More money for libraries and airports and a new tax on visitors are among the issues Alberta’s cities and towns want to bring to the provincial government's attention.

Alberta Municipalities’ annual convention is set to run from Wednesday to Friday next week. The organization, which advocates on behalf of municipalities around the province, holds the convention to debate and vote on where the organization should focus its advocacy.

More than dozen resolutions will be debated next week, all suggesting solutions to problems that municipalities around Alberta face.

Rising costs for libraries

Before he was recently elected as Stettler's mayor, Gord Lawlor was the "library guy" on town council. As Lawlor recounts, former municipal affairs minister Ric McIver gave Lawlor the moniker earlier

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