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From YouTube: 1-14-22 City Council Special Meeting
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Des Moines City Council special meeting on Friday, January 14, 2022.
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B
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Any
opposition
hearing
none
the
item
on
our
agenda
is
a
council
discussion
on
cold
weather
events
and
direction
to
staff
to
prepare
policies
related
there
too
I'll
turn
it
over
quickly
to
the
city
manager,
who
hopefully
will
have
some
staff
comments
on
on
what's
going
on,
and
then
we
have
our
chair
of
our
homeless,
coordinating
council
council
member
josh
manelbaum
and
I'd
like
him
to
kind
of
bring
us
up
to
date
on
what's
going
on
over
there.
So
with
that
scott,
I'm
going
to
turn
it.
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E
D
E
C
E
E
The
the
next
bigger
box
is
just
kind
of
an
overview,
just
a
snapshot
one
day,
look
at
the
capacity
of
our
other
other
community
facilities
that
we
do
have
one
thing
you
will
notice
that
there
are
waiting
lists
at
all
these
iowa
homeless
youth
center.
They
have
nine
beds
that
are
solely
just
for
youth,
they're
42
on
the
waiting
list
and
one
thing
just
to
make
sure
everyone's
aware
of
it's
always
a
high
priority
for
our
service
providers
make
sure
there's
no
unsheltered
youth
in
the
evenings.
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E
H
E
E
E
The
other
thing
just
to
comment:
we
do
have
rapid
rehousing
programs,
tenant
based
rental
assistance
and
permanent
supportive
housing
programs.
All
those
are
currently
full
and
these
these
programs
are
specifically
for
for
our
homeless
programs.
There
is
468
that
are
on
the
waiting
list
there
as
well.
E
E
I
know
just
yesterday,
there's
a
the
the
camp
down
by
harriet
street.
They
got
commitment
to
move
most
of
those
into
the
hotels,
so
that's
not
reflected
in
these
numbers,
but
I
know
that's
something
they're
working
towards
they
did.
They
did
comment.
There's
a
camp
of
about
20
individuals
on
the
south
side
of
the
river
kind
of
by
the
jackson
street
bridge.
E
H
G
G
So
I
I'd
like
to
make
a
recommendation
based
on
where
things
are
at
and
how
we
should
move
this
system
forward,
and
so
I
will
be
making
a
motion
with
three
items.
The
first
is
to
direct
city
staff
to
continue
working
with
the
shelters
in
polk
county
to
implement
weather
amnesty
during
cold
weather
events.
G
So
I
think
that
provides
us
a
plan
that
one
focuses
on
getting
folks,
sheltered
and
having
them
an
option
for
people
this
year
during
cold
weather
events
and
going
forward,
and
it
provides
a
roadmap
for
how
we
improve
that
process
in
a
coordinated,
coordinated
and
deliberate
way.
That
brings
along
the
partners,
who
are
on
the
front
lines
who
who
we
are
providing
funding
to
and
allows
allows
us
to
implement
things
with
those
partners.
H
I
would
like
to
respond
to
that,
so
you
started
off
by
saying
that
you
thought
that
what
we
saw
on
the
projector
provided
a
good
overview
of
the
situation.
I
would
have
to
disagree
just
because
the
only
perspective
that
we're
seeing
is
from
like
who,
who
is
in
the
shelters
who
is
coming
in,
but
we
do
know
that
there's
at
least
27
people
who
are
not
served
by
the
system
that
we
currently
have,
and
so
I
do
think
the
proposal
working
with
you
know
the
continued
systems
that
we
already
have
like.
H
The
problem
that
we're
here
to
address
today
is
that
those
systems
are
failing
when
we're
talking
about
overflow,
overflow
at
cis,
looks
like
people
sleeping
on
the
floor
in
the
lobby,
people
sleeping
on
chairs-
and
that
has
been
an
issue
that
was
brought
to
me
as
a
reason
that
people
don't
go
in.
As
you
know,
something
that
makes
it
so.
People
don't
feel
comfortable
there.
H
So
I,
when
I
propose
this
meeting,
I
feel
like
we
really
need
to
talk
about
an
emergency
winter
shelter
and
an
actual
like
open
space
cots
in
beds
and
no
restrictions
just
a
place
for
people
to
go
like
a
24
hour
warming
center.
