MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -The future of the Dairy Drive homeless campground on Madison’s eastside was decided at the Madison common council meeting Tuesday night.

After the campground opened in 2021, the city has used COVID-era federal relief funding to keep operations moving, but the money has now run dry.

The shelters were meant to be a temporary solution, but the City has renewed contracts with Madison Street Medicine to continue services for the last four years.

The city planned to demolish Dairy Drive this fall, but now plans could change as a proposal to extend the contract has reached the common council once again Tuesday.

“It’s a place where I am able to have visitation with my son. Where I can make him food, play basketball and take him to the park,” one Dairy Drive Camper explain

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