City GetsNearly $1.3 Million from Fines
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Prince George North MLA and Minister of Agriculture, Pat Bell, presents cheque for $1,287,487.00 to Prince George Mayor Colin Kinsley. ( photo opinion250staff)
Prince George North MLA Pat Bell presented the City with its share of the traffic fine revenue for 2006. The cheque for $1, 287,487.00 represents a 12% increase in traffic fine revenue.
The dollars are a share of the total money collected by the Province through traffic fines, the dollars then proportioned out in relation to population.
The money can be spent on anything to do with policing and public safety.
In the case of Prince George, most of the dollars had already been anticipated at budget time and will be used for policing costs. The actual cheque is about $140 thousand more than expected, but there are no immediate plans for the spending of those dollars.
The money could be used for any of a variety of programs from Community Policing to expenses related to the design of the new Police station.
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Posted by: jonnypg on May 22 2007 5:41 PM