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Game Ottawa (KIA OM5)
July 4, 1972

Mr. R.A. Freeman

City Clerk

The Corporation of the City
of Port Coquitlam

2272 McAllister Avenue

Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Dear Mr. Freeman:

On behalf of the Secretary of State, the
Honourable Gérard Pelletier, I acknowledge receipt of
your letter of May 3, 1972, in which you advise of a
resolution passed by the Corporation of the City of
Port Coquitlam requesting an indication of the reason
of refusal of project no. 520-0534, an application for
funding under the Opportunities for Youth Programme

‘entitled "Intensified Ground Control of Mosquitos".

I am advised that this submission, and others
similar to it, obtained a relatively low rating in the
component of innovation. Preference in the allocation
of available funds was of course given to projects which
offered new services to the community, or.new approaches
to existing services. In this instance, it was felt
that mosquito control programmes are properly = iocal or
municipal responsibility; accordingly it was determined
that the available funds might perhaps best be extended
to other projects which more fully satisfied the criteria
enunciated by Cabinet for the operation of the Opportuni~
ties for Youth Program.

I trust that the foregoing will be of assistance

to you and that this year's Opportunities for Youth
Program will warrant your support and interest.

Yours sincerely,

Pierre Emond

SUL 17 1972