The previous provincial government has offered buy-outs to a group of homes along Riverside Drive and Highview Park, along the Highwood Golf Course, and eight properties along Riverside Drive.

The buy-outs are still in place, at last word, and High River Mayor Craig Snodgrass isn't happy about it.

"These properties, half their lots, not even half are being nicked by this floodway map and so therefore they've been offered a buy-out," Mayor Snodgrass says. "It's an absolute ridiculous waste of money."

He says he's been fighting it with every different Premier and Municipal Affairs Minister that's been in the job since the flood, and that's a lot.

He says under the previous government, with Diana McQueen in the Municipal affairs Minister's seat, they did receive an extension to 2017 which gives him hope that he's making strides in the right direction and hopes to continue that with the new government.

He says some of the homes have "cobwebs in their sump pumps" because they received so little water and to spend money buying out the properties that were not impacted is a waste of taxpayer's money.

He gave credit to Howard and Ingrid Suitor, the only residents affected that are still living in their home and who have spearheaded the drive to take the buy-out off the table.