The Perth-Wellington region will be receiving more funding help from the province.
In a release on March 11th, Perth-Wellington MPP Randy Pettapiece says the City of Stratford and Wellington County will be splitting a sum of 3.7 million dollars in Social Services Relief Funding. The funding is earmarked for helping to protect homeless shelter staff and residents, and to help prevent more people from becoming homeless. Pettapiece says in the release that this latest funding amount brings the total of Social Services Relief Funding in Perth-Wellington to just over 11 million dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The total funding breakdown is as follows:
Municipality
SSRF Phase 3 Funding
Total SSRF Funding to-date
City of Stratford
$1,103,225
$3,309,446
County of Wellington
$2,686,063
$8,057,630
Perth-Wellington Total:
$3,789,288
$11,367,076
“I’m pleased to see more social services funding coming to our riding,” says Pettapiece. “The staff at Wellington County and the City of Stratford do outstanding work in supporting the most vulnerable in our communities.”“Our government is once again taking immediate action to save lives by responding to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in some emergency shelters across the province,” says Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. This investment will ensure our municipal service managers can keep vulnerable people and shelter workers safe by providing them with the financial ability to take any means necessary to stop the spread of COVID-19 in shelter spaces."
