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Job Posting: Occupational Health & Safety Officer
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The Municipality of the County of Cumberland is currently accepting resumes for an Occupational Health & Safety Officer
T-MCC-2502
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The Municipality of the County of Cumberland is currently advertising a request for proposal for “Springhill WWTP Roof Replacement“
RFP-MCC-2502
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The Municipality of the County of Cumberland is currently advertising a request for proposal for “Supply of a Half-Ton Pickup Truck“
Municipality of Cumberland has new Joint Accessibility Plan
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The Municipality of Cumberland, Village of Pugwash and Village of River Hebert have come together to create a new Joint Accessibility Plan with the aim to make Cumberland accessible for all.
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, municipal council approved the municipality's newest Joint Accessibility Plan as mandated by the Nova Scotia Accessibility Act.
Accessible means that something is easy for anyone to use. People with and without disabilities can use or participate in it fully (e.g. flat sidewalks, job benefits, and documents that anyone can read).
The Joint Accessibility Plan has been developed by the Accessibility Advisory Committee, which is a collaboration between the Municipality of the County of Cumberland, the Village of Pugwash, the Village of River Hebert, the Nova Scotia Accessibility Directorate within the Department of Justice, and members of the public.
The plan organizes actions for the municipality and villages to take.
At least one half of the committee’s members are people with disabilities (or employees who work for people with disabilities).
Municipal staff have spoken with Cumberland residents to hear their opinions about what should be included. The Plan will be reviewed and updated at least every three years in accordance with Nova Scotia’s Accessibility Act (2017), or more often as necessary.
Municipality of Cumberland approves $41-million operating budget, $14.3-million capital budget
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The Municipality of Cumberland approved a $41-million operating budget and a $14.3-million capital budget at a special online meeting on Monday, March 31, 2025.
It was the first time in recent memory that the municipality's operating and capital budgets have been brought forward for council's consideration and final approval prior to the beginning of the fiscal year.
The municipality’s commercial assessment values remained relatively flat this year, but residential capped assessment grew by about seven per cent. With the Property Valuation Services Corporation setting the assessment cap at 1.5 per cent, real residential assessment growth, or new assessment, was about 5.5 per cent. This growth produced about $1.5 million in additional tax revenue.