Item 68 Passedunofficial
In plain language — from the agenda backup
This item authorizes an amendment to the city's agreement with Sunrise Community Church, which runs the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center in South Austin, to keep its street outreach and housing navigation services going. The amendment adds a one-time $250,000, bringing the total agreement to a cap of $1,000,000, with the new funding coming from the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 House Our People Endowment fund. For folks living unsheltered and the neighbors around them, this is about the on-the-ground work of connecting people to housing.
The official agenda language
Authorize negotiation and execution of an amendment to an agreement with Sunrise Community Church d/b/a Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center to provide street outreach and housing navigation services, to add one-time funding in an amount not to exceed $250,000, for a revised total agreement not to exceed $1,000,000. Funding: $250,000 is available in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 House Our People Endowment fund.
"Without objection, item number 68 is approved." — meeting transcript (unofficial)
What got said
- Velasquez added direction to release ZO/Sunrise data, coordinate feedback, and report on eviction prevention
- South Austin neighborhood safety alliance sought family-services data and coordination protocols in writing