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Residents urge stronger enforcement, addiction treatment access and clarity on recovery funding
Summary
Multiple public commenters told the Shelton City Council they want more enforcement of park rules, clearer pathways to addiction treatment and accountability for state recovery funding they said has not reached local needs.
Several residents raised concerns about homelessness, addiction and enforcement of local ordinances during public comment at a Shelton City Council meeting.
A Resident who identified several problems argued that some housing programs are diverting resources from locally rooted recovery efforts and said state and county housing efforts make it easy for people to move here but not to successfully obtain work. The speaker said some programs provide housing at a cost “more than $330,000” per unit to taxpayers and asserted that “three quarters of the homeless population” admitted to having an addiction problem. The remark was presented as the commenter’s account of the situation, not as a City finding.
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