Lansing City Council member Ryan Kost said City Hall should be opened as an overnight shelter during the cold snap to save lives.
Mayoral spokesperson Scott Bean said Lansing’s existing non-city overnight shelters said Thursday that they have enough capacity to cover anyone in the city who is willing to stay indoors, so opening up new spaces isn’t necessary.
Kost said the city’s Letts Community Center, an overnight shelter, has a capacity of 60 but had 85 people earlier this week, and he expects the number to grow with the colder temperatures…