Two Grants Handed Out

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 02:48 PM

Prince George, B.C. - The City of Prince George and the Regional District of Fraser Fort George will each get a $10,000 grant from the province under the Infrastructure Planning Grant Program.

In Prince George, the money will go towards supporting the Integrated Air Quality, Energy and Greenhouse Gas Management Strategy.

The City of Prince George is currently developing an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan that includes land use planning, economic development, social development and environmental stewardship. As part of the environmental stewardship program, the City wishes to prepare an

integrated air quality, energy and greenhouse gas plan. Individual plans currently exist, but the City recognizes the importance of a collaborative approach to these issues and how they impact planning and operations city-wide.

For the Regional District, the $10,000 will be used for a Beaverly Community Hall Feasibility Study.

The Beaverly Community Association appointed a steering committee to work with the FFGRD staff regarding building a hall in the Beaverly area. Public support needs to be gauged for the proposed hall in order for a decision to be made on proceeding to a referendum in November 2008 that would allow taxpayers to vote on funding a community hall.

To date, highly positive feedback has been received, but in order to provide taxpayers with the best design and cost estimates, the services of an engineer or architect are necessary in order to develop preliminary working designs and an accurate cost estimate. This is especially important as it is the desire of the committee to make the building as environmentally friendly as possible and to strive to meet the requirements of the LEED rating system.

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Posted by: tinyapplecork on June 18 2008 4:35 PM

Both worthy projects! Money well spent imo.

Posted by: Harbinger on June 18 2008 4:38 PM

Anything physically tangible for the dollar or just another well done double spaced paper report with a beautiful cover page that will be filed in someones bottom desk drawer for the rest of the millennium? Nice work if you can get it, I guess.

Posted by: sportsman on June 18 2008 5:41 PM

Studies? good grief, just get on with it. Wasting our money on educated people filling their pockets studying. They should have done that when they were in school. isnt it time we get down to doing something instead of contemplating doing it?

Posted by: tinyapplecork on June 18 2008 8:37 PM

This will allow them to do that sportsman. A streamlined approach to compile existing data into a new report that also includes new info. They will have one place to go instead of chasing down a series...it will save money and time. This is not like the other studies in the past. THIS IS A PLAN not a study!!!

"The City of Prince George is currently developing an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan that includes land use planning, economic development, social development and environmental stewardship. As part of the environmental stewardship program, the City wishes to prepare an integrated air quality, energy and greenhouse gas plan. Individual plans currently exist, but the City recognizes the importance of a collaborative approach to these issues and how they impact planning and operations city-wide."

Posted by: owl on June 18 2008 10:31 PM

"the City wishes to prepare an integrated air quality, energy and greenhouse gas plan"

The question I have why in these days of integrated management systems (going for at least 15 years under that name) the City is not automatically working in that fashion.

Further to that, would we not have made this move into the latter part of the 20th century planning process had we not gotten this money.

These kinds of things are no longer surprising to me ... they are very sad!!!!

Maybe next we will integrate pothole fixing with road paving with snow removal with curb fixing, with moving utility poles off the middle of sidewalks, with aquiring appropriate equipment, training staff, etc. etc ...

or are we waiting for funds for that as well???

Posted by: Bridge on June 19 2008 10:12 AM

or are we waiting for funds for that as well???

Its called the waiting game. In the mean time we are feeding the pencil pushers at City hall.

Cheers