HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 108-24 - Resolution - Contingency Funds for Gap Funding to Extend Overflow Shelter through 2025
RESOLUTION
Authorizing Contingency Funding to Supplement Funding Needs to Extend the
Overflow Shelter through 2025.
WHEREAS, The City has previously contributed to Catholic Charities, supporting their work
to provide overnight shelter to Persons Experiencing Homelessness; and
WHEREAS, The Warming Center is operated by Catholic Charities and has capacity to
serve 45 individuals. Since fall of 2023, Catholic Charities and Salvation Army have
partnered to provide an overflow shelter at a Salvation Army facility; and
WHEREAS, The overflow shelter meets a current need to continue to provide overnight
shelter through 2025; and
WHEREAS, City Council is requested to fund up to $75,000 from contingency funds, to
support four months of staffing costs in addition to short-term rent and maintenance costs
to cover the unanticipated budgetary needs to continue to extend the overflow shelter
through 2025 to meet these short-term needs.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester,
MN that the Council does hereby authorize up to $75,000 in contingency funds to
supplement funding needs to extend the overflow shelter through 2025.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS __________ DAY OF _______________, 2024.
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PRESIDENT OF SAID COMMON COUNCIL
ATTEST: __________________________
CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS _____ DAY OF ______________________, 2024.
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MAYOR OF SAID CITY
(Seal of the City of
Rochester, Minnesota)