The provincial government is distributing over $100-million to Manitoba municipalities on a per-capita basis as part of the federal Safe Restart Agreement.
That works out to the City of Dauphin receiving $501,050.11.
Dauphin city manager Sharla Griffiths tells CKDM the City is planning to record the funding as a surplus for 2020.
“We don’t know how long the [COVID situation] will last … and we don’t want to spend this money frivolously. We want to basically put it in the bank and wait and see for a day that we need it.”
The Safe Restart Agreement is a federal investment of more than $19 billion to help provinces and territories safely restart their economies and make our country more resilient to possible future surges in cases of COVID-19.
