Milpitas mayor’s homelessness activity power thoughts briefly talked about, but one councilmember states more action is essential

A endeavor pressure aimed at tackling homelessness in Milpitas is recommending a multipronged method to enable the community’s unhoused citizens by proposing town-sanctioned encampments for tents and parking for RVs as effectively as a task schooling method.

The team, shaped by Mayor Loaded Tran far more than a calendar year in the past, also prompt building a centralized web page and hotline to teach residents about homelessness. The city’s homeless population is believed at far more than 100.

When the mayor was supportive of virtually each concept of the job pressure, Councilmember Karina Dominguez prompt dumpsters at the city’s current encampments to quell grievances about unlawful dumping. That suggestion was turned down by the mayor, who explained the dumping was taking place on point out home and isn’t the obligation of the town.

The endeavor force’s concepts will go back to the town supervisor, who will determine fiscal costs and logistical concerns.

But Dominguez says the metropolis demands to act speedier.

“If the assertion was, ‘Did we move to discover the correct way?’ Yes, that did come about,” said Dominguez, who frequently butts heads with Tran. “If you asked me correct now, ‘Did we do something to deal with homelessness?’ No.”

In an interview, the mayor was optimistic about the job pressure, but coupled his views with his have pragmatic consider.

“It’s not a very simple deal with,” he said. “We’re gonna do it the Milpitas way. I’ll be honest, I don’t consider it is probable totally, 100% to clear up homelessness. It’s been portion of our civilization for thousands of yrs.”

The opposing visions at Tuesday’s meeting represent a bigger division involving metropolis councilmembers above how to tackle an situation that has bedeviled Milpitas’ neighbors in San Jose and other encompassing city’s for several years.

This week, Dominguez manufactured a public try to emphasize her possess approach to tackle homelessness. On Sunday and Monday evening, the council member slept at one particular of the city’s encampments and then later on pitched a tent in front of town corridor in an hard work to realize whether the mayor’s activity force’s solutions aligned with the priorities of individuals on Milpitas’ streets.

Dominguez explained she was also protesting the mayor’s hesitation to fund a county-led program that gives housing assessments for the city’s homeless citizens.

The councilmember’s actions occur as the city’s mayor has taken a extra forceful tactic to tackling homelessness, suggesting in January that the city must ban encampments in certain neighborhoods and close to educational institutions and daycares. Tran also commonly posts on his community Fb web site about encampments in the town and has drawn interest to unlawful dumping using area.