City Roadmap Priority:
Encampment Management
& Safe Relocation Policy
May 3, 2022 – City Council Item 7.1
Jon Cicirelli, PRNS Director
Andrea Flores Shelton, Deputy Director, PRNS Community Services Olympia Williams, Division Manager, PRNS BeautifySJ
Nicolle Burnham, Deputy Director, PRNS Capital Team
Jacky Morales-Ferrand, Director of Housing
Ragan Henninger, Deputy Director, Homeless Response
What is
Encampment Management?
• Acknowledges that people live outside and can be serviced in areas located outside of setbacks
• Provides sanitation and housing outreach services
• Engages with unhoused residents for cooperation in
maintaining clean, organized encampment sites
• Monitor and enforce setbacks
• Coordinates with key internal and external partners on strategy, coordination, operations
What is an
Escalated Clean-Up?
Example:
Watson Park atCoyote
Creek Watershed
What Does Success
Look Like?
•Removed 96,580 lbs. of trash/debris over 3 days
• Valley Water Joint Project
• 50 Volunteers from Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful provided 4th day of litter removal
•Towed 14 inoperable/dumped vehicles incooperation with SJPD •Installed a natural deterrent to limit vehicles
•Long-time unhoused resident accepted
permanent supportive housing in partnership with
Housing Department and HomeFirst
•Enrolled 26 remaining unhoused residents in Cashfor Trash
Waterways
• City of San José has 136 miles of waterways
• The Direct Discharge Trash Control Program focuses on 27 miles of waterways
• Environmental Services Department secured a $1.54 million EPA grant
• In 22/23 BeautifySJ will implement focused trash collection in DDTCP • BeautifySJ received grant funds from Valley Water to
• Conduct cleanups along Coyote Creek at the Tully Ballfields area • Expand the Cash for Trash to encampments along waterways Guadalupe Gardens Update
• Stage 1 and Stage 2 have been abated and remain
encampment free
• Started abatement process to meet the current FAA deadline of June 30, 2022
• Ongoing removal of trash and inoperable/unclaimed
vehicles in Stage 3
• Trail areas will be cleared to ensure that they are accessible to bicyclists and pedestrians by June 30, 2022
• Vehicle Prevention Project construction begins in Fall 2022 to reduce vehicle access to trail areas between Hedding and Coleman
Prototype Park
Outreach Meeting: April 4, 2022
On-Line Survey: 148 Responses
Key Changes:
• Disc Golf Smaller
• More Space for Urban Agriculture / Community
Garden
• Relocate Dog Park Further from Creek
• Expand Park Yard
• Sinuous Gravel Walking Path with Potential to Pave in Future Phase
• Clarified Potential Future Commercial Use Along
Coleman Avenue
Guadalupe Gardens – Housing Plan
Housing Option People
Served
City
Lead City Cost
County
Lead
County
Cost Timing
Coordinated entry (plus
services) 26 26 $880,800 May
Rapid Rehousing (plus
services) 24 24 $776,400 April
Housing Choice Vouchers
(plus services) 50 $566,900 50 $1,664,600 TBD
Housing Problem Solving 4 4 $127,600 TBD
Unknown 27 ongoing
Total 131 34 $1,470,900 76 $2,545,400
City Roadmap Priority:
Encampment Management
& Safe Relocation Policy
May 3, 2022 – City Council Item 7.1