The TSS Initiative provides funding assistance on a cost-shared basis. For successful projects, the TSS Initiative offers 75 per cent of the project's eligible costs to the maximum amount of $100,000. Project partners are responsible for the remaining 25 per cent of the eligible costs.
Funding Streams
There are four funding streams:
- capacity building;
- regional co-operation;
- municipal corporate transition; and
- relationship building and dispute resolution.
Successful and Ineligible Projects
Examples of past TSS-funded projects include:
- regional land use planning;
- inter-municipal emergency management plans;
- governance training for elected and appointed municipal officials; and
- feasibility studies for the creation of a municipal district.
Ineligible projects include, but are not limited to:
- economic development projects;
- tourism development projects;
- infrastructure projects;
- capital projects;
- projects where all or part of the funding being requested is to hire new municipal employees or cover costs pertaining to existing employees;
- normal municipal operations projects.
For more information, see the application and guide posted on the SUMA and SARM websites.