Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs

Community Related Programs
BACKGROUNDER

• The following are the three programs that are being discontinued, together with a brief explanation of each program:
  1. The Community Water Services Program
     Under this program, financial assistance was provided to Local Service Districts for the installation of water and sewer programs. Local Service Districts are not elected bodies.
  2. The Solid Waste Management Facilities Program.
     This is a provincial/municipal/local service district cost-shared (60%/40%) program to provide financial assistance for the development, operation and/or maintenance of waste disposal sites for projects under $100,000.

     The cost saving arrangement on established debt will remain in effect until the debt is paid off.

  3. The Firefighting Equipment Purchase Program
     This is a provincial/municipal/local service district cost-shared (75%/25%) program to provide firefighting equipment through the province.
• There will be a budget in the Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs to handle emergency situations and municipalities will have the flexibility to request financial assistance for related projects. The Department will be able to deal with all types of emergency situations should they occur, however, whenever possible, municipalities will be requested to cost-share projects.