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Plans to make City Hall the site of homeless "feeding" programs still haven't materialized
urns out things seem to be moving a little more slowly than they appeared to be at the time. The Mayor's spokesman, Mark McDonald, said late last week that port-o-potties and hand-washing stations will be available starting tomorrow, May 1, but that he was not aware of any groups who had secured the required permits to serve food.
Plans to make City Hall the site of homeless "feeding" programs still haven't materialized
When the mayor announced that the feeding of (homeless) folks in city parks would be forbidden by an administrative rule, he did so in what looked like a hurry: a press conference was called on 30 minutes' notice, just weeks after a different rule requiring permits to serve free food was proposed by the city's Board of Health.
Groups currently serving meals on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway — the obvious targets of the new rule — would be allowed to continue serving meals on the apron of City Hall, the mayor said. The ban on park food giveaways was to take effect, the mayor said, 30 days from his announcement.
That was about 45 days ago.
Turns out things seem to be moving a little more slowly than they appeared to be at the time. The Mayor's spokesman, Mark McDonald, said late last week that port-o-potties and hand-washing stations will be available starting tomorrow, May 1, but that he was not aware of any groups who had secured the required permits to serve food (though McDonald said he believed one group had started the process).
Updated: Mayor Spokesman Mark McDonald says that two groups have applied for permits from the Office of Public Property to serve food on the City Hall apron; both were granted permission.
McDonald also said that while the ban technically goes into effect sometime soon, following an upcoming report to be issued by Parks & Rec Commissioner Mike DiBerardinis following a public hearing, the city doesn't plan to enforce it until June 1.
Interestingly, that's actually a couple of days after the Barnes Foundation's grand opening on the Parkway on May 26.
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