By Justin Dionne

City Council

City decides to help fund Mighty Peace Day and other council highlights

Apr 22, 2019 | 10:30 PM

Mighty Peace Day is getting some financial support from the City.

The decision to help support the event was made last night after members of the organization hosting Mighty Peace Day approached council for funding.

The city is putting $20,000 toward the event and Mayor Bill Given explains this wouldn’t be the first time the city has lent a helping hand to it.

“Council decided tonight to once again step in and support the Mighty Peace Day event,” says Given. “That’s something that we’ve done I think for every year that the event has been held in Grande Prairie. This year the organization experienced some significant turnover, that meant that they were not able to hit the regular deadlines they had in the past with their application.”

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Given explains he has no issue supporting the event, saying that it has a positive impact on the community and the youth who live in it.

“I have been on council in the past when we’ve supported the event, so I have a significant amount of confidence both in the value of the event, as well as the organization that is behind the event, so that gave me a heightened degree of confidence and enabled me to support it. I also think it’s something that our community would expect us to do, again, realizing the priority that we place on youth in Grande Prairie,” says Given.

Of the $20,000 in City funding, $18,000 is coming from Council’s Strategic Initiative Fund, and the remaining $2,000 was provided through a sponsorship fund by City Administration.

Mighty Peace Day, the local youth leadership summit is being held May 7 at Revolution Place.

Other Council Highlights:

Council voted in favour of transferring $1.4-million of its 2018 Operating Surpluses to the Financial Stabilization reserve, with $500,000 of that money being put into the Future Expenditure Reserve to support Affordable Housing.

Council authorized the destruction of some municipal records. The records were destroyed after archivists were able to go through them. The records were physically destroyed but still exist digitally.

Council voted in favour of closing an existing road plan that affected two lots close to 97 Avenue on 100 Street. The City can now look into other uses for the land.

Council approved last year’s Audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the city.

Council was introduced to a new proposed schedule for Council and Committee meetings. The changes would see city council meetings beginning at 3 p.m., recessing at 5 p.m., and resuming at 6 p.m. If the new schedule is approved at the next council meeting, a trial run of the changes would take place on May 14 and run until October 21.