Champaign phasing out agencies' grants
By Julie Wurth
Sunday April 13, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
University of Illinois senior and volunteer Cassie Heitzig takes a youngster for a walk around the yard at Crisis Nursery in Urbana. The agency now gets $18,000 a year for evening child care for working parents; that service might have to be cut when Champaign phases out its social services funding.
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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