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24:31 She was shot and killed on a playground in Chicago. Her friends commemorated her life by wearing orange the color hunters wear to protect themselves and others. Every day, around 130 Americans die from gun violence. We do not accept this tragically high number, unique in many ways to our nation, through education and evidence-based solutions, public safety policies can and have shown to reduce gun violence and save lives. I would encourage everyone listening to Wear Orange this coming weekend and think about what actions you can take to help protect you, your friends, and your family from the scourge of gun violence. Thank you again for allowing us to be here today. - Thank you, Alison. (audience applauding) - That concludes our proclamations for this evening.

25:31 Brings us into community communication. The cards that I have are all for the public hearing, so I will save those for item number nine. Having no other testimony, I'll close the community communication on the consent agenda, bring it back to the counselors. Counselors, you have eight items. Are there any items that you would like pulled? Item number six. Any others? I'll entertain a motion to approve items one through five, seven, and eight. - Move to approve, Paulson. - Paulson, seconded by? - Second by Perez. - Perez. Ms. Dollar, do you want number seven red?

26:22 Do you want number six red? Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. - Aye. - Opposed? Motion passes. Counselor Fox, item number six.

26:47 - All right, item number six, there's a few things happening. One of them in reading the staff report was really to align the funding schedules so that the grant contracts end in the same period instead of being staggered, which totally understand and support that idea. What I was wondering about, and maybe this is definitely not a question to be answered today, but maybe something to think about, is the way that the description of these two programs are described just by numbers of beds. And so it looks as if when you're spending $300,000 to support an 18-bed program and $300,000 to support a 44-bed program, there seems to be, you know, I'd say an imbalance

27:45 in perhaps the outcomes without more information as to why one program is providing us with 44 shelter beds and the other one is only providing us 18. And so I'm wondering if a metric of beds doesn't accurately reflect the services that we're receiving as well. So that's a question too, if that makes sense. What is, I guess, what is the difference in the services perhaps that are being provided? - Hi, Samantha Whaley, Housing Programs Manager, and I'm here with Kimberly Curley who manages these contracts. So both agencies requested way more funding than we were able to award them. And so this is just a fraction of the costs that go into each program. And we'd be happy to provide the numbers that they serve each year. - So the staff report said they were serving one women's shelter, 18 beds and YWCA was serving 44 beds. - Correct, I thought you were asking about the number of people that they serve,

28:45 but we can provide that as well. - Well, what I was asking is the staff report only said that they were serving that many beds and it doesn't say what other services might be part of that contract because the cost per bed would be quite a bit more for the women's shelter than for the YWCA if we were only factoring bed count. So I'm wondering if there are other services that the women's shelter is providing that maybe YWCA is not. - What I'm saying is that YWCA receives a lot of other funding to support the 44 beds and the $300,000 for each program doesn't serve the full cost of those programs. So I can report back to you on what the actual costs are for both of those programs, but the 300,000 isn't covering the cost for either one. - Oh, okay, I'd appreciate that more information, thank you. - Thank you. - Any other questions or comments on item six?

29:42 Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion. - I move to approve item six. - Fox, seconded by Hanson. All those in favor say aye. - Aye. - Aye. - Opposed? Motion passes, thank you very much. That concludes the consent agenda, brings us into the public hearing. Item number nine. Do you wanna announce? - Mayor, I'm gonna go ahead and recuse. - Thank you. Councilor Hanson recuses himself and will step out.

30:28 - This is an ordinance adopting the Our Vancouver 2026-2024 Comprehensive Plan City of Vancouver Zoning Map and Vancouver Municipal Code Title 20 Land Use and Development Code, updating and amending the City of Vancouver 2026-2045 comp plan called Our Vancouver Repealing and Replacing the City of Vancouver Zoning Map and Repealing and Replacing Title 20 Land Use and Development Code of the Vancouver Municipal Code, providing for severability and an effective date. Staff, please. - Good evening, mayor and council. My name's Rebecca Kennedy. I'm the deputy community development director for the city