Grande Prairie City Council has approved the 2027 to 2029 Family and Community Support Services funding framework.
With the approved framework, 10 per cent of the funding will go to homelessness and housing insecurity, 25 per cent to mental health and addiction, 10 per cent to employment, 40 per cent to family and sexual violence, and 15 per cent to aging well in the community.
Mayor Jackie Clayton says the percentages came from a mix of consultation and provincial prevention priorities.
“The framework was approved last week, really as well approving the five allocations through the priorities identified in the provincial prevention priorities.”
“Through our regular consultation with community groups and residents, we hear where the needs are. I think how it is allocated right now is a great start for making sure that the money is going where it needs to go to.”
Clayton added that the framework can be reviewed on a regular basis, if need be.
“I think that identifying the high priorities, and ones that maybe still have a need, but less a priority is a great way for us to address specific needs in our community.”
“Now that the province has rechanged the allocation from 80 per cent provincial money, 20 percent municipal money, we feel that we have a good partner in the province, in a sense that they have a strong stake in the game, and the reliant isn’t heavily on the community.”
Included in the motion, was a maximum annual funding cap of $135,000 per funded FCSS activity.
