Gillian Fairley, General Manager, explained the mandate of the Centre For Business and Economic Development and Business Accelerator Project. An accelerator provides access to mentorship, office space and resources, serving the business community and meeting gaps within the economy. General Manager Fairley advised of two key asks which included:
Assistance in hiring a resource person, with a request for funding of $100,000.00, to be split between the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years; and
Assistance in moving the BDC to be an anchor tenant in the proposed Accelerator space.
General Manager Fairley addressed questions from Committee including; if there are grants through the government that could be applied for, more detail as to what the proposed partnership could look like and if there are other municipalities the size of Collingwood that have established a project such as this.
Please note: These minutes were from the “Corporate & Community Services Standing Committee Report to Council” on June 3, 2019.