PROVINCE HELPS HUNTSVILLE WITH $700,000 IN COVID COSTS

HUNTSVILLE — Coping with increased costs and losses of COVID-19 is being met by the province with some off-setting funds here worth almost $700,000 to the town.

The Ontario government announced Huntsville will receive $661, 600 priority pressures and a further $33,890 for transit.

It’s part of $4 billion in emergency assistance under the Safe Restart Agreement for 444 municipalities.

Julia Mckenzie, the town’s director of finance services, says: the town “reacted quickly to mitigate the impacts of the significant losses in revenues as programs were unable to run.”

She said it will help “fund the financial burden now and in the upcoming year as we safely reopen facilities and resume programs.”