Philip Mullis

Potential local use: Marden Park upgrades, arena/ice-surface concepts, playgrounds, change rooms and other recreation facilities.

• Stream 1: $100,000–$1 million for repair/rehabilitation.
• Stream 2: up to $10 million for new/transformative builds.
• Municipal cost share: up to 50% provincial funding.

Potential local use: roads, bridges, traffic calming, parks, recreation, fibre and resilience projects.

• Eligible road examples include fixed LED speed signs, speed bumps, crossings, flashing beacons and snow fences.
• Recreation eligibility includes park/playground upgrades and recreation-centre expansion.

Potential local use: rehabilitation and renewal of core municipal infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water and wastewater.

• $400 million is being provided to 423 eligible communities in 2026.
• Eligible municipalities can accumulate allocations for up to five years for larger projects.

Guelph/Eramosa’s published 2026 OMPF allocation is $572,900. OMPF is general assistance rather than a project-specific grant, giving Council flexibility within the municipal budget.

Potential local use: living snow fences, farm windbreaks, wildlife corridors, buffers and municipal/community planting.

• Free native trees and shrubs, free delivery and project planning support.
• Professional planting services may qualify for up to 100% funding.
• Norway spruce is specifically identified by the County as a preferred living-snow-fence species.

Potential local use: partner with willing rural landowners at chronic snow-drift locations, where program and road-safety requirements align.

• Living snow fence: 80–100% up to $5,000, plus $500/acre/year for three years (max. 10 acres).
• Tree planting / field windbreaks: 80% up to $10,000, plus a performance incentive.

Potential local use: municipal/community tree planting, restoration, canopy expansion and resilience projects.

• Grant up to 50% of eligible costs.
• Up to $10 million cumulative tree-planting funding within a municipality over the initiative’s lifetime.
• Infrastructure activity costs are capped at $1 million per municipality within that lifetime limit.

Potential local use: drainage/flood resilience, natural infrastructure, wildfire-risk reduction, vegetation and other climate-risk projects.

• Rapid Adaptation Projects: base cost share 70%, up to $75,000.
• Rural/small communities may qualify for an additional 10% cost share.
• Tree-planting activities within a RAP are capped at a $25,000 contribution.

Potential local use: feasibility work and capital planning for community renewable energy, waste-to-energy/biogas or other qualifying community-energy systems.

• Business cases: up to $100,000.
• Feasibility studies: up to $200,000.
• Capital projects: grant + loan up to 80% of eligible costs; loans up to $10 million.
• Applications accepted year-round until annual funds are allocated.

Potential local use: local business networks, economic-development planning, workforce projects and qualifying community assets.

• The next published intake opens January 18, 2027 and closes February 25, 2027 at 5 p.m. ET.
• Program streams include up to $50,000 for strategies/plans, up to $150,000 for economic diversification, and up to $250,000 for certain community-infrastructure enhancements.

The County’s 2026 budget provides a $35,000-per-local-municipality Business Retention & Expansion implementation fund for actions that enhance local economies.

Potential local use: practical follow-up from local business consultations, networking, shared resources or other qualifying BR+E recommendations.

This is primarily a business/property incentive rather than a Township grant, but it can complement a local Community Improvement Plan.

• Study grants up to $10,000.
• Minor activity grants up to $20,000.
• Major qualifying projects may use tax-increment-equivalent grants.

Funding for roads, bridges and water infrastructure that enables housing and protects existing housing supply.

Important: this stream is only for municipalities that met the program’s non-development-charge eligibility test as of March 30, 2026; Township eligibility would need to be confirmed before treating it as an option.