Champaign phasing out agencies' grants

CHAMPAIGN – Seniors who get Meals on Wheels, children at a public housing summer camp and parents working their way off welfare all benefit from a city grant program for social services.

Champaign City Council members will sit down again this week to decide which agencies will divvy up the $113,000 available for next year. But this could be the last time they do it.

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