Toronto's budget committee has accepted an offer from the province to fund 11 nurse positions to help fight the city's bed bug problem.
The last time the province offered, city politicians — led by Mayor Rob Ford — turned it down.
In June the executive committee said it wouldn't accept the province's offer to pay for two nurses: one nurse to work with new immigrants and another to work in the city's poorer neighbourhoods.
At the time Ford said he didn't want to be on the hook to pay the nurses when the provincial money ran out.
The city's budget chief Coun. Mike Del Grande said he was inundated with 3,000 emails at the time, most asking why.
Del Grande said he got the message.
"We listen," he said, "even though people claim we don't. I get the drift."
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