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(a) The membership of the Committee shall reflect the diversity of the homeless people that access shelter in the City. The Committee shall consist of 12 members, appointed by the Homelessness Oversight Commission (“Commission”) as follows:
Seat 1 shall be held by a person who is (1) providing direct services to homeless families, or (2) a parent, legal guardian, or caregiver who is personally experiencing or has personally experienced being homeless.
Seat 2 shall be held by a person who is homeless or has been homeless within the three years prior to being appointed to the Committee, and who has a disability.
Seats 3 and 4 shall be held by persons with experience providing direct services to homeless people through a community setting.
Seat 5 shall be held by a person nominated by one or more community agencies that provide behavioral health, housing placement, or other services to homeless people.
Seat 6 shall be held by a person who is homeless or formerly homeless, and who has been nominated by one or more nonprofit agencies that provide advocacy or organizing services for homeless people.
Seats 7 and 8 shall be held by persons nominated by one or more nonprofit agencies that provide advocacy or organizing services for homeless people.
Seats 9 and 10 shall be held by persons who are homeless or formerly homeless, and who have experience providing direct services to homeless people through a community setting.
Seat 11 shall be held by a person who is homeless or formerly homeless, and who has been nominated by one or more community agencies that provide behavioral health, housing placement, or other services to homeless people.
Seat 12 shall be held by an employee of the Department of Public Health.
In making its appointments to the Committee, the Commission is encouraged to select people who are bilingual.
(b) The Committee shall elect its own officers and may establish rules for its own organization and procedures, consistent with this Article XII.
(c) Limitations on site visits.
(1) Committee members who work at a resource center or shelter shall not conduct site visits at that site or any other site that is part of that agency. If they are former employees of a site, they must wait at least six months after leaving employment before conducting a site visit.
(2) Committee members who reside at a shelter shall not conduct site visits at that site or any other site that is part of the agency responsible for the shelter. Committee members who formerly resided at a shelter must wait at least six months after leaving the shelter before conducting a site visit at that site or any other site that is part of the agency responsible for the shelter.
(3) Committee members from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Department of Public Health shall not conduct official site visits on behalf of the Shelter Monitoring Committee at a site where their respective agency holds a contract with said site or agency.
(d) Members of the Committee may not serve on any other City body that advises on issues relating to homelessness, including but not limited to the Commission, Local Homeless Coordinating Board, and Shelter Grievance Advisory Committee, during their term(s) on the Committee.
(Added by Ord. 283-04, File No. 041449, App. 12/1/2004; amended by Ord. 150-07, File No. 070084, App. 7/3/2007; Ord. 116-16, File No. 160638, App. 6/29/2016, Eff. 7/29/2016; Ord. 249-18
, File No. 171171, App. 11/2/2018, Eff. 12/3/2018; reenacted by Ord. 61-21, File No. 210115, App. 4/30/2021, Eff. 5/31/2021, Oper. 5/31/2021; Ord. 35-23, File No. 230125, App. 3/17/2023, Eff. 4/17/2023; Ord. 277-24
, File No. 240871, App. 12/12/2024, Eff. 1/12/2025)
(a) Continuing Membership on the Committee. Members of the Committee seated as of the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. ______ shall by operation of law remain members of the Committee for one year from the effective date of said ordinance. New terms for members of the Committee shall commence on that date, and the Commission shall make appointments to the Committee for those terms in accordance with Section 20.305. Members of the Committee seated as of that date shall be eligible for reappointment to the Committee by the Commission.
(b) To provide for staggered terms, the members appointed to Seats, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 shall serve for an initial term of one year; thereafter the term for Seats, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 shall be a two-year term. The members appointed to Seats 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 shall serve for an initial term of two years.
(c) In the event that a vacancy occurs during the term of office of any Committee member, a successor shall be appointed by the Commission to complete the expired term of office.
(a) The Committee shall meet a minimum of once per quarter at such times and places as the Committee shall designate.
(b) The Department of Department of1
Homelessness and Supportive Housing shall provide clerical and administrative support and staffing for the Committee.
CODIFICATION NOTE
The Committee shall monitor the attendance of Committee members. In the event that any Committee member misses three regularly scheduled Committee meetings in a six-month period without the express approval of the Committee at or before the missed meetings, the member shall be deemed to have resigned from the Committee 10 days after the third unapproved absence. The Committee shall notify the appointing authority accordingly and request the appointment of a new member.
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