New­ly elect­ed San Fer­nan­do may­or Robert Par­ris has as­sured that the city cor­po­ra­tion is work­ing on a plan to tack­le home­less­ness in the south­ern city, which has be­come a safe­ty is­sue.

Par­ris made the com­ment af­ter pre­sid­ing over his first Statu­to­ry Meet­ing with the new coun­cil of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion yes­ter­day.

He said he re­mind­ed coun­cil mem­bers that the elec­tion is over and he ex­pects them to work in uni­ty and de­liv­er to their burgess­es.

“What I re­it­er­at­ed to mem­bers of the coun­cil, as I stat­ed in my in­au­gur­al speech, elec­tions (Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment) are over. Your job is to go and work in your elec­toral dis­tricts. The elec­toral dis­tricts re­quire a lot of at­ten­tion. Thus far, I have been work­ing with all the mem­bers of coun­cil,” Par­ris said.

He not­ed that ad­dress­ing the is­sue of the so­cial­ly dis­placed on Har­ris Prom­e­nade is one of his top pri­or­i­ties, but added that peo­ple con­tin­ue to feed street dwellers at that lo­ca­tion and it is caus­ing a se­ri­ous prob­lem.

Say­ing he has the back­ing of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, he said they have a plan for the prom­e­nade.

How­ev­er, he urged mem­bers of the pub­lic to dis­trib­ute food at the home­less shel­ter at King’s Wharf or Court Sham­rock.

“It is cre­at­ing a safe­ty is­sue for the chil­dren in the schools. Last year, we had some­one run in­to San Fer­nan­do Boys’ RC School. I spoke to the prin­ci­pal. It is of para­mount con­cern to me,” Par­ris said.

He said he al­so in­tends to speak to the Port-of-Spain may­or about their ini­tia­tives to deal with the so­cial­ly dis­placed and mir­ror their good work.