Following a delegation by Eli Klasner, Executive Director, Community Arts Council, Marnie Hamagami, Artistic Producer, Theatre Northwest, Sue Judge, Executive Director, Coldsnap Festival, and Ken Hall, Executive Director, Prince George Symphony Orchestra, Council agreed to increase the annual funding provided to the four organizations by an additional $200,000 to be allocated proportionately between the organizations effective January 2025.
Later in the meeting council received a report on a proposed policy to manage multiyear grants. The policy was passed by council with applications to be adjudicated by Committee of the Whole.
In March of 2024 Council voted to transfer $263,152 from the MyPG grant budget to a separate budget allocated to multiyear grants and further to grow the MyPG grant stream back up to $550,000 by 2027. The current recipients of the multiyear grant stream are the Community Arts Council, Theatre Northwest, Prince George Folkfest Society, and Prince George Symphony Orchestra.