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frank murphy: Okay,

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frank murphy: Can I hear you?

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frank murphy: I can't hear you.

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frank murphy: Then you got that construction behind you.

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frank murphy: I can't hear you now. Huh!

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frank murphy: I'm not getting any audio

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vicki halliday: i'm on, but I need to be promoted.

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frank murphy: I can hear you.

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vicki halliday: I just need to be promoted. Hang on!

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frank murphy: She's a good.

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frank murphy: Do you hear me.

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vicki halliday: I can break.

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frank murphy: Okay, I can't hear. Jim.

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vicki halliday: Yeah, I need to be. Can you make me co-host? So I have control for screen?

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vicki halliday: Yeah, How do I do that. Let's see um.

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vicki halliday: If you go to my name there should be an option.

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frank murphy: Yeah,

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vicki halliday: make co-hosts all right easy enough. Thank you.

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frank murphy: That's way too easy,

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frank murphy: so can't hear you. Jim,

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frank murphy: and Jodi is Ah,

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vicki halliday: it's It's

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frank murphy: Jody. Can you hear?

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frank murphy: I don't know if he's got his uh

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frank murphy: He must have his camera off.

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vicki halliday: He does. That's It's on the thing he's not got. He's already. Video running.

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frank murphy: Looks like Jodie uh Jim may have left.

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vicki halliday: Well, let me. I'll watch for ten days.

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vicki halliday: Alright, You promote.

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frank murphy: Yeah, I don't have much to lay out here. I got it.

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frank murphy: I got a couple little points I wanted to make on the chair. But other than that,

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vicki halliday: okay, you know that's it. It'll be an early night tonight.

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vicki halliday: Don't say that I don't say that would be nice.

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frank murphy: He'll be here at midnight. You say that

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frank murphy: for reasons we'll never know.

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Jody Mortimer: Where do you get you off?

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Jody Mortimer: Can you hear me now?

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frank murphy: Yeah, I can hear you now.

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Jody Mortimer: Great. Okay, My camera on. Ever since I went to Windows eleven on my laptop, my camera does not work. It's really crazy. So I i'm gonna have to do it without the video. But Mr. Snyder is here with me,

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Jody Mortimer: and he'll be tested. He'll be up before the committee just It'll be under my name, I guess.

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frank murphy: Okay,

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frank murphy: That's on the homeless round table. Vicki:

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Jody Mortimer: Yes, that's kind of home sounded. Yeah, Larry Snyder

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Jody Mortimer: Barry. Larry.

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vicki halliday: Okay, i'll watch one,

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Jody Mortimer: and if you could resend me the link via an email, I may be able to go ahead and put it on my phone, and then we would have video. But it's no big deal.

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Jody Mortimer: Yeah, we'll try it. Okay, If you can resend the link to an email, I can try it on my phone. Let me look at that.

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Jody Mortimer: It's there to the Gmail or I don't

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vicki halliday: Just when you think you've got everything organized

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Jody Mortimer: but a clickable range.

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vicki halliday: Yeah, it should be. That's um.

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I'll hold on to it.

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Jody Mortimer: Liz won't be here. And is it? Jody? Three, one, five, seven at Gmail. Got you? That'll work. Is it? Will that work?

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vicki halliday: I just said to you,

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frank murphy: I think Brian will be here.

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vicki halliday: Yeah, I just had an email from him. So did you?

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frank murphy: Yeah,

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Jody Mortimer: okay, I'm going to go ahead and leave this meeting and go in on my phone.

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vicki halliday: It's:

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frank murphy: so we'll miss Liz and we'll miss Co: that.

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vicki halliday: Okay?

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vicki halliday: Yeah, If you had noticed the amount of gnats around here this year,

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vicki halliday: yeah, One flew into my eye, and I reached up like this. It bit me. That's what this dark spot is. I woke up two mornings with

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vicki halliday: all this swollen. Oh, wow,

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vicki halliday: little bastards! There's

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frank murphy: Yep,

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frank murphy: Yep, Yep. Yep.

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frank murphy: I understand.

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vicki halliday: Hey, Stan, I didn't know Frank Murphy. I wouldn't.

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frank murphy: There you go

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Ansar Muhammad: uh It's good to know people. Man:

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frank murphy: Yeah, we're grabbing a few people here.

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Jody Mortimer: Okay, I just had to. I have to go through my my computer. Hi, Stan!

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Jody Mortimer: Hey, Joey, how are you doing? I?

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Jody Mortimer: We're going to hear from you tonight.

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Ansar Muhammad: Jody's got Larry Snyder on the homeless roundtable after your presentation. Stan.

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Ansar Muhammad: Say that again, Frank,

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Jody Mortimer: I said. What Jody has gotten. Larry Snyder is going to join us tonight on the homeless roundtable after your presentation.

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Ansar Muhammad: Okay,

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Jody Mortimer: recently housed in Venice, over at the Silver living on Brooks.

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frank murphy: Now we got it

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frank murphy: all right, all right. Some of these folks here.

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frank murphy: I just have a couple things I'll bring up under the chair, report thing, and then

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frank murphy: and then uh we're off and running,

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frank murphy: and we got the minutes in, So they're they're posted so hopefully.

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frank murphy: If we have a

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frank murphy: we have a quorum, then we'll get a vote on that

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vicki halliday: for him. How many do we need for Forum?

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vicki halliday: I think it's five. Okay. So we need somebody else to show up like V. I know Brian or Pat,

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frank murphy: and that was

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frank murphy: without a tablet, but he was working it out, so i'm not sure if he's here or not,

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frank murphy: i'll give him a call,

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frank murphy: Hey, Pat, you'll be able to join us.

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frank murphy: Oh, no, that's not the right one. Yeah, you should be pick up uh Can you get the Homelessness Committee on your

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frank murphy: on your um.

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frank murphy: You got it,

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Jody Mortimer: hey? Brian

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Brian U: can't wait to hear your pal. I don't know, because i'm not seeing it. Let me mute here.

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Brian U: Okay, Did you get my message on that one?

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Brian U: Yeah, it's It's

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Brian U: I'll do what I can. Brian. There's some rules.

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Brian U: I got it. Yeah, he's just really. I I dread it

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Brian U: because I got those two.

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Brian U: Yep, he's back.

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Brian U: How are you, Stan?

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Brian U: I'm pretty sure really, really good. Thanks. It doesn't do any good to complain.

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Brian U: I love. I love your gal sugar.

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Ansar Muhammad: Yeah, she's solid man.

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Brian U: Yeah, We've been trying to help a lady that was getting kicked out of her house in Anglewood.

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vicki halliday: We move each other.

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Brian U: Well, that's how she called me. I think she got my number from you

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Ansar Muhammad: for our agency, but she she come up out of them streets, man. So

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Brian U: yeah, she's a sweetheart twenty seven years to

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Brian U: twenty-seven. Yeah, it's awesome

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Ansar Muhammad: lot of people in her age bracket out of oak wood didn't make it this far.

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Brian U: It's a

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Ansar Muhammad: and she's holding on and giving back. Man, it's beautiful thing.

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Ansar Muhammad: I knew I knew it when I was a boy.

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Brian U: She's Mom, they call me man. That's awesome. Yeah, she's good.

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Brian U: She's a sweetheart lady that has a heart of gold. Absolutely.

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Brian U: Yeah.

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Brian U: yeah, she says nice things

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Brian U: about you and

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Brian U: believe it or not. She says nice things about me, too. So it's.

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Ansar Muhammad: Was you able to get that person? Place?

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Brian U: Yeah, It was interesting because I guess the person that we placed. She had a boyfriend, and the boyfriend knew you guys, and in actuality it was

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Brian U: the girl, not the boyfriend. That was, you know. It was her place, and she had gotten a three day notice to pay her quit, and she had a job, and she gotten fired the week before, and I just tried to help her get into

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Brian U: Ah being able to. She thought she was going to get kicked out

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Brian U: that some things were in her favor, and so hopefully she got to stay, and she went right to the courthouse that day. She followed directions, and actually did the light work and sugar was in.

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Brian U: Yeah

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Brian U: help to counter a lot go through that process so

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Brian U: got a lot of phone calls and stuff. So it's

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Brian U: ah

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Ansar Muhammad: outreach at his best.

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Brian U: Yeah. Sometimes when it works it it's It's amazing

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Brian U: that we had a Senator.

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Brian U: Then

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Brian U: Allen, is it? Yeah.

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Brian U: And Aaron darling, follow this year outreach team down Third Street. I think we house three people right in front of them.

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Brian U: Well, and there was a bridge housing guy that was doing outreach trying to get people in the bridge housing. He walks up and go. Why, don't you have these people inside bridge housing?

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Brian U: Because a big difference in this what the big difference in your business? It's like lived experience. It's all it is.

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Brian U: You can do what other people can't, because been there done that, and

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Brian U: you can't have outreach workers that can't speak that language.

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Ansar Muhammad: We call it the license to operate

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Ansar Muhammad: the Lto.

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Brian U: They are,

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Ansar Muhammad: I didn't add it to the Powerpoint tonight, but that is a very uh

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Ansar Muhammad: critical piece to even have a success, and anything around this homeless issue. You got to have the Lto

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Brian U: nicely.

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Brian U: That is the only reason we're successful.

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frank murphy: All right, guys. Well, we got a qualm,

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frank murphy: and it's a little bit past seven. That's tempting to get on. Colette won't be able to make it tonight, and Liz will not be able to make it tonight,

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frank murphy: so we should get pad here in a little bit. He's working on some bugs, and otherwise we're good to go.

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Brian U: So roll call is Franks here, Brian Harrick, Vicki. Here, Stan Jody,

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frank murphy: Jodie,

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frank murphy: all right. We got everybody. We have the

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frank murphy: review comment, adopt the minutes. The eight hundred and twenty seven minutes are posted on the website.

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frank murphy: Does anybody have any um

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frank murphy: um issues with the minutes.

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Brian U: I I'd i'd awesome.

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Brian U: We can notice all i'll. Second

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frank murphy: All right. Okay, So the vote is nobody's subjecting. So that's good.

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frank murphy: All right. Um,

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frank murphy: let me just mark that down before I forget

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frank murphy: this Isn't here. All right.

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frank murphy: So what I have is a chair Report just a couple minutes

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frank murphy: couple of points that I wanted to bring up.

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frank murphy: Ah, one is There's an ah unsubstantiated rumor that I became aware of the La Times supposedly reported that the Bmc. Homelessness Committee invited, invited, and set up a walk around with Sheriff Villa Nueva had been a speech.

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frank murphy: There was no such event orchestrated by this committee, and we have yet to find an article in the La Times that substantiates that.

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frank murphy: So we'll continue on that and see what camera. But if it's not a rumor. It's not a rumor. But at this point that's all we can say.

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frank murphy: We got the new homeless counts were put out by Lhasa.

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frank murphy: They represent a substantial decline from two thousand and twenty to two thousand and twenty, two in Cd, eleven of thirty, seven percent. And in Venice of fifty, one percent.

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frank murphy: With that being said. As we all know, Venice accounts for five percent of the area, fourteen percent of the population and sixteen percent of the housing stock of all of Cd. Eleven, while still accommodating forty, five percent of the homeless population

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frank murphy: keep in mind, though, that the homeless population for all of the city of L. A. Has increased by four percent. So Cd eleven went down by thirty, seven percent, but the overall number increased by four percent.

