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Melfort, SK, Canada / CJVR Today s Best Country May 26, 2021 | 2:26 PM An open house held at Manitou Beach was the beginning of the resort village’s new official community plan. The newly elected village council wanted to update the community plan and wanted to do so by engaging residents and gaining feedback. The official community plan committee is made up of a dozen unelected as well as elected officials, according to village councillor and community member Robb LaRochelle. “We really needed to have as many voices included as possible and so we tried to represent that with this committee,” LaRochelle said. Over the winter, the committee did various activities that would represent information and community assets to be featured in the open house events. ....
In December, Celine Favreau, the alliance’s operations and planning director, asked council to reconsider the withdrawal, telling them that companies that make investments in a region want to see active collaboration between local municipalities. Michael Behiel, Humboldt’s mayor, said the city is planning to use the money it spent on the Mid-Sask Municipal Alliance for its own economic development committee. “But realizing that regional co-operation is extremely important, we want to try and make sure that we re not isolating ourselves at the same time,” he said. “The balance is to try and determine how much we want to do on our own and how much we want to do with them.” ....