Creston town council has recommended the distribution of its Community Initiatives Program funds after deliberations at the April 16 committee of the whole meeting.
Forty community groups will share $75,298 from Columbia Basin Trust, pending final approval by the Regional District of Central Kootenay board, which is responsible for the distribution of funds.
Representatives from 15 of the 48 applicants were each given two minutes to verbally address their requests, which were made in writing previously.
To allocate the funds, Mayor Ron Toyota and the five councilors in attendance (Coun. Wesly Graham was absent) each called out their recommendation on each group’s application, with those numbers being entered on a spreadsheet that was projected onto a screen. The spreadsheet calculated the average of the recommendations and kept a running total of the figures.
When the applicants’ list had been gone through, three councilors had voted to allocate more than the funds available and were directed to reduce their recommendations to the available amount.
The final list of funds recommended follows:
1746 Royal Canadian Army Cadets, $3,960; 904 Kootenay Squadron Creston Air Cadets, $870; Addiction Recovery Centre of the Kootenays, $1,750; Canadian Red Cross Society, $870; Central Kootenay Spay Neuter Animal Program Society, $2,370; College of the Rockies, $1,600; Creston and District Historical and Museum Society, $1,200; Creston and District Public Library, $2,000, Creston and District Community Resource Centre Society, $2,700; Creston and District Society for Community Living, $3,150; Creston Community 4-H Club, $810; Creston Community Auditorium Society, $810; Creston Firefighters Society, $5,000; Creston Judo Club (2013 Canadian Judo Nationals), $900; Creston Judo Club (wood lining for interior judo club walls), nil; Creston Pet Adoption and Welfare Society (PAWS), $3,300; Creston Valley Blossom Festival Association (festival), $4,698; Creston Valley Blossom Festival Association (youth activities), $2,550; Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce (community meeting), $400; Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce (shop local campaign), $770; Creston Valley Fall Fair Association, $5,650; Creston Valley Figure Skating Club (annual ice show), $1,050: Creston Valley Figure Skating Club (marketing project), $570; Creston Valley Food Action Coalition (farmers’ market), $1,200; Creston Valley Food Action Coalition (Harvest Share), $1,925; Creston Valley Friends of the Community Greenhouse Society, $3,400; Creston Valley Horse Association, $400; Creston Valley Minor Hockey Association, $700; Creston Valley Music Teachers’ Association, $1,000; Creston Valley Regional Airport Society, $1,750; Creston Valley Search and Rescue Society, $2,025; Creston Valley Seniors Association, $2,700; Creston Valley Tennis Club, $1,700; Creston Valley Thunder Cats Junior B hockey, $700; Creston Valley Youth Soccer Association, $1,000; East Kootenay Brain Injury Association, $1,050; Friends of the lngham Arts and Culture Centre Society, $1,900; Goat Style Mountain Bike Society, $1,850; Health Arts Society, $670; Horse Association of Central Kootenay, nil; Kootenay Storytelling Festival Society, nil; Kootenay Writers Society, nil; Prince Charles Secondary School (photography club), nil; Prince Charles Secondary School (kitchen and salad bar), nil; Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 29, $2,000; SQx Danza (Blue Lake professional interactive dance field trips), nil; SQx Danza (lnteractive dance awareness activities), nil; Wildsight, $2,350.