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Excerpt from the Daily Montanan
“The council also looked at Whitefish’s current code for mitigating park usage, titled “Excessive Personal Property Interfering the Use of Public Property” which in part prohibits behavior in the park that “causes an area to be uninviting to others.” In Whitefish it’s punishable as a misdemeanor.
“It’s working in Whitefish,” said councilperson Chad Graham. “They’re not having a meeting, a packed meeting, in Whitefish about this issue.”
Other measures discussed by council members earlier in the evening included a potential safe disposal box for used needles as well as taking a “housing first” initiative, where you provide the homeless with housing and behavioral health services on the ground floor. A project of that nature is being constructed in Great Falls in the Baatz building by Neighborworks Great Falls.
Mayor Johnson said that the public should also be looking to what legislators in Helena are doing to local control as it could impact how local governments respond to issues like homelessness.
“I ask everybody in here to pay attention to what’s happening in Helena,” he said “It’s the biggest assault on local control you will ever see, and the Republi-crats need to stop.”
See full article at the Daily Montanan