Warming Center Public Comment from Karlene KhorMayor, City Council Members and Doug Russell
I vote in Ward 3. I am disappointed the council members representing me would not even entertain a continued discussion on the conditional permit use for the Warming Center and were
the lone two votes against.
This conversation is about a conditional use permit for the Warming Center. It’s not about anything else. It’s a narrow defined issue. I do not believe the issue is “hard to get your
head around.”
What’s “hard for me to get my head around” is why has the subject of the Warming Center brought up by so many been ignored? Since when is talking about a problem a problem?
I had no reason to write letters to this council about homelessness and its impact on our parks, Main Street businesses, tourists concerns before the Warming Center existed.
The Warming Center does not solve homelessness; it’s a lottery ticket for a bed for a few on a winter night. Its existence has ascerbated the issue and created problems for the greater
whole.
If Ward 3 council members are so concerned about larger issues of homelessness why hadn’t they brought forward the opportunity for community conversations on the broader topic of community
homelessness?
Suppressing the continued conversation on a conditional use permit for a Warming Center is simply not good government and shame on my representatives for attempting to silence a conversation.
Karlene Khor
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