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Cincinnati public commenter urges council help after state-plan funding ends for supportive services
Summary
A public speaker, Freddie Dallas, told Cincinnati City Council he is homeless and said city-contracted GCB staff told him funding for hotel stays and food was ending; the clerk asked staff to collect his contact information and the council pledged follow-up but no formal action was taken during the meeting.
During the meeting’s public comment period, Freddie Dallas told Cincinnati City Council he is currently homeless and said staff from a city-contracted program (referred to in the comment as "GCB") had informed him they lacked funding to continue paying for his hotel and food. Dallas said he previously worked and requested both an extension of hotel support and help finding employment inside the Justice Center so he could stabilize housing.
Dallas spoke for two minutes. After his remarks the clerk asked Deanna in the city administration to obtain his contact information and said the administration would "do everything we can to find you stable housing and employment." The exchange was recorded on the public record; council members did not vote or adopt a motion on the speaker’s request during the meeting.
The council’s public record shows the clerk and city staff offered to follow up directly with Dallas. Council members and staff later directed multiple administrative reports on homelessness-related topics in other meetings and committees, but no new funding or program approval was made on the record at this meeting.
This was a public comment by a resident, not a staff presentation or formal agenda item, and Dallas’s remarks were recorded in the meeting minutes for follow-up as appropriate by city departments.
