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Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 10:41 AM
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Subject: THMA'S Bishop Street Studios Project OV 14 2016 1
Dear San Luis Obispo City Council:SLO CITY CLERK
This letter is to ask your approval of the Bishop Street Studios Project (BSS). This is a much needed
viable project for our mental health community which in turn serves our entire city. There is a true
imminent need of housing for the mentally ill in San Luis Obispo. Our great community must continue
to help those various members of our society who face challenges we can only imagine. Our family
has first had experience with facing this problem. Our son developed mental illness his second year
away at college and came home to need extended help. We couldn't find adequate services in SLO
and subsequently he had to move to Santa Barbara County, due to lack of housing here in SLO. He
is currently living in a great independent living program similar to the THMA - BSS project in Santa
Barbara. The BSS program will give our local mental health community a chance at an independent
successful life they so deserve. This is a community of our society that tends to keep to themselves,
take pride and ownership in being independent and taking care of themselves in a disciplined
manner. It may be the quietest apartment building in SLO. I know because of visiting our son in
Santa Barbara and the clientele is a solitary quiet bunch of folks!
Please vote "yes" on this much needed program for our great community!
Thank for for your consideration for this project.
Sincerely, Lisa and Charlie Katherman
Lisa Katherman