“Somebody eventually came out with some mace and sprayed the man, and he ran off.” Him and my husband were rolling on the ground,” she said. I went down, came up with blood on my hands and my face, and my nose was broken. One of them, Kat Ulrich, shared pictures of the aftermath of a violent confrontation she and her husband had with a homeless person experiencing a mental health crisis. Some neighborhoods, including those that are lower-income and those already struggling to address homeless encampments, are worried the sites won’t be spaced out equitably across the city.Ī group of residents and property owners from downtown, where many homeless services are located, testified before Wednesday’s vote. The location and security of the sites is already shaping up to be a contentious issue. But the budget allocates $750,000 to help neighborhood groups hire private security for areas around the first three sites. Service providers running the sites would be responsible for security inside and within a 1,000-foot perimeter of the camps. Sites would only have one entrance and exit, and weapons checks would be conducted there. Alcohol and drugs would be banned in common areas. So far, the city has envisioned camps that would not allow walk-ins people would have to be referred by outreach workers.
The location of the sites and the exact details of how they will work have yet to be confirmed, but Wheeler’s office has unveiled a potential roadmap in recent Zoom calls with community stakeholders. The proposed Oregon law, if it had been pursued here to farther empower the homeless being able to do as they please, would have damaged efforts to move local cities toward a workable solution that helps the homeless and improves the quality of life of everyone in the community.Īnd if you still embrace the school of thought that the 9th District ruling was insane, consider the following: Arresting, jailing, and prosecuting an individual for sleeping on the sidewalks was costing local taxpayers when all was said and done $2,000 to $3,000 each occurrence.Īnd given the homeless who had no other place to go were right back the next day doing what got them cited or arrested in the first place, it was sheer madness.Įspecially when you factor in they can’t pay whatever fines the court may impose on them.The six designated campsites will initially serve up to 150 people, with 24-hour management and access to services such as food, hygiene, litter collection and treatment for mental health and substance abuse. It also requires the community’s cooperation. The ultimate goal is to work with the homeless to get them off the streets. The Manteca Police along with public works, streets and park maintenance crews work on an ongoing basis to make sure when the rest of Manteca is up that the homeless aren’t asleep on downtown sidewalks and other public locations. Manteca for more than seven years has been working to abide by court rulings whether it is how they handle issues revolving around camping and the process they need to go through to remove illegal encampments. The city chose to make what exceptions they could apply to the transit center and Manteca VFW, both of which are located on Moffat Boulevard. The courts have allowed “reasonable” carve outs of other places that aren’t closed to the public.
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