Council Not A Bank

I honestly felt physically ill upon hearing the KVPACS’s request for financial help from our city. How very bold to consider accessing further “funding from Government and private granting agencies” when they obviously are not able to survive on existing funding and revenues. A large portion of grant money comes from hard-working entrepreneurial businesses paying taxes. Grants are not a loan they do not have to be paid back.

It would be wonderful if the small business I co-own in town could receive financial help and government grants to further my business! Instead, we entrepreneurs put our own money into our businesses, put our houses on the line, pay our loans and bills and operate financially responsibly as most of us do in the real world. It seems like the whole “cultural corridor” should be called the “grant corridor”. If a business (or organization or society) cannot operate on money it generates, no matter what the vision or passion may be, there is obviously not the need they perceive and it is obviously not viable at that time.

There are people who make careers out of applying for grants. Tell our politicians to stop dipping into our education and health money to give out grants. I sincerely also hope the Kelowna Council members have the good sense to stay out of becoming a bank in this instance.

T.G.