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From YouTube: BellevueNOW - Episode 1
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In episode #1 of our new quarterly television series, BellevueNOW, host Lenka Wright speaks with City Manager Brad Miyake about managing Bellevue, and with Terry Smith, Parks & Community Services Assistant Director and Captain Andrew Popochock, of Bellevue Police about the issue of homelessness.
A
B
Like
what
the
city
manager
does,
it
runs
the
day-to-day
operations
of
the
city
and
for
Bellevue.
Those
operations
include
the
police
and
fire
services,
utilities,
transportation
parks,
operation
and
administrative
services,
such
as
the
legal
help,
as
well
as
information
technology
and
finance
just
to
name
a
few.
B
A
B
Question
I
think
my
previous
jobs
and
finance
utilities
and
city
manager's
office
really
provided
me
great
experience
and
preparing
me
to
take
on
the
city
manager
jobs.
My
first
job,
as
she
mentioned,
was
in
the
Budget
Office,
where
I
learned
all
about
how
the
finances
worked
in
the
city
and
what
I
quickly
learned
is
that
nothing
moves
in
the
city
without
money?
B
So
that's
a
really
good
experience
to
have
as
a
city
manager
in
the
utilities
department
I
was
a
both
a
deputy
director,
as
utilities
director
I
learned
how
to
run
a
multi-million
dollar
operation
as
well
a
couple
hundred
staff
people
and
then
finally,
as
the
deputy
city
manager
in
the
manager's
office,
you
know
I
oversaw
the
finances
and
operations
for
multiple
departments
and
gave
me
a
great
depth
of
how
the
operations
worked
in
the
city
as
well
as
I
got
an
opportunity
to
begin
working
with
the
council.
Bellevue.
A
B
A
B
While
I
was
in
school,
this
was
never
on
my
mind
and
in
fact
even
while
I
was
in
school,
I
never
heard
about
the
city
manager.
Job
I
must
say
that
the
city
manager
job
is
probably
the
most
challenging
job
I've
ever
had,
but
it's
also
been
my
most
rewarding
job
and
I
would
recommend
for
any
of
those
going
into
public
service
to
consider
the
city
manager
track.
Okay,.
B
A
C
Actions
make
a
big
difference
for
water
quality
in
the
future.
Soon
a
Bellevue,
don't
drip
and
drive.
Car
leaks
are
one
of
the
leading
polluters
of
repeated
sound.
They
can
be
harmful
to
local
waterways,
wildlife
and
even
your
family
and
pets.
Car
leaks
are
not
only
bad
for
the
environment,
but
they're
bad
for
your
vehicle
too.
If
you
see
a
leak,
make
sure
to
visit
an
automotive
shop
and
get
it
fixed,
it's
better
for
you,
your
car
and
the
Puget
Sound
for
more
information
go
to
fix.
Carly's
org
today.
A
This
is
Bellevue
now
in
King
County,
the
2017
point-in-time
count
found
more
than
eleven
thousand
six
hundred
people
are
experiencing
homelessness
countywide.
This
number
includes
more
than
six
and
people
sheltering
in
transitional
housing
or
emergency
shelters
and
nearly
5,500
people
on
the
streets,
sleeping
in
vehicles,
tents
and
encampments.
The
one
night
count
of
homeless
individuals
now
known
as
count
us
in
use
a
new
process
and
methodology
for
the
count
for
the
east
side.
A
There
are
reportedly
284
homeless
individuals
living
here
for
more
on
how
the
city
of
Bellevue
is
addressing
this
regional
issue,
our
our
guests.
We
have
Carrie
Smith
who's,
the
assistant
director
for
Bellevue's
parks
and
community
services
department,
and
we
also
have
captain
Andrew
Papa
Chak
of
the
Bellevue
Police
Department
will
welcome
gentlemen
to
the
program.
D
D
Thanks
mark
the
city
were
primarily
focused
on
four
areas,
from
both
a
prevention
and
an
intervention
strategy
that
is
include
outreach,
support,
services
facilities
and
enforcement
prevention
services
can
include
basic
needs.
