The Town of High River continues to wrestle with the Disaster Recovery Program. Currently the town has around $44,000,000 in claims under review with DRP. Mayor Craig Snodgrass says it's important for High River residents to understand that while most of the town looks very good, they fight for the community's rebuild on a daily basis. He says the town is in the same situation as many home-owners and businesses, fighting for everything when it comes to DRP.

"The town has DRP applications exactly the same as a home-owner. An example is a home-owner submitting for a basement rebuild. The Town of High River, we submit for the underground infrastructure repairs downtown. That's part of what DRP is built to do, is to fix those things."

Snodgrass says the town hasn't had anything approved from DRP in the last five months, which is affecting other town projects.

"We have other money that's allocated for other projects that we're being very tight on right now, but it's also allocated for other projects that are extremely important to this town. DRP just has to step up. Once the approvals have been made, the money flows. It's getting that approval and getting the staff time up there to just review our files and give the check-mark."

Snodgrass says DRP needs to step up, get applications processed, and make sure no other community has the same issues.

"It's been an absolute nightmare for a lot of people in High River, dealing with this DRP program. It's the flood, and then this DRP program in lots of instances has been worse than the water. I don't really care if they're tired of hearing from us. We're just going to get louder. It is just so bad, and I don't want to see what High River's been through happen in any other community in this province."

Snodgrass says it's pretty cut and dried what is and isn't funded by DRP, the program just needs to put the staff time in and get applications approved.