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ACKNOWLEDGE SMALL VICTORIES AND CREATE NEXT SMALL BENCHMARK: Everyone has raised some really good points the past few days. Some folks are admitting they are suffering from burn-out on the issue. Others are frustrated that nothing is really getting accomplished. So maybe this is the time to celebrate the things that collectively have been accomplished to date and then create a smaller, more manageable action plan for the next tiny step forward.
This matter started, publically, in November of 2014. In the past 10 months, we have collectively achieved the following:
• The eviction notices threatening incarceration as a punishment for park violations instead of threatening fines as a punishment have stopped.
• For the first time ever, warming shelters were made available to the homeless. While this often happened as a matter of public pressure and the results were often mixed at best---the reality is that such a shelter was never opened during the 2013-2014 winter when he had winter ice storms and artic blasts. Not once was a warming shelter opened during that time. In contrast, during the 2014-2015 winter, warming shelters were opened nearly a half dozen times.
• For the first time ever, the City created a winter weather action plan to be implemented in the future. This plan is very rough and needs a tremendous amount of work, but it is a start. [1]
So, where do we go from here? With winter coming and the political timetable shrinking, we only have a few months to get something accomplished. Besides clothing (hats, gloves, coats, boots, etc) and gear (tents, blankets, tarps, etc) drives, what is everyone wanting to do?
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