Minutes . If not, we are prepared for the vote. Any questions on 6 . All in favor, please say aye. Opposed . The minutes adopted item 3, directors report. Good afternoon commissioners. Welcome to fiscal year 1617 and just wanted toi bow many of you just had to open the newspaper or turn on the tv and saw lots of homeless coverage and in august well come back to you as we go through all the homeless coverage to bring updates on what we learned from the coverage and identifies areas of our speedometer that of course includes Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Supportive Services to projeththe mayor announced and one is is the Navigation Center and encampment response team. In the report it talks about the Navigation Center and there will be several others opening this coming year and this has a interesting process where we move individuals there and it will become later a permanent location. This [inaudible] Center Building is own bide the ua local 3 a Plumbers Union so will be rebuil
Programs over to the department along with the new Navigation Centers so think it will be very important for us to receive regular updates are happening and how we continue to serve those that need or services. Could you let me know a little more or let us know a little more about what the governor is actually doing with those funds and exactlyi thought when you were introducing the topic we would get more money, but it sounds like we are getting less money. Ill let the policy director give a update on that. It is repurnsing the dollars. [inaudible] it is taking some of the revenues that come in already for prop 63 and that is tax on people that earn 63 and that is tax on people that earn over a million a year and rerouting so it can secure larger bond funding, 2 billion Dollar Bond Fund that will be available for counties over 4 psycholts for the next 4 years as they apply for Supportive Housing projects for folks that have Mental Illness, homeless or formally homeless. It is a applic
Issues. The discussion that took place on august 23 featured twelve guests from a wide range of the community, Law Enforcement, media, officials and Civic Leaders from the regions most prominent organizations and a member of the clergy as well. To give us a detailed report on how it went down we went to the source, Suffolk County sheriff Steve Tompkins joins us this morng. Why you put this whole event together, a conversation with race. Why is, as a sheriff, endeavor in this area . If you look at Public Safety i see it as an intersection, politics and job training and housing and poverty, transportation. Within we thought it would make Diverse Panel to talk about race and not just cops in the community. We wanted to talk about everything that could affect people as they go forward. Byron did you have any people who were skeptical about putting this together . My staff. Byron really . More so due to timing, we were coming up on Labor Day Weekend and the thought was we should do it after
For now, back to you. Kate, thank you. All public and archdiocese schools in philadelphia will close early tomorrow at noon time. In the meantime, that heat systems has students in our School System home earlier today. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh is live in camden with more on that, anita. Reporter it still steals hot and humid out here. That led several school advertise tricks in our region including camden, trenton and reading to dismiss students earlier today but that decision left some parent with mixed reactions. Two days into a new school year, and. It is too hot. It is unusually hot. Reporter that is why camden city schools announced 1 00 p. M. Early dismissal for all Public Schools on thursday. Some buildings are over a hundred years old and we have to make sure students are safe, and students with as marks students with other conditions that we need to have have top of mine. Reporter although they had to adjust their schedule many we spoke with, agreed with their decisio
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