The Chester and Area Family Resource Centre will have to wait and see if the municipality can help them.
The centre has requested $125,000 from the District of Chester to help the non-profit charitable organization pay off long-term debt.
Chair Becky Scott says the debt accumulated as a result of building the centre roughly seven years ago.
She says they’re paying over $2,000 a month to bring down the deficit.
“We’re looking for assistance in either remortgaging it or realigning it in a more productive way for the family centre.”
Scott says she’s looking for any support from the municipality and is hopeful they will get it.
“If council decides they want to loan us the money, that’s fine. Help us find a non-conventional way to mortgage the debt, that would be great. If they can help us pay off a portion of it, some of our payments, that would be great.”
The centre has been offering services in the Chester area for nearly 25 years.
Meanwhile, the warden of the municipality says their hands are tied.
Allen Webber says the resource centre missed the January deadline for larger grant applications.
He says they have deferred their decision to the regular grants program, which could qualify the centre for up to $10,000.
“That is the best we can do under the regular grants program and that really depends on the volume of requests we get from other people which that deadline, I think, was May 31.”
Webber says no decision has been made.
The municipality is currently reviewing all applications and will decide who will be granted funding at a later date.
