Cumberland municipal council approves its 2025-26 priorities
Cumberland municipal council adopted its 2025-26 priorities during a special council meeting on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
The 2025-26 priorities document was created through combining the information that council generated through your priority setting exercise, with a similar exercise that senior staff completed.
The five priorities council determined as most important for 2025-26 include plan for the hub fire service model, options for River Hebert water, improving infrastructure for new development, develop an approach to tourism and community capacity planning.
There are also several operational priorities, arranged by department.
Municipal council authorizes $150,00 from 26-27 capital budget to buy fire apparatus
Cumberland municipal council has authorized the commitment of $150,000 from the 2026-27 capital budget to purchase fire apparatus.
During the capital budget approval process, council approved $1,55 million for fire apparatus for the 2025-26 fiscal year. In addition to these funds, there is $360,750 carried forward from the 2024-25 capital budget.
The two trucks ordered last year (for delivery and payment this year) were the Tidnish rescue and the Pugwash pumper vehicles. This year, the two trucks which were slated for order are the Parrsboro rescue and the Springhill pumper/tanker vehicles.
Council has already approved the purchase of the Parrsboro rescue vehicle. The price of the Springhill pumper/tanker will put the municipality over the approved 2025-26 capital budget.
Council also voted to approve the purchase of the pumper-tanker for $823,930.87 (including non-recoverable HST) from Fort Gary Fire Truck.
The estimated delivery time is up to 90 weeks.
Dexter Construction awarded Parrsboro Waterline Replacement project by council
Municipal council voted to award the Parrsboro Waterline Replacement project to Dexter Construction for $1.124 million (including non-recoverable HST).
It is also directing staff to negotiate an increase to scope of the project up to the approved 2025-26 budget of $1.654 million.
The Parrsboro water system has more than six kilometres of cast iron water pipes that are more than 100 years old. These pipes are an elevated for leaks and other failures, tuberculation that can reduce pipe capacity and cause water quality issues.
Replacement of these pipes, well beyond the end of their life cycle, improves the quality of water and reliability of service.
The municipality has received approval for 50 per cent of the costs of the original budget through the provincial Municipal Capital Growth Program ($822,800).
The project involves the replacement of waterlines on Templar Street, Whitehall Road and Atlantic Avenue.
Council passes motion allowing municipality to accept donations for ADDA building effort
Municipal council passed a motion authorizing the municipality to receive donations and issue tax receipts in respect to the Advocate and District Development Association building project.