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frank murphy: So there is a big shuffle going on of some sort somewhere

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frank murphy: which we need to be observing of, and i'll get that report out when I get to it.

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frank murphy: Ah! I want to state again, as I've stated at several of the other meetings, that homeless being accommodated on the streets of sidewalks of our community and the city as a whole is the most inhumane brutal and unsafe emergency shelter situation

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frank murphy: for both the unhoused and the housed population.

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frank murphy: This is not a zero-sum games, jail versus street, as some would have you believe.

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frank murphy: I've been aware of multiple solutions for cost effective emergency shelter presented to the powers that be from this committee from the Board members of the Bnc. And from knowledgeable folks of the Venice community Over the years I've been

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frank murphy: aware of those. Anyhow, I just wanted to make those statements, and that is it for the chair

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frank murphy: report.

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frank murphy: And now I wanted to

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frank murphy: go into

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frank murphy: Stan. Muhammad has been working in the Venice community for decades,

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frank murphy: and has been participating in the local governance of this area for decades also, and has been

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frank murphy: a huge asset to the community, and we wanted to. He's going to make a presentation

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frank murphy: about himself, and the efforts that he and his organization have put forth

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frank murphy: continued to do so in the Venice community in the La at large,

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frank murphy: and we will, after presenting Stan, will participate in an exchange focused on homelessness as it impacts Venice with the committee members and the public.

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frank murphy: Stan requested that the public be invited in on questions.

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frank murphy: The um

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frank murphy: questions from committee members will come first with public following. Each questioner will have one minute to present a question, and we'll have thirty seconds for a follow-up question.

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frank murphy: We will be strict with this so stay to the point and keep it short.

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frank murphy: Stan:

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Ansar Muhammad: Well, first thank you. Chair, Frank Murphy, and all of the committee members for this opportunity

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Ansar Muhammad: to do a brief presentation on the

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Ansar Muhammad: that I've been involved in over the past twenty to twenty five years. My name is Sam Mohammed. I'm. The executive director,

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Ansar Muhammad: the Helper Foundation, also known as venice two thousand

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Ansar Muhammad: um Coming out of a multi-generational gang and drug founding in the area of venice called oak wood.

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Ansar Muhammad: I grew up there on Westminster by twenty, four,

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vicki halliday: let's see, Stan.

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vicki halliday: I know that you you call Bryant when share is a possibility. But when it comes to other housing things, I mean, Who do you rely on in French housing? Um St. Joseph's for vouchers?

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vicki halliday: How long did you have to go to

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Ansar Muhammad: men?

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Ansar Muhammad: It's unfortunate that I have to say that,

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Ansar Muhammad: but I don't want to deal with a case manager. I don't want to deal with it. Now I want to deal with the person who can make the decision. At the time of the decision to be made

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Ansar Muhammad: for an example, I had a situation this today. This evening

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Ansar Muhammad: I was told that one of my guys

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Ansar Muhammad: might have a warning. Okay, I'm like, Well, let me let me do something. You know who i'll call Captain.

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Ansar Muhammad: Okay, i'm going right to the top. And even though he doesn't have a warrant, but I went right to the top because a lot of times, and in this unfortunate, but I don't have to. I don't have access to the executive directors and people who can make the decision, because when you're out there doing outreach.

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Ansar Muhammad: You want to be able to plug direct. Okay, you don't want to set. At least I don't want to set myself up.

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Ansar Muhammad: I I call somebody that really Don't have the power

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Ansar Muhammad: could do anything. And then what happens if it goes back to the Lto. The license operate? I can lose that license to operate. If I don't have the power,

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Ansar Muhammad: I can only, you know, refer back to Brian because I've done it.

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Ansar Muhammad: He would come out in some cases and and really start doing so.

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Ansar Muhammad: Have those other linkages. Now the spy, because this this age,

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Ansar Muhammad: the Nasa direct connect, because I've been called outfit. We've come across a youth that's homeless, or could be well. Being a gang involved, I can call my God,

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Ansar Muhammad: which works for my agency, which is Alfie, and then Alfie will walk that person through the process.

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vicki halliday: Thank you.

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Jody Mortimer: Very well,

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frank murphy: Tony. I can barely hear you.

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Jody Mortimer: How about now? Can you hear me? Now?

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Brian U: You're good.

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Yeah, let's see what we're doing.

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My! I

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Jody Mortimer: I live on my way of five to nine.

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Jody Mortimer: I can't. I can't. I can't hear you.

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vicki halliday: You got a good smell, Jody

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Jody Mortimer: still Can't hear me.

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vicki halliday: Yeah, don't move.

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Jody Mortimer: I want to say thank you. I remember your guys coming to deliver food here on Fifth and Broadway, where I live, and they did it During Covid there was a really very great thing to do. I have a question about

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Jody Mortimer: what's the difference between the circle and the foundation, and again you re iterate. Why, your foundation

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of the

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Ansar Muhammad: you know we kind of break it. I heard I heard some of it.

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Ansar Muhammad: The difference between health. A foundation in circle is, we are grassroots indigenous.

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Ansar Muhammad: I don't know where circle came from. If it was the

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Ansar Muhammad: the group that came from San Francisco

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Ansar Muhammad: Urban Albumy. I know there are bases in San Francisco, but that's the difference. We are indigenous to the community. We are grassrooted. We are founded in Venice,

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Jody Mortimer: and when I look connected I've spoken to both candidates about this,

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Jody Mortimer: that again. You would be interested in that kind of role absolutely.

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Ansar Muhammad: I want to give Spy a shout out because they had enough intelligence to say, You know that we in this neighborhood we don't know the dynamics of it. But we here. But we're going to contract with the agency that know. And so spy We've been in a subcontract with them for the last three years,

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Ansar Muhammad: and it should be that way with every organization that's in Venice is providing services and minutes. They should do the contract with us, or in some cases. Some will say they need to give us a contract altogether.

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Ansar Muhammad: We're not that type, I mean. You know it's enough for everybody in terms of that piece.

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Ansar Muhammad: We're not connected there dirty, but also that a change.

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Yeah, I hope so, too. I'll be in your corner.

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Ansar Muhammad: We've you're breaking up. We can't hear you,

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I said, I I don't. I don't.

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vicki halliday: I'll hear you, Jenny.

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Jody Mortimer: I'm done that, Mike. We can't hear you,

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Ansar Muhammad: he said. He's done okay, as I understood it

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Brian U: in the audience.

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Yeah,

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Brian U: Stan: I Yeah, I admire everything about you. We met doing outreach down on Penmark, and I I got the eyewitness a lot of the stuff you did, and just have utmost respect. I think the main thing that I think the community needs to understand is

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Brian U: maybe how bad is the gang problem in Venice and the drug trade. Ah, the bridge housing is full of gang members or their sales team that they employ to distribute drugs. The gang members run the boardwalk, they go and run all the streets,

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Brian U: and i'm not asking you to rout out who any of them are. But the fact is, the homeless or the sales team for the gangs.

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Brian U: Can you educate a little bit of this group as to how much money a gang member can make, or how much money one of their sales guys makes, because and then the repercussions that happen when the the homeless person that

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Brian U: it's given a a bundle to go sell, and then comes back without money, or it comes back and doesn't honor the agreement that was made, and I think you know Your big effect is the old boys. But there's still a lot of young young gang members who want to cut their own their own way through, and

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Brian U: So if you could just spend a moment and and tell these people that there are gang members in every permanent support of housing member

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Brian U: one of their sales, People in every bridge housing and in all the encampments throughout are all controlled by this population.

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Ansar Muhammad: Yeah, So thank you, Bryce, ahead of her. With that uh

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Ansar Muhammad: question. I I can't tell you

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Ansar Muhammad: where money is being made. But if it was in the mid eightys, I can tell you.

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Ansar Muhammad: Ah,

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Ansar Muhammad: because that's when I was out there doing what I was doing, upsetting, and he was. And so I don't know what kind of money is being generated. But you are one hundred percent correct.

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Ansar Muhammad: There is an element attached

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Ansar Muhammad: to every encampment, and in some cases you have fallen gang members who have fallen away from the gang. Lifestyle

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Ansar Muhammad: is homeless, like Alfie Jones, for an example, former gang member.

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Ansar Muhammad: But that's happening throughout, but it's not just in Venice, but throughout the

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Ansar Muhammad: probably the county. Why is this happening? Well, when you take away the

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Ansar Muhammad: resources, take away opportunity. The

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Ansar Muhammad: uh take away.

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Ansar Muhammad: But in some cases family structures is destroyed,

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Ansar Muhammad: and a person. Let's say, if i'm gonna use myself, let's say

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Ansar Muhammad: I was out there right now.

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Ansar Muhammad: But i'm going to use my cloud

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Ansar Muhammad: to do everything that I can number one to make money

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Ansar Muhammad: to support my habit

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Ansar Muhammad: to make sure that

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Ansar Muhammad: you know folks that's coming in is in some cases paying their way in, because that's just part of the underworld.

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Ansar Muhammad: But from what I'm being told, the met is so, and we're not even talking about Fentanyl. But the math is so

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Ansar Muhammad: here

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Ansar Muhammad: some of these folks might be making their own concoction

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Ansar Muhammad: in some case. I think we've had a few fires so, but to get to the point. Yet if the gang element is present

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Ansar Muhammad: um folks,

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it's going to always represent Venice,

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Ansar Muhammad: the younger generation don't listen to the older generation because a lot of times. The younger generation is suffering

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Ansar Muhammad: from using themselves, and they they they don't want folks to notice. I've got young homies right now, man, that you know they embarrassed to even have conversation with me in some cases,

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Ansar Muhammad: you know. But i'm not there to judge them. I just tell him I love you guys right and do the best you can. They'd be like me. I want a job I want. They all they know that we hire folks from the community. So do you really want a job? Yeah, we'll send you a resume. I don't have a resume.

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Ansar Muhammad: The game is the gang element. Is there the good news. It's the guys that I showed you

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Ansar Muhammad: these ambassadors. When I tell you men the work that they do,

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if

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Ansar Muhammad: it's phenomenal, because at the end of the day. For an example, two weeks ago, when it was raining real bad,

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Ansar Muhammad: a

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Ansar Muhammad: rival gang, not Culver City, but a rival La gang on the is still on the west side,

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Ansar Muhammad: down off the Cadillac and Venice Bend arch enemies for Venice for many, many years, probably thirty, plus

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Ansar Muhammad: the on a Sunday where they had to come through their Sunday morning. But if this is what it was random, real hard

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Ansar Muhammad: when everybody woke up At first I get a call from Lapda. Did you see the day?

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Ansar Muhammad: Yes,

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Ansar Muhammad: there was game writing all over the Park,

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Ansar Muhammad: and so

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Ansar Muhammad: the of the day. We have to deal with this element, whether you see it or not, it's there.

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Ansar Muhammad: So, dealing with the encampments. If there is an open market, and it is,

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Ansar Muhammad: it's not no piano.

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Ansar Muhammad: There's

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Ansar Muhammad: Don't know what to do for market.

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Ansar Muhammad: You wouldn't survive.

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Ansar Muhammad: So at the end of the day we have to deal with these dynamics, and

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Ansar Muhammad: and it's rough to deal. And this is why I think some people is afraid

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Ansar Muhammad: to deal with this situation, because when you start doing intentional outreach with this. But there's, what you're going to run up against.

