. As staff was preparing for the meeting today, we did think it was best to

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,360
also share with the board the descriptions of the priorities for your review and feedback.

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01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:30,620
Share any indicators we have identified today related to the FY21 board initiatives and even

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01:11:31,180 --> 01:11:41,680
go over the FY 2020 board priorities. And we know that one funding for many of those items from the FY 24 priorities may not go away.

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01:11:42,460 --> 01:11:48,300
And we also know that some of the board members interest was there and continuing to focus on the FY 2020 priorities.

704
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:53,880
And so this presentation is really going to kind of wrap around those three things.

705
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:57,100
And the other thing too, at the end of the presentation,

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01:11:57,480 --> 01:12:00,440
when it came from the board, if there are any other indicators,

707
01:12:00,820 --> 01:12:03,780
maybe higher order indicators that we can track and report

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01:12:03,780 --> 01:12:06,160
out to you quarterly, and after today, we'll

709
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:07,640
determine that feasibility of doing so

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01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:09,040
in the frequency of reporting as well.

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01:12:10,260 --> 01:12:12,280
So before we get started, next slide.

712
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And I dive into the information.

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01:12:15,500 --> 01:12:17,780
I'm going to have ageing talks go

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01:12:17,780 --> 01:12:20,860
over the priority descriptions that staff have developed

715
01:12:20,860 --> 01:12:28,580
for your consideration. Thank you. During the Board's budget retreat, we listen to the conversations

716
01:12:28,580 --> 01:12:33,960
and took notes of amazing concepts that you use to describe the different priorities.

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01:12:34,740 --> 01:12:39,740
Based on that discussion, we have drafted preliminary descriptions that I'll be reviewing with you

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01:12:39,740 --> 01:12:45,740
in the next slides. These descriptions will serve as a tool to communicate the priorities by further

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01:12:45,740 --> 01:12:52,360
elaborated on each priority. As you will see, these descriptions are intentionally brief

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01:12:52,360 --> 01:13:00,240
and broad. The intent is to provide a sense of the meaning of the priority, not to describe

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01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:06,980
every possible aspect or potential initiative that may align to the priority in the future.

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01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:12,280
So if you're looking for something particular that does not show up in these descriptions,

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01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:15,500
decisions, it does not mean that it's not part of our focus.

724
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:21,300
Most importantly, the descriptions will be finalized with the feedback that we received

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01:13:21,300 --> 01:13:21,680
today.

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01:13:22,780 --> 01:13:23,340
Next slide.

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01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:30,480
So here are all the priorities and the descriptions that we have drafted.

728
01:13:31,140 --> 01:13:35,160
These are not reflected in any order of rank or importance.

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01:13:36,060 --> 01:13:37,940
They are simply shown in alphabetical order.

730
01:13:39,140 --> 01:13:44,540
As I go through the descriptions, please bear with me as I read them out loud because

731
01:13:44,540 --> 01:13:48,940
I want to make sure that everyone has a chance to hear how we have described the priorities.

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01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:54,300
As a reminder, these are meant to be brief and broad.

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01:13:55,740 --> 01:14:01,980
First, affordable housing. We have described this priority as evaluate new housing opportunities

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01:14:01,980 --> 01:14:07,680
that are affordable for residents in need. Education attainment gaps.

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01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:14,200
LYNC existing allocations to strategies and targets to improve college and career

736
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:21,880
readiness outcomes for all students, environmental leadership, implement the environmental

737
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:31,860
leadership action plan, MEC pre-K, continue implementation of voluntary universal pre-K for

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01:14:31,860 --> 01:14:38,680
all eligible for your old children, workforce development, provide leadership and

739
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:42,280
line communication with job seekers and employers.

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01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:50,620
Racial disparities was approved as a cross-cutting focus that is uniquely embedded across

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01:14:50,620 --> 01:14:51,860
all priorities.

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01:14:52,780 --> 01:14:57,740
With a particular focus on analyzing all of the services to improve equitable opportunities

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01:14:57,740 --> 01:14:59,040
for all people.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,860
The description that you see here is derived from the mission and vision statement of our county's equity action plan. The states to ensure that investments by the county focus on closing racial and ethnic gaps so that race does not predict one success while also improving outcomes for all. Race will be interwoven into the board's priorities through policies, practices and procedures that

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01:15:29,860 --> 01:15:35,740
seek to analyze and eliminate the root causes of racial disparities with the hope that

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01:15:35,740 --> 01:15:41,680
all people in Mecklenburg County will have an equitable opportunity to thrive in the community.

747
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,660
So these are the descriptions of the board's priorities.

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01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:54,720
In just a moment, Dr. Allen will go over performance indicators related to each of these priorities,

749
01:15:55,300 --> 01:16:01,400
But at this point, Chairman Dunlap, I'll pause to see if there is any reaction or feedback

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01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:04,320
from the board regarding these descriptions.

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01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:10,100
However, we will also circle back to hear your feedback following the discussion with

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01:16:10,100 --> 01:16:10,520
Dr. Allen.

753
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:13,460
Okay.

754
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:20,500
Of course, you know I'm hesitant to do this, but are there any questions about the definitions?

755
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,580
I take that we are all satisfied.

756
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:31,440
All right, Dr. Allen.

757
01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:34,280
Mr. Chairman, I had my hand up for a question.

758
01:16:34,820 --> 01:16:36,400
Okay, I can't see my hands.

759
01:16:36,940 --> 01:16:39,020
That's okay, it's Lealtman, it's just one question.

760
01:16:39,580 --> 01:16:39,820
Yes.

761
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:41,240
Thank you, sir.

762
01:16:43,420 --> 01:16:46,860
Can Mr. Cox, does the environmental leadership plan

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01:16:46,860 --> 01:16:50,860
which implements the environmental leadership action plan

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01:16:50,860 --> 01:16:54,760
include expanding parks or is it?

765
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:58,260
I'm not sure I'm totally clear on the definition

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01:16:58,260 --> 01:16:59,160
that that encompasses.

767
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:08,720
So that was part of the action plan that was presented at the Board's retreat, but if I could

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01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:15,880
out defer to Deputy County Manager Leslie Johnson to verify exactly all the aspects of the

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01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:17,340
leadership action plan.

770
01:17:19,810 --> 01:17:25,050
Yes, good afternoon. The Environmental Leadership Action Plan does include

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01:17:26,050 --> 01:17:31,970
the parks, what specifically it talks about land acquisition, open space, and the lake

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01:17:31,970 --> 01:17:33,730
as it relates to protecting the environment.

773
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:36,480
Okay.

774
01:17:36,620 --> 01:17:36,940
Thank you.

775
01:17:37,660 --> 01:17:42,240
Mr. Chairman, I had my hand up too, and I know now I know you can't see us.

776
01:17:42,540 --> 01:17:47,640
So I don't know how you want us to indicate that we have a question unless you just alert it out.

777
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:48,960
Yeah, you have the floor.

778
01:17:49,440 --> 01:17:49,660
Okay.

779
01:17:49,940 --> 01:17:50,380
Thank you.

780
01:17:50,380 --> 01:18:00,640
I just need to understand a little bit more when Dr. Johnson says that the

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01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:09,100
environmental action plan does include parks and then she said it includes land

782
01:18:09,100 --> 01:18:15,100
acquisition. I just I think the definition if you're asking us if we want to be

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01:18:15,100 --> 01:18:24,080
sold on these definitions. I think it would be better if or or I really want to understand

784
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:33,060
if meck playbook plays in to the to the environmental piece. I'm not clear on that and I feel like

785
01:18:33,060 --> 01:18:35,640
it's a question that keeps coming up in my mind.

786
01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:42,860
Well I will say this meck playbook is a plan for

787
01:18:42,860 --> 01:18:46,900
parks in and of itself, irrespective of the environmental

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01:18:46,900 --> 01:18:51,740
plan. And you will know that we are currently still under

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01:18:51,740 --> 01:18:55,540
the ten year plan that was approved before the make playbook

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01:18:55,540 --> 01:19:00,400
plan. So that plan will stand on its own. Now, there might be

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01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:03,480
pieces where it might be interwoven into the environmental

792
01:19:04,540 --> 01:19:09,140
leadership plan, but it is a plan for park and recreation,

793
01:19:09,140 --> 01:19:11,260
except for an apart from anything else.

794
01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:16,440
Okay, so that means that's not one of our priorities currently.

795
01:19:16,900 --> 01:19:20,660
It's going forward, it's going to be the leadership plan

796
01:19:20,660 --> 01:19:22,200
and the environmental leadership.

797
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:25,380
Based on what the board decided,

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01:19:25,780 --> 01:19:28,300
what you see before you are the priorities.

799
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:32,360
There are other things associated with these things

800
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:36,560
with our priorities that might include, for example,

801
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:43,220
the mech playbook but the mech playbook is not the priority. Environmental leadership

802
01:19:43,220 --> 01:19:49,140
is the priority. So mech playbook might be something under that but these are the priorities.

803
01:19:51,340 --> 01:19:58,460
Okay. All right, so are we being asked to tweak any of the wording? Is that what we're being

804
01:19:58,460 --> 01:19:59,560
asked to do or

805
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:27,820
I'm just not quite clear what you're what you want from us at this point. So the so the question is, and general terms, does these definitions pretty much agree with what we were tempted to get at at our retreat? And we won't get into wordsmithing because we'll be doing that all day. But generally, does this reflect what we're agreeable? That's what they're asking. Okay, thank you.

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01:20:27,820 --> 01:20:50,120
All right, was anyone else a term in this is commissioner Powell and I just wanted to just to make sure we are under the education attainment gaps, we are, you know, ultimately working to improve college and career readiness.

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01:20:50,920 --> 01:21:08,920
But it is also very important to all of us about really targeting the K-3-3 achievement gap and I don't need and I don't know if we need to include that in there, you know, along with it or what, but it jumped out at me because it's so important.

808
01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:13,880
I jump in here for a minute, to mind Mr. Chairman, if I jump in for one second.

809
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:21,580
So the College and Career Readiness Outcomes, there's actually targets in CMS's strategic

810
01:21:21,580 --> 01:21:27,920
plan that really focus on third grade reading and math and fifth grade reading and math

811
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:33,120
and eighth grade reading and math, which are there college and career readiness indicators.

812
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:37,960
So we use that language because then we can tie back to their strategic plan, which is really

813
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:41,840
what they told us they wanted us to do was to go back to their strategic plan because

814
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:43,380
those are the things that are important to them.

815
01:21:43,540 --> 01:21:48,400
So that is what this is designed to do to make sure that we can go back to that as a

816
01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:50,680
way to measure whether or not they're achieving the outcomes.

817
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:52,000
So that's the first thing.

818
01:21:52,480 --> 01:21:57,300
The second thing is that in terms of Park and Rec and McPlaybook, you know, that's still

819
01:21:57,300 --> 01:22:02,300
part of your board initiatives, even though it doesn't show up as a priority here, you

820
01:22:02,300 --> 01:22:05,120
We still have from this fiscal year, fiscal year 21,

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01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:10,240
Mac playbook and park equity and all of those other issues.

822
01:22:10,540 --> 01:22:11,280
And that continues.

823
01:22:11,380 --> 01:22:14,960
We don't drop what we started to work on in 2021

824
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,660
and just focus on these things.

825
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,100
Those things all continue.

826
01:22:18,780 --> 01:22:20,600
But it just gives us a little bit of a framework

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01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,060
when we put budget together to sort of think about

828
01:22:23,060 --> 01:22:25,100
these items as board priorities.

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01:22:25,540 --> 01:22:28,720
So it's not, it's a both and it's not a one or the other.

830
01:22:29,260 --> 01:22:30,080
If that helps.

831
01:22:32,480 --> 01:22:39,140
You'll see that in one Monica does the presentation because she's got Meck Playbook and Park Equity and all of that in her presentation.

832
01:22:41,410 --> 01:22:42,170
Thank you.

833
01:22:42,950 --> 01:22:43,050
Yeah.

834
01:22:43,690 --> 01:22:44,130
All right.

835
01:22:44,130 --> 01:22:45,190
I think that helps.

836
01:22:46,290 --> 01:22:46,790
All right.

837
01:22:47,230 --> 01:22:50,810
If there's nothing else, we'll move on, Monica.

838
01:22:51,910 --> 01:22:52,450
All right.

839
01:22:52,650 --> 01:22:53,290
Well, thank you for that.

840
01:22:53,650 --> 01:22:56,850
And like Adrian said, we will circle back at the end.

841
01:22:56,910 --> 01:23:02,130
So if there's anything that I share in the data or the information that I provide over the next several slides.

842
01:23:02,130 --> 01:23:07,210
And you say, we really need to qualify that a little further than you can certainly give that feedback to us.

843
01:23:07,750 --> 01:23:13,210
But we wanted to share those descriptions with you on the front end, give some information.

844
01:23:13,690 --> 01:23:18,510
And like Dean said, I will be talking about the mech playbook, educational attainment, things like that.

845
01:23:18,850 --> 01:23:22,790
And then at the very end, if there's anything we want to modify, you can certainly give us that feedback.

846
01:23:24,570 --> 01:23:29,210
So I think let's go into the next slide and maybe the slide after that.

847
01:23:31,010 --> 01:23:37,230
Okay, so like I mentioned earlier, you know, our goal really is to just kind of share

848
01:23:37,230 --> 01:23:42,470
with you the indicators as it relates to both your initiatives and your priorities.

849
01:23:43,150 --> 01:23:46,850
So for 2021, for example, that Met Playbook was an initiative.

850
01:23:47,150 --> 01:23:50,770
It's not a priority, but like Dean said, that's something that will continue to be funded.

851
01:23:51,610 --> 01:23:56,470
So the next several slides is really less about me doing a performance report and more about

852
01:23:56,470 --> 01:24:02,370
Here are the measures, here are some data and insights, and here's just some things we could start tracking.

853
01:24:02,790 --> 01:24:07,310
This really gets to the accountability piece and the transparency piece that after the budget is adopted.

854
01:24:08,030 --> 01:24:11,870
I'll come back to the board and say, okay, here's what we think we can put in place to help you understand

855
01:24:11,870 --> 01:24:15,130
how successful the county is doing around those things.

856
01:24:16,070 --> 01:24:16,410
Next slide.

