Despite a bill for homeless veterans going to the governor’s desk, a site in Green Bay will remain closed.
FOX11 reports that the bill would use an existing $1.9 million to create a new state grant program and would fund four nonprofits that house veterans in southeastern Wisconsin.
State Senator Jamie Wall, a Democrat from Green Bay, tried to get a proposed amendment that would reopen a shuttered site for homeless vets in Green Bay and Chippewa Falls, but that failed on a party-line vote.
Wall called the vote disappointing, saying, “The closure of the center in Bellevue almost certainly means that some local veterans are sleeping on the street this winter. We have to do better.”
Republican State Senator Eric Wimberger of Oconto, who authored the bill that could be considered by Governor Tony Evers, said that the Senate voted “to do what the governor should have been doing from the start: spending already-appropriated funds under his control to help care for Wisconsin’s homeless veterans.”
Whether Evers will sign the bill is not known.
