The RM of Portage la Prairie has received a significant amount of money from the provincial government.

The announcement was made at last week’s regular council meeting.

RM of Portage CAO, Nettie Neudorf, talks about what the funding announcement means for the municipality.

“For the RM of Portage, we are receiving $552,623 this year for our operating grants from the province. This is the same level of funding we received in 2019.”

The grant is based on per capita, so the City of Portage la Prairie would get more than the RM of Portage.

Neudorf says they’re happy to receive the grant.

“Operating costs for the municipality, a portion of it, as well as to capture some of the infrastructure money that we received from the Municipal Roads and Bridges Program in prior years. They had a level of funding they were able to give to us. Not the full amount of what they used to be able to provide to us in the Municipal Roads and Bridges Program. What they did was topped up our operating grant.”