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Residents press city on camera coverage, homeless services and vacant-lot maintenance
Summary
During public comment the same committee meeting, residents raised ongoing concerns about nonfunctioning or misallocated security cameras, winter shelter and food access for people experiencing homelessness, and long-unrepaired vacant lots and overgrown properties in Benton Harbor.
Several residents used the committee’s public-comment period on Oct. 22 to press city leaders for clearer action on public safety cameras, services for people experiencing homelessness and long-standing property maintenance problems.
Mary Alice Adams, a Benton Harbor resident, said she has repeatedly heard promises about camera installations but that the city’s existing cameras “have wheels on them and they're just placed in…
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