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HOPE Team to Receive More Funding

Published on Monday, August 8, 2022 | 7:40 pm
 

File photo shows Gillermo Vasquez a psychiatric registered nurse working with the Pasadena Police Department, left, and Pasadena Police Officers Donovan Jones and Ed Acosta walk through an opening of a fence under a local Metro Gold Line bridge looking for homeless people living there on Tuesday September 3, 2019. [photo by James Carbone for ‘Behind the Badge’]
As part of Monday’s consent calendar, the Council voted to authorize the City Manager to increase a contract with Union Station Homeless Services by $199,000 for additional HOPE Team street outreach funding.

The HOPE team consists of police officers who partner with County of Los Angeles mental health clinicians.

The team has access to resources such as clothing, food, shelters, substance abuse treatment facilities and health clinics.

HOPE officers receive training in crisis intervention, crisis negotiation, drug and alcohol recognition training and enforcement strategies geared specifically for the homeless and mentally ill.

According to the latest homeless count, there were 512 people experiencing homelessness in Pasadena on the night of the count. A city staff report said the number reveals a continued leveling off of the average number of people who are unhoused on a given night over the past three years.

In Pasadena, 32% of the unhoused residents identify as Black or African American despite only representing 8% of Pasadena’s general population. Similarly, people identifying as Hispanic or Latino in Pasadena experience homelessness at disproportionate rates. In 2022, the Hispanic/Latino subpopulation comprised 44% of people experiencing homelessness compared to 37% in 2020, while Hispanics or Latinos comprise 33% of the overall population of Pasadena.
Here are the other items that passed as part of Monday’s consent calendar:

• Authorization to enter into a $142,724 contract with Ratfelis for water cost of service analysis. The contract contains two optional six-month extensions at no additional cost to provide water cost of service analysis and rate design services.

• A 5.6 million contract award to California Professional Engineering, inc., for Cordova Street complete streets project. The project will provide for 1.5 miles of complete street elements along Cordova Street from Hill Avenue to Arroyo Parkway, enhancing the roadway network for alternative modes of travel that connect to major institutions, businesses, employment centers and shopping areas.

• Contract award To Wittman Enterprises, for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) billing And collection services. Services will include a membership program processing and administration fee upon implementation of $13.50 for each application and annual renewal received. The fee will transition to 15 percent of net collections once the annual membership program fee reaches $90.00 due to Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustments.

• The City Council Did Not Vote on a Loan To Pasadena Center Operating Company to fund capital improvement projects. The item (Please see additional story.)

• Roadside memorial sign program. Roadside Memorial Sign Program would memorialize victims of fatal crashes while at the same time raising awareness of traffic safety to motorists. Under the program, a memorial sign can be requested by the family of a victim of a fatal collision through their local Council District office after a minimum of six months after the incident. The Director of the Department of Transportation (DOT) will be the approval authority for requests for memorial signs.

• Preparation of an ordinance amending the Pasadena Municipal Code regarding hazardous materials permitting thresholds. Pasadena Fire performed an extensive review of other agencies within California and found that no other jurisdiction has requirements as strict as ours. Amending the Pasadena Municipal Code (PMC) would maintain industry and state standards for health and safety while eliminating unnecessary processes. The current code requires nearly 850 businesses to maintain a hazardous materials permit and requires permits and disclosures for the storage of any quantity of hazardous materials.

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