Media

I was blown away to find out Mo Cheeks, the Pro Tem (Vice President), of our Common Council works for Kevin Conroy, the President and CEO of Exact Sciences and Ton Still, an influential cheerleader of the project, and he never bothered to disclose it - or recuse himself from the Judge Doyle Square discussions?

Last vote before it goes to council in 8 days, on September 1 - is it a go, or no?

Here it is . . . well, most of it, there are other meetings not posted on line . . .

3 meetings after 5:30, out of 17. And who schedules a meeting on a controversial issue (body cameras) at 1:00??!

Preparing to increase days in shelter from 60 - 90 and for more Department of Corrections clients.

Tuesday Health and Human Needs got an update on the day center, I wasn't there, but this is what I learned . . . so far . . .

For thoughts about what you might say and links to lots of solutions that don't criminalize the act of existing, of being. Meeting is tonight at 5:30 in room 108 of the city-county building.

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness held a conference and wrote a report on the alternatives to criminalizing the homeless (like the mayor's bench ordinance). Here's the cliff notes.

I made this list of places homeless have been banned from or are not allowed to sleep or just be- but I missed a few, so I'm revising the list. The bench ordinance and the ban from sleeping at the city-county building are two more to the list. All this effort and homelessness has increased and we wasted a lot of time, effort and energy on these things instead of finding positive solutions.

2 times ago they met, I provided tons of solutions for them, which were recycled from many conversations before, but this is what I gave them. It was over 40 pages with only the summaries of the information - It would be hundreds of pages of reports, with over 150 recommendations if I compiled it all. I tried, but it was overwhelming.

He did actually ask a bunch of us to help him come up with solutions, and a bunch of us did, but we only had one or two meetings with him before he declared us all enablers, screamed at us, dropped an f-bomb (quick, call chief Koval) and we haven't met again. Here's what we came up with preliminarily for him, but we never actually discussed it with him because he was too busy watching his live stream videos and making up fantastic stories about what he thinks is going on (despite a couple members of the group going out and talking to the people and giving him different information, which he promptly ignored.)

At least there was a public process for this, people got to testify and a committee, not a king, made the decision.