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“I am still confident that we could still seriously take a look at this,” Mayor Leroux said during a phone interview January 29. The older portion of the industrial park, located off of the Highway 417 exchange with Russell Township, has several existing commercial and industrial outfits whose premises are equipped with their own wa- ter and waste disposal setups. Township staff have been occupied in finding ways to finance an extension of the municipality’s own sewer and water system to the industrial park to help attract new ventures for the site and also provide existing occupants with an
alternative to their present facilities. One option that the township has pur- sued through the UCPR is funding support through Prescott-Russell Assistance Program (PRAP) that the counties set up to aidmem- ber municipalities withmajor commercial or industrial improvement and development projects within identified areas. The intent of the program is to provide aid in a way that will not affect a municipality’s existing debt capacity. Russell Township, under then-mayor Jean-Paul St-Pierre, proposed the Vars Busi- ness Park Development Project (VBPD or PRAP Project).The proposal, which involved a $5 million PRAP loan from the counties, was turned down at the UCPR because there was concern that it would have a negative impact on the township’s existing debt ca- pacity. During the January 14 in-camera session of the UCPR committee of the whole session, Mayor Leroux asked if the debt capacity concern was no longer an issue, would the
counties reconsider providing the $5million loan at a preferred interest rate. The latest report on the 2015 budget plan for Russell Township indicates the municipality has at least a $15 million allowance remaining on its potential debt capacity if the current budget plan is approved. In the minutes of the counties in-cam- era meeting, Mayor Leroux stated that the township, under then-Mayor St-Pierre, had decided not to ask for a roads transfer agree- ment with the counties because the PRAP Project was under review. If the project does not go through, he added, then the township may pursue the roads transfer deal in future. Counties council, during the January 14 in-camera session, directed UCPR admin- istration to continue working with Russell Township administration on thematter. Dur- ing a later phone interview, Stéphane Pa- risien, UCPR chief administrator, indicated the possibility of aid for the 417 Industrial Park project is not yet over. “We’re still look- ing for a solution,” Parisien said. lent Events, a promotions outfit based in Vankleek Hill, to organize and operate a commercial fair in the Russell Arena in April. The municipal economic development strategy recommends such a project as a means to both promote local businesses and services and also attract new business ventures and consumers to the area. Russell Township once had its own annual com- mercial fair but it later expired. The agreement with the promoter is for the revived Russell Township commercial fair to operate every two years and to al- ternate its location between the villages of Russell and Embrun. The proposed date for the new commer- cial fair this year is the April 18 weekend.
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
The 417 Industrial Park near Vars could still see some further expansion of its services to attract evenmore business into the Rus- sell Township area. Mayor Pierre Leroux is optimistic that the municipality will find a way, either on its own or through support from the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR), to of- fer sewer and water connections to the new section of the industrial park.
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After the Russell Winter Carnival finishes this Valentine’s Day weekend, the next ma- jor event to herald the arrival of spring in the village will be the return of an annual commercial fair for the entire township. Council gave Economic Development Director Daniel Gatien and administra- tion to work out an agreement with Excel-
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