857
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:28,940
So as it relates to the 2021 board initiatives, there is some overlap of initiative and priority,

858
01:24:28,940 --> 01:24:36,840
But these are the five that are pure initiatives meaning they're kind of more on the start of side is kind of how I like to think about an initiative and on the next slide.

859
01:24:38,340 --> 01:24:47,180
We'll talk about the 2020 and the 2022 work priorities. So again, this gets to why you have new priorities in place. There were some there were already underway.

860
01:24:48,060 --> 01:24:53,120
You could see if we're housing a mech pre K showed up in both of the priorities and set by the board.

861
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:57,320
and then there's other things that we'll probably carry forward, like maybe any investments

862
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,960
I'm saying maybe, but maybe any investments we made in the...

863
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:29,820
I know how we'll probably be investments will continue to make. Next slide. So I've shared this slide with you last month at the retreat, and I'm not going to go in depth with this just kind of is a reminder about the logic model that we use. Or is a guiding tool, I guess I could say that like that. And it really just kind of helps move us from this situation and what's going on to focus priorities and initiatives that are set both by the board and by the county manager to all of the inputs that go into the

864
01:25:29,820 --> 01:25:33,060
the output work that we do as well as ultimately the outcomes in the impact.

865
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:38,000
And then on the next slide, it really just kind of highlights specifically those things

866
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:39,100
that I'll kind of talk about.

867
01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:42,300
So we're not getting into inputs and what do we invest today?

868
01:25:42,340 --> 01:25:45,580
We're not getting into the outputs, but we're so what do we really want to accomplish?

869
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,760
And one thing's always say a structure follows strategy.

870
01:25:49,420 --> 01:25:54,340
And so whatever the budget strategies are, the organizational strategies are that are put

871
01:25:54,340 --> 01:25:54,800
in place.

872
01:25:55,060 --> 01:25:57,640
And the structure of performance and accountability will follow that.

873
01:25:57,640 --> 01:25:58,600
Next slide.

874
01:26:00,340 --> 01:26:06,080
So I'm also using this as an opportunity just to educate the board a little more than kind of what I've done in the past.

875
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:10,360
So there are essentially two types of indicators that will be tracking and sharing with the board.

876
01:26:10,820 --> 01:26:19,720
One set includes what we're calling community indicators and those are really indicators that reflect non direct accountability and we put some examples there.

877
01:26:20,180 --> 01:26:26,700
So you know, during the board retreat, I share with you the pulse report and I know Brandon Simmons also share with you an economic update.

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01:26:26,700 --> 01:26:32,540
So things like population growth, trajectory, migration, patterns, jobs, incomes, wages.

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01:26:33,140 --> 01:26:37,520
We know we have some relationship to that, but it's more so measures and indicators around

880
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,340
what is going on in the sternal to the county.

881
01:26:39,900 --> 01:26:44,120
The second set includes organizational indicators that do reflect core accountability of leaders

882
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:45,120
in the organization.

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01:26:45,860 --> 01:26:48,580
And we typically share this information with you through several reports.

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01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:53,880
I just put three here, so the Annual Performance Report, the Department of Management and

885
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:58,940
reports that we share with you each month. Really, those things just kind of track activity as

886
01:26:58,940 --> 01:27:02,900
well as in our budget book. We put service level indicators and then I know Adrian does his

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01:27:02,900 --> 01:27:08,640
quarterly budget monitoring reports with you every month. I'm sorry, every quarter. Next slide.

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01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:16,360
So diving into the FY20-21 board initiatives and again, these are things that you put money towards

889
01:27:16,940 --> 01:27:23,160
in the budget for FY21. Adrian did share with you last month. What the spend is to date for

890
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:27,540
initiatives. So I'm not going to talk about that. And you also highlighted some activity.

891
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:36,160
So next slide. Our initiative here is, and let me orient you because every slide is pretty

892
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:40,420
much kind of laid out like this. So I put the initiative or the priority at the top and

893
01:27:40,420 --> 01:27:46,540
then somewhat of a description for the initiative. And then where we have community indicators,

894
01:27:46,540 --> 01:27:50,500
I'll put those I would put those in there. And then if we have organizational indicators

895
01:27:50,500 --> 01:27:55,620
over put those in there as well. So this first initiative is to highlight, you know, community

896
01:27:55,620 --> 01:27:59,760
violence gun violence, which I know has been a strong interest of the board. And currently

897
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:04,900
we have three community indicators whereby over the past three years all metrics, unfortunately,

898
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:09,780
and this is not new news to you have increased. We haven't seen any decreases in this area.

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01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:15,520
With the violent crimes per capita, the results are on a one-year lag, so that's why we do not

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01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:18,820
have those results as of right now. And those results are released by the state in North Carolina

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01:28:18,820 --> 01:28:24,160
and not the CMPD. So we do hope that with such initiative and perhaps in the long term,

902
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:27,620
we'll be able to see the results go in a positive direction. And then as

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01:28:27,620 --> 01:28:32,320
really the organizational indicators give you alluded to this last month around the Office

904
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:38,960
of Violence Prevention and Public Health. So once that gets up and running, then staff will work

905
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:44,020
with that department to identify those key accountability measures to track. In your material,

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01:28:44,780 --> 01:28:51,380
You can access the existing Community Guidelines data dashboard that's out there that was a joint partnership between the city and the county.

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01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:52,220
Next slide.

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01:28:53,700 --> 01:28:58,680
So the next initiative is food deserts. You've heard a lot around food deserts in January.

909
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:02,720
Adrian did share a presentation with you on options and strategies for consideration.

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01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:07,440
Currently staff are bidding several options kind of thinking through some things.

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01:29:07,440 --> 01:29:10,200
And we're also waiting for the UNCC study to be completed.

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01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:13,620
And, you know, they're doing more actual reintegrated research

913
01:29:13,620 --> 01:29:15,960
where they're engaging the community around their food desert

914
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:17,120
or food insecurity needs.

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01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:20,340
And so, hopefully those recommendations will come out

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01:29:20,340 --> 01:29:21,240
around June or July.

917
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:23,780
And once we get those recommendations in place,

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01:29:23,780 --> 01:29:26,360
eventually, we'll create some more organizational indicators

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01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:27,760
of accountability.

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01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:30,260
But the three here are consistent with what we've shared

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01:29:30,260 --> 01:29:32,300
in the past and kind of give us an idea

922
01:29:32,300 --> 01:29:35,000
of the magnitude of the issue before us.

923
01:29:35,900 --> 01:29:36,580
Next slide.

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01:29:38,140 --> 01:29:43,300
So, another initiative in 21 was the Homes Pregnant for helping out Mecklenburg's home owners

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01:29:43,300 --> 01:29:48,020
with economic support, which was specifically designed to assist qualify residential home owners

926
01:29:48,020 --> 01:29:52,960
with low to moderate income within Mecklenburg County and to retain their homes. Through marketing

927
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:58,040
a promotion campaign last year, of course it was a start-up, 658 applications were received

928
01:29:58,040 --> 01:29:59,980
of that 56 of the.

929
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,800
The applications were approved with the other results here in terms of underreview and denials. I'm in staff are tracking kind of why something may have been denied versus approved. And I'm sure at a later date, there'll be a more comprehensive presentation for you. But as of right now, we just had the counts of applications, but I do imagine that if this program stays in place and continues on that we'll have some more defined outcomes that we can share with you and the individuals that we serve. Next slide. So the next initiative is with regards to park and recreation.

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01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:38,700
I'm highlighting the Meck Playbook and Park Equity and during the board retreat last month, you've received this presentation, these two presentations on this initiative by director Lee Jones.

931
01:30:39,980 --> 01:30:46,760
For our community indicators, we currently have three. These are actually three indicators that are consistent with what we report out on every month to you.

932
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:56,600
So in this monthly reports, you can see over the past 12 months, what the activity is. You can see the seasonality of visitors or utilization to nature preserves, greenways and parks.

933
01:30:57,380 --> 01:31:01,780
The point here is when we look at our results today, compared to last year, you can see that

934
01:31:01,780 --> 01:31:05,820
there are increases that we have annualized results that we share. However, with the green

935
01:31:05,820 --> 01:31:10,320
ways, we weren't able to really do apples and apples comparison, because there were green

936
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:14,380
way counters that were added in January 2020, which really makes the data hard to compare.

937
01:31:15,620 --> 01:31:21,680
As it relates to the organizational indicators, what we have currently in place are these three

938
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:28,140
until funding decisions are made. And that's a really important point because it depends on how much money sometimes

939
01:31:28,140 --> 01:31:32,560
an entity has in order to be able to say what are we going to measure and what should the targets be.

940
01:31:33,140 --> 01:31:37,340
So I do know that after budget adoption we'll probably have more focus on this around organizational metrics.

941
01:31:38,220 --> 01:31:41,640
But what we have as of right now is the parkland per 1000 residents.

942
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:48,260
We don't necessarily have a target for 21, but that's a question we're funding in the board.

943
01:31:48,260 --> 01:31:52,980
is do we want to have, you know, a greater number of parkland per 1000 residents and if so,

944
01:31:53,040 --> 01:31:59,020
then we'll set those targets in place. And then we have two customer satisfaction metrics that we

945
01:31:59,020 --> 01:32:03,800
have to track how people perceive the parks and the programs and things like that will continue

946
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:10,900
to report out on that. Next slide. So the next four slides focus on reducing public health disparities.

947
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:16,160
And so in January, you also received a presentation on this from Gibby Harris and she talked about

948
01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:18,760
the department's plan to reduce public health disparities.

949
01:32:19,480 --> 01:32:23,060
There were three core areas, just as a reminder for you

950
01:32:23,060 --> 01:32:26,000
that were outlined in her plan and that was focusing on chronic diseases,

951
01:32:26,700 --> 01:32:29,240
violence prevention, and maternal and child health.

952
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:34,520
The next two slides focus on chronic diseases

953
01:32:35,440 --> 01:32:39,400
and then I think the third slide and then the fourth slide will focus on

954
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:41,460
one-owned violence prevention and maternal and child health.

955
01:32:41,480 --> 01:32:42,960
So I just want to arrange you before I go through.

956
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:52,920
But what we see here is some data for the community indicators of top that is basically collected through community health assessment and a behavioral risk factor surveillance.

957
01:32:53,620 --> 01:33:03,920
So those two sources of data share with us the two things that we need to primarily focus on which is obesity as well as smoking within Mecklenburg County.

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01:33:04,480 --> 01:33:08,460
And as you can see here, the results have remained flat over through your period.

959
01:33:08,820 --> 01:33:13,840
There is a healthy people 2030 target that is a federal government program, and that target

960
01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:15,840
is one that we may be striving for.

961
01:33:16,020 --> 01:33:17,020
So essentially, lower is better.

962
01:33:17,180 --> 01:33:21,220
We want to have less people that are obese or less people that are smoking.

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01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:26,500
When you look at the health disparities in chronic disease, we do know that not only are chronic

964
01:33:26,500 --> 01:33:30,000
diseases some of the leading causes of death in individuals, but there are disparities in

965
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:33,880
disease rates and in death rates for minority populations and males.

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01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:37,380
So this kind of gets really to that, reducing public health disparities piece.

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01:33:38,020 --> 01:33:39,880
In the data, we can at least start tracking it.

968
01:33:39,980 --> 01:33:44,280
I'm sure in addition to some other data, but the three that we have here are focused on

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01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:46,580
female breast cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

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01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:49,300
And in terms of death rates, you can see the heart disease.

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01:33:49,540 --> 01:33:53,440
We're looking at the per capita rate of 1000 is more, 100,000 is more prominent.

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01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:57,440
When you look at the ratios for gender and rates, you see that there's disparity there.

973
01:33:57,440 --> 01:34:04,100
For example, for every one white person experiencing heart disease, there are 1.4 African Americans experiencing the same.

974
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:11,740
So ideally, any strategies that would be in a plan or through partnerships or programs would help kind of close that gap.

975
01:34:12,100 --> 01:34:12,360
Next slide.

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01:34:14,040 --> 01:34:22,640
So in terms of organizational indicators, you know, we were trying to think about what might be something that we could start with.

977
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:27,140
So, we turned our heads to the work of the Village Heartbeat Program, which is a free program

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01:34:27,140 --> 01:34:31,680
designed to promote better heart health awareness and to enhance community resources in a

979
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:36,640
coordinated health care service model to address obesity and heart disease awareness

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01:34:37,080 --> 01:34:39,440
and among African-Americans in Hispanic populations.

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01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:44,780
One of their key outcome measures is the percent of Village Heartbeat participants that saw improvement

982
01:34:44,780 --> 01:34:46,560
in at least one outcome is listed.

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01:34:47,220 --> 01:34:51,460
And, as you can see, results are very favorable with at least 99% of individuals reporting

984
01:34:51,460 --> 01:34:57,140
improvement in at least one and that's 99 at least for the last two years that we have right now.

985
01:34:58,000 --> 01:34:59,940
Other corresponding measures to track are the number

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01:35:01,500 --> 01:35:28,100
The first line being with pre and post data. So in order to really understand if there's been improvement, then we need to have participants complete a pre-assessment and then do the program and then complete a post-assessment. So essentially those individuals make up that outcome above the number of all program participants. So we wanted to put this in here because it shows a greater reach than just those individuals that have pre and post data. And then the number of faith-based organizations.

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01:35:28,100 --> 01:35:32,760
and so as you can see here, program participants in faith-based organizations have increased from

988
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:37,900
FY19 to FY20. And then we put a little foot out there, I think you got a little bit distorted,

989
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:44,080
but it basically is talking about in FY21, the goal is to have 53 faith-based organizations on board.

990
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:50,780
Next slide. So when it comes to violence prevention, one of the key community indicators we're

991
01:35:50,780 --> 01:35:56,120
going to track as homicide rates. And as shared with you, violent crime rate for the community

992
01:35:56,120 --> 01:36:02,840
violence piece for homicide rates is just a little different. So the very top of the chart,

993
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:07,680
you can see the homicide rates per capita with 8.5 desks for 100,000. And in terms of the

994
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:13,240
community indicator targets is sticking to the Healthy People 2030 initiative, a target of 5.5 desks

995
01:36:13,240 --> 01:36:17,920
for 100,000 could be what we want to strive for. Now, obviously you want zero, but if we're trying

996
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:21,880
to see if we're moving the needle, moving in the right direction, we may want to lead with that target.

