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Medford City Council on Thursday will review a proposed six-year agreement with Rogue Retreat to operate the homeless Navigation Center, slated to open in July.
Located at 685 and 691 Market St., the Navigation Center is being remodeled to establish a campus inspired by Haven for Hope, located in San Antonio.
The agreement will finalize a city effort to establish the Navigation Center, located close to Department of Human Services offices and La Clinica, and set the stage for Rogue Retreat’s management of the operation.
The 15,576-square-foot building just off Biddle Road ultimately will accept up to 100 people a night.
In the proposed agreement, the city would provide Rogue Retreat with 0,000 over a three-year period to help offset some of the steep operation costs for the Navigation Center, which will be open seven days a week.
Rogue Retreat would receive three installments, with 8,000 in its first year, 7,000 in year two and 5,000 in year three.
The arrangement could be terminated if there is a substantial breach in the terms of the agreement.
The city estimates the annual cost to operate the center, which will have 25 staff members, at .63 million annually, or .83 cents for each homeless person every day.
The money comes from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
In addition, the city will provide another 0,000 from Oregon Department of Administrative Services grant money for furnishings, fixtures and equipment needed to operate the center.
Since Rogue Retreat will use other sources of income to operate the homeless center, the city will not be charging the organization any rent.
Similar to Haven for Hope, Rogue Retreat will offer a low-barrier approach, where sobriety is not a precondition to entry, and participation in services is not a precondition for receiving help.
Rogue Retreat, which houses 550 homeless people a night in Southern Oregon, plans to move its Kelly Shelter in downtown Medford into the new building and offer wraparound services to help the homeless people deal with mental health, medical and financial issues.
The center should be ready by July, but a much-needed commercial kitchen will not be finished until August, so officials are looking at the possibility of a mobile cooking facility to provide three meals a day.
Single men and women, as well as couples and families, will be accepted at the center.
Families with children will be placed in a separate area in the upstairs of the center.
An administrative area will be located in the front of the building.
Homeless people will have to sign up for entry into the center at another Rogue Retreat administrative building to avoid disturbing surrounding buildings.
The city is investing ,455,000 from state, federal and local dollars to undertake the remodel.
Reach freelance writer Damian Mann at dmannnews@gmail.com. © 2022 Mail Tribune source