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Council adds street medicine contracts and daytime navigation-center plan to tonight’s agenda after debate over timing and bed reductions
Summary
The City Council moved to add four items from Community, Housing and Human Services — including contract amendments for street medicine, a budget ordinance to extend state funding and a resolution endorsing a daytime navigation center at the Canon Street shelter — after debate over procedure, timing and how lost shelter beds will be absorbed.
The Spokane City Council voted to add four CHHS items to tonight’s agenda, including contract amendments for street-medicine work and a resolution endorsing a conversion of the Canon Street shelter into a daytime navigation center.
City staff and CHHS presented the items as linked steps in the city’s unhoused-services strategy: a contract amendment with the Washington State Health Care Authority, a contract amendment with a street-medicine provider (CHAS), a special budget ordinance to extend grant funding and a resolution endorsing funding for navigation-center operations and street outreach.
“By making that shift, we’re actually able to serve more people during the day,” CHHS staff said about the Canon Street change, adding that removing on-site overnight beds “allows us to serve more people during the day, which gives us…
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