The Stockton City Council voted 4-3 on Tuesday to reject a proposed $825,000 homelessness pilot program led by Inner City Action after city staff said the nonprofit had not been properly vetted.
The initial proposal, known as the CARE (Compassion, Access, Reunification, Empowerment) homelessness pilot program, was brought forward by Interim City Manager Steve Colangelo. It sought to relocate people living in a large encampment at White Slough to an 80-by-100-foot tent shelter located at 3635 Calaveras Ave., about 11 miles southeast of the encampment.
District 1 Councilmember Michele Padilla, whose district includes the encampment, is the chair of the city’s Ad-Hoc Homelessness Committee. She introduced the item at Tuesday’s meeting by saying that the council “can no longer sit back and just do nothing.”…