5:50:02
But now you won't have the funding to do that. That will be a policy decision up to council. Well, if we take 500 000 from the budget for homeless outreach, you won't have the money to spend on the chronically homeless street outreach.
57:29
And attended the Infrastructure Summit for the last two days. yesterday and today was a great great use of my time. I also attended the National League of Cities University, local solutions to end homelessness and attended a webinar on the Council…
1:56:11
We've talked a whole lot about homeless services, but that's about all we do as far as social services. we're the basics. We fund police, and fire, and streets, and then to a much lesser extent parks and wreck and libraries, and that's pretty much our general fund.
23:25
We don't know if they're homeless. We don't know what we're gonna have to educate but we gotta educate them. And if we leave money on the table and then we run out of money, guess what, the same taxpayers are gonna say, why didn't you do your job?
51:01
I'm grateful for METRO has worked to address safety issues for our community and remain sensitive to the needs of humanity and individuals experiencing homelessness on behalf of our community I'd like to thank Tom Jasien his staff…
3:01:53
We do this all the time where we're chastise, whether we do something that they like or not quite frankly, there's some on this ties that could cure cancer and off and end homelessness.
1:23:35
So, I would advocate that they need a raise, we need to keep what we got, we actually need more than what we have, the homeless population has just exploded around here, and our eviction rate, they can tell you has exploded by the same amount.