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The Los Angeles Homeless Initiative will be holding the web meeting taking place Tuesday, when participants can comment and inquire about the status of the Measure H Funding Recommendations Planning Process.
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Supporters of the Los Angeles Homeless Initiative are holding the community web meeting to let participants, “have an opportunity to ask questions and provide comments,” about the planning process taking place determining how tax revenue will be used. This will include a discussion about, “updated funding requests from the lead County agencies for each of the 19 strategies eligible to Measure H funding.”
After Measure H passed Tuesday, March 7, 2017, city and county officials, and local public safety officials have been meeting to discuss how the new funds will most efficiently combat the homeless situation in Santa Clarita.
Measure H is a quarter sales tax that will be implemented for the next 10 years, and is estimated to raise $3.5 billion for homeless programs over 10 years and sales tax from 8.75 percent to 9 percent, according to county officials.
The web meeting has a capacity of 500 people, and RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. According to the Los Angeles County website, participants are encouraged to use a single computer for multiple users where possible.
Several meetings hosted by the Santa Clarita Homeless Committee have been meeting on an ad-hoc basis and have included county officials such as Santa Clarita Mayor Cameron Smyth and Councilmember Marsha McLean. Local public safety officials such as Linda Davies, executive director of the Domestic Violence Center, and sheriff officials were also in attendance in the first meetings.
For more information on this public process and the County’s action plan to combat homelessness, visit: homeless.lacounty.gov.
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When will politicians realize that if you build it, they will come. The more you provide for homeless, the more homeless will come to enjoy the free ride. It is the tax payers that will keep paying the bill.
George,
You are so right.
Maybe what the politicians should do to correct the problem of homelessness is to use the Department of Corrections. If they arrested the homeless for vagrancy they would have shelter, could get a shower, eat, make new friends, maybe get off drugs if need be, etc. They could work in the prison to make a small amount of money to be spent on bus fare out of the city.
And just who are these stupid people that vote for a tax when they don’t have any idea how the money will be spent. Another blank check given to the government to waste.
You know most of these homeless people need help, mental help. Yes arrest them , then what? Get them the help they need do not put them back on the street to do it all over again.
I believe that if a certain county put homeless in jail an another county gave them welfare then they would tend to go to the county that gives the welfare. I want the county where I live to be the one that puts them in jail. If you make it unpleasant for them they will leave.
Either way, if they are in jail or in a shelter we pay for it.