Congressional Rep. Sara Jacobs has requested $215,000 in federal funds to convert a retired school but as part of a pilot programSan Diego Unified may be on the receiving end of $215,000 in federal funds it would then spend on converting a retired school bus into a mobile laundromat for San Diego's growing homeless population. It's also considering opening its own safe-sleeping site, an official told NBC 7.
"And then I was like, 'Wait, we have buses that are sitting at our yard,' and then I just kind of put the idea of, 'OK: RV, we have a full kitchen, washer dryer, shower, bath, beds, entertainment,'"Dorsey told NBC 7 recently."Why can't we just fill one with washers, dryers to help people get clean clothes, particularly our homeless population?"Eventually, the idea made its way to the office of local congressional Rep.
"I don't know if I really know a lot about that — it's not an area of expertise that we have at Transparent California or in my K-12 activism either," Maddison told NBC 7 this week."A quick comment would just be: Why is the school district spending money doing something that seems like the responsibility of the city or the state, or the county or some other entity? I prefer that the school districts stick to their knitting and improve where they need to improve.
Dorsey said the bus is expected to drive out to safe-sleeping and safe-parking sites and shelters, where it would clean the clothes of any interested residents, not just kids. Dorsey did concede that nobody at the district has crunched the numbers to see how much the program would cost the city-schools system. He's envisioning a half-dozen sets of washers and dryers on each retrofitted bus.
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