City Council Meets: the Kelvin decision will be reviewed after the election

On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Councillor Lillian Thomas made a motion on Kelvin to City Council. We're still reviewing the actual content of the meeting, but we do know that council decided to return the matter to the Executive Policy Committee to review. It is apparently the intention of the mayor and EPC to await the consultations that our board executive will be having with the General Council of Winnipeg Community Centres in the first week of October. Because there are no further council or committee meetings until after the civic election on October 25th, Kelvin will not appear before the Executive Policy Committee until sometime around November.

This means that we will be able to continue our fall programming as planned. We should have a newsletter out to residents and some area businesses the first week of October, and you'll be able to find information on our programming.

This is good news in the short-term, but it hasn't changed the city's long-term plan to close Kelvin... we need to prove to them without a doubt that Kelvin meets a proven need, that it is necessary for our community, and that we have enough local support to make our community centre a place that we can be proud of for years to come.