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Moses Lake residents, businesses press council to close Open Doors sleep center, dispute city spending and impacts
Summary
Several residents and business representatives urged the city to shut down the Open Doors Sleep Center, provided a petition with 413 signatures and questioned the cost and community impacts; council and staff clarified that some payments are grant-funded and that county and city contributions have been discussed.
Moses Lake — At a packed citizen-comment period, business leaders and residents urged the city to close the Open Doors Sleep Center, submitted a letter with hundreds of signatures and criticized perceived public-safety and economic impacts downtown.
Debbie Doran Martinez, speaking on behalf of the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce board of directors, told the council the chamber had gathered 349 wet signatures and an additional 64 online signatures, for a total of 413 signers "predominantly business owners and managers" asking the council to close the temporary facility. "We feel the city is spending far too much money on the sleep center with no progress being made," Martinez said.
Multiple speakers echoed those concerns. Alan Heroux and Robin Foti described public-safety and…
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