A recent meeting that focused on the impacts of housing homeless people in hotels and motels in Chautauqua County featured community leaders from across the county. However, it did not include anyone from the City of Dunkirk. That came as a disappointment to Second Ward Councilman Frank Torain, who told Mayor Kate Wdowiasz during Tuesday’s Common Council meeting that he would have liked to have been involved because of his prior experience in dealing with homelessness when he was on the Dunkirk Housing Authority…
Frank Torain: optics are terrible
Wdowiasz said she and now-retired Police Chief Chris Witkowski were invited to attend the meeting, but neither did. Wdowiasz told Torain that she was unable to attend because of a prior commitment she had. She added that she felt no solutions were being offered…..