We sent a letter to the council this morning and hope you will take a few minutes to review it, and perhaps send one yourself. The council appointees are as terrible as we would have expected from this council, shady no-bid contracts are being awarded to council cronies, City Attorney Ewing is updating the city’s anti-homeless ordinances to try to pull one over on the public(and the judge), and a right-wing Trump associate is being awarded another no-bid contract to provide services to the city. Phew. This is nuts even for Chico of late.

When the city council rounded up and evicted people from camps in the dead of winter, when not one Chico shelter was accepting new clients, they were warned repeatedly that it was illegal, not to mention cruel and immoral. Those actions led directly to the latest costly lawsuit, and yet it appears they have still learned nothing..

Chico City Attorney Vince Ewing, asked by Judge England to “define shelter” said, “shelter is a practically-available space for persons who are unhoused to go on a given day that would enable a city … to enforce its anticamping, sit/lie, and so forth ordinances.’ …