The City of Winnipeg is poised to cancel a hotly contested plan to cut $2 million from community and neighbourhood grants following intense public backlash. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * The City of Winnipeg is poised to cancel a hotly contested plan to cut $2 million from community and neighbourhood grants following intense public backlash. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? The City of Winnipeg is poised to cancel a hotly contested plan to cut $2 million from community and neighbourhood grants following intense public backlash.
After about 200 people rallied against the cut in front of city hall Thursday morning, Mayor Scott Gillingham raised a successful motion to refer the plan back to council’s executive policy committee for further review next month. Gillingham later told media he will seek ways to keep the total funding for such grants at the current $3.4-million level, instead of pursuing the plan to reduce it to $1.
3 million in each of the next three years. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Supporters of community organizations like ArtCity and Graffiti Gallery rallied at City Hall Thursday to try to reverse a cut to a sector they say is chronically underfunded. “The goal is to.
.. maintain the total overall envelope that is in the 2024 budget for future years but that requires discussion to do that as we go into the 2025 budget,” said Gillingham.
“We have to identify funding so.