Essentially,
I
think
that
we
need
to
address
the
fact
that
somebody
died
last
year
with
the
system
that
we
currently
have
and
saying
you
know
we're
going
to
continue
working
on
weather
amnesty
with
the
systems
that
we
have
is
just
going
to
lead
to
somebody
else
dying
again.
That's
my
concern.
H
So
I
just
think
that
we
need
to
be
exploring
options
that
are
larger
than
the
system
that
we're
dealing
with
right
now,
the
beyond
the
27
people
that
we
know
about
at
this
one
encampment
beyond,
potentially
this
other
encampment
that
outreach
is
talking
to.
We
know
that,
like
scattered
around
the
city,
there
are
a
significant
number
of
people
who
will
not
go
to
cis
under
any
circumstances,
including
severe
weather,
including
freezing
temperatures,
and
that
should
be
a
point
of
concern.
H
So
there's
a
couple
cities
I
have
that
have
similar
population
size,
aurora
illinois
has
a
population
of
about
180
000,
and
on
monday
of
this
week
they
opened
a
24
hour
warming
center
in
the
aurora
transportation
center
access
to
bathrooms,
it's
spacious
as
hand
sanitizing
station
city
provides
water
and
snacks
and
the
only
staff
that
they
needed
was
a
few
city
staff
or
security
guards
on
site
just
to
be
essentially
like
overview
like
on
site
at
the
facility,
and
they
activate
based
on
temperature
thresholds.
I
didn't
see
what
temperatures
it
was.
H
Spokane
washington
has
228
229
000
and
in
december
of
last
year,
so
you
know
just
a
few
weeks
ago
they
opened
the
spokane
convention
center
as
a
24-hour
low
barrier
warming,
shelter,
and
this
was
in
conjunction
with
an
organization,
so
they
had
a
24-hour
soup
kitchen
and
and
other
things
like
that.
But
a
lot
of
places
I
see
literally,
the
goal
is
get
people
inside
and
so
whether
or
not
you
can
provide
a
soup
kitchen
or
or
just
vending
machines
and
snacks.
H
H
All
they
had
was
cots
and
mats
and
sleeping
bags,
and
then
volunteers
they
had
volunteers,
come
in
and
and
and
watch
over
just
set
up
beds
and
just
be
there,
and
I
also
want
to
note
that
our
weather
embassy
at
sis
is
a
10
degree
wind
chill.
They
were
looking
at
25
degrees
or
below
an
inch
or
more
of
snow
or
overnight,
temps
below
32,
with
an
inch
of
driving
rain,
as
well
as
a
variety
of
other
weather
conditions.
H
Severe
wind
chills,
extreme
temperature
fluctuations,
seattle,
they
had
three
emergency
shelters
and
they
actually
used
seattle
city
hall,
24
hours
in
meals,
provided
they
just
opened
up
seattle
city
hall
for
people
to
stay
as
well
as
the
seattle
exhibition
hall.
I
believe
there
are
two
locations
of
seattle,
the
seattle
center
exhibition
hall
and
they
did
covet
safety.
Screening
protocols
added
air
filtration,
even.
A
Cities-
and
would
you
do
us
a
favor
you've,
obviously
looked
into
a
lot
of
this
and
I'll
tell
you.
A
lot
of
them
have
come
to
us
for
advice,
because
we
in
the
past
have
have
been
a
leader
in
in
working
with
homeless
and
trying
to
to
do
those
sorts
of
things.
So
if,
if
you've
done
that
research,
could
you
please
give
a
copy
of
that?
A
I
will
to
the
city
manager
and
to
staff,
and
I
will
also
say
that
I'd
like
to
at
our
next
homeless,
coordinating
council,
let's
get
a
strong
update
from
the
continuing
care
board
as
to
what
they're
doing,
because
obviously
they
have
a
lot
of
services
that
those
providers
are
are
working
working
with
with
people
that
that
do
so.
I.
H
Will
say
I
will
give
a
copy
of
this.
However,
we
are
in
a
public
meeting,
so
I
want
this
to
be
publicly
available
information
as
well.
Smaller
cities
than
us
have
24-hour
warming
centers,
and
I
respect
that.
You
know
some
of
these
places
have
come
to
us.
Looking
for
advice,
we
do
not
have
a
winter
shelter,
we
don't
have
a
24-hour
warming
center.
