Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026

Beautiful. What's left of the sun afternoon. Um, we will start with a roll call. Will you start us off, Michelle? Um, Shawn Baker, Commission.

Stop. Sorry, go ahead. Chase Burgrave, staff. Frankie Dahl, staff. Valerie Bemben, staff.

Megan Mills, Anchorage Health Department.

All right, and folks online. Julie.

I'm Julie Graham, Commissioner. Lila. I'm Lila Taylor. I'm the Housing Services Division Manager with the Anchorage Health Department. Kimberly.

Hi, Kimberly White. I am the Program Manager at Anchorage Health Department.

Jessica Parks, Commissioner. Hi, my name is Laura Roark. I am also— Right. Um, if y'all would take an opportunity to look over the order of business for today and if there are any items we need to add.

Adjust. I move to approve. All right, we got one move to approve. Second.

Second. Okay. All right, next up, our approval of minutes from the last meeting.

Ask a question about quorum, and it's right here.

All right, I move to approve. Michelle has moved to approve. Do we have a second?

Second. Okay, I have a question. Yeah, um, and this is just a regular question. So did David Daniel leave? Yes.

Does his name stay on as form to be able to— No, I mean, because the number changes, right? Well, the number is always going to be 5, so no matter how many Commissioners you have, we will always have to have 5 to have a quorum. We ran into that issue before a lot of folks joined in, um, oh gosh, when was that, um, where we didn't have enough commissioners to meet quorum, so we just did confer a couple of sessions. So it— we just need to make sure that we have 5 commissioners to be able to meet quorum. And Daniel's seat did expire in October, so, um, yeah, and that's because if you look at the rules of procedure in your packet here under quorum It just because it says a quorum is considered to be 5 members, that's just written into the rules.

And, you know, some, some bodies have a requirement that quorum is a certain percentage or whatever majority, but in this case it's just a hard quorum. I think that's always been the case. In line with code. Is that in line with code? Not just rules and procedures, but also code.

Okay, so that is, and that's the code establishing hand commissions specifically? No, I think it's more general too. I think it's more general. I'd have to look to be sure, but I'm—. The immediate, the immediate reason that it's fine is just—.

His name will be removed from— yeah, list. Yes, he was present in October, so he's going to remain on the minutes there, but his name should be removed from the list. Is it on the agenda? It's on the agenda. Okay, we'll make a note to remove that.

Thank you, Miss.

There being disclosures.

Um, moving on to action items. We have none on the ongoing business. Um, I'm trying to remember. We had talked about different community council meetings, and so someone can help me. Did that go into ongoing business?

It was like—. It's under my understanding of— so if we're on the agenda right now in E2A, my understanding of that was that some commissioners had questions about how we can officially recognize public comment when it's submitted to us. I did send an email with an update from the constituent relations people. If you had a chance to review that and wanted to discuss it and make a decision about it, it would be— if that is something that you wanted to add regularly to your processes, that would be a vote to, like, put it on the agenda as a regular standing item. Yeah.

Do you— do you— so I missed it. My question was different, but it is actually Michelle helped me find it in here. It was FD, F1D. So that one's already on here. Okay, thank you.

Yeah, but, um, but I, I had a question. Are we—. Which one are we on now? Um, I was asking if we have any ongoing business that we might have somehow missed. We not really do.

All right, so on to new business. We have amendment of rules and procedures to acknowledge public comment. This comes from our conversation last week about how we want to address— not last week, last month— about how we want to address those and if we— how we want that on record for— yeah. So I did not get a chance to review what you sent out. Oh, yeah.

Okay. So that is on me. That's okay. I don't want to make sure we're— No, no, you're fine. You're fine.

So essentially what you could do if you wanted to is when you get public comment, you can— a commissioner would be able to draft a letter in summation to submit to the mayor and the assembly. That would be done through AIM at the next assembly meeting. And yeah, so essentially if you wanted to document that in an official way and pass that along to assembly members and the mayor, it would be through a letter. Letter that a commissioner would draft. Yeah.

