Winkler Council Concerns

Winkler City Council met on July 11. At this meeting, they received a petition (rather, several different petitions) with signatures from businesses  in Winkler and the Pembina Valley, most of which are served by South Central Regional Library. These businesses have requested that their tax dollars not be used to fund South Central Regional Library because they don't understand that comprehensive sex education is not the same thing as child sexual abuse material. 

Because the petition was not an official petition, Council did not discuss it. 

We do think it's important, though, that you know who has signed it. 

To view the official source document, click here. It's listed under "4.3. Business Petition". 

It was also received and posted by the Town of Altona, along with a copy of the email indicating that the person who submitted the letter specifically stated "[p]lease review and accept it as public correspondence for the board and therefore make it available to the public for transparency reasons." You can view this source here. It's under "10.1 Letter regarding South Central Regional Library".

We've embedded both agendas below.

We encourage you to cross reference the original document for transparency's sake, but we've got a spreadsheet that you can view and sort as you wish.

Winkler City Council also made a lot of ridiculous comments about the libraries and has basically decided that they're going to be bullying SCRL to do what they want. This included comparing comprehensive sex ed to 50 Shades of Grey, Mein Kampf, and cigarettes. Watch for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/live/N1CEoj31HzE?feature=share