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"THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

MEMORANDUM

Mayor and Council December 11, 1980

F.E. Peters, P. Eng.,
City Engineer

Applications for Grants under Revenue Sharing Act

For the past three years we have received grants from the
Ministry of Transportation and’ Highways for construction of major
roads within the City. I would presume that Council would once
again wish to make application for grants for 1981. ‘This memo
outlines possibilities which Council could consider.

Unfortunately, to be eligible for grants, applications
must, be in the office of the District Highways Manager not later
than the 5th of January, 1981. Consequently, Council. will have to
determine the projects they wish to consider in the remaining two
Council meetings in December. The new Public Works Committee has

-not had the benefit of discussing these projects because of the
time factor. .

The Provisional Budget contains only two projects which
would be eligible for Revenue Sharing. The first is the construc-
tion of the proposed East Bank Road between Marpole and Kingsway
at a cost of $187,000.00, The othes project would be the widening
and overlay of Prairie Avenue from Newberry Street to Cedar Drive
at a total cost of $153,000.00. Although both of these projects
would appear to be eligible under the conditions of the grant, it
is possible that the Ministry may provide a grant towards only one
project. Council could therefore apply for both projects and could
designate a priority in case only one is to be approved.

In addition to or instead of the two above projects which are
in the Provisional Budget, Council could also consider alternative
projects such as the construction of a portion of Broadway Street
or Coast Meridian Street, both of which also require the construc-
tion of major drainage works which are not sharable under the
Revenue Sharing Act. '

Subject to approval by the Public Works Committea, I hope
to bring to Council the possibility of reconstructing Kingsway
between Broadway and the Mary Hill By-Pass as a secondary highway
construction project, also with 50% sharing by the Department of
Highways.