Is that the only option? To do it in an official capacity. Did you have other ideas? No, I'm saying just an acknowledgement. Even if it didn't go to the assembly, just an acknowledgement that we heard it or something internally.

So—. It has to go to the assembly? Not necessarily. What, like, do you have ideas for how that would— I'm just struggling to ideate, like— How do you envision that happening? Well, even if it's that same form you're saying that we could select or elect to forward it to the assembly, but just have it noted here, you know, whoever documented it, that stays in-house, but some way to acknowledge that, you know, they took the time out and we acknowledge that it was part of our record, that we heard them, and then we can decide, maybe take a vote, do we want to pass this on?

Because we don't have to agree or disagree, you know, it's just to acknowledge that we heard it. Yeah, resolution recognition and take a vote of whether we want to pass it to see. Yeah, email to me. In my brain, this is like a thank you so much for taking the time to be here. We appreciate you sharing comment with us.

Um, and then like, but is that within, is that within our wheelhouse of, or is that adding, I don't know. So just from thinking about this from a, like, how the— it would function in a meeting. If we're considering doing emails, that makes much more sense if we get written comment, which typically happens anyways. If somebody submits comment, I pass it along to you, or the staff will pass it along to commissioners, and we'll thank them for their comment, and you will, like, we'll just have acknowledged that commissioners have received that. If you're considering doing it in person, you can always just thank the folks who have provided comment by just saying thank you.

We appreciate you taking the time to come here and speak on this issue. If you wanted to write a letter, that is absolutely— like to write some sort of summary of the comments that you get, that is within the realm of possibilities if that is something that you decide to do. One thing that I will say is that from like the staffer's perspective, we will record that somebody has provided public comment. The actual reporting is going to be the official document of what they are saying, because when you try and paraphrase or summarize what somebody else has said, it's easy to misconstrue, and that can be a little like— that can end up taking a lot of time if folks come back and want to amend whatever their comment was in the minutes. So I don't know that I would recommend doing that in the minutes per se, but if you did want to— if a commissioner did want to write a letter and say, like, these people provided comment on this day, we appreciate them, the gist of it was this, and keep that in-house, you're welcome to.

I don't know that it's necessarily a good use of your time if you are thanking them in person and that's just an internal document and not being forwarded anywhere. But if that is something that you're interested in, it's something we can discuss.

Yeah, I think if you were to do something like that, it would probably be a standing action item under ongoing business. And then if you did have other comments from a previous meeting, you could use that part of the agenda to bring forward that acknowledgement. And then, you know, vote on whether or not this unit that was—. That's, that sounds good. The part I didn't hear is who's doing it.

It would be—. So we— it would be, it would be a commissioner, yep, that drafts the comment. And thank you for the comment. Yes. And if it went Basically, any communications after that, it would be the responsibility of the commissioner to do that.

So how that would work is if, if like anything that the commission wants to put forward to the assembly or like as a report, right, that is originating with commissioners, you could draft it. You could decide whether or not you want to pass it along. If you do decide to pass it along to the assembly, there's a template that I also sent out that's a template for an AIM. And they're, they're very simple. You would do those, the staffer would check it to make sure it's filled out correctly, and then we would submit it into the software that disperses it to the assembly.

Do you have questions about that process? Does that make sense? That makes sense. Okay, good. Yeah, so basically it would be, if a commissioner wants to acknowledge that, then that commissioner would bring it to the, um, Commission at the next, next Commission meeting and just ask for it to be placed on the agenda as an item of new business.

And then you can like discuss it, vote on it if the Board Commission instead hears it, send it off. You know, we have several things you can do about it. But yeah, it would be kind of the— our conclusion from looking into the process is that that would be Sure. So my millennial brain keeps glitching every time you say AIM. Oh, it's an information assembly information.

