I hear that the Park Board has some free space in their new headquarters. Room for many cots. There's usually a healthy contingent of Park Police hanging around to help keep the peace.
Regards, Jason Stone Diamond Lake --- Michael Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that faith-based organizations hold potential as shelters. However, > I'd suspect that adequate staffing, security and liability issues, along > with insurance represent significant barriers for many of them to overcome > in any such effort. In terms of government efforts, Hennepin County with > it's social service-related programs (with fed/state/local funds) should be > the main provider of shelter facilities, not Minneapolis with it's more > meager stream of property tax revenue. And, as Barb suggests, there's no > reason the city and County can't work together, possibly hand-in-hand with > some faith-based groups. As for the topic thread title above, all efforts > like this begin and end with individual efforts. Hopefully we've seen the > last of the severely cold weather for this heating season. > > Michael Hohmann > Linden Hills __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
