Chair Hudson questions DHS on capital project selection and design

And what is DHS's process for choosing capital projects to fund?

Thank you for the question.

And again, all of the 55 publicly owned buildings are eligible for capital.

So we're not choosing.

We are kind of

ranking where the need is and where the project is in terms of the multi-year process that unfortunately a capital project needs to go through.

There are many steps involving different agencies.

So again, we identify through our, the Commissioner mentioned our AIMS system, our asset management system.

We're looking at violations.

We're looking at various formal and informal inspections, complaints, incidents to identify the priority repairs that are needed.

And those go to the top of the list of capital request projects.

And how does DHS work with providers on shelter repairs for city-owned facilities?

And that's the capital process.

So in addition, DHS operates only a handful of sites, even though we have 55 publicly owned.

The providers are contracted to operate most of those.

And what I just described is the same process, whether a provider is operating it or the city is.

Okay.

And what design and architectural principles does DHS use when designing shelters?

Does this differ for different shelter populations?

So thank you for the question, and it is an interesting one.

DHS does not have design principles.

I think what we rely on is the provider and their vision for what services they want to provide, the population they want to provide.

So when they bring a site to us or the plan for a site, they're already thinking, what population do I want to serve and how do I want to serve them?

So we rely on them and their discussions with architects and developers to kind of propose.

to us their ideal shelter.

So what about the purpose-built shelters?

You wouldn't...

That's exactly it.

Okay.