City Council — October 6, 2026

Good evening, everyone. Just want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council for Tuesday October 6th 2026 I'd like to take this time to make it clear for the record For this meeting It should be reflected in the minutes that at least a portion of this city council meeting is conducted pursuant to California Government Code section five four nine five three parentheses B and that councilwoman Gabriela Basuah is participating remotely from the Hyatt House Hartford North, Windsor located at 200 Corporate Drive in Windsor Connecticut 06095.

In accordance with the Brown Act the teleconference location has been identified on the agenda for this meeting. Madam Clerk it will now be appropriate for you to conduct a roll call and posting of the agenda after which we will confirm certain matters for the record.

Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Peralta? Here. Councilwoman Bettis? Here. Councilman Starr?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tempteran?

Here!

Mayor McArthur?

Here

The agenda for this meeting was posted in the kiosk at City Hall, the Oxford Public Library, the city administrative offices and on the city's website on Thursday September 24th It appears that Councilwoman Bass has not connected, has not joined So I will not be able to ask the questions. Mayor, would you like to move on to the script for closed session? Sure. And then just for the record for the mayor and council members any votes taken must be by roll call this evening. Thank you.

Thank you for that clarification. Yes go ahead Vice Mayor.

Thank you. Mr. Fisher just for a matter of procedure As we go through the opening remarks here for closed session, if Councilwoman Bass were to join would we still go through the questions that the clerk would need to ask?

I'm sure you could take a break to do that. But why don't we move on and we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Thank you.

Thanks Mr. Fisher. Prior to closed session we will take public comments on the closed session agenda. Can the City Attorney please provide a statement prior to closed session

Thank you, Mayor. The City Council will recess to a closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9 Subdivision D1 to confer with its attorneys. The matter being discussed is Jose Pineda-Sanchez and others versus City of Oxnard and others.

Thank you Mr. Fisher. Madam Clerk do we have any speakers or any public comments prior to closed session?

Mayor, Councilwoman Basuah has just joined us so I'm going to go ahead and ask the questions. And we do not have any public speakers, any requests to speak in person or virtually but I will confirm that after I ask the questions. Good afternoon, Councilwoman Basuah. I'd like to ask you a few questions. Can you hear me well?

Yes.

Were you able to hear our proceedings on this end up until now?

Yes.

Thank you. Do you have a copy of the agenda for this meeting?

Yes.

Have you posted the agenda at your current location?

Yes.

Is your location reasonably accessible to the public such that any member of the public could participate in this teleconference from your location if he or she wished to do so?

Yes,

is there any member of the public there with you who would like to participate in the public comment portion of this meeting or otherwise address any agenda items for this meeting Okay, and then just a reminder mayor and council members that any vote must be taken by roll call. Thank you And mayor There are no requests to speak for closed session in person or Via zoom thank you.

Thank you madam clerk The city council will now recess to a closed session and at 5 p.m We will begin with two appointed or two appointment items followed by the regular scheduled council meeting. Thank you The City Council has just emerged from closed session, and I'm going to ask our city attorney Mr. Fisher if he has any announcements to make.

Thank you Mayor there are no reportable actions out of closed session this evening.

I appreciate it Mr. Fisher thank you

Thank you. Brenda Lopez again, Housing Director. I'm just waiting for our PowerPoint to come online. So good afternoon again, Brenda Lopez housing director for the housing department here with the city of Oxnard. As our mayor shared this evening we're going to be providing a brief presentation that is going to provide you with an update on progress that we have made both here at the city level and countywide in our efforts to prevent and respond to our homelessness challenge that we are all experiencing.

Our homeless challenge is one that is complex, it's evolving and as you will hear in tonight's presentation from all of our speakers this evening there's not one solution. So our goal this evening is to provide you with an overview of the collective efforts that are underway throughout not just here in Oxnard but throughout different cities within the County of Ventura And most of all, what we are highlighting is we wish to leave you with the impression of the importance. and the value that all of our agencies continue to work together in collaboration to be able to be successful in addressing the needs of our unhoused population.

