The Town of High River's putting away some cash for a rainy day.....or a massive breakdown.

Town Manager Tom Maier says the town needs to have some cash in reserves to take care of the unexpected.

"We've made good steps in the last two to three years just getting our financial, I guess our long term financial strategy in place, by making sure we're putting funds away for future replacement of our infrastructure which has been a key thing as assets, buildings, water, sewer, infrastructure around town needs replacement," he says. "We have some upcoming challenges with our pool that we're going to have to address so we'll need the funding available."

He says they've done a good job going from putting away zero dollars three years ago to putting $2 million away this year and we're hoping to build on that over the next couple of years.

The money comes primarily from tax revenue and utility user fees.

He says they're trying to be proactive rather than having to come up with the money when something breaks down. He says they could use grant dollars but a lot of grant need matching dollars to qualify.