997
01:36:22,480 --> 01:36:27,000
Below, you can see the disparity information for homicide deaths, death rate, per capita

998
01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:28,780
and disparity ratios for death rates.

999
01:36:29,500 --> 01:36:34,460
Across all three, it is clear that African Americans and men, if not necessarily African

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01:36:34,460 --> 01:36:38,700
American males, but African Americans and males are disproportionately affected by homicides

1001
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:41,940
and death rates as evidenced by the disparity ratios at the bottom.

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01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:46,400
So essentially, for every one white, seven African Americans died by homicide.

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01:36:46,940 --> 01:36:52,160
And then for context, as another data point, the rate of homicides in Mecklenburg counties

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01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:59,440
increased by 70 percent between 2014 and 2017, and in 2016, homicides were the second

1005
01:36:59,440 --> 01:37:03,600
leading cause of death for persons ages 15 to 24 years old.

1006
01:37:04,220 --> 01:37:04,700
Next slide.

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01:37:06,440 --> 01:37:10,980
So moving on to maternal and child health, one of the two metrics we've been at least able

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01:37:10,980 --> 01:37:11,540
to identify.

1009
01:37:11,740 --> 01:37:16,280
Again, these are metrics that we're starting with, although we know we can still probably

1010
01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:21,200
build out some of these metrics. But the first metric is on pre-term bursts, whereby based on

1011
01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:26,560
disparity data, African-American infants are two times more likely to be born early or pre-term

1012
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:30,820
than white infants, whereas Hispanic infants have similar pre-term birth rates as white infants.

1013
01:37:31,420 --> 01:37:36,280
With the second metric that is labeled at number of infant deaths for 1,000 live

1014
01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:42,800
bursts, as you can see over the past five years, results not only vary across the years for Hispanics,

1015
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:44,760
but also for blacks in non-Hispanic.

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01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:46,320
And then a little bit for context,

1017
01:37:46,340 --> 01:37:48,240
it was hard to kind of jam the numbers on this slide

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01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:51,480
because some of the demographic groups are so close

1019
01:37:51,480 --> 01:37:52,160
with their results.

1020
01:37:52,400 --> 01:37:57,640
But in 2017, there were 4.8 infant deaths for 1,000 live births.

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01:37:57,660 --> 01:37:59,600
And that's for Mecklenburg County, and that's the blue line.

1022
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:04,160
By race, for white non-Hispanics, there were 3.9.

1023
01:38:04,540 --> 01:38:08,220
For black non-Hispanics, 8.8, that's that gray line.

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01:38:08,420 --> 01:38:10,080
And then Hispanic was 3.8.

1025
01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:15,340
The good news is that for all groups, results have been improved since 2013, yet disparities

1026
01:38:15,340 --> 01:38:16,040
still exist.

1027
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:20,840
So, for the last four slides, basically, I'm reducing public health disparities that I

1028
01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:21,420
just highlighted.

1029
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,780
They're in Gibby's strategic business plan as well as her newly created plan.

1030
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:30,020
The goal is to reduce this health disparities, and I believe that when executed over time,

1031
01:38:30,020 --> 01:38:32,380
we should see some positive impact on the results.

1032
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:37,680
Although recognize that many of the community indicators are not directly in the county's

1033
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:43,120
control, so it may take us a couple of years to actually see positive movement in people.

1034
01:38:44,020 --> 01:38:44,740
Next slide.

1035
01:38:46,100 --> 01:38:50,380
So I'm going to shift to the board priorities for 2020 and 2022, and we're possible

1036
01:38:50,380 --> 01:38:54,340
highlight the racial disparity information or share with the potential information could

1037
01:38:54,340 --> 01:38:54,640
track.

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01:38:55,220 --> 01:39:01,840
So this kind of gives to, you know, kind of keeping in line with reducing racial disparities

1039
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:07,480
in 2020, and then what Adrian shared with you, those 2020 priorities, cross-cutting

1040
01:39:07,480 --> 01:39:11,860
with the reducing racial disparities. So we're possible we try to get the data and put it

1041
01:39:11,860 --> 01:39:14,460
into the next several slides for you to review. So next slide.

1042
01:39:15,900 --> 01:39:19,840
So beginning with affordable housing, as you know is one of your continued priorities from

1043
01:39:19,840 --> 01:39:23,980
the 2020 list and the share with you last month, the county made significant investments

1044
01:39:23,980 --> 01:39:29,000
in affordable housing beginning in FY20. So really the intent on this slide is to not go deep

1045
01:39:29,000 --> 01:39:32,400
because there's so much more that are behind these numbers that are reported by La Shonda.

1046
01:39:32,900 --> 01:39:36,740
I'm sorry, for the organizational indicators, but really just to say here's some things that we can

1047
01:39:36,740 --> 01:39:42,520
track. For the community, two indicators of importance, and we share this with you in

1048
01:39:42,520 --> 01:39:47,680
the past or the homeless rate per capita. That would be 1000 residents, which includes

1049
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:52,340
data that we pull from the point in time count on homeless population. It's lagged because

1050
01:39:52,340 --> 01:39:56,880
we do not have the most recent data yet. And another indicator that could be probably more of a

1051
01:39:56,880 --> 01:39:59,980
predictive metric is the percent of households that spend more.

1052
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:05,420
30% of their income on housing. According to national best practices, researchers in the

1053
01:40:05,420 --> 01:40:10,120
light, housing becomes unaffordable or less affordable when persons on average spend more

1054
01:40:10,120 --> 01:40:14,120
than 30% of their income earned on housing. In this case, in Mecklenburg County, you

1055
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:18,940
can see the metrics of 31% of all households spend at least 30% of their income on housing.

1056
01:40:21,700 --> 01:40:26,260
As an aside, I know there's been a lot of talk around AMI, so once there's a decision made

1057
01:40:26,260 --> 01:40:31,840
around that we can definitely cut some metrics together to kind of help us understand the

1058
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:38,700
population as relates to AMI. For the organizational indicators currently we have several, one of

1059
01:40:38,700 --> 01:40:42,840
which is on this slide reflects our reach and our impact in terms of households with individuals

1060
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:47,520
and families. One of the challenges with some of the data and we're teasing through that is that

1061
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:55,800
in some cases households may reflect one individual. So like I could be a household of one or somebody else

1062
01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:57,760
through that to decipher through that so that we can pay

1063
01:40:57,760 --> 01:40:59,740
a more clear picture for the Board at a later date.

1064
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:02,420
But some of the organizational indicators,

1065
01:41:04,420 --> 01:41:06,160
that one of the organizational indicators

1066
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:09,720
that you see here, important notice in FY20,

1067
01:41:09,740 --> 01:41:11,340
we only had two quarters of data

1068
01:41:11,340 --> 01:41:13,240
due to when the contracts were signed.

1069
01:41:13,380 --> 01:41:14,820
And so within that two quarter period

1070
01:41:14,820 --> 01:41:17,140
we were able to serve 66 individuals or households.

1071
01:41:17,860 --> 01:41:21,360
And in FY21, at least today, we're up to about 80

1072
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:23,440
and we still have two quarters to go.

1073
01:41:23,940 --> 01:41:28,420
It's also important to note that, whereas we had mech home and keeping families together

1074
01:41:28,420 --> 01:41:32,540
and like housing in like Arbor in 2020, we now have a new contract that's underway,

1075
01:41:32,540 --> 01:41:34,240
which is with the housing for good.

1076
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:39,880
And that's also going to add to that number in FY 2021 and the housing for good contracts

1077
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:43,420
of some women that have been unfortunately experienced domestic violence.

1078
01:41:46,050 --> 01:41:46,590
Next slide.

1079
01:41:47,730 --> 01:41:52,790
So, other affordable housing indicators that are more or less considered organizational, and

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01:41:52,790 --> 01:41:56,310
That's mainly because it's a department like CJS,

1081
01:41:56,310 --> 01:41:59,110
that bottom metric, or we're going through vendors

1082
01:41:59,110 --> 01:42:01,830
or individuals that we've engaged in contracts with.

1083
01:42:02,450 --> 01:42:04,810
Our focused on evictions, critical home repair,

1084
01:42:05,190 --> 01:42:07,150
so that would be the Habitat for Humanity

1085
01:42:07,150 --> 01:42:08,050
and transitional housing.

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And this is information we've shared with you before,

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01:42:10,930 --> 01:42:12,910
but as you can see compared to FY20,

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with only two quarters to go.

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My assessment, if my projections are right,

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01:42:17,990 --> 01:42:19,670
is that we're going to be in line

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01:42:19,670 --> 01:42:20,930
with prior fiscal year performance

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01:42:20,930 --> 01:42:25,310
are we made achieve prior year physical year performance? So if somebody wants an understanding

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01:42:25,310 --> 01:42:30,270
of how well are we doing, I think you can kind of look at where we are mid fiscal year and

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01:42:30,270 --> 01:42:36,790
understand that maybe we're going to, you know, be legal or me target or, you know, have really

1095
01:42:36,790 --> 01:42:43,830
strong performance at your end. Next slide. So the second priority on the list on the FY 2022

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01:42:43,830 --> 01:42:49,770
list as well as the FY 2022 list in this format is education, education, attainment.

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01:42:50,290 --> 01:42:55,470
The two metrics we show you here, we're also shared at the CMS, joint CMS-BOCC meeting,

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01:42:55,910 --> 01:42:59,430
as well as with information that I share with you last month in the Community Pulse Report.

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01:42:59,890 --> 01:43:04,990
First ran is on graduation rate, and we do have the results over the last several years,

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01:43:05,190 --> 01:43:06,730
and they've been favorable and they've been high.

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01:43:07,590 --> 01:43:13,730
In fact, something that's not listed here, but just to give this four context, is that since

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01:43:13,730 --> 01:43:20,970
Since 2010 rates have increased or improved, from 69.9% of a four-year cohort of students

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01:43:20,970 --> 01:43:24,090
graduating to 85.5 to date.

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01:43:24,590 --> 01:43:29,110
So obviously you want 100% of students to graduate that is within the CMS strategic

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01:43:29,110 --> 01:43:33,170
business plan, but I just wanted to give you that data point in terms of improvement over

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01:43:33,170 --> 01:43:33,890
the last so many years.

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01:43:34,570 --> 01:43:38,550
Another indicator is the NAEP 4th grade reading score, and at the time of this presentation

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01:43:38,550 --> 01:43:41,110
the only information we had was from 2019.

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01:43:42,110 --> 01:43:48,870
And this is with, as you can see here, a CMS system-wide overall score of 225, yet the

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01:43:48,870 --> 01:43:52,730
target, really, and is kind of noted there in the bottom right, is really 268.

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01:43:53,310 --> 01:43:55,970
So they have certain cut points for this metric.

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01:43:56,250 --> 01:44:02,910
So basic reading scores are basic levels 208, 238's proficient, and then advances 268.

1113
01:44:03,350 --> 01:44:08,630
So as the time that we have this 2019 data, there's not any group, whether it's a demographic

1114
01:44:08,630 --> 01:44:15,540
group are overall that is meeting that 268 and then the other thing I just want to call

1115
01:44:15,540 --> 01:44:18,580
on the slides are I should have said this before but around the four-year graduation rate you

1116
01:44:18,580 --> 01:44:24,180
can see that there's the disparity there. So those are two metrics that we want to keep track of

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01:44:24,180 --> 01:44:29,600
as CMS plays out their plan and as the county considers what budget funding decisions should align

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01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:31,980
to the strategic plan. So next slide.

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01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,600
So I want to spend a few moments on this slide for a few

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01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:42,160
reasons because there's been a lot of buzz around what I put in bold which was you know what's the

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01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:47,100
percent of CMS students deemed college and career ready. So we know that graduation rates are not

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01:44:47,100 --> 01:44:50,480
the best indicator of student success in college career readiness certainly won't all students

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01:44:50,480 --> 01:44:56,840
to graduate but are they ready to go to that next level. And so here what you see is that there's five

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01:44:56,840 --> 01:44:59,960
metrics, see much tracks these five key metrics and then

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01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:05,460
We holistically review these five to determine college and career readiness for its students. So, when

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01:45:05,460 --> 01:45:09,420
I discuss this with a key staffer at CMS, they mentioned there's not one single metric that

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01:45:09,420 --> 01:45:15,000
we used to determine this, but they're essentially five. And the metrics do link back specifically

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01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:20,640
to their strategic plan overview. So, there's a strategic plan document. I think it's a shorter

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01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:25,380
version. I'm meeting with the chief accountability officer this week to maybe go deeper or maybe

1130
01:45:25,380 --> 01:45:30,340
what I think is a more robust version, but with in that shorter version, that overview,

1131
01:45:30,580 --> 01:45:35,220
you can actually take these five metrics and see what those targets are in that document.

1132
01:45:35,780 --> 01:45:39,620
So we can circle back with you or if CMS needs to come and do a formal presentation and

1133
01:45:39,620 --> 01:45:40,520
they can go deeper and deeper.

1134
01:45:41,300 --> 01:45:45,800
So the five metrics that you see here, the other thing I just want to point out is in the supplemental

1135
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:50,000
document that was attached to this presentation, I essentially pulled the information directly

1136
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:54,680
from the CMS performance dashboard, and instead of putting it all into this PowerPoint

1137
01:45:54,680 --> 01:45:59,400
If you take a look at that document, you'll see that there's disparities for all five metrics across

1138
01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:07,100
race and ethnic groups. The other thing just to point out is that for the first three metrics, those are the core metrics that CMS would say that you use to

1139
01:46:07,100 --> 01:46:12,640
understand college and career readiness with the EOC metric as the primary college and career readiness metric.

1140
01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:22,820
The last two are used to determine ACT performance and is administered, I'm sorry, the fourth one is administered to all juniors

1141
01:46:22,820 --> 01:46:27,620
and the work keys exam performance is administered to seniors who are career and technical education

1142
01:46:28,580 --> 01:46:33,580
concentrators. And the other thing that CMS didn't want me to share with you is that the last two,

1143
01:46:33,720 --> 01:46:37,580
so the fourth and the fifth metric on this slide are part of the state's accountability model.

