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Wheeling council approves opioid-settlement funding for temporary shelter with progress benchmarks
Summary
Wheeling City Council unanimously approved an amended ordinance to allocate West Virginia opioid-settlement funds to the Life Hub and Salvation Army for temporary housing, conditioning $75,000 in payments on demonstrated progress — including applications for IDs and housing — and setting payments in three increments.
Wheeling
Wheeling City Council voted unanimously to authorize a portion of West Virginia opioid-settlement funds to assist the Life Hub and the Salvation Army in providing temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness, approving an amendment that requires accountability benchmarks and phased payments.
The measure, read into the record as an ordinance to allocate opioid-settlement funds for temporary housing, was amended on the floor to allocate $75,000 to the providers, to be disbursed in three $25,000 checks contingent on documented progress. Council members asked for proof that residents placed at the facilities had begun the process of obtaining identification documents and housing applications before subsequent disbursements.
City Manager Mister Harrim told the council the exemption area (the…
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