Daily Republic: Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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Homelessness concerns Council, public not happy with proposed changes to outreach

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FAIRFIELD — A plan to put the city’s homeless outreach efforts under the direction of housing services met with stern rejection Tuesday at the City Council meeting. The homeless outreach efforts currently fall under the umbrella of City Manager Stefan Chatwin’s office. It is Chatwin who proposed the change. City Council members expressed displeasure, noting the progress that has been made under Dawn La Bar, who has been handling coordination efforts to address homelessness in the city for the past year. Chatwin appointed La Bar to that position. “Homelessness is the biggest

issue,” Vice Mayor Rick Vaccaro. “It would be a mistake to take it out of the city’s administration.” “We are really making progress,” he said. “I feel like this will impede the progress.” Councilwoman Pam Bertani wondered if Chatwin Chatwin could make such a movie since homelessness is a policy issue. City Attorney Greg Stepanicich assured her Chatwin had the right to do so. “We have had homelessness as a public priority for decades,” she said. Bertani, too, cited the progress made under La Bar and wondered why Chatwin would make such a proposal. Councilman Chuck Timm recalled serving as a Fair-

field police officer in 1986 when homeless issues began to surface. “We have come so far,” he said. Timm noted that homelessness is the most common complaint City Council members hear from their constituents. “This is working. Let’s look at building on it,” Timm said. Chatwin said he appreciated the comments and would review the issue. “I will go back and consider everything that has been said here,” he said. But he offered an ominous statement as well. “In my interview (for the city manager’s job) we talked about See Council, Page A9

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VACAVILLE — The Touro Child and Adult Resource Education and Support Mobile Vaccination team, from Touro University California, will host a free Covid-19 vaccine clinic Tuesday at the Vacaville Town Square Library, 1 Town Square Place. Walk-ins are welcome. No appointment is needed. Minors will need a parent or legal guard-

ian present. The clinic is from 10 a.m. to noon and comes during in upswing in both confirmed novel coronavirus infections and Covid-19 hospitalizations at the local level. Vacaville has the lowest overall vaccination rate among Solano County’s seven cities, with 66.8% of the eligible population – those 12 and older – vaccinated as of Friday, Solano Public Health reports.

Updated totals were delayed this week due to the Labor Day holiday. The next update is scheduled late Wednesday afternoon. Most people who have Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, experience mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe

illness such as pneumonia and at times, death. The delta variant of the virus, which is currently dominant in the U.S., is highly transmissible with indications that asymptomatic individuals can spread the virus to others. The vast majority of people who contract the disease recover. For more information about the vaccine clinic, visit www.solano See Vaccine, Page A9

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and Afghan citizens with valid travel documents will be allowed to leave,” Blinken said. It is not a “hostage-like situation” in Mazar-iSharif, he said. He was responding to a broadside from members of Congress and others who accuse the Biden administration of “leaving Americans behind” in the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan. As the extremist Taliban took control of the capital, the U.S. military and its allies evacuated more than 124,000 people, including nearly all of the estimated 6,000 U.S. citizens in the country, the State Department say. A small number, possibly fewer than 200, but now remained those citizens want to leave, the State Depart-

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Tribune Content Agency DOHA, Qatar — Seeking to quell a wave of criticism, America’s top diplomat said Tuesday that charter flights carrying U.S. citizens and Afghans to safety from northern Afghanistan were being held up by concerns over security and knowing who’s on board, not because of Taliban extortion. “We’ve reiterated this point directly to the Taliban in recent hours,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said at a news conference here in the Qatari capital in describing negotiations over several charter rescue flights attempting to take off from an airport in Mazar-i-Sharif, a city near Afghanistan’s northern border with Uzbekistan. “We have been assured, again, that all American citizens

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