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Office of Community Safety outlines FY26 pillars; council debates microgrants and youth pilot
Summary
City staff presented the Office of Community Safety’s FY26 priorities — mental‑health co‑response, community-based violence intervention (CVI), homelessness risk reduction, youth opportunities and administrative programming — and discussed microgrant funding, a 90‑day youth pilot, and rebranding PD CARES to a street-engagement model.
City staff presented a first-year work plan for the Office of Community Safety (OCS), outlining five pillars for FY26: mental-health response, community-based violence intervention, homelessness risk reduction, youth opportunities and administrative capacity building.
Michelle Gaines, program manager for OCS, told council the office will start a co‑response study (coordinating mental‑health professionals with police) in the second or third quarter of FY26 to evaluate…
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