Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill and her colleagues from Cape Breton Regional Municipality express their grievances about the proposed Municipal Reform Act, but their proposed amendments are ignored by the Law Amendments Committee.
Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill and several of her Cape Breton Regional Municipality colleagues brought their grievances about the proposed Municipal Reform Act to Halifax on Monday.
"I hold out hope for an amended bill that supports all municipalities and doesn’t blatantly disadvantage CBRM as it does in its current state." The top amendments pursued by CBRM and the six presenters on the municipality’s behalf were the doubling of the municipal financial capacity grant and a move that would allow CBRM a one-year period for a fair and honest negotiation with the province on a funding agreement with the province that would be separate from the province’s memorandum of understanding with the other 47 municipalities, excluding Halifax Regional Municipality.
removing the requirement under the Housing Supply and Services Act for municipalities to pay a portion of the net operating losses for public housing Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, right, and CBRM Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill get together after Chisholm-Beaton ascended to the presidency of the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities in November. - File
Jennifer Campbell, the chief financial officer for CBRM, said the municipality has unique challenges that have to be looked at from a different lens.“Times have changed and responsibilities and expectations placed on municipalities have changed dramatically,” said Carolyn Bolivar-Getson, mayor of the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg.
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