It has been two months without a response to the letter Mayor Terry Yemen sent asking for answers on the flood mitigation and the funding promised to the town to make the mitigation happen.
According to Mayor Yemen, he sent a letter dated August 26 of this year to the premier, our MLA, ministers, and the Wild Rose Party. It seems the letter has fallen on deaf ears.
Mr. Yemen said, “We sent a letter asking about mitigation and the 100 per cent funding we were promised years ago and nobody bothered to respond. Now we are sending another to the premier asking for a letter of acknowledgment and comments.”
It has been a long fight for the Town of Drumheller to be heard on matters of flood mitigation be made for Drumheller and area.
“The people need clear definition from the province and once again they failed. We shouldn’t have to wonder, ‘Am I in a flood zone or am I not in a flood zone,’ ” Yemen said.
According to the Mayor, Drumheller has been approved and the Alberta government has signed the papers to say that Drumheller will receive 100 per cent funding for flood mitigation but the town has yet to see this put into action. When the NDP government came into office, Yemen met with the government. They told him they had not made those promises.
Mayor Yemen said, “This money has been promised over the decades repeatedly by the Province. I don’t care what party it was. NDP, Conservative, or Liberal, the NDP is the Alberta government right now. We sure do expect that they maintain those promises and keep their word.”