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Ansar Muhammad: You've got to run up against the gangle

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Ansar Muhammad: a lot of times people shy away from that

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Ansar Muhammad: when I say people meaning these so-called outreach workers that if you're not from Venice,

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Ansar Muhammad: he's not going to get nowhere.

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Ansar Muhammad: The other element That, of course, is the drug use in sale. But there's another element

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Ansar Muhammad: which is prostitution.

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Ansar Muhammad: So when we start looking at any encampment right now

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Ansar Muhammad: from the lens of an outreach expert, I look at those two things

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Ansar Muhammad: Do we have a bad element? Is it homegrown? Is it Venice or not? And i'll give one? I'll get one example,

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Ansar Muhammad: and i'm not going to call the street,

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Ansar Muhammad: but I I was asked to come out when one Saturday, and it was

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Ansar Muhammad: in canvas everywhere.

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Ansar Muhammad: We were walking around like

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Ansar Muhammad: pad naked

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Ansar Muhammad: one in candidates. You got to pim

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Ansar Muhammad: the other candidate. You got to met the other in Cam that you got the job. The other in chemist. You got to gang members not just one.

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Ansar Muhammad: So when I get there i'm looking around to see if I know anybody,

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Ansar Muhammad: and I didn't know these people.

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Ansar Muhammad: And so when I began to ask questions, when I identified a potential gang member because of how he was looking,

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Ansar Muhammad: come to find out, this guy was from Los Angeles

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Ansar Muhammad: has been there for quite a while. He was a supplier, but a user at the same time.

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Ansar Muhammad: So ultimately. But I did, I said, You know what now that I know where you from, because we have a nationwide network of peacemakers

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Ansar Muhammad: put a phone call in

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Ansar Muhammad: to his neighborhood, and over there with an ambassador. Do the same work with I

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Ansar Muhammad: less than two dollars. This guy packed up.

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Ansar Muhammad: It's not.

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Ansar Muhammad: What did that do for that in captain. Everybody over there was getting high, and he was at the getting dressed from him.

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We'll see less.

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Ansar Muhammad: What did that do for that encampment?

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Ansar Muhammad: Everybody else we located, because they couldn't get high no more, or they couldn't get their drugs if they was going.

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Ansar Muhammad: So the elements is there, and I hope those of you who's in the audience Never think that they're not.

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Ansar Muhammad: The unfortunate part is some of my guys man that is

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living in in that environment is former gang members, Matt,

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Ansar Muhammad: and it it it hurts my heart to see it.

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Ansar Muhammad: But uh, as a recovering addict Um,

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Ansar Muhammad: you got a warning,

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Ansar Muhammad: you know I can't want it no more than what they want to for themselves. But I go check on them, periodic, you know. See how they do it.

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Ansar Muhammad: Thank you for the question.

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Brian U: But why Don't? We hear from the service providers about the gang problem or the politicians, and have them? You'd think that they would point to that and say, Hey, we can't do this successful because of this. Are they fearful

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Brian U: It's a retaliation

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Ansar Muhammad: gonna say it wouldn't be. I wouldn't call it retaliation. But i'll absolutely say this,

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Ansar Muhammad: and it goes back to the license to operate

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Brian U: right. Yes,

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Ansar Muhammad: if you don't, so there's nothing to just glass over the situation.

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Ansar Muhammad: Come out with a clipboard and a sack, lunch and talk to the guy that may not be involved with that lifestyle. But it's another thing, and That's why this is called intention.

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Ansar Muhammad: Met for drugs and prostitution.

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Ansar Muhammad: All three of them lead to more than likely a gang time,

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Ansar Muhammad: and if there's a local gang time. It makes my job easy. It makes our staff job user because now we know. But if it's the outside like right now, we got people.

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Ansar Muhammad: I'm going to call the street. But we got some guys out of Chicago,

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Ansar Muhammad: South Siders

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Ansar Muhammad: right now in Venice,

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Ansar Muhammad: so I know what they're doing,

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Ansar Muhammad: and I have to make calls into Chicago,

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Ansar Muhammad: because at the end of the day when you deal with these type of individuals, you

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Ansar Muhammad: you have to know how to deal with them.

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Ansar Muhammad: So when the cause was made into Chicago and I came back and gave some names, that's what they did for me.

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Ansar Muhammad: We built a report based on what I knew in Chicago.

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Ansar Muhammad: Those of you who Haven't had against the the south side.

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Ansar Muhammad: Cass is to the pistols man at twelve years old, thirteen years old.

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Ansar Muhammad: It's all about you and the license. Now, right now I can go and do some more outreach with these guys, because now I was able to.

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vicki halliday: Okay, we got the Shawn O'brien Shawn. You want to ask. Stand a question.

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Sean Obrien: Oh, yes, hi! Very interesting. Thank you. Spanish support you and your ah helper foundation, the ah Venice! Two thousand. Thank you for all your energies and your time and your dedication.

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Ansar Muhammad: Truly amazing. I'm still very upset at the city, not bringing you into the conversation for all these years. Pity on in, he may have been able to get re-elected if he had worked with you, but I? My question is

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Sean Obrien: the gang element you address? Very well. I want to thank Brian for answering that and following up.

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Sean Obrien: Ah, but as that was going on. Ah! I kind of thought of how first we had the Jones. Ah, the Jones settlement, which we ah had an agreement with the city that Ah, sleeping in tents was permitted.

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Sean Obrien: Ah! Between, I think, like nine at night to like six in the morning, where they can erect their tents, and then Covid like changed all that, and then we had another lawsuit where personal property got involved.

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Sean Obrien: Would your job be easier if those policies remained in force where these semi-permanent structures were,

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Sean Obrien: we're all not allowed, and maybe

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Sean Obrien: ah, it would help your outreach because you know they'd have to tear down and and and I don't want to say pack up, but not just have these these permanent structures, so I guess my question would be, How are the permanent structures making it more difficult for you.

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Sean Obrien: Thank you again. Stan:

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Ansar Muhammad: Welcome. So yeah, absolutely. If the the hardnesses and

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Ansar Muhammad: policies and law and all that stuff was was being enforced. It would absolutely make things a lot better for everybody.

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Ansar Muhammad: But again I came into this whole piece

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Ansar Muhammad: dealing with this homeless issue,

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Ansar Muhammad: because we had them elements attached to an area that I moved the hormones.

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Brian U: It was terrified they would not come out of the front of the house. They were used to alley.

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Ansar Muhammad: Um! They was afraid for their grandchildren to walk outside, because there was needles and all kind of paraphernalia on the streets. They were, even when they came out on the front they would not walk on the sidewalks, because they didn't have enough room to walk on the sidewalk. So that's how I was

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Ansar Muhammad: brought into this whole issue around the homeless. And when I got involved I realized that if people in addressing these things the homeless stuff is not going to go away

572
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Ansar Muhammad: that millions of dollars was being put into housing one thousand dollars, I mean. So if you can't address it through things on this,

573
01:03:49.300 --> 01:03:51.589
Ansar Muhammad: homelessness is not going to go away in,

574
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Ansar Muhammad: so you're right. If the law was being enforced,

575
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Ansar Muhammad: yes, people would have to break down the campus and whatnot, but we still got human beings that suffer

576
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Ansar Muhammad: these human beings, whether they be mental

577
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Ansar Muhammad: drugs, etcetera, still need help and support.

578
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Ansar Muhammad: The question is, How do we get the service providers more connected.

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Ansar Muhammad: They come on and give you a beautiful rundown on what it is that they do.

580
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Ansar Muhammad: So i'm sharing with you, and I can show you and tell you that we haven't had a murder, a gang murder

581
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Ansar Muhammad: between the two rival games, and it's been a historic

582
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Ansar Muhammad: every year up until maybe eight years ago.

583
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Ansar Muhammad: That's because when we was able to get the resources, which is very little, we,

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Brian U: the Mayor's office, we hired a whole Latino team to represent Memphis.

585
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Ansar Muhammad: So we have ambassadors over there.

586
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Ansar Muhammad: We have an ambassadors and Guinness, and they communicate, and they they they collaborate

587
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Ansar Muhammad: to make sure that these young guys still hate each other and start over making commitment to nuisance. So yes, law is a part of it. But when you break down in kindness and take away the tents. You still got a human being, and these services need help. Now, there is a population out there

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Ansar Muhammad: that's probably less than five percent.

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Ansar Muhammad: And I've said this to the providers. I believe I've said it to St. Joseph's. I said it to be Cac and others. But

590
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Ansar Muhammad: you can build a mansion

591
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Ansar Muhammad: something that's going to happen, you know they're going to turn your mansion out,

592
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Ansar Muhammad: that person. How do we help or make sure that that person is not

593
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Ansar Muhammad: having are creating a public safety loosens,

594
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Ansar Muhammad: you can do that.

595
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Ansar Muhammad: And as to have the relationship with enough respect that got to come from that person, If that person know that you're providing the services, and in this particular area, if that person is going to respect your area.

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Ansar Muhammad: But that is less than five percent of the population again.

597
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Ansar Muhammad: You can talk to them. They don't want to be out here on the beach. Man. Is there something wrong with that. You know what I tell him. It's not

598
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Ansar Muhammad: not at all, man. Enjoy your life and be happy.

599
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Ansar Muhammad: But again, we have to build those type of relationships to even get that person to consider

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Ansar Muhammad: respect in the area that you may be providing services there.

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Sean Obrien: Thank you, Stan. But to follow up on that kind of an angle I was let go, and I agree. Yes, that these are people,

602
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Sean Obrien: and thank you for reminding me on that.

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Sean Obrien: Ah, but if they didn't have these structures that they like to call home that are almost permanent. It seemed like they'd be a lot more willing to accept help to accept service.

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Ansar Muhammad: Then, saying, No, you know, you know, and then they go back and do their little T, or whatever they have. But you know it's a whole carrot and stick thing

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Sean Obrien: you know you. You make it difficult, for

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Sean Obrien: you know, and i'm not saying like cruelly or anything. My word, i'm! I'm choosing my words poorly, but you don't make them as comfortable as they are now. I think they'd be more willing to accept service.

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Ansar Muhammad: My final question is, do you agree with the loss of numbers on the West Side that homelessness has has decreased,

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Sean Obrien: you know, and you're You're a guy who's feet on the ground. So you would, you would have a real good indication of these numbers that came out with lots of thanks.

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Ansar Muhammad: You're welcome, I I mean, I agree with you one hundred percent, I think the members across the county Ah! Speaks valuable. I think it's nearly seventy thousand homeless people, sixty nine thousand one hundred and forty-four. The last time I checked Ah, in terms of West Side, I would say yes, based on my

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Ansar Muhammad: not based on that or based on loss of the base of what I see

611
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Ansar Muhammad: when I, when I travel through Venice, or you know, get out of walk. I'm seeing lesser

612
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Ansar Muhammad: campus. Then I saw a year or two ago. I don't know what state it is, and I hope it comes to my mind but

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Ansar Muhammad: one state. I think they decided to give every and I and I know that it might be kind of far-fetched, but every homeless person I think up to twelve thousand dollars a year

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Ansar Muhammad: right, and I don't know what state that was in, but i'm still

615
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Sean Obrien: Denver,

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Ansar Muhammad: we're not going to be doing something like that.

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Ansar Muhammad: You know what I mean. Of course people are saying Now they just gonna go get tired with it. But just imagine that man So you got, and i'm just thinking up outside the box, you got millions coming in.

