Comments regarding Warming Center Public Comment from Dacia WrightOver the past fifteen months, I’ve been managing an apartment complex along the bicycle path on the west side of town as well as the Dog Wash and Offices at Michael’s Gas Station on
the corner of Hwy 2 & Meridian.
The Dog Wash is self-service and is open twenty four hours a day. It is under surveillance and has repeatedly encountered intoxicated transients trying to stay warm. If it’s nice out,
they will sleep next to the garbage cans behind the dog/car wash.
The first month I started managing the apartments I knew there would be a whole separate problem for the tenants when I was approached by three transients in my car- they were walking
through our parking lot to get to the bike path—-one of them motioned me to roll down my window and asked for money. We’ve had multiple reports of them sleeping in the stairwells. There
has been reports of excessive noise between 1 and 5 am in the stairwells. I’ve had to call and place reports multiple times to the Police Department. We have them sleeping in our kids
playhouse leaving their beer cans, cigarette butts, condoms and clothing for the children to see. We’ve had tenants back out of rental agreements after seeing & hearing the amount
of traffic walking through our complex. Another transient was passed out next to our garbage can this spring and a tenant had to call the authorities. They hung a dead carcass along
the fence on the bike trail. A rotting willow tree behind the complex is now being used for firewood down at the trestle. This is just a fraction of what I’ve witnessed.
I have family and friends that work at Albertsons and the reports they claim are that it’s definitely a problem —theft is higher then ever during the winter months when they’re open,
they try to come in the store and just hangout all day so they can get warm, they stand outside and use the plug ins outside to try and charge their phones, they wonder the parking
lot asking people for money, they’ve been threatened to be stabbed multiple times at the store while they’re open. They lock themselves in the bathroom and refuse to leave, they’ve
had them pass out in the stalls and have to call the cops to get them out, they’ve had many of them trespassed as well.
To say the safety of the people isn’t affected by the increase in homelessness and the opening/closing of the Warming Center is just asinine.
Sincerely,
Dacia M. Larson
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