There are a few issues candidates in Nanton are excited to tackle if they get elected in the Municipal Election including water, growth and new business opportunities.

Resident Dan McLelland says growth of the town is top on his list.

He says the town is very limited on what they can do so the only way forward is through growth.

"Probably the biggest thing I would like to push for on council is growth," said McLelland. "In Nanton we are very limited on what we can do by the size of our population. There is only so many of us paying into the pot."

"The only way we can improve our infrastructure, whether it is recreation facilities, the medical facility, our piping our roads and everything else."

He adds the town can't raise taxes because the because they are already high, you can't tax business because you will push them out of town.

"So I see the best way to do it is growth."

And he says one of the things he moved to town for was the famous Nanton water.

"That has gone by the wayside and that seems to be a secret as to why. If you talk to 10 long term residents you get 10 different answers on what has happened.'

"I would like to find out what has happened and what we can do and I would like to pursue getting us some good tasting, adequate supply of decently priced drinking water."

McLelland would also like to streamline things for businesses because he believes there are too many stumbling blocks in the way of a businesses growing.

"When long-term residents are getting frustrated about trying to grow a business in this town, it is going to be tough to convince me that someone with no sentimental ties to this town are willing to jump through those hoops to get it."

And one more issue he'd like to tackle are traffic and speed limits.

"We have people who are obviously really upset and they are going to what lengths they can to alleviate the situation. To me we need to say what can we as the Town legally do, what has the town done and what restrictions are stopping us from going further than what we can do."

"What can we do, why has it not been done this is an ongoing issue for at least two years, it doesn't take two years to solve a problem."

He adds councillors need to ask what can we do and why has it not been done.

 

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