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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • NOVEMBER 28, 2018 • Christmas Trees For Sale HOMELESS from A1 BOY SCOUT TROOP #140 Weekends in December Dec. 1,2,8,9,15,16 or until sold out 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Safeway Parking Lot Have a Merry Christmas! city constructing a homeless camp at Trailhead Park. “Th ey’re sadly mistaken of what’s going on,” City Manager Richard Mey- ers said of the rumors. “Nothing is set up and we’re pursuing options on how we’re going to address the court ruling. We have to do something otherwise they can set up camp and there’s nothing we can do about it.” Th e ruling was hand- ed down on Sept. 4 aft er two individuals in Ida- Breakfast With Santa Santa is on his way from the North Pole to cook you breakfast and he wants to know what is on your Christmas List! Saturday December 1 7AM - 11AM Free at South Lane Fire & Rescue 233 Harrison Avenue Cottage Grove We will be taking donations of unwrapped new toys for "Toys for Tots" long as they’re doing that, it’s fi ne.” Th e same premise, Mey- ers, said, would work for any solution the city institutes. People could sleep in the parks until they closed and would then have to move to a location set up by the city — taking their tents and oth- er belongings with them. “Th e benefi t is that we keep them mov- —Richard Meyers, City Manager ing,” Meyers said. “Th ey’re not setting up camp with ex- tra propane tanks and stuff , it’s staying to go, receiving a citation lacks an alternative location clean and if it doesn’t then we can cite them for litter- from the city was cruel and for the individual to go. And while there is no plan ing.” unusual punishment — a Th e yet-to-be-determined constitutional violation. Ac- to set up a homeless camp at cording to the ruling, cita- Trailhead Park, according to location would not rise to tions can still be distributed Meyers, the city is looking the level of camps in Eu- if the city has an alternative at its options and actively gene. According to Meyers, it wouldn’t even qualify as a location for individuals to working on an alternative. “It’s kind of how we’re al- rest stop. sleep, such as a shelter. “We want it in a location Cottage Grove does not ready doing it with the RVs,” have a shelter within city he said. “We have about eight where we won’t be creating limits. Under the new court RV homeless people, they’re easy cover for nefarious ac- ruling, individuals are per- not homeless because their tivities,” he said. “We want mitted to sleep on public homes are on wheels but it somewhere we can watch property, despite existing they’re parking in our lots them and see what’s going city ordinances that set rules at the parks or streets. Th ey on because, sorry — the can park there until the park court doesn’t say you get to to the contrary. “We’re trying to protect closes at 10 and then they go do this and do whatever our parks,” Meyers said. have to go somewhere. So, you want.” No decision has been Currently, parks within the what’s happening is around city close at 10 p.m. and all 9:30 they move out onto the made about what a location residents are barred from street and stay there for a would look like or where entering them. However, the day, move to a park or move it would be situated. Ac- ruling from the Ninth Cir- to another location and as cording to Meyers, the city planned to meet with sev- eral community stakehold- ers to discuss the available options. “Th at’s the key,” he said. “We want to get them to Any service with coupon another place and then Schedule your appointment Today! in that place, that’s where Not Valid on any service Exceeding $100 • Expires 11/30/18 Not valid with any other offer. we’re meeting with other groups saying, ‘Ok, who Our People Really Make The Difference! can help us with this and as you’re helping can we fi nd those other services they need to connect with?’” ho challenged existing city ordinances that prohibited sleeping overnight in city parks. 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