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Please see attached/submitted Microsoft Word document with my public comments to be read at city commission
meeting 10.8.2024.
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Urban Camping Submission to City 10.8.2024.docx
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10/8/2024
Dear City Commissioners: For the past 4+ years I've seen Bozeman turn from a beautiful city to a full-on shit show
once urban camping was allowed and not managed properly by our elected city officials.
I live in an apartment complex where there are 4 streets that come into my complex
filled with urban campers. Most of them live in squalor. Many of the vehicles have flat
tires, broken windows, and trash all around the perimeter of the vehicles and scattered
on the streets. When they do move somewhere else, they leave their trash and any
belongings they no longer want instead of being respectful and taking it with them and
disposing of it themselves, they leave it for someone else to take care of. They have
total disregard for our city and doing the right thing. I've seen cats and dogs left in
vehicles with no adults inside the vehicle in the winter when it's 20 degrees. Dogs are
tied up or left unattended and running loose. How is any of this acceptable to our city
leaders? I've also been told that the city pays towing companies to move campers from
one street to another street at my complex. Is this true? I've also been told that there's a
prostitution ring on Galloway St. in one of the campers that has all of the windows
covered and has been reported to the city, but the camper is still there. How is this even
remotely allowed? And how pathetic that the city does nothing to take care of its citizens
who feel unsafe with all this illegal activity going on. I'm ashamed of what our city has
become and that the city commissioners can't come up with a solution that is a win-win
for all of us.
Thanks for listening.
Kathy Tatum
Concerned Citizen