Highlights, lowlights from the news of the week

Punch -St is a good time to report some good news in the steadily growing history of homelessness in Chico too-again we (again) have many other messages that we can also report.

First, the good. The work in the Genesis Palet Shelter under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer of Jesus Center, Amber Abney-Bass, deserves not only recognition and applause should be a model that others can follow at the state level.

At the meeting of the city council on Tuesday evening, Abney-Bass said that 614 people had been delivered on site since its opening a little more than three years ago. There are around 200 people and 100 dogs every night. And that: The company's budget was $ 4.8 million in '23 -24 and $ 3.6 million in '24 -25 but the actual costs rose 27%under the budget.

Name another government program at any level that can assert a similar claim.

Remember that this is in a state in which our leaders have not been able to identify expenditure of 24 billion US dollars for homelessness since 2019 – at a time when the number of homeless people in our state has actually increased by 30,000.

In the meantime, homelessness in California continues to increase, regardless of how much money is spent. Because of the enforcement measures due to the settlement of Warren against Chico, Chico is still almost two years the enforcement measures that were achieved in a time that the law basically said something else than today.

It is a chaos almost as large as 418 tons of debris that were removed from Chico camp last year – a number that is actually down from the past years.

MISS – In the meantime, the number of homeless people in our city and in our county has gone everywhere. The results of this year's time number (carried out January 29) show 1,392 people without “safe, appropriate living space” in Butte County – an increase of 8.8% compared to 1,237 in the study of 2023 by Care of 1.237.

In Chico the number was 1,065. Three years ago – in a survey that was carried out shortly before the Pallettenheim was opened – the number was 885.

In other words, we now have almost 200 homeless people in Chico than before opening the pallet home with 354-bed-a shelter, which would theoretically mean that warehouse could be deleted because there would always be a place where humans could go.

Thanks to the settlement and some unexpected decisions afterwards, this is not exactly the same.

Regardless of your feelings in this understandably heated topic, you cannot accuse people of being frustrated.

Punch -There is no cattle and no junior cattle auction, and we are trying to say: “That makes it a carnival, no trade fair.”

But the silver dollar fair is still our trade fair and there are many reasons to support it.

We have a good reason presented in our Friday edition – the exhibits. Kathryn Hislop has entered the fair in incredible 75 consecutive years (and do you not want to see your collection of bands?). The story reminds us that the cattle, although it has always been an important part of every trade fair, but also gives many other rewarding attractions.

So go out and enjoy the journeys, the corn dogs, the live music, all these wonderful exhibits, the track action and especially the sense of community that such an event exceeds.

(We only hope that people remember that there will still be a junior cattle in a few weeks and that our youth will receive the support they earn -“fair” or not.)

MISS – In the “Hits as Miss” category, we welcome the decision of the Oroville city council to have a public discussion about progress on Tuesday – or should we take over the lack of the Gateway project.

Otherwise there is nothing good to say.

Since the first plan, 12.9 tomorrow on the northwestern corner of the Montgomery Street and the Feather River Boulevard, to effectively develop the historical city. That did not go under the original developer anywhere for 10 years. In 2022, the city sold the country for 1 US dollar to developer Mark Mendez – with the promise that there would be progress and regular updates would be provided.

Three years later, the “progress” on the website sees progress that has taken place between 2012 and 22-not out-of-nothing.

Worse, we don't hear anything in defense. Nobody spoke for what happens on Tuesday evening or not, and Mendez did not answer at the beginning of this week when an inquiry to comment on our history.

What we know is the following: According to Oroville City Administrator Brian Ring, the country has listed the country for 5.3 million US dollars – more than twice its value.

And remember that it only cost him a dollar three years ago.

This is a “project”.

Hits and Misses are put together by the editorial committee.