Regional steering committee directs staff to produce an asset map to coordinate homelessness, workforce and parks

A regional joint steering committee on interjurisdictional services on Thursday directed staff from the participating entities to assemble an asset map and return recommended priorities and deliverables for coordinated action.

The committee asked staff to focus initially on no more than two or three topics and to present a common template so each jurisdiction reports the same categories of information. Members repeatedly identified homelessness, workforce development and parks/open‑space management as candidate priorities.

"We're all facing budget constraints," said Speaker 1, who opened the meeting by urging the jurisdictions to consider cost‑sharing and to rely on professional staff to make collaboration work. "If we're going to do this, the public has to trust that we're actually doing something that's more efficient… it needs to be straightforward."

Why it matters: committee members said an asset map will show what services, facilities and interlocal agreements already exist across the city, Travis…