City Seeks Funding Increase for Beds and Heads

The City of Kenora is seeking increased transfer payments from the provincial government.

Council is looking to pass a resolution calling for money for so-call heads and beds.

Currently the province provides the city about 75 dollars for every hospital, jail and college bed in the community.

That amounts to about 28 thousand dollars a year in revenue for the city.

That funding hasn't increased since 1987, and the city is seeking an increase to about 135 dollars per bed.