Community football associations are the latest group to complain about funding cutbacks from the British Columbia government.Several teams have come forward to say their gaming grants were thousands of dollars less than they expected.The province has already announced cuts to education, arts, literacy and health care as it tries to deal with a $2.8-billion deficit.
The Vancouver Trojans, an East Vancouver community football team, say they're getting significantly less than the $83,000 they were promised in July. "I can imagine cutbacks … times are lean, it's a recession, you gotta cut back," said Trojans president Kerry Mann. "But do you gotta cut back from $83,000 to $15,000? That's $70,000. Well, where's that gonna come from?"
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Don Quixote Note:
Vernon Community gaming grants through Direct Access, Bingo Association or Bingo Affiliation in 2007/08: (Are these at Risk in 2009???) For Sports Groups. (Full List)
CROSS COUNTRY BC: $64,700.00 GREATER VERNON MINOR HOCKEY ASSOC: $91,525.00
GREATER VERNON RINGETTE ASSOC: $28,000.00 NORTH OKANAGAN MINOR LACROSSE ASSOC: $24,000.00 NORTH OKANAGAN SAILING ASSOC: $14,802.00 NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC: $40,216.00 OKANAGAN EXTREME LACROSSE LEAGUE: $15,000.00 SILVER STAR ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTS: $11,000.00 SILVER STAR FREESTYLE SKI CLUB: $16,000.00 SILVER STAR NORDIC CLUB: $28,000.00 SOVEREIGN LAKE NORDIC CLUB: $15,000.00 VERNON AMATEUR ATHLETICS ASSOC: $2,000.00 VERNON BMX ASSOC: $9,840.00 VERNON CURLING & ATHLETIC CLUB: $19,000.00 VERNON DISTRICT RIDING CLUB: $10,500.00 VERNON VOLLEYBALL ASSOC: $15,960.00
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