And that is the mechanism for communication between mission and assembly. And our leadership has actually That all formal actions of the commission should be submitted. You said assembly information memo. Memo. Okay.

Um, and so if, if you do— when you do pass resolutions and like a pre-hearing and written report and stuff, um, that would be submitted automatically to the—. The sound of it.

All right, thank you for that.

That clears— yeah, it's okay.

All right, informational items. Bring on ongoing business. So we didn't make a decision. We would need to make a vote on doing it if you would like to.

Do we need a motion? Is this— is this a thing we want to do? Yeah, I think it is something that we would want to create, but I'm thinking keep it very simple that if we acknowledge that we— I guess it depends on— at a minimum, we acknowledge we receive public comment from XYZ. In the records. If it's something that we're going to pass forward, then that would be followed up with the AIM.

Yeah. You know, but at a minimum, we just say we received. So I guess the amendment would be public in our rules of procedure, make public comment follow-up. So what, what I would recommend is like the minutes do acknowledge when folks give public comment. I think that you don't necessarily need to amend the rules and procedures to make, like, case-by-case decisions to write a letter and submit that via AIM.

You don't need to write that down? I would say that does not need to be part of your rules and procedures. It can be a decision that you make case-by-case. Like, so if, let's say, in March somebody gives very compelling public comment and you want to document that and send it, you can have a discussion at that meeting and elect a commissioner to draft the letter and the AIM and vote on it then and there, or you could decide to approve it at the next one and pass it along. So it doesn't need to be necessarily codified in your rules or procedures.

It can be a case-by-case basis if that is what you want to do. I guess the only concern is that That sounds pretty standard. Yes. But we didn't know it. So how would you ever know that?

You know, commissioners come in online, new group commissioners know that that mechanism even exists if it's not written. If you want to document it for informational purposes as a possibility from the Rules of Procedures, absolutely, you can do that. I would just, I would be hesitant to add it as a requirement. No, yeah, definitely not as a requirement, but something to tell. I mean, because basically what I think I said something about it and Julie did too.

Yeah, the mechanism was already there, we just didn't know it. That's an excellent—. So if there's something that's documented somewhere that, you know, yeah, I think what you might want to do, and this would probably be an amendment to the rules and procedure that you would draft and things that you would submit, is maybe add a paragraph C under public comments that says the Commission may draft a— phrase that, right? If you want to say may rather than shall, but you're not bound to it, but just as an information thing. And that would be under—.

I would say it would fit best under public comments. Yes, there'd be a C, say the Commission may draft.

I think that would be— that would be what I had in mind. Okay, so we can put that on the agenda for the next meeting.

I would say, just to be like really, really clear, if the commissioner could elect to take on drafting that language for review next time, that would be great. Shanique, do you want to work together? Sure. I will— this week is the same, so if you want to start and submit to me, or I can do that. Yeah, and you talk about just the wording, if we have seen.

No problem.

I do have one more question. Yes. So if we end up with the AIM, is that just something that gets submitted? We don't have to speak to it, we don't have to do anything about it? If you— if the chair or vice chair would like to be present, you can.

I don't know that they would necessarily want clarification or if they seek clarification, they might do so in writing anyways. But— Yeah, they very rarely call AIMs for discussion. Yeah. So it would mostly just be a written issue. Yeah.

Okay. So you would vote on— you would vote on it and then the staffer would take those drafts, just review them to make sure that they look good and then upload it into the— into OMBIS for assembly. Okay, thank you. I have a question.

Now we're moving on to ongoing business. Very good. All right, update from Community Safety and Development. Okay, um, one update, a little bittersweet, is Frankie is leaving us. They are moving on to another position at the Anchorage Health Department as a community health worker.

And so their last day with the safety development team is November 13th. So from your perspective, the main change there will be that Chase will now be the main staffer for the Commission doing the things that Frankie has been doing so far. Otherwise, things will— procedures will be pretty much the same. So we congratulate Frankie Dahl for their great work and their exciting new position. Thank you.

