WHEREAS pursuant to Section 255 of The Cities Act, cities in Saskatchewan are given the power and authority to set mill rates for subclasses of property.

WHEREAS rural municipalities within the Province of Saskatchewan are not given the same legislated authority to set mill rates for subclasses of property (for example between commercial and industrial).

WHEREAS previous SARM resolutions have passed advocating for the ability of rural municipalities to use tax tools in order set mill rates for subclasses of property, but the provincial government has refused to accede to these requests.

BE IT RESOLVED that SARM lobby the provincial government to pay a percentage (not less than 10%) of the royalty from industrial resources collected by the provincial government to the RMs from which the natural resource(s) are extracted from.