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Ansar Muhammad: How much is that

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Ansar Muhammad: is in syllabized

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Ansar Muhammad: to get a person to say? You know what

621
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Ansar Muhammad: I don't know. I don't know this.

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Ansar Muhammad: It makes you at home no more.

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Ansar Muhammad: How many, how many dollars is in televised for the population

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Ansar Muhammad: where that person can say, Look, man, you give me one thousand dollars. I'm not a here

625
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Ansar Muhammad: or get me five hundred, and I'm going back to Kansas or whatever

626
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Ansar Muhammad: i'm just wondering how much of that money that's coming into the West Side, and maybe that can be a conversation later

627
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Ansar Muhammad: has been and televised to really give, not just

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Ansar Muhammad: services, but actual tangible dollars

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Ansar Muhammad: to the homeless population. And will that be another way to get a person off the street? And i'm i'm only saying that because I had to incentivize coffee, Jones. I couldn't say, Alfie,

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Ansar Muhammad: you know you get kind of so, but we're going to church to go,

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Ansar Muhammad: even though he joined the church, and he's he's a saved man. I said, Alfie, you're cleaned up, and i'm gonna give you a job.

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Ansar Muhammad: He's making twenty five dollars an hour now thirty, two to thirty, two hours a week, so you'll do the man.

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Ansar Muhammad: He has an apartment he's in church. He's taken care of his family, but I had to incentivize that I didn't care about his background, and what he went through.

634
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Ansar Muhammad: I just had to make that happen for him. So what if he did that across the board.

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Ansar Muhammad: How many

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Ansar Muhammad: this is deep, How many folks

637
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Ansar Muhammad: we can say It's working

638
01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:59.910
Ansar Muhammad: like I can point to outfit. But how many

639
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Ansar Muhammad: people we can say is working for these providers that was once homeless.

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Yeah,

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Brian U: not a lot, not a lot of lived experience in that.

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frank murphy: Yeah, Aaron.

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frank murphy: All right, stand.

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frank murphy: This was great.

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vicki halliday: Let's Let's let you off. Let's let you off the hotspot here. I don't see any more.

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vicki halliday: Oh, wait a minute, my go ahead,

647
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vicki halliday: My!

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frank murphy: I can hear

649
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vicki halliday: anybody else want to back to my

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vicki halliday: I would like to say one thing: we should welcome Louie and Louie. I don't know how to pronounce your last name, is it in labor? And Louis is a new field Rep. For Cd. Eleven from Oh, okay. So I wanted to welcome Louis and um, you know. Thank you for coming. He's got a stand up.

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vicki halliday: Um! There you go, Louie.

652
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frank murphy: Let's hear from Louis

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vicki halliday: a lot of talk.

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Brian U: Thank you so much for the invitation, and thank you for the compassion and care with which you all approach community building and troubleshooting some of the really challenging issues. And Venice and Vicki. You're right that it is pronounced labor. I'm just under a month in the role uh, but really thankful for how welcoming you all have been in. I'm i'm learning a lot. I'm active

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Louie Leiva (he/him): notes. Um! I am passing everything that I hear along to the Council member, and so our senior staff. Um. So again. Just thank you again for the work that you want to do as active advocates for the community. Um! And thank you again for the invitation to this committee. Um, I will put my email in the chat, and if you all need anything, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thanks. Y'all.

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vicki halliday: Thank you. Luli. Appreciate it.

657
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vicki halliday: Um,

658
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vicki halliday: we must go.

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frank murphy: He's

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vicki halliday: Bill.

661
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Ansar Muhammad: Well, it was muted.

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vicki halliday: Okay, how about now?

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frank murphy: All right, I learned how to work this technology uh Stan Muhammad. I'm glad you included one of those old guys like me in your slides.

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bill: I have so much respect for what you do and what you've been through to to get where you're able to do it. And even though I've never met him the same for

665
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bill: anyone else who's gone through the transformation that that helpers have gone through.

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bill: Um. I unfortunately arrived late,

667
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bill: and when I came I I heard you saying that you were. You were helping people where you used to sell drugs. That's the point at which I came in.

668
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bill: What did it take? Maybe you Maybe you already spoke about it before I got here?

669
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bill: Um to to to the uh Zoom.

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bill: What did it take

671
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bill: for you to change yourself, to get to the point where you could make that that change

672
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bill: before you could change others. You had to change yourself. I wonder if you already spoke about it?

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Ansar Muhammad: No, but I tell you what i'm licking that a picture. I thought I was gonna get up and go get it. But my mother man, she's resting in peace. She died in two thousand and ten,

674
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Ansar Muhammad: and it was her. It was that it was. It was her as an anchor. This is a the very Christian woman.

675
01:15:21.330 --> 01:15:30.920
Ansar Muhammad: Um! I was in prison man, and I was on a month one night, and I cried like a baby, and it just it hit me like there.

676
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Ansar Muhammad: You know all the shit that I did man to hurt her, and I told myself that these people let me out.

677
01:15:39.610 --> 01:15:43.450
Ansar Muhammad: I would never hurt my mother again. The way I heard of her growing up.

678
01:15:43.620 --> 01:15:46.720
Ansar Muhammad: So all of my passion and

679
01:15:46.770 --> 01:15:56.490
Ansar Muhammad: ambition and desire came as a result of me, trying to prove trying to prove to my mother that i'm a changed man.

680
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Ansar Muhammad: It took her a while to come to that reality because I was a fuck up to your malage. All she knew was, my son is always into something,

681
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Ansar Muhammad: and so it took probably five years. I would. There would be days. I would go visit her, and she would look at me, and she,

682
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Ansar Muhammad: you ain't in this. You ain't doing that shit no more, is he? I'm like mama. Come on,

683
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Brian U: you ain't out there with your cousins. Come on, come on. They took their out man, and so the refresh he passed.

684
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Ansar Muhammad: We was in church, New Bethel Baptist Church

685
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Ansar Muhammad: past the day This was teaching,

686
01:16:36.790 --> 01:16:39.779
Ansar Muhammad: and she got up and said, I don't know

687
01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:44.199
Ansar Muhammad: what changed my son. But whatever changed him I supported.

688
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:54.499
Ansar Muhammad: I said, Mama, it was you I mean you

689
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Ansar Muhammad: multi-generational drugs and gangs in your family.

690
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Ansar Muhammad: Of course I could have came home and got right back in the mix because some of the guys that I left cousins and whatnot I put in the mix,

691
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Ansar Muhammad: and that was my biggest test. Bill is I had to go against one particular cousin, who I put in the game who, when I came home, was probably a multi-millionaire.

692
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Ansar Muhammad: I remembered, like the back of my hand I need to write a book I'm in front of my mother house. He pulls up in the the navigator,

693
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Ansar Muhammad: and he said, You ready? I'm like No, sir, and I say, you see this grass out here. I would rather sleep on my mother's grass right here before I get back in the night we had a physical fight.

694
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Ansar Muhammad: My mother comes out. She calls the police.

695
01:17:38.300 --> 01:17:39.870
Ansar Muhammad: He pulls off.

696
01:17:40.360 --> 01:17:43.940
Ansar Muhammad: What are you all doing? That's how loud it was.

697
01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:46.300
Ansar Muhammad: But that was my first test

698
01:17:46.400 --> 01:17:48.220
Ansar Muhammad: is to say, no to him.

699
01:17:49.390 --> 01:17:53.789
Ansar Muhammad: And now he's resting in peace. He has five children that doesn't have a dad,

700
01:17:54.030 --> 01:17:57.009
Ansar Muhammad: because he ultimately lost it off.

701
01:17:58.130 --> 01:17:59.610
Ansar Muhammad: Maybe I am

702
01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:01.799
Ansar Muhammad: twenty-six years later, with

703
01:18:01.950 --> 01:18:07.340
Ansar Muhammad: my mind with my faculties with a beautiful family, beautiful, white, beautiful children,

704
01:18:07.480 --> 01:18:09.590
Ansar Muhammad: and no people like Frank Murphy.

705
01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:11.410
Ansar Muhammad: Okay,

706
01:18:19.710 --> 01:18:27.620
Ansar Muhammad: would even dare get into this stuff, man. It was Frank Murphy and Naomi Nightingale

707
01:18:27.750 --> 01:18:33.589
Ansar Muhammad: that the course of my thinking in terms of being in the local politics is always felt.

708
01:18:33.780 --> 01:18:43.819
Ansar Muhammad: They're gonna bring my background up. If I start talking about what I do, they don't look at my stuff, man, but this man let me judge me, and Naomi never judgment,

709
01:18:43.990 --> 01:18:45.700
Ansar Muhammad: and the rest is history.

710
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Ansar Muhammad: So thank you, Bill, for your your question. I hope we can do a part two to this Frank, at a later time,

711
01:18:52.030 --> 01:19:00.490
Ansar Muhammad: And thank you, guys, man, for giving me this opportunity to just share a little bit about. And this is only a little okay about the work,

712
01:19:00.750 --> 01:19:05.710
Ansar Muhammad: because we all of the country we got people that we've influenced all over this country.

713
01:19:06.110 --> 01:19:10.320
Ansar Muhammad: Um, I don't know if you guys ever heard of the name Melvin Hayward.

714
01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:20.460
Ansar Muhammad: He's one of our local mentors resting in peace, done some great work in Venice. Save me from going to Juvenile Hall when I was a boy,

715
01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:29.479
Ansar Muhammad: but I recruited his son, our outreach to a son. We're talking about outreach. The sun was full of flesh game banging when I came home.

716
01:19:30.190 --> 01:19:41.419
Ansar Muhammad: Okay, full-fledged, and so his father would always tell me, man, I see you doing his work, Stan. But can you get the junior? I'm like June? You're moving too fast. Bro.

717
01:19:41.500 --> 01:19:48.260
Ansar Muhammad: It was a It was a Federal probe happening. When I came home the Fbi Cia was in Venice.

718
01:19:48.300 --> 01:19:55.219
Ansar Muhammad: They was looking to lock up as many black men as they could, and they did okay. But this one particular brother,

719
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Ansar Muhammad: Melvin Junior,

720
01:19:57.820 --> 01:19:59.150
Ansar Muhammad: say it.

721
01:19:59.610 --> 01:20:02.459
Ansar Muhammad: And now Melvin is in Chicago

722
01:20:02.860 --> 01:20:10.070
Ansar Muhammad: providing services to a big organization, and guess where he learnt it from on the streets of Venice.

723
01:20:10.290 --> 01:20:12.660
Ansar Muhammad: So here we are. Here we are.

724
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Ansar Muhammad: Thank you,

725
01:20:14.130 --> 01:20:14.990
vicki halliday: stands

726
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:17.220
frank murphy: You got it, Stan. Thank you.

727
01:20:18.080 --> 01:20:20.829
bill: Thanks to all the

728
01:20:20.950 --> 01:20:23.469
vicki halliday: Yes, sir.

729
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Ansar Muhammad: Thank you. Um,

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frank murphy: all right. We're going to go to

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frank murphy: Jodie. Can you um

732
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frank murphy: try your speaker again? Larry's with you. Correct,

733
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frank murphy: Jody. You need to unmute

734
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Brian U: my Rapkin's unmuted.

735
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vicki halliday: He never answered.

736
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vicki halliday: Um,

737
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vicki halliday: Jedi, Jody, Can you hear,

738
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frank murphy: Jody?

