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City outlines multi-month homelessness engagement and Safe Streets public input
Summary
City Manager Paul Grimes told the McKinney CDC the city will launch a professionally facilitated public engagement process named "Better Together" to guide community responses to homelessness and announced a Safe Streets public input meeting that evening.
City Manager Paul Grimes told the MCDC the city is launching a multi-month, community-engagement process called "Better Together" to address homelessness and reconcile community priorities and strategies.
Grimes said the housing and community development department, led by Assistant City Manager Jennifer Arnold, will convene the process and that the city plans to solicit proposals via an RFP to hire a professional facilitator. He described the effort as a community conversation with high social impact that may result in future requests to the MCDC for program or funding support.
The city manager also announced a public input meeting for the Safe Streets McKinney program that evening at 6:00 p.m. in the same Council Chambers. The Safe Streets effort will present proposed strategies targeting high-injury roadways and intersections and solicit public feedback on project prioritization.
Grimes said the council adopted several ordinances in a package that included enforcement tools for the police department, paired with the broader community conversation.
"We're calling it the Better Together initiative," Grimes said. "...we have to figure out as a community how we're going to reconcile that condition with what we want as a community."
Grimes also noted a public-works recognition and the city—s latest population estimate of 233,688 as of Oct. 1.
