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PRHSPSC MINS 01-08-2019City of Federal Way City Council PARKS RECREATION HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC SAFETY COUNCIL COMMITTEE Tuesday January 8, 2019 5:00 p.m. SUMMARY Committee Members in Attendance: Chair Johnson, Committee member Moore, and Committee member Koppang. Staff Members in Attendance: Eric Rhoades, Assistant City Attorney, John Hutton, Parks Director, Steve Ikerd, Parks Deputy Director, Jeff Watson, Human Services Manager, Sara Bridgeford, CDBG/HS Coordinator, Autumn Gressett, Community Relations/Contract Administrator, and Mary Jaenicke, Administrative Assistant Il. Guests: State Representative Kristine Reeves, State Senator Elect, Claire Wilson and Marty Hartman, Executive Director, Mary's Place Chair Johnson called the meeting to order at 5:00pm Chair Johnson motioned to amend the agenda to add Alternatives Analysis for use of $100,000 from State of Washington for Homeless Shelter for Families with Children. Committee member Moore seconded. Committee member Koppang asked where it would be placed on the agenda. Chair Johnson answered that would be item C. Committee member Koppang seconded. Motion passed. Commission Comment: None Public Comment: Anne Cutting: Spoke in favor of giving the $100,000 to Mary's Place. She stated that Mary's Place is the expert in short term emergency shelter, they are ready to house families now, and it's the fiscally responsible thing to do. She suggested that Council look into the Econo Lodge which is for sale and have Mary's Place own it. Lyn Idahosa: Stated she appreciated that fact that the community housing and violence prevention were taken seriously. She also thanked the Council for making changes operationally to make sure they have the most information possible before making decisions. Ron Campbell: Stated that FUSION should be looking for a location in a multiple residence zoning where it explicitly has a land usage for transitional housing. Tim Lookabaugh: Stated that the $100,000 is for people that need emergency shelter now. Transitional housing is FUSION'S project. He asked the Council to get the help that the homeless people need now. Peggy LaPorte: Stated that FUSION is not the entity that is trying to raise money and the Board has never bought onto that project. She said that she is here as an individual trying to help Light of Christ raise money. Jason Smith: Spoke of his concerns about having a shelter on the property of the Light of Christ Church, and would like the city to look at other options. Chunming Gao: Stated that he is against the proposal to build the facility on the property of the Light of Christ Church. Dennis LaPorte: Stated that FUSION is not trying to get the $100,000 and that there is a lot of misunderstanding on the role of FUSION. Hope Sichel: Stated that there is a solution and we should have open arms, so homeless people can feel like they're in a stable home. K:\PRHSPS Committee\2019\01-08-2019 Mins.dm PARKS, RECREATION, HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC SAFETY COUNCIL COMMITTEE Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Summary Page 2 Paul Staley: Stated that the $100,000 should be used for people that need emergency shelter now. He is not in favor of rolling the $100,000 into the permitting and rezoning process to build a facility on the Light of Church property for transitional housing. There are other locations to build transitional housing. BUSINESS ITEMS Approval of Minutes Committee member Koppang motioned to approve the December 6, 2018 minutes as written. Committee member Moore seconded. Motion passed. Mary's Place Emergency Shelter Staff Watson introduced Marty Hartman, the Executive Director of Mary's Place. Ms. Hartman presented information about emergency shelter, working with the homeless and moving them from homelessness to permanent housing. She also provided information on the programs offered at Mary's Place. They serve families from every city in King County, and their goal is to have a shelter in every city. Their model is to go into buildings that are slated for demolition. She reviewed the growth of services from 2012 to 2018. The top four cities that have the greatest amount of calls every month are Federal Way, Kent, Renton and Auburn. There is a crisis in South King County; this why Mary's Place wanted to come to Federal Way, and why they bought property in Burien. They wanted to be in South King County to serve people here. Ms. Hartman stated that Mary's Place has decided to pull their application for the $100,000 from the City of Federal Way. They do not want to be a barrier to Federal Way not having a shelter. Alternatives Analysis for use of $100,000 from State of Washington for Homeless Shelter for Families with Children Representative Reeves talked about legislative intent — translated this means are we going to keep the promises that we made when we asked for money to do the things we asked to do from the state. In January 2018 the Federal Way City Council asked the legislator members for funding for a shelter for homeless families. They asked for a $100,000 grant toward establishing an emergency shelter for homeless families with children in Federal Way in support of the Homeless mothers and children initiative. The Legislatures understanding was that the goal for the use of the $100,000 would be to establish or work toward establishing an emergency shelter in the City of Federal Way. The fiscal year 2019 is from June 2018 to June 2019. Representative Reeves stated that the current proposal does not meet the Legislative intent. Representative Reeves held a workshop to brainstorm on how this money could be used in Federal Way for homeless families. The final proposal that they arrived at was to allocate $60,000 to go toward planning, siting and development costs in support of establishing an emergency shelter in Federal Way. $40,000 to go towards staffing costs at the City of Federal Way for the purpose of working with community human and social services partners to develop a comprehensive proposal. The city had asked if an extension was available. Representative Reeves stated that the appropriation staff had interpreted that this was a one-time budget allocation and therefore there is not room for an extension. If they did ask for the extension there is no guarantee that they would be able to get a re -appropriation of the funding. Sharry Edwards, the former Chair of the Homelessness Task Force stated that the group that was at the workshop did not want to give back the $100,000 and they did not want to spend the money somewhere out of the city limits; this would not do them any good for their long term goal. 2019 Parks and Recreation Commission Work Plan Staff Ikerd reviewed the Work Plan with the committee. Two new items on the work plan is updating the Park Code and developing a master plan for the Hylebos Blueberry Farm. Committee member Moore wanted to ensure that all of the park systems have play equipment for people with disabilities. Staff Ikerd answered that there is a national standard that requires all playgrounds to meet certain standards which is accessibility for all. There are a certain number of apparatuses on the play equipment that meet those 4