Please share. This is not a solution. This is a future problem. They do not care for their clients in their nursing home, do you really think they will care for the homeless?
–Mike Zint
First they came for the homeless added 11 new photos.
March 22, 2018
From two emails. The city says BACS will run Pathways. I stayed in a BACS facility for Christmas in 2016. These are the photos. No toilet seat. No proper bed. My roommate got sick and BACS left the vomit on the floor from 12/23 to 12/27. They refused to remove a bio hazard from my room. I was forced to live with that vomit because I had just been released from the hospital into this facility. I could not move. Complaints did nothing but get me threatened. I was promised a nurse, whom I never met. My friends were threatened with arrest when they spoke up on my behalf. This is Berkeley’s solution? No solution here, just more of the same. SERVICE RESISTANT FOR A REASON!
Feel free to contact Jesse or Jacqueline if you think the city should listen to the true experts, (the homeless) and not the greedy poverty pimps whose money is more important than those who need help.
24. Contract Agreement: Bay Area Community Services (BACS) to Operate the Pathways Project
From: City Manager
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with Bay Area Community Services (BACS) for 13 months of operations and facilities expenses for the Pathways STAIR Center (Pathways), as described below, for a total contract amount not to exceed $2,440,000.
Financial Implications: General Fund – $2,440,000
Next Monday, March 26th from 3 – 4pm the Mayor will be meeting with community members to discuss, among other things, Homelessness and related initiatives. There are several topics under this heading but we want to draw specific attention to the Council Item appearing on the agenda for March 27th of the BACS contract. They will be the operator for PATHWAYS.
This topic will be the first on the agenda and Councilmember Hahn will also be available to answer questions.
Other items under this topic that will be discussed include:
Funding from State/Fed/County
Homeless Ballot Measure
1000 Person Plan
Regional Approach
Encampment/Sidewalk ordinance status
I realize this is last minute but I hope some of you can make it. We are actually moving forward in a very positive direction!!
Jac
Jacquelyn McCormick
Senior Advisor to the Mayor
Office of Mayor Jesse Arreguin
City of Berkeley
2180 Milvia Street, 5th Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 981-7101 phone
(510) 981-7199 fax
jmccormick@cityofberkeley.info
