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Monroe County opens cooling stations as councilors warn federal cuts could reduce homelessness services
Summary
Councilor Iverson urged residents to use county cooling stations amid a heat wave and warned of potential federal cuts to homeless assistance grants that could shrink local rapid-rehousing capacity.
Councilor Iverson told the Monroe County Council on June 24 that county emergency managers have set up public cooling stations and posted locations online and on social media as the region faced sustained high temperatures.
The councilor said the county’s Emergency Management team, led by Director Jamie Neebel, worked with the Monroe County Fire Protection District and the Monroe County Public Libraries to open cooling locations, some of which remain open late — “Some of those are open till 9PM,” Iverson said — and that the list is available on the county…
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