1144
01:46:38,300 --> 01:46:44,380
So all five of those holistically are looked at to determine if someone is ready and it's not just

1145
01:46:44,380 --> 01:46:50,260
based on graduation, it's not just based on course performance, it's not just based on if you

1146
01:46:50,260 --> 01:46:54,160
completed in advanced course or or to state diploma, it's really based on a

1147
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:59,320
bunch of bunch of things together. So you know certainly if you have more

1148
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:03,320
questions around that supplemental document I'd be glad to answer and or direct

1149
01:47:03,320 --> 01:47:07,240
those questions to CMS. And you know again just circle back before I go to the

1150
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:10,060
next slide. I know as part of that budget process there'll be more discussion

1151
01:47:10,060 --> 01:47:16,220
around the alignment as it relates to these performance outcomes. Next slide. So

1152
01:47:16,220 --> 01:47:19,140
for environmental leadership and as ties back to the leadership environmental

1153
01:47:19,140 --> 01:47:24,300
really should action plan that you learned more about from Dr. Leslie Johnson last month.

1154
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:28,080
We essentially said, okay, as a start point, what are some community metrics or indicators?

1155
01:47:28,780 --> 01:47:33,380
So the ones that we went ahead and pulled as a start range from water quality to air quality

1156
01:47:33,380 --> 01:47:40,960
to residential waste diversion, tons of recycled materials processed, as well as tons of construction

1157
01:47:41,940 --> 01:47:44,160
and demolition material that's diverted.

1158
01:47:44,780 --> 01:47:52,660
We do not have a data point for that FY20 performance for that because the baseline year is going to be next year next slide.

1159
01:47:53,460 --> 01:48:01,200
In terms of organizational indicators, this is what we have at the moment that directly line back to the plan, and I will say to some of the.

1160
01:48:01,860 --> 01:48:10,760
I will say similar to some of the other indicators once those funding decisions are made will be able to circle back the board and say OK, here's the set of metrics that we want to track.

1161
01:48:11,520 --> 01:48:14,880
indicators that we want to track as it relates to the government leadership action plan.

1162
01:48:15,440 --> 01:48:19,240
And here's the target that we could possibly choose on an annual basis. Next slide.

1163
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:26,620
And then you've seen the MEC pre-K data many times over. But I think the two things that we're

1164
01:48:26,620 --> 01:48:31,240
going to add to that in terms of tracking. And this was brought up by Eveli, one of the commissioners

1165
01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:36,320
last month around MEC pre-K student performance in kindergarten. So we do know how well they do in

1166
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:40,100
the MEC pre-K program. But when they go to kindergarten, is there a difference between those children

1167
01:48:40,100 --> 01:48:45,260
that went through mech 3k and the children that did not in kindergarten maybe beyond.

1168
01:48:45,860 --> 01:48:49,900
The other thing that we could do, we put a footnote down there below, is that we do have

1169
01:48:49,900 --> 01:48:53,320
this data available by various demographic groups.

1170
01:48:53,920 --> 01:48:57,880
But I think one of the things we're going to have to be really careful about is if we're

1171
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:02,100
sharing information with you around reducing racial disparities or age disparities or what

1172
01:49:02,100 --> 01:49:06,200
have you, we wouldn't want to put data out there in a public space where somebody can splice

1173
01:49:06,200 --> 01:49:11,640
that data and identify Monica as an African-American female and that she was underperforming in

1174
01:49:11,640 --> 01:49:14,700
the MEC 3K program or that she was performing in the MEC 3K program.

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01:49:15,180 --> 01:49:18,140
So, we're going to have to be very careful with how we share a lot of this data because

1176
01:49:18,140 --> 01:49:20,680
we definitely don't want to risk an amenity.

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01:49:21,760 --> 01:49:22,340
Next slide.

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01:49:24,940 --> 01:49:29,660
And then, mental health was one of your FY20 board priorities and given that we're not

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01:49:29,660 --> 01:49:34,240
a primary service provider in mental health, we do think it's important to track a lot

1180
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:39,560
this data and for the community indicators on this slide for the first time in 2020 we did

1181
01:49:39,560 --> 01:49:44,700
assess resident mental health or annual community survey. Here you can see essentially two indices

1182
01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:50,980
that are kind of a roll-up of the metrics that are more positive or positive affect metrics that are

1183
01:49:50,980 --> 01:49:56,280
on the left slide, what higher, right? So we can see that a lot of those results are in the 80s and 90s,

1184
01:49:56,280 --> 01:49:59,840
so that's good. The negative affect index, you want to be as close

1185
01:50:08,020 --> 01:50:23,220
And so we'll continue to track that. And on the next slide, you can see that we broke down those results by race. So this is another data point that we have. We can share it by race to see if there's any disparities that we need to address. Next slide.

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01:50:25,550 --> 01:50:31,710
And then as it relates to organizational indicators, and this was funding that was provided to the Sheriff's Department.

1187
01:50:31,710 --> 01:50:33,610
and our Sheriff's Office and FY21,

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01:50:34,230 --> 01:50:36,530
the one that we do have in place is the investment

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01:50:36,530 --> 01:50:38,510
to meet the needs of Sheriff's Office participants,

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01:50:39,130 --> 01:50:40,470
jail residents and their mental health.

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01:50:41,190 --> 01:50:43,550
And so this slide shows you the numbers that we served,

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01:50:43,750 --> 01:50:45,730
the average length of stay,

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01:50:46,350 --> 01:50:48,870
and the breakdown of those results by race.

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01:50:49,510 --> 01:50:50,790
And so for the inaugural year,

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01:50:50,970 --> 01:50:53,550
since sort of 61 people with an average length of stay

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01:50:53,550 --> 01:50:56,330
is 63 days and 120 days for males,

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01:50:56,530 --> 01:50:58,870
63 days for females, 120 for males,

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01:50:59,110 --> 01:51:00,930
which is not necessarily a bad thing

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01:51:00,930 --> 01:51:05,630
because one, it may take some time to address mental health issues or concerns.

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01:51:06,270 --> 01:51:12,250
And then also, we heard from the sheriff that, in his team, the individuals are so appreciative of the investments

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01:51:12,250 --> 01:51:17,210
and the services that they're receiving to address those things that weren't able to be addressed in the past.

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01:51:17,770 --> 01:51:23,570
So, we do have that data as well by race in terms of our remaking improvements in all individuals or just a certain group.

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01:51:24,010 --> 01:51:24,470
Next slide.

1204
01:51:24,470 --> 01:51:30,790
And then for the accelerated green waste program, this was not necessarily part of your

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01:51:32,350 --> 01:51:39,030
prior list for 2022, although it was an initiative that started in 2020, carried over into

1206
01:51:39,030 --> 01:51:44,350
2021, so we're just saying we'll continue to track progress towards the 30 miles target

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01:51:44,770 --> 01:51:48,730
by FY 2023, and then the data that you see here is what I shared with you last month.

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01:51:48,730 --> 01:51:54,350
And at least as of December, there were 5.8 miles towards that targeted staff to believe

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01:51:54,350 --> 01:51:57,630
that over the next several fiscal years they can achieve that, that ultimate target of

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01:51:57,630 --> 01:51:58,010
30 miles.

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01:51:58,310 --> 01:51:58,570
Next slide.

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01:52:00,110 --> 01:52:05,030
And so for work first development, it's a new priority for the BACC and so we, what we

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01:52:05,030 --> 01:52:08,210
have currently are these community indicators to understand employment and unemployment.

1214
01:52:08,970 --> 01:52:14,030
For Mecklenburg County and we do have this data at the county level, but we believe that

1215
01:52:14,030 --> 01:52:17,070
that we can capture information by race for employment,

1216
01:52:17,670 --> 01:52:20,490
as well as employment rate and race.

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01:52:20,770 --> 01:52:23,130
But employment rate and race, we only get annually,

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01:52:23,330 --> 01:52:24,350
we won't get month to month.

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01:52:24,950 --> 01:52:26,350
So I've shared with you in the past

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01:52:26,350 --> 01:52:27,770
that one of our proxy metrics

1221
01:52:27,770 --> 01:52:29,670
is the unemployment insurance claims data.

1222
01:52:30,350 --> 01:52:32,070
And Brandon did, Brandon Simmons,

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01:52:32,070 --> 01:52:33,610
sorry, he talked about that last month.

1224
01:52:34,010 --> 01:52:35,370
So we're just laying around here

1225
01:52:35,370 --> 01:52:37,690
to show you the unemployment insurance claims

1226
01:52:37,690 --> 01:52:39,690
and how those results break down by race.

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01:52:40,430 --> 01:52:40,950
Next slide.

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01:52:42,570 --> 01:52:48,090
And so as a relates to organizational indicators, there are some measures that we put in place.

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01:52:48,330 --> 01:52:50,170
We started to collect data on last year.

1230
01:52:50,690 --> 01:52:55,410
The first two focus on the Unified Workforce Development Program with employment rates.

1231
01:52:55,650 --> 01:52:59,290
So this is a program that's operated out of the Department of Community Resources.

1232
01:53:00,070 --> 01:53:04,170
So we would want to not only get individuals employed, but we would want to retain them

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01:53:04,170 --> 01:53:06,370
for six months or more as it relates to employment.

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And then we also have data that we're starting to collect as it relates to the partnership

1235
01:53:10,930 --> 01:53:14,650
between the Department of Community Resources and Charlotte Works, and you can see here those

1236
01:53:14,650 --> 01:53:20,670
results in terms of number of individuals served. So in 2020, 449, in terms of the percent

1237
01:53:20,670 --> 01:53:26,050
of clients that were employed, it was 65%, and then you can see where we are today for

1238
01:53:26,050 --> 01:53:31,990
up by 21. And those numbers in terms of 65 and 64 may seem low, but one of the things we

1239
01:53:31,990 --> 01:53:35,730
do know is that individuals that are hard to place may require a little more engagement.

1240
01:53:35,730 --> 01:53:40,350
If individuals have substance abuse issues or concerns and mental health issues or concerns,

1241
01:53:40,530 --> 01:53:43,310
it may take staff longer to reach those individuals.

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01:53:43,670 --> 01:53:50,470
So they have set their targets for those to be around the 55% as it relates to a percent

1243
01:53:50,470 --> 01:53:51,290
of clients employed.

1244
01:53:52,410 --> 01:53:56,810
So next slide, I think that concludes my part of the presentation.

1245
01:53:57,170 --> 01:54:01,530
And so at this point, Adrian and I, we'd like to get some feedback, comment through reactions

1246
01:54:01,530 --> 01:54:08,270
to the descriptions and there may not be any but we did highlight at the beginning of the meeting or circle circling back with you.

1247
01:54:08,890 --> 01:54:16,050
And then I think after we go through this, I would like to get feedback from this board or any reactions or suggestions for other metrics in any way.

1248
01:54:16,350 --> 01:54:21,110
We may want to put in place and start to track on my side and then of course we'll we'll share this.

1249
01:54:21,950 --> 01:54:28,570
The data with you in another fiscal year and a half or we can share any insights that we have after the board adopts its budget for FY 2022.

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01:54:32,890 --> 01:54:48,730
Thank you, Monica, based on our time today, I'm going to ask that the commissioners will combine both your comments and feedback as well as suggested things that you might think that they would want to track.

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01:54:48,730 --> 01:54:58,790
Madam Clerk, if you'll set the time rate, three minutes per commissioner, and we'll begin with Commissioner Altman.

1252
01:55:01,490 --> 01:55:11,870
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My questions go to substantive questions, not so much about the metrics used. May I ask them right now? Should I nod?

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01:55:16,220 --> 01:55:32,960
Okay, so I'll streak them out, Monica, and then you can, you know, on the home program, if you can update us, did we have good uptake on that? Because I recall that we were advertising it, and didn't have people accessing it in the numbers that we were making it available.

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01:55:32,960 --> 01:55:39,580
My second question will be, I'm not seeing an improvement over chronic diseases that we've

1255
01:55:39,580 --> 01:55:44,800
targeted over three years, so I'd love to hear your thought about that. My third question is,

1256
01:55:44,860 --> 01:55:52,800
I believe the county is targeting a 2035 goal for someone filling the blank for me.

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01:55:54,840 --> 01:56:02,140
For some of our environmental priorities and if we were to, I guess I hope that we can understand

1258
01:56:02,140 --> 01:56:07,080
the cost around if we were to accelerate it because we recently saw data that a lot of our peer

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01:56:07,080 --> 01:56:15,000
jurisdictions are really achieving their goals sooner than 2035. My fourth question is,

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01:56:15,100 --> 01:56:21,060
under MEC pre-K, I did not understand your answer as to whether we have been able to measure any

1261
01:56:21,060 --> 01:56:26,120
improvement in outcomes for children who did matriculate through our MEC pre-K program.

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01:56:29,200 --> 01:56:30,360
and those are all my questions.

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01:56:34,620 --> 01:56:36,580
Okay, Monica, you can answer what you can,

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01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:39,460
or you can respond back at a later time

1265
01:56:39,460 --> 01:56:40,480
in a written response.

1266
01:56:41,440 --> 01:56:42,940
I'm sure we're going to have to respond back

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01:56:42,940 --> 01:56:44,180
at a later time with a written response,

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01:56:44,360 --> 01:56:45,620
but I'll yield to the county manager,

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01:56:45,880 --> 01:56:47,560
or deputy county manager, Michael Bryant,

1270
01:56:47,560 --> 01:56:48,960
to respond to your home's question.

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01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:51,560
I think the chronic diseases question,

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01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:53,940
I think we'll have to get a written response back to you as well.

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01:56:55,060 --> 01:56:56,980
And then I know you talked about MEG Pre-K.

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01:56:57,560 --> 01:56:59,500
So, essentially, what I was just saying was that,

1275
01:56:59,500 --> 01:57:03,740
But right now, the three metrics that we shared with you is where we have that data that

1276
01:57:03,740 --> 01:57:07,840
we can track in terms of how they're performing within MEC 3K, but one of the other things

1277
01:57:07,840 --> 01:57:11,880
that we want to start tracking is when they get to that kindergarten space, how well are

1278
01:57:11,880 --> 01:57:12,300
they doing?

1279
01:57:12,920 --> 01:57:13,020
Right?

1280
01:57:13,240 --> 01:57:18,000
So it was more so just FYI to be determined in terms of methodology, any challenges we may

1281
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:21,300
have with collecting that data, that was the reason, and then, I forgot your other two.

