City Council - workshop

All right, I will call this council work session to order. It's 4.02. The mayor is currently at a conference and will not be here this evening. We can start with roll calls. Start with you, Council Platt. Megan Norris, she, her. Megan Perkins, she, her.

And the first item tonight is our quarterly council goal update.

Melissa, can you talk about like how has the communication been with the state? You know, we should be technically halfway there, right? We have another year in the biennium. We are even close. How is the communication going from the city of Bend to the state that, you know, look, these are units that have been permitted years ago. Basically everything you're saying, how do we, oh, and here comes Rachel to answer all these questions.

Not on this side. Just a comment. If we're struggling with this, I'm just worried that our community is also going to be struggling with this.

Yeah, Russ, one of the things that I hear about is a revision goes back to the applicant, they fix it, then there's another revision, right? And so, whereas, wouldn't it be easier if all of the revisions, you know, would come at once so that they could, you know, move the process along more quickly? Yeah.

I just want to do a time check. Yeah. So it is five o'clock right now. So I'll make sure we have enough time. So I'm going to rush. We're all aware. Yes.

Thank you. Before I move on, I just want to apologize if you see me looking at my phone. My mom's evacuating, so I'm just kind of in text message mode. But she's safe. And so next we have shelter planning and June 4th discussion with Matt and Amy and Brooke.

But that can impact other shelters like J4J. Of course, yes.

Not to ask you to say why, but do you have any Yes.

Just to summarize for everybody who may not be following along, the cliff is a year from now.

Amy, are there lessons learned from Cleveland Commons in terms of this component? How did they do their public outreach? I'm trying to remember.

But I can certainly find out. I would just be curious to know. We're CJ's back here. There's so many people in this room that are so knowledgeable. But I am curious as we talk about this because Cleveland Farmers was our first PSH. If we could see what we could be doing better and better. If we decide to go in this direction.

I'd triple that. I remember the Emergency Homelessness Task Force, I think they predicted that we would need, I'm trying to remember, I think it's like 300. Yeah. This was a few years ago, but...

But we don't need to be, I mean, it's housing works. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm not, it's not like, it's not a concern. It's not like a private developer that could say, well, forget it now. I want to sell these for, you know, five grand. Yeah.

It's just been exceptional how people stepped in and made it happen. I love driving by and seeing the kids' bicycles outside of the rooms. It doesn't look like, you know, what we all the stereotypical, you know, idea of a shelter. And so I think, like Mike said, to be able to, and like you said, you know, to be able to divide and conquer and say, okay, kids, the families go here and people that are in need of permanent supportive housing could maybe go here. And I think, in my mind, that's the only way that I'm comfortable with this, and I think that most of us are comfortable with this. And i

Yeah, and I think we see that in the strategic plan that's just being completed with the Homeless Leadership Coalition, and we obviously see that with the Coordinated Houseless Response Office. It's absolutely critical that we band together to get what we need for our community.

There are terrified people right now in the shelter and sisters that have come, many of whom have come out of living in the forest and are really unsure what to do. Fires. Fires, yes.

I mean, just thank you for continually trying to figure out how to piece this all together in a really tough situation.