Amalgamation... Bring It On

[oneoff]

Who says I haven't run for RM councillorship in the past.....and won by by a 85% vs 15% margin. And yes there was an opposing candididate.
And I could point out a half dozen accomplishments in that term of office which stand to this day.

[ASRG]

Oneoff: While I understand that there should be some amalgamation of Sask. RMs, holding up RD county as a shining example, probably isn't the best choice?

RD county privatized just about everything, which resulted in poorer service and rising taxes/fees.

RD county moved closer to the provincial government in Edmonton, to insure "grants", to the point Edmonton calls all the shots!

Because Edmonton calls the shots, RD county has become a mini-Petro state where laws and regulations don't apply to the oil industry!

RD county has become a poster child for neo liberal politics and Agenda 21......the local residents have no say! The Mayor (he changed the title from Reeve) and council are owned by the Progressive Conservative party and BIG OIL.

[oneoff]

Good points that are not often aired to those outside your local area. And the deficiencies you see have obviously not been corrected in your "local government".

The real question is if the attention becomes focused on the exposure of the problems and that you will be personally challenged as to your motives and how you fit into their society; or if the othe 17999 people have any desire to do something about any of the problems that exist.
Thanls for the comments. I see how what you say could happen; but the answer for Sask is not to drag the 105 year old system on for another bunch of decades.

[oneoff]

And more open fields and larger fields; and crop seed row spacing and sowing 7 pounds of seed as compared to thre to four pounds; and

a memory that has selectively fooled us into remembering what it wants to from decades past.

[oneoff]

It probably doesnt matter what size your county or RM; you are susceptable to the "grant" trap.

And your National Building codes and building inspectors that even the most rural RM may have enacted; will add an additional estimated $2000 to $5000 cost per residence built.

On your next highway approach; which you will pay for; the slopes will be six to one; and there will be a culvert installed (maybe 90 feet long) to handle the next one in five hundred year flood; whether or not it could possibly run any water even if that flood were to ever occur.
Up until this year there was some provision for common sense. That option has been removed.

Each subdivided parcel approved by a Sask RM must have a seperate access road. And yet we share public roads and are not forced to each have our own pathway to any destination we wish to head out for. And on the other hand, safety concerns would suggest and the Dep't of Highways prohibits one approach close to another approach to access a provincial Highway.

Someone has to be getting a kickback from the few culvert manufacturers. But more likely it is the inability to look at more than one factor, at a time, in more than a simple project.