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Home My WebLink About112524 email - Re_ Funding for recovery cafe and dove houseALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. It's Kingsolver damn auto correct On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 4:21 PM Brailey, Karlena (COM) <karlena.brailey@commerce.wa.gov <mailto:karlena.brailey@commerce.wa.gov> > wrote: Hello Peggy, Thank you for reaching out about your concerns of inadequate funding for the valuable services Dove House/Recovery Café provides for community members. I’ve passed along your feedback and concern to Diane Klontz as well as the program managers for the Consolidated Homeless Grant program <https://www.commerce.wa.gov/homelessness-response/family-adult-homelessness/consolidated-home less-grant/> at Commerce. Thank you, Karlena Karlena Brailey (she/her) | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST Community Engagement & Outreach | Washington State Department of Commerce Cell: 360-764-9774 Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 7:30am-5:15pm; every other Friday 8:30am-5:15pm www.commerce.wa.gov <http://www.commerce.wa.gov/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WAStateCommerce/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/WaStateCommerce> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com /company/893804> | Subscribe <https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/WADOC/subscribers/new> Email communications with state employees are public records and may be subject to disclosure, pursuant to Ch. 42.56 RCW From: Peggy Mitchel <pegsfm@gmail.com <mailto:pegsfm@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 10:49 AM To: Brailey, Karlena (COM) <karlena.brailey@commerce.wa.gov <mailto:karlena.brailey@commerce.wa.gov> >; DOR Jefferson County Leg Authority <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us <mailto:jeffbocc@co.jefferson. wa.us> > Cc: citycouncil@cityofpt.us <mailto:citycouncil@cityofpt.us> Subject: Funding for recovery cafe and dove house External Email Hi there K.B. I am a disabled, homeless consumer in the 60 and over category. Female. I am writing from Jefferson County WA, Port Townsend. I need to email and or speak to commerce director Fong, Diane Klontz, Cheryl Smith, about a funding shortfall for Dove House/ Recovery Cafe. Apparently, Casswell Brown, (Greg Brotherton, Jefferson County Commissioner) and the totally inadequate and inappropriate 509a Monroe st shelter got more funds this year, with the switch to Bayside contractor Gary Keister who as you may be aware defrauded Interstate Bank in the nineties, Greg Brotherton got 450 thousand to build showers and toilets for his homeless country club , Casswell Brown, when the Port Townsend Yacht Club was already ada ready with entrance, showers toilets and commercial kitchen and multi purpose room and office for 375 thousand was overlooked would have saved 75 thousand, access to ALL homeless plus moms free laundry across the street, totally zoning appropriate homeless day center could be up and running right now no need to build. BUT NO. Dove House/ Recovery Cafe which to my knowledge has no history of defrauding or embezzlement as a contractor, such as you homeless youth lobby group did (350 embezzlement) that department of Commerce is in court trying to get their money back. Dove House/Recovery Cafe has a funding shortfall of over 125,000 but really more, they are too square and too honest that is their problem. Jefferson County is number one in homeless folks per capita by double and one half to the next highest county in Washington State. Who Dove And Recovery serve; homeless women and children, low income elderly people, men and women living with physical and mental disabilities while homeless and on housing lists, low income housed folks living with physical and mental disability, dev disability folks, shelter residents of all shelters, people struggling with addiction and trauma homeless youth, LGBTQIA folks. From Tuesday through Friday they are open 9-4 from 12-2 pm they serve lunch on real plates with real silver ware, really good food. They have classes and support groups every day including Saturday. This is Dove House/Recovery cafe is the best service provider in Port Townsend, but they have been overlooked in funding and they are overwhelmed,they are going to have to cut back. This will have a severe effect on those in need who consider Recovery Cafe folks their chosen family, an intentional community where consumers support each other, you are doing a grave injustice to low income and homeless marginalized, disenfranchised folks by under funding these non-profits, they are very much consumer choice projects. Please contact Buela King's Oliver with Dove House ask her how much she needs and please include more money for laundry vouchers as they run out in the middle of the month. Also please contact the Jefferson County Health Dept, Harm Reduction Unit, have them send you photos of Eden Bloom's "Curating Empathy" exhibit. Which Ms. Bloom did for her master's thesis, Ms. Bloom was herself homeless as a youth. There are photos that homeless folks took of homeless life in the exhibit, there are artifacts from my trip to Washington DC for Grants Pass v Johnson case, I was the only homeless person in the courtroom, there's a housing is a human right t- shirt, there's are really gnarly "Housing not Handcuffs " protest sign, there's also a photo of me on a bench against the blue building of Recovery Cafe getting a pink warning ticket for sleeping in the city park on international homeless day, which was the same as national NAMI Day. Please invite Eden Bloom up to give a presentation of her exhibit it's very professional. Also please consider that the longest sitting and most liberal supreme Court Justice from Washington State William O Douglas who sat from 1939-1975 illegally rode the freight rails as a student and witnessed police brutality on itinerant workers, he was all about human and civil rights and would NEVER criminalize homeless folks, whose law clerk wrote a book in tribute to him wrote an instruction manual of how to illegal ride the rails, he considered breaking the law for civil and human rights kind of a duty, if you have to do it to meet your essential needs. Please make sure Dove House and Recovery Cafe get the funding they need, they should be funded for more than they are asking for, for additional consumer services. Thanks Maggie, P.S. in the words of Washington State Federal Circuit Judge Goodwin "Always punch up, never punch down."