By Curtis Galbraith

Municipal Politics

New Government Advocacy Plan in place for County of Grande Prairie

Oct 26, 2020 | 6:00 AM

The County of Grande Prairie has approved its new Government Advocacy Plan for 2020-21.

The plan includes working with other levels of government on a half-dozen things, including fighting rural crime, economic development, transportation, a new health facility in Beaverlodge, support for the dinosaur museum, and increasing the County’s profile with the provincial government.

Reeve Leanne Beaupre says the County and province are working together on understanding the new rural policing framework and what the funding implications will be.

“Round-up funding, revenue that is generated from the rural responsibility, if that is going to be reinvested back into those municipalities to help fight some of that rural crime.”

Beaupre says the Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital is the oldest hospital in Alberta and an integral part of health care in this region.

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“When you talk about the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital, operationally when they speak about it, they talk about how the outlying health care facilities are an integral part of how that operation will happen on a day-to-day basis when that new hospital opens.”

She adds the previous edition of this plan helped lead to the province agreeing to do twinning along Highway 40.

“We worked very hard along with our neighbours in the MD of Greenview. First of all, we worked very hard on doing a socio-economic study for the province to show them how exactly much revenue, as well as potential revenue, comes out of this area.”

Beaupre adds industry also told the province they felt they were being held back, with lost man-hours, lost revenue and lost productivity, with the way the highway is right now.

Beaupre says the County will have monthly updates on how this advocacy process is going and has hired an agency to help with these efforts.