![Francis Bee, director of the Gallup Business Improvement District, member of the Downtown Safety and Security Committee brainstorming group. File Photo](/images/resized/images/news/2016/300_dec31/29_100_100.jpg)
Leaders focus on solutions
A brainstorming group meeting to improve the quality of life in Downtown Gallup, has been gathering every couple of weeks since October to address some of the city’s more stubborn challenges.
Francis Bee, executive director of the Gallup Business Improvement District is one member of the group.
He talked to the Gallup Sun, Dec. 15 about Gallup’s downtown struggles with the numerous people who visit to do business and find themselves unable to get home.
“We don’t have enough police to accommodate the 20,000 to 30,000 people who come here to do their shopping,” he said.
“Our downtown is very small,” he pointed out. “So if you have half a...