Provincial and Federal Grant Applications

• The CSRD is looked upon like one municipality, one entity, and therefore can, in most cases, only apply for a specific grant one time during any grant intake period.
• This means it must prioritize a specific grant for only one of the 7 Electoral Areas (Area F North Shuswap is one of seven)
• NSInc. Could apply on its own for any of the grants that are available.

Provincial and Federal Free Money

• There is other money that is annually provided to municipalities and Regional Districts, out of the goodness of the Prov or Fed governments heart.
• It is grant money, but you don’t have to apply for it. There is usually some calculation as to how much each municipality or RD receives.
• In the CSRD, these grants must be divvied up to all the Electoral Areas (1 of 7), and often the municipalities get a cut.

An Example

A recent grant – the Growing Communities Fund grant – was sent to each municipality and Regional District. Here are the amounts provided to local municipalities (rough numbers based on the calculations provided with the grant)

Municipality        Population            Grant$
Salmon Arm           19,342                    $6.3m
Revelstoke                8,275                    $2.7m
Sicamous                  2,613                    $1.5m
Golden                      3,986                    $1.9m
NS Inc.                      3,200                    $2.3m (if we were incorporated)

CSRD                      21,539                    $3.8m (what the CSRD actually got)
All areas split this (Area A thru G, plus municipalities)

So to start off with, Regional Districts get a proportionally smaller amount of the GCF grant based on population. Then, since these municipalities are ‘a part’ of the Regional District they get a portion of the RD grant. With those municipal portions removed there is just $2.8m left for the 7 Electoral Areas in the regional district. If this $2.8m were divided to each EA by population, the North Shuswap (Area F) would receive $431,000. HOWEVER if we were an incorporated municipality, NSInc. would receive roughly $2.3m.

NS Inc. #5 Tomorrow will discuss some negatives associated with being incorporated.