This evening, we'll be hearing from a couple of our partners. Each of them will introduce themselves, their agency. They'll give you a couple of highlights, milestones and achievements for each of their jurisdictions. And again, we will be highlighting the important role that we all play or that we all have in this effort. So I'll go ahead and get started just sharing a little bit about the City of Oxnard's progress so the Ventura Continuum Care does a point-and-count on an annual basis think of this as a snapshot, so this is just a snapshot at a point in time that gives us an idea of the individuals are unhoused here in our city In the most recent three years, the City of Oxnard has reported or experienced a decline in the number of individuals that are unhoused with our most recent decline in 2026 of 16.1%.

Now there's a variety of efforts and initiatives that have led to this decrease. So it's not just outreach, it's not just bringing units online. Again, it's collaboration. And so I'll just highlight a couple of efforts in the most recent years that have led to some of these decreases that we have experienced. On the slide before you, we have a couple of projects. We have five of them. These are just some of the projects that have come online here in the city of Oxnard that provide affordable housing. The reason why I highlighted them is because all five projects include some or perhaps all permanent supportive housing units. Permanent supportive housing units are units that are designated for individuals who meet the definition of homelessness but i would also like to highlight again that some of these projects also include units for our low-income families and so these are families that would have potentially become homeless because they are living paycheck to paycheck or they cannot afford their monthly rent.

On the slide we have Casa Aliento, that one is all permanent supportive housing, there's 69 units but I also wanted to highlight Casa de Carmen which is our most recent development that came online it has the 55 permanent supportive housing units but it also includes a 110 emergency shelter bed on the first floor that's known as a navigation center. And again, here what we're doing is increasing the number of affordable units for our families in the city and then we're also responding to individuals who unfortunately are now unhoused and need a unit to live in Now as far as some of the initiatives that we have underway here with the City of Oxnard, these are not exclusive to the Housing Department. So you'll see that we work in collaboration with other agencies and we also work with other departments within the City of Oxnard.

So in the Housing Department we now have a Homeless Services Division so this division is comprised of two full-time staff members Through these staff members, we provide not only direct outreach but we work in coordinating a lot of the other initiatives that I'll be highlighting for you this afternoon. But we also have a very active role in our street outreach efforts and our back medicine as well.

We also have an Oxnard One-Stop Clinic. We call it the One-Stop Clinic. This is a drop in service that is funded by one of our partners, the Ventura County Healthcare Agency who is here this evening and will provide a little bit of highlights on their agency but at this one stop clinic we provide referrals to individuals who drop in then the referrals are for basic needs behavioral health case management food pantries, so basically meeting their needs to be able to have a quality of life.

We also have a fall weather shelter. The fall weather shelter is activated once a year between the months of December and March. Through this shelter, what we do is we provide non-congregate shelter to individuals who what we term as highly vulnerable and also our seniors. It is triggered whenever temperature reaches certain thresholds. And again it is activated based on what the weather's looking like. And this is so that we can keep individuals from being out in either extreme cold weather or heavy rain.

We have the Homeless Voucher Programs. The homeless voucher programs are managed through the Oxnard Housing Authority, so here we give a little bit over 200 housing assistance vouchers basically the voucher pays some majority of the rent for the household member And these vouchers can be used anywhere in the private market, and they're done through three particular programs that emphasize or really target unhoused individuals. And this is your mainstream which includes needing to be non-elderly, disabled, homeless. And then we also have our Homeless Set Aside Vouchers and our Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing. And those are for veterans that unfortunately have experienced chronic homelessness.

With our City of Oxnard Police Department, we do have six dedicated Homeless Liaison Officers. We call them HLOs for short. Our HLOs work with us hand in hand when we do backpack medicine, street outreach. They help us respond to encampments and they also help us coordinate our weekly cleanups. And then the City of Oxnard also supports affordable housing developments and service providers through its entitlement grants. So here we provide funding through our community development grant and through our emergency solutions grant to fund the efforts of affordable housing developers who are We're going to designate some units for individuals who are unhoused or low income. And then we also provide direct funding to community partners, not in any order but for example Shelter Care Resources Coalition for Family Harmony, Turning Point, United Way and the Mercy House who is also one of our partners that will be speaking in a couple of minutes.

