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Marietta City Council will not have completed allocations for emergency homelessness reprieve by year’s end.
Legislators and other city administrators are looking to other routes for public funds to support a warming center at a local church through the county homeless project, local food banks and vouchers for motel stays to be carried by law enforcement for immediate distribution on cold nights.
In January of this year, a Marietta law enforcement officer was called out to one of the homeless encampments for a wellness check.The police officer was at a loss for available action that cold January afternoon, speaking with the Times and Councilman Geoff Schenkel about not wanting to find a frozen body but also having nowhere to offer those without a home.