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Loveland council directs city manager to develop plan to end city-run shelters; seeks spending data and ordinance options
Summary
Council directed staff to return by Feb. 25, 2025 with a "fiscally responsible" plan to eventually terminate city-operated shelters, inventory homelessness spending, compare municipal sheltering statewide and bring a draft ordinance to align local code with the cited Grants Pass ruling; debate included cost, timeline and risks to permitting.
Councilor Samson introduced a motion asking the city manager to develop a fiscally responsible plan for the City of Loveland to "eventually terminate city-managed sheltering services," specifically naming the South Railroad Facility (SRF) and the Loveland Resource Center. The motion asked staff to return by Feb. 25, 2025 with a comprehensive accounting of city homelessness expenditures (including support to outside agencies), data on municipally owned-and-operated shelters in Colorado, and a draft…
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