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Catholic Charities Grace Shelter says fire marshal rules trimmed beds; seeks funding to expand overnight capacity
Summary
Catholic Charities’ Grace Shelter told the Monongalia County Commission it must reduce beds from 28 to 19 after a fire marshal re‑calculation of usable square footage and said it has potential to add 15 sobering‑center beds if funding is secured.
Catholic Charities’ Grace Shelter told the Monongalia County Commission on June 4 that occupancy limits set by fire marshal calculations reduced the shelter’s client beds from 28 to 19 and that the organization is seeking funding to expand an overnight, limited‑service area in the building’s sobering‑center footprint.
Jessica Thompson, director of Catholic Charities Grace Shelter, said the city fire marshal remeasured the shelter’s square footage and “said you have to decrease by 9 beds on Grace,” leaving the program with 19 beds under current code. Thompson told the commission the fire marshal “gave us permission to have 15 additional permanent beds down there if we could get the funding to do that.”
The shelter provided use and…
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