Emergency
financial
assistance
for
counseling
services
for
individuals
experiencing
homelessness
can
include
job
retraining,
programs,
housing
assistance
or
addiction
treatment
facilities
are
important
and
helping
both
from
having
a
day
Center
a
place.
People
can
go
during
the
day,
and/or
overnight
shelter.
D
Both
of
these
provide
opportunities
for
people
to
have
a
place
to
stay,
maybe
store
their
belongings
and
also
have
access
to
some
services
that
can
help
them
either
transition
out
of
homelessness
or
again
on
the
prevention
side.
While
we're
working
collaboratively
with
several
organizations
both
locally
and
regionally,
we
work
with
King
County
and
their
whole
home
initiative
locally.
On
the
east
side,
we
work
especially
with
Kirkland,
Redmond
and
Issaquah.
A
Right
well,
Andrew,
as
a
police
captain
you've
become
acquainted
with
some
of
the
homeless
individuals
who
are
living
here
in
Bellevue
and
on
the
east
side
through
the
annual
count,
we've
learned
that
the
vast
majority
of
them
are
actually
from
the
area.
What
else
might
surprise
people
to
know
about
these
individuals
who
are
experiencing
homelessness?
I?
Think.
E
What
people
don't
understand
about
the
situation?
How
complex
it
truly
is
those
people
are
on
the
streets
for
a
variety
of
different
reasons.
You
have
everything
from
the
people
who
truly
got
into
a
bad
financial
situation
lost
their
place
to
live.
You
have
the
people
who
are
using
drugs,
especially
the
opioid
epidemic
in
the
area.
You
have
people
that
are
using
alcohol
and
other
substances.
You
also
have
people
that
are
dealing
with
mental
illness
and
all
those
are
very
tragic
circumstances
that
get
people
onto
the
street.
E
A
D
Housing
first
is
a
homeless
assistance
approach
that
prioritizes
providing
permanent
housing
to
people
experiencing
homelessness
first,
because
that
ends
their
homelessness
and
from
there
you
can
build
a
platform
that
helps
people
to
get
additional
services
or
resources
that
can
keep
them
out
of
being
homeless.
So
the
general
idea
of
providing
and
supporting
those
basic
needs
is
a
foundational
port
to
moving
someone,
an
individual
out
of
homelessness.
A
E
We
have
a
multi
prong
approach.
Our
very
first
approach
is
always
going
to
be
outreach.
We
send
officers
out
to
contents
people
in
the
vehicles.
We
also
have
partnerships
with
different
community
organizations
that
go
with
us,
or
maybe
we
ask
them
to
go
separately
to
contact
these
people.
The
goal
is
always
to
get
the
person
out
of
homelessness
we'd,
like
them
out
of
the
cars
and
into
how
the
transitional
housing
or
full
housing
so
that
they
are
no
longer
in
at
a
risk
because
it
is
risky
to
be
out
on
the
streets
at
night.
E
The
next
step
is
always
enforcement.
If
we
offer
the
resources
and
they
choose
not
to
accept
the
resources,
we
expect
all
residents
of
Bellevue,
whether
or
not
they're,
homeless
or
not
homeless,
to
obey
the
laws,
and
we
ask
the
same
of
these
individuals,
whether
it
be
parking
laws,
whether
it
be
dumping
laws,
whether
it
be
you
know,
sewage
laws
out
of
some
of
the
RVs.
We
expect
them
to
obey
the
laws
just
like
we
expect
every
citizen
to
and
we
would
take
enforcement
action
that
may
be
towing
that
may
be
ticketing.
E
Those
cars
on
the
next
step
is,
if
you
look
at
the
outreach
side,
so
the
outreach
side,
it
may
take
more
than
24
hours,
and
we
understand
that
from
citizens
that
causes
frustration,
sometimes
that
the
car
is
sitting
there
for
over
24
hours,
because
the
parking
rules
say
that
you
must
move
your
vehicle
within
24
hours,
but
the
goal
is
always
outreach
is
getting
the
person
out
of
the
car
and
that
may
take
many
contacts
over
and
over.
