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“The current staff are really impacted by this work, partly because there’s not enough resources to do it all,” Kurt Firnhaber, director of the city’s Housing and Human Services department, told council members during the study session on April 27.
The other three proposals, which weren’t universally supported but were ultimately approved, included creating a pilot ambassador program that would provide more “eyes on the ground” for law enforcement; funding two unarmed park rangers to help police public spaces and issue citations; and adding six specially trained police officers to support both teams and to be present during encampment clearings.