9.     REPORT, Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods, recommending to the City Council APPROVAL of the WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Dunn, Abreu, Winterson, Coelho and Council President Lopes, requesting, that the Health Department, the Department of Public Infrastructure, the Traffic Commission and the Mayor's office explore the implementation of a program that places, at popular panhandling locations, signage designed to encourage and facilitate responsible giving by providing a telephone number to both donate to local charities that provide food, shelter and mental health services and enable this at risk population to access these services; and further, that the Traffic Commission create the signage and steps be taken to erect the signs in panhandling locations.

9a.     WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Dunn, Abreu, Winterson and Council President Lopes, requesting, that the Health Department, the Department of Public Infrastructure, the Traffic Commission and the Mayor's office explore the implementation of a program that places, at popular panhandling locations, signage designed to encourage and facilitate responsible giving by providing a telephone number to both donate to local charities that provide food, shelter and mental health services and enable this at risk population to access these services. (Referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods-08/17/2017.)