City, province to spend $2.6M on seven projects

Cost-sharing breakdown includes $1.04M from province, $1.57M from municipality

Local dignitaries and Ritchie Wharf Music fans celebrate the $2.6 million announced Wednesday by the city and province for upgrades at Ritchie Wharf Park and other city-owned facilities. (Free Press Photo)

MIRAMICHI • The municipality and provincial government are spending $2.6 million on seven capital projects planned for this year throughout the city.

The funding from the municipality and the province’s Regional Development Corporation was announced before a large crowd on Wednesday by Mayor Adam Lordon, Miramichi MLA Michelle Conroy, and Miramichi Bay-Neguac MLA Réjean Savoie at Ritchie Wharf Park, one of the facilities slated for improvements starting later this year.

The city will provide 60 per cent of the project costs, with RDC paying the other 40 per cent.

“The city and provincial government are teaming up to bring these projects to life here in our community,” said Lordon. “These are all going to be starting this year.

“RDC knows it is important for us to renew our public spaces. We applied for several projects in the city and asked for their funding partnerships so we could do more and do the work faster, and I have to give RDC credit because they said yes to every one of them.”