And then last but not least, the City of Oxnard received an Encampment Resolution Funding Grant. This was back in 2023. We are wrapping up this grant. We received $4 million to support us in our encampment response efforts and through this grant we provided non-congregate shelter, we provided wraparound services, and then case management as well. So these are some of the highlights for the city of Oxnard. And like I mentioned, our community partners will be coming up to the podium and providing their updates. So Mercy House will come next.

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time to ask a couple questions?

Yes we can ask him now or at the end whichever your preference.

Two questions. One, on the homeless voucher program you said they can be used anywhere in the city of Oxnard or the county of Ventura or the state?

Correct. These are mobile so yes you use them here in the city of Oxnard after one year you are welcome to transfer to another jurisdiction as long as there's another housing authority.

Thank you. The second question It's become kind of a hot issue recently with respect to the count that we have here on this page, and it states in the Ventura County Continuum of Care 2026 homeless count. Are there any concerns we have with those numbers? Because some people are claiming the numbers may be skewed.

Not necessarily that they're skewed, and we do have one of our community partners that I'll ask her to give her feedback as well. But it is that it's a snapshot or a point in count in one specific date. And so there obviously it does come with some outliers whether you might have not captured everybody because it's only on one specific day. So it isn't perfect measurement if you will but it is the benchmark that is used on an annual basis

Thank you and I appreciate that because we are taking credit for reducing the amount of homeless, and I hold good faith in these numbers. Thank you.

Councilwoman also has some questions. I do

have two questions So the first question was about the voucher in section 8 housing voucher Families who may qualify for these vouchers, I think I've heard in the community that there's a waiting list For you to actually receive the voucher Can you tell me a little bit about what that what that waiting list looks like? How long do people wait before they can actually receive

it? Yes, that is correct. Thank you for the question. In this specific case I will mention that the three programs that I mentioned mainstream VASH for the veteran one and then the homeless set aside these three waiting lists are exclusively for individuals who are facing homelessness and then some other criteria for example veteran or I'm It's no more than 15 vouchers on an annual basis in comparison to, we usually give about 25. So it's a ratio of about 25 to a regular family versus your unhoused family.

So 15 is very minimal compared to the other number of families. But to answer the question about the wait list right now our wait list is on hold because housing authority has what they call a shortfall status So unfortunately, that is a funding issue. But so far I believe most of the housing authorities except for one in the county is in the same position that we are which is shortfall status.

So that affects the wait list.

Okay. And then once somebody is assigned a voucher, I know you said that they have one year before it expires or they could go outside of the area. Out of the 15 vouchers that get issued do all 15 use those vouchers before it expires within the year? Or how many actually get to a housing.

That is correct, so the actually I think the question was can you move with your voucher? There is a requirement that you do stay within the Housing Authority's jurisdiction that gave you the voucher for one year after one year you can move. So these the vouchers are utilized so what happened is if I give a voucher and it doesn't get leased up then that voucher will go to your next applicant so you will be at full utilization all times because you keep basically somebody doesn't use it you give it to the next family They expire, yes if the family cannot lease up within usually 60 to 90 days.

The voucher will expire but there's also reasonable accommodations that can be granted.

So out of 15 that get awarded if they're not used within 60 to 90 days? Then they get, we go down the list because there's definitely a waiting list. Out of the initial 15 how many would actually get housing within the 90 days?

Within the 90 days I don't have that exact data. Usually it does take more than 30 days but depending on your market So right now it's a difficult market even if you're not on Section 8, but usually I would say maybe between around 75% lease up within your first 30 to 60 days. On your unhoused vouchers there's a little bit of more time frame involved because we work for example with the United Way or Shelter Care to work with landlords and come in with security deposits and the additional support. But again, we'll be at 100% utilization in that we'll continue working with the next family if the first one was not successful.

Okay, so maybe about 75% of the original 15? So 12 out of 15. Yes. So three would go down the list to continue. And I know it's a very difficult... You know, it's not an easy answer. Housing is very difficult even for folks who have the funding.

Thank you. Correct.

Thank you.

Any other questions? Thank you Ms. Lopez. We'll be hearing from Mercy House next. Sounds good, thank you.

