I am glad David asked that question. My girlfriend is on the board of directors of a very large organization that runs among many other services an over-night shelter.
The director of the shelter is her neighbor. My girlfriend asked him why they have to make people leave the shelter so early in the morning when it is so cold outside. He said they tried to allow people to stay and have coffee and hang around for awhile in the mornings. However, they got a call from another shelter in town chastizing them for doing that. The response from the other shelter is that people were migrating to the shelter that allowed people to stay longer in the morning and have coffee, and as a result the "numbers were dropping" in the shelter that didn't. This shelters fund from the county are dependent on number of beds filled. If the shelters were overflowing, why would one shelter be affected by what another shelter did? If there were more people then beds, why would it matter if one shelter provided more services than another? Just curious. Barb Lickness Whittier ===== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