739
01:21:09.210 --> 01:21:12.730
vicki halliday: Jodie?

740
01:21:12.850 --> 01:21:14.090
frank murphy: Ah, there we are

741
01:21:14.100 --> 01:21:15.059
Jody Mortimer: here.

742
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frank murphy: Yes, You're probably going to have to be real careful about staying close to the speaker, because you kind of come in real clear, and then you back off.

743
01:21:34.270 --> 01:21:45.560
Jody Mortimer: Yes, speaker, if the microphone isn't working too well, we may want to just push it to next month, for we can do something with

744
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Jody Mortimer: on brooks

745
01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:51.230
Jody Mortimer: up to you. Bye.

746
01:21:52.860 --> 01:21:54.580
Jody Mortimer: Hello! Can you hear me?

747
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Jody Mortimer: Yeah, Okay. I just want to tell you It's not over. And I to speak with you. I'm kind of really nervous because I the zoom thing I don't, you know, I mean. So I apologize. If

748
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Jody Mortimer: Don't talk about it the right way or whatever. But

749
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Jody Mortimer: I like you guys to ask me some questions, or you know, How are we gonna start this?

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Jody Mortimer: Well, what I wanted to do was, you know we we like to have you come and sort of share with us

751
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frank murphy: your story and the concerns that you had dealing with homelessness when you were there. Your concerns, your needs, your wants

752
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frank murphy: when homeless, and then

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frank murphy: try to,

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Jody Mortimer: you know. Introduce yourself as sort of speed. Okay? And then we'll ask you some questions.

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Jody Mortimer: Okay, I me. I can handle that well. I grew up in the West Side, mostly in Venice.

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Jody Mortimer: I ah started out really young, using drugs. Ah! Selling drugs, and then I started want to. I went to youth authority behind. Ah, some gang members stuff some gang-bang stuff. I stayed in y all my teens, and when I got out by them I I was already pretty much ah

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Jody Mortimer: uh uh!

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Jody Mortimer: A member,

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Jody Mortimer: And then from that that that lifestyle was already like I

760
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Jody Mortimer: I was already like

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Jody Mortimer: um. I was already a gang member. I just put out there, and ah! So I lived that life, and all I did was sell drugs, and ah like on Lincoln Boulevard prostitution, like the other Gemma was talking about,

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Jody Mortimer: and then I would keep doing it and Motel Hoppy whatever I spent

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Jody Mortimer: fifty years in and out of prison, and I would never leave the Four Corners, you know, and

764
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Jody Mortimer: Doug

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Jody Mortimer: everything that went along with that lifestyle, and

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Jody Mortimer: I

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Jody Mortimer: I don't say I don't regret it, but because I took the best I mean the opportunities. It was there for me. I could have been anybody or anything. I did all the things I did to myself. I realized I didn't know that.

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Jody Mortimer: But as far as like when I was on the streets, that things are like, you know

769
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Jody Mortimer: it's hopelessness, and when you got no hope, you

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Jody Mortimer: you know it's It's the most humiliating thing there is, and it it becomes the way you'll do anything,

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Jody Mortimer: you know. Um,

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Jody Mortimer: we'll do anything to get some kind of relief, and then it's. Usually the drugs, and then it's usually whatever it takes to get the drugs. It's just a vicious circle that goes around and around and around, and once you get caught up in it, it's like a a vortex,

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Jody Mortimer: and um! It's really hard to break on, and you go into lunch. But I never wanted to be a gang member on Nick and boulevard making young girls sell their shelves, and then, you know, she broke, do with them, and and that all of that, you know.

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Jody Mortimer: Yeah,

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Jody Mortimer: they're humiliating their selves, because inside they're not that kind of people, you know, and

776
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Jody Mortimer: I don't know it. It's

777
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Jody Mortimer: once you get caught up in it. It's really hard to break out.

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01:25:42.410 --> 01:25:46.709
Jody Mortimer: You know It's It's taken me fifty years to want to get out of,

779
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Jody Mortimer: and everything that's went along with it

780
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Jody Mortimer: in

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Jody Mortimer: today.

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Jody Mortimer: People with my history usually don't change,

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Jody Mortimer: you know, like everybody, the generation that I grew up in uh everybody's dead, or they're in Pelican Bay for like they'll never get out um. I was fortunate enough to get a day and come out, and and I prayed to God if I got out that I would do

784
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Jody Mortimer: well. I was fighting to cases that I caught in there, and I was looking at twenty-five to life for each one of them, and and I was only there on a fourteen year big Ah, and just writing checks back in the early ninety s they were going out. Strikes a lot to everybody for anything, and I was really really.

785
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Jody Mortimer: And now they ended up doing fourteen and a half years. But during that fourteen and a half years

786
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Jody Mortimer: lot of things happen. Once you get caught up and wrapped up in there, it's really crazy selling drugs and doing the things that

787
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Jody Mortimer: that gang members you inside which is the

788
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Jody Mortimer: sell drugs and staff

789
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Jody Mortimer: um

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Jody Mortimer: an animal because you'd feel like one,

791
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Jody Mortimer: you know, and I would get out. And anyway, I

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they'll try, and

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you don't

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frank murphy: Larry get back up closer to the speaker.

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Yeah,

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Jody Mortimer: I I Yes, there you go.

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Jody Mortimer: Good. Yeah, I'll talk to you a lower Sorry

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Jody Mortimer: uh, I guess.

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Jody Mortimer: Okay. Now, Well, when I got out before I got my date back, like I said I already had in my mind, because I went pro per which means I represented myself in ninety-five percent of pro peers don't

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Jody Mortimer: don't win, you know. Anyway, I was. Blessed and I got my date back, and since I've been out i've been out for years now,

801
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Jody Mortimer: and since I've been out I've I've changed my life. My perspective on things I went into the

802
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Jody Mortimer: twelve-step program. I've been following it as much as I can. Everything it's suggested to me. I'm doing good. I'm in it.

803
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Jody Mortimer: I'm in a halfway. How a sober living house right there on brooks and in six, and my heart

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Jody Mortimer: to to become a better person, to be a giver or not a taper, and it feels great. I never thought before I would say that it was good to do something for somebody for just nothing.

805
01:28:47.900 --> 01:28:51.400
Jody Mortimer: You know before that before this

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Jody Mortimer: I wasn't going to do nothing for you, and that's how I was going to get something. I was either setting you up or taking it from you, or And now I want to give back, you know, and it honestly feels good when you do something for somebody, and don't expect nothing back,

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Jody Mortimer: you know being of service. It's really good. My whole perspective on life has changed, and it's made me a better person, and I believe I believe that I can help the community

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Jody Mortimer: a lot better than I used to help the community.

809
01:29:31.040 --> 01:29:32.309
Jody Mortimer: Um!

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Jody Mortimer: Because this is why I grew up. This is this is my home, and i'm gonna fight for it, you know i'm gonna fight for it like I fought for my freedom. I'm gonna fight,

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Jody Mortimer: or the families and the people that went through the things that I didn't. If if I change one person's life, one youngster's life, you don't have to go to what I went through. That'll be good enough for me,

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Jody Mortimer: you know, and I want to see that I want to see everybody that I come into contact with. That is headed the way that I that I was headed. I want to help them in every way that I can not to have to go through what I would do, and hopefully going,

813
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Jody Mortimer: believing that I've been through the things I've been through. They'll respect me more and listen,

814
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Jody Mortimer: and that's what I I want to do. I want to get into recovery, and you know, with everything that entails like, go to school, or that i'm sixty, three. So I gotta hurry up.

815
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Jody Mortimer: I'll spend the rest of my life even back. So. Is there any questions? Sorry if I didn't.

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Jody Mortimer: I can just speak to my experience, and that that's it. I don't know programs and all that I know through my experience, and that's all that I can talk about. Really,

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that's the one thing I may have.

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frank murphy: Um. One question I would have for you is Whoa! One is as everybody. There's applauding you. It's a hell of an effort.

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frank murphy: Um!

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frank murphy: Oh, here!

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frank murphy: Past life and making this shift! How

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frank murphy: If there was one thing, what would, what would be the one or two things that

823
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frank murphy: can happen that would ah would change some of the trajectories that a lot of these a lot of these folks are on. And you understand.

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frank murphy: Does that make any sense?

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Jody Mortimer: It's okay,

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Jody Mortimer: yeah, people in their lives older people like mentors or somebody to spend time with. See, I grew up. My father died, got murdered when I was really young I was five, so I grew up in a house like most of the people that did

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Jody Mortimer: have my history, and I want my mother raised. She had two jobs she raised me. I never had a male fee, so I will borrow the streets for a male fear which were Pim gang members, drug sellers dangling on me.

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Jody Mortimer: So if I would have had some a male figure to do things with. Go play ball. I've never been camping. I've never been fishing. I've never done none of those things.

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Jody Mortimer: Now I believe that if I would have had a male figure it would have changed my whole life. I really do believe that.

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Jody Mortimer: And ah, yeah, the mail-figure would have definitely helped. Also, when I got a youth authority, I tried to join join the service, and I do believe that the service. I was twenty two when I got out and read the board,

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Jody Mortimer: but by then I was already pretty messed up, and they wouldn't accept me, even in the Marine Corps,

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Brian U: so that while I was in to the story I got into a lot of trouble, so I mean it's pretty bad when the service

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Jody Mortimer: won't take you, and

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Jody Mortimer: I believe that that would have directly changed my life.

835
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Jody Mortimer: You I mean, I n

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Jody Mortimer: you know this

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Jody Mortimer: a male figure, just somebody to show me the direction

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Jody Mortimer: what it would have drastically changed my life. Number of true things I can think of off the top of my head.

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Brian U: No, it's great. I'm standing

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frank murphy: anybody else with questions.

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Brian U: I just want to say congratulations, your your role model for a lot of people that are behind you that need your help.

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Brian U: And when you said you want to commit to helping others, that's exactly what we're talking about with lived experience, you know you can go to the people that had similar backgrounds with you, and once you show them what happened to you, and how you pulled yourself up and got better.

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Brian U: It's. It's the helper theory. What you do for other people is going to pay big dividends to you, and it gives you purpose, and and God bless man! Congratulations on! Pull yourself up.

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Brian U: Thank you. Thank you for your help, too, and what you do, all of you. I really I really admire you guys more than anything, you know, if I had like you, for instance, as a mentor when I was growing up, my life would be changed fast if we saw.

845
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Brian U: I'm like, Thank you for that. You're very welcome here to help. Jodi can put you in contact with us for anything you need.

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Brian U: Okay, brother, thank you. All of you. Does anybody in the audience have a question for Larry?

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vicki halliday: He's

848
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vicki halliday: Larry. Um, Thank you so much for

849
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vicki halliday: It's It's important to hear the stories, and i'm glad that you came, and

850
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vicki halliday: in two years to us

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vicki halliday: it's very important.

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Jody Mortimer: Thank you.

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Jody Mortimer: Thank you for listening to it, and and and for the knowing that I can call on you guys to help me if I need something

854
01:35:50.490 --> 01:36:01.990
Jody Mortimer: to give back, because I need purpose today. I need purpose in a positive way that I am giving back that I ain't taking no more so much.

855
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Jody Mortimer: It's a pretty

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Brian U: right Yeah, thank you so much, Larry. I really appreciate it. There are jobs out there for you to do this work

857
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Jody Mortimer: into every day. I don't,

858
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Jody Mortimer: and then it's.

