News release

Accessibility Upgrades, New Sidewalk for Richmond County

Municipal Affairs and Housing
Municipal Capital Growth Program

Accessibility upgrades and a new sidewalk will provide safer access to municipal buildings for everyone living and working in Richmond County.

“Everyone in the province needs safe, convenient access to the municipal services they rely on. Improving accessibility helps build the kind of strong communities where we all want to live,” said Trevor Boudreau, MLA for Richmond County, on behalf of John Lohr, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

The Municipality of the County of Richmond’s sidewalk project in Arichat will make it easier for people to access the municipal administration building, as well as École Beau-Port, which is located behind the building.

The administration building is also one of the three facilities that will have accessibility improvements. The others are the Petit-de-Grat Public Library and the scale house at the waste management transfer station in West Arichat.

These projects are part of the Municipal Capital Growth Program, a one-time $102-million investment in projects across Nova Scotia – a historic provincial investment in municipal infrastructure.

Richmond County received more than $234,000 through the program for the projects. An additional $234,000 was provided to the municipality through the Province’s Sustainable Services Growth Fund.

Quotes:

“The Municipal Capital Growth Program is exactly the type of tool that we needed to kickstart these important safety and accessibility projects in our communities. Municipalities have huge infrastructure challenges, so provincial partnerships like this one are key to our ability to be able to better serve all of our citizens.”
— Amanda Mombourquette, Warden, Municipality of the County of Richmond

Quick Facts:

  • funding breakdown for the projects:
    • Arichat sidewalk – $159,100 from both the Municipal Capital Growth Fund and Sustainable Services Growth Fund
    • accessibility upgrades – $75,000 from each fund
  • the Municipal Capital Growth Program, announced in February, was designed to respond to the infrastructure needs of municipalities and addresses critical issues like housing, climate change, accessibility and growth
  • the Province’s accessibility strategy, Access by Design 2030, outlines how the government will achieve its goal of an accessible province by providing people with disabilities equitable access to programs, services, information and infrastructure

Additional Resources:

News releases about the Municipal Capital Growth Program and projects are available at: https://news.novascotia.ca/search/all?field_topics=293

Information on the Sustainable Services Growth Fund is available at: https://beta.novascotia.ca/sustainable-services-growth-fund-municipalities

Access by Design 2030: https://novascotia.ca/accessibility/access-by-design/

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