It's a safety issue for sure. I'm going to use Dogpatch as an example.
Boat owners are leaving their vessels in Dogpatch. It's a body of water located right on the outskirts, right off of our Transfer Beach, which is a very popular beach in the summertime. Tourists come from everywhere. Folks are squatting in those boats. There's drug use happening in those boats.
Last spring, somebody lost their life inside one of those boats. They weren't found until about three or four months later. We have the dignity of humanity at that point. We really need to put that into play.
When a squatter is sitting in a derelict boat, the boat's just sitting there and it's not being checked on. All of a sudden, someone within that community—because they have their own little communities—realized that this person hadn't been seen for a few months. They called the authorities, who went in and, sure enough, located a body. It's a safety issue on many levels.
I've worked at the community marina, which is located right beside Dogpatch. I ran that marina in 2019 for six months, and when I came home—it was interim with me bringing my boat home—we saw people from that area coming in with full fights and on drug overdoses. It's a real community issue. It's an issue for sure.
Thank you, Ms. Barron, through the chair.