Homeless shelter scrambles to cut its expenses Published: Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 3, 2014 at 7:31 p.m. Jon DeCarmine, operations director for the coalition, says they’re considering their options and looking at how they can run things more efficiently now that they have some breathing room. From the moment the coalition first got the keys to the homeless center, located at the former Gainesville Correctional Institution, on April 17, it has been focused on getting the operation off the ground, DeCarmine said. The center opened by early May and expanded services on June 1 before turning its attention to getting the indoor shelter, which opened this week, up and running. “So from the inception, we have been hustling from one set of start-up issues to another, and we’re only now at a point where we can sit back and start to do a little bit more long-term planning,” DeCarmine said. There were expenses the coalition didn’t anticipate initially, he said. The utility costs in particular turned out to be much higher than expected. The coalition had estimated utilities would cost about $25,000 a year, according to a report DeCarmine provided to The Sun. For its current fiscal year 2015 budget, [...] newsinfl/homeless-shelter-scrambles-to-cut-its-expenses/
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