This month’s billboard messages to our client, the People of Guam, that issues about the homeless can and must be fixed.  The Governor is our People’s chief executive officer who has control of most of our $1.3B annual budget, and fully-funded Cabinet members whose duty is to help these needy persons, including Public Health & Social Services (Public Health), Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness (Mental Health) and Dept. of Labor, to name a few.  The Governor also has partnerships with many non-profit organizations to include the outspoken Guam Homeless Coalition and National Association of Social Workers that have criticized our efforts to fix these problems, which are both the Governor and their responsibilities.

In March, 2023 with this AG’s team’s legal oversight and direction, the Mayor’s Council, Lt. Governor Joshua Tenorio and I coordinated the targeted and effective removal of the Micronesia Mall homeless camp and shuttled using GRTA the remaining homeless with Mayor Savares and Vice-Mayor Benavente at the Dededo Flea Market with all government service providers present.  The camp was cleared of its cars and junk, and structure boarded up, to prevent their return.  Thereafter, the Governor appears to have halted further successful removal of camps and the relocation actions of the needy by our joint team.

This month’s Billboard shows how we can take the successful model that we started in March, 2023 and apply it to all 19 villages.  The photos on the billboard are actual homeless camps throughout Guam taken in the past 30 days by my AG Investigator team.   There are more photos that we did not post.

Key to this plan is to vet the mentally ill with Mental Health, identify the substance abuse addicted with Public Health, and to provide all of them a job.  Work brings dignity, not the Governor and her spokesperson’s excuses, which their release again depicts.  They need to get a job like the rest of us and stop being beggars, and start being contributing members of our community.  The solution of the 1929 Great Depression was the Democrat President Theodore Roosevelt’s 3Rs program / Great New Deal.  It was a jobs program to get the impoverished back to work to restart the Nation’s economy.  The same can be done here.  It just takes leadership, and to stop the excuses.

This AG and my teams are serious about fixing our People’s poor and homeless problem, and moving onto a bigger vision for our People to achieve the American Dream as an Island People of economic prosperity.  Our ongoing PanBuster law enforcement operation is just one of the several projects we are spearheading, that also includes Project Dignity, to provide a temporary evening place for up to 20 beds.