Provincial funding from traffic fine collection for Prince Rupert tops the north

A combination of community grant funding and a share of Traffic fine revenues from Prince Rupert sources (ie: you folks that pay your traffic fines on time) has helped to put Prince Rupert into second place of Northwest communities in a recent funding announcement from the Province of British Columbia.

Public safety and other municipal services in the city will be topped up to $186,451 under a program which combines Small Community Grants and Traffic Fine Revenue sharing, the split in Prince Rupert being almost equal with the city receiving 92,271 under the Grant program and 93,730 from the shared revenue fund…

(from  the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … -fine.html )