CALEB NICKERSON
SHAWVILLE
Aug. 26, 2019
On Aug. 26, Pontiac MNA André Fortin was in Shawville to present a cheque for $9,800 to the . . .
Villa James Shaw board of directors.
The funding comes out of Fortin’s discretionary envelope, and he said it was rare for him to give such a large chunk to a specific project.
“This is from my own MNA’s envelope, it’s about $80,000 per year, but we tend to not give $10,000 checks to anybody,” he said. “I think in the last five years we’ve done it once before, and I think it was the [Residence Meilleur].”
“You guys have such an energizing project for the community,” he continued. “It’s going to change the way seniors live out their days in the area.”
President Albert Armstrong said that members of the board would be meeting with their management group to look at the financing of the project.
The lion’s share of the bill will be taken care of by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Commisssion (CMHC), but Armstrong said that how much was left for the committee to make up was still unclear.
“We’re definitely certain that the minimum amount that the CMHC will be getting us financing for will be 90 per cent,” he said, noting that they were hoping for closer to 95 per cent. “We would like to see it more, but there is a possibility that that is where it’s going to be.”
He said that if all goes smoothly, they hope to break ground up on rue Centre next spring.