Oh,

great. Nice to see you all. So I'm David Weingart. I'm the new program manager of the Casa de Carmen Shelter across the street and so we call it the Oxnard Navigation Center and it's one of the Mercy House shelters. And let's see...we have the slides prepared by our agency Starting with the 110 bed emergency shelter with navigation services and that's with respect to housing navigation services. Let's see for the well although this has reporting period July 2025 to June 2026 you're aware that they started occupying the facility across the street in December so Since then, 216 individuals served.

And this is with respect to successes. You all are here to hear the successes. So 25% of the exits, 27 individuals went to the permanent housing and much of that is the permanent supportive housing that you heard from Brenda. And 1%, or one individual exited to temporary housing And then nine individuals to what we're calling other positive exits. So, we're calling it a 34% overall positive exit rate and that includes permanent temporary and other positive exits 85 percent of permanent exits moved to the Casa de Carmen permanent supportive housing which is floors two three four and five upstairs from the shelter shelter members strictly the first floor that we operate as Mercy Health Shelter.

Can I just interrupt you for one second? I think Council Member Stuckey, did you have your hand up?

Yeah, I just wanted some clarification. So you had 27 exited permanent housing out of 216. I just don't know where you get the 25% from because that seems...

Yeah, do respect that discrepancy. We can follow-up with our data person.

Okay.

All right. What was the basis of this when this was developed? Thank you for that. All right, thank you. Yeah so you know just reading straight from the slide which you're all able to view there are some of our strongest partners community partners and support services. Ventura County Behavioral Health Care Turning Point Royal Day Solutions Royal Day Solutions provides many volunteers that help out at the shelter.

Ventura County Public Health Mobile Medicine they occasionally have the mobile clinic in the back area behind the shelter which is extremely helpful for the health and well-being of the guests at the shelter. Starfield Primary Care provides nurses and doctors, and the food share of Ventura County. And then finishing off with the stats on the bottom, 64% chronically homeless, 46%, two or more disabilities, 38% are seniors ages 55 and over, 2% are veterans, and 1% are transitional age youths 18 to 24 years So that will conclude the front side, which is just first floor of the facility shelter. And then we'll proceed to the backside.

I apologize a couple questions by the vice mayor then member start. Go ahead.

Thank you. I'm just wondering if looking at the data it's 216 total individuals served and this isn't the bottom reflecting the current program data as of the reporting period. The 27, the 1 and the 9 it says of exits. So I would imagine not all 216 have exited the program. It is of those who have exited 25% went to permanent housing, 1% went to temporary housing, 2% went to other positive exits that's my interpretation of that.

Correct although its regarded as a temporary emergency shelter we respect that there are barriers to being housed and so some people stay Longer durations or shorter.

I

was wondering if you could define for me chronically homeless as opposed to acutely homeless, I suppose what makes somebody chronically homeless?

Somebody chronically homeless has to meet the criteria of three aspects and this is a HUD categorization and let's see they would be You know, 12 months being literally homeless, meaning they have no permanent place to stay. Or they can be 12 months accumulated time being homeless over the course of three years and they have one or more disabilities within the household.

So you're chronically homeless. That's the definition. They meet the three categories. And then you have literally homeless Other language that you'll hear regularly.

So somebody has to be disabled in order to be considered chronically homeless or am I misunderstanding?

To meet the HUD categorization, but member homeless can include substance use disorder, um, you know, a severe mental health difficulty, uh, physical disability. Um, so there are multiple ways to be qualified as having a disability

Just for those watching who are going to rewatch this, can you please explain when you use the term HUD what that means?

Housing and Urban Development Federal Agency.

Thank you so much. I'm sorry go

ahead. Okay any more questions about the shelter proper or I can make a description of the successes of the permanent supportive housing upstairs? Yes, thank you for saying that. So somewhat less familiar to me because I'm the program manager of the shelter downstairs. I will be representing Mercy House to make these statements just based on the slide that you're all welcome to read along so upstairs floors 2345 of Casa de Carmen the permanent supportive housing PSH has the successes 71 total individuals served since inception, which was December of 2025.

