Transient and panhandling Public Comment from Mark IrvineAimee Brunckhorst
From: Mark Irvine <markirvine81 @yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 2:05 PM
To: Kalispell Meetings Public Comment
Subject: EXTERNAL Transient and panhandling
Chad, I never knew you until just recently, my name is Mark Irvine. I am contacting you to thank you for being a true
man of wisdom. My wife and I own a business up in Hutton Ranch Plaza called Pro Pet Grooming. We cater to around
600 wealthy old ladies and men. These folks praise your wisdom like nothing I have ever seen. So much so that I had to
investigate. My wife and I and all of our customers 100% support you. We have dealt with the transient/panhandling
population for over 8 years. Our shop originally was 1212 highway 2 on the Stillwater River next to the old Applebees in
evergreen. We have stories and probably 100 pictures of the disaster that comes with this life style. We used to clean
the neighborhood and mostly under the bridge just try to keep the panhandlers and homeless out, our continuous
presence worked. We would haul a trailer and pickup filled with their trash every 3 months to the landfill -the scale said
each load was 3000-3500 Ibs each time. I have pictures on all of this, we would collect 30 - 40 syringes and glass pipes
and literally a gallon baggie of this stuff and turn it over to the sheriff every time we did the cleanup. Our new shop in
Hutton Ranch was a smaller scale of this, we have a problem with the panhandlers and traffic but they live in wrecked
vehicles and they pee and poop all over the parking lots then move their vehicle 4-5 spots over and do it all again, I again
have many photos of everything. The city police have been great, and have been proactive on this matter. Please feel
free to contact me anytime as to any aspects of this matter, if you need stories and facts or pictures with dates, let me
know. Thank you again and my phone number is 406-871-8916 , 1 am not afraid to put my name or signature on what is
right and clean.
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