Vancouver City Council |
MOTION ON NOTICE
1. Community Social Services Funding
At the Council meeting of June 8, 2004, Councillor Woodsworth submitted the following Notice of Motion for the Council meeting immediately following the Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets meeting on June 10, which was recognized by the Chair:
MOVED by Councillor Woodsworth
SECONDED by Councillor
WHEREAS community social services are vital to the health and well-being of thousands of British Columbians, especially women, people with disabilities, children and families in need, and the most vulnerable people in our society; and
WHEREAS these critical services are dependent on adequate funding by the provincial government; and
WHEREAS the provincial government has already cut $100 million from the community social services sector since 2001, and plans to cut at least $70 million more before March 31 of this year; and
WHEREAS these cuts are having a devastating impact on families and communities;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED council send a letter to the BC government calling on Premier Gordon Campbell, Finance Minister Gary Collins, and Minister of Children and Family Development Christy Clark to put on hold any further cuts to community social service funding in the upcoming 2004/2005 budget, and to make every effort to restore program funding to the pre-2001 level.
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