By Curtis Galbraith

City Hall

Other highlights from the April 4 meeting of Grande Prairie City Council

Apr 5, 2022 | 7:00 AM

– Council has approved having Mayor Jackie Clayton sending a letter to the province in support of the Wapiti House shelter and Saint Lawrence Centre. Project lead with the Wapiti Community Support Association Jared Gossen says the group is looking for $478,000, money that would be used in three main areas. These include cooking and meals, raising the wage for starting staff from $18.50 an hour to $19.75, and to continue to provide 24/7 shelter service to those both with and without addictions issues. Both services are provided now but the support for those with addictions is not funded by the province.

– Council has also endorsed having the mayor write a letter of support for a carbon capture and sequestration project in the Greenview Industrial Gateway located south of Grande Prairie to the province. The request for this came in a letter from the MD of Greenview. the letter says such a facility would recognize the GIG as “a world-leading, net-zero, eco-industrial development.”

– Council has also asked administration to look at better ways of notifying property owners of Land Use Bylaw changes proposed for their areas. A delegation told council that by the time a proposal for a home-based business next door was delivered to them by mail, part of the two-week time given to respond had already passed. The proposal for the business did not go through.

– The city has reached an agreement with the company that owns Eastlink to continue a naming rights deal at the Eastlink Centre for another 10 years. Financial terms were not disclosed.