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WASHINGTON September 24, 2012
I. CALL TO ORDER
The Human Services Committee Meeting was called to order at Noon on Monday, September 24, 2012
at 2615—24th Street SE, Auburn, WA.
Committee Members present: JoAnne Walters, Chuck Booth, Jason Berry, Daryl Thompson, Barbara Derda
and Lela Brugger
Committee Members not present: Michael Harbin, Bette Van Gasken, Suzanne Limric and Tony Ladner
Staff present: Advisor to the Mayor Michael Hursh and Human Services Specialist Kirsten Reynolds
II. AGENDA
• 2013-2014 Human Services Funding Recommendations
City of Auburn staff, Michael Hursh, Advisor to the Mayor, presented a proposed budget
after many months of review and deliberation by the Human Services Committee Mr
Hursh reviewed the significant changes in the proposal, there were two new programs
recommended for funding The new programs were Sound Mental Health's PATH
Program, which performs homeless outreach services in the Auburn community; the
second, was the Ukrainian Center's Crisis Family Intervention Program, which provides
Auburn residents with counseling and educational support to immigrant families who have
been or are at risk for child/spousal abuse/neglect, at risk youth doing drugs, criminal
activity, school drop-out and parent-child conflicts
The two programs bumped for funding were documented as having contract compliance
issues The first was Sound Mental Health's Behavioral Responsibility Program and the
second was New Connections - Stop the Cycle of Re-offending Program
• Member Derda motioned to accept the proposed 2013-2014 Human Services
funding recommendations, Member Berry seconded the motion
• Discussion took place, six Members (including proxy vote) were in favor of
adopting the funding recommendations as submitted and one Member was
opposed
• The 2013-2014 Human Services funding recommendations were
passed and will be sent forward to City Council for review and
approval
III. ADDITIONAL TOPICS
• Les Gove "Campus" Area Services
o Discussion took place around services offered by Auburn Youth Resources (AYR)
in/around the Les Gove "Campus" AYR has several programs supported partly with
Human Services funding, including their Street Outreach Team, which provides
mobile outreach services that locate and make contact with homeless or high-risk for
being homeless youth/young adults and sexually exploited youth in South King
County The.goal of the program is to-provide assistance and referrals in an attempt
to transition runaways and homeless people off the streets and into safe and stable
housing
AYR also operates their South King County Youth Shelter (SKYS) - The Homeless
Outreach and Housing Support Services are part of AYR's comprehensive effort to
reduce the number of runaway and homeless young people (14-24) in South King
County Their wide-ranging initiative provides a continuum of care that prevents
runaways, locates and makes contact with homeless young people, provides shelter
for homeless youth and provides permanent and transitional housing
• Latino Friendship Center
o This was discussed in years past, but it never came to fruition
• Agency Visit to Ukrainian Center
o Member JoAnne Walters described her visitation team's site visit at the Ukrainian
Center with Executive Director Oleg Pynda, it was a positive experience and the
agency appears to have excellent connections with their Auburn clients
• Annual Planning & Community Development Committee and Human Services
Committee Meeting
o Committee Members were reminded of the jointly coordinated Planning &
Community Development Committee meeting on September 24th at 5pm, all
Members were encouraged to attend
IV. NEXT MEETING: October 22, 2012
V. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 12 30 p m
APPROVED THE?2day of , 2012
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Michael Hursh, Advisor to the Mayor Kirsy Reynolds, HurAn S6 rvice Specialist
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