The projected cost of a project to build a swimming pool to be shared between the 14 municipalities of the Haut Saint François MRC has become the source of some concern among four of those communities.
On Monday, the town of Cookshire-Eaton issued a press release on behalf of its own municipal administration as well as those of Bury, Newport and Saint-Isidore-de- Clifton arguing that the project provides more questions than answers in its current format.
“The municipalities’ capacity to pay was not considered,” said Claude Leclair, communications director for Cookshire-Eaton, who told the Record that the communities now feel locked into a costly vision that lacks a solid business plan and is not balanced in the way that it.
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Haut Saint François municipalities share concerns about swimming pool project
By Gordon Lambie, Local Journalism Initiative