Community Services warns cuts could push hundreds toward homelessness
Community Services Director Allison Thall said reductions could eliminate direct assistance programs and force shelter partners to turn people away — estimating hundreds of households and thousands of services at risk if budgets are cut over the next two fiscal years.
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Allison Thall, director of the county's Department of Community Services, told commissioners that proposed proportional reductions to property-tax funding could threaten rental and utility assistance, homeless services and nonprofit grants, with measurable impacts on vulnerable residents.
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