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Margate group reports holiday outreach for more than 200 children; speaker credits police and ordinance for reductions in street homelessness
Summary
Margie Brezina Patton thanked the city and partners for a homeless holiday event that served more than 200 children and said recent enforcement under a new ordinance has reduced the visible street-homeless population by 17 people, according to her remarks to the commission.
Margie Brezina Patton, identified in the record as from Parkland, thanked the City Commission and city staff for allowing a homeless holiday event at the Charlie Katz Center that she said served more than 200 Margate children.
Patton said the event included arts and crafts, breakfasts, resource sign-ups and a visit from Santa. “We had over 200 Margate homeless children at this event,” she told the commission during public discussion on Jan. 22, and she thanked…
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