Municipal Infrastructure

The following links provide information about funding programs that assist in maintaining the financial viability, continuity and stability of local governments.

Please note that the Province of British Columbia is not responsible for the material and/or content presented on any non-provincial government site listed below.

Funding Programs

Building Canada
Canada and British Columbia have signed the Canada-British Columbia Building Canada Fund—Communities Component Agreement, part of the $2.2 billion Building Canada Framework Agreement of 2007—designed to support local government infrastructure projects in communities with a population of less than 100,000 people.
http://www.bcbuildingcanadafundcommunities.ca

CivicSpatial Program
The CivicSpatial Grant Program is a 3-year grant initiative to help local governments improve the quality of their cadastral base and assist in the maintenance and sharing of this data. CivicSpatial is a grant program designed to assist local government ICIS members improve their cadastral fabric.
http://www.icisociety.ca/index.htm

Columbia Basin Trust Community Development Program
The Community Development Program responds to project proposals or ideas from Basin communities, groups and organizations that build capacity within the Basin in ways that are consistent with the Columbia Basin Trust’s mandate.
http://www.cbt.org

Community Development Trust
Launched in 2008, this initiative includes three programs: the Transitional Assistance Program supports older workers as they move towards retirement; the Tuition Assistance Program helps forestry workers upgrade skills; the Job Opportunities Program creates short-term job opportunities for forestry, fishing, agriculture, mining or manufacturing resource workers.
http://www.cd.gov.bc.ca/cdt

Community Planning Grants – Aboriginal Communities
Supports community planning for activities that will increase active transportation through improvements in the built environment.
http://www.physicalactivitystrategy.ca/index.php/beat/community-planning-grants/

Cycling Infrastructure Partnerships Program
The BIKE BC Cycling Infrastructure Partnership Program (CIPP) encourages transportation cycling by accelerating the development of cycling infrastructure throughout British Columbia. Cycling for transportation purposes (work, school and errands) reduces the number of trips made by motor vehicles and contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, thereby improving the quality of life for British Columbians.
http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/BikeBC/CIPP.html

Green Municipal Fund Feasibility Studies and Field Tests 2008
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) offers Green Municipal Fund (GMF) grants to cover half the eligible costs of feasibility studies and field tests that seek to demonstrate the potential of a project to improve the environmental effectiveness of municipal operations related to brownfields, energy, transportation, waste or water.
http://www.sustainablecommunities.fcm.ca/GMF/Funding-Studies.asp

Island Coastal Economic Trust
The Island Coastal Economic Trust provides funding to create new and sustainable regional economic growth through strategic investments in targeted “sectors” with the north Island, coastal and Sunshine Coast regional economy.
http://www.islandcoastaltrust.ca/index.php

LocalMotion
This $40-million program has provided local governments with funding assistance for capital projects that make communities greener, healthier and more active and accessible places in which to live.
http://www.localmotion.gov.bc.ca

Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund
The Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund Society is a grant-making agency that assists the people of North West British Columbia, and in particular the Nechako region and Kitamaat Village, by sponsoring sustainable economic and social projects in the area most affected by the Kemano project and the creation of the Nechako Reservoir. The NKDF will invest in community economic development projects and/or programs that are supported by the community, as long as they do not subsidize private business.
http://www.nkdf.org/

Northern Development Initiative Trust - Community Foundation Funding Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Community Foundation Funding Program assists all municipalities and regional district electoral areas in the Northern Development Initiative Trust region of central and northern British Columbia in building an endowment fund that supports local social, cultural and environmental needs via local decision-making.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...

Northern Development Initiative Trust - Economic Development Capacity Building
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Economic Development Capacity Building Program funding provides $30,000 annually from the Cross Regional Account to ensure stable economic development funding for municipalities and regional districts. An additional $5,000 is available to each eligible local government, specifically for a collaborative project with another local government, regional economic development alliance, or another group, with outcomes that deliver measureable economic benefits to the area.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...

Northern Development Initiative Trust - Economic Diversification Infrastructure Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Economic Diversification Infrastructure program provides municipalities, regional districts, First Nations and non-profit groups funding via Northern Development’s six (6) principal Trust Accounts: the Regional Development Accounts (Cariboo-Chilcotin/Lillooet, Northeast, Northwest, and Prince George), the Pine Beetle Recovery Account, and the Cross Regional Account. As Northern Development’s primary community economic development funding program, projects that serve to diversify local and regional economies are eligible for infrastructure and capital investment funding.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...

Northern Development Initiative Trust - Feasibility Studies or Marketing Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Feasibility Studies or Marketing Program provides municipalities, regional districts, First Nations and non-profit groups such as industry associations with a grant up to a $20,000 for: a feasibility study that will demonstrate a strong business case for an infrastructure project that is aligned with Northern Development’s Economic Diversification Infrastructure funding program that will diversify and provide direct measurable economic benefits to the local or regional economy, or; development and implementation of a marketing program that will increase revenues within the region.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...

Northern Development Initiative Trust - Grant Writing Support Program
Ensures that communities and First Nations within the Northern Development region will be able to hire a grant writer to access program and dollars from any funding course to provide needed investments in community infrastructure and services.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding/grant...

Northern Development Initiative Trust - Industry Attraction Rebate Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Industry Attraction Rebate Program provides up to $20,000 in matched funding from the Cross Regional Account directly to communities in central and northern British Columbia to hire appropriate resources to create jobs through industry attraction. As an output from this work, communities will: understand the needs of the target industry; how they can meet those needs; and implement focused marketing and discussions with senior executives at target companies.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding/industry-attraction

Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust
A $50-million Southern Interior Development Initiative will give communities the funding and ability to create new opportunities for sustainable economic growth and more jobs. The mission of the Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust is to support regionally strategic investments in economic development projects that will have long-lasting and measurable regional benefits for the Southern Interior.
http://www.sidit-bc.ca/

Technology Early Action Measures (TEAM) Program
Interdepartmental technology investment funding, established under the Federal Government's Climate Action Change Plan is available to industry, community, and international partners for projects that are designed to develop technologies that mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationally and internationally, and that sustain economic and social development.
http://www.team.gc.ca/english/

Towns for Tomorrow
Is a $71-million program that assists communities with populations under 15,000 to enhance their infrastructure and create legacies for the future.
http://www.townsfortomorrow.gov.bc.ca

Urban Development Agreements
An Urban Development Agreement is a partnership between federal, provincial and municipal governments to collaborate when addressing broad urban development issues for specific cities. Whether it is inner city revitalization, strengthened innovation, or sustainable economic development, each urban development agreement is tailored to address the needs of the city it involves.
http://www.wd.gc.ca/eng/298.asp