A City of Brandon resolution to help municipalities with the cost of maintaining and demolishing derelict buildings is set to be debated today at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) fall convention.

Brandon, the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West and the City of Thompson are the municipalities sponsoring the motion. Municipal delegates will vote on the resolution today. If approved, it would go to the Manitoba municipal and northern relations department, which would issue a response early next year.

Currently, when buildings are abandoned and become unsafe, costs to maintain safety or demolish the building fall on the municipality.

“With some of these derelict properties — and there’s not a lot of them — there can be costs to clean up, and they can be stuck on the m

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