And that is comprised of 2% of households, which is one household with children, 54 households without children and 55 total households served. So full occupancy across the 55 units. And they are regarding it as a 100% success rate That's maintain housing or exited to a positive housing outcome of individuals who have been there. So the core program partnership and community amenities include Ventura County Behavioral Health serves as a core programmatic partner providing comprehensive onsite wraparound case management and clinical behavioral health services to support residents in their transition to long term stability And for community amenities, it features a community room, computer workstations, office spaces for case managers, a rooftop deck with the barbecue area and pet exercise spaces.

And finishing it off which again is figures reflecting current program data as of the reporting period above which was December 2025 through June 2026 since its inception Well, 65% had two or more conditions. 55% had a mental health disorder. 36% have substance use disorder. 32% have chronic health condition. 32% have a physical disability and 8% have developmental disability.

Thank you for this information as well. I have two quick questions on this, one is for the measurements on the bottom there just with the 2 plus conditions, mental health disorder etc. Either from Mercy or other professionals we have in the audience. Would you say that kind of broadly reflects the population we work with and the general public as well? Probably around half of them may have a diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health disorder, 36% with substance use disorders, 32%, or around 1 3rd with chronic health conditions. Do you think that reflects broadly what we see out in the community?

Is that for the other organization?

That's a pretty deep question, but I mean the general population experiencing homelessness.

Yeah, I respect that as an estimate and I cannot confirm But I hear you

okay, and thank you my second question then for the one household with children is at minor children Yes, okay. Do we do we have any households where there are adult children living with the parents or maybe elderly parents? Living with an adult child who they are all in housed or maybe they're now in the permits part of housing

No, it would just be the children under the age of 18 that creates the household

are counted here Okay I guess I'm just my ass my question is then is Do we have situations like that where we have adult children and their So thank you for mentioning shelter. The answer is yes, we do see folks where there is a parent and an adult child

You're calling child, it could be of any age even including an elderly parent with a middle-aged child. Certainly in need of support either for as a function of their homelessness or a person that has a disability who is a dependent you know as categorized. Okay thank you. Thank you Mayor.

Any other questions? If not we'll proceed with the live presentation

Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. I am Kimberly Alvarez and I serve as the Homelessness Solutions Director for the County of Ventura. Just a pleasure to be here again in the City of Oxnard to share a little bit about the work that's going on so thank you so much for having me. So we, I will be reporting out. It is the third year of implementation of our homelessness action plan and I'll be briefly covering two of our key action areas and some progress. So what you're seeing up on the slide is our first action area's housing prioritization and funding and exciting to show you the map which you probably cannot read the letters right? They're very small but what you can see is that we have projects in the development pipeline across the county And so that's exciting to see.

So 1,059 units are in that development pipeline. So that does not count those units that Ms. Lopez covered that are already open, right? That are already serving people. These are units that will be coming online over the next two to three years. So you're looking at those numbers three different ways what their development status is like a stage of construction. Are they in that pre-development phase getting their financing together or are they actually under construction The type of housing, whether it's generally affordable rental housing or permanent supportive housing which is what we often talk about when we're talking about units dedicated to persons experiencing homelessness. And we even have some affordable home ownership units under development and then whether the county is investing directly in those projects is the other way we're looking at these.

So what we are seeing though, is after about 300 permanent supportive housing units coming on in 2024 and 2025 that we've had extremely limited new units in 2026. And so your service providers and your agencies and Brenda are all feeling that right? When you've had a surge of units over a couple of years and then you don't have anything new coming online it is a struggle but there is good news We have three projects that are scheduled to be completed in 2027, and likely college community courts as well in Ventura. But the Home Key Plus permanent supportive housing on Lewis Road which is in the unincorporated area near Camarillo, 88 permanent supportive housing units, Camino de Salud which is being developed by Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation in the unincorporated area near Ojai We'll have 48 units, 24 permanent supportive housing and 24 affordables.

And then the City of Ojai has been working on their Encampment Resolution Funding Award Cabin Village for a number of years often in the news. They'll have their 29 permanent supportive housing units that are prioritized for people currently living in their tent town and so I'm especially excited to show that bottom picture there is actually the Home Key Project that just broke ground several months ago, already showing those units in place.

