Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 25 No. 44 October 31, 2014
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Council boosts funds for festival
Roots and Blues: Taxpayers’ contribution to event will be $95,000 for 2015. By Martha Wickett
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The Salmon Arm Folk Music Society has had two wishes granted. City council decided Monday to provide an additional $50,000 to the Roots and Blues Festival in the city’s revised budget to help assist with an operating shortfall for the 2015 festival. Council also gave initial approvals necessary to allow the society to move its headquarters. At Monday’s council meeting, Coun. Alan Harrison explained why
he approved the financial contribution, which council OK’d unanimously. “From my seat, the reason we’ve supported it is because we value that festival, we want it to continue to happen. I think it’s good for the city and we want to do our part. “I think there will be benefits to the citizens of Salmon Arm,” he said, adding, “We don’t plan to offer $50,000 every year, but we will this year. I know members of the board are working very hard to make the festival sustainable and we’re onside.”
He said the money is available because the city has had a very good year for building revenue – about $50,000 more than was projected. The folk music society will be receiving $95,000 for the festival in the city’s 2015 budget: $45,000 as a specific referral that was approved earlier and the $50,000 approved Monday. It was noted that a study by Thompson Rivers University showed the festival generates $4.5 to $5 million for the community. The society also came to council to request support for a rezoning.
The change in zoning would allow the society to move its offices up the road from the log building on Fifth Avenue SW to a city-owned property with a single-family home at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Third Street SW. On Monday, Salmon Arm council voted unanimously to give first two readings to rezone the R-1 residential lot at 541 Third St. SW to P-3, institutional. Amendments to the P-3 zone included adding careSee Residential on page 2
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