Aboriginal group questions mayor over funding process
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WINNIPEG — Officials at the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre are accusing Mayor Sam Katz of reneging on a funding promise he made to them last summer.
According to MICEC board member and Southern Grand Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo, an application for a funding request did not reach the floor of city council or the Executive Policy Committee table thanks to a stop sign he believes was put up by the mayor’s office.
Swan Shannacappo said his concern has nothing to do with the original $200,000 request, but comes from a worry over a lack of transparency at city hall.
He wonders why a project like the $11.7-million Youth For Christ centre at the corner of Main Street and Higgins Avenue pops up and moves through without a hiccup last month while a smaller one that goes through the proper channels gets stone-walled before reaching council.
Katz denied the allegations, saying he never made a verbal commitment of any sort to the MICEC group.
Located at the corner of Sutherland Avenue and Euclid Avenue, the MICEC is a not-for-profit educational hub for aboriginal youth and a fixture of the Point Douglas community.
The MICEC is just putting the finishing touches on a year-long, $2-million renovation.
The centre is expected to re-open next month.