POLL: SUMA board disputes ‘immediate’ need for second bridge
The organization representing the province’s major municipalities is defending its objection to the wording of Prince Albert’s proposed second bridge resolution.
On Monday, city council voted to rescind the resolution it had earlier put forward for approval at the 2014 Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) convention. Members of council, and the city’s mayor, Greg Dionne, decided to withdraw the second-bridge resolution, citing attempts by SUMA to “wordsmith” it.
The resolution called on SUMA to support Prince Albert’s call for a second bridge. Had SUMA supported the resolution, it would have stood behind “the immediate need to plan and construct a second river crossing at Prince Albert and that the need be prioritized as immediate and forwarded to the provincial minister of highways and infrastructure and the federal minister of trade and infrastructure. ”
But SUMA’s board did not stand behind the “immediate need” for the bridge.