Vegreville Town Council Defers Rent and Utility Payments for CHROMTEC

Vegreville Town Council Defers Rent and Utility Payments for CHROMTEC

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Vegreville town council has decided to defer rent and utility payments for another three months to CHROMTEC.

The decision to defer payments to CHROMTEC, which rents a town owned building, came during the July 21 town council meeting. Coun. Tina Warawa made the motion to defer the payments for the months of July, August and September.

Warawa stated, “It says it very clearly in the RDF but It is important just for people watching to really recognize that it is a deferral, that it’s not an outright forgiveness in any way, and that we are not in a position where this is not putting us in a negative spot, so we aren’t carrying any particular business or any situation like that.”

Mayor MacPhee said, “This is an extension of the original deferral, and so the money, the $63,000 was to be made up on the sale price of the building to be tacked on and that’s where this will be as well. I know it quite concerning. They, (CHROMTEC) were going straight ahead there before and had a lot of progress going before this COVID hit. It was looking very promising for them to build this huge facility in town here, and now with none of their investors being able to get into this country, and so we will have a conversation with them and try to encourage them to at least try and get their lab finished here, and get their license through Health Canada so they could be ready for that. So, I look forward to the meeting we’ll get set up and find out exactly where they’re at.”

There were no further comments, and the motion passed unanimously.