Title
AVICC Resolution: COVID Safe Restart Grant Inequity for Electoral Areas (Directors Holman & Howe)
Recommendation
The Electoral Areas Committee recommends to the Capital Regional District Board:
That the following resolution be submitted to AVICC:
Whereas the Capital Regional District, received a funding allocation of $1.421M under the Safe Restart grant based on two per capita amounts formulae: $8.13 for rural populations and $3.10 for all populations, and a flat funding amount.
And whereas, the Safe Restart program takes into account the unique structure of regional districts as a service provider, with differing per capita amounts, there is a significant disparity between the per capita allocation for Electoral Areas versus local municipalities with a similar population.
Therefore be it resolved that AVICC and UBCM advocate to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to provide additional Safe Restart Grant funding to Regional District Electoral Areas to equal the funding provided to local municipalities.
(NWA)