New funds available to the City

PRINCE GEORGE – The Province is accepting applications from local governments, Indigenous communities and not-for-profit organizations for nearly $136 million in infrastructure grants to help communities develop resilience in response to COVID-19.

In partnership with the Government of Canada, the funds are being made available as part of the new COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream (CVRIS), a new stream under the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP). CVRIS will support projects that focus on retrofits, rehabilitation and upgrades to existing local government and Indigenous community buildings, COVID-19 response infrastructure, active transportation and disaster mitigation.

And what makes the President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities happy is the fact there are fewer strings attached. “Some of the stricter qualifications are waved,” explains Garth Frizzell. “There’s less paperwork to get started and there’s also less reporting required at the other end which, for the smaller municipalities, for local governments, that was really burdensome.”