ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government revealed one of its big spends from the upcoming provincial budget.
Premier Dwight Ball announced that the province will shell out $50.5 million for 31 provincial-municipal cost-shared projects in 29 communities under the 2017-2020 Municipal Infrastructure Program.
Of this amount, $33.3 million is being provided to multi-year communities for their priority projects.
Ball also announced $48.3 million from Budget 2019 will be used to leverage an additional $30.7 million from the federal infrastructure programs. Project applications are going through the approval process for the Investing in Canada Plan and projects are anticipated to be announced in the near future.
The big ticket item, coming in at over $1.5 million, is a water sewer program for Kavanagh’s Road in Clarke’s Beach. The lowest cost project is a $17,250 water supply tank assessment by the town of Twillingate.
Municipal Capital Works Cost-shared Projects for 2019-20
(Community — Project — $$$ Value)
- Arnold's Cove — Water and Sewer Upgrading Merasheen Crescent - Phase 1 — $1,120,000
- Bay Bulls — St. John's Road Storm and Road Upgrading — $1,431,103
- Bonavista — Removal of Old Water Tower — $765,882
- Botwood — Site Development New Town Hall & Fire Hall — $633,767
- Chance Cove — Upgrades to Community Center/Fire Hall/Town Hall — $251,714
- Clarke's Beach — 2019 Water Sewer Program on Kavanaghs Road — $1,503,135
- Comfort Cove-Newstead — Parking lot paving Town Hall — $48,415
- Fogo Island — Town Office — $1,816,683
- Fogo Island — Fogo Water Study — $59,800
- Gallants — Remove old dam structure from Reservoir — $33,000
- George's Brook-Milton — Extension to Fire Hall — $326,048
- Grand Bank — New Town Hall Feasibility Study — $57,500
- Harbour Breton — New Arena Chiller and Condenser — $450,000
- Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview — 2019A New Armor Stone Breakwater (54.0 Long) Marina Upgrading Ph1 Part B — $375,994
- Howley — Community Centre Electrical Upgrades — $40,000
- Hughes Brook — Water supply study — $20,000
- Lodge Bay — Community Wells — $300,000
- Makkovik — Condition Assessment of Sewer System — $191,460
- Makkovik — Water System Modelling and Study — $43,292
- Meadows — Outdoor rink Phase II — $108,499
- Musgrave Harbour — New Fire Hall — $1,433,747
- North River — Madengail Lane — $155,654
- North West River — Sewer System Study — $40,001
- Point Au Gaul — Town of Point au Gaul Breakwater Phase 2 — $250,000
- Port Albert — Water Supply ATV Access Road — $35,000
- South Brook (Hall's Bay) — Fire Hall Modifications — $90,000
- Stephenville — Fire Hall & Emergency Response Building — $600,000
- Triton — Renovations to Town Municipal Building — $175,000
- Twillingate — Water Supply Tank Assessment — $17,250
- Winterton — Construction of Fire Garage — $1,090,351
- York Harbour — Backup Power Supply Town Hall — $78,028
