Hudson addresses colleagues' comments and clarifies kitchen policy
Hudson says she has visited the shelter twice, criticizes colleagues for conflating city, state, and federal roles, says no shelter allows residents to cook their own food, and commends the administration's investment.
Thank you.
I just wanted to take an opportunity to address some of the things that I've heard from my colleagues.
because I've been to the shelter now twice in the last week or so, and I've seen some of these things with my own eyes.
First, I want to say, I know Councilmember Palladino mentioned an embarrassment of sorts.
I think for me, what's most embarrassing is when my colleagues in the city council cannot
make a distinction between our roles and responsibilities, the roles and responsibilities of the mayoral administration and those of the federal government and state government.
And so we have a federal government that, first of all, I want to say I commend the administration for the investment that you have made in upkeeping the shelter.
Despite the challenges that have been presented, I would say, by the federal government, a federal government that doesn't believe women should be serving in the military, that doesn't support
certainly many more than just women, members of the LGBT community, so forth.
I think there's just, there's been a conflation of certain statements.
And to be clear about the kitchen specifically, there is no shelter provider that allows residents to cook their own food.
In any shelter.
That is not something that is allowable regardless of who is staying in the shelter.
So to imply that a kitchen should allow
residents to cook their own food is just inaccurate.