A week after auditors for the Legislature released a report that found evidence of routine drug use inside two homeless facilities downtown and other security issues, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams called for quick changes.
During a tense interaction between McAdams and Matt Minkevitch, director of The Road Home, which runs three shelters in Salt Lake County, the mayor repeated his belief from last week that the shelter’s response to the audit has been insufficient, and he called for action by the group’s board.
“The response needs to be swift; it needs to be significant,” McAdams said Wednesday, before suggesting it’s been difficult to get improvements at the shelter in the two years since improving homeless services became a top political issue in the state.