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1
That was the Introduction and Referral Calendar you're reading, not the Full Council agenda. This bill is NOT up for a vote Monday.
2
Wow! What a compassionate, brave thing to do! I hope the bill sails through with no hitches...

Also. in b4 the expected bitching about welfare and bootstraps.......
3
It will be very interesting to see whether that rather large outlay will go to SHARE.

SHARE is currently running Nickelsville (without any sort of permit or authorization, but they are the de facto funding source and organizing body).

SHARE went through some trouble in November, when a sex offender with an outstanding warrant was found at Tent City 4, which resulted in the breakup of TC4 with the majority of residents splitting off to form Camp Unity, and a new non-profit to operate it (Camp Unity Eastside). The irreconcilable difference was weekly sex-offender checks for all residents; Camp Unity is OK with them, TC4/Scott Morrow refuse the weekly checks (demanded by the host church at the time).

SHARE has also come under fire from the Seattle Times for a laundry list of stuff, the merits of which are of course hotly debated.

The emergency measure will (and should) pass; selecting a contractor to receive that $500k could be more problematic.
4
What is that, about $10K a hobo? They could almost pay them to work for that much.
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@4

It's hard to say-- SHARE, by design, does not keep any records of its clientele, so we don't know how many people are living in Nickelsville, now or at any point in the past. That's part of what critics have in mind when they say that city-funded shelters or camps should provide (or at least allow*) "case management services."

* SHARE will not permit members of any external organization onto the the sites they control to do this sort of thing; their stance is that this preserves the rights and dignity of the homeless.
6
There are absolutely no rules of S/W or Nickelsville about residents seeking assistance from case management organizations.
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@6

And I didn't say there were.

I said that SHARE will not permit outside organizations into the sites they control to do "case management" (scare quotes because the term can mean many different things).
8
I wish at the staged "die in" they just all actually died. Fucking scum.
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@7, case managers don't usually go out to shelters/encampments to meet with their clients, or solicit clients. The clients go to the case management organization's location.
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Offering shelter for all people living in Nickelsville is a good and honorable first step, but I hope the council understands that they will be offering a choice which some residents of Nickelsville may reject. I've met many people living on the streets who would never accept shelter for whatever reason (distrust, dignity, mental illness, etc.). Therefore, I see both bills as necessary parts of the solution.
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I've lived within 1.5 miles of Nickelsville for its whole run. I haven't ever had a problem. Nor have I heard of any from my neighbors (some worries, yes, but no one has ever mentioned an actual problem). I'd see public school buses picking up kids there in the mornings, which started an interesting conversation with my own kids about stuff they'd always taken for granted.
The camp invariably looks orderly and clean from outside. I've seen many folks coming, going, and commuting on the bus, but I never witnessed fighting, drinking, sitting on the ground, etc. I never saw litter, vandalism, or graffiti there, either.
I can't see they're hurting anyone right where they are, and I'd like them to stay, if they're all set up there. I guess that makes me an "IMBY."

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