Thank you, Frankie Dahl. Thank you. It's been awesome to work with. Aside from that, I don't have a whole lot of updates per se. One thing, just in general, with Frankie leaving, we're now back to only positions.

So we're kind of re— allocating tasks and rebalancing workloads and readjusting timelines and schedules based on our new capacity. And so that will likely mean that some of the projects that we're working on, programs that we're rolling out, will be coming out a little bit later than we had originally anticipated. I don't think we're going to be position right now to give exact timelines for any of the programs we're talking about, but just know that we do— we are still continuing to work on all the programs that I've talked about past Commission meetings, as well as maybe one or two additional ones that I think will ultimately mesh together well and kind of provide a very, a very helpful sort of in addition to the services that we have with the community, but we don't have any institutionally relevant. So, you know, when we do have updated timelines and RFPs and RFGPs and things like that, which we would share, or applications open for grants and things like that, we will bring that to the Commission so you guys would know. We are also planning to continue to use the Commission as our main public hearing forum.

So when we do, you know, plans and hearing our recommendations and things like that, we will generally be bringing those to the Commission to get public comment and feedback. Don't have any specific ones scheduled as of then. We will have a second one for the 2027 action plan coming. At some point, soon to be. Question.

Thank you, Jack. Update from Housing and Homelessness.

Hello. Sorry about the noise. I'm in my car. We don't have a ton of updates. All of our shelters, the municipally funded shelters, are full.

The non-congregate is still at 100 beds. Linda's Place has met their surge capacity so they're at 150. They cannot go any higher there just because of the physical space of the building. We have 160 beds right now at East 56. We are going to surge East 56 up to 200 beds between now and the end of November, so we'll be adding 10 beds this coming Monday, another 20 beds on November 23rd, and then the last 10 beds on November 30th.

That will put us at the maximum for East 56. We can't go over 200 beds without going before the Assembly to get approval, so that's— we are at capacity with shelter beds right now. And then our— the last update is the Housing and Homelessness team is hosting a Lunch and Learn on, I think, this Friday, going over cold weather-related injuries. And I believe Dr. Conway is going to be presenting at that. So if anybody wants the link and doesn't have it, just let somebody from the team know and we can send it over to you.

It is all virtual. Um, that's actually all that we have, um, as far as updates go.

Any questions? Thanks, Lyla.

All right, update from the mayor's office. Sophia is on. She is kind of Okay, are you available? Okay, go ahead. Yep, I'm good now.

Thanks, Jed.

Let's see, we are continuing to work with all the shelter providers like Lila's team. Lila and her team oversee and all of our outreach providers. We're still doing our 9:00 AM calls. Those have now kind of moved from being facilitated by the HOPE team to being facilitated by Dr. Conway from the Health Department or Zac from the Coalition, and that's been great because then the HOPE team can still participate, but they have kind of handed that off to our kind of community partners. That's been really good.

We, as Lila mentioned, we're adding beds. You know, our shelters are always going to be full. That's kind of the point that we're trying to make sure that we can get people who want to be inside, inside. But we still do have turnover every day, so we're always kind of moving people in and out, and we're still using the Safety Center as kind of our ground zero. We will be meeting next week to talk about additional cold weather emergency plans.

We're still very interested in hearing from faith communities and community organizations if they can provide shelter on an emergency basis when we need additional beds, like if it gets really cold like last year. And we've had some other suggestions for, like, using buses and different things that we might consider. So we're going to meet and kind of hash all of that out and then share that back out with the public. Another thing we've been working on is we secured just over $3 million in Rural Health Transformation Program funding. So that is going towards improving our crisis response and our safety net system, and especially connecting our teams with healthcare providers in Anchorage, but also around the state.

