Thompson Local News

City Scaling Back Road Work Due To Cut In Promised Funding

The City of Thompson will have to work with significantly less money than was budgeted for when it comes to municipal road improvements following a cut from the Pallister government.

 

City Council received a letter from Jeff Wharton, the Minister of Municipal Relations, saying that Thompson would be getting $200,000 from the annual Municipal Road Improvement Project fund.

 

Councillor Blake Ellis said that the City was told by officials in Minister Wharton’s office that Thompson would be getting $400,000 from the annual Municipal Road Improvement Project fund, the amount that they had received the previous year. He said that having received confirmation of the amount, Council used that number in their budget.

 

Ellis added that the funding announcement came late in the season, as workers are already on site preparing for and doing the work.

 

Mayor Dennis Fenske said that with the reduction in funds, the City would probably have to scrap eight of the additional 11 road improvement projects they had added.

 

Council approved a resolution later in the meeting, which asks the Association of Manitoba Municipalities to lobby the province on this issue.

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