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Warming Centre Services and Supports Update

Carried 8 Jul 2024The vote
Topic: Safety Categories: Community Health & Wellbeing, Housing 1 recorded vote 8 Jul 2024

What it does

Purpose, from an earlier report
To provide the Finance and Audit Committee with an overview of the warming centre services and supports provided over the 2023/2024 winter season.
Staff report, page 1

Votes

  1. 8 Jul 2024other
    Carried 9–0

    That Council: 1. allocate $400,000 from the Special Initiative Reserve and reallocate the remaining 2023/2024 winter season funding to match funds provided by the Reaching Home Community Advisory Board to support up to two year-round drop-in hubs that can also serve as warming and cooling centre services for the City of Nanaimo’s extreme weather response starting in the 2024 winter season; and, 2. direct Staff to provide Council with an evaluation of the drop-in hub service as part of the City’s extreme weather response for future funding consideration in summer 2025.

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