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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 10minute timers. They will be on 10minute timers and another 8 minutes to allow people to do something ...

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 a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be ...

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 give back. When the program was first implemented the initial plan was for the outreach patients in t...

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 Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the hom...

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.