Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

November 30 2006

First Presbyterian Church, Newport

Members Present:  Tom Hatley, Karen Ramsden, Bill Hall, Don Taylor, Richard Sherlock,

Suzi Gonzales, Joanne Troy,Anne Swinehart, Hannah Rosenau

1. Review of Nov. 9^th Stakeholder Meeting

Positives: great turnout, informative discussion

To work on:  getting local businesses involved (at meetings or schedule interviews outside of meetings), hear from more people experiencing homelessness

2. Agenda for December 14^th Stakeholder meeting

            Continue discussion of prevention strategies

            Move into intervention strategies

Continue dialog from individuals experiencing homelessness

3. Community Forums

            Community forums are essential to bring new people and ideas from across the county

into the discussion about the cause of homelessness, brainstorm possible prevention strategies,

and creative intervention ideas for the 10-Year Plan.

Lincoln City Community Forum – January 17^th 1:30 – 3:30

            Bill Hall will coordinate with Lincoln City affordable housing working group and Rick Brissette

 to create the agenda and format, send out media release, invite all stakeholders through e-mail, and work

 to gather public input.

Waldport Community Forum - January 25^th 10-noon, Waldport City Hall

            Bill Hall will coordinate South County Community Issues Forum and Max Glenn to create an

agenda and send out media release to their e-mail contact list.

            Steering committee will meet directly afterwards at First Presbyterian Church in Newport to

discuss information/dialogue gained from forums.

4. Open Discussion

How to hear from more people experiencing homelessness:

·        Meet at time/place where it is possible for people to come

·        Go to St. Stephens Episcopal Church hot meal on Monday nights to hear from individuals

using that service

·        Monday, Dec. 18^th, First Presbyterian Church will be hosting the hot meal, we are welcome

to come and gather information then

·        Several nights are needed in order to gather the most accurate information

·        Richard will approach Susan Church about our taking a survey at St. Stephens Episcopal

Church, beginning December 11^th

Emergency shelter needed in Lincoln County

·        There is a need for a place for people to stay during their emergency and short term homelessness

·        Who is able to fund and develop it?

                  Church or business sponsoring the development through monthly donations…           

·        Who is able to continually run and staff it?

Individual Interviews to gather more data

·        More input is needed from a variety of community businesses and agencies (especially those

 who cannot attend the monthly meetings)

·        We are not able to capture all the information during meetings

·        Each stakeholder should be assigned another person/agency or group to interview

(by the Dec. 14^th meeting?)

·        A set of questions will be developed by Tom Hatley and sent to group.

·        Joanne will approach Chamber of Commerce

·        No meeting during January so that people will make appointments and interview people

·        Present information back to Steering Committee, who will incorporate it into the 10-year plan.

Drafting of 10-Year Plan

Next Meeting: Dec 28^th, same time, same place