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Residents urge better shelter data and services; volunteers report warming-shelter demand rising
Summary
Public commenters asked the council to correct misleading claims about shelter residency data, requested 24/7 public restrooms, and described neighborhood lighting needs; council received an update on Hazel's House of Hope shelter operations and warming-shelter capacity.
Multiple members of the public used the Jan. 7 Morgantown City Council public-comment period to raise homelessness and shelter concerns, ask for clearer contract addenda on nondiscrimination provisions, and request interim lighting for a dark Greenmont street.
Lindsay Jacobs (5th Ward resident) urged the council to treat some published shelter data with caution, saying survey questions at the warming shelter record a person's "last residence" rather than whether they are a current Morgantown resident. "When someone goes up to use the shelter, there's a questionnaire that they fill out or someone sits down to fill out... and they ask them what their…
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