Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has vetoed an Assembly resolution that called for a task force to come up with a plan to shelter hundreds of people experiencing homelessness this winter.
A homeless camp above Anchorage's Ship Creek area in winter, photographed on Nov. 29, 2013.
Assembly Vice Chair Christopher Constant said he believes the mayor’s legal arguments are “absurd” and that the Assembly will issue its own legal opinion. Requesting help and expertise on a complex community issue is not the same as creating an official advisory board, he said. The Assembly’s resolution recognizes the coalition’s work and publicly states that the Assembly values and is requesting its input, Constant said.
But a Tuesday night meeting, Bronson told members that he does, in fact, have a plan for emergency winter shelter. It includes the possible use of municipal facilities, he said, though he did not identify which buildings. When member Forrest Dunbar asked for more details, Alexis Johnson, Bronson’s chief of staff, said that officials are reviewing four different buildings and declined to say which ones.
But Assembly leaders and other members said the administration’s Tuesday night reveal of its work on emergency shelter options doesn’t amount to an actual plan because it had no specifics on key details such as shelter locations, sizes, costs and services.
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