Washoe County Commissioner Mike Clark now the chair of the Community Homelessness Advisory Board tells Our Town Reno a meeting scheduled for Feb. 9 has been canceled due to logistical issues.
Bethany Drysdale confirmed this writing us “there was a broken link in the agenda that was discovered too late to fix and repost while still meeting the Open Meeting Law requirements. It will be rescheduled as quickly as possible.”
“You know the county puts out hundreds of agendas a year and somebody needs to know how to put them together,” Clark said disappointed. “I mean somebody at the county needs to know when the deadlines are … and how to get this thing properly agendized.”
Clark has been pushing for more CHAB meetings after there was a long lull between Spring 2024 and this winter in between meetings. He told Our Town Reno he’d like to see one of these meetings which bring together Reno, Sparks and the county to discuss regional homelessness every 60 days.
“I think all three municipalities need to have constant dialogue about the homeless issue,” Clark said. “It could be once a month until things settle down,” he added, saying homelessness remains a primary local concern.
Meanwhile, a new safe parking program at the Cares Campus has had little use with the county recently reporting just two individuals have used the service since it opened in mid December, one for two days and one for nine days.
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