The province is handing out just over a billion dollars in federal and provincial funding from the COVID-19 Resilience infrastructure stream.
Chatham-Kent’s share comes to just over $1.26 million to help build or renovate health and safety related projects
“This funding will greatly benefit Chatham-Kent during a challenging time for budgetary planning,” Nicholls says. “With over $1.2 million in funding, I look forward to seeing all the ways it will be used to support key infrastructure priorities across my riding.”
Eligible projects under the COVID-19 Resilience stream will fall under four main categories:
- Community, recreation, health and education renovations (e.g. retrofits, repairs or upgrades to long-term care homes, publicly funded schools and co-located childcare centre facilities, recreation centres or shelters);
- COVID-19 response infrastructure (e.g. heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, new builds or renovations to enable physical distancing);
- Active transportation (e.g. parks, trails); and
- Disaster mitigation, adaptation, or remediation (e.g. flood mitigation)
“COVID-19 has presented a number of challenges for municipalities across Ontario,” Mayor Darrin Canniff says. “We have invested in a number of ways to help us continue to deliver services to residents and this support from the province will certainly aid us in continuing to meet the needs of our community.”
Eligible projects must begin by September 30, 2021 and be completed by December 31, 2021. Additional details about the COVID-19 Resilience stream and intake opening dates will be available in the days and weeks ahead.
