YORKTON - The City of Yorkton will be applying to receive $31,200 through the federal/provincial Public Transit and Housing Support Grant.
The federally announced program “provides Saskatchewan with one-time funding of $11,674,000 to support municipalities, regional transit agencies, transit capital and/or operating shortfalls or to address barriers to increasing housing supply and density. Each eligible municipality will receive an amount proportional to the average ridership of public transit service trips recorded from 2015-2021 as submitted to the Ministry of Government Relations,” explained Lisa Washington – Manager of Culture, Community & Heritage with the city at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.
“Based on the ridership numbers submitted to Government Relations, our municipality’s share of the federal funding under the program is $15,610.00. With the matching provincial portion, we are eligible for a maximum amount of $31,200.00. Our municipality must commit funding towards transit capital or operating shortfalls, or housing,” she further explained.
It was the recommendation of city administration – which was unanimously supported by Council – that the application be used as a financial contribution to the public transit operation shortfalls from 2019 to 2021.
