Who to give money to?

Posted by Magda
The city will consider giving ARC industries, which offers job training to the disabled, an $80,000 grant. That's because the company doesn't qualify to have the city waive the $80,000 in development charges it paid the city for its new facility.

At the same time, councillors asked staff to come up with a policy for grant-giving, especially given the cash council put into the hospital and hospice last year.

"There are municipalities that categorically refuse to put property taxes into hospitals because they're provincially funded," Mayor Karen Farbridge said at today's committee meeting. "I could anticipate perhaps council might pass a policy in the future that might make (funding ARC industries) ineligible," she said.

"We're going to have to do a better job of reminding the province, reminding the feds they have to come to the plate," said Councillor Karl Wettstein.

Comments

[Gary]

Keep up the good work. You should check out what other municiplaities are doing to reduce or waive development charges on this type of project.