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Community Lifeline seeks emergency county aid after funding shortfall; county to consider contract amendments for eviction-prevention services
Summary
Erin Martinak, board chair of Community Lifeline, told the Mason County commissioners the nonprofit shelter faces corrective-action sanctions and about $300,000–$400,000 in past liabilities and asked the board to place an emergency request for $25,000 per month for three months on a future action agenda to keep the shelter open.
Erin Martinak, board chair of Community Lifeline, briefed the Mason County Board of Commissioners on the nonprofit shelter’s financial and operational situation and asked for short-term county support.
Martinak said Community Lifeline owns its shelter building, has capacity for 54 people but reduced operations to 15 nightly guests to match funding, and currently operates with four part-time overnight staff and two case managers. She described lengthy case-management work to place clients in treatment or permanent supportive housing, and said grants have supported case-management and overnight staffing but not facility operating costs.
"So $25,000 each month over the next 3 months, to keep the shelter open," Martinak said, asking commissioners to place that emergency funding request on a…
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