MARIETTA — As temperatures start to dip, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners has extended its agreement with a local homeless shelter to provide warming shelter services through the winter.
The board voted 3-2 Tuesday, with Commissioners Keli Gambrill and JoAnn Birrell opposed, to allocate $108,000 to MUST Ministries, helping fund its warming shelter from November through March.
MUST, which has operated for 54 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 provides a warming shelter when overnight low temperatures are forecasted to fall below 35 degrees…