Recently there have been two inciting letters published that brought to light that we have a serious problem with homeless people in our downtown core.
The citizens who own and operate businesses downtown know far too well that we have a problem. On a daily to weekly basis we have to clean up discarded needles and other drug paraphernalia, used condoms, urine and sometimes feces, and deal with the defacing of our buildings and the damage done from attempted break-ins.
Increasingly, building owners are having to put up expensive steel gates to protect their property and to keep people from camping out in doorways.
The problem has become more acute since last summer's forest fires which made the city of Prince George a major evacuee center.
Does the current mayor and city council recognize the plight of fellow citizens, who entrusted them with the running of the city?
If so, what are they doing about it?
Does our current council actually think that after spending close to a hundred million dollars over the next twenty years, based on October's referendum, which wasn't even close to the mind of the people, will help the current situation? Or will this madness of replacing city assets (instead of renovating them) stop and go back to the drawing board?
Anything short of that, is just putting expensive lipstick on a pig.
Edward J. Denicola
Prince George
