Ceasefire Halifax asks municipality for funding help
Posted Dec 19, 2017 09:28:05 AM.
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A local anti-violence organization is asking the municipality for financial support just days after getting some aid from the province.
Ceasefire Halifax, which started as a federal government pilot project, will see its current contract end on Dec. 31. Nova Scotia provided the group with funding to keep going for another three months, and now Ceasefire is looking for long-term help.
“Doesn't everyone deserve to feel safe in their communities? Doesn't everyone deserve to walk along safe streets,” Ceasefire's program manager Mel Lucas posed to Global News outside Halifax's Board of Police Commissioners on Monday. “I think everybody does.”
The organization told the board it needs at least $2.2 million over three years. Board chair and Deputy Mayor Steve Craig said all groups deserve a look, it's just a matter of where that funding will come from.
“Whether it's the municipality, whether it's the provincial government, whether it's the federal government, whether it's not-for-profits and other funding sources and grants,” Craig told Global.
The board requested a staff report into the matter, which is expected to come to regional council early next year.
