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Implementation SECTION VI I m ple~~!ftm~ntation The community stakeholders who developed Services Act (Proposition 63) funding. These this Plan are committed to immediate action to 100 units of supportive housing amount to ensure that the HOPE vision becomes a reality. more than 4% of the total supportive housing Concrete steps have been identified to ensure that units needed, before implementation has even the momentum developed during this planning officially begun. process continues to build and accelerate in the . The City of San Mateo is establishing a pilot months and years to come. multi-disciplinary homeless outreach team An Interim Working Group has been formed to under the direction of the Police Department. The team will be a unique partnership between oversee garnering Plan endorsements, to flesh the City of San Mateo, out and establish preliminary implementation San Mateo County and structures recommended in the Plan, and to guide efforts related to the Plan's recommendations community nonprofits. The community stake- already in progress. The team will reach out holders who developed to and engage with those this Plan are committed The Interim Working Group includes: Supervisors homeless people living on to immediate action to the streets in downtown ensure that the HOPE Mark Church and Jerry Hill, the County Manager, San Mateo who have vision becomes a reality. staff of the San Mateo County Human Services Agency, the San Mateo County Department of the longest histories of Housing, and representatives from cities, and, homelessness - offering them services (including health, mental health, providers. and substance abuse services) as well as access Although the official launch of the Plan is to permanent housing. scheduled for mid-2006, the transition from the -~$"~ planning to implementation phase has already begun. Specific actions are being put in motion to bring together individuals from all sectors of the community to begin to make progress towards meeting the goals set forth in the HOPE Plan: . One hundred new units of permanent supportive housing are in development with poverty, mental health problems and/or other chronic health conditions. Ninety of these units ~~_-I will be created through a partnership between ~- ~ ~ the San Mateo County Health Department .""j:~ Mental Health Services, the Human Services ~... - . .;;..C;.i::,:,Ja Agency Center on Homelessness, and the Permanent supportive housing for extremely Department of Housing, and funded through low-income individuals: Belmont Apartments, the county's allocation of State Mental Health Belmont, completed in 2005 33