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As Don Sangster explained, finding administrators who meet the government’s criteria are hard to come by.
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Sangster is the mayor of the Resort Village of Kannata Valley, a seasonal cottage community that lies 40 minutes north of Regina. Although the village currently has an administrator with the right credentials, that wasn’t always the case, and Sangster worries that it might be difficult to fill the position in future should the time come to hire someone new.
The Municipalities of Saskatchewan (MOS) is stepping into the deep end of wetlands drainage and water quality on the Prairies. Previously called the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association, the lobby group representing cities, towns, villages and resort villages voted to approve the two matters during a resolution session at its annual convention Tuesday afternoon. For the wetlands policy item, delegates voted 170-46 to lobby the provincial government to “develop and adopt a wetland policy comparable to the policies currently in place in Alberta and Manitoba.” Thanks to the second resolution, which won with 192-23 votes, the MOS is to lobby the province to “direct (the Water Security Agency, WSA) to publish online quarterly” water quality test results from lakes and rivers, with comparisons to the WSA’s 2015 contaminant water levels.