Municipalities of Saskatchewan President Gordon Barnhart said both he and the administration of his organization gave updates on their advocacy work over the past year, and what issues and discussions have been taking place at the board level. Community representatives all got to introduce themselves and talk about what is going on in their communities. Barnhart said he was impressed at the number of communities working on renewal projects for their sewer and water or water treatment plants and wastewater lagoons. This is a big issue province-wide for communities no matter the size, he said. “About 60 years ago all of these communities put those systems in, and they re now needing to be replaced. There are many communities doing that, but there are even more that need to do it and they haven t yet gotten a grant from the government and they can’t afford to do it individually.”