SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Families are speaking out about the effects of the Salt Lake County Council's decision to shut down four county-funded daycare centers.

In a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 28, the county council voted to close four county-funded daycare centers across the Salt Lake Valley. Within two months all four will be shut down.

"I literally just felt so sick listening to all this," Stephanie Gardner, a mom who has two children that attend a daycare at the Kearns Rec Center, said. "It just is so wrong."

“This is not a statutory duty of the county to provide daycare,” County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton of district 3 said during Tuesday's hearing. “We have things already in place. We heard about the DWS [Department of Workforce Services] childcare subsidy, which is a very gene

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