Alberta municipalities are angry at Ottawa over being handed a $60 million bill for extra RCMP costs.
His members were already seeing other policing costs downloaded on them, said McLauchlin.
The FCM said the town of Hinton, with a population of about 10,000, will have to ante up an extra $750,000.Article content“We anticipated this invoice was going to be coming but the process was flawed from the beginning,” said Brown, who governs a city of nearly 80,000 people. An RCMP cruiser blocks a road while officers investigate a crime scene near Airdrie on Feb. 18, 2020.He said Airdrie budgeted about $1.6 million for the additional policing costs “and that additional $600,000 may not seem like much but with the cost of living increases, we need every nickel we can get to support our growth.”
RCMP members’ last collective agreement expired in 2016. Under the new pact, commissioned officers will receive a pay increase of 1.75 per cent for each year between 2017 and 2023.
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