The city of Kalamazoo has committed $300,000 to help fund $700,000 in winter homeless shelter programming being spearheaded by three area nonprofits.
News about the initiative, coming out of this week’s city council meeting, is one of five “must-read” stories from MLive not to miss this Wednesday.
Funds will help city, nonprofits to ‘be ready instead of reactive’
With funds in hand, Kalamazoo will be ready instead of reactive to snow and freezing temperatures, Commissioner Chris Praedel said.
“We’re not responding because there’s a polar vortex happening tomorrow,” Praedel said. “We’re hopefully getting ahead before there’s really dire life and death situations.”…