1282
01:57:21,760 --> 01:57:23,220
Sorry, I tried to write them down real quick.

1283
01:57:24,740 --> 01:57:27,260
Well, let me just talk about the home's program really quickly.

1284
01:57:27,260 --> 01:57:31,820
we did not get the uptake that we had hoped as you write, we extended the deadline for filing

1285
01:57:31,820 --> 01:57:37,220
the applications and we did get some additional interest but we're still going to go back and

1286
01:57:37,220 --> 01:57:41,720
take another look at the program to see if there's opportunities to get additional people who are

1287
01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:44,040
either interested and or will that will be eligible.

1288
01:57:46,550 --> 01:57:48,810
Thank you and thank you and so my understanding is

1289
01:57:48,810 --> 01:57:53,890
we don't know yet about how MEC pre-K is affected performance. We don't know yet, is that correct?

1290
01:57:57,160 --> 01:58:04,200
Not, you can't know because we're only in year three of MEC 3K and unfortunately first

1291
01:58:04,200 --> 01:58:13,800
years of start-up year, so it's going to take a while.

1292
01:58:13,940 --> 01:58:17,960
We're still doing our evaluations, UNC Chapel Hill, those are evaluations of our program and

1293
01:58:17,960 --> 01:58:23,300
we're still doing those around program fidelity and other items, but it'll take us a little

1294
01:58:23,300 --> 01:58:24,600
bit more time to figure that out.

1295
01:58:24,600 --> 01:58:25,980
Thank you.

1296
01:58:25,980 --> 01:58:26,300
Thank you so much.

1297
01:58:28,830 --> 01:58:29,070
Okay.

1298
01:58:29,370 --> 01:58:30,150
Commissioner Coffman.

1299
01:58:34,080 --> 01:58:34,980
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1300
01:58:35,220 --> 01:58:36,880
Monica, that was a great report.

1301
01:58:37,140 --> 01:58:37,500
Thank you.

1302
01:58:38,040 --> 01:58:43,960
I just have asked about some additional data.

1303
01:58:44,500 --> 01:58:50,960
You showed some good news that smoking was going down, but she didn't include the other

1304
01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:54,480
part of the equation is vaping and increasing.

1305
01:58:54,480 --> 01:59:01,420
And I know over the years, we have worked on that, and especially with our teens.

1306
01:59:01,900 --> 01:59:08,080
So at some future time, I hope you'll update us about the other forms of tobacco.

1307
01:59:09,060 --> 01:59:14,080
And do we still have a problem with teenagers and that worries me.

1308
01:59:15,120 --> 01:59:21,080
The other set, there's two other areas, I'm glad you gave information about mental health,

1309
01:59:21,080 --> 01:59:28,220
But you did not include suicide, and I mean, nationally, I keep reading that suicide

1310
01:59:28,220 --> 01:59:38,460
is increasing, and I mean, we lost a middle school student recently.

1311
01:59:39,340 --> 01:59:46,860
So I would like information about suicides, and we have to, if we don't confront that

1312
01:59:46,860 --> 01:59:53,200
that and talk about it and make sure people know the signs, those numbers are going to keep

1313
01:59:53,200 --> 01:59:53,780
going up.

1314
01:59:54,000 --> 01:59:59,300
But I just would like to get it, so we're talking about it more as a health concern.

1315
02:00:00,720 --> 02:00:29,960
A public health concern. And the last thing when you talked about CMS, and I have brought this up over the years, you talk about graduation rates, but we, a few years ago, we had some great charter schools that worked on this, taking from CMS students who were not likely to graduate and then worked with them, met them where they were.

1316
02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:37,640
and had classes until the evening and gave them different times and worked with them differently.

1317
02:00:38,100 --> 02:00:45,800
And they were having great success in graduating, you know, like 50 or 60% of those kids.

1318
02:00:46,400 --> 02:00:51,860
And that certainly helped the CMS numbers, you know, improve.

1319
02:00:52,460 --> 02:00:57,700
But the main thing is, it's not so much the numbers is to how many kids are graduating.

1320
02:00:57,700 --> 02:01:09,440
So if there's any way we could include those from those two charter schools, so we get a better rounded information about that, I would appreciate that if that's possible.

1321
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:15,240
So you don't have to respond today, but if you could just think about including some of this in the future, that would be great.

1322
02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:15,960
Thank you.

1323
02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:18,040
Welcome. Please, my comments.

1324
02:01:18,040 --> 02:01:27,300
All right, Monica. I do not think the name of those charter schools, but one of them is located on the plaza, and the other one is located out on Freedom Drive.

1325
02:01:29,300 --> 02:01:42,200
If I could add one of them is, Mr. Chairman is Commonwealth, and they own the other. It's owned by the same company, but I have been over there, and they are really doing great work.

1326
02:01:42,200 --> 02:01:46,840
So, I just ask you to think about including those numbers in some way.

1327
02:01:47,060 --> 02:01:47,880
Thank you.

1328
02:01:48,740 --> 02:01:49,420
All right.

1329
02:01:49,720 --> 02:01:52,260
Commissioner Scott-Brill, you have any questions or comments?

1330
02:01:52,860 --> 02:01:57,440
I have no questions, no comments, but I appreciate the information we've been given.

1331
02:01:57,660 --> 02:02:00,420
So, that's, uh, uh, yeah.

1332
02:02:00,680 --> 02:02:02,140
I'm looking forward to more.

1333
02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:03,900
All right.

1334
02:02:04,100 --> 02:02:04,520
Thank you.

1335
02:02:05,100 --> 02:02:06,000
Commissioner Powell.

1336
02:02:10,720 --> 02:02:11,700
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1337
02:02:11,700 --> 02:02:20,780
I mean Monica, on here on the Park and Recreation, we got some visitation numbers, but nothing

1338
02:02:20,780 --> 02:02:22,820
about increase in park equity.

1339
02:02:23,680 --> 02:02:25,600
Do you have any information on that?

1340
02:02:26,540 --> 02:02:29,120
Yeah, let me, that was actually one of the things in my talking points.

1341
02:02:29,380 --> 02:02:34,440
And I think it's one, we have determined a methodology, right, for measure.

1342
02:02:34,600 --> 02:02:38,440
So again, this is our attempt to say here's what we have to start with.

1343
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:51,120
post budget and come back to you with maybe some options, but we're thinking that once the board adopts the budget and what's in there, we can figure out what we can really deal with park equity. So that methodology hadn't been determined yet, there's not date available right now.

1344
02:02:51,780 --> 02:02:54,760
But that is not the way to track as we go forward.

1345
02:02:55,460 --> 02:03:04,080
Okay, I heard that part, but I just wonder like if you have a list of investments that we've made to try to increase.

1346
02:03:04,880 --> 02:03:09,000
But what we're doing in parks that haven't been traditionally served.

1347
02:03:09,360 --> 02:03:13,700
Yeah, I'm sure that there may be a list of those investments.

1348
02:03:13,900 --> 02:03:16,940
I'm looking at this more of a quantitative, not a qualitative.

1349
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:22,220
But, you know, is it a percent of parks or wherever we've made investments?

1350
02:03:22,220 --> 02:03:23,240
You know, that type of measure.

1351
02:03:23,440 --> 02:03:26,640
So, you know, we could try and get that list for you.

1352
02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:34,100
but a formal methodology calculation where we have targets and goals around equity that won't come

1353
02:03:34,100 --> 02:03:38,180
later. But if you want the list now, we can certainly, I'm sure, provide that for you,

1354
02:03:38,600 --> 02:03:43,000
but I don't want to speak. I appreciate it. I'm glad, I'm glad we're going to, our offices

1355
02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:48,480
will be near each other when we go back to the government center. Thank you, thank you. You're welcome,

1356
02:03:48,660 --> 02:03:52,920
thank you. That's all. All right, Commissioner Leake.

1357
02:04:00,150 --> 02:04:03,110
I want to look at education and to

1358
02:04:03,110 --> 02:04:12,190
to re-address for me, Dr. Alan, not today, but later as it relates to kids who are deemed

1359
02:04:12,190 --> 02:04:17,270
college ready and career ready based upon reading levels.

1360
02:04:18,270 --> 02:04:19,250
That's number one.

1361
02:04:19,930 --> 02:04:25,270
And number two, that all students that they say are graduating are not receiving diplomas.

1362
02:04:25,910 --> 02:04:31,950
So what percentage of our students are not receiving diplomas that say that they

1363
02:04:31,950 --> 02:04:42,110
are graduating but they are not equipped for college ready or for job ready. The

1364
02:04:42,110 --> 02:04:51,650
other point is today with 19 and last year 18 what is the status of the third grade

1365
02:04:51,650 --> 02:04:58,650
children that are one and two's across the district what percentage and what

1366
02:04:58,650 --> 02:04:59,810
how do we use them to correct?

1367
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:29,980
Let one and two level, rather than them moving toward threes and fours. And the statement that has been made that they have Lord, the standards for our children. And you will find that black children, even in high level schools are not successful. So why in those high level performance schools? And then last one, because I don't want to bombard you with a lot, but I do appreciate you that every school and district

1368
02:05:29,980 --> 02:05:38,740
district to accept one is a failing school and I want to know why not poverty but I want

1369
02:05:38,740 --> 02:05:45,500
to know what programs are they using to enhance our children in those communities.

1370
02:05:46,420 --> 02:05:48,660
So if you do that for me, I would appreciate it.

1371
02:05:48,960 --> 02:05:57,280
And the last one deals specifically about a food that is available to help us to correct

1372
02:05:57,280 --> 02:06:03,480
the problems of health and eating, and thank you so much. I heard the bill.

1373
02:06:07,820 --> 02:06:09,520
Okay. Commission of Durel.

1374
02:06:13,040 --> 02:06:16,520
Dr. Allen, thank you for the presentation. As always, great information.

1375
02:06:17,400 --> 02:06:22,960
A couple of quick, quick hits on the greenway projects, the accelerated greenways.

1376
02:06:23,100 --> 02:06:27,740
I thought we approved eight accelerated greenway projects. Am I off on that?

1377
02:06:32,190 --> 02:06:40,410
I'm not sure the number. Yeah, we can we can follow up with you now. I'm not sure the number that was approved, but we were just hearing with you what?

1378
02:06:41,130 --> 02:06:58,530
It's the greenway miles that have been achieved to date. I get it. I get it. Yeah, because there's a lot of commission and done last distance that goes to really creek that I didn't see on there. So I was wondering, but I got you. Yeah, and some of those. I'm sorry real quick. And some of those may not have been started until this fiscal year.

1379
02:06:58,530 --> 02:07:08,290
So, you know, we've got to, we'll have to go to the end of the fiscal year to say, okay, this is what we, these are the green ray projects. And then here's me, three-way projects are going to be going into 2022.

1380
02:07:08,290 --> 02:07:09,810
So that, that data should come later.

1381
02:07:10,630 --> 02:07:12,330
Thank you for that. I appreciate that.

1382
02:07:12,710 --> 02:07:20,910
As it relates to our priorities and how reducing racial disparities is as a cross-cutting element, there's two questions that I have.

1383
02:07:20,910 --> 02:07:27,810
First, I just want to say, I'm really glad to see a column that relates to targets.

1384
02:07:27,950 --> 02:07:29,470
I think that's really, really important.

1385
02:07:29,550 --> 02:07:31,670
It helps us with the level of accountability.

1386
02:07:32,030 --> 02:07:35,010
And I know we've talked about that in the past, so I do want to say thank you for that.

1387
02:07:36,050 --> 02:07:41,430
As it relates to that, though, I would like to know if there is number one going, as we

1388
02:07:41,430 --> 02:07:50,290
set the baselines, are we going to have sub categories out there by race that have baseline and

1389
02:07:50,290 --> 02:07:57,130
targets as well in each of those categories. And if not, I would like us to consider that

1390
02:07:57,130 --> 02:08:03,330
since we're saying reducing racial disparities will be a cross-cutting element. So I'd like

1391
02:08:03,330 --> 02:08:11,150
you to consider that in the last question I have is we make investments that certainly,

1392
02:08:11,210 --> 02:08:19,810
certainly can be tied to non-direct accountability. So we have some impact in those areas as well.

1393
02:08:19,810 --> 02:08:25,970
How do we gauge the success of those investments or the return on investment when there is that

1394
02:08:25,970 --> 02:08:31,810
non-direct accountability? Do you have any sense of how we'll measure that and be able to tell the

1395
02:08:31,810 --> 02:08:38,150
effectiveness of the investments that we're making? Yeah, now answer that quickly. So in the logic

1396
02:08:38,150 --> 02:08:43,690
model that I shared with you, right, if it's not direct accountability, it's really those things in

1397
02:08:43,690 --> 02:08:48,990
the short term and the medium term that we can influence that are the means to the end

1398
02:08:48,990 --> 02:08:55,790
And so you can't really say, oh, we, based on what we did, we directly influenced this

1399
02:08:55,790 --> 02:08:58,310
jobs number, because there's so many other factors, right?

1400
02:08:58,410 --> 02:09:02,970
But what we can't say is that there are people that we got employed, and, you know, how

1401
02:09:02,970 --> 02:09:06,210
many people were retained employment, and so we could look at it in the short and medium

1402
02:09:06,210 --> 02:09:12,990
term outcome space, but that greater impact is really this community, non-direct accountability

1403
02:09:12,990 --> 02:09:13,450
metrics.

1404
02:09:13,690 --> 02:09:18,190
So we could make some assumptions, but you can't really hold the county manager response

1405
02:09:18,190 --> 02:09:23,150
for all jobs and all wages and all that, you know, so we'll have to make some direct correlations

1406
02:09:23,150 --> 02:09:27,590
or indirect correlations and be able to, in our assessment, be able to tell you we think

1407
02:09:27,590 --> 02:09:33,270
that based on what you did, five years later, you know, or three years later, make an impact in the

1408
02:09:33,270 --> 02:09:39,800
community. I don't know if that answers your questions. To Commissioner Benson, comment well,

1409
02:09:40,380 --> 02:09:45,900
there's a, there's that school is also on central avenue as well. I'm sure they have multiple locations

1410
02:09:45,900 --> 02:09:48,000
but just to give you a heads up on that as well.

1411
02:09:48,300 --> 02:09:48,980
Okay, thank you.