So we were having some really good forward momentum with that. It's a, it's really a collaborative effort between Department of Health, Fire Department, Police Department, our IT department, and we now Yeah, well, we can provide more updates on that, on this particular soon, but we have our grant agreement signed. We're getting our team signed up with Health E-Connect. So we're getting some good forward motion. And then the other thing I wanted to mention to the Commission, because it might be something you want to consider putting a resolution together for, is that one of our shelters, which is Linda's Place, they operate out of a facility that they lease on East 5th Avenue.

Um, and they, as part of their zoning for that building, they need a conditional use permit to operate as a shelter. So that is going before Planning and Zoning. That's the body that makes the decision on that. They will have a work session. Um, I think it's the first week of December, and then on the 14th of December is when the decision will be made.

And I also wanted to mention that tonight at the assembly meeting, Um, some— there were some business owners that are right next to the shelter that put in public comment about the impacts of the shelter to their business, and the assembly members for the district where Linda's Place is located put that public comment into tonight's agenda as an assembly informational memorandum. So it's not something that will be acted on in any way, but I might— my assumption is that they put it there so that they could, um, just bring it up for some discussion on the dais and get it into the public record. So it's kind of a tricky situation where Um, you know, as a community, we certainly need those beds. Um, immediate neighbors have some concerns, so that's what's going to be figured out through this process. So I think it would be, um, it would be great for the commission to just consider if you wanted to put a resolution together on that topic.

And if you want to participate in any of those sessions or provide public comment, um, just invite you to do so. So that's all I've got.

Thanks so much, again. Any questions? Am I allowed? Or should I wait? Wait for Sophie?

Is it question or comment? Uh, it's both. So let's save it for comment. Okay. Yeah.

All right.

Um, thank you. Um, all right, the next up was commissioners, uh, about community council attendance. Um, so at the last meeting we talked about some of the community councils that we were hoping to attend. And get more information about what they're up to. Anybody able to attend to those since last time?

I attend some. You attend some? Did we note who was going to attend each one? I did. I wrote a note about it that I only found 2 days ago.

Um, is that closer where I am? Yeah, so I said Scenic Foothills and Spinnard Community Council for me. Julie was going to do Fairview and Midtown. Jessica was going to do Russian Jack. Shanay, you took down Mountain View and Taku Campbell.

That is not all of them, but Julie does have her hand up. Julie asked her something. Oh, yes, Julie. Um, that's okay. I was able to go to Fairview's meeting, but then I was out of town and I just got back yesterday, so I didn't get to the other one.

Whoops. Aloha, my hand. Oh, I'm sorry, one more time. Um, no, never. Um, do you want me to talk about what I heard, or I don't even— or just let you know I went?

Yeah, can you give us the top 3, like what you noticed? Um, well, it's a very active, involved community council. There was talk, a lot of talk, probably you know about, and I didn't catch all the initials, uh, the Ingle— the Ingra-Gamble expansion, Third Avenue, wider sidewalks. There's talk about snow removal, um, with the wider sidewalks and the light poles and some of that going on. Just getting, um, people giving input on the design of some of those things.

And there's some talk about Neighborhood Watch, either starting up or municipal-wide initiative or something from the Federation of Community Councils. Um, so that's my little notes, and that was like almost a month ago, so I don't know if— that's just a couple things that came up.

Just said it's Allen's, the call. That's—. Yes, yes, I was— thank you so much, Julie. I have not got to make mine yet, but they're on the to-do for this month. So is there anyone on the downtown?

Downtown? That's tonight. It's been already—. Uh, yes, that is tonight. Um, the— nobody is yet on the downtown.

Yeah, but I can't—. Yeah, it's just a heads up, if you're going to that, they lock the doors to City Hall at 5 o'clock. You have to go behind to the, the back parking lot, knock on the door, security guard come up, they'll let you in. And it is every other month instead of every month for them, just so you know.

We can continue to give intermittent updates on those. There's no need to, to murder ourselves trying to do all the things in the world.

So we'll give the updates as we can.

