Councillors pitch in on Habitat site
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Eight city councillors are contributing a combined $105,000 in civic grants to help finance a Habitat for Humanity housing project in St. James.
Habitat is constructing 16 homes on the site of the former St. James police station — on Lyle Street, opposite Bruce Park — on land it purchased from the city a year ago.
“It’s not often you get councillors from different wards contributing to a project in another ward,” said Michelle Pereira, Habitat Manitoba’s vice-president of marketing and communications. “We feel it’s a very admirable effort.”
The Habitat project is in Coun. Scott Gillingham’s St. James ward. Gillingham said that councillors Russ Wyatt (Transcona) and Brian Mayes (St. Vital) co-ordinated the financial effort, which will see the councillors direct a share of their ward’s community incentive grants to the project.
“It’s great to have several councillors co-operating to support this major Habitat project,” Gillingham said.
Pereira said the Lyle Street project is part of Habitat’s Carter Work project this summer, which will see former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn participate in the construction blitz from July 13 to 14.
Mayes said the individual community grants require approval by council.
Contributing to the project are:
• Transcona (Russ Wyatt), $20,000
• St. James-Brooklands-Weston (Scott Gillingham), $15,000
• Charleswood-Tuxedo-Whyte Ridge (Marty Morantz), $15,000
• St. Charles (Shawn Dobson), $15,000
• North Kildonan (Jeff Browaty), $15,000
• Elmwood-East Kildonan (Jason Schreyer), $10,000
• St. Vital (Brian Mayes), $10,000
• South Winnipeg-St. Norbert (Janice Lukes), $5,000
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