$1 million Vancouver community Olympic celebrations
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan is proposing the city dip into the $20 million Olympic Legacy Reserve Fund to establish a program that would allow local neighbourhoods to plan their own Olympic celebrations.
The $1 million Community Celebration Program would be spent in Vancouver neighbourhoods to create Olympic-related public events before and during the 2010 Games and Paralympic Winter Games. If approved, $200,000 would be spent this year, $300,000 next year and $500,000 in 2010.
Sullivan says the fund will facilitate partnerships with community centres, libraries, schools and business improvement associations. Council will vote on the idea this week.
