Ashfield-Colblorne-Wawanosh council has agreed to put up $150,000 in seed money for the Port to Point Trail.
But Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek has also made it clear that it's not a grant, it's a loan.
Under the terms of the grant application to the Province the municipality has to be the applicant and the applicant must provide 20 per cent of the total value of the grant.
Van Diepenbeek says his council has made it clear from the beginning they support the hiking and biking trail from the north end of Goderich but the trail has to be self-sufficient and both A-C-W and the town of Goderich have said they can't support it with taxpayers money.
The cost of the Port to Point Trail has gone from an estimated $500,000 when it was the committee was first formed a few years ago to about $750,000 now.