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Christian said the city usually receives $3.6 million in infrastructure funding annually through gas taxes, but will instead receive $7.2 million in 2021, for one year only. Christian said the city will be looking at the eligibility criteria, with roads projects and active transportation traditionally among infrastructure projects that have been funded in the past utilizing such dollars. Meanwhile, the provincial budget included $500 million for mental health and addictions, which Christian called “huge.” “It will have an impact on some of the programs we have been talking about a lot in council recently,” he said. “In terms of day space and storage and additional Car 40 and more wraparound services for those with mental illness in the community. What I was a little bit disappointed about there was that there hadn’t been any acknowledgement of the complex care piece that we had been asking for, but my understanding is that’s coming, so I guess I’ll ....
“Mr. [former TNRD CAO Sukh] Gill did not expense half-a-million dollars for his own purposes and walk away with it,” Christian said. “This is about how he paid for different things that we had.” Christian pointed to successive meetings as to a reason why dining expenses would be charged by Gill on behalf of directors. In those circumstances, Christian said, it wasn’t only Gill who charged the expenses, but also the TNRD’s finance director, Doug Rae, or director of development Regina Sadilkova. KTW did not analyze expenses via those staffers’ taxpayer-funded credit cards. Christian said costs for dining in such cases are subsequently assigned to directors and included in the annual statement of financial information report. Christian referred to KPMG audits and the regional district’s audit committee, upon which he sits. He would not comment on behalf of that committee, citing “consistency of messaging.” ....