BELLINGHAM, WA – Mayor Seth Fleetwood says a workgroup will meet to debate the homeless encampment behind Walmart.
The mayor addressed rising issues over the encampment on social media in the course of the Bellingham Metropolis Council’s assembly on Tuesday.
He mentioned it is going to be the same course of to the Metropolis’s operation on Deemer St behind Winco a couple of months in the past.
Fleetwood known as that operation a “profitable motion” in clearing the Deemer St. encampment that he mentioned had grown harmful in a lot of methods.
Nonetheless, he admitted challenges the town will face with their new focus, saying the Walmart encampment is “a lot bigger.”
Fleetwood provided restricted details about the workgroup however mentioned he’ll share extra with the Council because the state of affairs develops.
