With Fresno facing hundreds of shelter beds possibly closing in the coming months and more in the coming years, Mayor Jerry Dyer said the city and county are working together to keep beds available.

The mayor, along with Fresno County Supervisors Luis Chavez and Nathan Magsig, have held three meetings with service providers about how to keep beds open and funded, Dyer told GV Wire Wednesday.

By bringing together Fresno Mission, Poverello House, Anthem Blue Cross, and others, Dyer said they’re close to formulating a five-year plan to keep beds funded or to at least find transitional beds for people displaced by shutdowns.

Magsig and Chavez said they weren’t ready to comment on the plan.

“The last thing we want to do is … increase the unsheltered population on the streets of Fresno,” Dye

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