The Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) hosts its 2024 Fall Convention and Tradeshow this week in Edmonton.
The Mayors and Reeves meeting is today and Mountain View County Reeve says they are bringing forward a couple of issues to discuss.
According to Angela Aalbers, the first one is on the policing funding that the Counties are now actually forwarding to the province. She says “so for Mountain View County in 2023 that is now in the order of $1.2 million. Really it’s just to ask the Mayors and Reeves ‘what kind of impact that they are seeing from their rural contributions to policing?’ and whether or not we feel as rural members that we’re getting the value for that money and how the province is actually spending that money.”
So she adds, it is to get a bit of clarification as to how everyone else is seeing that. Reeve Aalbers says “ourselves within Mountain View County we haven’t really seen more boots on the ground and so obviously a concern is we don’t know where that money has gone to. So it really is just engaging our fellow municipalities to see what their view of the addition of the police funding is.”
She says the second issue Mountain View County is bringing forward to today’s Mayors and Reeves meeting is around the Alberta Energy Regulator’s current policies and regulations regarding residential developments versus public facilities in their Directive 056 and how that is impacting rural municipalities on their economic development strategies and development coming forward.
RMA conventions include staff and elected leaders from Alberta’s 69 rural municipalities and this week’s event will run from today through Thursday, November 7th.
