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Lifeboat Services tells commissioners county cut shelter funding and pressured agreement
Summary
Lifeboat Services representatives told the Clatsop County Board that a county funding formula will reduce Lifeboat's 2025 award and that staff were pressured to sign a funding agreement they say conflicts with state direction for shelter beds.
Erin Carlson, associate director of Lifeboat Services, told the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners that Lifeboat received $1,250,000 from the state after Governor Kotek’s emergency order to create low‑barrier shelter beds, and that the program ran with an annual operating budget of $625,000. "Under the county's funding formula now, we will be awarded $454,000 for the 2025 fiscal year on a $170,000 decrease in funding," Carlson said during public comment, urging the board to…
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