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The below content has been proposed for inclusion at List of municipalities in New Brunswick. This sandbox will allow the three or more interested parties to collaborate to arrive at a consensus for municipal finance content to either be included within the current list article (Option A) or presented in its own article (Option B).

Option 1: Include content within a new section at List of municipalities in New Brunswick

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Municipal finance Financial overview

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Municipalities in New Brunswick may incorporate under the Municipalities Act of 1973 as a city, town, village, regional municipality, or rural community.[1] Municipal governments are led by elected councils and are responsible for the delivery of services such as civic administration, land use planning, emergency measures, policing, road, and garbage collection.[2] New Brunswick has 8 cities, 26 towns, 65 villages, 1 regional municipality, and 7 rural communities.[2][3] Although rural communities are governed by the Municipalities Act, the provincial government distinguishes them from municipalities.[4]  Comment: This paragraph should be struck as it is entirely redundant with the second paragraph (i.e., a copy-and-paste) of the lead section of the article.

Municipalities are empowered by the province to act as independent financial entities.[citation needed]; of Of the various types of municipalities local government, cities have the most latitude.[citation needed] The Municipal Capital Borrowing Act,[5] passed in 1963, established a board Board with a mandate to monitor and authorize the long-term capital borrowing by of municipalities, rural communities and municipal agencies, such as water and landfill administrations.[citation needed]  Comment: What is the official name of the board that acts in this role? Lets refer to it by its official name. As required by legislation, the board Board holds ten public hearings each year to review applications for borrowing to ensure that the municipalities, rural communities and rural communities, as well as municipal agencies are financially viable and able to undertake capital borrowing in conformance with the legislation.[citation needed] The Municipal Debentures Act legislates another source of funds for cities, towns and villages.[citation needed] a city, town or village; debentures Debentures are governed by the Commissioner of Municipal Affairs and the Comptroller of the Province.[6] Both are appointed positions.[citation needed]

The New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government has published since 2000 on an annual basis publishes financial and other municipal statistics on an annual basis.  Comment: We can't assume the department (or its predecessor department) only started publishing this material in 2000 based on what is posted on its website as they could have been published only in hard copy format prior to 2000 and just never uploaded retroactively to the department's website. The compilation of outstanding debts (since 1999) is disaggregated broken down in the table that follows by class of municipality by municipal status type.; rural community debt statistics are unavailable prior to the year 2007,  Comment: No need to report this personal observation. The likely explanation is there was only one rural community prior to mid-2006, so it wasn't until 2007 when the department had two rural communities to aggregate and report on. Regardless, this likely explanation is speculation. We can't speculate. while the debt statistics for municipal sewer and water commissions were inexplicably omitted for 2005 and 2006.  Comment: Again, this is a personal observation. The gross figures published by the department show an expansionexpansion in what?[clarification needed] in the 10 years from 2004 of roughly seven percent per annum.[citation needed]  Comment: Is this another observation? In provided a reference, by careful of WP:SYNTH. The A downgrade in outlook from stable to negative by Standard & Poor's bond rating agency in October 2010,[7] and a downgrade in credit rating by the same agency in June 2012[8] seem not to have affected the ballooning growth.ballooning growth in what? Debt load?[clarification needed]  Comment: Again, the "ballooning growth" comment appears to be a personal observation, which should be avoided, unless the observation has been explicitly reported by a reliable source. Also, be wary of WP:SOAPBOX and WP:NPOV. This could be interpreted as being critical of the debt load growth rather than being neutral about it.

 Comments regarding the table 1. Sixteen years of annual municipal finance statistics seems too detailed for the List of municipalities in New Brunswick article, but could be more appropriate at Municipal finance in New Brunswick if created. The stats from the most recent year, or two most recent years, reported in prose or a brief table would be more appropriate here. 2. As Mattximus has asked, what do the numbers mean? What are the units? 3. What is an appropriate title for the table? 4. The prose above states "municipalities, rural communities and municipal agencies" in that order. The table should follow the same order with the commissions moved to the end. 5. Speaking of, "commissions" are used in the table yet not mentioned in the prose. I presume these are the "municipal agencies" mentioned in the prose. If so, lets be consistent. Shall we change all instances of "municipal agencies" to "commissions" in the prose?

