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Department of Justice and Family Services requests higher allocation as homelessness remains elevated
Summary
Heather Hania of the Department of Justice and Family Services asked to increase the department's initial allocation, citing higher-than-expected homelessness and reporting roughly 210 families assisted from October through March at an average of $2,244 in aid.
Heather Hania, identified in the transcript as representing the Department of Justice and Family Services, asked the county to increase the department’s initial allocation, saying homelessness in the county has not slowed as budgeted.
Hania said, “When we started at the beginning of the year, we budgeted, and we're hoping that it would slow down a little bit. It hasn't.” She reported that from October through March the department helped “approximately 210 families,” and that the average assistance was “about $2,244.”
Hania also said, in the transcript, “So we are on the line to, direct compressing as we did last year,” language recorded in the excerpts; the transcript does not provide further explanation of that phrase or specify the exact dollar amount being requested to increase the initial allocation. The record does not show a motion, a vote, or a formal dollar figure being proposed during the provided segments.
The transcript excerpts include the department’s reason for seeking additional funds (continued high need) and two quantitative details—approximate family count and average assistance amount—but do not identify funding sources, whether the request would come from contingency funds, or whether the board took any immediate action on the request.
