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Thank you for your email, Maggie.
Best,
David J. Faber
Mayor, City of Port Townsend
(360) 821-9374
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From: Peggy Mitchel <pegsfm@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2024 12:19 PM
To: DOR Jefferson County Leg Authority <JeffBoCC@co.jefferson.wa.us>; CityCouncil <citycouncil@cityofpt.us>
Subject: Gratitude
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I am grateful to all the community volunteers, interfaith coalition,county, city, other departments, Mutual Aid Society who is starting to come out to Evans Vista camp on Sunday with
food, disposable body warmers, protein drinks, hot and cold, coffee tea etc, they were eve ask the Harm Reduction Unit how to get hold of them if you are interested, Gretta for heading
the Just Blankets Program, so on target because it fits into the hierarchy of need that should be prioritized, grateful for recovery cafe, Dove House, anybody involved at any level
just collecting/ donating items that help people stay dry and reasonably "warm"during this winter season which will have more days of colder than average weather this year. If you
come to share a meal and interact with folks I frequently hear them expressing gratitude, come down, sit down talk with someone one on one. You might be surprised or inspired or just
learn to appreciate a different perspective or just have compassion enough to make a difference by listening. I wish you all happy holidays, and let's help Peggy fix up unrentable
aunits and have conversations about how many units are available for each population category and about supportive services to keep people in housing, how case managers can help them
achieve long term housing stability, just data collecting over and over again doesn't do it, chronic undercounts don't help, landlords using empty units as write offs doesn't help.
Indifference of gov agencies doesn't help, I want Peggy who was brought in to fix olycap back at the housing coalition meeting. Cheers Maggie