Um, right. And then the next up on the ongoing business is 2027 municipal budget updates. Anything there?

Uh, Thea? Um, so far for the things that, um, that fall kind of within what we call a safe Anchorage budget, which is a lot of the work that Jed and his team are doing, as well as kind of shelter, alcohol tax funding, general funds that match those. So far we haven't had any requests for changes, um, and the budget process is just continuing on. I know there's another work session on Jed, is it this Friday? I think it's this Friday.

And I think that's where the assembly members will be bringing their amendments forward.

But still lots of opportunity to get involved if you want to.

Work session.

Pretty sure it's Friday. They, they updated the website on the 29th, so it's a little—. Yeah, yeah, I'm proud of navigating the website here.

I'll see if I can find that. There's a special meeting on the 13th, and that meeting Can I ask a question about ATAX?

So there is a line item in ATAX under first responders, and it says MDOT Anchorage Multitransit Security Outreach Team. It says FOST, and then it says Third Ave Resource Center, and it's $500,000 to some cost with encumbrances. And, and so I, I had a question. I recently in one of previous meetings, and I think someone did ask that question also, and it doesn't seem like any of that money is going to HOPE for MDOT at all. It's just the $500,000 sunk cost, which then goes to Catholic Social Services.

So run through that now. Is that how it goes, or do you know what I'm talking about? I know what you're talking about. I can answer that question. And I think— I'm happy to answer that question.

Is there any way that that could be sort of— I'm happy to answer that question. I could see with that. It's just, it's, uh, it's interesting. It's just open-ended. Thank you.

I'm happy to answer that question if that's okay. Yes, please. So, yes, that is a grant that goes through the police department to Catholic Social Services to, um, and yes, it does contribute towards the operations of 3rd Avenue Resource and Navigation Center. And the original intent was that we could use, and, and this is what's happening, the HOPE team would be able to use office space there if they need it, and also to make sure that that resource is available for when we do coordinated outreach and have people who need access to resources, that that could be the place where that warm handoff occurs. Because what was happening before was HOPE team was really trying to do all of that follow-on case management, and that really just limits how many people they can contact and outreach to in the field.

So the purpose of the grant is to make sure that Third Avenue Resource Center is available so that we can do those warm handoffs from any outreach team really, but again, it's kind of coming through the police department. Okay, so it's to rent a room or is it for operations in the facility or? It's a grant, so it can be used for operations of the facility, yeah, and also of course to make sure we have space there. Yeah, okay, that is bizarre. All right, thank you.

So the work session is this Friday at 10:00 AM in City Hall, Room 155.

What day? Friday the 6th.

So 155 or 160? 155. Yeah, yeah, standard hallway. Go all the way back security, there's a long hallway. Second-guess my own numbers.

10 AM to 12:30. All right, any new business? We have none on the list. We could not approve any.

Now it's time for public comment. Okay. How many folks do we have for public comment today?

I have, I have something to say. So we got Alan. Jamie, are you— yeah, yeah, but I'm also trying to get a sense of who's going. Okay, great. All right, so we got a timer, and if you'll just let Alan know when to start.

Okay, I'll go. So I just want to make sure folks on the commission are aware that, um, you know, in terms of, you know, meeting, you know, the purpose of the commissions in terms of neighborhood development, so that you know that our community gardens, you know, we had a great first year. It's been fantastic, and we're making great progress on creating a food forest up on the northern lot. And, you know, and certainly we're looking forward to you know, working with staff as we get things together for next season with the water and with the utilities. So the— also regarding, you know, the gardens, a resolution is before the council.

