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Wed, 02 Sep, 2015 12:07:18 AM New reception centre to be opened at Ruovesi FTimes – STT Report, Sep 2  Hotel Hotelli Rantasipi, which remains closed may house the asylum seekers as reception centre. Photo Lehtikuva. Minister of Education and Culture Sanni Grahn-Laasonen said the Forssa municipality board may after all approve establishment of an emergency reception centre to accommodate asylum seekers.
In her Facebook page the minister said the majority of representatives in the board want to overturn the negative decision on the opening of an emergency reception centre. The matter will be revisited, she added.
“The municipal board will either change its position next Monday in a meeting or the matter will move to the city council in which in all probability an emergency reception centre will be approved,” Grahn-Laasonen wrote on Facebook.
The municipal board of Forssa voted a week ago 6-5 against setting up an emergency reception centre.
The Finnish Red Cross-run warm reception emergency accommodation unit would have been operating in the facilities of the currently shut Hotel Hotelli Rantasipi.
Minister of Education and Culture Sanni Grahn-Laasonen met party’s parliamentary group in Forssa on Tuesday. Photo Lehtikuva. Grahn-Laasonen is a councillor in the municipality of Forssa and has previously served as the municipal council’s first deputy chair.
Meanwhile, a new asylum reception centre intended for families is planned to be opened in Ruovesi, Pirkanmaa.
Half of the 200-capacity reception centre would be set up in Jäminkipohja and half in empty apartments in the built up areas of Visuvesi village.
Schools in each of the villages will set up preparatory groups with an opening for 15 pupils.
The initiative to set up a reception centre came from the Ruovesi municipality. The municipal council will officially resolve the issue next Monday.
In another development regarding the asylum situation, the Finnish Red Cross erected four tents at the yard of the reception centre in the Pansio suburb of Turku on Tuesday. The tents will help the reception centre which already has over 500 asylum seekers.
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