Opposition to treatment center unwarranted

This author's comments are not based on any meaningful facts. WHY? Because there are none other than Noelia Corzo voted to give a private company Horizon $2M of taxpayer monies without disclosing to the public any meaningful details about the plan. This is not about opposing treatment services. This is about officials making "silent-undercover" sweetheart deals and a lack of public transparency. We should all be worried about this kind of dark behavior.

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Elliott, but a treatment center is not a pop-up space where it is there one week and gone the next. A treatment center is kind of like installing bike lanes. Once it is there, it is difficult to remove. Especially since the “seed/free” taxpayer money to install them in the first place is gone. How about instead of testimonials and opinions, we get real data as to what the impact of sobering stations has had on a neighborhood or community? Has crime increased in the neighborhood? Amount of calls to the police? Police actions? Let’s get some data before we potentially change more lives for the worse, especially those who live in the neighborhood. Let’s ensure the location of the sobering stations is vetted properly and not a case of getting “free” money.