In Chestermere, Alberta, a provincially appointed supervisor is calling for an investigation into the City of Chestermere’s repeated attempts to refund over $100,000 to a landowner. The city has been conducting cleanup work on the privately owned land at no cost to the owner. Official administrator Doug Lagore has requested a third-party investigator to look into the matter. This would be the second provincial probe since the current mayor and council took office in 2021. The land in question is a long-defunct waterpark site with increasing property taxes, and the owner, Jarnail Sihota, had brought the matter to the city’s attention. The investigation will focus on council members’ actions related to the property and the city’s remedial work on it. Sihota confirmed that the city is conducting the work at no cost to him. Mayor Jeff Colvin had offered to carry out the remediation at the city’s expense. The city cited the need to dispose of clean fill dirt piled along the side of Rainbow Road as the reason for the undertaking on the “waterslide lands.”
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/chestermere-tax-refund-100k