Huron Expositor, 2009-04-29, Page 7News
The Huron Expositor • April 29, 2009 Page 7
Huron East applying fth,t�thirds funding for four
infrastructure projects throughout the munici pality
Susan Hunderimark
Huron East is hoping to receive
two-thirds funding from the federal
and provincial governments for four
projects under two infrastructure
stimulus grants.
Council agreed at its
April 21 meeting to ap-
ply to the Build Canada
Fund for the Seaforth
Sewage Plant Expan-
sion project and to the
Infrastructure Stimu-
lus Fund for three proj-
ects - a $3 million Va-
nastra infrastructure
replacement project, a
$750,000 Jamestown
Bridge project and
a $600,000 Burgess
Street project.
Clerk -Administrator
Jack McLachlan told
council that with less
than two weeks to meet an
April 30 deadline, he, Deputy -Clerk
Brad Knight and Public Works Co-
ordinator Barry Mills sat down and
looked at current projects that could
qualify for the available funding.
"This is our recommendation but
it's council's decision which way to
go," he said.
Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan
suggestedthat a new recreation fa-.
cility for Vanastra would be a good
project to submit for funding.
"At some point, we said we were
going to do something and we can
get two-thirds of it paid for, that's
the biggest boost we're ever going to
get for it," said MacLellan.
Tuckersmith Coun. Les Falconer
said the Vanastra Rec
Centre board- recently
discussed its wishes for
the current facility and
decided that a $2.5 mil-
lion project could put
up the pool and fitness
facility they wanted.
"We decided if we
were going to build a
building in Vanastra it
would be just a fitness
building - there would
be no daycare part of
it or no hall part of it
because there's other
halls in the communi-
ty," he said.
However, Falconer
added that he thought.
asking for $3 million for new infra-
structure for Vanastra would be a
wiser choice .because "you're not go-
ing to do two of them in Vanastra."
"If you did two projects in Vanas-
tra, that would be a better bang for
your buck," responded MacLellan.
"When the municipality is benefit-
ting, the more money we can get out
of the feds and the province."
McKillop Coun. Bill Siemon point-
ed out that Huron East will still have
'Our decision
was to help
alleviate our
budget and
this should
help with the
Cause,' -
Huron East
Administrator
Jack McLachlan
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to pay for a third of the project.
"A third of it is a lot cheaper than
100 per cent," said MacLellan.
MacLellan said he's been bringing
up the idea of a new recreation facil-
ity in Vanastra for four years but the
issue never comes back to the council
table.
"I understand we're tightwads and
we don't want to spend money but at
some point, we have to," he said.
Knight told council that without
drawings and firm numbers on proj-
ects, it's hard to apply for funding
and meet the deadline.
"We've got 10 days to put in an ap-
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ning against. We don't have things
sitting on the shelf nice and easy," he
said, adding that the projects that
have been recommended by staff ire
the closest to "shovel ready."
McLachlan added that staff didn't
recommend any recreation projects
yet since another grant program is
coming up specifically for recreation
but the criteria hasn't yet been re-
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"Our decision was to help alleviate
our budget and this should help the
cause. We think that's a fair good ap-
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