There have been some new developments in the scramble to handle the dissolution of local nonprofit Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corporation.
On March 9, Good Samaritan Services held a grand reopening ceremony for the Bridgehouse emergency shelter in Lompoc. Homeless families and individuals will now be able to go to the facility on Sweeney Road to receive shelter, food, and other essential services, such as drug and alcohol counseling.
Additionally, the Lompoc City Council
announced just before starting its March 6 meeting that it recently ordered a structural survey of the Lompoc Theater, another LHCDC-owned property. Corporation directors offered the property deed to the city, but the council wants to gather more information about the condition of the theater before proceeding.
The council also directed staff to make the survey available to the public.
The Sun couldn’t access a copy of the report as of press time, but Mayor John Linn said the report revealed the building is structurally sound, “but there’s more water damage” present than when the facility was last surveyed in 2005.
This article appears in Mar 15-22, 2012.