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Brian U: Can you hear me? I'm here,

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frank murphy: Jody, you gotta stay on that uh

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frank murphy: speaker. There,

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Jody Mortimer: i'm not either.

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frank murphy: You're muted Now

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we have to change.

865
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Jody Mortimer: Yeah, I was just going to say, Can you hear me?

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Brian U: Yes,

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Jody Mortimer: there are guys that are coming out of institutions every day that are going into the sober living houses here in Venice ventures. I think Stan is one of these,

868
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Jody Mortimer: of course, for that also share is also.

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Ansar Muhammad: I would like to pass my number rarely to you if you can take it down.

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vicki halliday: I see a hand up in the audience. Um, Erica, do you want to say something?

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Erica Moore: Hi, there! I just wanted to to ah to ah just support the last speaker and say, Um, how happy I am for him that he's found his way. Um, my oldest son, who was my Boston, is in prison right now, and he was homeless for a period of time, and I know how painful that is.

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Erica Moore: And ah! You know he'll be coming out, but not for another like ten years, and what I feel is something so critical is the support you receive when you come out of prison. I think a lot of people who have been in prison. Come back.

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Erica Moore: They're not plugged in, and they end up on the streets. I think that's a real reality, and I think that that's something that really needs to be addressed.

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Erica Moore: I'm sorry.

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Jody Mortimer: Go ahead, finish. Oh, I just I mean, do you? I mean, do you feel that it sounds

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Erica Moore: four or some

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Jody Mortimer: assisted somehow to help you integrate back in.

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Jody Mortimer: I have a musk recovery.

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Jody Mortimer: My recovery was learned.

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Jody Mortimer: She does. She does really good work. Everybody that works there. Ah, they really made me feel well. Ah, the best thing you can do, because we're labeled when we get out, and you and we go, and and if nobody reaches out to us, then we go back to the same thing that we know.

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Jody Mortimer: So it's very important for the community to to help, and and there's got to be some kind of program

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Jody Mortimer: sometimes. They're there.

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Jody Mortimer: I didn't have no purpose. So I did what I knew how to do.

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Jody Mortimer: You know A. A. N.

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Jody Mortimer: Yeah. I mean, i'm so happy you can recover my son actually doesn't have any kind of issue which is surprising. I'm really thankful. But it is surprising, based on this

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Erica Moore: his situation. So it's a little. I'm not sure. I want to support him, obviously as best as I can, and he actually had pulled himself out of homelessness before. Unfortunately, he got arrested for

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Erica Moore: many years Prior.

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Erica Moore: Um! So it was that was hard to see.

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Erica Moore: But I really appreciated your story, and thank you so much for being vulnerable and sharing your truth with us. It's very inspiring, and all of us can always be encouraged by that. Thank you.

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Jody Mortimer: Thank you. And all of you.

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frank murphy: Thanks, Erica.

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frank murphy: Anybody else.

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vicki halliday: I didn't see any hands up.

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frank murphy: Yeah,

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Brian U: right there They'll They'll put his hand up. Now i'm gonna

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vicki halliday: go ahead, Bill.

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bill: Are you able to hear me?

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vicki halliday: Yes,

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bill: Larry, a question for you. You talked about how difficult it is to do what you have done,

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bill: what what made it possible for you to get in the living arrangement you're now in

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Jody Mortimer: before I, prior to me getting out of prison. I sent a lot of letters out to these different programs. In fact, when I pulled from Pelagon Bay I paroleed right to um Elsa. Ah, so it's a it's a a drug, a Libyan drug program. I was there for eighteen months,

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Jody Mortimer: and that really helped me a lot because it was still structured, and you know it was, but it allowed me to go out and start, you know, a little bit instead of see, when you do a lot of time in prison, and they they open the gates, and they give you two hundred dollars, and it's like you can do anything you want to do. It's like

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Jody Mortimer: the only thing you know how to run as fast as you can, and and do as much as you can, because you haven't, you know. I mean you've been locked up. That's gonna get you in trouble.

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Jody Mortimer: No, because you're going to start the birthday. It was buying ninety one dollars with a go. Do you think you're going to be a drug?

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Jody Mortimer: You know a big dealer, and you've been a Well, if you're a drug, add an opportunity. The only customer you're going to get is yourself going to be your best customer.

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Jody Mortimer: You're not going to make it as if people forward.

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frank murphy: That makes Bill you got uh,

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bill: Larry, I thank you for making me aware that that living arrangements like the one you're in even exist here in Venice. I I've been here for over thirty years, and I've probably walked out about right down your by your place. But I never knew

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bill: that the facilities you're describing exist here in Venice.

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Jody Mortimer: I'm glad to know. Excuse me,

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Jody Mortimer: there is there. Is it three of them on my block three different silver livings There is,

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Jody Mortimer: I believe, that it would help if, if, like the media and social media, or how reset would, would, would reach out to to people getting out instead of labeling us, putting us in a box, like so many people do in this society,

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Jody Mortimer: and they already throw us away before we have a chance.

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Jody Mortimer: There's a lot of good people just like

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Jody Mortimer: the the lady a minute ago. There,

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Jody Mortimer: um!

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Jody Mortimer: He said, our son Doesn't have a problem. Well, of course, ninety something percent of the prison population today

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Jody Mortimer: are mostly drug, adds. But there's an element of people that are just criminals problems. We all have our demons, and

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Jody Mortimer: we all need help. We need each other somewhere along the way we stop caring out of fear or whatever, and we don't reach out to people because

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01:43:58.810 --> 01:44:03.639
Jody Mortimer: they're you're scared. You're gonna get burned. You stare!

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Brian U: This person's going to take me for my money. Sure, there's There's a few bad apples.

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Jody Mortimer: Um,

923
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Jody Mortimer: I don't know if i'm getting off track of what the question was.

924
01:44:20.770 --> 01:44:31.289
Jody Mortimer: But that's what it takes, and I believe that if more programs were offered like trade schools,

925
01:44:31.520 --> 01:44:32.889
there are three to the

926
01:44:34.190 --> 01:44:35.860
vicki halliday: what's in you, Larry?

927
01:44:35.870 --> 01:44:38.800
Jody Mortimer: Oh, i'm sorry. Is it better

928
01:44:38.810 --> 01:44:42.409
vicki halliday: now you're back? Okay? Um,

929
01:44:42.460 --> 01:44:45.469
Jody Mortimer: yes, I do believe that. That Yeah.

930
01:44:45.660 --> 01:44:58.399
Jody Mortimer: And also on our part, the guys that are getting out. They need to show more effort as well, I mean because you can't get out and have everything handed to you, because then you're not going to change.

931
01:44:58.550 --> 01:45:02.499
Jody Mortimer: You got to do upon yourself. You gotta want to change

932
01:45:07.400 --> 01:45:08.739
Jody Mortimer: like I said

933
01:45:09.530 --> 01:45:12.899
Jody Mortimer: I was involved. I was a career criminal.

934
01:45:18.910 --> 01:45:23.490
Jody Mortimer: Why, that you know, some way, somehow,

935
01:45:23.600 --> 01:45:26.250
Jody Mortimer: I had to make the first effort

936
01:45:27.170 --> 01:45:28.790
Jody Mortimer: to change,

937
01:45:29.450 --> 01:45:31.000
Jody Mortimer: I believe.

938
01:45:31.570 --> 01:45:32.730
Jody Mortimer: No, it's a

939
01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:37.519
Jody Mortimer: It takes the desired chain,

940
01:45:38.610 --> 01:45:51.419
Jody Mortimer: You know a lot of us don't have that desire because we see no hope. And if you don't have no hope that's the worst thing for any human being, because once you lose hope,

941
01:45:52.060 --> 01:45:53.179
Jody Mortimer: he,

942
01:45:53.190 --> 01:45:54.700
Jody Mortimer: there's nothing else

943
01:45:55.030 --> 01:45:58.709
Jody Mortimer: like with homeless people. A lot of them lose hope.

944
01:45:59.350 --> 01:46:02.009
Jody Mortimer: Did they lose her?

945
01:46:02.120 --> 01:46:05.220
Jody Mortimer: Oh, why should I even get help,

946
01:46:10.050 --> 01:46:12.720
Jody Mortimer: but I know for me when I lost hope

947
01:46:12.910 --> 01:46:18.790
Jody Mortimer: I became a very dangerous brazen person.

948
01:46:18.800 --> 01:46:19.969
Jody Mortimer: There was.

949
01:46:35.400 --> 01:46:38.420
Jody Mortimer: Yeah. Well, then, you know what i'm talking about.

950
01:46:38.590 --> 01:46:39.830
Jody Mortimer: You know

951
01:46:39.840 --> 01:46:57.799
Jody Mortimer: a lot of times prison saved me, but I guess my point is that we got us as men. We got to to one it. I think that there should be more inside programs, and I wish people would be more involved in an Aa and na

952
01:46:57.920 --> 01:47:05.759
Jody Mortimer: off-step programs are really, you know, they're the only ones that are born in. And speaking to these gentlemen that are getting out.

953
01:47:35.630 --> 01:47:37.510
frank murphy: Thank you.

954
01:47:38.030 --> 01:47:42.789
Brian U: He does it. Thanks, Larry. He totally gets it.

955
01:47:43.360 --> 01:47:53.019
vicki halliday: Yep, stay in your hand. Is that? Did you want to ask him anything? But I could? I could stay here all night listening to the

956
01:47:53.180 --> 01:47:58.580
Ansar Muhammad: These are These are clear indications that redemption is real,

957
01:47:58.970 --> 01:48:07.349
Ansar Muhammad: you know, and second opportunities and third opportunities, and for opportunities is needed.

958
01:48:07.750 --> 01:48:20.959
Ansar Muhammad: Um, i'm not sure. I know admission, Lincoln, but i'm not sure not if I want to ask you so. Some of your crew are. Are they on the street now? They are they Are they wrestling in peace? Are they locked up?

959
01:48:21.270 --> 01:48:37.240
Jody Mortimer: You're dead like everybody from Mike, and in Venice, or either dead. I think there's only one of us is alive, and he's doing three life sentences, so he's never going to get out um everybody else. That's pretty.

960
01:48:37.320 --> 01:48:44.710
Jody Mortimer: Everybody else has pretty much passed on. What if What's the brother name was doing through life. Parents?

961
01:48:44.860 --> 01:48:46.190
Jody Mortimer: What's his name?

962
01:48:46.200 --> 01:48:47.280
Jody Mortimer: Yeah. Sleepy

963
01:48:47.320 --> 01:48:49.289
Ansar Muhammad: Sleeping? Yeah. Yes.

964
01:48:49.650 --> 01:48:53.590
Ansar Muhammad: So uh man, Do you? Uh you? You remember, Dikey,

965
01:48:59.940 --> 01:49:07.870
Jody Mortimer: I really I don't really want to say names.

966
01:49:07.890 --> 01:49:11.789
Ansar Muhammad: They both passed man, but they was instrumental

967
01:49:12.110 --> 01:49:18.509
Ansar Muhammad: and creating what we now have called the non-aggression. Agreement between the

968
01:49:18.670 --> 01:49:21.670
Ansar Muhammad: the shuttle lies in the in the beat, their teams.

