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Your Board initially requested quarterly progress reports via a Board Directive; however, the final Ten - Year Plan approved by your Board on January 24, 2012 calls for annual progress reports. The Ten Year Plan also requires progress reports to be made available to all 34 cities, the Grand Jury, and other stakeholders after filing with your Board. The current Status Report, submitted as Exhibit A, covers the reporting period of June 2012 through December 2013. This special reporting period was needed to address transition issues and to align the reporting period to the calendar year. As outlined in Exhibit E (Organizational Chart), the Commission has established several sub - committees and ad hoe committees that have contributed to successful plan implementation. Some of the Commission's most significant accomplishments during this reporting period include: development of action items for the Commission's four Implementation Groups, including expanding rapid rehousing and planning for implementation of Federal Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act requirements; research and conceptual design of a coordinated assessment and entry system; improvement in linkages to employment and other mainstream resources; establishment of a subcommittee consisting of City Managers and Planners to engage cities in support of the Ten -Year Plan goal of developing permanent housing options and other Plan goals as well as discussions on S132 Zoning Code Amendments to site emergency shelters; successful completion of the 2013 Point in Time Count of the Homeless; improvement in participation and data entry into the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) resulting in an increase to 90% participation of emergency shelter and transitional housing beds in Orange County; and planning efforts to establish year -round emergency shelters and multi- service centers. In addition to the status report, revisions to the Commission By -laws are submitted for approval by your Board. The Commission is recommending By -law revisions to comply with Federal HEARTH Act requirements and to further support Plan implementation. Major revisions include: provision to allow Chair and Vice Chair appointments to be Public or Private; addition of an appointment of a homeless /formerly homeless individual to serve on the Commission; the addition of a Commission appointment from the Superintendent of Schools; clarification that the annual report should be filed with the Grand Jury and not the Orange County Jurors Association; clarification that the Board of Supervisors approves the Commission's Appointing Bodies and the Appointing Bodies make Appointments according to the terms of the By -Laws; and other minor changes. The Commission was previously staffed by a consultant Executive Director who served from July 2011 to June 2012. When the consultant Executive Director moved out of state in June 2012, the Commission appointed Karen Roper as the Interim Executive Director. On October 25, 2013, the Commission's Executive Committee recommended that Karen Roper be appointed as the permanent Executive Director. The Commission will be considering this recommendation at a future meeting. This appointment is consistent with other advisory Boards for OC Community Resources /OC Community Services as Karen also serves as the Executive Director of the Housing & Community development (H &CD) Commission. FINANCIAL IMPACT: N/A STAFFING IMPACT: N/A Page 2