DSSAB Meeting Planned

The town of Fort Frances will seek some information on the cost of providing social services from district's delivery agency.

Mayor Roy Avis says a meeting has been arranged for tomorrow with the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board.

"It was brought to our attention by administration that OSDP (Ontario Disability Support Program) funding was showing up as a credit on our OMPF (Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund) funding report," says Avis. "When that came to council, council said where's our credit? Where does it come from? Where it would come to the municipality is from the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board. We haven't seen that credit yet so were having a meeting with them on Thursday."

The province informed the town it would see about $376-thousand in savings as it takes back the responsibilities of paying for some of those services this year.