A proposal to stop using Fair Park as the city’s primary winter weather shelter received a cool response from the Dallas City Council on Wednesday.

Dallas City Manager Kim Tolbert said she is seeking guidance from the 15-member council on a proposal to move from a centralized mega-site at Fair Park , which kept more than 1,300 people warm last winter during two prolonged weather events, to a regional model of smaller locations spread across the city.

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Tolbert told council members there was a need to review other options, citing a $978,000 budget for operating the winter inclement weather shelter that ended up costing $2.9 million.

“We’ve been serving more people than our own reported unsheltered population has, and operating at a level

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