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Committee votes against restoring funding for Community Connections space [Video]

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Community Building and Management

It’s looking unlikely a community hub at the Millennium Library will have its funding restored.

Funding for the library’s Community Connections service was cut at the end of 2024.

The space at the downtown library was run by library staff and crisis workers and connected the public to shelter and housing supports, social assistance, jobs, health care and more.

A motion before the city’s community services committee Friday called to have its funding restored, which would mean taking $628,000 from the upcoming budget.

Committee member Coun. Cindy Gillroy (Daniel McIntyre) called the hub an important community service.

“I’ve been there and I’ve witnessed it myself, so I wish that others had had the same opportunities to maybe see that, but I am worried if we don’t have this, we will have similar instances where we close our library again,” she said.

The library and its Community Connections hub closed in …

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