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Resident urges Kenosha County to preserve funding for homeless services, highlight Shalom Center role
Summary
A Kenosha County resident asked supervisors to leave a budget 'buffer' for human services and to increase support for the Shalom Center’s Hope Pub warming/cooling site after a winter when limited staffing restricted operations.
A resident who identified their address urged the Kenosha County Board to preserve contingency funds for human services and to increase support for the Shalom Center’s Hope Pub, describing cases of people who remained in church shelters when the Hope Pub could not be fully staffed.
The resident told the board they reside at the address given for the record and said local human-services funding is “not adequate” and federal funds can be erratic. They described the Hope Pub’s limited operation over several extreme cold nights and said one paid employee worked nearly around the clock, reporting she “put in 99…
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