Council Backs Bid for NDI Funding

Monday, January 19, 2009 08:10 PM

Prince George, B.C. – Initiatives Prince George is getting full support from Prince George City Council for an application to the Northern Development Initiatives Trust .

The application is for $20 thousand dollars to help pay for two projects.

The first project is a 4-8 page brochure on the airport industrial lands. The brochure would be distributed during two major international cargo and shipping events this year.

The second project is a detailed report on air policy . That would be a two part research project on bi-lateral air traffic rights and Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) research. This market research is necessary in order to address opportunities and challenges for manufacturing growth beyond trans-shipment activities that initial air cargo business will attract at the Prince George Airport.

The full cost of both projects in $85 thousand dollars, but the balance of the funding will come from the property owners, the Airport Authority and Initiatives Prince George.

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Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 08:10 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Harbinger on January 19 2009 9:25 PM

Lotsa dough for two projects. A brochure and a report. Can PG afford that? When I say PG I meant all taxpayers. Maybe city council is OK with this because they know there is gonna be a few bucks coming down the pipe from Ottawa shortly. I will wait.When I said taxpayers, I was thinking where does the Airport Authority and Initiative PG get their money? Not by donation, that's fer sure.

Posted by: He speaks on January 19 2009 9:48 PM

Harbinger, maybe we should all crawl into our little hole and come out when it is safe.

Think not of this downturn as the end of the world we knew. But a horizon for opportunity. We need to be the first one out of the block, and this could be our golden child.

Posted by: gus on January 19 2009 10:02 PM

Do companies like Boeing, Bombardier, Nike, etc. make a product and not market it? How would people ever know that you ahve somethng they might be interested in if you don't?

That is all this is, marketing a product and service which is in the infancy of its development.

Who should pay? Likely all those who are likely to benefit from the "sale" of the product and service.

Those listed as "private" sponsors in the application to NDI are Rempel, PGAA, CN and Prince Rupert (port?). "Non profits" are IPG and NDI. "Communities" is Prince George.

Design and printing of prospectus is listed as a $20,000 expense.

Telecommunication expenses and purchase of associated trade data is listed as $65,000.

Posted by: DPJ on January 19 2009 11:22 PM

Can Prince George afford this cost? Maby the question should be can Prince George not afford this expense. For the future of Prince George, this is an excellent investment. Better money investment than the Horizon Airlines investment (even tho I did support council trying their best attracting Horizon for the short time).

Posted by: Eagleone on January 20 2009 3:15 AM

I don't like studies and such, but these are two excellent expenditures IMO and well worth the cost for the potential long term benefits to the economy.

I just wish we had a heavy industrial park in an acceptable airshed that we could market for new industry, which is where our historical and known opportunities will come from. Time will tell I guess.

Posted by: metalman on January 20 2009 8:18 AM

I have to agree that the cost to taxpayers seems minimal, to market a resource to international shows.
metalman.

Posted by: gamblor on January 20 2009 10:07 AM

Can we pave the damn BCR first before we go building new industrial parks?