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Mayor’s office outlines four‑part public health and safety strategy; officials urge community engagement on homelessness response
Summary
The mayor’s office presented a four‑goal public health and safety framework — workforce, crime enforcement, crisis care access and safe infrastructure — and officials described steps to prioritize encampment abatements, public engagement events and short‑term rental assistance to address homelessness and RV encampments.
The mayor’s office on March 5 presented a broad public health and safety strategy to the Public Health and Safety Committee and described steps to engage the public and deploy short‑term housing supports aimed at reducing large encampments.
"We have 4 main goal areas," Thea Agnewbemben of the mayor’s office said, listing workforce, law enforcement/crime reduction, expanded crisis care and safe roads/parks/trails and emergency preparedness as the strategy’s pillars. Committee members focused discussion on homelessness and rising RV encampments.
Why it matters: Committee members and the public have raised concerns about large camps and growing RV presence in neighborhoods such as the Davis Park area; officials said resources and coordination guide when…
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