Chatham-Kent received $725,000 in one-time funding from the province recently.
On March 20, Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, announced a one-time investment for many of Ontario’s small and rural municipalities.
“With a tight budget from Ontario’s roughly $350 billion debt load, my office has been working hard to get fair and long overdue funds to local infrastructure” said Rick Nicholls, MPP for Chatham-Kent Leamington, in a media release.
A total of 405 small and rural municipalities will receive funding to improve service delivery. This will support some of Ontario’s small and rural municipalities that may have limited capacity to plan, modernize and improve the way they provide services to their communities.
Nicholls said Chatham-Kent’s investment is the highest available under the directive.
“Taxpayers need their local government to deliver modern, efficient services that show respect for their hard-earned dollars. This funding will help small and rural municipalities improve how they deliver services and reduce the ongoing costs of providing those services,” said Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, in a media release.
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is communicating to involved municipalities that the one time injection is aimed at creating budget room to search more aggressively for updated means of delivering key services.