H
What
we
do
have
is
overflow
at
cis,
but
we
also
know
that
there
are
issues
with
people
going
into
cis,
and
so
it
just
cannot
be
our
only
solution,
and
so
the
solution
that
I'm
proposing
is
to
prepare
an
emergency
winter
shelter
for
this
winter
or
24
hour
warming
center.
However,
we
want
to
describe
it
that
has
no
barriers
that
doesn't
have
the
rules
and
regulations
that
sis
has
when
people
are
required
to
come
in
that
doesn't
have
intake
or
sign
in
essentially
no
questions
asked
people
are
responsible
for
themselves.
H
The
point
is
to
get
people
inside
cots,
blankets,
pillows
things
like
that,
and
we
have
a
lot
of
potential
locations
that
we
can
do
this.
We
have
community
centers,
we
have
two
in
the
city.
We
have
multiple
libraries,
which
are
already
warming
centers
that
are
open
during
the
day.
It
would
be
very
easy
to
transition
those
into
24
hour
warming
centers.
At
close,
we
can
reach
out
to
churches.
We
can
look
at
the
schools.
H
Dart
central
station
was
proposed
to
me
as
a
solution,
because
it
is,
you
know,
on
literally
every
single
bus
line,
maybe
a
couple
that
it
isn't,
but
on
most
of
the
bus
lines
and
really
close
to
a
lot
of
the
camps
as
we're
already
providing.
You
know
free
rides
to
the
warming
centers
that
are
open
during
the
day.
Dart
central
station
would
be
a
wonderful
one,
and
we
saw
that
that
is
happening.
Other
places
where
the
transportation
center
is
open.
There's
some
private
places.
H
We
can
maybe
look
at
capital
square,
the
ymca,
but
there's
also
city
buildings.
Like
msc
city
hall.
We
have
a
lot
of
open
space,
I
mean
we
could
set
up
beds
in
the
council,
chambers,
literally
polk
county
river
place.
We
could
reach
out
to
them.
We
have
large
convention
centers
here
in
the
city,
so
those
are.
Could
be
some
options
we
could
also
reach
out
to
private
universities,
which
have
big
open
rooms,
really.
H
Potentially,
I
know
we
can
provide
masks
and
then
there's
a
couple
other
things
we
could
look
into
like
a
safe
injection
site
with
sharps
disposal
and
potentially
providing
carriers
or
leashes
or
separate
rooms
for
people
with
pets
or
partnering
with
arl
to
see
if
we
could
set
up
some
sort
of
like
situation
with
that,
but
I
would
want
to
speak
to
any
on-house
individuals
who
have
pets
to
do
that.
Really,
when
we're
looking
at
staffing
needs,
you
just
need
to
find
somebody
who's
willing
to
stay
up
overnight,
just
be
in
the
building.
H
Wherever
we
are
so
city
staff
can
do
that.
Volunteers
can
do
that
we're
talking
about
how
do
we
get
this
communication
out?
We
know
that
neighborhood
services
goes
and
does
posting
at
camp.
So
that's
a
very
easy
thing
to
transition
into
come
into
this
24
hour
shelter,
and
I
do
think
that
people
will
be
a
lot
more
willing
to
come
in
if
it
wasn't
a
place
that
they
had
problems
with
previously.
If
it
wasn't
a
place
that
required,
you
know
a
whole
lot
intake
process,
it's
just
literally
come
inside
and
get
warm.
H
I
think
that
we
could
even
change
our
trigger
temperature
to
below
32
degrees
as
well
as
extreme
weather,
but
I
also
agree
with.
The
second
point
is
that
we
that
you
made
josh.
I
do
think
that,
when
we're
looking
at
camp
evictions,
we
need
to
have
a
moratorium
on
camp
evictions
first
of
all,
during
extreme
weather
times.
H
I
think
that
we
just
need
to
have
a
policy
that
we
do
not
do
any
encroachment
cleanups
during
extreme
weather,
designation,
in
that
any
complaints
that
we
receive
need
to
be
used
as
a
tip
for
outreach.
Essentially,
if
we
receive
a
complaint
about
a
camp
instead
of
going
down
and
putting
a
posting
up
saying
we're
going
to
do
an
encroachment
cleanup
instead,
we
go
down
and
say:
there's
a
emergency
shelter
opening
up.
H
And
I
have
those
considerations
and
recommendations
from
the
cdc
encouraging
people
to
stay
in
encampment,
and
I
do
believe
that
also
counts
as
a
crisis,
we're
in
the
middle
of
a
crisis
with
the
pandemic
as
well.
