Wednesday, February 12, 2025
5:30 PM
City of Oceanside
300 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, California 92054
Council Chambers
300 North Coast Highway
Oceanside, CA 92054
City Council
Clerk's Action Minutes
City Council Clerk's Action Minutes February 12, 2025
5:30 P.M. – ROLL CALL
Jimmy Figueroa, Eric Joyce, Rick Robinson, Esther Sanchez, and Peter Weiss
Present:
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
WORKSHOP ITEMS - CITY COUNCIL:
1. Receive a comprehensive report on the state of the City ’s homeless service strategies and provide staff direction on recommendations to be incorporated into an updated Homelessness Action Plan which will be brought back to City Council for future consideration. Staff also recommends consideration of the following key initiatives which are further described in this staff report:
· Expanding outreach and support services by strengthening collaboration with social service and behavioral health professionals while lessening the need for direct Police Department intervention.
· Diversifying short-term, housing-focused solutions to include options such as additional safe parking programs, tiny homes, and low-barrier shelters. · Scaling up long-term housing inventory, including development of affordable housing, shared housing programs and additional housing vouchers tailored to vulnerable populations.
· Minimizing public health and safety impacts through enhanced encampment resolution strategies and access to non-emergency healthcare services. · Ensuring the sustainability of the homeless response system by improving regional collaboration, aligning with best practices, and pursuing additional funding opportunities.
MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO ACCEPT THE STANDARDIZED
ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION FUND (ERF) MODEL, THE BY-NAME LIST (BNL) APPROACH, AND MOVE PREVENTION SERVICES TO ITS OWN FOCAL POINT: JOYCE
SECOND: SANCHEZ
APPROVED: 5-0
MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO BRING BACK A REQUEST FOR
PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR THE OPERATIONS OF THE HOMELESS SHELTER:
JOYCE
SECOND: SANCHEZ
APPROVED: 3-2 (ROBINSON, WEISS - NO)
MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD ON SHORT-TERM
HOUSING FOCUS SOLUTION SCALING UP TO LONG-TERM HOUSING
INVENTORY INCLUDING ADDING COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST: JOYCE SECOND: SANCHEZ
APPROVED: 5-0
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MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD WITH
RECOMMENDATIONS TO MINIMIZE THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPACTS OF HOMELESSNESS: JOYCE
SECOND: SANCHEZ
APPROVED: 5-0
MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ENSURING THE
SUSTAINABILITY OF THE HOMLESS RESPONSE SYSTEM BY
IMPROVING REGIONAL COLLABORATION, ALIGNING WITH BEST
PRACTICES, AND PURSUING ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:
JOYCE
SECOND: SANCHEZ
APPROVED: 5-0
MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD ON NEW AREA OF
FOCUS FOR HOUSING STABILITY AND THE PRESERVATION OF
CURRENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING: JOYCE
SECOND: SANCHEZ
APPROVED: 5-0
RESULT: APPROVED
MOVER: Eric Joyce
SECONDER: Esther Sanchez
Figueroa, Joyce, Robinson, Sanchez, and WeissAye:
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS ON OFF-AGENDA ITEMS
No action will be taken by the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA on matters in this category unless it is determined that an emergency exists or that there is a need to take action that became known subsequent to the posting of the agenda. The presiding officer may hear non-agenda items at any time after the 5:30 p.m. meeting is called to order.
2. Communications from the public regarding items not on this agenda 1 SPEAKER
ADJOURNMENT
ADJOURNED AT 9:22 PM
The next regularly scheduled meeting is at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
In accordance with Government Code Section 54956, this Notice has been posted on a bulletin board outside the City Council Chambers at least 24 hours prior to the special meeting
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AGENDA POSTING AND AVAILABILITY
This special meeting agenda has been posted at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at the Civic Center Plaza, 300 North Coast Highway in the kiosk near the library. The agenda, including backup reports, will be posted on the City’s website at www.oceansideca.org and will be available for public review during business hours by no later than the Monday preceding the meeting at the City Clerk’s Office, Second Floor City Hall North, 300 North Coast Highway.
Written materials relating to an item on this special meeting agenda that are distributed to the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA within 72 hours before it is to consider the item at its special meeting will be made available for public inspection at the City Clerk’s Office (location above), during normal business hours. Such written materials will also be made available on the City of Oceanside’s website, subject to staff’s ability to post the documents before the regularly scheduled meeting.
ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
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