Capital Projects

The Elora Centre for the Arts. Sign on the side of building, with fire escape. Sunny day.

Council removes capital funding stream from community grants policy

November 26, 2024 by Arlene Dowell

Centre Wellington is changing how it awards community grants and what community groups can apply for. During last night’s council meeting, council voted in favour of replacing the former Community Impact Grant Policy and replacing it with the Community Investment Fund Policy.

In addition to the name change, Manager of Community Development with the township, Kristin Bettoil, says the new parameters of the program require organizations to prioritize a single project for funding, and removes the capital funding stream.

Corner Brook Mayor Jim Parsons sits at his desk. He is wearing a blue blazer and is signing a piece of paper with a pen. Part of the city of Corner Brook can be seen in the background.

Corner Brook mayor concerned there isn’t a federal-provincial agreement on capital funding

August 6, 2024 by Tonya Organ

Mayor Jim Parsons is worried about the lack of a current federal-provincial agreement on capital funding.

He says the city relies on tax payers money to run everything on a balanced budget. On Bayfm with Lenny Benoit, the mayor says the only financial help from the provincial and federal governments are with capital projects. Governments share in the total cost, but Parsons says there hasn’t been any federal provincial agreement on infrastructure for the last year or so. Parsons says this creates a real desert of funding which could mean next year’s construction season could be missed.

Other stories in this CKVB Newscast: an impaired driver ends up in a ditch in Pasadena, an open house this week at the Growing Dome in Corner Brook and the Raymond Heights band of high school grads takes their music one step higher.

– With files from Lenny Benoit and Dean Clarke

An old fashioned theatre with about 70 people in the audience looking at a powerpoint presentation and empty chairs on the stage. The walls of the theatre are white, the chairs are red and the curtain on the stage is black.

Astor Theatre to launch campaign to fund renovations, upgrades

June 25, 2024 by Rick Conrad

The board of the Astor Theatre in Liverpool says that 2024 will be the year they get serious about securing funding for a modern HVAC system.

The 122-year-old building has only ceiling fans in its performance space, making it mighty steamy in the middle of the summer.

The Astor Theatre Society board announced at their annual general meeting on Monday night that it plans to go after federal and provincial funding this year to make the whole building more energy-efficient and to install a state-of-the-art heat pump system.

That system would keep the Astor cool in the summer and warm in the winter. They also plan to replace windows, reinsulate the roof and change all lighting to energy-efficient LEDs.

The board said the Astor is in good shape financially, with a strong start at the box office in 2024.

A large white building sign sits on a brick ledge. The sign says Six Nations of the Grand Development Corporation

Six Nations launches pledge program to support capital projects

April 24, 2024 by Andrew Dow

Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation (SNGRDC) have launched a new pledge program to “supplement” its Economic Development Trust in the ways the organization puts surplus profits back into the community.

With the new pledge program, organizations may submit capital project pledge requests for a minimum of $10,000 and up to a maximum of $50,000. Organizations are also required to secure matching funding in the amount of the pledge before it is advanced and they must identify how their project aligns with the 2019 Six Nations community plan.

SNGRDC says the program’s funds will cover a broad range of community priorities like health, infrastructure, or environmental capital projects and can be used to increase services for organizations serving the community.

SNGRDC Pledge Program will open bi-annually in May and September. The first round of applications will be released May 1 and the submission deadline will be June 24.

Council removes capital funding stream from community grants policy

Corner Brook mayor concerned there isn’t a federal-provincial agreement on capital funding

Astor Theatre to launch campaign to fund renovations, upgrades

Six Nations launches pledge program to support capital projects

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