And
so
I
think
that
we
needed
a
moratorium
on
encroachment
cleanups
during
the
entire
pandemic
and
then
to
start
looking
into
ending
encroachment,
cleanups
on
encampments,
full-time
and
focusing
our
resources
on
those
long-term
housing
solutions.
H
Because
it
does
concern
me
that
they're,
you
know
approaching
500
people
on
the
waiting
list
for
rapid
rehousing
and
and
if
we
only
have
you
know,
90-day
limits
on
stays
at
cis,
potentially
with
extensions.
How
are
we
really
solving
the
problem
in
a
situation,
but
I
think
that
we
need
to
be
looking
into
long-term
solutions.
H
Developing
a
plan
for
by
next
year,
like
october,
would
be
great
having
that
ready,
but
developing
a
plan
with
polk
county
emergency
management
to
be
ready
for
something
like
this
in
the
next
winter
and
by
next
winter,
as
well
as
looking
into
providing
designated
camping
areas,
basic
sanitation
and
trash
services
to
camps
along
camping
on
public
lands.
And
I
do
think
that
we
need
to
create
accountability
process
for
the
shelters
that
we're
partnering
with.
Because,
as
we
know
that
there
are
issues,
we
cannot
just
rely
on
them
as
a
solution.
H
When
we
know
that
the
solution
is
not
working
for
everybody.
So
I
think
we
need
to
create
an
accountability
process
because
we're
getting
mixed
stories
from
multiple
levels,
especially
from
people
who
are
actually
utilizing.
The
shelters
that
what's
being
provided
is
not
what
is
being
communicated
to
us.
And
then
I
think
we
need
to
make
a
commitment
as
a
city
to
decommodify
housing
and
provide
free
public
housing
for
all
and
then
create
a
plan
to
achieve
this.
H
So
I
think
we
really
need
to
center
our
discussion
around
as
we're
in
an
emergency
right
now,
opening
an
emergency
winter
shelter.
Since
we
already
know
that
people
are
not
coming
in
to
cis
during
these
extreme
weather
conditions,
we
need
to
create
a
different
solution,
so
I
would
like
to
focus
our
discussion
on
that.
F
F
H
H
You
know
traumatic
conditions
when
they've
gone
there,
because
they've
been
treated
poorly
by
staff
or
a
lot
of
the
reports
that
I've
been
getting
and
are
just
completely
unwilling
to
engage
with
that
system
at
all,
and
so
you
have
to
go
through
the
intake
process
to
be
able
to
get
a
hotel
room,
and
so
I
just
don't
think
that
that
is
going
to
be
working
as
a
solution
to
this
issue.
I
think
we
need
a
place
that
people
can
show
up,
have
full
autonomy
stay
the
night.
H
Sleep
get
warm
not
be
out
in
freezing
conditions,
because
the
issue
that
we're
running
into
right
is
that
at
night
is
the
coldest
time
of
all.
People
are
telling
us
that
they
will
not
go
into
system
27,
people
who
street
outreach
reached
out
to
who
said
I
will
not
go
in
under
any
conditions,
including
hotel
rooms
like
that
is
seriously
concerning,
and
then
I
talked
to
people.
You
know
during
this
weather
amnesty
time
who
hadn't
even
been
reached
out
to
by
street
outreach.
Mr.
A
A
Right,
we
do
have
a
motion
on
the
table.
I
think
appropriately,
I'm
not
sure
what
our
next
meeting
for
the
homeless
coordinating
council
is.
But
a
lot
of
these
discussions
that
need
to
be
had
appropriately
are
had
at
the
homeless
coordinating
council
and
we
have
been
supportive
of
the
outcomes
and
discussion
and
suggestions
that
have
come
out
of
that
from
not
only
the
community
but
our
city
council
members
and
you
are
on
that
board
and
have
been
duly
appointed.
So
we
do
have
a
motion
on
the
table
of
any
other
questions
about
that
motion.
A
G
D
A
H
G
G
The
second
piece
was
to
direct
city
staff
to
implement
an
operational
policy
for
weather,
amnesty
for
encampment
evictions,
48
hours
prior
to
wind,
chill
or
temperature
reaching
10
degrees
fahrenheit.
The
third
piece
was:
was
the
direction
for
a
broader
review,
with
the
homeless
coordinating
council
in
collaboration
with
partners.
Those
are
the
three
items.