Anonymous
Source: City of Goleta
City of Goleta staff held an interactive and engaging Community Update Meeting for Goleta’s Homelessness Strategic Plan on Wednesday, February 19, at the Goleta Valley Community Center. More than 50 community members and representatives from a variety of organizations attended and learned more about the steps being taken to craft the City’s Homelessness Strategic Plan. Attendees were asked to provide input on the prioritization of suggestions to be included in the draft plan.
Community input is an essential part of the City of Goleta’s effort to develop the City’s first comprehensive Homelessness Strategic Plan. The input received Wednesday evening will be included in the Homelessness Strategic Plan outline, which will be brought before City Council at the next meeting on Tuesday, March 3.
City staff previously held a Community Open House in December 2019, as well as stakeholder meetings, and released a community survey (which has received more than 430 responses). This public engagement is part of a larger effort to address homelessness, including best practice discussions with communities nationwide and enhanced partnerships on regional homelessness efforts. We appreciate the community’s involvement and input in this process thus far and look forward to continued engagement during this important effort.
For more information, please contact Dominique Samario, Management Analyst for the City of Goleta, at dsamario@cityofgoleta.org or 805-690-5126. Learn more about Goleta’s Homelessness Strategic Plan at tinyurl.com/
Too bad they continue to use the very out-dated term “homelessness”. Results in unproductive discussions and a dearth of workable options. Additionally, when do we finally ask the “homeless” to solve their own problems. Quid pro quo time. No more unilateral demands to provide solely for this subset population. What will they provide for us in return? There is no dignity enabling only takers.
Homeless VS Vargrant- there is a BIG distinction. “Homeless” advocacy groups such as the ACLU and others have adopted the politically correct blur of one term for all situations.
What the County did in order to evict the “unsheltered” from their encampments near Atascadero Creek is a crying shame. I’m glad those bums have been rousted, but was it really necessary to butcher the undergrowth and trees to such a savage extent? Absolutely appalling what was done. If anyone has a yellow kayak missing, one was found there. “Chinook Aquaterra.” In great shape. It’s not likely it will be advertised as found, so you’d have to contact the County and clean up crew, I suppose.
What happened to the billions of new tax dollars raised after voters approved the 2004 Mental Health Services Act? 15 years later, and what do we have after pouring that money on the street population specifically with mental impairments? Were we misled when we passed that voter initiative? Where did that money go.
Millions and billions more to be spent on vagrants. The Vagrant Industrial Complex. Lots of money to be made off vagrants.