Block. Thats just off of trooper road. If youre not familiar with this area trooper is on the west side. Lower Providence Police and Fire Department and the Montgomery County hazmat have responded to a Company Called e. R. Joseph. They make compressed gas. Were told by the fire chief that they respond to a little after 9 00. Workers inside the Company Called 911 smelling chlorine. They Say Something spilled inside. There were numerous follow up calls. You can see the company is embedded in a large residential neighborhood. Were told 50 homes have been evacuated. About five to ten people were taken to the local hospital complains of breathing problems. Many be housed at the lower providence Fire Department. It will be sometime before the people can get back into their homes. Even though they have found the source of the leak down there that now they need to vent the building and have to get the homeowner or the residents of the homes back to the houses and take air samples inside to mak
That. I dont want the board of supervisors to dictate what the Homeless Services should be. I take my position as City Government very seriously and we are the body that take from individuals and departments to make that happen. So with that, madam clerk can we do a roll call vote on the motion. Mr. Chairman, do we have a second on supervisor avalos . I will second it. Mr. Chairman i want to add that im supportive of your efforts to move forward on a new tenured plan on addressing the homeless crisis in our city. I feel like the Stakeholder Community based organization have to be working with all of us to do that and i appreciate the department of Public Health of expertise, but i feel that Community Based organizations have to be at the table and im not sure after listening to the discussion that there is consensus. I will respectfully disagree with you on how to move this forward and but say that i really appreciate your efforts. I did want to add that the budget and legislative anal
Budget committee in 2 weeks . I will second that. I appreciate the comments, i also will not be supporting this motion. This has been in a month 1 2 now where we have worked with stakeholders on this issue and its ready to go. Im convinced and while i appreciate everyones opinion another week is not going to buy consensus if you will. This is something to me i think should be a priority of ours as a city. As mr. Wiener mentioned the city and residents in our neighborhoods to do all we can as soon as we can to get people off the street. I wont be supporting this motion. Madam clerk can we do a roll call . Supervisor john avalos can i respond to that. Its not about a motion about getting people off the streets. I would like a plan that is more baked. I dont hear that. I have asked for that, i havent heard that. So lets have a vote. City clerk on the motion to continue the item for 2 weeks, supervisor mar, aye, avalos aye, breed, no, wiener, no, farrell, no. The motion fails. Supervisor w
Okay with that. But i also think it is important that we look at our existing stock, housing authorities is not necessarily directly run by the city, but there are a huge number of vacant units and the fact that we now have a number potentially to rehabilitate those units and make Homeless Individuals a priority there, especially homeless families which there is a shelter in my district and these with no shower, with no ability for these families to get prepared for school or work or anything else. So i just think its insane that we are looking at entities with hotels that have an stock that we can invest money in where we have those Properties Available and give individuals those priorities with properties. This is the first step in that direction but the next supplemental which im hoping to get support for is a supplemental to rehabilitate the vacant Public Housing development all over our city and allow Homeless Individuals receive priority and access into those development. Im read
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered today by our guest chape lane, reverend george dillard, Christian Church, Peach Tree City, georgia. The chaplain lets pray. Almighty god, we come before you with praise and thanksgiving because you are the giver and the sustainer of life. We thank you for freedom, help us to use it well. To bless and not to curse. We thank you for justice, help us to be righteous in its use. We thank you for an abundance of food. Help us to be generous. We thank you for life. Help us to give it the value it deserves. We thank you for your truth. Help us to use it as a light to see the path back to you. Bless the members of this house with wisdom and watch over those who serve in our armed forces as they protect our liberty. Forgive us for the error of our ways and thank you for the grace, mercy, forgiveness and love that provide a path to you through jesus, the christ, our king, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of th