And then last the action area outreach and service delivery. So I wanted to just give a brief update. The Ventura County continuum of care continues to fund a wide range of housing shelter and services. In fact we just submitted to HUD an application for over $5 million in funding that would pass through to about 10 Local agencies that applied and were submitted.

Also wanted to share that the County of Ventura invested nearly $5 million towards city-county shelter cost share agreements. And, of course, part of that is the Oxnard Navigation Center that you just heard about and we also have our custom encampment survey which is GIS mapping of all of the encampments. We're not fully across the whole county yet. We use law enforcement so everyone has the opportunity to use the software right now You can see from the picture that we do have broad coverage, but not all jurisdictions are yet represented.

And then just briefly since they're not here tonight, Ventura County Behavioral Health one of the largest newer programs that not everyone is familiar with is the bridge housing program which now has sheltered 411 people across the county with 150 current participants across six locations And many of them have now moved on to permanent housing. And then our Human Services Agency, which I feel like they're not the new shiny penny, right? They're just the workhorse that keeps on housing folks.

You can see some data there of how the amazing work that they've been doing in 2026. And then I thought I'd quick circle back to the question about the two plus conditions and the mental health disorder from Council Member Turan, whether that was representative of all homeless populations. And I would say that those two, the others looked pretty much in line but that over 55%, or 55% and then about 50%. In a permanent supportive housing project, I would say that that's representative but of the overall population those numbers looked elevated to me compared the data that I see in the Homeless Management Information System and the point-in time count.

And then, I think we circled back on it already but the exit rate at the Navigation Center, right? I think those numbers were based on about 106 exits because there'd be about 110 people still there now of the 216 which is how you get that 34% positive exit rates so just didn't want there to be any confusion. And I am here to answer questions!

Any questions? Go ahead, Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you and this will be for any of the presenters I appreciate everybody putting the time in to be here and share a little bit about the successes and the challenges that we face and the collaborative efforts that we have as multiple jurisdictions so a couple questions I have here First one is regarding the point in time count and Councillor Perlow referenced it a little bit, just how that's kind of the metric we have as of now for kind of measuring snapshot same timeframe in January each year.

And my question is regarding the volunteers, the registered volunteers who help us with that. Do we see the consistency in volunteer numbers that helps us cast a net as wide as possible to get the numbers as close to accurate as possible?

Yes so I think Ms. Lopez did a great job of explaining that right the point-in-time count is just the number that volunteers and staff are counting on a single morning The little bit of ability to follow up and again, because of the Department of Housing and Urban Development defines how we do the counting. And we have seen a consistent amount of volunteers as well as a consistent methodology so we never want to completely rely on the point in time count right? We want to continue develop other data sources but I think the fact that we've had the same methodology and about the same coverage over the last few years at least give some validity, right? Is it going up or going down and what we see is that it's going down.

Thank you. I know I've volunteered with Supervisor Lopez' team a number of times now and yes, we are very consistent and thank you for the app that helps walk through that and everything. My other question is, and this one's a little bit more broad, has to do with the efforts we might have currently underway and it may be Countywide city specific or collaborative, but what efforts do we have for emergency shelter services with regard to El Nino anticipation in the coming winter?

And I know the City Manager and I've had a brief discussion about this as well. But any insight or I'm sure plans are underway

Yeah, earlier today at the Board of Supervisors there was actually a pretty comprehensive El Nino planning presentation. So I encourage anyone to look at that. I think it was about 935 so you don't have to sit through the whole meeting. You can just go to that. We are actually working with Miss Lopez to try and assist in identifying a location where we could do mass shelter should it be needed.

