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May 25, 2022 · The New Brunswick government has announced the proposed names 77 local governments and 12 rural districts. The new municipalities were created as a result of the Higgs government's local ...
Mar 9, 2024 · As of Jan. 1, 2023, the province slashed the number of local government entities from 340 to 77 municipalities and 12 rural districts. But with new municipalities came a need for new names ...
- Expanded Role For Commissions
- Smaller Municipalities Affected
- Liberals See Lots to Weigh
- Greens Welcome Change
- Next Elections Delayed
Regional service commissions created a decade ago to co-ordinate some of those issues will be beefed up, with new mandates and voting rules to reduce the procedural gridlock on some votes and put limits on opting out. The commissions, which include all municipalities and rural LSDs in their areas, will now have a role in economic development, touri...
There are no major amalgamations involving the province's three largest cities. Saint John's boundaries remain unchanged and Moncton gains a small part of one local service district but not Dieppe or Riverview. Fredericton will absorb several outlying adjacent areas but no nearby municipalities. But a number of smaller municipalities will be fused ...
Opposition parties were tepid in their reactions. "The sense I got over the last few months with the consultations was that people were very open to some kind of change," said Liberal MLA Keith Chiasson. "Obviously, what was announced today was a major change. So there's a lot of information shared with us and the population in general. We're going...
The Green Party welcomed the changes. "Honestly, it's pretty comprehensive," said MLA Kevin Arseneau. "It's a good reform and a very important reform." He said there needs to be more discussion about how to include citizens in the democratic process even more, and he added he hopes Allain will be open to adjusting some of the mergers and boundaries...
The next municipal elections will be pushed back from 2025 to 2026 because some of the new entities will need elections or byelections scheduled for November 2022. Major changes to local government financing won't happen until the new municipal entities are in place but will take place before 2025. Among possible changes at that time will be passin...
Mar 4, 2022 · Share. On December 17, 2021, New Brunswick’s Local Governance Reform Act (Bill 82) amending the N.B. Local Governance Act (and other related acts and regulations) took effect. The Bill will drastically change New Brunswick’s local governance landscape, with broad-reaching implications for existing and newly created local governments.
The new structure has 77 local governments, 12 rural districts and an expanded mandate for regional service commissions. Local Governance Commission The Local Governance Commission will be an expert body and is being created to review, assess, and make recommendations or rule on matters affecting the governance and administration of local governance structures.
regional municipalities, and the administration of the province’s unincorporated areas, known as local service districts (LSDs). As the new Local Governance Act replaces the former Municipalities Act, this guide is intended to provide an overview of the new legislation. It is for information purposes
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Mar 9, 2020 · Despite internal variegation, new municipalists are united by two distinct features: first, harnessing the urban or municipal scale to achieve strategic ends which – secondly – vary from ‘pragmatic’ (Aldag et al., 2019) and ‘entrepreneurial’ (Thompson et al., 2020) municipalisms, representing more constrained, reactive responses to ...
