A regional agency that promotes entrepreneurship and business development is looking for an increase in funding
The Northern Business Centre receives money from the province, with additional support from the City of Kenora.
Director of Growth and Recovery, Stace Gander says their salary funding hasn’t changed in a decade.
“We get funded at a level of $62,ooo a year for wages and benefits, and that has not increased in the last 10 years,” Gander told the Ontario Finance Committee during pre-budget consultation Monday.
“It just not enough to do the great work we do going forward.”
Gander would like their funding boosted by 120 to 150 thousand dollars a year.
Manager Allyson Pele told the committee she would like greater support for business start up programs.
“Even to be able to provide more grants to those start up businesses. These really change basically the layout of the communities, with some of the businesses that have been started in our region.”
The Northwest Business Center services the Kenora and Rainy River Districts.
