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Murrieta approves short-term funding to sustain homeless outreach and emergency sheltering through December
Summary
The Murrieta City Council unanimously approved a budget adjustment to continue street outreach and emergency shelter services through December, citing regional collaboration and a reliance on grant funding that could lapse. Staff will return with options if grants do not materialize.
Murrieta — The City Council voted unanimously Sept. 16 to appropriate funding to maintain homeless street outreach and emergency sheltering services through Dec. 31, officials said.
City staff presented the request as an interim measure to maintain a coordinated outreach system that the presentation described as established in 2017 and now shared across several nearby cities. City homeless program lead Brian Ambrose told the council that, while voluntary grant programs have previously supplemented the city’s budget, the immediate option before the council was to fund services retroactively to the start of the fiscal year through December to avoid service interruptions.
Ambrose said Murrieta has built a shelter-and-outreach system that combines full‑time street outreach, case management (provided by CityNet), emergency sheltering (Project Touch) and a four‑member community…
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