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County staff outline homeless-services contract changes, monitoring plans and emergency shelter RFP options
Summary
County staff briefed commissioners on contract amendments with service providers, plans to improve contract monitoring and options for issuing an RFP to fund cold-weather emergency shelter between November and March.
County staff updated the Mason County Board of Commissioners on multiple items related to the homeless response system: a contract amendment request for a youth-services provider, proposed language clarifications for consolidated-homeless-grant compliance, planned improvements to contract monitoring, and preliminary budget calculations for issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to fund emergency shelter in cold months. Public health staff said Olympic Health and Recovery Services will remain the law-enforcement-assisted-diversion service provider despite an approximately 20% reduction in funding from a state health-care authority; the county plans to continue the partnership and said a subcontract for Olympic will be presented later if the county approves continued funding. “The emphasis is really gonna be maintaining staff,” the presenter said, noting the…
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