The FY2025 report certifies Homeless Services as a new program, launched and funded 04/16/2025, 520,000.00 encumbered, recipient New Brunswick Human and Comm Serv Dept, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention. The City's warming center had run for three seasons before that date on money from Middlesex County. The County signed Code Blue Warming Center Services agreements with the City for the 2022 to 2023 season at 90,000.00, 2023 to 2024 at 150,951.00, 2024 to 2025 at 150,951.00 and 2025 to 2026 at 192,000.00, a total of 583,902.00. Line 01-201-21-192-108 Dedication by Rider carried Code Blue charge offs of 34,193.19 posted 01/17/2023 for the 2022 season, 36,847.94 posted 09/15/2023 and 44,024.24 posted 03/28/2024, with no settlement money on the line. Its adopted appropriation was 70,000.00 in 2023 and in 2024 and 220,000.00 in 2025, the first year settlement money was moved in, 130,000.00 by journal entry 218 on 10/28/2025 and 130,000.00 by journal entry 81 on 05/26/2026. None of the four agreements, the County grant packet or the City's implementation plan names opioids, overdose, naloxone or treatment. The plan says the center is open to men, women and children, needs no residency and no identification, and keeps a sign in log for statistics only.
Funding-source substitution
Certified a new homeless program that ran since 2022
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Funding-source substitution · Verified · Updated 09/23/2026 · 6 documents