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City expects social-services funding announcement

October 28, 2008
The Hamilton Spectator

Hamilton hopes to hear Friday that the province will take back responsibility for services that left the city short $12 million in 2008.

The gap was filled by a provincial grant, but Government Services Minister Ted McMeekin said last week that Hamilton wouldn’t get special funding for social services again.

City officials expect the issue will be addressed in the report of a Provincial-Municipal Fiscal and Service Delivery Review, begun in 2006.

Treasurer and acting city manager Joe Rinaldo told a budget steering committee meeting today that, “We will get an announcement this week on funding.”

Mayor Fred Eisenberger said, “The expectation is Friday.”