Other highlights from Monday’s Grande Prairie city council meeting
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Other highlights from Monday’s meeting of Grande Prairie city council include:
– Council has voted in favour of making the old courthouse downtown a Municipal Historic Resource. The building on the northwest corner of 99 Street and 101 Avenue is now the home of the Centre for Creative Arts (pictured). The designation means the city can get grants to maintain the outside of the building but there would be a cost for any renovations that might be done inside. The city says it will now come up with a way to manage the building.
– Council has approved putting more money into work to install traffic lights and to do road improvements at 132 Avenue and 97 Street. It comes to just almost $688,685. Those improvements would include adding turning lanes. City administration says the project should go to tender this month with work starting right away.
-Council approved up to $54,768 in funding for the new Children’s Memorial Garden. Organizers behind the project had said this would allow work to start right away. This would help pay for pathways and garbage cans. Organizers are waiting to hear if they will get some grants from other level governments and will know that by July. The money from the city comes with the understanding that city hall would be paid back if that grant money will cover the same expenses. The Children’s Memorial Garden would be established near Maskwoteh Park. Organizers hope to have it built this fall. They say they have about $233,000 out of the $402,000 needed to finish the project in place.
