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Anna Prizzia
Vice Chair
District 3
Alachua County, FL
August 25, 2026
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at 1:09:39And rather than focusing on the national standards that we've adopted as our approach for housing, they talk about the federal government's five-step encampment response framework as a framework that they expect these people to follow, which from my perspective is kind of in conflict with our expectations and goals around a housing first approach, recovery first approach sort of says that people have to get clean and…
at 1:28:07And if, in fact, the COC is concerned about their need to align with the federal government priorities versus the National Alliance priorities due to their funding requirements, then are they perhaps not the right contracting partner for this contract?
at 1:25:00And so I feel like if they understand the potential consequences and feel it's still important to have a public statement of support and understanding that their local government does not support the detention of non-criminal immigrants in our community who are here and supporting our community,
at 1:26:02And I think that our attorney has worked to make sure that, you know, we're following both, that we're listening to the will of our community and that we're letting our immigrant neighbors know that they're important to us and that we want to protect them and their rights.
at 44:39On that front, is there, you know, that we keep having the conversations, and this isn't necessarily the time, but Gus will hear me, and then maybe during his section of the deep dive, we can have that conversation.
at 45:03And I wondered if he's had any thoughts, I guess, that just a heads up, Gus coming to a theater near you, the concept of the MRF, and could some of those savings be plowed into that concept and, like, a public-private partnership or something like that?
at 50:19I guess I just wanted to say I'm with you on the signage, and I think there are some really great national and state level programming with Xerxes and Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Naturals and some others that have some of that signage we might be able to borrow from or connect with and then just promote rather than having to create our own.
at 52:01I would also say I know Ramon's coming back to us in the not-too-distant future, and I would love it when he does if he's able to share how we make a determination of when we use wildflower seeding in our rights of ways and when we don't and how those determinations are made and how we might expand that program.
at 38:59I think we wait to get past the state, see what happens with the state, at which point in the spring of next year, we may need to give some direction to clarify if those dates, if our date is correct.
at 41:06Is there anything this board can do with DEP to help educate them based on the additional environmental standards that we are now monitoring, the additional things, the additional money we're spending?