City Council Work Session

Melvin Municipal Building

300 W. Washington Street

Greensboro, NC 27401

City of Greensboro

Meeting Minutes - Final

City Council Work Session

3:30 PM Plaza Level Conference RoomTuesday, June 21, 2016

1. Call To Order

This City Council Work Session of the City of Greensboro was called to order at 3:30 p.m. on the above date in

the Plaza Level Conference Room of the Melvin Municipal Office Building with the following members present :

Mayor Nancy Vaughan, Councilmembers Marikay Abuzuaiter, Jamal Fox, Sharon Hightower, Nancy Hoffmann,

Yvonne J. Johnson, Justin Outling and Tony Wilkins. Absent: Councilmember Mike Barber.

Also present were City Manager Jim Westmoreland, City Attorney Tom Carruthers, Interim Assistant City

Manager Barbara Harris, and City Clerk, Betsey Richardson.

Mayor Vaughan opened the meeting at 3:30 p.m.; and recognized Executive Director of Partners Ending

Homelessness (PEH) Darryl Koziak.

2. Presentations

ID 16-0550 Partners Ending Homelessness Discussion

Mr. Koziak, thanked Council for the opportunity to review the item; provided an overview of the homeless system

in Guilford County; spoke to what he would, and would not, discuss today; to the Continuum of Care (CoC);

provided the history and outline of the implementation of the Hearth Act; an overview of the various federal

agencies who worked towards ending homelessness; and the timeframe for moving persons into housing. Mr.

Koziak made a PowerPoint Presentation (PPP) that explained the steps and procedures for moving persons from

housing shelters to housing; spoke to the Housing First philosophy focus to get and keep people into housing;

emphasized that persons with the most acute and highest needs were a priority; addressed the rules and

compliances that needed to be met; voiced the need for understanding why programs exist to end homelessness;

and outlined the different housing needs for people. Mr. Koziak explained that PEH housed people and provided

services for them to remain in housing; that other agencies assisted people with addiction, mental health,

financial, and physical issues; added that there were different timeframes for persons to work through those

issues; emphasized the need for programs to be connected to assist people with those issues; to provide life

skills; physical health education and employment; and spoke to the process for working with unemployed persons

in housing. Mr. Koziak added that the goal was to move persons into housing as quickly as possible; outlined the

process for providing vouchers to the homeless; spoke to the need for a common language across the agencies

to help prioritize needs; provided a scenario for moving a person into housing; stated that there was a need for a

common tool to organize the limited resources of all entities; and walked through the flow chart in the PPP. Mr.

Koziak stated that the three programs in place were Housing First, Rapid Re -Housing and No Housing

Assistance; outlined how each program worked; explained the case management process; spoke to when

persons returned to shelters; and recognized Don Vick of the Salvation Army.

Councilmember Hoffmann arrived at the meeting at 3:58 p.m.

Mr. Vick stated that the emergency shelter was one of three largest shelters; had 90 beds as well as several