The city is seeking proposals from organizations interested in providing services at a camp for the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic and from hotels or motels that can provide rooms for people who need to be either isolated or quarantined.
The deadline for responding to both requests for proposals is 5 p.m. Friday.
City purchasing agent Cale Turner issued both requests this past Friday. Each outlines the responsibilities of the city and the business or organization that wins the bid.
The request for proposals for “sanctioned homeless encampment services” indicates the city will provide an encampment site and mark it off for up to 70 individual 16-by-16-foot campsites. The city also would provide potable water, refuse containers, portable toilets, hand-washing stations and recorded staff and volunteer training.
Anyone bidding to provide the service must demonstrate that they can ensure a minimum of five trained staff or volunteers on-site at all times, maintain a log of everyone who enters and leaves the camp and provide three nutritious meals per day to each person at the camp. Those meals must be prepared in a kitchen that is permitted and inspected by the health department.
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