Fresno City Hall plans to cut a deal with Caltrans this week to clear out additional encampments along state-owned highways and other “right of ways.”
First reported this week by Central Valley Community Action, the deal would allow the city to spend up to $400,000 to remove highway encampments with California reimbursing the city up to that amount next summer, according to city documents.
Thursday’s City Council vote comes one week after Caltrans cleared out at least two Fresno-area highway encampants, and just days after a resource fair in Fresno attempted to connect unhoused people with “support and care,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a prepared statement…