Disappointment and relief as N.B. tweaks some municipal boundaries
CBC
There was disappointment and relief in various New Brunswick communities this week as the province announced which requests for changes to local governance boundaries it would accept, and which it rejected.
The province issued a list Tuesday afternoon with dozens of changes.
Many move portions or whole local service districts from one local entity to another, while other more substantive changes include the creation of a new community from multiple LSDs in Kings County, north of Sussex.
Several communities that had voiced opposition to forced amalgamations with neighbouring centres did not see their requests reflected in the adjustments.
"I was - and the council was - very much disappointed," Lac Baker Mayor Roseline Pelletier said in an interview.
The community of 750 in the province's northwest will become part of Haut-Madawaska in January 2023. It had sought status quo to retain local control.
"We were confident that we proved with data that we were well off, we didn't need government … we thought we had good arguments to make the government change its mind about amalgamating us with the other community."
There was also disappointment in Minto and Chipman, which opposed the province's plan to merge the central New Brunswick villages.
Mayor Erica Barnett in a letter to residents posted on Facebook said she had been excited about local governance reform when it was announced.
"I trusted the process, I believed that government would listen to local leaders and take the input we provided," Barnett wrote.
"Clearly that has not been the case. This has made council completely lose trust and faith in the process and in our government."
Meanwhile in Kent County, a proposal to merge communities the province initially planned to keep separate was approved.
The pitch called for merging the Town of Richibucto, Village of Saint-Louis-de-Kent, as well as the local service districts of Saint-Ignace, Aldouane, Saint-Charles and most of the LSD of Saint-Louis-de-Kent.
Saint-Louis-de-Kent Mayor Danielle Dugas welcomed the approval of the request.
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