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Residents press council on homeless shelter location, budget cuts to libraries and parks ahead of March 1 budget hearing
Summary
Public commenters urged council not to move a planned low-barrier homeless shelter from downtown, raised concerns about proposed budget cuts to libraries, parks and the animal shelter, and urged compassion and service-oriented responses ahead of the March 1 budget hearing.
Several residents used the Feb. 24 Huntington City Council public-comment period to urge the council not to move a planned low-barrier shelter away from downtown and to prioritize services often threatened by proposed budget cuts.
Reverend Oliver Snow (Westview Avenue) appealed to council to keep the low-barrier shelter near downtown resources, saying moving it would be costly and would not solve homelessness because supports remain downtown. Snow warned that criminalizing homelessness would be more expensive than a permanent Housing First approach and said he would continue to press the council on the issue.
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