Resolutions

Whereas at SARM’s recent annual convention, a resolution was passed, calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to “mandate urban municipalities to contribute significantly to the capital portion of the CIT fund”; and

Whereas any rural municipality taking over a former urban municipality already receive ten full years of that village’s share of revenue sharing from the urban pool through a grant process; and

Whereas the average annual funds taken from the urban pool through these grants is approximately $300,000;

Whereas the revenue sharing pool for rural municipalities is already disproportionately large, at 28 percent of MRS collected, given that RM population is only 16 percent of the total Saskatchewan population; and

Whereas rural municipalities also receive substantial additional grant funding from the province through the Rural Integrated Roads for Growth, and preferential treatment in potash tax revenues under The Municipal Tax Sharing (Potash) Act; and

Whereas urban municipalities are often subsidizing the residents of their surrounding rural municipalities by providing recreation and other services without any willingness of those surrounding municipalities to contribute

Therefore be it resolved that SUMA oppose any changes to the contributions toward the Communities in Transition Fund that would negatively affect urban municipalities.