Item PH26651 - Progress report: Millennium Clock Tower

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Description : In the last meeting of Council, a motion was passed instructing the Downtown Revitalization Committee to raise $40,000 toward the Millennium Clock Tower project by June 29th, before ordering the clockworks. Since the information was published in The Bradford West Gwillimbury Times last weekend, the response has been overwhelming, Chair of the committee Mikki Nanowski told Council. More than seventy-eight of the 200 spaces on the black granite obelisk that will sit inside the clock tower have been snapped up by residents and businesses, eager to spend $250 to have their names inscribed on the Town's Millennium project. In addition to the pledges and post-dated cheques, the Committee received a $5000 donation from Vins Plastics, and $1000 from Dorothy Ross, from the Gary Ross Memorial Fund. When added to the $10,000 donation from Ventra Group, the donation from Holy Trinity High School and the $12,000 promised by the Town, the committee has already raised over $50,000 of the $87,000 total cost. Council members amended their original motion, to require the Committee to raise $40,000, in cash or in "pledges."