Huntington Beach City Council The Orange County Tribune

Continued from page 1 state officials state that Huntington Beach must – in the next 10 years – zone for but not necessarily build – 13,338 more residences in the city as way of coping with California’s housing shortage.

Rhetoric grew heated. Some members foresaw a collapse of city government if Huntington Beach didn’t agree to plan for its assigned RHNA. “The state rolls in and places us in a receivership,” argued Councilmember Dan Kalmick.

Mayor Tony Strickland countered that “if we lose this fight, the community we love is gone.” Another council member, acknowledging the possibility of losing the battle against what he called “overreach” by Sacramento, said he would “rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

An attempt to find a way to submit the element state without agreeing to the RHNA was suggested, a process termed “self-certification,” but planning staff said there’s no process available to do that.

Street medicine program in GG

Continued from page 1 literally go out and introduce themselves. Rapport first, care second.

“They tell them [homeless persons] about the program and ask them if they’d like to be a part of it. Other ‘street medicine’ programs will set up in a park or a shelter, and while those programs are important, that’s not genuine street medicine because we still require the person to come to us. This is us coming to the people.”

The care teams will have a case load and visit their clients weekly and sometimes twice a week, said Bruno-Nelson, “to see if they need help with housing, with doctor’s appointments, things like that.”

Speakers at the press conference included Orange County Supervisor (Second District ) Vincente Sarmiento, Micheal Hunn (CEO of Cal Optima Health), Bruno-Nelson, Health Care in Action CEO Michael Hochman and Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones and City Manager Lisa Kim.