Vol. 9 • Issue 3
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
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After successful negotiations, the councils of Rossland and Trail have reached an agreement regarding the long-standing dispute over cost apportionment for sewer services. The new agreement will provide a fair funding formula for the participating
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partners: City of Trail, City of Rossland and Village of Warfield. Over the next two years the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, as the administrator of the regional service, will be implementing a user-pay funding formula. This will involve installing the necessary volume measuring equipment. In
the meantime, municipal costs will be apportioned using the formula: • Trail – 62.56 per cent • Rossland – 24.90 per cent • Warfield – 12.54 per cent “We’re pleased that the agreement will ensure a fair sharing of costs for everyone and an incentive for participants to control their water usage as water usage relates directly to flows,”
said Mayor Greg Granstrom. For four years the question of who pays what portion of the cost of sewer service among Trail, Rossland and Warfield has been booted around like a political football. Trail had paid close to 70 per cent of the regional budget following a formula created in the late 1960s, based mostly on population
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and projected growth. In late 2012 Trail council drafted a cost-sharing proposal based on population, though it previously agreed with a mediator report that suggested the old formula was unfair, and a new formula should be based on 50 per cent population and 50 per cent water consumption.
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