Arlington County Coc Executive Committee

Arlington County CoC Executive Committee

Date | time 2/6/2017 10:00 AM | Meeting called to order by Melissa Bondi

In Attendance

Mary Kenion, Larry Padberg, Latasha Younger, Oliver Reid, Heather Venner, Caroline Jones, Kathy Sibert, Leonard Chari, Alia Iqbal, Cindy Stevens, Diana Ortiz, Aaron McCready, Kim Painter, Stephanie Carl, Sara Thompson, Gwen McQueeny, Melissa Bondi, Dave Leibson, Ahmad Haj-Ali, Adele McClure (via phone), Tony Turnage, Akeria Brown

Committee Chair Report Outs

Outreach and Education: Meeting this Thurs. Working on community Meeting in Mar 23rd at Marymount Univ. Katie Cristol will be speaking. Calendar invite has been sent out. D&E: Successful PIT count Integrated Services: Sat and Sunday- Hosting Central American Embassies. Lawyers are working with immigration clients to provide pro bono assistance. Adele offered to assist. Flyers can be mass distributed. Arlington Employment center collaboration going well. Housing: ALP update: 12 clients in the program. Advocacy efforts (state, local, federal). Financing for Westover project approved by County Board. Melissa will send information re: federal advocacy. Data & Evaluation (D&E): Successful PIT count. Youth Homelessness: Met last week. Decided to do organizational count w/ orgs working with youth. Running start in how to operate the Youth counts in May and Oct. Discussion of fear for undocumented and LGBTQ. LGBTQ are going underground. Heather met with Arlington public schools to see how CAS can adapt to those that are undocumented. Arlington Zero: Did not meet in Jan. Next meeting Feb 22nd. Community Solutions will be collaborating with us on article highlighting by-names, prevention, diversion within Arlington. Chronic Homeless: 7. Vets: 3. Will analyze PIT data.

Committee Co-Chair Open Seats

 Big thanks to Mary and Diana for taking on the role of chair and co-chairs. We have three candidates for open co-chair positions. Also need a co-chair of the youth task force. Dave- we should have more than one additional at-large chair. Dave thinks we should have a working group to determine the other ppl who should fill at-large seats

Nominees: At-Large-- Adele McClure Integrated Services- Latasha Younger (Assistant Dir of PSH at New Hope Housing) D&E- Stephanie Carl, Leonard Chari

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 Each candidate highlighted their strengths, and provided basis as to why they would be an asset to the committee Voting: One person from each committee. Kathy or Larry, Mary, Cindy, Gwen or Kim, Melissa, Dave, Diana

 Caroline: We should consider having three co-chairs for D&E. Melissa: We can make that decision. Dave: If we increase number of co-chairs, that would put more weight on the providers. Our goal is to have more input from the community. Melissa: One would not have to be a co-chair to influence what happens in the committee. Melissa: We do not have enough information to determine if that as the right decision but does not think that any committee should be expanding co-chairs. Cindy: We may want to consider spinning off some of the functions--first look at the work and then determine how that can be staffed.

 Larry makes a motion that we close the discussion, Mary seconds. Unanimous consent to close debate: Unanimous consent to close discussion.

 Diana said the vacancy for Integrated Services has been open for some time. The committee would benefit more from someone that has been part of the committee and the CoC for some time. A lot of onboarding would be necessary. Tony says position has been open for some time and the committee has expressed desire to fill the vacancy. DHS does not operate on committees in co-chair role, but as a liaison. Melissa says a vote of No for Latasha, would also mean Deferred.  Ballots marked and passed to Tony o 5/9 Latasha- majority approved o 5/9 Leonard- majority approved o Adele- unanimously approved (9/9)  New members welcomed to ExComm

Financial and Report Card Discussion

 Deferred to March ExComm

HUD Application Announcements

 Review of Printout

CoC Planning Grant Update (recommendations)

 Planning process will be year-round. Small planning group, Dave Melissa, Tony, Akeria

Strategic Planning

 Prelim PIT- Shelter 204, ASPAN and DHS still working on unsheltered count numbers

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Announcements

 Pierce Queen leasing two bedroom apts  Central United Meth Church applying for AHIF for rebuilding of church with affordable housing unit and preschool- going to county board on Feb 28. Dave will speak on behalf of 10YP.  Virginia Housing Trust fund will stay at $5.5mil  ASPAN/Westover project provided funding from Housing Trust Fund

Next Meeting

March 6, 2017

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