They are all concerned about the amount it will cost to administer lottery funds. Gibbons pointed out that it is not just a case of providing a room and paying for coffee, photocopying and telephone, as implied by Judy Gordon, Chair of the Community Lottery Program Secretariat. The major work is in processing and reviewing the applications to determine which ones most merit selection. According to Gibbons, the government must allow municipalities to use a portion of the lottery grant money to cover administrative costs. Certainly, if the government wants municipalities to allocate lottery funds, they should help cover the administrative costs, said Gibbons.
Municipalities can t afford to pay for any more downloading by the provincial government.
Edm Castledowns Spruce Grove Sturgeon-St.