Warming Center Closing After Tonight

Tonight is the last night for the Warming Center in Bozeman which offers homeless people a warm place to spend the night. It has been open for almost a hundred days.

The bare bones facility is a pilot program that cost about $30,000 mostly to pay for staffing the facility.

According to HRDC there were 844 visits with 69 different people visiting the shelter. An average of about 13 visitors stayed each night.

After the facility closes Bozeman's homeless will have to sleep somewhere else. Many will be sleeping outside.

"People have been camping here in the winter before the Warming Center and so hopefully we made it through the worst of it. We're not going to see anymore twenty below zeroes, we're hopeful." Said Heather Grenier, HRDC Specials Projects Officer.

The greater Gallatin Homeless committee is recommending a similar facility be opened next winter. However, they are hoping to open it earlier possibly by Thanksgiving.