Homeless Task Force meeting
I have a few takeaways from the meeting; • There needs to be more felon friendly efficiency options for transitional housing. Regular market rate apartments are just too expensive right now for people...
View ArticleSioux Falls Homeless Task Force takes public input
Here are some takeaways from last night’s meeting (it only took 12 hours this time to get the video up, still don’t know why they don’t live stream); • Several complaints about the mismanagement of...
View ArticleSioux Falls Homeless Task Force Meeting, 9/12/2022
I have been hearing rumors for years from Minnehaha County officials (elected and non-elected) that other towns and cities were buying bus tickets and sending their homeless to Sioux Falls. During the...
View ArticleHow do we limit panhandling?
Patrick Lalley, the Sioux Falls reporter for Forum news took a stab at it; And maybe that’s true for some. But what people working in social services will tell you is that the panhandlers aren’t the...
View ArticleSioux Falls Homeless Task Force meeting from Oct 3 has yet to be posted
I was unable to attend last Monday’s meeting and I have noticed that after 8 days it has yet to be posted on YouTube. I still don’t understand why the meetings cannot be live streamed as they are...
View ArticleUPDATE: Sioux Falls Homeless Task Force meeting videos are getting more and...
UPDATE: I was informed this morning that the meeting video will not be available due to the audio missing. Not even sure how that happened? This is the 3rd time I have requested from Chair Merkouris...
View ArticleSioux Falls City Council Informational Meeting
Next week the city council has decided to tackle three big topics all in one game; • Washington Pavilion Management Agreement Renewal by Shawn Pritchett, Finance Director (two questions councilors...
View ArticleSioux Falls neighbors not happy about planned homeless shelter
In case you missed this a few days ago, I did to; Meanwhile, in downtown Sioux Falls, the Bishop Dudley House had been looking at the possibility of different temporary family housing locations.The...
View ArticleUPDATE: We spend Millions on River Greenway but fail to clean up the ****!
IF PARIS CAN CLEAN UP THE SEINE WE CAN CLEAN UP THE BIG POO I found this story amazing (imagine what you can do when you spend actual money on cleaning up the problem); But now clean up efforts, which...
View ArticleSioux Falls City Council relies on online newsletter to inform the public...
What have I been saying about informing the public about policy changes? Tomorrow the city council plans to approve this on the consent agenda with NO informational presentation to the public (Item...
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