Council approves plans to celebrate Vancouver’s 125th anniversary: Scale of the party won’t be known until budget is set later this year
Vancouver City Council has approved plans for celebrations marking the city’s 125th anniversary next year, but they will vary widely depending on how much money it can secure. So officials are crafting a “scalable” event, which can be beefed up or scaled back as the funding situation becomes clear – something that isn’t likely to happen until late in 2010.
“We needed to develop a plan that would be executable with a small amount of money or with a larger amount of money and that is the challenge of this,” said Richard Newirth, managing director of cultural services for the City of Vancouver. “The likelihood is that we’ll be somewhere between $2-million and $7-million and we’ll have to adjust our programs, activities, grants all on what we’re able to secure.”
Council has already secured nearly $2-million in city funding for programs and activities marking the event in 2011; $900,000 of that comes from its Cultural Tourism Strategy Reserve. Another $1-million in city funding has been approved in principle. The city is hoping to secure millions more through corporate sponsorships and from Ottawa. In particular, Vancouver has applied to be a Cultural Capital in 2011, a designation that comes with $2-million in federal funding.
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