1412
02:09:49,740 --> 02:09:51,380
Thank you, that concludes my comment.

1413
02:09:52,800 --> 02:09:54,260
All right, and I stand corrected.

1414
02:09:54,420 --> 02:09:56,820
It is central as opposed to the plaza.

1415
02:09:57,220 --> 02:09:57,780
All right.

1416
02:10:00,270 --> 02:10:30,110
I've been there a couple of times. Okay, Commissioner Meyer. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Dr. Allen. That's an incredibly informative presentation. I want to second what Commissioner Jorrell just said about racial disparities. One, I very much like how you have done or have structured this with the racial disparities, cutting into each one, and I'm just wondering what he said.

1417
02:10:30,110 --> 02:10:34,210
can we have some specifics for each one how we were going to reduce

1418
02:10:34,210 --> 02:10:41,010
facial disparities in each goal and each priority and also my really

1419
02:10:41,010 --> 02:10:46,670
mind question is met 3k what year did we start it and then what year were we

1420
02:10:46,670 --> 02:10:50,350
begin tracking and wouldn't that be their third grade year?

1421
02:10:53,070 --> 02:10:53,730
You'll take

1422
02:10:53,730 --> 02:10:56,330
cash manager on that one okay we're

1423
02:10:59,750 --> 02:11:02,590
in we're just now finishing our third year

1424
02:11:04,150 --> 02:11:09,850
So they would have gone to kindergarten, first grade, they would be in second grade today, they wouldn't be in third grade.

1425
02:11:11,010 --> 02:11:14,390
So we'll start tracking them in third grade.

1426
02:11:15,290 --> 02:11:20,950
Well, that's when we get our first NAV scores, which will tell us whether or not we're at third grade reading levels.

1427
02:11:20,950 --> 02:11:30,810
That's the sort of the indicator, but these kids are going to be tracked all the way through high school because we are aligning them with CMS's database.

1428
02:11:30,810 --> 02:11:34,590
database. We'll be able to track them all the way through high school. But one of their first

1429
02:11:35,470 --> 02:11:37,850
indicators is their name scrolling. They're in third grade.

1430
02:11:38,470 --> 02:11:40,410
In third grade. All right. That's all. Thank you.

1431
02:11:41,650 --> 02:11:43,510
All right. Commissioner McDowell.

1432
02:11:44,730 --> 02:11:51,210
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Allen. You just really

1433
02:11:52,030 --> 02:11:58,910
knocked my socks off every time with your presentations. I'm really impressed with, you know,

1434
02:11:58,910 --> 02:12:07,250
sort of how you're able to just, it's just amazing what you can do that I definitely cannot do.

1435
02:12:07,690 --> 02:12:13,710
And I need your help on trying to figure out how to track what I would like to track

1436
02:12:14,650 --> 02:12:21,210
knowing that the community indicators and the organizational indicators it would be really

1437
02:12:21,210 --> 02:12:28,510
rough to do it, but one of the things I'm really interested in is with MECP-PK, with our investments

1438
02:12:28,510 --> 02:12:40,770
in MECP-PK, can we add as one of the things we're tracking increases in family income,

1439
02:12:41,430 --> 02:12:49,530
or family stability, or family wealth? Like how can we track the parents, or the families,

1440
02:12:49,530 --> 02:12:51,090
and not just the students.

1441
02:12:51,610 --> 02:12:54,750
So if you have that mastermind,

1442
02:12:54,870 --> 02:12:56,590
that might be able to think of a way

1443
02:12:56,590 --> 02:12:58,470
that I certainly can't think of,

1444
02:12:58,670 --> 02:13:00,650
appreciate your insight on that.

1445
02:13:02,150 --> 02:13:03,450
And then secondly,

1446
02:13:04,850 --> 02:13:09,670
on the slide 20 with the maternal and child health,

1447
02:13:10,250 --> 02:13:14,250
the only thing I see us tracking are infant deaths

1448
02:13:14,250 --> 02:13:16,050
and I wonder about maternal,

1449
02:13:16,730 --> 02:13:27,410
Are we missing the maternal tracking there as far as maternal deaths or serious complications or those sorts of things? Is that something that can be added?

1450
02:13:30,480 --> 02:13:39,300
The answer is, yeah, and for the maternal and child health, we just again wanted to get some things out there to get going because we know that infant mortality is a big issue.

1451
02:13:39,300 --> 02:13:41,600
And then the thing about McCree K, I'll check

1452
02:13:41,600 --> 02:13:43,760
out the program manager to see what data is available.

1453
02:13:43,960 --> 02:13:45,620
I do know the demographic data is collected,

1454
02:13:46,260 --> 02:13:47,760
age ratio gender, but I don't know about,

1455
02:13:47,840 --> 02:13:50,820
if there's any SES socioeconomic status data

1456
02:13:50,820 --> 02:13:52,840
that's collected on the families of the parents.

1457
02:13:53,400 --> 02:13:54,900
Mm-hmm, I think that would seem

1458
02:13:54,900 --> 02:13:57,300
such a great thing for us to be tracking,

1459
02:13:57,480 --> 02:14:00,540
if there was a way, you know, year over year,

1460
02:14:02,400 --> 02:14:05,560
and I don't know if it's possible, but anyways,

1461
02:14:06,000 --> 02:14:07,940
your mastermind might just come up with something.

1462
02:14:07,940 --> 02:14:13,680
Well, in part of this was just, you know, getting some feedback from the board and then we can explore the methodologies

1463
02:14:14,560 --> 02:14:18,720
That we can put in place to track some of these things and we can explore if there's if the data's out there

1464
02:14:18,720 --> 02:14:23,680
If it's feasible to start collecting the data, so that's what we'll be working on well and the budgets being developed

1465
02:14:23,680 --> 02:14:28,620
We'll be kind of behind the scenes and then we'll come back to y'all in the summer with hey, this is what we can do or can't do

1466
02:14:29,740 --> 02:14:30,460
Thank you

1467
02:14:31,840 --> 02:14:37,180
Okay, just a couple of things I'll go back to something that Commissioner Leake was speaking of

1468
02:14:37,180 --> 02:14:44,060
So, attainment of level four and five with CMS is an essence saying that they're college

1469
02:14:44,060 --> 02:14:45,200
in career ready.

1470
02:14:45,700 --> 02:14:52,240
And I know you talked about that in the presentation, but I'd like to be able to track the number

1471
02:14:52,240 --> 02:14:59,160
of students who obtain levels four or five or who back up, but I'd like to be able to do

1472
02:14:59,160 --> 02:14:59,360
that.

1473
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:29,980
I'd also like to track a number of high school diploma endorsements, because that's also an indication of success. So if you can weed that into what you're already doing, what's in that would be appreciated. Um. Let me. Let me. We can certainly do that. I just want to follow the forward's attention to those five metrics, you know, a deployment, and, you know, in the course. Graduates, all of that is in that.

1474
02:15:29,980 --> 02:15:41,140
supplemental documents that was attached to this PowerPoint presentation. So, you'll be able to see a lot of those results. But I think we can provide more streamlined answer to get to the questions that you all had today.

1475
02:15:42,700 --> 02:15:46,060
To kind of wet your palate in terms of what's going on within CMS right now.

1476
02:15:47,040 --> 02:15:53,420
Right. I think that's going to be a signal in terms of helping us to tie a success back to our resources.

1477
02:15:54,820 --> 02:15:58,320
It doesn't have to necessarily be that way, but that's the concern.

1478
02:16:01,140 --> 02:16:07,520
We talked about the housing, and we're focusing on care to take care of that.

1479
02:16:08,480 --> 02:16:11,860
Mr. Chairman, there's a lot of feedback somewhere. I'm so sorry.

1480
02:16:13,440 --> 02:16:16,280
Okay, I don't have time to check right now.

1481
02:16:20,680 --> 02:16:25,280
But I got to thinking about the fact that in all the things that we try,

1482
02:16:25,500 --> 02:16:30,540
I didn't see anything where we tracked what's happening with our chronically homeless.

1483
02:16:31,100 --> 02:16:37,340
And my concern is that, and I think somebody said it earlier, we've made a substantial

1484
02:16:37,340 --> 02:16:44,560
effort over the last two weeks to get people out of tents and into housing.

1485
02:16:45,040 --> 02:16:47,420
And we're looking for more permanent and stable housing.

1486
02:16:47,880 --> 02:16:54,600
And I think this group of people fallen to a category separate in a part of anything

1487
02:16:54,600 --> 02:17:02,800
we ever mentioned. And so I like to in some way be able to kind of track whether or not chronically

1488
02:17:02,800 --> 02:17:11,640
homeless population is increasing or decreasing so that we can keep the focus on that and keep

1489
02:17:11,640 --> 02:17:12,560
that in front of us.

1490
02:17:14,620 --> 02:17:18,960
And while the violence in a rupture program is I guess primarily the

1491
02:17:18,960 --> 02:17:24,800
city's program. I'd really like to keep track on that because that helps us with our reduction

1492
02:17:25,540 --> 02:17:26,960
in our violence program.

1493
02:17:29,300 --> 02:17:35,560
And I think that covers the concerns that I have are relative to your

1494
02:17:35,560 --> 02:17:42,360
presentation. All right well thank you thank you everyone for that feedback and you know again

1495
02:17:42,360 --> 02:17:45,940
there's a lot of data as you can imagine but we definitely wanted to get your thoughts and

1496
02:17:45,940 --> 02:17:49,700
and we'll follow up immediately with some responses

1497
02:17:49,700 --> 02:17:51,100
to some of the questions that were asked,

1498
02:17:51,180 --> 02:17:53,520
and then in other places where it may require methodology

1499
02:17:53,520 --> 02:17:55,880
creation or data collection or something like that

1500
02:17:55,880 --> 02:17:57,940
we'll take some time to do that,

1501
02:17:58,020 --> 02:17:59,620
make sure it's right data and we'll get that to you.

1502
02:18:00,060 --> 02:18:02,240
So I think really on the last slide that I had,

1503
02:18:02,240 --> 02:18:03,560
which is the next slide is just saying,

1504
02:18:03,880 --> 02:18:06,280
we'll circle back, do what we need to do.

1505
02:18:06,540 --> 02:18:08,460
And then I think that third bullet point,

1506
02:18:08,560 --> 02:18:10,200
which I hadn't really talked about is that

1507
02:18:10,200 --> 02:18:13,980
we're possible depending on capacity and things like that,

1508
02:18:13,980 --> 02:18:18,300
that we should be able to create some type of public facing dashboard that you guys can

1509
02:18:18,300 --> 02:18:21,460
take a look at on a regular basis and track some of these things.

1510
02:18:21,760 --> 02:18:24,960
Again, with the caveat of making sure that we don't get anything out there that risk

1511
02:18:24,960 --> 02:18:25,520
an amenity.

1512
02:18:26,260 --> 02:18:27,380
So, that's all I have.

1513
02:18:27,540 --> 02:18:28,000
So, thank you.

1514
02:18:29,000 --> 02:18:29,540
All right.

1515
02:18:29,540 --> 02:18:29,700
Thank you, Monica.

1516
02:18:29,960 --> 02:18:30,500
Thanks, Adrian.

1517
02:18:32,400 --> 02:18:33,960
Thank you, guys, for that report.

1518
02:18:34,240 --> 02:18:40,420
Before we move forward, we have 10 minutes left that it's certainly not enough time to hear

1519
02:18:40,420 --> 02:18:48,340
commissioners report. We still need to hear from Gibby. I'll follow up. And so if there's

1520
02:18:48,340 --> 02:18:56,880
someone who wants to make a move from the time, Mr. Chairman, so there's a motion to expand

1521
02:18:56,880 --> 02:19:01,480
our time so that we can include our commission's report. Is there a second to that motion?

1522
02:19:07,870 --> 02:19:14,370
Okay, because there's a second, we'll conduct a roll call vote, Commissioner Altman,

1523
02:19:19,550 --> 02:19:20,630
Commissioner Scarborough,

1524
02:19:26,580 --> 02:19:28,060
Commissioner Scarborough,

1525
02:19:31,830 --> 02:19:33,150
Commissioner Catham.

1526
02:19:36,510 --> 02:19:37,070
No.

1527
02:19:38,890 --> 02:19:41,130
Commissioner Powell.

1528
02:19:43,960 --> 02:19:44,280
No.

1529
02:19:44,280 --> 02:19:47,560
Commissioner Leeck,

1530
02:19:51,410 --> 02:19:52,510
Commissioner Jarelle,

1531
02:19:58,120 --> 02:19:59,960
Commissioner McDowell.

1532
02:20:02,030 --> 02:20:07,830
Yes. Commissioner Mayer. Yes.

1533
02:20:13,600 --> 02:20:14,900
All right. The chair.

1534
02:20:17,900 --> 02:20:29,560
That would make the vote five to three in favor of extending the meeting. All right. So we're going to hear from Ghibi. We're going to hear from Ghibi.

1535
02:20:32,660 --> 02:20:35,440
We're going to hear from Ghibi. We're going to hear from Ghibi.

1536
02:20:35,440 --> 02:20:40,800
going to hear her report, then if there are questions about Gibb's report and then each

1537
02:20:40,800 --> 02:20:46,980
commissioner gets three minutes to do a commission's report. So my guess is that could

1538
02:20:46,980 --> 02:20:54,180
extend us up to an hour. All right, Madam Manager, we're ready for Gibb.

1539
02:20:58,020 --> 02:21:07,040
Okay, Gibb, you're up. Good afternoon. Mr. Chairman, commissioners, and the manager,

1540
02:21:09,140 --> 02:21:15,640
I'll be very brief, but I did want to give you just a quick update on where we are with

1541
02:21:15,640 --> 02:21:17,920
our COVID response here in the county.

1542
02:21:18,780 --> 02:21:24,180
All of our metrics continue to slowly decline, which is great news.

1543
02:21:24,760 --> 02:21:29,780
We are about where we were in early November with most of our numbers at this point, and

1544
02:21:29,780 --> 02:21:31,720
we're continuing to watch that very closely.

1545
02:21:32,600 --> 02:21:38,880
There are all kinds of projections out there depending on who you listen to and at this

1546
02:21:38,880 --> 02:21:44,140
point in time because of our numbers decreasing the way they are and that being a consistent

1547
02:21:44,140 --> 02:21:48,840
slide for us, I'm choosing to listen to the more positive ones at this point in time.

