WHEREAS electoral areas within regional districts have access to Federal Gas Tax funding based on a limited set of eligible project criteria that are more applicable to municipalities and not to electoral areas who may not have the same types or levels of infrastructure systems i.e. no public transit, community energy systems, water or wastewater systems, etc.; AND WHEREAS not only start-up but ongoing costs of operating environmental sustainable infrastructure projects such as solid waste transfer stations and or curbside pickup services may be more applicable as an electoral area priority given their limited number of eligible projects: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the provincial government be requested to lobby the federal government to amend the Federal Gas Tax Agreement by adding more flexible project criteria aligned to electoral area priorities such as covering project operating costs thereby increasing the ability of electoral areas to access and utilize said funding.
