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Council hears public concerns about panhandling, homelessness and public-safety; alderwoman urges immediate action
Summary
Public speakers and Alderwoman Trina Granath urged the council to address panhandling, homelessness, trafficking and public-safety issues downtown and in neighborhood corridors; Granath called for urgent measures and offered to work on solutions.
Several public speakers and Alderwoman Trina Granath used the Sept. 15 meeting to call attention to public-safety concerns, homelessness and panhandling in Rockford and to urge city action.
Alderwoman Trina Granath described multiple neighborhood incidents she said she had observed — repeated panhandling in commercial parking lots and a homeless encampment in the former Walgreens on Kishwaukee where residents once picked up prescriptions. Granath said she visited parts of the city with Alderman Meeks and described encounters in which people repeatedly…
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