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City of Elk Grove handing out gift cards to keep homeless camps clean
Elk Grove市发放礼品卡以保持无家可归者营地的清洁
ELK GROVE, California — The City of Elk Grove is paying people experiencing homelessness small amounts of money to help keep their camps clean.
Elk Grove市向无家可归的人支付少量资金，帮助他们保持营地的清洁。
The city said the program is a cost savings solution and also builds better relationships between people experiencing homelessness and the Elk Grove Police Department.
该市表示，该项目是一种节省成本的解决方案，还能在无家可归者和Elk Grove警察局之间建立更好的关系。
"It's cool that Elk Grove stepped their game up, and at least they're trying to do something," said a man who asked ABC10 to call him Josh. In return for keeping his camp clean, he's been getting gift cards from the city.
“这样很棒！ Elk Grove他们正在努力做些努力去帮助我们，”一名让ABC10台叫他乔希(Josh)的男子说。作为保持营地清洁的回报，他得到了市政府的礼品卡。
On Wednesday, Josh was sorting through piles of belongings and trash in front of a camp alongside Highway 99 in Elk Grove. It's a place he has called home for the last few months.
周三，乔希在Elk Grove 99号公路旁的一个营地前整理成堆的物品和垃圾。在过去的几个月里，他一直把这里称为家。
Every other week, city officials provide trash bags and pick up piles of trash from the camps. Later on, Elk Grove police officers hand out $20 gift cards that people can spend on food and personal hygiene products at stores like Dollar Tree and Raley's.
每隔一周，市政官员就会提供垃圾袋，并从营地收集成堆的垃圾。之后，Elk Grove的警察会分发价值20美元的礼品卡，人们可以在Dollar Tree和 Raley's等商店购买食品和个人卫生用品。
Sarah Bontrager, Elk Grove Housing and Public Services Manager, said the city introduced the program about a year ago, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of it had to do with keeping public works employees safe, but the program has also resulted in some savings by taking the workload off the public works team.
Elk Grove住房和公共服务经理萨拉·邦特拉格(Sarah Bontrager)表示，该市大约在一年前COVID-19大流行开始时推出了这一项目。部分原因是为了保证公共工程部门员工的安全，但该项目也减少了公共工程部门的工作量，从而节省了一些开支。
"We could easily have spent $10,000 a month on that program, just doing regular cleanups. And now, our entire program operating for about a year, we haven’t even spent $10,000," Bontrager said.
“我们本计划每个月在这个项目上花费1万美元，只是做一些常规的清洁。而现在，我们整个项目运行了大约一年，甚至还没有花费1万美元。”
"They've got their trash in piles for us. They even help us load up the trucks," said Elk Grove Police Homeless Outreach Officer Jennifer McCue. "And we've actually even gotten some people into housing with the relationships we've built with them by going out to their camps every week."
“他们为我们准备了成堆的垃圾。他们甚至帮我们把东西装上卡车。”“我们甚至每周都去他们的营地，通过我们与他们建立的关系，让一些人住进了住房。”
The City of Elk Grove said those who receive the gift cards cannot spend the money on cigarettes or alcohol.
Elk Grove市表示，收到礼品卡的人不能把钱花在香烟或酒上。
While it's the first city in the area to adopt this kind of program, the city says other cities in the area have been in talks to do it as well.
它是该地区第一个采取这类计划的城市，但该市表示，该地区的其他城市也在讨论这样做。
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