MARIETTA — After a history of split votes, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to extend its agreement with a local homeless shelter to provide cooling shelter services through the summer.
The board voted 5-0 Tuesday to allocate $108,000 to MUST Ministries for its cooling center, which opens in the summer when temperatures reach 90 degrees or higher. The agreement runs from June 1 until Sept. 30.
MUST, which has operated for 55 years, runs the Hope House, Cobb’s primary emergency homeless shelter, along with several temporary housing programs. In addition to wraparound services like food, clothing and workforce development, the Marietta-based nonprofit opens a cooling center during hotter months and a warming shelter in the winter, when overnight low temperatures are forecasted to fall below 35 degrees…