City council restores some funding for safe parking program

Salem city councilors voted Monday to partially fund a program giving homeless people safe places to sleep in vehicles which had been cut in earlier budget proposals.

Councilors voted 4-3 in favor of allocating $50,000 from a state sheltering grant toward the program in next year’s budget. It’s run by nonprofit Church at the Park.

Church at the Park served 171 people last year through the program. It gives people a safe place to sleep…