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City health director says hotel shelter use will end June 30; council refers update to municipal safety committee
Summary
Councilor Manning Martin read a communication from Sharon Cameron, the city’s director of public health, saying Centre Board told the city hotels used as emergency shelters will end on June 30, 2025; the council referred the update to the municipal safety committee.
Councilor Manning Martin read a communication from Sharon Cameron, the city’s director of public health, saying Centre Board, the private contractor managing the Holiday Inn shelter, informed the city that the use of hotels as emergency shelters statewide will end on June 30, 2025.
The communication, read into the record at the May 8 Peabody City Council meeting, said Centre Board currently has 71 families at the Holiday Inn — 106 adults and 31 children — and is working to place those families into permanent housing. It added that any families not placed by the hotel…
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