I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when watching the city council meeting on Aug. 14 and heard a woman describe being turned down at the city’s Louden Nelson Center and the police department community room as she was in desperate need of using a toilet. She finally gave up and was forced to try to drive home. But it was too late and she had to describe to the city council, and all who viewed, how on the drive home she defecated all over herself.
What really hurt was that there was no expression of sympathy, no acknowledgement that there is a problem, no reaction at all of any kind on the part of the city council to this woman’s terrible experience. She even had to admonish the council to look at her as she was relating this real life horror story.
Why is the city not acknowledging this horrendous situation and acknowledging the need to come up with some temporary relief till a real solution is developed?
— Steve Newman, Santa Cruz
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