Langford provided $22,000 in grants for eight organizations.
Council approved all of the historically funded requests – based on the finance committee’s recommendations – but rejected two of the three new requests, “due to budgetary constraints,” according to a City of Langford report.
The Royal Canadian Legion received $6,000 total. Half of the money was for the Remembrance Day luncheon and half for a Christmas Dinner 2022. There was also a $1,000 for Goldstream Nature House’s Chum sponsorship program, plus $3,000 for a Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria and Area mentoring program.
There was also $4500 in funding for Open Gate Church to help them provide fresh produce for low-income residents throughout the Westshore, and $5,000 for the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre which will be used to maintain the Sexual Assault clinic that supports Langford.
Capital Bike got half of the funding they requested for their Go By Bike program – receiving $1,500, while the Fed Urban Agriculture Society received $1,000 – a third of the $3,000 they had requested – to cover the cost of 75 SmartPot canvas planters with soil, starter plants and seeds for approximately 35 homes.
Council also voted in favour of the finance committee’s recommendations for new requests, rejecting the Healthy Schools, Healthy People Stewardship Committee’s application for $5,000 to expand community infrastructure and programming space, and declining Fateh Care’s – a Saanich family who deliver groceries to those in need – application for $20,000 in funding which would have gone towards the operation of a mobile food bank.
Peninsula Streams was the only new request that was approved. They received $5,000 to help develop, organize, and participate in environmental programs and projects.
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