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Yakima County to present homelessness data at joint city–county meeting; commissioners debate data source and slide scope

3224991 · April 17, 2025
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County staff will give a 10-minute presentation on homelessness at a joint city–county meeting next Tuesday. Commissioners and staff agreed to trim the slide deck and include HMIS bed counts and a point-in-time chart with a footnote about limits of that data.

Yakima County commissioners on April 17 agreed that county staff will present a 10-minute slide deck about homelessness at a joint city–county meeting next Tuesday, and they directed staff to tighten the slides while preserving key data points, including HMIS bed counts and a point-in-time comparison.

The presentation, prepared by staff member Esther, originally contained 11 slides; Esther said she could remove three informational slides to meet the 10-minute limit. Commissioner Lindy and Commissioner Curtis supported keeping an “outcome” slide and the HMIS bed-count slide in the reduced deck so elected officials…

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