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Marshall Taylor Public Comment about Warming CenterM Gmail Marshall Taylor Emarshalljhtaylor@gmail.com> A message from Lorraine, Frank, and Mark Mark Flatau <flataulodge@gmail.com> Thu, Aug 22 at 5:06 PM Bcc: <mars halljhtaylo r@ g ma ii.com> Good Afternoon, "The three of us would like to personally thank everyone who has participated in this process of finding solutions to the community concerns regarding the homeless guests of the Warming Center. As you know our first meeting produced a variety of possible solutions and challenges around the five key areas of; Security & Safety, Transportation, Community Outreach/Cleanup, Accountability & Communication, and low barrier status. As was announced at the last meeting, the August 26 meeting would be devoted, in large part, to hearing the solutions that the Warming Center felt were possible to pursue from their perspective, Today, we received the attached letter from the Warming Center. Please read the full letter to gain their perspective and reasoning. Based on this recent letter we don't believe the meeting on August 26 would be productive, therefore this scheduled meeting has been cancelled. All the ideas that were generated at the August 19 meeting have been passed on to each of you as well as the Warming Center and Mayor Johnson. Thank you again for your efforts." Sincerely, Lorriane, Frank, and Mark A message from Mark Flatau "Yesterday, Frank Garner informed me that my actions at the meeting on August 19, 2024, offended Marshall Taylor. l would not want Marshall or anyone else attending the meeting to be offended by my actions. That was certainly not my intention, therefore I would like to apologize to Marshall and anyone else who found my actions offensive. I am sorry and ask for your forgiveness." Sincerely, Mark Flatau Please note, this email has been sent to all participants and everyone else who provided their contact information during this process, for a total of 31 individuals. Letter from the Warming Center 08 22_24.pdf August 22, 2024 Over the last few weeks, FWC has listened to concerns from community members. We did so to be a good neighbor and to confirm our commitment to serving the community, especially the most vulnerable among us. We are and intend to continue to be part of the solution to homelessness in the Flathead Valley. And we will continue to manage FWC in a way that is respectfulto our neighbors and the broader community while reminding our guests to be similarly respectful. But we also must acknowledge that the recent mediated conversations are taking place under a threat to revoke our conditional use permit ---a threat whose premises we strongly disagree with. The FWC remains open to conversation. Other community members are always welcome to raise issues with the FWC, and we will do our best to address them. But to be clear, FWC cannot agree to take on duties off of FWC's property, such as supervising people out in the community. Any duties of that nature are outside of FWC's legal, moral, and practical control. Based on the conversation so far, there appears to be a strong expectation that the FWC will take responsibility for things that occur off our property and beyond our control: transportation, cleaning up garbage, policing bad behavior, patrolling public parks, etc. We agree that there can be problems associated with these issues. And we want to work with the appropriate authorities to address them as best we can within our role as private citizens. To the extent the next round of discussion seeks our input on how the proper authorities and our neighbors can address problems that belong to the whole community, we are eager to do that. But, to the extent discussion will focus on what the FWC needs to do off its property to control the behavior of other private citizens, we can't agree to take on that kind of responsibility. Again, our goal is to keep lines of communication open, but we must manage expectations about what FWC can do to address community issues. Sincerely, The Warming Center Board of Directors Mark, Frank, and Loraine We as a neighborhood would first like to start by taking a moment to thank you for your time in the matter. We understand you were asked to fill these roles in a completely voluntary capacity to see if some type of resolution could take place that both the neighborhood and Flathead Warming Center would find acceptable in keeping the FWC open and operating. We are disheartened that the FWC does not want to continue in discussions with the neighborhood to find a common ground that both parties find acceptable. We as neighbors still invite the FWC to attend the meeting scheduled for the 26th to discuss viable solutions they feel are in their control. Again we would expect that this meeting be limited to one hour for the sake of time and respect of the neighborhood. We also expect this to be a fruitful conversation for real, measurable, and actionable items the FWC can take to address our concerns as neighbors. If the FWC does not feel they have measurable and actionable items within their control for the neighbors to discuss we understand them not wanting to meet with us as we could not drive the discussion forward without those ideas. Thank you, The neighbors of Kalispell 8/25124, 8.D7 PM. Gmail - A message from the Neighbors M Gmail A message from the Neighbors Mark Flatau <flataulodge@gmail.com> To: Marshall Taylor <marshalljhtaylor@gmail.com> Cc: fgarnerOO1 @yahoo.com, L.clarno@kalispellchamber.com Marshall Taylor <marshalljhtaylor@gmail.com> Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:1 n PM Dear Marshall and the neighborhood, Thank you for your letter. Yesterday, when Lorraine, Frank and I spoke to a representative of the Warming Center and confirmed again this morning, they are not in a position to present any possible solutions at this time. So without having measurable and actionable items for the work group to discuss there is no point in meeting. These matters now move forward to Mayor Johnson and the City Council to deliberate on. [Quoted text hidden] https://mail.google.cam/maiVa/0/?ik=c39dd5a6d I&view=pt&search=all&permmsgid=msg-f:1808202845W751717&simpI--msg-f.1808202845844751717 1! I