{"id":903624,"date":"2026-09-21T03:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903624\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T03:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:36:14","slug":"mount-pearl-mayor-says-infrastructure-remains-key-municipal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903624\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Pearl Mayor Says Infrastructure Remains Key Municipal Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mount-pearl-mayor-dave-aker.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Mount Pearl Mayor Says Infrastructure Remains Key Municipal Challenge\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Pearl Mayor Dave Aker (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Mount Pearl says <a href=\"https:\/\/housing-infrastructure.canada.ca\/bcsf-fbcf\/index-eng.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maintenance of infrastructure<\/a> is one of the biggest issues municipalities are currently facing.<\/p>\n<p>The city is availing of $7 million in federal funding for <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/09\/17\/310582\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">water and wastewater upgrades<\/a> in the Park Avenue area. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Dave Aker says that funding will go a long way in addressing infrastructure needs in the area.<\/p>\n<p>He says without the federal funding, only one half to two-thirds of the project would get done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mount Pearl Mayor Dave Aker (VOCM News) The Mayor of Mount Pearl says maintenance of infrastructure is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-903624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}