Open Letter Regarding City Homeless Services

On Thursday January 31st, 2019 Austin City Council will vote to approve the new contract for the City's homeless shelter [ARCH]. Our Citizens, Neighbors, and Businesses of Austin deserve a quality return from those who receive the award of this contract. You are invited to join the conversation.

Dear Austin City Council,

After several attempts and methods to communicate with the
City of Austin in regards to the tremendous lack of leadership and
gross negligence within the City’s Homeless Shelter ARCH, managed by
Front Steps, civil action cause D-1-GN-18-005877 was brought before
Travis County District Court. Though 0.125%–2% of the total State sales
tax for food or other purchases is acquired by the City of Austin, as I
am not a property owner in the city of Austin the civil action could
not prevail at this time within the designated jurisdiction.

That civil action, in the form of an “INJUNCTION”, was an
attempt to block the award of the City of Austin’s [Public Health]
contract with the city shelter operator Front Steps, Inc. The purpose
for bringing such action(s) came as the result of Austin’s Public Health
Department being inefficient in dealing with an array of issues brought
before City in regards to concerns with the FULL FUNCTIONALITY of the
ARCH as being managed by Front Steps, Inc. Both Front Steps, Inc Staff
and Clients alike have pleaded with the Public Health Department to only
have adequate causes for audit and investigation become a
self-reporting closure which led to Front Steps, Inc employee
WhistleBlower's being exposed/ retaliated against and has further left
ARCH clients even more vulnerable.

In being appropriately responsible and fair to every member
in the community of Austin who wishes to not bring controversy for fear
of retaliation, for every person whom wholeheartedly desires to help
others regain a suitable life but the interference of bureaucracy
overcomes the effort, for every person who is at the cusp of almost
being right there [home] but systematic issues remains the obstacles,
that this city government nor it’s contractor of the Public Health
Department should not be so arrogant as to minimize and abate the
rightful responsibility to appropriately do what is known must be done,
and to further mandate conditions attached to Austin’s Public Health’s
(and the City’s) contract for the ARCH being that Front Steps, Inc shall
be obligated to the City of Austin to effectively replace current Front
Steps, Inc President of the Board of Directors , Executive, and Managerial staff.

REGARDS,