Mayor Bass at WSA annual meeting
MAYOR KAREN BASS responded to residents’ questions relayed by Windsor Square Association President Larry Guzin at the November Town Hall meeting.
Homelessness among many issues discussed
More than 100 local residents welcomed their neighbor, Mayor Karen Bass, to the Windsor Square Association (WSA) “Town Hall” annual meeting at The Ebell on November 14. The Mayor spent about 45 minutes responding to questions prepared by the WSA board of directors and submitted by attendees in the audience.
LOVELY LIVING ROOM at The Ebell was the setting for the Windsor Square Association’s annual Town Hall meeting.
Following the departure of Mayor Bass and the presentation of board committee reports, attendees also enjoyed a question and answer dialogue with 13th District City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez.
SQUEAKY WHEEL AWARD trophy is described to the audience by its presenter, WSA Vice President Jason Greenman.
Also, the association’s 2024 Squeaky Wheel Award was presented to Dena Bloom and Guy Nemiro, “whose tireless efforts and persistence got many of the streetlights working again,” and also to Bill Hermanns “for stimulating the city cleanup of the Sixth Street encampment.”
Questions to Mayor Bass included ones about public safety, provision of city services, traffic and transportation, construction of needed housing and addressing homelessness.
Homelessness not in our vocabulary
On that last subject, homelessness, one of the responses from Mayor Bass brought applause from the audience. She observed:
“No one would have predicted that we’d be in the crisis that we are in today. And most of us around this room; I think we are around the same age range, so you know that this is not always the way it was.
“Homelessness as a word was not even in our vocabulary until the ’80s. We never used that phrase. Younger people have grown up their entire lives thinking that it is regular or normal to see tents on streets. We know it’s not. And it shouldn’t be accepted. But we have a choice to make right now. We have to deal with the problem, because just pushing people a few blocks away — that’s not a solution.”
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