969
01:49:24.000 --> 01:49:27.350
Ansar Muhammad: And as we thought of that work we haven't had,

970
01:49:27.650 --> 01:49:31.490
Ansar Muhammad: You know, major problems, man, and it's really a beautiful thing, you know,

971
01:49:31.500 --> 01:49:39.939
Jody Mortimer: is in my I see those guys that I mentioned was the ones that was you know, who put that together.

972
01:49:40.910 --> 01:49:44.480
Jody Mortimer: That's crazy. If more people were, you

973
01:49:44.650 --> 01:50:00.590
Jody Mortimer: would realize that that's what I meant by. We got to have the desire we got to step up. We got to be example, I remember revenue shootouts in Culver City Project with from vanish I mean running from Brendan sterial. So you remember

974
01:50:00.600 --> 01:50:03.329
Jody Mortimer: eighties in the seventies. I was man.

975
01:50:03.340 --> 01:50:05.539
Jody Mortimer: Yeah, no, i'm not.

976
01:50:06.230 --> 01:50:12.050
Jody Mortimer: We got to have a desire somewhere, somehow, and the she's got a young hate, but

977
01:50:12.470 --> 01:50:16.209
Jody Mortimer: because the seed of evil is planted at a young age,

978
01:50:16.790 --> 01:50:17.860
Jody Mortimer: so

979
01:50:18.360 --> 01:50:30.399
Jody Mortimer: us as as a community. We got a plant, Caesar of prosperity and positive and

980
01:50:41.100 --> 01:50:44.470
Jody Mortimer: and they're the ones that you know. What are we leaving now?

981
01:50:50.730 --> 01:50:53.370
Jody Mortimer: That that's all I can really say on my whole life.

982
01:50:53.380 --> 01:50:54.580
Jody Mortimer: The answer

983
01:50:57.580 --> 01:51:00.440
Ansar Muhammad: looking forward to seeing you. Brahma, come through there now,

984
01:51:00.450 --> 01:51:01.510
Brian U: all right.

985
01:51:01.980 --> 01:51:04.319
Jody Mortimer: That's what it means. So

986
01:51:08.040 --> 01:51:09.480
frank murphy: okay,

987
01:51:11.670 --> 01:51:22.139
frank murphy: So we've got public comment on non-agenda items If anybody wishes to speak does anybody,

988
01:51:23.180 --> 01:51:23.889
frank murphy: the

989
01:51:23.900 --> 01:51:26.069
frank murphy: from the public one. I took comment,

990
01:51:27.310 --> 01:51:31.129
vicki halliday: Let's wait a sec. I don't see any hands up.

991
01:51:36.370 --> 01:51:38.090
vicki halliday: That's a yearly.

992
01:51:38.140 --> 01:51:39.519
frank murphy: All right.

993
01:51:40.100 --> 01:51:45.240
frank murphy: Well let's go to committee, comments. Anybody

994
01:51:46.200 --> 01:51:52.999
frank murphy: Anybody have further anything else. They want to talk about that wasn't covered tonight.

995
01:51:53.240 --> 01:52:08.220
Brian U: No, i'm so blown away by the two discussions tonight. Stands, and Larry's that It's It's a lot. I agree around everything. It's. It's very both of. Thank you, Stan: Thank you, Larry. And very good. We can do it for, too.

996
01:52:08.250 --> 01:52:11.739
Brian U: Yeah, yeah, I agree. I should have had a

997
01:52:11.980 --> 01:52:19.690
Brian U: i'm not sure why or on you. I'm not sure how much the public really understands anything about what's happening on the street,

998
01:52:19.940 --> 01:52:21.059
Brian U: you know.

999
01:52:21.580 --> 01:52:23.789
Brian U: As it relates to this topic,

1000
01:52:23.800 --> 01:52:38.410
Brian U: it's the gang of the game situation in the in the actual work guys like Stan can do. I mean, I know Stan gets supported financially a little bit, just like a couple of these other organizations, but it's nowhere near

1001
01:52:38.420 --> 01:52:56.000
Brian U: the value that he could get. I mean, when you look at the circle, and i'm not going to bus them. It's just. But you see exactly what stands doing on these streets, and if they give them fifty grand versus one hundred grand versus a half a million to load up. We fix our problems on the street.

1002
01:52:56.010 --> 01:53:11.290
Brian U: That's right, and and that and that's that's not. You know we all of a sudden you get promoted because you're on this homeless committee stand, they say. Oh, you're just trying to do this for money. And this is all about that. This isn't about money. You're doing this because this is what you're meant to be doing,

1003
01:53:11.300 --> 01:53:30.560
Brian U: and and you had that lived experience, and and you actually see the results. And so I think it's really important to educate the public as to really what's happening on some of these smaller companies, and you look at West Coast care the guy on the beach. Bron sent three hundred people home. I mean. That's huge stuff,

1004
01:53:30.850 --> 01:53:32.869
Brian U: you know, and ah,

1005
01:53:32.880 --> 01:53:44.389
Brian U: it's just the small it's like Regina well on her when she was here, you know she get fifty grand from Mike. I've got fifty grand for my stan's got fifty grand from Mike, and he supported our programs. But

1006
01:53:44.400 --> 01:53:53.019
Brian U: where the millions that it can really make the difference in making this thing work

1007
01:54:09.940 --> 01:54:15.690
Brian U: right? I think I think. Can we talk about that one for just a second? I think it's an interesting topic.

1008
01:54:15.700 --> 01:54:23.949
Brian U: Yeah, I You know my understanding of the one hundred and fifty million that that went back. When you have all these funding streams, Ricky,

1009
01:54:23.960 --> 01:54:29.340
Brian U: they're so detailed into the exact then that you can do with that money, you.

1010
01:54:29.420 --> 01:54:59.069
Brian U: And when when these agencies get audited, or whatever, and all of a sudden they'll see this or see that, and they go. Oh, no! That that funding can't go to. Ah, a woman and a child! It can only go to the woman, or it can't go here, and so they don't meet you where you're at, because they put the box in the funding. So if you don't do exactly what it is you have to give the money back because you're even though there's fifty other things you could do if that money stayed in the in the pocket.

1011
01:54:59.620 --> 01:55:04.880
Brian U: It just has to go back because of the languaging that that the funding comes with,

1012
01:55:05.160 --> 01:55:07.729
Brian U: and that's the horrible thing

1013
01:55:07.890 --> 01:55:18.199
Brian U: you know we apply for so many things. But if you don't have this, you don't get it, or if you have this, and then you change, they take it away, and it's just It's just how it works,

1014
01:55:18.780 --> 01:55:35.600
Brian U: and it's horrible. Yeah, there should be one funnel that says, Hey, i'm coming to the i'm coming to the funnel for what this happens, and you get to fill that funnel. But there are so many rules in all of those funnels that it virtually makes it impossible because of bureaucracy.

1015
01:55:36.690 --> 01:55:39.310
vicki halliday: That's it. That's

1016
01:55:39.450 --> 01:55:40.690
vicki halliday: yes,

1017
01:55:40.730 --> 01:55:42.400
Brian U: the

1018
01:55:42.490 --> 01:55:50.840
Brian U: it's like Hud Hud, only you know it's vouchers. Okay, their house. The housing vouchers are only for a single apartment.

1019
01:55:50.930 --> 01:55:59.490
Brian U: Why couldn't they use the housing vouchers to to do, shared housing until they find and build one of those things.

1020
01:55:59.500 --> 01:56:17.399
Brian U: When you're just sitting with all these vouchers, and they're saying, No, these guys are. That's the distrust that happens on the street and standnosis, which is why the lived experienced people versus the other outreach workers. All they can offer is is a dream, and we'll be right back, and you don't come back because you don't have it

1021
01:56:17.410 --> 01:56:24.439
Brian U: so. Why not put the vouchers to use. You know there's six hundred or eight hundred dollars to start paying rent for people

1022
01:56:24.450 --> 01:56:32.120
Brian U: in in other programs, but you can't, because Hud restricts it, and not only funds brand new construction, single door.

1023
01:56:32.180 --> 01:56:33.450
Brian U: Ah,

1024
01:56:33.940 --> 01:56:38.810
Brian U: you're just stuck based on these funding streams that have so many different requirements in them,

1025
01:56:40.480 --> 01:56:48.759
Jody Mortimer: actually thought Some of those requirements were relaxed during Kovat, but they've started re They started with the

1026
01:56:49.790 --> 01:56:53.620
Jody Mortimer: Rel, looking at all those requirements again. It's making it really hard. It's

1027
01:56:53.630 --> 01:57:05.269
Brian U: dirty. The funding goes to the specific person, for the specific reason that's in the grant that if you apply for to get that money, and you can't vary off of that.

1028
01:57:05.410 --> 01:57:15.270
Brian U: Ah, and and that's when they audit. And say, you can't. You can't spend the money there, or if you don't spend it like like when they're buying these hotel rooms in the beginning,

1029
01:57:15.280 --> 01:57:31.549
Brian U: you know the the I don't know who was the The branch gave a billion dollars or five hundred million dollars, and the the housing that went out and started negotiating with these hotels, they said, Hey, if I don't buy this many hotels by December thirty first. We lose that funding,

1030
01:57:31.790 --> 01:57:46.390
Brian U: so they're trying to spend the money and closing deals, but they offered the Jolly Roger four hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a door to buy the jelly, Roger, with with a thirty day window, to do all due diligence, because the money was going to go away on twelve, thirty, One.

1031
01:57:46.400 --> 01:57:47.570
Jody Mortimer: Oh, it's not.

1032
01:57:47.750 --> 01:57:53.250
Brian U: Yeah, I mean so a lot of these things. You use it or you lose it, you

1033
01:57:53.410 --> 01:57:58.079
Brian U: and and it's sad when that happens,

1034
01:57:58.090 --> 01:58:01.119
Brian U: because there's a lot of people that could have used that one hundred and fifty million,

1035
01:58:02.010 --> 01:58:06.130
Brian U: one one million at a time for five hundred at a time

1036
01:58:06.500 --> 01:58:07.620
that

1037
01:58:08.860 --> 01:58:27.120
Brian U: it is ah encouraging to hear the news about District eleven's numbers um. I don't know if they're all that accurate there, but it has to be shuffling around, but maybe ah! Over the last two years. But that's getting off the streets and with the room key. Maybe it's made a little bit improved, But you did say it went up four percent

1038
01:58:27.130 --> 01:58:29.029
Jody Mortimer: overall in not Los Angeles.

1039
01:58:29.210 --> 01:58:37.250
frank murphy: Yeah, I went up four percent overall in Los Angeles. The final numbers. But the

1040
01:58:39.200 --> 01:58:46.160
frank murphy: the numbers out here on the west side went down, went down thirty-seven. So that was a big

1041
01:58:46.550 --> 01:58:52.920
frank murphy: on Cd eleven, and you know, in Venice we went down fifty, one percent. So that was huge. Yeah,

1042
01:58:53.030 --> 01:59:04.980
frank murphy: um! There is discrepancies in the numbers, and that's when I get to the point where I

1043
01:59:04.990 --> 01:59:19.230
frank murphy: ah Dario gets to the point where he's got the the the data sorted out. We'll see we'll see if we can present it. I think it's. I think it might be pretty good, but we'll see, you know.

1044
01:59:19.980 --> 01:59:25.339
Brian U: You know. There's a lot of people. Also I get phone calls on the Project room. Key Cadillac

1045
01:59:25.610 --> 01:59:37.469
Brian U: Padlock was was ah signed, at least with the county for Covid for sixty four years and older for a pre-existing condition to get him off the street during Covid.

