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City staff report progress on housing permits, youth employment placements and finance-system review
Summary
Staff told the council the six homes on Pioneer were completed, the Youth Employment Program has placed most participants, and a finance system selection process will begin Sept. 10; a city fee study is underway.
City staff provided several oral updates at the Aug. 27 Hawaiian Gardens council meeting covering community development, the Youth Employment Program (YEP), a planned finance-system review and an in-process fee study.
Community development staff reported six homes on Pioneer Street were completed and signed off; one home has sold so far. Staff said the project includes three single-family homes with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) behind them, located across from City Hall. Planning staff said they are processing ADU applications and working on code-enforcement priorities and permitting modernization.
On YEP, staff said the program had 72 available slots and enrolled and trained 40 participants in its first six weeks; 36 of those participants have been placed at worksites, with the remainder expected to be placed within a week. Staff described ongoing, weekly interactions with worksites to collect timesheets and resolve issues. “Many of these participants have never been in a work environment before,” staff said.
Staff also said the city has retained a consulting firm to help select and implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) finance system. The kickoff meeting is scheduled for Sept. 10 at 9:30 a.m. in Council Chambers, when the consultant will begin process-mapping with staff. In addition, a fee study is underway: departments are providing time-study information to allow the consultant to propose fees that reflect actual processing costs; council will later decide whether to adopt any recommended fee increases.
Public-safety staff reiterated that crossing guards are assigned at each elementary school and asked drivers to use crosswalks and avoid double parking. No formal actions were taken on these reports; the items were informational.
