The Greensboro City Council is scheduled to hold its one business meeting of the month on Tuesday, Oct. 18 beginning at 5 p.m. in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber.
There is no public comment period at this meeting, but people are allowed to speak on any item on the agenda with the exception of consent agenda items.
Allocating more money for the homeless is an item on the general business agenda.
The Housing and Neighborhood Development Department is recommending that the City Council allocate over $777,000 “for homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing in our community” according to the agenda.
The funding is being distributed to nonprofit agencies as a result of response for proposal process. Director of the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development Michelle Kennedy is the former executive director of the Interactive Resource Center (IRC), and of the eight organizations receiving funding, the IRC is by far the big winner with a total of $275,000.
The funding is in four different categories Shelter Services, Prevention Services, Other Services, and Housing Referral and Assistance Services.
The IRC is being recommended to receive the two largest allocations on the list with $150,000 for Prevention Services and $125,000 for Housing and Referral Services.
The next largest allocation is for the Greensboro Housing Coalition at $94,000 for Housing and Referral Services.
For prevention services the IRC is recommended to receive more than the two other agencies combined. The Servant Center is recommended for $45,000 and the Room at the Inn for $66,000. The Servant Center is also recommended for $25,000 for Shelter Services and $45,000 for Other Services.
The other recommendations for Shelter Services are $35,000 for Family Service of the Piedmont, $65,000 for Greensboro Urban Ministry, $25,000 for Room at the Inn, $67,000 for Youth Focus and $35,000 for the YWCA of Greensboro.
Unlike other recent business meeting agendas, the Oct. 18 meeting is not heavy on annexation, zoning and rezoning cases. There is one annexation and original zoning case and one rezoning case.
Not one word anywhere about accountability or requirements for aid.
Just show up homeless and we’ll figure out a way for the taxpayers to support you.
Keep on enabling.
How much money is going to be thrown down the homeless rat hole? Most of the people on the street want to live in that environment. If you constantly throw money at trying to give them a safe, clean place to stay and make it dependent on being drug and alcohol free, they will not go there. Many are in such need of mental health services that the money should be spent in this arena. The little shacks will be nothing more than run-down, drug and feces infested, crime areas. The council and the so called “do gooders” cannot come up with a plan that will work so they just throw money at ways that are so ludicrous a 12 year old can see that they will fail. I am tired of seeing my tax money going to help people who will not help themselves. Lets just keep on buying hotels and paying exorbitant fees for “fixing them up” so they can be destroyed. Please mayor, manager and council, admit you have no viable solutions and quit spending money until someone comes up with a plan that will work.
Three quarters of a million Dollars of free money for Michelle the Mooch! The erstwhile buddy on the dias of the City Council !
Well, isn’t that chummy?
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands that dear Yvonne gets from the City Council for her little “non-profit”.
I ought to go into the “non-profit” business; it seems very profitable.
I’m trying to recall the word for this sort of thing… Ah yes, that’s it!
CORRUPTION.
To start, I believe that those that truly need help should be helped by not just governments but NPOs as well. The key word there is HELP, not support. Are there some that truly need support? I believe there are, but nowhere near the numbers they claim. When are people…taxpayers, going to stand up and hold these supposed representatives accountable for what they do with OUR money. Here’s an idea, every time they vote to give money to these give away programs they have to give a percentage, a large percentage, of their salaries and the salaries of their staff first. And it would apply to those that vote for it only. Want to bet things things would change?
And if these people refuse the help that is offered to them in the form of housing or other non-monetary forms then cut – them – off. I’m not saying no money, but limit it to a small amount and accountability on what they spend it on.
If you are a taxpayer, particularly in Greensboro proper, you deserve what you are getting because YOU put these people there. You have the ability to change it, but if you are masochistic enough to continue to put up with it, enjoy yourself. County and State, don’t give them any more of MY tax money, otherwise you will receive the same labels and hopefully the voters will give you your walking papers.
As entertaining as it would be to watch Mayor Nancy create North America’s first indoor shanty town why not offer the homeless $100 and a bus ticket to Wake County? Win Win.
They were voted in……… NOT by me!!!!! Nothing we can do
What’s really cool about the letter section Is knowing I’m not alone when saying F the Homeless! I hate the homeless! Pack them up and ship them out! Poor people suck too! Let’s kick ‘em all out!