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Cleaning up after homeless Public Comment 2 from Sean Andrachick & WC response Aimee Brunckhorst From: Sean Andrachick <ssttholdings@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 8:53 AM To: flatheadwarmingcenter@gmail.com Cc: Kalispell Meetings Public Comment Subject: EXTERNAL Re: Cleaning up after homeless [NOTICE: This message includes an attachment -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe.] Mrs Horn, This is the reason the community wanted your shelter shut down. For you to try to gaslight me and the community sayingyou have no responsibility for the people you attract and because we haven't proven the shelter did anything to increase homelessness around your shelter is offensive.You do not take responsibility for your shelters actions.You feel no responsibility to your neighbors for the actions your shelter has thrust upon the surrounding neighborhood.You come with excuses.You didn't create the homeless but you attract them.Writing paragraphs of words about how your shelter holds no responsibility shows how little empathyyou hold for your neighbors.You are not a good person. Nor is the efforts of the shelter nobel if it intrudes on one at the expense of another.After watching what the shelter has done over the last couple years I know you would not take responsibility not even to offer to help clean up what you have attracted. Bottom line if not for your shelters we would not have half the issues this community has to deal with.And you know this to be true although you would never admit out loud.And then to say if we start cleaning up after our vagrants then we will have to go all over town and clean up.Well for 1.Yes you would that's showing good faith to this town.And to say if we clean up on your place that would set a bad precedent, again another example of you not holding up your community responsibilities. I'm not just anywhere in town I can see your shelter from my lot!!. I've seen how you have treated your neighbors and did not have high expectations of you owning this issue. I will clean up after the people you have brought to the neighborhood.After I gather up all the clothes you give away would you like them back? I just wanted to say my peice and submit to public record. Suggestion, if you worked with your neighbors instead blowing them off you would create some goodwill the shelter could probably use some. Sent from my Phone On Apr 14, 2025, at 8:20 PM, Flathead Warming Center FWC <flatheadwarmingcenter@gmail.com>wrote: Mr.Andrachick, I am empathetic to the negative impact homeless persons have had on your property. I also believe you that those impacts have increased since Covid, as they have all across our community, our state and our nation.We purchased the property on Meridian during 1 Covid. I know firsthand how much worse homelessness has gotten in the last five years, because I've been on the front lines of homelessness in the Flathead for many years.You do not have to convince me that it's gotten worse. Negative impacts have increased, on the other side of town, as well. Unfortunately,you observe a correlation between our opening on Meridian and more homeless people on your property. Believe me when I say this, correlation is not causation. The Flathead Warming Center does not make people homeless, and the Flathead Warming Center(despite all the rumors you may have heard about us) does not recruit homeless people to come to Kalispell.At any given time, there may be 200-300 homeless persons in our community.And the Warming Center can only shelter 45-50 of them.What this means is that, in rough numbers, four out of five homeless people you see are not guests of the Warming Center. Furthermore, the Flathead Warming Center did not make anyone homeless. The Flathead Warming Center does not cause mental illness or addiction or personality disorders or any of the other pathologies that may lead people into homelessness.We are not to blame. If we closed tomorrow,you would see more impacts on your property, not less. This is a very difficult situation for me because I work hard and I take criticism very personally and I want to fix it right now. Unfortunately, neither I, nor the Flathead Warming Center can, or will, accept responsibility for all things homeless in Kalispell.As an oncologist treats cancer, so we treat homelessness.We don't cause it, nor can we cure it all, but we are able to mitigate its effects.With regards to trash pickup; as a measure of good faith, we said that we would do routine trash pickup within a quarter mile of the center on a routine basis.When we do that, we pick up all the trash we see, regardless of who dropped it. My concern in coming to attend to your property is, where do we draw the line? I cannot set a precedent that we will pick up garbage anywhere in town if someone believes the mess is homeless related.We cannot police nor control adult behavior off of our property. However, when we learn by name that a Warming Center guest has caused a problem, that guest is excluded from our services.We are in contact with law enforcement to mitigate such situations. I can understand that my response likely feels dismissive to you and we may be deemed a poor neighbor. This is simply not the case.We care greatly. It would be meaningful to us if you would consider coming in for a brief tour. More opportunities to work together present themselves when those with concern come in to visit. Thank you for letting us know and for sharing pictures.We will use this opportunity as another time to discuss with our guests how such behaviors are unacceptable. Sincerely, Tonya Horn Executive Director Flathead Warming Center (406) 250-8652 2 I W�A IIR 1",01 III N G On Mon,Apr 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM Sean Andrachick<ssttholdings()gmail.com>wrote: My property is 1000 W Idaho.We had not had any issues with trash, graffiti, people openly doing intravenous drugs, defecating, breaking into the buildings until your shelter opened up. I have pictures and videos of all things I described.The building was vacant foryears and never had an issue.As the director of the shelter you know your impact on the surrounding neighborhood and how it relates to the shelter. If not please review previous email of the pictures. I had to tear down the building so I would not have to put up with this.When I talk to the people doing these things they all tell me the same thing. The shelter was full or you would not let them in. So the shelter is why they end up on my place.Anyways I should not have to litigate my case to you. I believe you know you are the reason we are dealing with this. If you are a good neighbor you will do what you believe is right. Sean Andrachick 3 / 1- i I.1 �fl! iI �Iwl Ili / 0 r/ r ru/r�/T I Or�w�rF�i�rrf/r/ - � r r;Y r/7 yc' / Sent from my iPhone On Apr 14, 2025, at 12:48 PM, Flathead Warming Center FWC <flatheadwarmingcenter gmail.com>wrote: Mr.Andrachick, Thankyou for reaching out and for sharing pictures.We want to do the right thing.We need more information from you. Where are you located? We are sorry this has happened to you and your property.We need to understand if this is a Warming Center Guest issue.We need to best understand how this relates to the Warming Center?We do not condone this kind of behavior and will do what we can to help. Please confirm the location. Sincerely, Tonya Horn Executive Director Flathead Warming Center 4 (406) 250-8652 i WA IIR III'°",01 III N G On Mon,Apr 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM Sean Andrachick <ssttholdings()gmail.com>wrote: I own a large commercial property within eyesight of your shelter. Ever since you have opened up we have had to spend capital to alleviate the damage that has been done to our property. I see that according to some kind of settlement you are supposed to be receptive to cleaning up after your customers.With your volunteers should be more than happy to cleanup what you have attracted to my town.And to take the unsolicited burden you have put upon us, and embrace all the responsibility of your shelter. I did not ask for this and it is costing me because I have to deal with this constantly. I constantly have to remove waste, trash,junk, and homeless themselves from the property. I had an individual two days ago I had to move along because he was sleeping on the property in his pickup because he said he was kick out of the shelter. Well there is no restroom facilities on the property so where are they releasing themselves? On my property! I'm asking that with your volunteers to come and cleanup after your customers. Sent from my Phone 5