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Is Shelter For The Homeless Back on Track?
from The Orange County Tribune April 22, 2023Serving Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton and Westmins
Briefly-paused progress on a navigation center for the homeless is likely to start again at Tuesday’s meeting of the Garden Grove City Council.
The council will consider – and likely approve –awarding a contract for the construction of the Central Cities Navigation Center to Thomco Construction Co. in the amount of $4,267,450.
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Plans to build that center, located at 13871 West St. stalled when the city rejected two unsatisfactory bids from other firms.
The County of Orange is providing $11,550,000 to the city for construction and operation of the center, including a one-time allocation of $5.3 million to acquire and rehabilitate the building, as well as 10 annual installments of $625,000 for operational costs starting on July 1, 2023.
Central Cities Navigation Center will provide beds for 85 people and offer counseling, mental health services, employment assistance and more. It will be a referral-only operation; clients will be transported to the facility.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting the council will consider awarding a contract
And bicycle corridor plan on the agenda, too
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ster Police Department to serve WSD schools within the city of Westminster. The agreement will run for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year and for the entire 20232024 school year.
The city will designate a special unit of officers within the WPD consisting of full-time police officers specially trained and selected to provide SRO
There’s help on the way.
The Garden Grove City Council on Tuesday will consider awarding a contract to Southstar Engineering & Consulting, Inc. for management of the construction of a major bicycle corridor pro- gram in the city.
CalTrans in 2018 awarded Garden Grove $1.1 million in grant funds to improve on-street bicycle infrastructure by 75 percent. The end result should be the establishment of five major corridors:
• Brookhurst Street (from Trask Avenue to Katella
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