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In the 2017 budget, the amount set aside for community grants was $249,000. That number was much less than the $353,000 the city had given out the previous year.
In a post-budget interview, Deputy Mayor Bernd Staeben said some groups might be disappointed to get less in 2017.
More than a month after the initial request was made, the city provided a breakdown of both years. More than half of the $104,000 difference is explained easily enough, with $65,000 set aside for the Corner Brook Downtown Business Association being shifted to another accounting line and removed from the community grants category.
Another $25,000 is accounted for when the one-time grant of $25,000 given to Special Olympics in 2016 is removed.
Two entities that are now defunct got money in 2016, with $5,000 having gone to Stage West Theatre Festival and $1,000 to the Victorian Order of Nurses.
The 2017 budget has also allocated $2,500 less for special events in a pot of money made available to various events throughout the year. The city had made $7,500 available for that purpose in 2016.
The biggest reduction to an entity in 2017 is for the Corner Brook Museum and Archives, which was given two grants — an operating grant and a shared position grant — totaling $52,000 in 2016. This year, those two grants amount to $38,000 in light of $14,000 less for an operating grant.
New this year, the Blow-Me-Down Cross-Country Ski Club will receive a grant of $3,500 and the March Hare literary festival is getting $500.
2016
Community grants
Corner Brook Downtown Business Association: $65,000
Corner Brook Stream Development Corporation: $100,000
West Rock Community Centre: $10,000
Corner Brook Museum (operating grant): $29,000
Corner Brook Museum (shared position): $23,000
Rotary Music Festival: $1,000
Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps Curling: $1,000
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador: $5,000
Victorian Order of Nurses: $1,000
Corner Brook Winter Carnival: $10,000
YMCA of Western Newfoundland: $35,000
Greater Corner Brook Board of Trade tourist information centre: $22,000
Stage West Theatre Festival: $5,000
Special events: $7,500
Special Olympics: $25,000
College of the North Atlantic scholarship: $1,000
Memorial University of Newfoundland scholarship: $1,000
Corner Brook Regional High School scholarship: $1,000
Western Memorial Hospital Foundation: $1,000
Wintertide Music Festival: $1,000
Craig Hiscock Memorial Award: $500
Gros Morne Summer Music: $5,000
Corner Brook Running Club: $1,000
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries: $2,000
Total: $353,000
2017
Community grants
Corner Brook Stream Development Corporation: $105,000
Vine Place Community Centre: $10,000
Corner Brook Museum (operating grant): $15,000
Corner Brook Museum (shared position): $23,000
Rotary Music Festival: $1,000
Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps Curling: $1,000
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador: $5,000
Corner Brook Winter Carnival: $10,000
YMCA of Western Newfoundland: $35,000
Greater Corner Brook Board of Trade tourist information centre: $22,000
Special events: $5,000
College of the North Atlantic scholarship: $1,000
Memorial University of Newfoundland scholarship: $1,000
Corner Brook Regional High School scholarship: $1,000
Western Memorial Hospital Foundation: $1,000
Wintertide Music Festival: $1,000
Craig Hiscock Memorial Award: $500
Gros Morne Summer Music: $5,000
Corner Brook Running Club: $1,000
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries: $2,000
Blow-Me-Down Cross-Country Ski Club: $3,500
The March Hare: $500
Total: $249,500
In the 2017 budget, the amount set aside for community grants was $249,000. That number was much less than the $353,000 the city had given out the previous year.
In a post-budget interview, Deputy Mayor Bernd Staeben said some groups might be disappointed to get less in 2017.
More than a month after the initial request was made, the city provided a breakdown of both years. More than half of the $104,000 difference is explained easily enough, with $65,000 set aside for the Corner Brook Downtown Business Association being shifted to another accounting line and removed from the community grants category.
Another $25,000 is accounted for when the one-time grant of $25,000 given to Special Olympics in 2016 is removed.
Two entities that are now defunct got money in 2016, with $5,000 having gone to Stage West Theatre Festival and $1,000 to the Victorian Order of Nurses.
The 2017 budget has also allocated $2,500 less for special events in a pot of money made available to various events throughout the year. The city had made $7,500 available for that purpose in 2016.
The biggest reduction to an entity in 2017 is for the Corner Brook Museum and Archives, which was given two grants — an operating grant and a shared position grant — totaling $52,000 in 2016. This year, those two grants amount to $38,000 in light of $14,000 less for an operating grant.
New this year, the Blow-Me-Down Cross-Country Ski Club will receive a grant of $3,500 and the March Hare literary festival is getting $500.
2016
Community grants
Corner Brook Downtown Business Association: $65,000
Corner Brook Stream Development Corporation: $100,000
West Rock Community Centre: $10,000
Corner Brook Museum (operating grant): $29,000
Corner Brook Museum (shared position): $23,000
Rotary Music Festival: $1,000
Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps Curling: $1,000
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador: $5,000
Victorian Order of Nurses: $1,000
Corner Brook Winter Carnival: $10,000
YMCA of Western Newfoundland: $35,000
Greater Corner Brook Board of Trade tourist information centre: $22,000
Stage West Theatre Festival: $5,000
Special events: $7,500
Special Olympics: $25,000
College of the North Atlantic scholarship: $1,000
Memorial University of Newfoundland scholarship: $1,000
Corner Brook Regional High School scholarship: $1,000
Western Memorial Hospital Foundation: $1,000
Wintertide Music Festival: $1,000
Craig Hiscock Memorial Award: $500
Gros Morne Summer Music: $5,000
Corner Brook Running Club: $1,000
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries: $2,000
Total: $353,000
2017
Community grants
Corner Brook Stream Development Corporation: $105,000
Vine Place Community Centre: $10,000
Corner Brook Museum (operating grant): $15,000
Corner Brook Museum (shared position): $23,000
Rotary Music Festival: $1,000
Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps Curling: $1,000
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador: $5,000
Corner Brook Winter Carnival: $10,000
YMCA of Western Newfoundland: $35,000
Greater Corner Brook Board of Trade tourist information centre: $22,000
Special events: $5,000
College of the North Atlantic scholarship: $1,000
Memorial University of Newfoundland scholarship: $1,000
Corner Brook Regional High School scholarship: $1,000
Western Memorial Hospital Foundation: $1,000
Wintertide Music Festival: $1,000
Craig Hiscock Memorial Award: $500
Gros Morne Summer Music: $5,000
Corner Brook Running Club: $1,000
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries: $2,000
Blow-Me-Down Cross-Country Ski Club: $3,500
The March Hare: $500
Total: $249,500
