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-stretch:inherit;line-height:25px;font-family:"Fira Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px">“By now, unfortunately, the reduction in government grant funding and staffing costs increasing, we have no choice but to consider new ways of running the language centres with less money.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:25px;font-family:"Fira Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px">“As a cabinet we will carefully consider all the evidence submitted by our staff and the unions in the recent consultations, along with the key messages from the Council’s Welsh Language Committee, Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee and the Full Council.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:25px;font-family:"Fira Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px">“The council's education department is of the opinion that it is possible to address the comments that have been submitted in a number of ways.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:25px;font-family:"Fira Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px">"We will be carefully weighing-up the options carefully before deciding on the best way forward.”</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>