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We inducted new member Jessica Locatelli today and then heard speaker Phil Kramer, executive director of the Santa Cruz Homeless Services Center.
Janet Coit, Jessica Locatelli, Karen McNamara
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Phil Kramer
Minutes of Rotary Club of SLV
Nov 29, 2017
Members in attendance: Judy, Linda, Don, Brenda, Janet, Julie, Mary, Mike, Steve, Ken, Karen, Ralph, Carol, Scott, Joe, Sue, Scott W, Bob.
Guests: Rachel Bickert, Ed Titus, Sibley Simon, Bill Holl, Tom Rohlf, Ron and Cindy Sekkel, Phil Kramer and Jessica Locatelli.
President Karen opened the meeting with the flag salute, introductions and Thought for the Day.
Announcements: Dec 9 Christmas Giving at Kmart; Dec 15 Christmas Party at Joe and Linda’s; Feb 14 SLV Speech Contest; Mar 6 Area Contest; Lacy J Dalton is performing on Apr 28 in Scotts Valley – a fundraiser for SV Rotary.
The club inducted Jessica Locatelli into SLV Rotary. Jessica was raised in Texas and lives in the Valley with her husband, Ty and daughter, Mia.
Guest Speaker: Phil Kramer is the Executive Director of the Homeless Services Center in Santa Cruz. He has been leading this non-profit for two years. Phil brought a video to share that describes the challenges facing the chronically homeless. 180/2020 is a program that had the goal of housing 180 people in SCC by 2020. They reached its goal in 2014 and today have housed over 600 chronically homeless people. Sibley Simon was recognized for his support of the program.
On any given day, they are approximately 560,000 people in the US (LA 58,000; Santa Cruz 2,250). Most of the homeless in Santa Cruz (68%) were living here before they became homeless. 200 people live in the emergency shelter on Coral St. They also have related services that include: homeward bound, intake assessment, mail services, showers, housing workshops, and employment services. It costs about $60-80,000 a year to provide services to a homeless person vs. $15,000-22,000 a year to house them in shelters.
The vision for the Homeless Service Center is--
We hold firmly to a vision that homelessness in Santa Cruz County is rare, brief and non-reoccurring.
Drawing: Lucky Brenda couldn’t find the joker!
The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 am
Minutes respectfully submitted by J. Haff