| DUNNOTTAR RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT'S UPDATE July 22, 2017
I encourage all ratepayers in the Village of Dunnottar to call their counsellor on the proposed rate increase. The following letter was received July 21st. and I wanted to bring this important issue to everyone's attention.
If any resident is interested in sitting on the Village of Dunnottar rate payers board please contact me either by phone or email.
Ed Strauman
President
Dunnottar Ratepayer Association
Phone (204) 667-7199
EMail : edstrauman@shaw.ca
JULY 11, 2016
Please have a look at this article from The St. Andrews Record News.
Note the highlighted extra costs asociated with their sewer which does not even mention on lot costs to the homeowner such as a holding tank, electrical hook up, excavation, etc.
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APRIL 12, 2016
I was recently contacted by a couple looking for a cottage lot at Sunset Beach, just north of the Grand Beach area. They were in shock at the sewer and related fees forwarded to them. The fees are as follows:
1. A required fee of $12,500.00 to pay for a low-pressure sewer system.
2. An option to amortize the $12,500.00 sewer fee over 20 years at $871.07 per year, making the actual cost of sewer fees $17,421.00 per lot.
THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FEES:
3. A $1,500.00 Municipal Permit Fee required by the RM for trenching and hydro connection to on-lot septic pump.
4. The Permit Fee DOES NOT COVER trenching costs, electrical costs, on-lot septic pump costs or on-lot septic tank costs or any other electrical, hydro connection or like fees.
Do not let the pro-sewer lobby in Dunnottar continually downplay the true cost of sewers. The couple I spoke to at Sunset Beach said they were told that $25,000.00 to $30,000.00 were the expected sewer costs if they bought the lot and built a cottage. This couple have now suspended their cottage search in the Sunset Beach area partly due to these high sewer costs.
Yours Truly,
Ed Strauman,
President, Dunnottar Ratepayers Association
DUNNOTTAR RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT'S UPDATE APRIL 2016
The Dunnottar Ratepayers Association has been made aware of a Winnipeg based development group showing interest in pursuing multi-family housing options from Gimli to Matlock.
The DRA has also learned the Dunnottar pro-sewer lobbyists are pursuing a MANDATORY sewer designation for Dunnottar. What this means, is there will be no options to fight the installation of a sewer system as the Province will simply rubber stamp the sewer installation with no public input. We assume the designation of Dunnottar's current pump-out system as a public utility by the Public Utility Board last March is a precursor to having the Province declare sewers mandatory for Dunnottar.
Remember, it was only last Spring that Dunnottar residents were blind-sided by the Public Utility Board ruling that Dunnottar was instituting a flat rate for sewage pick-up. The PUB hearing held last June in Dunnottar was held after the PUB made the decision. Ironically, the PUB told Dunnottar officials to do a better job of informing the public.
On November 27, 2015 I was invited by Mayor Gamble to a COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS MEETING. Supposedly, this committee was formed to save municipal operating funds and reduce environmental impacts in the area. With the meeting being only a few minutes old, a permanent resident also asked by Mayor Gamble to attend the meeting, stood up and said Dunnottar needs sewers.
It is obvious that the result of the July 2012 sewer referendum means nothing to those who want to pursue sewers at any cost in Dunnottar. Remember, sewers are needed to allow development in Dunnottar. Is this what people want for the pristine park-like setting of Dunnottar?
I have recently been contacted by other Ratepayer Associations saying they have concerns about sewer costs and development in their areas. In talking to Ratepayers in West St. Paul and St. Malo, Manitoba, I was given figures between $20,000.00 to $30,000.00 for sewer installation costs.
Ed Strauman,
President, Dunnottar Ratepayers Association
We, at the DRA, are committed to keep Dunnottar residents informed on local issues.
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