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City manager: police to lead new homelessness outreach; $500,000 EDA grant application not awarded

St. Joseph City Council · January 8, 2024
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Summary

City Manager reported the police department will lead a new outreach and enforcement-informed homelessness response after studying a Sarasota program, and said the city was not awarded a $500,000 Economic Development Administration grant for which the Chamber led the application.

The City Manager told the St. Joseph City Council that the city is refocusing parts of its street-homelessness response and that the police department has begun taking a lead role after reviewing a program in Sarasota that pairs outreach and education with enforcement when necessary.

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