Simcoe and Gray counties will get a lift of dollars for bridges, roads and buildings.
Via the Ontario Neighborhood Infrastructure Funds (OCIF), Simcoe-Gray using will obtain $15.9M to assist native communities repair and replace their present framework and construct new infrastructure as wanted.
“Supporting small and rural communities all through the massive and rising using of Simcoe-Gray is significant, and that features offering sustainable infrastructure,” mentioned MPP Brian Saunderson.
“The Ontario Neighborhood Infrastructure Fund supplies vital funding to our municipalities for brand new initiatives whereas additionally enhancing and updating getting old and demanding infrastructure.”
Simcoe-Gray MPP Brian Saunderson says the $15,898,362 will arrive in 2025 by the OCIF, which is a part of the province’s $190 billion capital plan to construct and increase extra properties, highways, hospitals, transit and high-speed web.
The 2025 OCIF allocations for Simcoe-Gray are as follows:
Adjala-Tosorontio $488,431
Clearview $641,451
Collingwood $1,169,364
Essa $700,599
Gray County $3,488,105
New Tecumseth $2,409,548
Simcoe County $3,773,895
The Blue Mountains $1,934,768
Wasaga Seaside $1,292,201
In 2022, the federal government doubled its annual funding for OCIF to almost $2 billion over 5 years to help extra native infrastructure initiatives in small, rural and northern communities.
In 2025, Ontario will allocate $400 million in OCIF funding to assist 423 small, rural and northern communities construct roads, bridges, water and wastewater infrastructure. Communities could accumulate the cash for as much as 5 years to deal with bigger infrastructure initiatives.