But
if
we
get,
we
reach
the
goal
of
getting
that
person
out
of
the
car
into
housing.
E
It's
a
great
benefit
to
the
city
as
a
whole.
It
gets
the
person
into
a
full
residence.
It
reduces
the
amount
of
calls
on
emergency
services
and
also
makes
the
residents
happy
that
there's
not
that
issue
of
the
vehicle
being
parked
there.
Part
of
our
enforcement
strategy
is
actually
to
set
up
a
task
force
to
address
the
parking
concerns
and
we've
set
that
up,
and
we
specifically
use
that
task
force
to
go
to
areas
where
we've
had.
E
A
E
First,
off
we
always
say:
don't
give
money
to
panhandlers.
We
don't
want
you
to
give
the
money
to
them.
There's
so
many
great
organizations
out
in
the
community
that
do
excellent
work,
so
we
would
prefer,
if
you
gave
the
money
to
those
organizations.
It
is
a
constitutionally
protected
right
for
that
person
to
go
ask
for
money,
but
it's
also
constantly
protected
for
you
not
to
give
them
money.
Is
your
choice
not
to
give
them
the
money
on
the
street
corner?
E
Why
we
say
that
is
because
there's
many
reasons
like
I
talked
about
before
you
have
the
financial
reasons
you
have
the
drug,
the
alcohol
reasons
for
people
to
being
on
the
street.
You
don't
know
if
that
money
is
genuinely
needed
by
that
person
to
obtain
housing
tonight
or
is
it
for
drugs
and
alcohol,
or
is
that
person
abusing
the
system
and
they're
actually
housed
person?
That's
out
there
collecting
money,
because
we
are
a
very
generous
City.
Our
citizens
gave
out
large
amounts
of
money
to
people
on
the
street
corner.
E
There's
also
the
fact
that,
like
I
said
you
don't
aren't
obligated
to
give
that
person
money.
We
do.
If
you
have
concerns
about
this,
we
do
have
a
statute
in
Delhi
that
prohibits
aggressive
panhandling
and
what
that
would
be
is
using
intimidation
to
have
you
give
them
money.
Do
any
doubts.
If
the
person
is
being
intimidating
towards
you,
you
can
always
call
the
police
department,
we
don't
mind
responding.
E
Also,
the
person
is
out
blocking
the
roadway
obstructing
traffic.
You
always
cost
as
well.
If
it
ends
up
being
not
a
crime,
we
still
have
the
opportunity
to
outreach
like
I
talked
to
before
it
gives
our
opportunity
for
officers
to
have
one
more
contact.
Sometimes
it
takes
many
many
many
contacts
or
someone
will
accept
the
services
provided.
So
we
want
you
to
contact
us
when
you
see
that
behavior,
because
it
gives
us
one
more
opportunity
to
not
only
educate
the
person
but
possibly
get
them
into
the
services
they
need.
Tere.
A
D
D
It
gets
someone
out
of
the
elements
and
do
safe
warm
place
many
times,
they'll
get
a
meal,
but
also
there's
opportunities
to
access
services
that
may
help
them
either
transition
out
of
homelessness
or
give
them
some
basic
things
to
help
them
really
make
it
through
the
day.
So
again,
our
primary
focus
is
on
prevention
and
getting
people
out
of
being
homeless.
A
D
We
encourage
people
to
volunteer,
you
can
contact
local
nonprofits
or
faith
groups
and
you
can
volunteer
meals.
You
can
help
out
with
shelters,
there's
a
lot
of
different
opportunities.
You
can
also
give
you
can
give
money
or
you
can
give
resources,
sometimes
that
can
be
food
or
clothing
to
local
agencies
that
can
use
that
those
materials
to
support
individuals
or
homeless.
D
We
all,
we
definitely
don't
believe
the
weeds
that
you
should
be
giving
money
directly
to
panhandlers,
as
captain
puppet
Jacques
has
mentioned
that
there's
a
lot
of
better
use
of
those
dollars
like
providing
those
to
faith
groups
or
agencies
them
that
help
support
the
needs
of
individuals
experiencing
homelessness.
Yeah.