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Hi Karl Van Hamburg News North Bay. I'm outside the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. They held an emergency meeting this morning regarding the Joe Redondo Trail options moving forward to the next 60 to 100 days. More than 30 people spoke at this meeting. Some very complex options were presented over at the end of the day. The the board of Supervisors went with option B and I'll outline what that is briefly. We'll have more on this coming up on news in the North Bay. Now this option provides the purchase of up to six homes that would provide. Permanent supportive housing for up to 60 individuals that cost would be about five million dollars that would be completed. They hope in the next hundred days. Staff said. They're ready to make offers on four of those homes. Also permanent supportive housing master leases. This would be leased space that would serve approximately 20 individuals $750000 annually. That's a cost on that and again in the next 100 days wrapped around all of these are coordinated care all the mental health. And other services substance abuse detox at 15 additional beds for detox and substance abuse being allocated here. ongoing cost four point two million dollars on that and also something that's been a big part of the discussion immediate needs of people on the trail. The 200 people are so on the Joe Trail, How would that be addressed and that would be in the next 60 to 120 days? 60 to 180 days? I should say that would be a multiple site outdoor indoor shelter. The location hasn't been a. Yet there are many locations at the County owns within Sonoma County, one of them of course at the fairgrounds. There are several others that were discussed that would ramp up very soon. Some of the supervisors very concerned that that is not taking place yet and it should take place very quickly, they said. I'd like to see something happen within the next 30 days, not the next 60 days, so that may ramp up now, that would mean that there would be indoor outdoor shelters on at least two, possibly three locations in Sonoma County, providing geographical. To people who are on the trail who aren't ready to enter the permanent housing market, but they could go into the shelters and take advantage of services. There are certainly got the rain have wrap-around services like food, sanitation hygiene things like that. in the very short term, The idea is for a minimum of rat Patrol extra sanitation on the trail. Many of the supervisors spoke against fencing off the trail. That's been a big concern of not only the supervisors, but people live on the trail and the volunteers serving the homeless on the trail that the trail not be. Fenced off that there be access there. The supervisor spoke in favor of not fencing it off for now, but providing services like rat rat eradication, Vector education more hygiene on the trail more services like bathrooms and hand washing stations on the trail. There were several proposals for tiny homes. Things like that that various agencies have put together those proposals were forwarded to the the board of Supervisors and in fact, A lot of call for putting out a request for proposals to the community that would be proposals where money would be spent on some of these ideas that were put forward today. That would cost a lot less money in the proposers view and also how much more people much more quickly so a lot going on at the board of Supervisors meeting today, they move forward with some of the the proposals that the staff presented the options. I described to you and they'll be coming back and trying to get something done. hopefully by the end of this. The immediate needs out at the Joe Trail and also in the next 60 days to wrap that up and respond to greater needs throughout the community. There was a lot of talk, also about the other 2000 people or more 20 - 520 - 700 who aren't on the Joe Trail but are also homeless in Sonoma County and providing for their needs as well and having money and resources to do that. So we'll have more on this meeting on the response to the homeless situation on the trail coming up on news at the North Bay