The presenters were from Alberta and shared how they moved from cutting off water and refusing land applications to working together. Email if you have a question or comment.
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Should we, West Central Saskatchewan, have a regional waste water and water
treatment centre rather than local facilities?
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Boundary Battles – re: Red Deer county battles
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Regional governance is not the same as regional
government
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What do municipalities need to do? Continue to
improve cooperation with other municipalities in the Region, recognizing the
handsome economic returns to effective region wide planning and collaboration.
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Challenge was growth had been pressure driven
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RMs are not land banks
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Lack of trust
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Perception that the County didn’t do its share
to support cultural/rec facilities
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Rural and urban depend on one another
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How to build trust?
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Mediation
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MAP: municipal area partnership were reps of
individual councils and MAP decisions had to be ratified – also all Councils
meetings to ensure messaging
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Just talk when at the table
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Streamlined emergency services – quick win
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Resolve annexation issue
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Water
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Revenue sharing
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Developed common frameworks or templates
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MOUs ensured consistency is treating all the
same
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County had right in say of joint capital
projects – strategic capital investment
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All agreements were developed and implemented in
lock step – each had to benefit
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If one part succeeds then all do
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Develop common goals
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No benefit to limiting growth
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Development of regional groups is best from the
ground up
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Regional groups are not regional government
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