HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Planning and Economic Development Committee - 12/04/1990 WY OF' eEd
CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE
December 4, 1990 4:30 PM
Committee Members Present Planning Staff
Jon Johnson, Chair Lauri Anderson
Leona Orr Lin Ball
Judy Woods, President Jim Harris
Margaret Porter
Fred Satterstrom
Janet Shull
Other City Staff Other Ouests
Roger Lubovich Lyle Price
Carol Morris
XIJTMAN SERVICES ROUNDTABLE UPDATE (Lin Ball)
Senior Planner Ball did not have an update at this meeting.
SEVERE WEATHER SHELTER FOR HOMELESS (Lin Ball)
Senior Planner Ball reviewed a proposal that came to the Planning Committee
in response to a need that was voiced by the Human Services providers in our
community and also recognized by our Human Services Commission and by City
Staff. Ms. Ball stated a number of homeless in Kent is growing and the
agencies are seeing an increasingly number of persons that are being turned
away each night either due to their facilities being at capacity or not
having appropriate facilities to send the homeless to. For instance, there
is no shelter for single men in all South King County. In response to this
request for help, the Planning Department by working with the Human Services
Commission pulled together to form a task force to look at addressing this
need to provide severe weather emergency shelter. The committee members
involved consist of a broad spectrum of coalition of representatives from
Human Services Commission, Kent area churches, Human Services providers in
the community, and a number of other City departments.
The task force developed a proposal which was included in your packet. Ms.
Ball clarified the different groups that the proposal is dealing with, such
as single women, single men, and families.
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Tanning Department
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December 4, 1990
The resolution that was attached in the packet is being recommended to the
committee by the task force and the Human Services Commission. Ms. Ball
explained Sections 1 - 4 of the City's response for providing emergency
shelter during severe weather conditions as follows:
Section 1 - This refers to "emergency severe weather shelter crisis"
for nights in which the temperature is at or below 35
degrees fahrenheit.
Section 2 - This refers to providing the use of city building space
for shelter or other religious institution and/or private
sector.
Section 3 - This refers to the City shall contracting with a non-
profit human service agency approved by Kent Human
Services Commission, such as staffing for screening,
monitoring the shelter during the evening hours, security
and janitorial services.
Section 4 - This refers to the Human Services Commission considering
this proposal at their November 29th meeting and they
recommended that their emergency funding of $15,418 be
used to finance this emergency shelter. This money would
be used to pay for the staffing and also to buy the
motel/hotel vouchers.
Chair Mary Ecklund attended the meeting to offer his support to this
proposal. He explained the severity of the conditions in the area, for
example, between November 12 - 16 the food bank helped 20 households who were
homeless, 28 adults, and four children. On November 28th, there were four
households who were homeless, which included two individuals that were living
on the street, one individual living in a car, and one family of two parents
and two children. This information from the food bank gives an indication
that the conditions are more severe than we have had before.
Councilwomen Leona Orr made the MOTION and Council President SECONDED that
the Planning Committee take the amended recommendation for approval to full
City Council on December 4, 1990 of allocation of $15, 418 of emergency fund
to provide emergency shelter for the homeless during severe weather
conditions and recommendation of approval of a resolution outlining the
City's commitment to respond to the need for emergency severe weather shelter
for individuals and families. The amendment was is in Section 3 inserting
the highlighted word, "emergency severe shelter services" .
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Manning Department
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December 4, 1990
GROUP HOMES CLASS III (LAW DEPARTMENT)
City Attorney Roger Lubovich stated that there has not been any changes on
this issue from the last meeting. He recapped that since the legal
department got into this matter at the latter end of the project, the Law
Department had to do their own review of the proposal and report. This
additional review has raised the following areas of concern and discussion:
1. Screening of individuals
2. Dispersion - 1, 000 to 3, 000 feet for Group III
3 . The licensing requirements
4. The type of homes established under each of the three
classifications.
The direction given to the Law Department from the Planning Committee was for
Class II to be primarily juvenile, drug and alcohol rehabilitation persons,
for Class III for more violent State run facilities. A draft ordinance will
-be drawn up to be presented for approval at the January 2, 1990 Public
earing to the City Council.
NORTH PARK LOTS (R. Lubovich)
Attorney Roger Lubovich explained that research is now completed to determine
what effect the lot line adjustment Mr. Heutmaker did a year ago has on the
nonconforming amendment that was done in February 1990. Mr. Lubovich
reported that there is no change from the initial decision. This procedure
can be done administratively according to Option #3 (Rescission of Lot Line
Adjustment Approval) , which was moved and seconded at the November 6, 1990
Planning Committee meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 5:45 p.m.
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