The City of Nelson is committed to a sustainable future that includes a productive economy, well-protected environment, healthy citizens, and strong cultural connections. The City has four sustainability pillars; culture, economy, environment and social, which Council targets to fund equally. Arts, Culture & Heritage applications are adjudicated through an independent jury of
The application period for Columbia Basin Trust grants is near and the two former programs have combined forces into one new grant program. The CBT has combined the Community Initiatives and Affected Areas programs into one, noted CBT president and chief executive officer Johnny Strilaeff recently, with the Resident Directed Grants (ReDi) program replacing them both. “While it
Just like it is the silence that makes the music, it is the blank wall that makes the mural. A policy to return some walls to a blank state after being used by the Nelson International Mural Festival is being considered by city council. Third reading has been given to an amendment of the Murals Development Permit Guidelines at the recommendation of the Cultural
Peter and Paul will both be paid in the city’s new policy on how to publish required notices to the public. City council voted in favour of advertising the city’s notices once in the newspaper and also to be posted on a public notice landing page on the city’s website. The move differs from previous practice of solely advertising the notices solely in the newspaper (print) for
The medium is the message but city council is now tasked with nailing down which medium that will be. The provincial Community Charter was recently amended to provide flexibility to municipal governments to consider how to publish required notices to the public, rather than using the previous default method of advertising twice in a local newspaper. The amended Section 94 of