The behind-the-scenes Main Street hanging basket benefactor has come to centre stage.

At their meeting Monday evening, members of council heard from Dennis Shewfelt, the city's manager. He said the company that has offered to donate $6,000 worth of baskets to permit the program to move forward is Keith's Plumbing and Heating.

Shewfelt said now that nearly all the $6,000 in operating costs have been raised in a community fundraising effort and the plants have been secured at half-price from Yukon Gardens, the plumbing company is comfortable with making its basket offer public.

'Clearly, the community has rallied behind this and have come forward in a generous manner,' Shewfelt said.

The community fundraising effort, he added, totalled $12,365 of the $12,660 required to run the program.

Council voted unanimously in favour of supporting the program with the remaining $245 to be collected through fundraising or a reallocation of money in the city budget.

Coun. Jan Stick said she wants to thank the community for coming forward and offering its support and that the program being cut out of the budget was a financial decision.

'I think we need to recognize that when we cut this program we didn't do it to punish Main Street.

'I just again would like to thank the community and the citizens that came forward to help fund this,' she said.

Keith Tegart of the plumbing company said Thursday he stepped forward to provide new baskets as a gesture of good will.

'I understood that the baskets were beyond repair and we saw a great opportunity to assist the community by supplying the materials and building the baskets as a gesture of good will,' Tegart said.

'We think that this will really help the city looking beautiful in the summer for our residents and visitors alike.'