Jim Madaffer Quotations

There is a large taxpayer expense when homeless people are poured out on the streets. Right now, they are in a shelter where we don't have to pay the costs for police, the costs for hospitals or the costs for incarceration.

I think it's a really good roadmap to start solving the unfunded liability. We have to raise this $600 million, but I don't think that's enough: We're talking at least a billion or more.

We could be jeopardizing our public safety if we aren't careful.

That's going to be the big bugaboo. We need to set ground rules about what land we should talk about and let the public know that we're not talking about parks or libraries.