Friday 10 April 2015

Did CNP Forget to Apply for $1,930,108 MSI Grant?

UPDATE (June 10) : The 2014 Accepted Projects numbers are out. We have received less than the allocation for 2014, so it looks like we really did lose $1,930,108 in 2013. I guess the old Council was too busy with their grand schemes to bother about applying, and the new Council was too busy penny-pinching to notice. This should be a major scandal, but they have kept it hushed up long enough that it is now ancient history.

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As mentioned in MSI Grant for Hospital Demolition, the the list of approved projects shows no capital grants for CNP in 2013 (we should be under "Specialized Municipality", page 4).

About 20% of CNP's budget comes from Alberta MSI Grants. Municipalities get a maximum allocation based on a formula. These can be used for "municipal roads, bridges, public transit vehicles/facilities, emergency services facilities/equipment, water and wastewater systems, solid waste management facilities/equipment, regional and community airport facilities/equipment, and other municipal buildings such as recreation and sports facilities, libraries, public works buildings, and cultural and community centres". We have $millions of eligible projects.
From the MSI Website :

Year Allocation Grant
2012 $1,967,048 $1,817,063
2013 $1,930,108 $0
2014 $2,758,586 $2,520,500
2015 $1,677,585

(Note: As explained on the MSI website, three weeks before the 2015 budget the Province retroactively added about 20% to the 2014 grants, but the budget reduced 2015 grants by the same amount.)

(Note: The Allocation numbers include a small ($131,924 for 2014) Operating component. The Grant numbers are the Capital part only.)

I don't know whether we can still get the 2013 allocation, or if we have lost $1,930,108 . I think the 2014 grants figures will come out in a couple of months, unless they are delayed because of the budget fiddling.

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