Mountain View County adjusts to
funding model while staying busy
I
n the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, the
operative phrase was “Show me the
money!”
In Mountain View County these days, it
sounds a little more like “Find us some
money!”
Thanks to sweeping budget adjustments in
Alberta, municipalities across the province
are being forced to adjust to a new – read:
homegrown – reality when it comes to
funding a never-ceasing stream of
maintenance on important infrastructure
projects.
And in a rural county of just more than
12,000 people and few major employers
outside of the farm or oil patch, it’s an
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