As the city has begun to take a hard look at the state of homelessness locally, the Watsonville City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday on plans to remove a private-property homeless encampment used by an estimated 20-40 people off Airport Boulevard.
With the March primary election result's technically not yet certified, authorities charged with addressing Santa Cruz County homelessness were before elected leaders Tuesday with a request to carve $1 million off Measure K's projected annual $10 million in sales taxes.
A collaborative multi-jurisdictional agency is recruiting community members with "lived experience" in homelessness to have their say and get paid for it.
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