One North Okanagan community was granted a $400,000 provincial grant, one was not.
The City of Enderby will use its $400,000 B.C. Towns for Tomorrow grant to continue its water meter project.
“If we didn’t get the grant this year, we would have had to put it off and put it off before we could even start using metering,” said Enderby Mayor Dee Wejr of the meter project that will be used for things like leak detection.
The city put some meters into residential and commercial properties last year.
The Township of Spallumcheen, meanwhile, had hoped to get a $400,000 grant from Towns for Tomorrow to complete the Salmon River Road reconstruction capital project.
Mayor Will Hansma said the township found out their grant was rejected when they saw the list of approved projects and their name wasn’t on it.
“We’re disappointed we didn’t get the funding,” said Hansma. “We inherited those roads from the province. Salmon River Road used to be a secondary highway. We were thinking if they were going to consider capital road projects for the grant that ours would be one to consider.”
Hansma said no capital road projects were on the approved list.
The township is going ahead with the reconstruction project, having put it out to tender already.
“We have options of maybe drawing from capital money we have set aside,” said Hansma.
