Despite the fact that nearly 2 months earlier, the City Council voted to end work on the BMX track, Staff has persisted in not only developing plans to make it available for homeless services, to include these plans in settlement discussions with plaintiffs in the Warren v. Chico lawsuit, but they have also taken action to allocation $1,650,000 dollars to make it all happen, using one-time federal funds.
Much of the discussions have taken place in closed sessions, yet nothing has ever been reported out as something decided by the City Council during closed sessions. The only clues we have are the rumors circulating, the Mayor's AD Hoc meetings which indulged everyone's fantasies about sanctioned campgrounds, the RFQ asking for proposals on running such a facility, the proposed agenda for 6/8/2021 where the entire $22 Million of ARP money is being allocated, including the $1.7 Million for this project, and finally, the Court documents filed on June 4th by the City Attorney, which lists the various settlement discussions that have taken place. We have no real information about exactly what the staff has proposed, or how they have justified it to Council during closed sessions. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they haven't received accurate or complete information or a full list of options.
This is a serious situation and one which will have an impact on Chico for years to come. It looks like the plan is to present the results as a faint accompli, leaving the public few options to object.

Let's hope our council is quick enough to figure out when they are being manipulated into rushing into something they don' fully understand. If I was them, I would slow things way, way down, and only make decisions that were critical and timely. Otherwise, as far as the lawsuit goes, they may well find themselves snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.