The Gore District Council's Community and Strategy committee will consider options for the town's former hospital site in 2020. The Provincial Growth Fund won't be stumping up funding for the Gore District Council's latest project. Supplied Gore District Council chief executive Stephen Parry"Reading between the lines the council wasn't offering to put up cold hard cash, just the land and staff time." In August 2019 the Provincial Growth Fund announced it had declined funding for the project, and Gore mayor Tracy Hicks said the council was "reworking" the proposal, but would not say what was in it. In April, Jones announced $3.7m in funding across two Gore District Council projects.

Source: Stuff December 18, 2019 03:33 UTC