Today, Langley City Council attended two meetings with provincial Ministers as part of the annual Union of BC Municipalities convention. You can read about our meeting earlier this week in a previous post.
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| Some members of Council meeting with Minister Bowinn Ma |
Our first meeting today was with Bowinn Ma, the Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness. We discussed our Langley City Emergency Program and the need to upgrade our facilities to deal with extreme weather events such as flooding and extreme heat. Minister Ma noted that they have a new intake for their Disaster Resilience and Innovation Funding, which could be used to upgrade our civic facilities to help reduce risk or increase our tree canopy to reduce heat risk. This funding program could fit well with Langley City's proposed Urban Forest Management Strategy.
Our final meeting was with Minister Lana Popham, the Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture & Sport. We talked about Langley City's proposed Performance Arts Centre. Langley City has invested $20 million over the last few decades to acquire land around City Hall/Timms Community Centre to support this centre. We heard from the Minister that while they currently do not have a funding program for cultural space, they may be considering a funding program in the future. We asked them to please let us know if this funding program is available so we can apply.
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