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Community Resource Center urges city to fund liaison, clear shrubbery to aid outreach
Summary
The Community Resource Center thanked council for prior engagement and requested a by-name liaison for homeless outreach and removal of shrubbery on Second Street to improve visibility and engagement with people receiving services.
John Van Cleef of the Community Resource Center (CRC) addressed the council during public comment, thanking members for recent discussions about homelessness and outlining CRC commitments and requests. He said research shows providers are not a magnet for unsheltered populations and described CRC efforts to hold clients accountable to a code of conduct.
Van Cleef asked the council to fund a dedicated, by-name liaison embedded with the city’s outreach team so CRC and city staff can coordinate preemptive engagement, and to remove shrubbery on Second Street between E and F Streets to improve sight lines for outreach workers.
Why it matters: The requests, if funded and implemented, would alter the city’s street-level outreach strategy and require operational coordination across city and nonprofit staff.
Next steps: Council members acknowledged the request. CRC said it will continue collaborative outreach. Any staffing or capital adjustments would require budget actions or public works scheduling.
