After months of deliberations, the Co-Operative Care Centre funding extension is gone.

In Thursday’s United Counties of Leeds and Grenville council meeting, it was decided that the funding extension that would carry the CCC through to the end of March will be cut.

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It was a near-unanimous vote by the region’s mayors to cancel the funding extension – North Grenville Mayor Nancy Peckford was the lone holdout by abstaining from the vote, with the rest of council voting against extending the funding.

“I have to say I’m sad, and a little confused,” said Tony Barnes, treasurer of the Brockville Housing Partnership, which runs the centre. “The meeting seemed to have gotten hijacked by concerns over financial reporting – as far as I knew, I thought it was all about homelessne

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