Dauphin Mayor David Bosiak was feeling a large sense of pride while attending last week's Association of Manitoba Municipalities Spring Convention in Brandon.
With lots of discussion during the conference regarding conflict resolution and communication between councils and senior administration, Bosiak was proud to say these are not issues they are having to face here in Dauphin.
"Hats off to our administration that does a great job of doing their job. And then, our council is very competent and engaged, And that is notable for me as I looked around and just got a sense of how involved our council is in the day-to-day business of our community."
Bosiak also took note during the city's caucus about the amount of money some cities are spending to replace recreation facilities.
Flin Flon and Thompson are spending millions of dollars to build new swimming pools, while Steinbach is spending close to 70 million to build a new arena.
Bosiak says that made him think about some of the outstanding infrastructure that our city has, that might be beginning to show its age,
"I think it becomes really incumbent upon us as a municipality, and also on the Rural Municipality (of Dauphin) to contribute a fair proportion of capital towards infrastructure, so we do not have to replace these facilities, so that we can keep them operating effectively, because the cost to replace either our pool, or our curling rink, or our arena down the road will be far more than what we ever paid to build it that many years ago."
