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Resident challenges county focus on shelter residency data; county and Catholic Charities statistics noted
Summary
During public comment at the Monongalia County Commission’s Jan. 8 meeting, resident Lindsey Jacobs criticized the commission’s emphasis on clients’ prior addresses at the warming shelter and urged support for Catholic Charities’ operations; commissioners and staff discussed data sources and funding priorities.
Lindsey Jacobs, a resident of Morgantown’s 5th Ward, used the commission’s public-comment period on Jan. 8, 2025, to criticize efforts by some commissioners to emphasize the prior addresses of people using the county’s warming shelter. Jacobs said the intake form’s question about a person’s last physical address does not accurately indicate how long someone has lived in Morgantown and called the focus on residency “a bogus question.”
"If you ask me that question, my last address was Greenville, South Carolina, but I’ve lived in Morgantown for two years," Jacobs said, urging commissioners to stop framing residency as the central…
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