But the City of Ventura has secured their armory from October 15th to March 15th, which should we need it right? I think there's some buzz in the news right that 90% strong El Nino means we will have those very heavy rains and of course we still don't know what the El Nino impacts will actually be but we want to be prepared because we don't want swift water rescues or Anything like that. So the good news is the City of Ventura has secured a large facility, they will still have River Community Church doing their foul weather shelter in the hotel rooms but can phase up if we see those very heavy rains extended and I think we're just continuing to work with other city partners as well but most city partners appear to be planning to do at least some hotelling for vulnerable populations during if we do see those heaviest rains

Thank you. My last question, and this is a little parallel to tonight's discussion but it goes back to our last council meeting we had in September and it's regarding the emergency housing voucher program and the Trump administration electing to end that program years ahead of the original sunset date for it. We had somebody in here at the last meeting who was affected directly by that, it was a very emotional comment that certainly struck me and I'm sure anyone who is watching and anyone in the room because these are real people being affected by this. And I'm just wondering if some brief insight can be provided into As things are changing, I'm sure day by day, week by week on this.

What services or opportunities folks might have if they're being affected by this change?

So I'll take this question on the emergency housing choice voucher program we received on the last day. We received a great update from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, they've communicated to us that they are going to give us vouchers for that specific program for families who are under lease We are in the process to communicate with participant holders. There's of course still meetings to come, more details but at this time they have advised us that the funding will continue and that they will have not permanent but more permanent vouchers in place for us so we were able to get across that challenge.

Thank you so much. That is great for us to hear and it's great for me to hear I'm very Very impressed with our continued work collaboratively and for our housing director. So thank you for that, and for that update. That's a relief. I know it's not a permanent one like you said but this is affecting real people.

And there'll be more updates to come to our families so we basically just said if we have good news just bear with us while HUD gives us, Department of Housing and Urban Development gives us more details but we are going to be okay. We're just going to work through all of the details with HUD

Great. Thank you very much. That's my last question, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? Mr. Borrello, go ahead.

I appreciate this report but just... Oh sorry.

Yeah

Okay. Hello, my name is Jessica Petrillo and I'm a program manager with Ventura County Healthcare Agency specifically with the whole person care division. So let me just scroll through. Oh am I going the wrong way? Okay, so I wanted to start just kind of with a visual of what whole person care is because there's lots of programs within the whole person care division.

So the first category are our CalAIM services and these are for Medi-Cal recipients who face social or medical barriers to their health and we offer two programs enhanced care management and also community supports The second category of our programs is the Healthcare for the Homeless Clinic Outreach Programs, and Brenda mentioned those in her earlier presentation.

That consists of our Backpack Medicine Program and our One Stop Program. And then we have this other category of programs that are grant-specific programs, and we had our Oxnard IRF program – that's our Encampment Resolution Funding Program That one ended in November of 2025, but I'm going to report on some of those outcomes at a later slide. And then we also have a partnership with the City of Camarillo who use their funds with us to have the Project HOPE program.

So these three programs are the programs that focus on medical and social services. So the first one is our ECM program, and this is for people who are in different populations of focus that have I mentioned the social or the medical barriers to their health, and we give medical case management to those members. And just to give you a scope of the work, last year we served 1,705 people in our ECM program Next, we have our Backpack Medicine program. This program provides medical services to people who are homeless, where they are staying and living in the field for five events per week. This one really heavily relies on partnerships with all of the cities across the counties. So across the county, so we partner with the city departments here in Oxnard.

We partner with the housing department and we also partner with local law enforcement. So the city comes with us, local law enforcement comes with us, they work with us to identify sites that we should go to Sometimes they have specific people they want to make sure we go and outreach to. And at these events, we go into homeless encampments. We also go into shelters and we provide direct medical care. And then we also work with other partners that provide services like behavioral health services. We have an alcohol and drug treatment specialist that comes out with us. Mercy House comes out with us in Oxnard. So we have shelter providers coming with us as well.

Lastly, we have the One Stop service. So this is a health and social services drop-in that takes place in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo and Santa Paula. It's called the One Stop because we offer like so many services almost all the services you can need in one spot. Sometimes people can get dizzy hearing about all the different jigsaw puzzle of homeless services if you kind of leave this and you see someone that needs assistance All you remember is the one-stop, that's a really good place to start because you can tell them on Wednesdays. You can go to the one stop in Oxnard and get connected.

To give you a scope of the work with how many people the one stop serves, just last calendar year alone it was 2,333 people served at different one stops across the county and those are unique unduplicated individuals.