The plan is to have all of the residents of the pavilion moved into the hotel by Aug.
The rescue mission will take up three of the Quality Inn’s five buildings for its shelter, Olsten said, with a few rooms for offices.
The county previously had a July 31 deadline to move all of the Kitsap Rescue Mission’s clients out of the pavilion at the Fairgrounds. “We’re in the business of sheltering people not putting people out, so I think that was mostly an information error more than anything,” Olsten said. Kitsap Rescue Mission executive director Nancy Olsten said she was “really pleased” that the county was able to “find a workaround, something that could work for us.” “It’s just illogical to make some people homeless so other people don’t have to be,” Washburn said. The rescue mission will use 68 rooms for its clients with 35 rooms reserved for long-term residents. The Quality Inn is a larger facility - it has a total of 103 rooms - and already serves 33 households that receive funding from Kitsap Community Resources programs. Instead, the county will pay $1.4 million to lease the Quality Inn for nine months with an option to renew, Washburn said. Kitsap County Parks Department needs the pavilion empty by early August to prepare for the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede. The Midway Inn agreed to let them use the hotel for up to a year while the county completes renovation work on a new facility on Mile Hill Drive in Port Orchard. “That was an error on my part, I didn’t filter my spreadsheet correctly,” Garrett said.Ĭounty officials say they were rejected by dozens of locations when looking for a space to move the shelter.
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