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Public protests, dozens of speakers urge city not to terminate Pete’s Place lease; council holds executive session on leased property
Summary
Dozens of residents, volunteers and service providers testified in favor of keeping Interfaith Community Shelter (Pete’s Place) operating at its current Cerritos Road site. The council entered an executive session to discuss a city-leased parcel and later declined to disclose session contents; attendees demanded transparency.
Dozens of speakers pressed the Santa Fe City Council to retain the Interfaith Community Shelter (commonly called Pete’s Place) at its current site and to coordinate any changes openly with existing local providers.
The council convened extended public comment focused almost entirely on Pete’s Place after the agenda included an item involving identification of city property for homelessness responses. Current and former staff, volunteers, board members and shelter residents described the shelter as an established community resource that provides meals, casework and day services. Lehi Rand, board chair of the Interfaith Community Shelter, said the board agrees the current Cerritos and Harrison site is not ideal for the long term but asked for…
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