The RM of Rosser will provide charitable donations or grants to a dozen groups in 2024.
The funds will go to Association for Community Living Interlake ($4,500), Community Re-Source Network ($4,000), Interlake Community Foundation ($5,500), Northern Lites Snowmobile Club ($2,000), Rockwood Festival of the Arts ($500), South Interlake 55 Plus ($2,500), South Interlake (Rockwood) Ag Society ($8,000), South West District Palliative Care ($5,000), Vintage Locomotive Society ($2,000), Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference ($700), Stonewall Quarry Days ($1,000) and Stony Mountain Community Association ($500).
In other council news:
• The City of Winnipeg requested approval to amend their biosolids program travel route to Provincial Trunk Highway 101 to Provincial Road 221, then west on 221 to Mile Road 4W. Council conditionally approved the request. The conditions include that transport trucks must reduce their speed to 30 kilometre per hour or slower from the intersection of provincial roads 221 and 236 (Dorsey Road) to the intersection of Provincial Road 221 and Meridian Road.
• Canada Post is no longer supporting the use of postal code R3C 2E6 in the RM of Rosser. Council authorized Canada Post to assign mailing addresses that are consistent with civic addresses affected and to assign new postal codes, if needed. The RM will work with Canada Post to implement civic addressing for mail delivery to the affected properties.
• Council is requesting that the Public Utilities Board review and vary the wastewater rate for the CentrePort Utility by an extra 30 cents per cubic metre in order to maintain adequate rates for the utility. The CentrePort Utility purchases wastewater service from the City of Winnipeg, which has increased its wholesale purchase rate to $3.21 per cubic metre from the previous rate of $2.91 per cubic metre. Council also passed first reading of a bylaw to establish water and wastewater rates within the CentrePort Utility.
• The RM of Rosser will donate $200 worth of gift cards to the Association of Rural Municipalities’ 25th annual charity golf tournament on Aug. 1.
• Council recently approved a quotation of $45,000 plus tax from Oak Hammock Construction Ltd. as a sole source contract award for a project to upgrade a Road 68N between Meridian Road and Road 1E. Currently, Road 68N is classified as a mud road. The road upgrade has been on the RM’s budget for the past two years. Some work was completed several years ago on the eastern end of the mile-long section, but the western end is not yet finished. The work aims to raise the road elevation in low areas and to improve drainage so the road is available more often. Many local farmers use this road to move equipment to fields. In addition, many Rosser residents use this road to travel between Meridian Road and Road 1E, when conditions allow.
