From: Levin, Shannon
To: [email protected]
Subject: FW: Please pull Agenda Items # 5 and # 14
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 8:56:16 AM
From:
Pat Goodman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 8:52 AM
To: CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) <[email protected]>; Van Der Mark, Gracey <[email protected]>
Cc: Fikes, Cathy <[email protected]>
Subject: Please pull Agenda Items # 5 and # 14
Agenda Item #5 is a request to provide Amicus support with regard to Gloria Johnson, et al. v. City of Grants Pass.
Such a move sends a negative signal
to
the city of the good work provided by the Homeless Task Force to address issues around homeless services in our city.
Agenda item #5
would turn the clock back on addressing homeless services in our country and Huntington Beach.
City Council Strategic Policies for the
past 8 years have been driven by the law that overturned policy could arrest people who slept in public areas without providing shelter beds.
We’ve proven as a society that this type of housing policy does not work to address the housing needs of people. Jails do not provide housing. We invested millions of dollars from various funding sources in Huntington Beach to address the housing needs of unhoused people.
It's working! Let’s
keep moving forward to address this systemic, generational problem that offers all involved in the issue dignity and respect.
Please pull Agenda Item #5 from tonight's agenda.
Agenda Item #14
I don't know where to begin on this one. In my humble opinion the Huntington Beach City Council has no business to be involved in the federal policy of immigration other than to support the Constitution of the United States. Please pull this item. I believe it is a distraction to the work the city council is responsible for: public safety, clean water, infrastruction, parks, beaches and libraries, housing needs.
Please pull Agenda Item #14 from tonight's agenda.
Pat Goodman
Huntington Beach, CA 2-6-2024
5 (24-097)