It’s day three, and also the last day, of the Association of Manitoba Municipalities convention.
Jack Bremner is the Parkland district director on the AMM, and he says the lack of cell coverage in rural areas will be a topic covered. He also says conservation is another important topic municipalities are bringing up.
“Our municipality, the one that I sit on the council for, one of our big concerns is the conservation districts being amalgamated with districts like Turtle River. We’re two different types of conservation districts and that’s going to be very difficult to amalgamate. All the municipalities in the Parkland sent a resolution to the minister objecting to it. We just got a letter back that they are going to leave as is, and force us to amalgamate.”
Bremner shares why he’s excited about this year’s convention.
“One of the things I’m really looking forward to is 48 percent of the people that are going to be there are new. They are new to municipal politics, there’s more women now in the municipalities representing. And I'm really looking forward to seeing the new people and be talking to them and seeing what their views are.”
The three day meeting is taking place in Winnipeg.
