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Days Inn, 730 Iowa St., is pictured Dec. 24, 2020.
City leaders have voted to continue funding a cold-weather shelter for homeless people at a local hotel for now, but because of safety issues and the significant amount of program funds going to repair property damage, they are urging city staff to seek alternatives.
Volunteers running the program and some social service professionals who are not involved with it expressed concerns regarding the security and efficiency of the program at the City Commission’s meeting Tuesday night. Commissioners said they shared those concerns. They voted 4-0, with Commissioner Stuart Boley absent, to allocate another $200,000 for overnight shelter programs, and they directed city staff to devise ways to use that money beyond the current hotel program. City staff was also asked to coordinate with the Lawrence Community Shelter and other local social service organizations in its effort to find a new way to shelter the more than 100 people ....

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