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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - On Friday, City of Fresno leaders program to unveil a new, comprehensive, and assertive attack to homelessness and encampments successful the city.
It comes pursuing Thursday's enforcement bid by California Governor Gavin Newsom, which calls for the removal of encampments connected authorities onshore and applies unit connected section governments to repetition akin action.
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer and Fresno City Councilmember Garry Bredefeld accidental the bid is simply a measurement successful the close direction, but accidental the existent difference-maker is the Supreme Court's Grants Pass ruling, a ruling that removed galore restrictions erstwhile it comes to clearing encampments.
"We person radical retired determination that are chronically addicted to drugs, chronically homeless. We person radical that person a precocious acuity, a level of intelligence wellness issues, and we haven't truly had a batch of things that we could bash with them," said Dyer.
For astir the past month, Bredefeld says helium and Fresno City Councilmembers Miguel Arias and Tyler Maxwell, person worked with the mayor's bureau and Fresno Police, to make a new, much assertive attack successful the combat against homelessness.
"Cities person been dealing with this for a agelong time. That's wherefore the Supreme Court ruling was truthful important due to the fact that now, it takes disconnected the handcuffs of municipalities and allows america to beryllium stronger successful our attack and we mean to be," said Bredefeld.
Mayor Dyer says the metropolis volition proceed to pb with compassion and outreach efforts, but says for those refusing assistance capable is enough.
"There are a fig of radical retired determination that garbage to judge services and shelter. And they're creating problems for our city. If they proceed to bash so, and they're successful a nationalist place, and they're successful usurpation of the ordinance, past they're going to beryllium arrested," helium said.
The ordinance volition beryllium officially introduced and outlined connected Friday astatine 11 a.m.
