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Delano nonprofit asks city for one-year contract to keep Navigation Center open
Summary
Flood Ministries and partner agencies told the Delano City Council they need a one-year sole-source contract or other city funding to keep the Delano Navigation Center open after state and federal grants expired at the end of June.
Joe Wheeler, executive director of Flood Ministries, asked the Delano City Council on June 16 to provide one year of sole-source contract funding so the Delano Navigation Center can remain open while the nonprofit seeks new grants.
Wheeler told the council the Navigation Center opened in July 2021 at the Delano Association for the Developmentally Disabled and that Flood Ministries has “placed over a 100 people in shelters” and “housed over 47 people” from Delano since then. He said the program initially used ESG CARES federal funds and later HAP state funds routed through the county, but that those funding streams…
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