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COVID-19: City of Lethbridge looking into utility payment deferrals

The City of Lethbridge providing a community update Thursday afternoon (Mar. 19) on its ongoing response to COVID-19.

Mayor Chris Spearman says the City is looking at ways to ease the burden on residents being impacted financially by this ongoing situation. One of those is what Premier Kenney suggested this week, allowing deferral of gas and electricity payments for 90 days.

“We’re examining the logistics and financial implications of doing so,” says Spearman. “We are also hearing from Lethbridge residents worried about how they’re going to pay their property taxes this year. We understand their concerns and are looking into options for what we can do.”

The Mayor also says given the fact the impact on businesses could be significant, Economic Development Lethbridge (EDL) is working on the formation of a focused YQL Economic Recovery Task Force. “It’s important we find ways to support local businesses during this crisis and the recovery that will follow.”

Details are expected in the coming days regarding that.

The Mayor again stressed the health and safety of the community is the City of Lethbridge’s top priority. “Be safe, be kind, and be patient,” says Spearman. “Watch out for others and offer to help wherever you can.”

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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