Columbia’s Human Rights Commission is recommending that the city implement a temporary increase in the cut-off temperature for the emergency Wabash overnight center from nine degrees Fahrenheit to 18 degrees for the upcoming winter.
Commission chair Amanda Hinnant has presented a report to the city council, which says that if the threshold were 18 degrees instead of nine last winter, the center would have been available an additional seven nights: one in December, two in January and four in February.
The council has not taken action on the proposal.