This e-mail shall confirm receipt of your message. I will place a copy in each of the Councilmembers mailboxes and give a copy to the City Manager as well.

Thank you for caring and taking the time to share this information with the Council.

You may feel free to contact me if I can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Edna Keys-Chavis

-----Original Message-----
From: John Felts [mailto:jmfelts@mediaone.net]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:50 AM

To: EKCHAVIS@CI.RICHMOND.VA.US

Subject: To Members of Richmond City Council

It is to my understanding that if the Richmond City Sheriff Department carry out an eviction notice today, I know of at least one family that will become homeless as a result and possibly more families could be involved of displacement and splitting the families apart.

Today, it is snowing. I requested that the Good Samaritan Inn extend its deadline for 30 days to find a way and means to relocate these families safety and without harm. They refused. Therefore, I have no choice but to take my 35 mm camera and my micro-cassette player to the Apartment complex at today's forced eviction, hopefully the eviction will be delayed again to find a proper solution to this situation.

I personally have known these families for years, they signed my recent petition and the petition a year ago concerning Kimba Smith.

The offer that the Good Samaritan Inn to help those families to relocate disgusted me. They offer to pay $25 toward deposit, and $0 toward moving personal properties and furniture. Some of these families can't pay both a month rent, deposit, and additional relocation expenses.

I request an intervention as time is of essences and of emergency to prevent an increase of homelessness to women and children in Richmond. Even a delay could lead to later solution.

I did try to contact Reva on this situation earlier and will leave a attachment of that with you and members of City Council.

Thank you for your time, and I hope it helps.

John M. Felts

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Subject: Prevention of displaced children
Sent: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:01:03 -0500

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Hi, Reva,

Hope you check e-mails better than I do, I think time is of essences on this one subject.

I think its long overdue that the city government stop focusing and spending so much money on needless internal squabbling and start spending it on appropriate uses targeting communities in dire need.

This is so important during economic booms. In this one particular boom, there is often disregard and/or disassociation against the poor and homeless in Richmond by Richmond city officials.

On March 5, 2001, if one child or mother becomes homeless that day, its my fault, your fault, Richmond City Council fault, and surely the Good Samaritan Inn fault. It should never happen.

I think the Good Samaritan Inn has got its priorities wrong, dead wrong. By putting women poorest women and children without means to relocate, into the streets. In order to accommodate men recently released from prisons and jails. There is a dire need of emergency bed spaces in Richmond, but not this way. It's morally wrong.

In your distinct, we have already seen staggering loses of affordable housing for the poor. However, many of those loses, those poor women and children who couldn't afford the expenses to move, were provided with safe passage to assure relocation during forced evictions.

Though these women and children doesn't fall under the relocation protection as with the other residents with public housing. I asked that you find adequate resources and capabilities to be able to make sure, that those families are not split up and/or experience homelessness.

I hope and pray that on March 5, 2001, not one child becomes homeless. My phone number at home is 213-0983, because I too busy during the day and working 2nd shift job at Paramount Builders, you can only reach me by phone after 9 pm.

Sincerely,