CommentsVOICES - The CalTrans response on Nov. 1st to remove the homeless encampment on the San Fernando Mission Blvd. southbound 405 freeway on-ramp left a lot of trash behind.
Jill Mather from VCC has accumulated over 60 large bags of trash on two separate occasions, one before the major CalTrans campaign and one afterwards. The filth, drug abuse, prostitution, and property crime has been allowed to proliferate in our community has to stop now! People like Jill Mather need a combined community beautification effort to pick up where our public service agencies fall short. Please consider contributing to Jill's VCC campaign by joining her crew on a date to be determined soon, or sending in a financial donation to support the cause.
I asked Miguel Morales from ASM 39 how many people at the aforementioned homeless encampment were engaged regarding housing assistance, mental health, and drug abuse rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, Mr. Morales dodged my pointed question stating: "Los Angeles Family Housing (LAFH)" does not provide this information. Mr. Morales please let this communication serve to memorialize my verbal public records act inquiry before a formal written inquiry is generated. LAFH is a nonprofit organization receiving government funding (paid by taxpayer dollars and federal/state grants) to address a proliferating homeless, mental health, and drug abuse epidemic sweeping across our state. Taxpayers deserve quantitative proof and questions answered to maintain transparency and open government that has declined to a deplorable state across our beloved community. I am asking all of my family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors to unite and demand transparency and open government! I believe we are all very aware of how our health and public safety is being impacted. Placating rhetorical statements from our public servants accomplish little or or nothing; therefore, being held accountable requires an action plan to sustain and regain the peaceful enjoyment and beauty our community deserves. Requesting a response directly from Assemblywoman Luz Rivas is undoubtedly going to be deferred to her staffers that appear to have a weak action plan (at best) for stopping community blight from proliferating. Legislators are paid by our tax dollars; unfortunately, citizens are the ones who need to draft the desired action plan for sustainable change. Please join me to affect sustainable change and restore our community to a beautiful and safe place to live, work, and play.
Best regards,
Brad Klimovitch
Commander
All-American VFW Post 2323
(818) 606-7531
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From: Jill Mather <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:34 PM
Subject: Today
To: Brad Klimovitch <[email protected]>
Today my team went to the island to final clean up the mess… the front loader can only get the top trash… we filled 15+ bags today with lots of pipe, poop buckets, batteries, needles, etc… and will have to return again to rake the area to get all of the debris that is still there - in order to give the trees, and plants a chance to survive form the unhoused that have lived there….
I left the bags there on the island - moved some to the area to the west of th island not he sidewalk that was form the alley area on that side of the on ramp…
Would LOVE to have neighbors help with the final raking, etc. of this area when we come again… some much stuff because of the years of abuse.
Thoughts?
Jill Mather, Organizer, Volunteers Cleaning Communities
website: https://volunteerscleaningcommunities.com
website: https://adopt1street.org
