Write to City Council to Help Safe Ground
By Glen Tilton, Homeless Task Force

On Feb. 26, First Church will host Safe Ground for our second overnight.Ten volunteers from our church will provide hospitality. During the last few weeks, articles in The Sacramento Bee have fueled a community debate about where homeless people can legally camp.

In one of those articles, Rev. David Leeper Moss, Safe Ground advisor, says, “Phil Serna’s efforts to provide 32 beds at Salvation Army for 60 days and to extend the Winter Sanctuary one month is great, but grossly inadequate to accommodate the 64 Safe Grounders and the 200 other people who have been evicted.” 

They need land now.

The Sacramento City Council will soon deliberate and hopefully approve a parcel of land suggested by Safe Ground with the approval of the Planning Council to lease it to Safe Ground. This has been their dream for two years -- since they emerged from the ashes of tent city.  

Please write a letter to your Sacramento City Council member today and urge him/her to approve the parcel of land for Safe Ground. City Council contact information is available at www.cityofsacramento.org/council/index.html. If you live in the county of Sacramento, please write to the Board of Supervisors. The board's contact information is available at www.bos.saccounty.net/default.htm. 

Your letter can make a difference. A former city council member has said that as few as 10 personal letters sent to his office alerted him to pay attention.  

Thank you for helping those in need.