1046
01:59:37.620 --> 01:59:38.929
Brian U: Ah!

1047
01:59:39.160 --> 01:59:48.620
Brian U: Some of that population and the Covid stuff ended in that population left that building, and they're back, filling it now with the encampments,

1048
01:59:48.630 --> 02:00:04.869
Brian U: and there's a lot of neighbors are saying, God, if that was the use and Home Key versus Room Key Room key is the Cadillac, How did they get the change they use to take people from encampments to put over the Cadillac that really Don't live by the same rules as you did when you lived there for Project Room Key.

1049
02:00:04.910 --> 02:00:19.090
Brian U: Ah! And and the neighbors are besieged by what's going on? Because, yes, they provide services. But how many people use them. So, Vicki, you hear? Probably a lot about that. That's one of the worst corners in Venice is right there, Dudley. They've circled the yeah,

1050
02:00:19.100 --> 02:00:29.830
Brian U: and They've held her all through here, and that does that. It's my understanding that that police comes up at the end of the year.

1051
02:00:29.840 --> 02:00:33.139
Brian U: That lease was renewed until February of two thousand and twenty-three

1052
02:00:33.150 --> 02:00:38.450
frank murphy: February twenty twentieth twenty. So yeah. So february I end of the year first, the next year.

1053
02:00:38.460 --> 02:00:46.379
vicki halliday: Oh, There' be a lot of changes in February, because that's also when Urban Alchemy's lease

1054
02:00:46.580 --> 02:00:54.370
vicki halliday: the Westminster Center, and they got it extended because they're looking for other office space

1055
02:00:55.250 --> 02:01:08.490
Brian U: reckoned all right iron, and they left there. Did they not leave Mary at Vicki? I don't know I haven't been over in the list. I saw I was doing outreach on third in the rose, and a guy that runs the pitfall pit. Stop the restrooms there.

1056
02:01:08.500 --> 02:01:12.479
Brian U: Yeah. So he used to be there, and he said that they're they're gone. And

1057
02:01:12.610 --> 02:01:19.389
Brian U: I thought Steve said, Yeah, I thought Steve said they were leaving there, but I don't

1058
02:01:19.400 --> 02:01:23.670
Brian U: sure sure be great to get that back into the twelve-step meeting space,

1059
02:01:30.900 --> 02:01:36.879
vicki halliday: looking at what was there the senior center of the recovery programs that

1060
02:01:37.380 --> 02:01:51.130
Brian U: it can be multiple Yeah. And parking. Rex is looking at stuff. Now's the time to contact her and and push to get the recovery roots back in there. Amongst other things.

1061
02:01:51.170 --> 02:01:54.590
Brian U: Yeah, you think you think our councilman would want to do that.

1062
02:01:55.520 --> 02:02:03.789
vicki halliday: I don't know, but it's up to park and wreck It's their it's their building. Yeah, but and we can push. We can certainly push for you.

1063
02:02:03.800 --> 02:02:07.989
Brian U: I mean Mike's in recovery. It Mike's in recovery, so he knows that it works.

1064
02:02:08.000 --> 02:02:08.690
Yes,

1065
02:02:08.700 --> 02:02:16.069
frank murphy: well, but but it's not. It's truly not up to Mike at this point. I mean we have,

1066
02:02:17.280 --> 02:02:27.179
Brian U: so it seems, on the case. So I would. I would contact her and talk to her about it, but I think the senior meals again all sorts of things,

1067
02:02:27.490 --> 02:02:32.429
Brian U: but I also think that the the opportunity with the

1068
02:02:32.820 --> 02:02:38.709
frank murphy: new candidates is is a golden opportunity to to be putting forth anything

1069
02:02:38.960 --> 02:02:42.960
especially early in their administration. Whomever it may be,

1070
02:02:45.440 --> 02:02:53.339
frank murphy: we do have. Do we have a St. Joseph center, I think, is coming to the next meeting

1071
02:02:53.410 --> 02:02:59.169
vicki halliday: hopefully, and we're going to have Brian do a presentation also shortly.

1072
02:02:59.180 --> 02:03:01.670
frank murphy: Um, so.

1073
02:03:02.000 --> 02:03:08.689
frank murphy: And I think we should do another one up with with Mohammed also.

1074
02:03:08.700 --> 02:03:09.490
vicki halliday: Oh, yes,

1075
02:03:09.500 --> 02:03:19.649
vicki halliday: we need to really focus on the out on the well. We should do a Town hall, a Homeless Committee Council,

1076
02:03:19.720 --> 02:03:23.239
vicki halliday: and heavily promoted, because I think

1077
02:03:24.420 --> 02:03:32.560
vicki halliday: I think it's such good information for the community, as I've said with Stan, I mean all of us know that the games exist.

1078
02:03:32.910 --> 02:03:35.940
vicki halliday: We don't always know exactly

1079
02:03:36.220 --> 02:03:40.710
vicki halliday: how they're affecting our daily lives, especially here near the beach,

1080
02:03:40.810 --> 02:03:43.269
vicki halliday: and they are

1081
02:03:45.230 --> 02:03:56.900
Brian U: it's in every encampment. It's in every encampment, and I think that you know knowledge is power. It's good to know It's good to know what options are. It's good to know what's going on.

1082
02:03:57.400 --> 02:04:01.290
vicki halliday: And um, we need to promote it much wider.

1083
02:04:01.300 --> 02:04:02.150
Brian U: Yeah,

1084
02:04:02.160 --> 02:04:13.389
Brian U: I mean It's just great that we have the six people that that attended maybe eleven. But we should have a thousand people here. This story on Really, what's the truth that's happening on the streets? Yeah.

1085
02:04:13.400 --> 02:04:22.079
Brian U: And we can have. And how does it operate? I mean the bridge housing. No one's there because it's not safe.

1086
02:04:22.090 --> 02:04:26.390
Brian U: Okay, you got fifteen dollars. You have fifteen dollars an hour guards on the corners

1087
02:04:26.400 --> 02:04:36.660
Brian U: with a twenty dollars bump. He's making thirty five an hour. Come right in It's unbelievable. The lack,

1088
02:04:36.940 --> 02:04:47.220
Brian U: you know, of security, but it's the harm reduction model. It's so hard to fight. If it was, I don't know why

1089
02:04:48.340 --> 02:05:05.380
Ansar Muhammad: the people that are identical. The people that I highlighted as former ganglers from Venice. These are people who can walk over there right now, and regularly, respectfully and peacefully, without any guns, without any sticks, without any bats.

1090
02:05:05.500 --> 02:05:22.449
Ansar Muhammad: But for whatever reason these people don't want to contract with an organization like ours. It would be people like Larry that I would have individuals who understand that the terrain individuals from the neighborhood, and when you have that type of person working,

1091
02:05:22.530 --> 02:05:24.250
Ansar Muhammad: we changed the day.

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Brian U: Maybe we should have that conversation. But yeah, that's a party.

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Brian U: I mean, share share, train, nine hundred pair bridges. People with lived experience. Those are the types of people that should be out there, and those people make forty. We pay them forty or fifty grand a year to do the outreach.

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Brian U: Um, and they're effective.

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Brian U: I don't know i'm i'm gonna say this uh I know, be a wrestling piece, Rosen bow. But

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Ansar Muhammad: there was a murder on the beach when he was in office. I don't know if you all remember that,

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Ansar Muhammad: he panic, I said, Man, I got to do something. I got to do something, so he found some money.

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Ansar Muhammad: It was quick,

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Ansar Muhammad: and we put a six man team up here

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Ansar Muhammad: three Latino brothers from B, thirteen

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Ansar Muhammad: and three African-american brothers from well, one female in Minnesota.

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Ansar Muhammad: This is what they would do. The The point was the Khalak Hotel.

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Ansar Muhammad: They checked in there, and they have well

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Ansar Muhammad: all day up and down their boardwalk from the Kyl to the

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Ansar Muhammad: uh, the basketball courts

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Ansar Muhammad: Anything that they saw that was potentially gang stuff. They would do direct intervention and outreach

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Ansar Muhammad: during those summer months we had zero. After that murder we had zero

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Ansar Muhammad: getting involved activity,

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Ansar Muhammad: the prick, the reason why I'm bringing that up, Because all these was again former gang members, and they was happy.

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Ansar Muhammad: I mentioned Guy. He rested in peace, but he was happy to be able to get up and have a job

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Ansar Muhammad: just really doing safety. Monitoring is in this neighborhood.

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Jody Mortimer: It is happy.

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Ansar Muhammad: So again, we need to have that conversation with those folks.

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Brian U: Yeah. Or listen. Let's bring homeboy in That does the same kind of work for prison release for the Latino gang and female Latinos.

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Brian U: They live in a clean place. They're not on the street, I when I've changed my license plates to home. Bro. Trying to change Skid Row to Hope Row If you live in Skid, and you act like skid, and you're in shit, you become that you live in hope and act like hope you become that you heard it tonight from Larry. That's That's It's social connection

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Brian U: that brought Larry back, and he reached out and he got it. He got it through twelve steps. When I lived in a hotel room for eighteen months. It was until I got out into the Aa program at the Ymca. And met that person who was a mentor because he had something I wanted.

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Brian U: You know he had his family. He had his job. He had this, and I was able to go through Enough of that. That it all came back for me

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out.

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Brian U: But it's social support and community and connectivity, and that's what Larry got,

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Brian U: and that's what Larry said that the others need.

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Brian U: You know. You know, when they open the doors on ab one hundred and nine, and let everybody out of the county jail with no

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Brian U: no tie, no connection, no housing, no jobs, no probation. They just open the doors. Well, that's when they had to change the loss, because seventy percent were getting rearrested,

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Brian U: and when they came back and got rearrested it overloaded the system again. So how do we not incarcerate and re-arrest? How we change the felonies to misdemeanors.

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Brian U: And now you see what we've got now,

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Brian U: and

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Brian U: i'm not saying you have to incarcerate, but you definitely have to have a deterrent to to what they do, whether it's community service and we pay them,

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Brian U: but they have to. They have to clean up if they're if they're the predators or the drug dealers or the people that stand

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Brian U: is saying, You know the jeep. The Japanese model is to shame the parents.

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Brian U: Yeah, that's going to work here. The king says something

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Ansar Muhammad: before he was killed. He said that they are asking us to pull ourselves up

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Ansar Muhammad: from our bootstraps,

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vicki halliday: and King said, Well, you first got to give us a pair of boots.

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Brian U: Well, and also

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frank murphy: you have to have something at stage,

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frank murphy: you know, like he was taught He and I think Larry talked to that, and I don't stand it. You know you've got to be invested in the community, and

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frank murphy: there's no reason why these kids Aren't invested in the community.

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frank murphy: No reason

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frank murphy: just got it

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frank murphy: make it available to them.

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frank murphy: Anyhow, guys, this was really good.

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frank murphy: It was a good good meeting. Thank you very much.

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vicki halliday: Thank you.

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Brian U: Thanks for all the attendees that listened in.

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vicki halliday: Yes, thank you very much.

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Brian U: Thank you. Okay,

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Brian U: Well done, Stan: Thank you, Vicki: Thank you, Joey. A great great job bringing Larry. Thank you.

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Jody Mortimer: You take care of what talk Frank.

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