Several leaders across Chautauqua County recently signed off on a formal request for Governor Kathy Hochul to have New York State repurpose closed or underutilized prisons for housing homeless people as an alternative to placing them in hotels. However, Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz says she would like to hear ideas from other entities on how they would address the issue. Wdowiasz spoke about the matter on a recent edition of WDOE’s “Viewpoint” program…
Kate Wdowiasz: bring together those who can make it happen
The suggestion in the letter was borne out of a roundtable discussion hosted by state lawmakers George Borrello and Andrew Molitor in Dunkirk in early March, which had no one from the city present. Wdowiasz says she wants to hear ideas from the county, the state, and groups who work with the homeless…..