City of Burien is ending it’s relationship with Evergreen Treatment Services REACH. City Manager Adolfo Bailon says the homeless outreach group has failed to mitigate the encampment disaster in it’s downtown core and businesses continue to suffer.
The funds used by the city to pay for services through this contract are from The American Rescue Plan Act or “ARPA.” Officials say the money will be reallocated to other similar programs helping the homeless, but only after going through an official bidding process.
Burien is now asking for actual results and holding it’s providers accountable. REACH continues to use the controversial “harm reduction” approach and subscribes to the failing “housing first” strategy. It’s clearly not working. https://evergreentreatment.org/about-reach/
The city is also clearly blaming Cydney Moore’s Burien Community Support Coalition for orchestrating this tent debacle in downtown Burien. As I have reported before, even some of the homeless admit they’re being used as Moore’s protest pawns. They say she advised them to set up near the library after being ejected from the backyard church encampment earlier this year.
Burien Community Support Coalition has really been the epitome of amateur hour. It’s still led by former Burien City Councilmember Cydney Moore, failed Burien Council candidate Daniel Martin, and disgraced former Burien Planning Commissioner Charles Schaefer(wearing glasses and hat.) https://buriencsc.org
