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The often controversial topic of amalgamation has come up at Moncton City Council.
Councillors met for a Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday to consider what feedback the City of Moncton wants to provide to the provincial government about municipal reform.
The idea of amalgamation was discussed not only for this region but also what it might look like for areas surrounding Fredericton and Saint John.
Moncton mayor Dawn Arnold says in terms of elected representation, the tri-communities actually have as many councillors as Canada’s largest city.
“Think about Toronto with 2.7 million people and they have 25 municipal councillors. So 108,000 people have one representative.”
Courtesy Codiac Regional Policing Authority
A presentation made to Moncton City Council suggests that a new RCMP facility won’t open until 2024, rather than the expected 2023 opening.
The original schedule planned for a construction tender to be issued this spring, with ground being broke by July. However, with designs and documents only being finished recently, Elaine Aucoin, Director of Environmental Planning and Management, says starting by the summer is not realistic, “we feel that we don’t have sufficient time to do a proper tender and start construction this summer.”
Instead, a new timeline will see a call for tender occur in November, with the contract awarded in January 2022 and the start of construction in the following spring.