Catch-22: library too big and too small to get needed funding

The Scucog Memorial Public Library (Port Perry, Ont.) is caught in a funding Catch-22. Port Perry, population 20,173, is too large (by 174) to qualify for a Trillium Foundation grant for small municipalities [pdf], which uses 2001 census figures to determine eligibility. At the same time, the Ministry of Culture, which bases the size of its provincial operating grants on 1998 municipal data, won’t increase the size of its grant to Port Perry despite the town’s population having increased significantly since the 1998 count. [Article]

October 28, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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