Attachment A Petition Submitted By Elizabeth Venable 9-20-23.pdf

Citizen Petition Elizabeth Venable September 20, 2023 
To: Phoenix City Council Members and Phoenix City Manager 
From:Elizabeth Venable, Fund for Empowerment, 1950 E Cortez St, Phoenix, AZ 85020, 602-
872-3465
It is my Citizens Petition request that the City of Phoenix, in the honor of transparency and 
accountability, both retroactively and moving forward, continuously record and regularly report 
data regarding the effectiveness of the placements of Phoenix residents from the “Zone” in 
downtown.  
The data I am requesting be continuously, regularly, and retroactively collected includes: 
1. Locations of placements for each cleanup in terms of name
2. Number of constituents transported to each individual facility and location of each  facility
3. Number of constituents accepting/rejecting initial offers of shelter from each cleanup
4. Length of stay of constituents in each facility in the following categories—Less than 1
whole day (24 hours), 1-7 whole days (1 week), 8-14 days (2 weeks), 15-21 days (3
weeks), 22-28 days (4 weeks), 29+ days (one month or more)
5. Reason for exit of the facility including but not limited to 1. No exit 2. Transfer to another
facility 3. Personal voluntary exit/choice to leave 4. Disciplinary/violations of
rules/emotional-behavioral disruption/drugs/weapons/other nonvoluntary exit/not choice
to leave 5. End of program limitations on time
The preceding measures should be collected continuously and reported biweekly or monthly to 
Council and the public/media  
The preceding measures together should be considered a more accurate tool of assessment of 
the success of the placements of constituents relocated from the Zone, as listing the initial 
acceptance rate is facile and does not relate a full portrait of the ability of the City to successfully 
place constituents in shelters which meet their needs for a reasonable length of time (by this 
assessment, a “month” or more). 
This shall be considered creation of an ongoing assessment program as opposed to a one time 
request for information.  
As a member of the public who spent ages 0-18 in the same zip code as the Zone (85007) 
these measures are important to me personally as I care about the lives of people from my 
community and their treatment.  
These measures should not be considered a feature of compliance with Fund for Empowerment 
v. City of Phoenix or a manifestation of it at all, as it doesn’t specifically assess these measures
of success.
ATTACHMENT A

This request and citizen petition should not be stopped in light of it being related to the specific 
litigation, because it is not. It is an independent set of  measures of how the City treats its most 
vulnerable constituents.  
 
Elizabeth Venable MA MPA