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Community Services Austin Community Court | May 15, 2026 Community Services ▪ Enables participants to meet public service hour requirements through graffiti abatement, public space cleaning and beautification projects ▪ Five Parks Grounds Crew Leaders + Parks Grounds Supervisor ▪ High staff retention ▪ Crews operate 7 days a week excluding holidays 7:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. ▪ Edgar Fincher III Program Garden 801 Springdale Rd. 2 Digitized Sign In ▪ Digitizing the daily Community Service sign-in form aligns with Strategic Planning goal to go paperless ▪ New data points include: ▪ Hours worked by court location ▪ Number of defendants by court location ▪ Breakdown by court location ▪ Hours worked by day of the week ▪ Daily sign-ins 3 Department Collaboration Work Orders by Department October 1, 2025 - Present Department Collaboration Work Orders by Type October 1, 2025 - Present Before After • Waller Creek graffiti abatement • Downtown Austin Alliance request • Parks Grounds Supervisor walked the area beforehand to assess for safety risks 6 Edgar Fincher III Program Garden 7 Edgar Fincher III Program Garden ▪ Originally owned by Austin Police Department ▪ Named after our original Parks Grounds Supervisor ▪ Home for three chickens ▪ Produces potatoes, cucumbers, onions, green beans, carrots, peppers, zucchini, corn, and tomatoes ▪ Produce and eggs donated to Angel House Soup Kitchen ▪ MoKan Bridge installation temporarily pausing garden activities 8 Rendering of bridge over Boggy Creek 9 Partnerships and Resource Opportunities Austin Development Services ▪ Illegal dump sites ▪ Right of way mowing Austin Watershed Protection ▪ Graffiti abatement in waterway drainage areas Austin Parks and Recreation ▪ Graffiti abatement Austin Homeless Strategies and Operations ▪ Monthly mowing Austin Resource Recovery ▪ Separate donated paint ▪ Pack up old batteries ▪ Separate recycling Downtown Austin Alliance ▪ Graffiti abatement ▪ Cleaning downtown district Austin Parks Foundation ▪ Annual brush cleanup Shoal Creek Conservancy ▪ Monthly cleanup 10 Homeless Services Collaboration Moving Support Considerations: • Safety • Preparation • Staffing • Efficiency Violet KeepSafe Storage Support 12 Travis County Adult Probation • Original agreement made on January 1, 2008, with an automatic renewal every September 1st • • • • Paused during COVID Interlocal Cooperation Agreement reinstated April 1, 2026 Starting June 1st, will pick up from north and south substations Travis County DWI and Travis County Drug Court defendants eligible to participate • Mutually beneficial 13 Current Data Overview 14 QUESTIONS