Will probably be— it'll be up for action at our general membership meeting next week, and that is a resolution requesting that the two lots, the two properties, be formally transferred by the Alaska State Legislature from DOT to the municipality so that the municipality can— has more discretionary authority in implementing improvements at those two lots. And then the other thing that I want to make sure that folks are aware of is that our asphalt art Project, you know, at 12th and, and Hyder was fantastic. It came across— it was— it's wonderful. A lot of positive feedback from neighbors and from folks that, you know, about what we're doing to try to reactivate, you know, that Gamble-Ingraham corridor, and particularly, you know, the Hyder Street. And we'll be working with the our neighbors to do 3 more intersections, asphalt art at 3 more intersections, 14th and Hyder, 10th and Hyder, and 10th and Letoosh, and next coming next spring.

So just want to let folks know that, oh, and we've got a draft, um, Gamble Ingra—. Reconnecting Fairview corridor plan that's under review by our Reconnecting Fairview committee. And we should be presenting that probably at our December council meeting. And so, so a lot of progress being made in the Fairview area, and I certainly just want to make sure folks on the Commission are aware that community development is important. Thanks.

Thank you so much, Alan. Jessica Parks has a question.

Yes, Alan, thank you so much for all of your work on that. I have a question about the gardens. I know that a lot of the other community gardens around the city have waitlists of people waiting to get a plot. Did you notice that at the Fairview Garden? Did you have a— did you have more people who wanted a plot than you had plots available?

No, not this, not this season, but you know, we have two gardens. We have the one that we have the garden that's at 13th and Carlock, Serenity Gardens, and then we, so we opened up a new, uh, Perseverance is a new garden, and, um, and we were able to take advantage of all, everybody, all the lots, I mean all the plots were filled up this, um, this season. And we're making a few more for next year, and because we anticipate that demand is going to grow. Yes, but we don't— we didn't have a waitlist though. So, okay, if people are interested in having a plot or being considered for a plot next year, can they just email the community council or email you?

Yeah, just send it to an email to, you know, President, you know, Fairview innercommunity.org.

Awesome, thank you. Okay, look, hey, hey, Chase is looking ready. It's not good. All right, so hopefully I have not lost the plot. Uh, so pertaining to homelessness, so, uh, more or less you have people circling a Circle K that have been trespassed from that area and They're increasing police efforts to essentially drive people back out.

And so you used to have people in Mountain View, they end up in Midtown Spinnard, they go from one place to another. When you cannot hand people free stuff, uh, they still need to survive, they need to eat, they need water, and they steal more. And now with this system called Aura, uh, if you have basically $750 in retail theft, uh, you are now a felon. And it has facial recognition tracking, automated license plate reader technology built into it, link analysis which can link people to vehicles, and networks of people. And yeah, it's, it's going that way.

And so people are not getting help right now. Uh, I know this because I'm pretty much going out daily and I'm spending 50 to 60 hours a week pretty much going out every single day taking food to people and helping them. And meanwhile, mobile crisis team, people cannot walk 50 feet. So people that I knew that were trying to fly back to Utah, uh, and Good Neighbor funds are being used to put people in trap houses, sort of. I won't name the establishment, but it, you know, when you have black mold and bed bugs and roaches and prostitution and drugs in a facility and more or less, you know, you pay to put people in there, you really don't seem to care about, you know, getting people help.

So with all that said, yeah, more or less the despair team is going out And they're pushing people along. Sergeant England is no longer in charge of the Impact Team. He was a man with morals and ethics, and I think he actually wanted to do real police work. And so he moved over to homicide because he probably seen enough. And so there was a gentleman who's now been assigned to that team, Officer Caddy.

And so about 2 weeks ago, they were clearing snowbound and there was a gentleman who was in a tent and more or less gave him 15 minutes to grab his stuff and leave. And so all of it got trashed. He lost all of his belongings. But then there was another sort of situation. And what happened with that one was there were 4 or 5 police officers hanging around having a jovial time, laughing and dub.

And Officer Caddy pointed to a gentleman and said, "You need to be searched." And he gave him a pat down. And then he grabbed him in an area that you should not be grabbing us. And so prior to this, about 4 to 5 months ago, I approached Chief Case and I told him that that officer should be pulled from that duty. He should not be around anyone in a marginalized population or vulnerable people because he seems to enjoy his job a little bit too much. And I spoke to Chief Case in a public fashion again this past Wednesday.

