Work has stopped temporarily on pathways in the Mercer-Hughes land in High River.

The Rotary Club is trying to improve pathways and signage in the area but High River council had some questions for club members, Jim Ross, Duncan Scott and Les Rempel Monday.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass says the club originally brought forward the general idea of making the improvements in February.

"We gave administration the OK to work with Rotary on the high level plans, the plans never came back until June or July after we were told that the Rotary group had been given the green light to go ahead and we started asking questions like 'where's the plan?' so that's kind of where it went off, there was a bit of a disconnect there, not Rotary, they was working directly with administration on this, the disconnect came between council and administration," he says.

He's spoken with CAO Chris Prosser about the wording of motions made in council and how they can make sure the meanings are clearer in the future.

It won't be left the way it is.

"The current state of it is not the finished state, the group is not even close and from the meeting on Monday council and the Rotary group, administration, the Rotary Club and the Shawne excavating, the company hired to do the brush mowing, we're all meeting on site, we're all going to get this so that we're all on the same page as to how this is proceeding forward and how the pathways will be completed," the mayor says. "Everybody has to know that the stumps that are there now, these six and eight inch stumps that are there no will be absolutely cleaned up, that's not the way it's going to be left there's no option there."

Some of the rough work done at the beginning of work on pathways in the Hughes-Mercer land in High River

They'll gather on site next Tuesday Sept. 21 at 5:30 p.m..

 

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