1548
02:21:49,700 --> 02:21:56,640
And again, really appreciate all the efforts that our community has made to help this happen

1549
02:21:56,640 --> 02:22:02,860
and ask that everyone continues to do the things that we know keep those numbers moving

1550
02:22:02,860 --> 02:22:10,360
in the right direction. A quick update on vaccines. As of February 16th, the health department

1551
02:22:10,360 --> 02:22:18,680
had given a little over almost 22,000 first doses with a total, when you add second doses,

1552
02:22:18,680 --> 02:22:29,000
is a total of 30,000 doses, Mecklenburg County total except for the long-term care facilities

1553
02:22:29,000 --> 02:22:36,460
as part of the federal program, which we don't have access to that data, has given 96,850

1554
02:22:36,460 --> 02:22:42,960
doses. That's about 9% of our population. So obviously we still have a long way to go.

1555
02:22:42,960 --> 02:22:49,060
Our equity issues continue to exist but have slowly improved.

1556
02:22:49,620 --> 02:22:50,960
Mecklenburg County is a whole.

1557
02:22:52,320 --> 02:22:59,720
We've vaccinated about 19 and a half percent of African Americans and four and a half

1558
02:22:59,720 --> 02:23:06,080
percent of our Hispanics, of the doses that we've given 19 and a half and four and a half

1559
02:23:06,080 --> 02:23:07,600
have been in those populations.

1560
02:23:08,140 --> 02:23:12,640
For Mecklenburg County Public Health, we're a little bit higher in both of those, but about

1561
02:23:12,640 --> 02:23:18,000
the same. We are seeing slow increases in the amount of vaccine that's being made available

1562
02:23:18,000 --> 02:23:24,840
to the county. We hope that that number continues to increase. But as you know, we've had

1563
02:23:24,840 --> 02:23:29,940
challenges with the delivery over the last couple of weeks because of weather. And we're still having

1564
02:23:29,940 --> 02:23:34,920
some of those challenges. The doses we were to receive today, we have not yet had confirmation

1565
02:23:34,920 --> 02:23:41,100
that they've been shipped yet. So we are balancing every week right now trying to make sure that

1566
02:23:41,100 --> 02:23:46,060
we're covering the appointments that we already have in place, but it does limit us sometimes

1567
02:23:46,060 --> 02:23:49,120
with some of the community activity that we can be involved in.

1568
02:23:49,980 --> 02:23:55,620
Just quickly, last week to let you know that we did have an event at the Lake Norman Community

1569
02:23:55,620 --> 02:23:57,460
Health Center in North Mecklenburg.

1570
02:23:58,580 --> 02:24:03,180
And you've probably seen that we did have a very successful event at the United House

1571
02:24:03,180 --> 02:24:07,500
of Prayer on Saturday with almost 500 doses being provided there.

1572
02:24:08,380 --> 02:24:14,100
We have other events that are being scheduled right now or are in the works.

1573
02:24:14,360 --> 02:24:20,740
We are actually at the Aida Jenkins Community Center tomorrow, and we have an event scheduled

1574
02:24:20,740 --> 02:24:23,740
later this week at the Islamic Center of Charlotte.

1575
02:24:24,600 --> 02:24:36,760
And in terms of working with our partners, both CMS and the private schools as well as

1576
02:24:36,760 --> 02:24:42,920
our child care settings and with atrium and avont. We have requested additional vaccine from

1577
02:24:42,920 --> 02:24:50,000
the state for the next couple of weeks to help us do some larger events to get those folks vaccinated

1578
02:24:50,000 --> 02:24:55,640
before we get into the next round of group three. I mean, and we have not heard from the state.

1579
02:24:55,640 --> 02:24:59,980
I've just confirmed this afternoon. They haven't made final decisions about our request.

1580
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:29,980
But the plan would be to have a couple of larger events, one through atrium, one through Nevada. And then some smaller events through the health department that would involve a couple of schools, especially focusing on some of the ancillary staff and our staff, the staff that provide services to our exceptional children. Also, with our

1581
02:25:29,980 --> 02:25:35,280
There are child care providers, we do have an event scheduled later this week and looking

1582
02:25:35,280 --> 02:25:37,260
at an event with our private and charter schools.

1583
02:25:37,840 --> 02:25:42,700
So again, trying to get through that part of group three before we get into the bulk

1584
02:25:42,700 --> 02:25:45,260
of group three, which is a much larger group.

1585
02:25:45,660 --> 02:25:50,680
We're continuing to plan around that and again, a lot depends on vaccine availability.

1586
02:25:51,460 --> 02:25:54,980
So I will stop there right now, but happy to take any questions that you might have.

1587
02:25:55,720 --> 02:25:56,140
All right.

1588
02:25:56,580 --> 02:25:58,540
Commissioner Altman, any questions?

1589
02:26:00,240 --> 02:26:06,960
Is it true that Pfizer may be approved to be a single shot and doesn't have a significantly

1590
02:26:06,960 --> 02:26:13,560
reduced effectiveness, so I'm kind of concerned about that, and do we have any firm updates

1591
02:26:13,560 --> 02:26:17,840
about the ability of someone who's been vaccinated to transmit the virus?

1592
02:26:19,500 --> 02:26:21,400
So good questions.

1593
02:26:22,300 --> 02:26:25,980
We have not really heard anything about Pfizer being a single shot.

1594
02:26:25,980 --> 02:26:32,880
what I have heard is the ability for Pfizer to be stored at a lower, I guess, a higher temperature.

1595
02:26:34,380 --> 02:26:40,020
It's sort of the regular freezer level for some period of time which may make it more

1596
02:26:40,020 --> 02:26:46,940
available in the community and some of our other providers to be able to provide that vaccine.

1597
02:26:47,340 --> 02:26:53,880
I've not really heard anything about a single shot at this point because right now what we know

1598
02:26:53,880 --> 02:26:57,200
is to get the high level of immunity,

1599
02:26:57,480 --> 02:27:00,220
you have to have those both of the shots.

1600
02:27:01,770 --> 02:27:02,940
And the second question.

1601
02:27:04,360 --> 02:27:06,940
Ability for people who have been vaccinated

1602
02:27:06,940 --> 02:27:09,860
to none the less transmitted to people who haven't been.

1603
02:27:10,420 --> 02:27:13,260
That is an ongoing study that's being done.

1604
02:27:13,900 --> 02:27:15,580
Right now, what we do know,

1605
02:27:15,780 --> 02:27:20,340
and there is some word that we're watching from CDC,

1606
02:27:20,720 --> 02:27:22,400
they have not changed their guidance yet,

1607
02:27:22,400 --> 02:27:27,360
But the possibility of people who have been fully vaccinated, being able to interface

1608
02:27:27,360 --> 02:27:31,560
with other folks who have been fully vaccinated without wearing masks and social distancing

1609
02:27:31,560 --> 02:27:32,500
and those sorts of things.

1610
02:27:32,500 --> 02:27:37,020
So we continue to watch the guidance and the studies that are happening around the potential

1611
02:27:37,020 --> 02:27:43,140
for transmission, even though you've been vaccinated, there continues to be some concern about

1612
02:27:43,140 --> 02:27:43,440
that.

1613
02:27:43,640 --> 02:27:48,520
So the need for people to continue wearing masks and socially distance, even though they've

1614
02:27:48,520 --> 02:27:51,160
been vaccinated, is something we've got to watch.

1615
02:27:51,160 --> 02:27:52,400
Thank you, sir.

1616
02:27:53,240 --> 02:27:54,840
All right, Commissioner Coffin.

1617
02:27:58,900 --> 02:28:00,660
Thank you, Mr. Manager.

1618
02:28:01,360 --> 02:28:05,580
Mr. Chairman, and I give you thank you for the presentation.

1619
02:28:07,240 --> 02:28:13,120
The only question I had is, do you think, and I've had so many people ask me,

1620
02:28:13,440 --> 02:28:16,560
do you think the governor will loosen any restrictions this week?

1621
02:28:18,160 --> 02:28:19,880
We're watching that very closely.

1622
02:28:19,880 --> 02:28:26,080
I think there is probably a good chance that he will loosen, you know, the word he used,

1623
02:28:26,800 --> 02:28:36,960
he will lessen the restrictions. I don't know that he's going to completely do away with his order, but do expect to see some lessening of some of the restrictions.

1624
02:28:38,060 --> 02:28:44,600
Okay. All right. Thank you. I don't have any in the interest of time. I don't have any other questions. Thank you.

1625
02:28:46,040 --> 02:28:48,880
Okay, Commissioner Scarborough, do you have any questions?

1626
02:28:49,480 --> 02:28:50,480
I have no questions.

1627
02:28:51,360 --> 02:28:51,780
All right.

1628
02:28:52,000 --> 02:28:52,760
Commissioner Powell.

1629
02:28:59,180 --> 02:28:59,640
I'm here.

1630
02:29:00,600 --> 02:29:04,870
I have just two things.

1631
02:29:05,430 --> 02:29:14,750
I was going to Commissioner Kaufman asked about the governor loosening restrictions because I'm hoping locally we can get back to more normal outside.

1632
02:29:14,750 --> 02:29:22,130
I understand indoor restrictions, but I hope we can move forward on outdoor recreation.

1633
02:29:23,390 --> 02:29:27,250
And the other thing is, I understand why Commissioner Altman asked the question because

1634
02:29:27,250 --> 02:29:33,110
I've heard that asked and I've seen it on the news and it's very troubling to me.

1635
02:29:33,490 --> 02:29:37,890
I don't want people to think that they can just skip the second vaccine.

1636
02:29:38,790 --> 02:29:44,430
And so I think we need to get that message out there until the scientists are telling

1637
02:29:44,430 --> 02:29:49,850
us. I think we need to keep encouraging how important the second vaccine is.

1638
02:29:50,850 --> 02:29:56,190
I think that's a great point and I will tell you that our I was checking with staff today.

1639
02:29:57,330 --> 02:29:59,930
We, in both hospital systems,

1640
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:25,440
So, seeing this as well as a return rate for second doses has been really high, which is good news. Obviously, we drop a small number, but for the most part folks are coming in. So, we'll continue to assess that, but we'll continue to get the word out. I mean, both Moderna and Pfizer, you need to get your second dose at this point. There's nothing that should discourage you from doing that.

1641
02:30:27,020 --> 02:30:35,420
Thank you, and thank you for all of your, I mean, every day, all of your work, but I know the last two weeks have been really hard, so extra thank you.

1642
02:30:36,080 --> 02:30:37,660
And that concludes my questions.

1643
02:30:38,520 --> 02:30:39,760
All right, Commissioner Leake.

1644
02:30:47,660 --> 02:30:49,800
I'm sorry, excuse me sir, no questions.

1645
02:30:50,740 --> 02:30:52,060
All right, Commissioner Durrell.

1646
02:30:55,810 --> 02:30:58,370
Give me just want to say thanks for keeping the community updated.

1647
02:30:58,830 --> 02:30:58,870
All

1648
02:31:02,140 --> 02:31:03,660
right, Commissioner Meyer.

1649
02:31:05,020 --> 02:31:07,360
I have no questions, and thank you, Gaby.

1650
02:31:08,240 --> 02:31:15,620
and commissioner McDowell. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don't actually have any questions. Thank you,

1651
02:31:15,780 --> 02:31:23,500
Gibby. Okay, Gibby, I have a question. I think I heard you say that you're aware of the fact that we've

1652
02:31:23,500 --> 02:31:34,200
given out 96,000 shops or doses. Earlier in some presentation, you mentioned the number of seniors in our

1653
02:31:34,200 --> 02:31:39,520
community. And so what I'm trying to do is gauge whether or not to what degree we've gotten the

1654
02:31:39,520 --> 02:31:44,080
majority of our seniors, I saw a report where there were seniors saying that they couldn't get

1655
02:31:44,080 --> 02:31:52,520
the vaccine because now we're adding these other groups. But if if we only have 75 or 80,000 seniors,

1656
02:31:53,060 --> 02:31:59,800
then it would make sense for us to be moving into phase three. So can you give me a sense of how many

1657
02:31:59,800 --> 02:32:07,700
people currently before we move into phase three there are above the age of 65

1658
02:32:07,700 --> 02:32:13,320
and then, well, that's basically what I want to know.

1659
02:32:13,880 --> 02:32:18,940
Okay, and it's a great question and we are actually evaluating that right now.

1660
02:32:19,060 --> 02:32:21,580
Sure, she has the numbers for you in the next couple of days.

1661
02:32:22,120 --> 02:32:27,540
The challenge we have is that a good number, well, almost everyone,

1662
02:32:27,540 --> 02:32:32,300
almost everyone that's in a long-term care facility that got vaccinated by either

1663
02:32:32,300 --> 02:32:38,920
Walgreens or CVS, are seniors. And none of those numbers are in our numbers. We

1664
02:32:38,920 --> 02:32:42,460
don't have access to those. Those are federal. They didn't go into the state

1665
02:32:42,460 --> 02:32:47,960
system, so we have no way of tracking that. So all we can do is track what the two

1666
02:32:47,960 --> 02:32:52,700
health care systems and what the health department have done. We are working with

1667
02:32:52,700 --> 02:32:59,400
hospitals right now to really better evaluate all of the demographic data between the three organizations

1668
02:32:59,400 --> 02:33:05,740
because that's what we have control over and I'm hoping to have that information for you in the

1669
02:33:05,740 --> 02:33:13,680
next couple of days. Alright, thank you. That ends our question and period. Madam Clerk,

1670
02:33:13,860 --> 02:33:19,860
set the timer for three minutes. No more than three minutes. We'll start with Commissioner

1671
02:33:19,860 --> 02:33:24,380
Senator Leak, Commissioner's report.

1672
02:33:25,340 --> 02:33:26,600
Thank you.

1673
02:33:27,220 --> 02:33:33,080
This is the ending of Black History Month, and I wanted to honor my seniors across

1674
02:33:33,080 --> 02:33:41,200
Mecklenburg County who have suffered as relates to economics, education, housing, health

1675
02:33:41,200 --> 02:33:44,100
care, and the many issues that we've talked about.

