Sour grapes

Well written, Mr. Donnelly, highlighting Mr. Slocum’s blaming the victim tactic. Mr. Slocum recently tried the race card tactic so let’s see what new, if any, tactic Mr. Slocum will try next. If Mr. Slocum is such a big proponent, let’s have Mr. Slocum and others of like mind cover losses/damages/liability incurred to residents from folks passing through/residing at the hotel site. Along with housing a few of the homeless, of course.

Hello, Tim

I don’t know if the Supervisors or anyone else on the county’s staff was aware that Article 34 could affect the purchase of the La Quinta Inn. However, now that Millbrae has raised the issue, Supervisor Slocum’s op-ed response was IMO inappropriate. As you pointed out, the county has been somewhat elusive in the matter of the La Quinta Inn conversion.

When our governor ran for the mayorship of San Francisco in 2003, he promised to clean up the City’s homelessness problem in 10 years. That promise was made 20 years ago, and the City still has a huge homelessness problem. San Francisco deserves better… Californians deserve better… and the homeless definitively deserve better. Billions and billions of dollars spent, and the homeless problem… like taxes, gas prices, and crime… only keeps increasing.

Back to Millbrae… it looks like the folks in Millbrae have lost confidence in our Board of Supervisors. If so, is that loss of confidence justified?

The Project Homekey site in Redwood Shores has had some serious problems. I emailed Supervisor Slocum in late August, almost two weeks before the Board’s vote to approve the purchase of the La Quinta Inn. I inquired about the county’s oversight of the Redwood Shores Project Homekey site with respect to selection and training of Project Homekey staff, the creation and application of acceptable standards of conduct for assignment to housing at the site, and whether the promised community advisory committee tasked with evaluating the effectiveness of the program had been formed. No response. I emailed again after the Supervisors approved the La Quinta Inn purchase, and I got a response from a county staffer saying the county was going to hire an analyst and contract with a consultant to evaluate the project. It seems odd the county would wait three years after creating the Redwood Shores facility to start a review about the effectiveness of the project.

So, if the folks in Millbrae have lost confidence in the Board of Supervisors, is that loss justified?