Mungall slams Jumbo municipality funding

The government is getting a roasting from Nelson-Creston New Democrat Michelle Mungall over funding for the new Jumbo Glacier Resort Municipality.

She’s asking how they could find $200,000 a year for the next five years for a local government that has no residents and no resort yet.

She’s wondering where’s the money to buy out Johnsons Landing landslide property owners, or for a new Trafalgar School, Selkirk College upgrades or to fund 24/7 running of the CT Scanner at KLH?

The government says the Jumbo Glacier Resort will create construction jobs followed by hundreds of full-time positions.

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