Emergency assistance is being provided to all 444 municipalities in Ontario.
Communities in the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke district will receive over $6-million to help address municipal operating pressures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first round of funding will be provided in September under the Safe Restart Agreement.
Additional funding will be available for municipalities with COVID related expenses that exceed the initial allocation.
MPP John Yakabuski says this funding will provide municipalities with the support they need to protect the health and well-being of the people of Ontario, while continuing to deliver critical public services as the province continues down the path of renewal, growth and economic recovery.
Local municipalities receiving funding include:
- Adamston/Bromley, $85,100 to support municipal operations.
- Arnprior, $256,300 to support municipal operations.
- Bonnechere Valley, $149,300 to support municipal operations.
- Brudenell, Lyndoch, Raglan, $71,200 to support municipal operations
- Deep River, $120,900 to support municipal operations
- Greater Madawaska, $166,700 to support municipal operations
- Head, Clara, and Maria, $21,400 to support municipal operations
- Horton, $90,400 to support municipal operations
- Killaloe, Hagarty, and Richards, $100,800 to support municipal operations
- Laurentian Hills, $90,600 to support municipal operations
- Laurentian Valley, $242,400 to support municipal operations
- Madawaska Valley, $193,500 to support municipal operations
- McNab/Braeside, $195,600 to support municipal operations
- North Algona/Wilberforce, $111,900 to support municipal operations
- Pembroke, $795,900 to support municipal operations and an additional $20,267 to support transit operations
- Renfrew County, $2,780,100 to support municipal operations
- Town of Renfrew, $242,400 to support municipal operations and an additional $46,392 to support transit operations
- South Algonquin, $149,700 to support municipal operations
- Whitewater Region, $214,800 to support municipal operations