Remarks by Wendy Jacobs
115 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 5
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“And at this point, every partner has said that they will be there at the table involved. Do we have that?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“And when there is the vision of sitting down with, you know, again, piloting with certain people, will, again, having the face of all of our system there just for them to see, I'm You know, I'm from the Office of the Sheriff, the police department, the court system, you know, the DA. Like, will that be there?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Awesome. So, of course, we're going to, I mean, you know, we're also talking about case management, right, because that's what, the weekly meetings, putting in the work, following up with people and the resources. So what happens with, hopefully not very often, but the person who doesn't comply? Because the consequences are also going to need to be important, because if somebody doesn't comply, and then what happens? Because that also will send a message. What is going to happen then when somebody doesn't cooperate?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“And does that, I mean, all the stakeholders agree that that will be the result? Okay. And I hope that we're all going to hold each other accountable for that, too. The, yeah, and again, all the, going back to this, that I'm looking, I was just looking at the strategies. focusing on the census track. You know, we did that with the Mayor Bell's poverty reduction initiative, and that's where we came with the driver's license restoration program really came out of that effort. The street outreach, where do you envision, could you talk a little bit more about what does that look like to have a…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“integrated i mean i mean that's a really incredible idea really awesome and we've seen like with cit training in law enforcement and and other areas of course we have a trauma-informed um asus coordinator in durham county who i know could help with this but i that i love this idea of the cbi and maybe you could talk roshana Because I know Justice Services has a lot of experience with this. And even DSS, that's a very important part of the strategy with DSS, with parents. But if you could talk a little bit more about the power of the data around CBI.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“And, of course, our community paramedics, the HOPE team. I mean, there's just kind of endless. And lastly, I just want to say about the issue about the age. I do think that prevention is also really, really important. And I know the data shows 18 to 34-year-olds, except when I look at the data that you've written, shared also showed that they had 12 prior arrests and four for felonies. So in other words, it didn't just start when they were 18 years old. So if we look at when did they, the, when did these individuals start being arrested? And I'm from what I remember from the gang prevention…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I appreciate that. And actually, Jason's not here anymore. I was thinking a lot about overdoses. and how you know the primary goal is to save lives and how like i was actually thinking about narcan and harm reduction in this conversation and how yes i totally i hear what you're saying that you can't same thing with opioid overdose first thing you got to do is keep somebody alive so i i hear you uh commissioner burton”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:37:56
“It seemed like there was going to be additional information that was still needed to be done. Ryan, you were talking about how some of these things still need to be fleshed out, the census track, you know, blah, blah, blah. So I'm not sure.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I'll just say I support the recommendations and yeah.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you all so much, and it's great to see you, Mayor Shule. Thank you for stepping up and you didn't have to be part of leading this effort so thank you so much for doing this for our community um there is a lot in this plan i did read it and um i it's there's a lot i mean even just the 10 recommendations there are many many different steps in each of them so i think that um for you know and and i absolutely support that we what you know basic the basic recommendations of this plan um i believe that the arts are the heart and soul of any community in our community and i also believe that…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much for this presentation. I'm truly amazed because the framework has already changed. It's like every time I serve as our liaison to APSEC, so I've heard a lot of presentations, and every time I hear a presentation from you, it's something has changed something's different so i mean just kudos to you and the whole team everyone who's doing this because you are actually you are you are doing what you said that you were going to do which is to keep the iterative and you know you heard casey talk about how made in durham first graduation with the bulls it was like 50 something…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“initial conversations and stand-up meetings and we're already generating dozens of new units so really what does it look like also in terms of the units that both the city and the county have invested in some of the gap financed affordable housing units especially the ones that are you know like the Sankofa landing for veterans or some of the voucher supported units, right? Or even the ones that have been now coming online that were through rezonings, like how are you all interfacing with those as well? Or are there plans in the future for those to be part of the pipeline?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay. Could you talk a little bit... I know the county, we funded half a million dollars Is that going into the Flexible Housing Fund? Okay. And then the other piece of the framework was for us to focus on inflow. Deputy Manager, do you know if we have actually designated a person for that yet?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. And from your perspective, just for us to understand, what do you envision at this point from what you've learned? What does that look like? What would success look like maybe on our end? And also, I imagine once we have that person, would they be sitting in on the sprint teams?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“so we can reduce those inflow numbers so once we have that position i think that's going to be really important for everyone to sit down and figure out like what does this look like because i imagine within durham county there's a lot of touch points right it could be dss it could be public health it could be cooperative extension somebody coming in with for the welcome baby program It could be, you know, EMS. I mean, there just could be a lot of points of contact where there could be a red flag about somebody being at risk, especially if there's somebody who's showing up multiple times. I'm…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026