‘Announcements don’t actually put shovels on the ground’

By Chantel Downes, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Lakeland This Week Cyr told council, “I am looking forward to having a discussion really quick on some of the concerns you may have or if you’ve got some insights that you’d like me to carry back to the province of Alberta that I can move those forward for you.” He noted that when he met with the County of St. Paul earlier in the day, “probably 90 per cent of them were about the roads.” Water and wastewater funding dominated the first half of the discussion. Coun. Ryan Bailey, chair of the Cold Lake Regional Utility Services Commission, pressed Cyr on discrepancies in the province’s numbers for grant calculations. Bailey pointed out that Alberta Transportation’s spreadsheets incorrectly showed Frog Lake First Nations…

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