The Manitoba government won’t allot disaster relief funds to help pay for Flin Flon’s unusually high number of water line breaks and freeze-ups this past winter and spring.
That’s the word from Mayor George Fontaine following a recent meeting between three northern Manitoba mayors and Municipal Government Minister Stan Struthers.
“There is no emergency funding that we can see coming right away,” Fontaine told last week’s city council meeting. “But certainly our argument to them was [that] if any funding goes to Winnipeg, we want to certainly be considered the same because we’ve had, on a per-capita basis, 10 times the difficulty that they had.”
Fontaine was joined at the meeting, held in Winnipeg, by The Pas Mayor Al McLauchlan and Thompson Mayor Tim Johnston.
Undetermined aid
Flin Flon city council voted in the spring to seek an undetermined amount of disaster aid amid a long and bitter winter that was expected to see pipe repair costs run significantly over budget.
