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Council debates authority and timing for city’s Coalition for the Homeless; city attorney to add item to Jan. 14 agenda
Summary
Council members disagreed about whether the mayor alone can call meetings of the advisory Coalition for the Homeless; council directed the city attorney to place the issue on the Jan. 14 agenda for further discussion and possible charter changes.
Council members debated whether the mayor or the full council controls scheduling and oversight of the Port Arthur Coalition for the Homeless, with several members urging immediate meetings while the mayor indicated he had withheld a formal organizational meeting pending state and federal directives.
At the start of the discussion Mayor Pro Tem (Councilwoman) Beckham said the coalition need not wait for state or federal guidance and urged an immediate convening to brainstorm services, locations…
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