Port Edward keeps to governance schedule despite COVID-19 times

While Prince Rupert City Council may have chosen to cancel a regular Council session that had been scheduled for last night, down the road in Port Edward the work of civic governance has managed to continue on.

With the District Council meeting last Friday in a Special Session to take care of some local issues.

At the Friday session, the District approved their Engineering budget, which will launch the road rebuild work in the community.  The first project set to be the engineering and design of Evergreen Drive and Sunset Drive, as well as to review the previously engineered Wildwood.

The District Council also announced that they have been successful in obtaining a 2 million dollar grant and have prioritized their road work for the next two years.

Earlier last week, the District also announced that the Utility bill deadline has been extended to April 30th for payment, that way allowing for more flexibility during the COVID-1 pandemic and because they have closed their offices owing to the COVID-19 situation.

Some other advisories from the District include notes on their ongoing Street sweeping program and a reminder on the requirements related to Garbage collection, as well as the decision to keep the North Pacific Cannery Historical site closed for the 2020 season, a topic we explored here last week.

The full overview of the work of Port Edward Council in the last week can be found from their Facebook page.

As well, Mayor Knut Bjorndal provided for an information statement for the community on the community's work with the Province as well as its neighbouring communities when it comes to response to the COVID-19 situation.

You can review that letter to residents below:

For more notes on items of interest from Port Edward see our archive page here.