Council Member Brewer Questions Subcontracting Limits and Provider Communication

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Yes, and I wouldn't be sweated.

Do you affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth before this committee and to respond honestly to council member questions?

I do.

You may begin.

Thank you, Councilmember, and it's great to see you.

You too, Darrell.

Um, so we we are working closely with the Office of Community Safety on the additional investment of 14.8 million for the Office of Neighborhood Safety.

Um, we're working out details now on both how that's going to be um either amended or procured and which groups that it's going to, but it will support the place-based work, the precision work um that that team is doing on the ground.

So supporting the crisis management system, supporting the wrap around services, support supporting the HFIP hospital program as well.

And I just want to put a plug in for Hamill's an expansion to Hamill's because right now I'm using discretionary funding, which is fine, but they have not been designated an official site.

Um, and so we have King of Kings that is stretching pretty much most of the per peninsula, and then the supplemental funding I give to Queen's Royal Priesthood is like a stopgap.

So we need to expand those as especially as the summertime comes.

Okay.

And then the question on SYEP.

Thank you for that question.

Um I'm really excited about it because we we agree.

Um, we have our work learn and grow program, which um was created due to advocacy from the council many years ago.

That program serves 7,000 young people uh who were in SYEP and are able to extend their experiences through the school year, and we've found that like the impact of that program really um like is exponential on top of what they get through SYEBK SYEP because we're able to engage them throughout the school year.

We're able to offer college credits.

A lot of the young people who go through work learn and grow have received a college credit, um, over 20,000 of them uh in the past five years, and we have another a thousand people with our learn and earn program, which is also a full-year program.

And so I would say we definitely appreciate your advocacy.

There's tremendous, tremendous interest from young people for work learn and grow slots.

Um, and so it's definitely a place that as an agency we're looking to continue investing in and looking at how we can do more.

Thank you for that.

And I hope it is expanded.

My very first on the books job was summer youth employment program, and then I also worked through the school year.

It wasn't back then called what it's called now, but um, it definitely was helpful to get money in my own pocket.

So I advocate for that, and I know our amazing chair Stevens does as well.

But thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Brewer, followed by Wong.