WAVERLEY: The Waverley Community Association (WCA) has been granted operational funding for the next two years by Halifax Regional Council.
In a tweet, Councillor Steve Streatch announced the news of the approved $20,000 for two-year funding.
The WCA, which operates and runs as a non-profit organization and oversees the Waverley Heritage Museum, faced having no funding after HRM announced they were axing their service rate.
Since that news became public, HRM met with WCA and talked about ways they could come up with solutions, a resolution that could get them by this year at least to give them time to work on something more permanent.
In a Feb. 11 interview, Councillor Steve Streatch said he has been kept apprised of the situation by HRM staff.
“Nobody wants to see an organization as important as the WCA or the associated Heritage Museum to suffer,” he said. “My understanding is that staff and the WCA volunteers have come to a solution that will get them over this temporary hurdle, and then we’ll be working with them to put the proper paperwork in place to setup a proper management agreement.”
Now with the funding approved for the next two years, HRM and the organization can begin working on finding a permanent funding solution.
Streatch said on July 18 that an additional grant of approximately $4500 was approved to help with legal/consolidation of the collection at the Waverley Heritage Museum to provide assistance in completing a new local/management agreement with the WCA and HRM.