1676
02:33:44,100 --> 02:33:52,060
So I want to honor my senior black people who have suffered as

1677
02:33:52,060 --> 02:33:55,060
relates to because of discrimination.

1678
02:33:56,180 --> 02:34:00,920
That's number one and number two, I want to thank our president

1679
02:34:00,920 --> 02:34:06,720
who recognized the loss of the number of people due to the virus

1680
02:34:06,720 --> 02:34:11,420
over 500,000 people are deceased in this country.

1681
02:34:11,420 --> 02:34:17,680
So we need to continue to follow the rules and regulations that set out so that longevity

1682
02:34:17,680 --> 02:34:19,980
will be there with us and for us.

1683
02:34:20,520 --> 02:34:27,340
So again, the last week of Black History Month, let us not forget our people and the

1684
02:34:27,340 --> 02:34:28,920
suffrage that took place.

1685
02:34:29,260 --> 02:34:34,500
There was a program that's on PBS that talks about the Black Church.

1686
02:34:34,940 --> 02:34:40,160
Those of you who have not seen it, you will certainly enjoy the information historically

1687
02:34:40,160 --> 02:34:42,960
and otherwise. That's it and thank you.

1688
02:34:43,920 --> 02:34:46,160
All right, Commissioner Jarrell.

1689
02:34:50,200 --> 02:34:52,740
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to take this time.

1690
02:34:52,740 --> 02:34:54,820
There's two things that I want to look up as well.

1691
02:34:55,080 --> 02:34:58,560
One, I want to reiterate on our north end encampment,

1692
02:34:58,840 --> 02:34:59,240
what a

1693
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:29,980
I commend this effort that was undertaken by not only our staff, but the community and the grassroots organizations. I'm just so always just really overjoyed when I see the community come together. I mean, we truly have a community that cares and it shows and it shows even when folks don't necessarily express themselves the way that I may like or the way others may like. But I do know that most of the time it comes

1694
02:35:29,980 --> 02:35:38,440
from a good space and I do appreciate when folks do extend us the level of grace that's needed

1695
02:35:38,440 --> 02:35:45,690
to allow us to clarify and allow us wide information that is you

1696
02:35:48,760 --> 02:35:49,480
know that's the first

1697
02:35:55,600 --> 02:35:56,200
pandemic

1698
02:35:56,760 --> 02:35:58,680
to really remember our working family,

1699
02:36:13,010 --> 02:36:17,750
keep their lights on, they're trying to eat the lines when

1700
02:36:17,750 --> 02:36:19,690
the food distribution goes

1701
02:36:22,480 --> 02:36:26,780
dry by and you see them but we still have people in this community that

1702
02:36:26,780 --> 02:36:34,120
are getting up every day 40 plus hours a week just to do, you know, to keep food on the table.

1703
02:36:34,680 --> 02:36:40,420
And my heart goes out to those folks and I want them to know that working families continue

1704
02:36:40,420 --> 02:36:46,500
to be front and center of my radar for sure and that you're not forgotten through this pandemic

1705
02:36:46,500 --> 02:36:50,520
and we're going to remember you as we go through it. So thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the time.

1706
02:36:50,520 --> 02:36:53,200
All right, Commissioner Meyer.

1707
02:36:54,280 --> 02:36:55,240
Thank you, Mr. Chair.

1708
02:36:56,200 --> 02:37:02,960
This weekend, this past weekend, I helped in a neighborhood called Pine Valley in my

1709
02:37:02,960 --> 02:37:06,860
district with senior vases, and it was such a good experience.

1710
02:37:07,140 --> 02:37:09,340
And I just want to lift up that program.

1711
02:37:09,360 --> 02:37:16,160
It is an incredible program where we feed our seniors, and I take so much for granted myself.

1712
02:37:16,160 --> 02:37:25,460
and watching people and loading these cars, these boxes and cars and the joy that they had just

1713
02:37:25,460 --> 02:37:33,460
receiving a box of food was heartwarming and brought me back down to reality. So I thank the

1714
02:37:33,460 --> 02:37:40,180
county for such a great program. And two, I also want to again talk about the encampments we did pull

1715
02:37:40,180 --> 02:37:46,100
off a miracle thanks to staff and thanks to these organizations that are full of volunteers who

1716
02:37:46,100 --> 02:37:49,860
or not paid, and who had to take off three days of work.

1717
02:37:50,460 --> 02:37:55,360
These are bankers and all kinds of jobs

1718
02:37:55,360 --> 02:37:57,380
that people hold, and they had to take off work

1719
02:37:57,380 --> 02:37:59,260
to help their fellow man.

1720
02:37:59,580 --> 02:38:02,840
And I think it was, it's incredible

1721
02:38:03,270 --> 02:38:04,640
that the community came together.

1722
02:38:05,280 --> 02:38:09,300
And let's just keep those lines of communication open

1723
02:38:09,300 --> 02:38:12,220
with them, and with us, with our community,

1724
02:38:12,280 --> 02:38:13,860
so that they know what we're doing.

1725
02:38:13,860 --> 02:38:17,640
that's so important that we do that. Thank you.

1726
02:38:17,760 --> 02:38:24,160
All right, Commissioner McDowell. I don't have any additional comments right now. Thank you.

1727
02:38:25,260 --> 02:38:32,300
All right, just a couple of last words. Mr. Chairman. Oh, I'm sorry. You're right.

1728
02:38:32,860 --> 02:38:38,760
Commissioner. Oh, but. And Commissioner Gotham. And perhaps Commissioner Scarborough.

1729
02:38:38,760 --> 02:38:52,000
I got it real fast. I wanted to, you know, yes, we have so many people who are struggling

1730
02:38:52,000 --> 02:38:57,680
economically. We have unemployment, which is, you know, even with the recent improvement

1731
02:38:57,680 --> 02:39:02,680
from the really high levels, we're still, I think, around double what we are historically

1732
02:39:02,680 --> 02:39:08,300
where we were a year ago. And so there is tremendous and economic suffering in the community

1733
02:39:08,300 --> 02:39:14,180
community, and I'm so excited about our workforce priority and its ability to help people's

1734
02:39:14,180 --> 02:39:14,480
lives.

1735
02:39:16,060 --> 02:39:22,840
I was recently became aware of this opportunity at CPCC that I just wanted to try to spread

1736
02:39:22,840 --> 02:39:24,740
the word about because it's free.

1737
02:39:25,860 --> 02:39:30,880
It's their accelerated career training program, free job job training.

1738
02:39:30,880 --> 02:39:39,500
It's fast training for high-growth career path and it includes areas for truck driving,

1739
02:39:39,800 --> 02:39:46,640
early childhood education, EMT, emergency medical technician training, heating, ventilation

1740
02:39:46,640 --> 02:39:53,240
and air conditioning training, IT fundamentals, a nurse aid training and phlebautomy.

1741
02:39:53,560 --> 02:39:59,620
So these are great opportunities to learn and gain a marketable skill that's in demand

1742
02:39:59,620 --> 02:39:59,980
And the...

1743
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:07,360
It doesn't cost you anything to gain. So if you, just Google CPCC, accelerated career training,

1744
02:40:07,400 --> 02:40:10,480
you'll be able to get more information or reach out to me. Thank you, sir.

1745
02:40:13,100 --> 02:40:17,280
All right. Commissioner Scarborough. No comments.

1746
02:40:18,140 --> 02:40:26,400
All right. Commissioner Coffin. Oh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to talk about just briefly,

1747
02:40:26,400 --> 02:40:32,300
You know, the February is ending, and this is Black History Month.

1748
02:40:33,220 --> 02:40:37,980
And I don't think that we had a lot of big problems this month,

1749
02:40:38,360 --> 02:40:43,260
and I don't think we did a good job celebrating Black History.

1750
02:40:43,960 --> 02:40:48,800
And I would just ask Mr. Chairman that you consider next year

1751
02:40:48,800 --> 02:40:57,640
that maybe a few months before Black History Month, we form a committee to make some plans

1752
02:40:57,640 --> 02:41:00,680
that we have certain presentations or learn things.

1753
02:41:01,220 --> 02:41:08,760
I just think it might be helpful and I just feel badly that it's ending and we really

1754
02:41:08,760 --> 02:41:11,180
didn't do as much as we have had in the past.

1755
02:41:12,000 --> 02:41:13,960
So I just ask you to consider that.

1756
02:41:13,960 --> 02:41:20,940
And, you know, maybe we can also, I worry also about children, I know they're going back

1757
02:41:20,940 --> 02:41:26,660
to school, but a lot of them, they missed out on Black History Month 2.

1758
02:41:26,900 --> 02:41:32,000
And so, I just hope we can catch up next year and make it into something positive.

1759
02:41:32,140 --> 02:41:33,800
So, I just ask you to think about that.

1760
02:41:34,100 --> 02:41:35,660
That concludes my comments.

1761
02:41:35,900 --> 02:41:36,280
Thank you.

1762
02:41:40,600 --> 02:41:51,120
And I'll take full responsibility for that, and I won't use the excuse that we were involved with COVID and some of the other things, but we'll plan to do that on next year.

1763
02:41:51,920 --> 02:41:58,340
All right, for my few comments, first of all, I want you guys to know that young people are watching.

1764
02:41:58,920 --> 02:42:05,460
On last evening, I spent two hours with the Boy Scouts as they asked a bunch of questions.

1765
02:42:05,840 --> 02:42:10,900
Say they have watched, as you've asked questions about the homeless and they too are concerned

1766
02:42:10,900 --> 02:42:17,340
about the homeless, they heard the discussion about tiny housing and they were asking questions

1767
02:42:17,340 --> 02:42:17,800
about that.

1768
02:42:17,940 --> 02:42:22,960
In fact, I am going to send you a list of the questions that were sent to me in advance

1769
02:42:22,960 --> 02:42:26,260
so you will know the kind of questions the young people are asking.

1770
02:42:26,260 --> 02:42:36,780
I also wanted to acknowledge the passing of Reverend Darrell Gaston, who is probably

1771
02:42:36,780 --> 02:42:42,000
one of the biggest advocates in District 3, especially as it relates to Park and Recreation,

1772
02:42:42,540 --> 02:42:47,180
but he was involved in so many things, he is certainly going to be missed.

1773
02:42:48,960 --> 02:42:56,600
to the public and to you, my colleagues, we are looking forward to going back into our

1774
02:42:56,600 --> 02:43:05,140
new offices and based on the responses to the surveys, seed assignment will be based

1775
02:43:05,140 --> 02:43:10,860
on seniority and when more than one person is elected in the same year, there will be

1776
02:43:10,860 --> 02:43:18,640
a lottery to determine who the most senior person is in that election cycle. And we'll

1777
02:43:18,640 --> 02:43:24,000
figure out how to do the lottery and let you know about that. I want to remind you that

1778
02:43:24,980 --> 02:43:31,160
ethics training is Friday. Every elected official is required to have two hours of ethics training

1779
02:43:31,160 --> 02:43:36,980
each year. It is also a part of essentials for government. Then we have two new commissioners.

1780
02:43:36,980 --> 02:43:38,780
I don't know if you guys signed up for that or not,

1781
02:43:39,860 --> 02:43:42,820
but that is a part of your essential for government training.

1782
02:43:43,440 --> 02:43:46,460
And then lastly, I want everybody to know

1783
02:43:46,920 --> 02:43:53,160
that I spent my time with Elaine looking at invasive species.

1784
02:43:53,540 --> 02:43:55,520
I now know what they are.

1785
02:43:55,880 --> 02:43:57,720
I just thought it was regular grass.

1786
02:43:58,060 --> 02:44:00,180
It's the kind of stuff that I grew up with,

1787
02:44:00,640 --> 02:44:03,120
honeysuckle vines, and I never thought anything about it.

1788
02:44:03,120 --> 02:44:16,520
Um, but I want to thank our county staff. Um, the depth of knowledge and the background, the education of background that these guys have is, is, is unbelievable.

1789
02:44:17,160 --> 02:44:22,600
I mean, every kind of feel you could imagine, we have them in parking recreation.

1790
02:44:24,780 --> 02:44:37,360
And one of the things I learned was that the amount of money that we're putting in for eradicating a basic species is like a drop in the bucket.

1791
02:44:38,620 --> 02:44:46,660
In fact, if you looked at what they showed you, I wouldn't suggest this, but they could spend $21 million a year.

1792
02:44:48,460 --> 02:44:53,060
But we've got to certainly do a better job because when you listen to the whole story,

1793
02:44:53,480 --> 02:44:58,020
then you begin to understand how invasive species choke out our trees,

1794
02:44:58,220 --> 02:44:59,760
which is where we get our oxygen.

1795
02:45:00,270 --> 02:45:20,690
I mean, it goes on and on and on, but that was probably one of the best trips I had this year, except for the trip I took with Elaine last year, when we were on the water, to look at what was happening with the river. So, I feel like it's, I feel like it's my birthday.

1796
02:45:23,670 --> 02:45:29,270
Well, that's all I have this year. So, we have completed our,

1797
02:45:29,930 --> 02:45:34,390
agenda. So at this time the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn.

1798
02:45:35,790 --> 02:45:42,850
A move. Second. Again. I has been moving in properly. Second, roll call vote. Commissioner

1799
02:45:42,850 --> 02:45:46,430
Altman. Happy birthday, Deena. And I vote aye.

1800
02:45:48,010 --> 02:45:54,710
Commissioner Scarborough. Aye. Commissioner Cautman. Aye. Commissioner Powell.

1801
02:46:00,130 --> 02:46:00,970
No.

1802
02:46:04,490 --> 02:46:05,410
Thank you.

1803
02:46:05,830 --> 02:46:06,850
Don't consider me

1804
02:46:09,280 --> 02:46:09,500
as one of the

1805
02:46:09,500 --> 02:46:18,400
patients who are my team members.

1806
02:46:18,400 --> 02:46:18,920
No, all of them, no.

1807
02:46:19,740 --> 02:46:20,580
No.

1808
02:46:21,000 --> 02:46:21,560
No.

1809
02:46:24,180 --> 02:46:24,320
No.

1810
02:46:28,880 --> 02:46:30,680
eight to one in favor of adjourning the meeting.

1811
02:46:31,120 --> 02:46:32,300
All right, thank you.

1812
02:46:32,520 --> 02:46:32,960
Good night.

1813
02:46:33,080 --> 02:46:33,860
Have a cup of tea.