More Questions

Some more questions to consider when weighing the matter

How does one go about learning new things? By asking questions, of course. Here are some questions to help determine if everything is on the up and up.

• Disclosure
• Governance
• Execution
• Impact
• Opportunity
• Substance abuse “help”

Disclosure

1. How is an officer of a company or corporation supposed to separate speaking for themselves vs for the company or corporation?
2. Are there legal penalties to breaking a non-disclosure agreement?

Governance

1. What do the WA State majority party politicians and bureaucrats writing laws and creating rules say about illegals?
2. Is Washington State officially a sanctuary state for illegals?
3. What is it like at the other Haven locations in Spokane?
4. When did “the homeless” problem really get bad for Stevens County and Colville?
5. To what extent was the GMA altered in 2020?
6. What did the City and County individually and collectively say about “the homeless” problem?
7. What does the GMA say about the purpose of the multipurpose usage zoning designation?
8. What infrastructure funding is tied to compliance with the Growth Management Act (GMA)?
9. Was the recent Comprehensive Plan Update optional?
10. What recent changes to the GMA showed up in the most recent Comprehensive Plan Update?
11. What did the City and County individually and collectively do about “the homeless” problem?
12. Why was Ken Bensimon put on as a governor at TCCHF?
13. How and why did the stated purpose of TCCHF change when Ken Bensimon joined TCCHF?
14. What real estate transactions occurred between 2018 and 2020 that included Ken Bensimon and TCCHF?
15. Why aren’t there tax filings after 2016 for TCCHF?

Execution

1. Why hasn’t Catholic Charities bought the parcel that they have published as the location for their Colville Haven?
2. When did Catholic Charities announce the Colville Haven project?
3. When did Ken Bensimon acquire the property of the future location of the Colville Haven?
4. Why was the Catholic Charities’ zoning change application denied?
5. Who weighed in on the Catholic Charities’ zoning change application for that location?
6. Why were all zones altered in the summer of 2023 to add multipurpose use designation?
7. How did a lawyer alter the public discussion of the proposed multipurpose usage zoning designations?

Impact

1. What is happening to the churches, businesses and buildings next to the havens in Spokane?
2. Who benefits from an open definition of “migrant” and “homeless”?
3. What are the incentives for Catholic Charities’ to grow or shrink the quantity of “homeless”?
4. Do those running Catholic Charities benefit financially from serving the “homeless”?
5. What are the incentives for TCCHF to grow or shrink the quantity of “homeless”?
6. Do those running TCCHF benefit financially from serving the “homeless”?
7. What are the incentives for the “homeless” that are receiving services to grow or shrink in number?
8. How does the community that is ultimately paying for everything hold the appropriate parties accountable?
9. What happens when support services expand while enabling the behaviors that led to needing services?
10. What happens when existing capacity is filled? Increase capacity again? When does it stop?
11. What has the impact so far been to law enforcement and crime?
12. What community impact does the Sheriff consider probable if the substance abusing population doubles, triples, or quadruples?

Opportunity

1. What properties have Catholic Charities purchased in the last 10 years in Spokane?
2. What properties have Catholic Charities developed in the last 10 years in Spokane?
3. Who builds the Catholic Charity Havens?
4. Do Catholic Charities own or operate apartment buildings?
5. What is being constructed inside the Barman’s building?

Substance abuse “help”

1. Are mandatory random urinary analysis administered to everyone receiving services?
2. Is there a zero tolerance policy in place for substance abuse that applies to both illegal and controlled substances?
3. What demonstratable studies are the proposed programs modeled after?
4. What evidence or research has been done to measure good clinical outcomes?
5. What studies have been done to show the potential impact of the proposed programs on the community?
6. What studies have been done that show that these proposed interventions reduce homelessness? (recent study: majority of homeless population do not want housing)
7. Who will submit weekly reports?
8. Who will be accountable and track the costs to the community?
9. How much will landowners have to contribute through property tax?
10. How will these programs impact the safety of children playing in neighborhoods?