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June 6, 1995 <br />Dear Mr. Mayor and CounciImembers; <br />As a concerned citizen of the Navarre Orono Neighborhood I/We <br />want it known that I/We strongly object to the proposed Domestic <br />Violence Shelter at the site of the old Grace Community Church. <br />Aside from being a completely inappropriate location and <br />facility, in no way will this shelter benefit our neighborhood <br />or our community. <br />Our community has researched this issue and have found only <br />two (2) persons from the 10 city - westonka area have been <br />referred to a shelter like this in the past two years. <br />V7e have visited with the majority of the neighbors around <br />the Sojourner Shelter in Minnetonka and have gathered <br />information from police reports as well. Every neighbor in <br />and around that shelter told us that the Sojourner Minnetonka <br />Shelter did not serve their community nor were they aware of <br />any residents from Minnetonka, Hopkins or St. Louis Park <br />who had ever even used the Shelter. That Shelter has been <br />continually occupied for the past 10 years by predominately <br />black people who were from North Minneapolis, Gary - Indiana, <br />Chicago, Detroit a:.d other states as well. <br />One of the neighbors has a relative who works at the <br />Catherine Kern School and has reported to her where these <br />families are coming from. These neighbors are witness to <br />the out of state licenses continually cor.vng and going. <br />Shelter Parent's children can legally .ccupy the Shelter <br />up to the age of 18 years old. This past week there were so <br />many incidents of local children being beat i at the Catherine <br />Kern School by the Shelter children that one of the playground <br />monitors threatened to quit her job if something wasn't done.