Marathon meeting approves city utility proposal
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WINNIPEG — Mayor Sam Katz’s cabinet has approved a plan to create a new water, sewer and power utility after spending six hours listening to critics of the plan and another hour raking city officials over the coals.
City council’s executive policy voted unanimously in favour of replacing Winnipeg’s water-and-waste department with stand-alone agency that would assume control of water, sewer, garbage and recycling services and possibly extend sewage-treatment to neighbouring municipalities.
The proposal would also see council hand over the power to set water and sewer rates to the provincial Public Utilities Board.
But the proposal came under fire because of uncertainty surrounding a key component of the business plan: A proposal to enter into some form of partnership with a private engineering consortium to complete up to $1 billion worth of sewage-treatment upgrades and combined-sewer replacements.
EPC councillors voted in favour of the plan as long as portions of the business plan are amended when the proposal goes to city council as a whole next week.
Council will debate the utility proposal on July 22.