Assembly members introduced a separate proposal that would direct $5.9 million to the city’s housing efforts and emergency winter homeless sheltering.
“It came as quite a shock last week when we learned that the proposal requires taking funding from critical services,” Constant said during his opening comments Tuesday night.
Assembly member Daniel Volland, who represents North Anchorage, which includes Fairview, said he was “livid” when he saw the money in the proposed funding document, apparently unspent on its intended purpose to help relieve negative impacts of the former shelter. At one point in the discussion, Assembly member Anna Brawley read aloud several comments made by Bronson over the last few months suggesting the administration would use the shelter for far more than 200 people. Brawley read statements from the mayorin order to pass legal muster to clear the encampments, and that the 29,000-square-foot facility, if built, could handle that many. She read another comment in which he also referenced Lower 48 shelters with upward of 950 beds as examples.
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