Flathead warming center Public Comment from Cassie RobertsAimee Brunckhorst
From: Cassie Roberts <cassie.roberts579@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 2:52 PM
To: Kalispell Meetings Public Comment
Subject: EXTERNAL Flathead warming center
Dear Kalispell Mayor and City Council,
My name is Cassie and I live in Whitefish MT. I urge the city council to maintain the Flathead Warming
Center's Conditional Use permit. The city needs to seek more effective ways to improve the homeless
situation, such as increasing affordable housing, medicaid and addiction services.
Any one of us could become homeless, when I worked seasonally during the pandemic I lived out of my
car, and was lucky enough to be able to afford cheap motels. With how expensive housing is here it is
easy to fall through the cracks and the warming center is one of the only resources people here have.
Taking the warming center away will not solve the problem, it will only worsen it. Most of the people using
the warming center have local ties; these are the people in our community that need the most
protection, not to be further abandoned.
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Thank you for your consideration,
Cassie Roberts