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street feeding programs, food pantry programs and day-time service centers for adult homeless men and women need to be relocated within the Public Safety Triage and Stabilization Unit ('Sarasota Safe Harbor'). This should also be the location of the Master Case Managers for adult homeless men and women." Note, it does not say the facility should be near downtown or even within city limits. Note also that he recommends relocation of "day-time service centers" to the facility, as well as "master case managers." But 24 pages later, Marbut's "evaluation crite- ria" eliminates any non-city site. "In order to reduce pedestrian and bicycle traffic through neighborhoods, and to increase efficien- cies within the overall service system, this Triage and Stabilization Unit ideally should be located within a short walking distance of existing programs, preferably between service agency anchors," his report says on Page 27. The next criteria, also on Page 27, recom- mends putting the facility "within a short drive of the County Jail" for people "whose legal involvement may be a result of untreated mental illness or substance abuse disorders." The report does not resolve the contradiction of calling for relocation of "service cen- ters within the Public Safety and Triage and Vice Mayor Susan Chapman has opposed a shelter in the City of Sarasota. Sarasota News Leader June 27, 2014 Page 51