SALT LAKE CITY — Earlier this week, the Salt Lake County council voted to close all of four of its daycares operating out of county recreation centers.

The county council voted five to four to close the centers because they cost the county around $2 million dollars to operate. The centers only serve up to 300 families in the summer and about 271 during the school year. To many on the council, the numbers just weren’t worth it.

“In any other circumstance or business, it wasn’t meeting the metrics of what it should possibly be doing, and as we looked at those type of things, it didn’t make sense to keep it open,” said council member at large Laurie Stringham.

Council member Jiro Johnson also proposed an alternative option to have nonprofits or other groups take over the daycares, but the

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