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Lifeboat Services tells commissioners county funding formula would cut shelter funding by 27%
Summary
Lifeboat Services told the Clatsop County Board it received a state award to create low-barrier shelter beds but faces a county funding formula that would reduce its allocation by about $170,000 (27%) in fiscal 2025; Lifeboat alleges the county pressured it to sign an inequitable funding agreement and requests board review.
Erin Carlson, associate director of Lifeboat Services, told the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners during public comment that Lifeboat received $1,250,000 in 2023 from a state emergency directive to create low-barrier shelter beds and that the organization has operated a 22-bed shelter serving people with high needs. "We created our shelter program with a budget of $625,000 a year," Carlson said, adding the program had no funds left at the end of the biennium.
Carlson said the…
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