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On cspan. Bend is a timber town. You wouldnt know it to look at it today. The timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. At the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop into bend in, say, 1928, you would have smell the mills, you would have smelled sawdust. If you went through certain parts of town, youd get sawdust on your clothes. You would here periodic mill whistles from the two gigantic super mills that were on the banks of t...

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Processes are and stuff like that to where it is like, i dont know whether i want to say thats a major charm school faux pas or whatever. But is there anything that prohibits the f. C. C. This is where you need to end up so they can go through the processes so they at least feel like theyve had the processes at the state level before you get there . And we actually have joint boards that work with the National Association regulatory utility commissioners in identifying issues that need to be add...

Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those wi...

All of those have a very similar nexus reaching the population of the city. After being established for a few years, the office is really has worked in three key areas. Its a Policies Office through programs like our Community Ambassadors program and we do grant making around i am grant immigration initiatives. Thats a snapshot of the offices. The Community Ambassadors is one of our premier programs that started in 2010. Just some background on the program. It started in the bayview on the 10th ...

Are there any questions from councilmembers . Identify i have a couple comments. First of all my question is are the buses going to be running on the cables or out of diesel buses . These are diesel buses. So they can go anywhere . Yes. You said, will you have the capability of doing 45 showers per day . It could be more, but depends on how long it takes us to do the pilot program. We want to give people as much time and want to be able to serve as many people as possible. The showers are on 10m...

Public comment . All right. Thank you very much. Next we are moving on to item no. 8. Lava mae. This is denise sandoval. Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers...

Training programming. They walk the library floors and share their story about how they recovered from homelessness and other issues and how they have utilized the services in San Francisco. Some were Library Patients who were outreach at the library and gone through a Homeless Program in San Francisco and come back once they are stable and address their issues with homelessness and other issues often associated with homelessness and such as Mental Health and abuse and they say i would like to g...

They do have the social worker on hand. Its terrible to see librarians having to mediate disputes between some irritable patrons. But, all in all, i think the library is a find place and i believe they are doing a great job and are to be commended. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . All right. Thank you very much. Next we are moving on to item no. 8. Lava mae. This is denise sandoval. Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet ...

Citing increased applications and a lack of capacity, the Freeport Community Services board voted on May 20 to back out of the General Assistance Program, a statewide initiative to help Mainers meet basic needs.