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Council told planning grant redlined and headed to Metro Council; members push to restore lived-experience payments
Summary
Members discussed shifting the Consumer Advisory Board/lived-experience cohort under the CoC as an ad hoc committee and restarting payments. OHS said the planning grant language was redlined and signed and will go to Metro Council; payments hinge on council approval, an RFP for disbursement, and a charter amendment.
The Homelessness Planning Council discussed formalizing the Consumer Advisory Board (CAB) — referred to as the lived-experience cohort — as an ad hoc committee of the general Continuum of Care to enable restoration of payments for lived-experience participants.
The Chair said the structural shift was recommended after prior work reviewing governance and that the move should not, in proponents’ view, change CAB bylaws or decision-making authority. "It would actually kind of enhance the work," the Chair said, summarizing input from a former chair who attended an executive committee discussion.
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