By Aaron Schulze

on the provincial stage

Nipawin presents benefits of partnerships at SUMA Conference

Feb 5, 2019 | 3:39 PM

Day three of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) convention rolls on, and it serves as an opportunity for the Town of Nipawin to continue learning and networking.

The Town of Nipawin presented at the SUMA Convention, an occasion which Mayor Rennie Harper mentioned didn’t happen often, and chose to centre its presentation around the benefits of partnerships and encouraged other municipalities to build on them.

“Former council also encouraged partnerships and we continued to build on those things,” Harper told northeastNOW. “It does mean there has to be ongoing conversations and that sometimes not everybody agrees, and you have to find ways to come to some kind of consensus. Most of that is keeping in mind the goal you’re trying to get to; you’re looking at what’s best for the entire region.

“It does make for some challenges and it means that you have to meet regularly to address the things that don’t work so well and kind of get in your way and find ways to work around them.”

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Harper cited the Boreal Area Regional Waste Authority with the Town of Nipawin’s five other partners (Village of Aylsham, Village of Codette, R.M. of Connaught, R.M. of Nipawin, and Village of Tobin Lake), the Twin Lakes Community Development Group, and work with other regional fire departments as some of the partnerships that benefit them.

The Town of Nipawin won’t have any further presentations at the Saskatoon SUMA Convention which ends tomorrow.

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