And so I hope Officer Caddy's spelled from the despair team, uh, because this is incident number 4 or 5, uh, that I've actually heard about or had experience with, and he's not helping people, he is traumatizing people. So, uh, Thea, uh, please speak to the people above and consider that. Thank you. And can I just quickly respond to the last thing that Jamie's sharing? Yeah.

Um, as I've mentioned before, there is a really simple process to make a complaint about an officer. People do all the time. You can do it anonymously, and 100% of those complaints are investigated, and about a third of them are sustained. So I really encourage you, if you have a, a valid complaint about an officer, please take the time to report it so that it can actually be investigated and acted on. Well, I, I reported it to the chain of command so they can pull him without his career being—.

That isn't the— apparently they did not want to do that. It's done through the website. No, it can't work that way. It can't work that way.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, we have any commissioners' comments? I have a comment. Yeah, I really appreciate Jamie coming to the commissioner meeting because I learn a lot from the comments that he makes.

I appreciate hearing what you have to say, and I will get with you and write up your comment for our meeting so you can give me some details. Yeah, I can trace it. Because I think Jamie is providing an insight that we don't often get. He's given us an insight that is not— what do I want to say— washed, and I appreciate that. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? Jessica has her hand raised. Oh, Jessica. Hi, Jessica, you're up. Thank you for coming.

Hello, I just wanted to thank everyone who participated in or volunteered at Project Homeless Connect last week. It was a rousing success. We had just over 1,100 people come and visit us at the Egan Center between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM. We were able to give a new winter coat, hat, gloves, and socks and some other various things to just about everyone. We had some large size, we ran out of some of the really large sizes like the 5X and 4X, So we did have some people not be able to get a jacket, but for the most part, everyone was able to get a hot meal and get a warm jacket and, most importantly, connected to the resources that we had there.

I'll have some more data once we get everything entered into HMIS, but one thing that I was pretty excited about was We did exit surveys and we got just over 400 exit surveys completed out of the 1,100 people who came. And over 90% of the people who filled out that exit survey said that they either got everything they needed or wanted out of the event, or the majority of their needs met. So we only had 22 people who said no. Nothing, I was not, nothing met my needs. So really excited about that and just wanted to share that thank you with everyone because that is an event that cannot happen without the community being involved.

We had over 250 volunteers and over 70 service providers all come together for that day to serve people in need. So thanks.

Jessica? Thank you, Jessica, for that update. Can I ask a question about the individuals that said their needs were not met? Did they provide feedback on what they would have liked to see there? They did, so I'll have, I'll have some of that compiled and be able to share, but one of the biggest Pieces of feedback that we had in terms of what people needed or wanted out of the event that they weren't able to get was winter boots.

Winter boots are single-handedly the most expensive item that would come out of holding Project Homeless Connect, so we have doubled down and have started fundraising already for next year so that We can have winter boots alongside the winter coats, but that was the number one response was that people wish they had boots. I will jokingly say that one of the top things that people said was their favorite part of the event. I made them take out coats and lunch because that's always everybody's favorite. Jessica's fabulous prize wheel that you got to spin as you left and get a prize. It was mentioned so many times and I was absolutely thrilled by that because it was, in my opinion, one of the best parts of the day.

Thank you, Jessica. If there's a donation, um, link for winter boots, can you share that with the commission commissioners? I will. Thank you. Thank you.

I report something that's supposed to go there. If you have any, if there are any reports.

I did not schedule one.

I've been trained in public speaking.

All right. All right.

Do we have a motion to adjourn our meeting? Motion to adjourn. Second. And Michelle second. All right, meeting done at 4:59 PM.

Next one is December 2nd. Thank you so much, friends.

Thanks, Laura.

Good luck, Frankie Dahl.