1971/10/06 Council Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

! .—.— October 5,1571 yp� CIF...,. PARKING Joh.Wynn appeared and requested the cou.cirl to establish T. ao parking and free parking zones in downtown Everett during the Christmas shopping season. He said he re- ..fffZ' quested the use of the parking meters to be voided,but C'lgg,! the respective time zones to be maintafsed. He said such al' f action wouldb would shop downtown if there were free parking and to those°IA.,.of town who normally go to shopPing centers ,0. o He also requested the Council to investigate the possi- bility of getting Federal Funding for the purpose of - d4. establishing a shuttle boat service between 14th Street 'Q ' Dock and Jetty The Council said.e theyduring would ions under s� advisement omfo mon,. Julian Duell,Chairman of the Drug Abuse Council,which R was the governing body for the Karma Clinic, -said h purpose of his visit was to perhaps show some alternatives to the hysteria in process right now regarding the drug 4,f,, , �ff problem e City of EverettF He said the Karma Clinic had been organized several clinic 'a ago by a group of concerned citisess. He said the o biclinic b with a small staff. He w trying t ed on East Hewitt d problems hd as 90, primanilsi t € been coming before the City Council in a way that is not filled..with emotions,and also to solve the problem at its educate[...public. 1 ill public,He said the functions of the Clinic were the they also intervene in crisis situations,both with drug problems . and liquor problems. He said the clinic had a Board of a , Physicians over e years who had. additionIn they P to lend a little sympathY said the small staff and volunteers at the clinic were l. doing a marvelous job,however,they were n able to do f- everything that.they should. One of the When a drug user was ' using heroin and was trying to problems was heroin. quit,one of the programs giventhat could be used was called Methagone. This was to him in place of the heroin so that he wouldn't { this he was usingu Snohomish County,there was no place available. So geveryone had the e were halfway . obis karma Clare. l ch � .said sent tote They just,as a rule,came out a more hardened criminal. The clinic'felt their way of solving this problem Was Councilman Rucker asked Mr.Duel,iI the instructional material distributad at the ett the drugs had been schools in e A this,County or if consideredate help e ';