Waterloo Region and its municipalities have extended the closure of municipal administrative and operations facilities through May.
In their announcement, officials say the extension is consistent with the framework for reopening the province which was released by the Ontario government on Monday.
It also puts the region and municipalities in line with the potential reopening of publicly-funded schools, which will also not reopen until May 31 at the earliest.
The region’s CAO Mike Murray said that municipal decisionmakers took a closer look at the provincial announcement before it made the move. “If you look at that carefully, that framework really describes a slow and gradual plan for reopening Ontario,” he explained.