Blogger #4 Chan Whitaker

What I Wanted to Say

             Members of the committee, I thank you for having me here to discuss the issue of chronic homelessness. As we all know homelessness is all around us in every city and town. Now we might not have anyone directly associated with us whom is homeless but I feel it is our duty as humans to help one of our own in their time of need. I propose my solution; I need the full one-hundred and fifty-million to start my program, but before I break down how I will use the allotment let me start with why you should help. Your help is just to get the project off the ground and show results, once the project is running I will seek supplements for local businesses in exchange for volunteers from the facility which will benefit every one. The project will be able to expand from the supplements since the facility will be fully self sufficient, the business gets a cleaner community with less homeless and essentially free volunteers, the residents get volunteer work experience to list on their resumes to help the eventually find paying jobs. Now for my break down the first hundred-million will go directly into construction the facility, purchasing the land, building materials, and permits. The next twenty-five-million will go to purchasing equipment needed to be self sufficient; building water desalination devices for drinking, farming, and showering water, purchasing solar and wind generators, and purchasing equipment needed to farm properly. The next twenty million will go to vehicles for student volunteers to pick up homeless of the streets and check the homeless persons acceptance status, it will also go towards an on cite computer lab for resume writing, job searching, and work shops to help rehabilitate residents. The last five-million will be left in the account for emergencies and expansion should the project be successful enough in the next four years. each resident will have eighteen months to find a job save up the money and move out or they will be evicted and taken to the closest shelter. To be accepted the person in question must be drug and alcohol free for at least six months prior and have not been homeless more than five years (in hopes one day we can accept all sober homeless). Residents will be signed up for volunteer schedules to help local businesses and community organizations, helping clean the streets help with menial tasks for the local paramilitary organizations. Residents will also be asked to participate in daily chores to help the facility maintain it's self sufficient status. Part of the facilities responsibility will be setting up an efficient, small scale, self sufficient, "city" to lead as an example for actual cities to follow in steps to become self sufficient and one hundred percent "green". The facilities main goal will be to better the world starting with large cities, by helping the homeless, and again thank you for your time members of the committee.