Funding Programs


City of Vernon Grant Applications 2011


Revised: 23/12/2011

Community Recreation Program Requested: $80,000
     
EOC Training course
JEPP
Requested:
APPROVED
$2,675
$2,675
     
Kal Lake Multi-purpose Trail
Gas Tax Fund
Requested:
Formally Denied
 $1,500,000
     
43rd Ave Road Diet
Gas Tax Fund
Requested:
Formally Denied
$868,000
     
Larvicide Planning & Control
West Nile Virus Risk Reduction
Requested:
APPROVED
$28,311
$28,311
     
Asset Management Policy
Infrastructure Planning Program
Requested:
In Review
$10,000
     
30th Ave (27th St. to 29th St.)
BC Hydro
Requested:
APPROVED
$201,647
$201,647
     
Flood Protection Program
Building Canada
Vernon Creek
Requested:
In Review
$910,768
     
Public Market Feasibility Study
Community Futures
Requested:
APPROVED
$15,000
$15,000
     
Labour Market Partnerships
Service Canada
Requested:
APPROVED
$30,000
$14,642
     
2011 Visitor Guide
COV & Thompson Okanagan Tourism Assn.
Requested:
APPROVED
$10,000
$10,000
     
CIPP (Cycling Infrastructure)
Ministry of Transportation
Requested:
APPROVED

$50,000
$26,962

     
Road Improvement Program
ICBC
Requested:
APPROVED
Ongoing
$95,600
     
Celebrate Canada Day
Canadian Heritage
Requested:
APPROVED
$5,000
$4,500

 

2010 - 11 Recurring Grants

 
Budget
Actual
     
Federal
Community Works Fund (Gas Tax) 
(Received semi-annually – June & December)

$1,030,680
$508,915
Provincial Traffic Fine Revenue Sharing
(Received annually in April, for previous calendar year)N.B.:  The City will receive additional amounts of Traffic Fine Revenues for the next 18 months under a restructuring of payments known as “Strategic Community Investment Funds”. The amounts are, in fact, “future” grants that are paid early to help stimulate the local economy of communities in BC during the economic downturn.  This does not represent additional funding, but just a restructuring of the timing of payments. These amounts are not yet determined.

$ 215,865
$ 215,865
Gaming Grant - Casino
(Casino - received quarterly)

 

$2,400,000
$2,090,617
Carbon Tax Rebate
(Received annually in the Spring of the following year)

 

$17,000
$24,811
Transit Subsidies
(Received from BC Transit, to offset City's monthly contract costs)

 

$1,509,717
$1,452,195

Tourism BC Grants

$25,000
$25,000
Tourism – Hotel Tax
$418,000
$286,994

Revised: 8/8/2011