good job Brad

[TSIPP]

I vote to no more then eight RM,s with all the crappy roads and new shops it cant get much worse.

[jamesb]

As far as getting rid of the health regions, I am all for it. I'm in Sun country and have been working hard with others to try and keep a small town hospital and long term care going. A lot of local people have opened their wallets and have given money to do this. The local towns and rm are putting in money as well. The way I see it there would be no less support in our town from Regina than we currently get from Estevan or Weyburn.

[chuckChuck]

Shockingly I am going to agree with Oneoff. We don't need this many councillors and RMs to do this job. Councillors in many rms get too involved in the day to operations that can be left up to staff.

There is a lot of duplication with so many rms

There is also a problem with the local politics and conflicts of interest that are difficult to deal with in a small community where everybody is related or knows everyone. Larger rms will help deal with this.

Some of the reeves don't know how to run a meeting and don't care to learn. Some won't even provide any decent minutes or information. Many RMs have very poor communication with ratepayers and then are surprised when ratepayers are upset over some decisions.

Lets make local government more professional by going to reasonable sized rms that will provide better service.

[SASKFARMER3]

I agree we need to stream line a lot of things in Saskatchewan. The health districts didn't make sense when they created all those with its own bull shit. one has to be better.

Now RMs hell scrap that whole shit show and go to districts or counties etc. Why does Each RM around have two to three new graders which sit a lot of time. Bunch of useless councillors etc and administrators.

[bgmb]

Amen, As far as i am concerned that was one of the few good things ndp did in MB forced amalgamations except they should have used 10,000 as a minimum number not 1000

[bgmb]

I agree we need to stream line a lot of things in Saskatchewan. The health districts didn't make sense when they created all those with its own bull shit. one has to be better.

Now RMs hell scrap that whole shit show and go to districts or counties etc. Why does Each RM around have two to three new graders which sit a lot of time. Bunch of useless councillors etc and administrators.

exactly it was totally stupid in manitoba 6 "elected" always acclaimed individuals on a little power trip to represent 4-500 ppl in some cases.


I would say rural mb could be governed by maximum 6 r.m.s / counties. I really dont care what they are called.

[bgmb]

graders should be run on shifts 24 h day or look at contracting out road maintenance.

[stonepicker]

Amalgamation isn't always a good thing, in our area when the rm and the town amalgamated it was written in stone the councillors said at the time " there will always be equal representation, 3 rural and 3 town councillors" Well not too many years down the road and council decides that it would be better if the councillors were elected at large, so they changed the bylaw accordingly. Town pop. is about 2-1 to rural. we haven't got a rural councillor that lives in rural any more. We've lost our representation. As far as graders working long hours, not here, at 3:30 in the afternoon they're heading back to town. ( if they are in the country ) everyday. There might be the odd exception this winter. If a municipality gets too big i also feel that you lose the councillors knowledge of some area's. As in the councillor is not familiar with the area at all.

[TSIPP]

[QUOTE=RD414 sex and travel.[/QUOTE]

sounds like another convention in Regina or Saskatoon, all the call girls are booked up for the four day party.

[mbdog]

careful what you wish for when your trashing rural/local government. More often than not, rm's run the tightest ship and closest to voice to ag and ultimately represent capacity to pay vs those who can't/won't say no. Amalgamate for the right reasons. If you think efficiencies are gained...think again. #download