Bethlehem Inn asks Redmond City Council to help fund new shelter
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) At Tuesday evening s Redmond City Council meeting, Bethlehem Inn Executive Director Gwenn Wysling asked councilors to contribute $450,000 to their Redmond shelter project, to help with the growing homelessness problem across Central Oregon.
Wysling says they ve operated a shelter in Bend for years, and have now acquired the Greenway Motel in Redmond for a new high-barrier homeless shelter through the state-funded Project Turnkey program. High-barrier means they have to pass a drug and alcohol test and not be a registered sex offenders.
Wysling added that they are looking to fill $900,000 in funding to complete the project, and if the council can contribute half of that amount, she s confident Deschutes County commissioners will match the rest.
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Hub City leaders plan for a future when marijuana is federally legal Let s be double-extra clear here: Running a marijuana dispensary is still illegal in the City of Redmond but in the event that the federal government changes its policy around that, the Hub City may be ready. On April 6, the Redmond City Council was scheduled to meet in a special meeting to go over the newly drafted city code covering marijuana businesses. When Oregon made marijuana legal in the state back in 2015, voters in Redmond opted out of allowing recreational marijuana businesses to operate within the city limits. People can still grow pot at their own homes and consume the stuff on private property but they have to go to places like Bend or Madras, both which opted in, to buy it.