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2/ <br />If the building in Navarre was to be used as a Domestic <br />Violence Shelter it would be occupied by twice as many <br />residents as the Minnetonka Shelter. This would mean more <br />police calls as well as more and bigger problems for the <br />Mound School System, not to mention the Police Department <br />plus mounting issues of safety and security. <br />There is an inherent problem with continuous turnover <br />among the shelter parents and their potentially disruptive children <br />occupying the shelter who stay for one month, apply for welfare <br />assistance (usually receiving top priority due to allegations and <br />claims of abuse, from verbal abuse, etc., using this system as <br />a means of housing/warehousing until more permanent housing can <br />be found and until applications are completed for welfare <br />assistance). <br />These children are coming from dysfunctional families and <br />can not be turned around in 30 days. In one particularly <br />disturbing case one local young girl was beaten so badly by <br />3 of the shelter children that she required emergency medical <br />treatment. (Refer to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rooney). Note that <br />psychological, clinical, medical and other associated services <br />are not offered. <br />$ <br />There was at least one convicted Felon arrested near the <br />Sojourner Shelter in Minnetonka. He was apparently waiting for <br />his girlfriend who lived at the shelter to join him. Oftentimes <br />persons using these shelters have problems associated with <br />pro.'i^'itution, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. <br />The neighbors have witnessed many such activities in and around <br />that shelter.