Homeless Issue #130

Due to the lack of available resources and budget restraints, the County Sheriff Dept. Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) was going to be dropped. However, the County Supervisors came to the rescue in order to continue their work. The Sheriff Dept. is swamped with backlogged paper work regarding special permits, and other administration issues. The Sheriff Dept. needed additional funding to complete its obligations to the citizens of ED County. Thank you, Supervisors, thank you Sheriff Dept. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In preparation for the up-coming Nomadic Shelter season, the governing body has proposed a uniform code of conduct for both guests as well as volunteers. This added continuity between sites will make it less complicated for our guests and also the host locations will know what is ahead as well as what was it like at the last location. This revision is instituted for the safety of our volunteers as well as our guests. There will be training sessions for all lead church representatives and the training sessions for all volunteers. Please contact your host church Nomadic Shelter coordinator. This winter we will attempt to have all host locations fallow the same procedures so that we have consistency throughout the Nomadic Shelter program.
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Sad, Sad, Sad, Christ Like Services has had to move and re-group. They lost their lease when the benevolent Lady owner died, and her son took over the property. Christ Like Services was all set to move to a new location, but phone calls with new location owners and others in the community cancelled the move. Christ Like Services will still maintain the Women’s House and the Men’s House as well as a small office to continue their varied business doing light construction, field clearing, auto repair, etc… They just must stop their out-reach to the homeless population. Sad, Sad, Sad.
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JSS has started a new location for the homeless in Cameron Park area to get the necessities of living on the streets at Foothills UMC on Tuesday afternoon around 4:45 PM. The homeless in that area are scattered, and I have not been able to make any connections so far in that area. If you encounter homeless in the Cameron Park area, please tell them that clothing, socks, toilet paper, underwear etc. available at Foothills UMC on Tuesday evenings around 4:45 PM in the parking lot.
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Ron is ready to “EAT CROW.”
I have been really laying it on the City of Placerville because I perceived that after the city budget meeting the city was not going to fund the new position of County Homeless Coordinator. I said what I felt in that newsletter. RON WAS WRONG! …………. I now understand that the City of Placerville is going to fund their part of that project. Thank you Mayor Wendy Thomas and City Manager Cleve Morris and the rest of the city council for your support. HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF PLACERVILLE.