At its Dec. 13 meeting, the Concord City Council approved the formation of a Working Group for the Homeless Strategic Plan.
The Working Group will assist the City as it begins developing its Homeless Strategic Plan in 2023.
Applications for this recruitment are due to the City Clerk by Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
The Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group will act as an advisory body to Council, staff and the project consultants, and will meet in person once per month, at minimum, for approximately 9 to 12 months to hear, discuss, and provide feedback as the strategic plan is shaped.
Members are expected to attend all meetings, read all materials, and be prepared to listen and engage on the topics discussed.
The Working Group is comprised of nine (9) members:
- two (2) Concord City Councilmembers
- one (1) representative with lived experience of being homeless
- one (1) representative from a nonprofit homeless services provider
- one (1) substance abuse professional
- one (1) mental health professional
- one (1) Concord resident and property owner
- one (1) representative who is a Concord resident and is either from Concord’s business community or an owner of commercial property in Concord
- one (1) representative who is a veteran homeless services provider
18 comments
Give the bums a one-way ticket to S.F. or Portland, problem solved.
If you don’t do exactly what the council wants you to do they will ignore all your work and input and do what they wanted to do in the first place.
It’s all just a show to make the people believe they have some sort of input.
The decisions have already been made, the money has been deposited and everyone who needs to be greased has already been greased.
Perhaps once they complete their strategic plan, they will present it to Governor Newsom.
Lord knows he doesn’t have one.
The plan is always to create more programs so the liberals can funnel more money. That is all. They don’t solve problems. if they did, they would stop giving the homeless money so that it would force them to be productive.
Will the politicians form a working group to work on strategies to help struggling honest, responsible, tax paying and law abiding citizens who are barely surviving because of crushing inflation, outrageous fuel prices, crippling tax burdens, ………
No. They only want to “help” people who cannot be helped because they are lazy. This way they can steal more money from us.
How much are those shopping carts worth?
I really feel as we have failed the homeless population, we are just throwing money to clean the place they have landed and as we know they generally move across the street. We have to get the homeless somehow have what I refer to as skin in the game.
They have failed themselves. Now they are just a tool for the left to create more programs that do nothing so they can tax us more on money that has already been taxed.
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No representative from law enforcement?
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Why not?
I guess it’s because it’s the strategic plan. They only use law enforcement when they want to remove them.
If I was on the committee I would feel like a NASA engineer at a Flat Earth society meeting
So at best 2 out of 9 from outside the “industry”? Are these the industry “experts” who have the “knowledge”, “expertise”, and “experience” to “solve” this issue? If so, why haven’t they done so already? All of the combined money, time, and deep, thorough knowledge of the issue has led them to, what, form a strategic plan working group? I guess we knuckle-dragging outsiders should consider it solved then?
‘Build it and they will come.’ As the movie saying goes.
There is a lot of money to be made in the homeless industry. Strategic planning is required to determine how all the taxpayer funds are divvied up among all the
players/providers.No, but the homeless will refuse to do something they CAN.
If I identify as one of those requirements to be on the board, can I apply and collect the free paycheck for doing nothing but establishing a program that will fail?
The ‘I identify’ works for bathrooms, sports and other things, so I would think we could apply it to politics as well.
Why are we pandering to these parasites? We have seen from other cities that there is no solution to this because these people do not want help. They want to do drugs and steal. Homelessness is a lifestyle choice. I saw all of this as an Alameda county paramedic.
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