Attendees heard from a panel of agency representatives on the subject of homelessness in Wasco County during a town hall meeting Monday night.  The discussion took a number of different angles on the subject.  Patty Mulvihill of the League of Oregon Cities discussed some of the legal parameters that cities and counties are subject to in dealing with homelessness, saying the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled people cannot be punished for an involuntary act or condition if it is an unavoidable consequence of their status or being.  Mid-Columbia Community Action Executive Director Kenny LaPoint, who fielded a number of questions on his agency’s acquisition of the former Oregon Motor Motel for transitional housing, provided data on who is homeless, adding it takes the whole community to deal with the issue.  He asked attendees to change their perspective to be solutions focused rather than problem focused.  Wasco County Sheriff Lane Magill said he came to realization a decade ago that the state’s mental health system was broken.  Magill noted that they won’t have all the solutions, but those involved will continue to work hard.