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Counties presents regional poverty aid plan to province
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123 go! Promotion Selon les conditions de Celebrity Cruises ALASKA, LE PASSAGE INTÉRIEUR Départ garanti du 14 au 25 août autres départs garantis en juillet NOS PRIX COMPRENNENT • Vols réguliers aller-retour au départ de Montréal • Hébergement en chambre double en hôtel 3 2 visites • Croisière de 7 nuits • tous les pourboires à bord • Tous les transferts • Service d’un accompagna- teur francophone pour la durée du voyage. À PARTIR DE 2 893 $* PAR PERSONNE 12 jours / 11 nuits / 26 repas lessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI). Prescott-Russell is entitled to $3.2 million in CHPI funding aid for the 2013-14 fiscal year for rental subsidies and other tenant aid programs for low-income residents in the counties. But the counties must provide the minis- try with an updated poverty aid plan to re- ceive the money. If approved, the UCPR will use its fund- ing allocation for programs administered through the social services department. Included are the Energy Emergency Fund, Small Water System for Domiciliary Hos- tels/Retirement Homes, and the Rent Bank which helps applicants at risk of eviction because they may not be able to meet their rent payments for various reasons. swer to the counties council’s inquiry. A let- ter from Superintendent Rick Philbin, OPP municipal policing bureau commander, re- viewed during the March 27 UCPR regular session stated that a formal proposal report should be available for presentation to the counties for consideration in early May. Presentation of a proposal does not mean that the counties will take over responsibil- ity for OPP from contracts from member municipalities in the UCPR. The counties council and administration still have to re- view the proposal before it goes to a vote.
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L’ORIGNAL | It’s a plan worth at least $3 million to the United Counties of Prescott- Russell. Counties council gave quick approval to a report on local poverty aid programming from its social services department and an order for administration to rush the report to the provincial Ministry of Municipal Af- fairs and Housing. The counties must have the report in as soon as possible to guarantee Prescott-Rus- sell’s funding allocation from the ministry under the province’s Community Home- L’ORIGNAL | Whether or not the counties will take over all of the policing contracts for Prescott and Russell may be decided within a few weeks. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR) has been waiting for the OPP to provide a cost breakdown for a regional police contract proposal. The counties be- gan looking into the feasibility of taking on the policing contract for both Prescott and Russell counties last year. Administrative and other delays have prevented the OPP from an immediate an-
Regional policing proposal
Glengarry-Prescott-Russell MP Pierre Lemieux received a once-in-a-lifetime invita- tion from the Right Honourable Governor General David Johnston to be part of the Canadian government delegation attending the inaugural Mass of the newly-elect- ed Pope Francis I in Rome following the new pope’s nomination as the successor for Pope Benedict XVI. MP Lemieux is pictured above standing outside of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City just before the start of the Mass.
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