The Hastings County Finance, Property and Personnel Committee has approved a recommendation to council that they support a resolution from the Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus (EOWC) calling for Investment in Municipal Infrastructure for Eastern Ontario’s small and rural communities.
This comes after the EOWC put together a municipal infrastructure policy paper that shows infrastructure data, opportunities and challenges in small rural municipalities in Eastern Ontario.
The resolution calls for Hastings County to join the EOWC, Association of Municipalities of Ontario, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to immediately partner with municipal governments by investing in both new and ongoing maintenance and repairs of municipal infrastructure in Eastern Ontario’s small rural municipalities.
It also calls for the federal and provincial governments to immediately review the information from the policy paper and work with the municipalities to come up with solutions.
Hastings County Council will look at the recommendation to support the resolution at a future meeting.