Year Cities Towns Villages Commissions Rural
communities
2014[9] 632.9 168.8 67.6 13.3 1.8
2013[10] 617.3 167.3 64.9 15.7 1.6

Option 2: Create new article at Municipal finance in New Brunswick

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Municipalities in New Brunswick may incorporate under the Municipalities Act of 1973 as a city, town, village, regional municipality, or rural community.[1] Municipal governments are led by elected councils and are responsible for the delivery of services such as civic administration, land use planning, emergency measures, policing, road, and garbage collection.[2] New Brunswick has 8 cities, 26 towns, 65 villages, 1 regional municipality, and 7 rural communities.[2][3] Although rural communities are governed by the Municipalities Act, the provincial government distinguishes them from municipalities.[11]

Municipalities are empowered by the province to act as independent financial entities.[citation needed]; of Of the various types of municipalities local government, cities have the most latitude.[citation needed] The Municipal Capital Borrowing Act,[5] passed in 1963, established a board Board with a mandate to monitor and authorize the long-term capital borrowing by of municipalities, rural communities and municipal agencies, such as water and landfill administrations.[citation needed]  Comment: What is the official name of the board that acts in this role? Lets refer to it by its official name. As required by legislation, the board Board holds ten public hearings each year to review applications for borrowing to ensure that the municipalities, rural communities and rural communities, as well as municipal agencies are financially viable and able to undertake capital borrowing in conformance with the legislation.[citation needed] The Municipal Debentures Act legislates another source of funds for cities, towns and villages.[citation needed] a city, town or village; debentures Debentures are governed by the Commissioner of Municipal Affairs and the Comptroller of the Province.[6] Both are appointed positions.[citation needed]

The New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government has published since 2000 on an annual basis publishes financial and other municipal statistics on an annual basis.  Comment: We can't assume the department (or its predecessor department) only started publishing this material in 2000 based on what is posted on its website as they could have been published only in hard copy format prior to 2000 and just never uploaded retroactively to the department's website. The compilation of outstanding debts (since 1999) is disaggregated broken down in the table that follows by class of municipality by municipal status type.; rural community debt statistics are unavailable prior to the year 2007,  Comment: No need to report this personal observation. The likely explanation is there was only one rural community prior to mid-2006, so it wasn't until 2007 when the department had two rural communities to aggregate and report on. Regardless, this likely explanation is speculation. We can't speculate. while the debt statistics for municipal sewer and water commissions were inexplicably omitted for 2005 and 2006.  Comment: Again, this is a personal observation. The gross figures published by the department show an expansionexpansion in what?[clarification needed] in the 10 years from 2004 of roughly seven percent per annum.[citation needed]  Comment: Is this another observation? In provided a reference, by careful of WP:SYNTH. The A downgrade in outlook from stable to negative by Standard & Poor's bond rating agency in October 2010,[12] and a downgrade in credit rating by the same agency in June 2012[13] seem not to have affected the ballooning growth.ballooning growth in what? Debt load?[clarification needed]  Comment: Again, the "ballooning growth" comment appears to be a personal observation, which should be avoided, unless the observation has been explicitly reported by a reliable source. Also, be wary of WP:SOAPBOX and WP:NPOV. This could be interpreted as being critical of the debt load growth rather than being neutral about it.

 Comments regarding the table 1. As Mattximus has asked, what do the numbers mean? What are the units? 2. What is an appropriate title for the table? 3. The prose above states "municipalities, rural communities and municipal agencies" in that order. The table should follow the same order with the commissions moved to the end. 4. Speaking of, "commissions" are used in the table yet not mentioned in the prose. I presume these are the "municipal agencies" mentioned in the prose. If so, lets be consistent. Shall we change all instances of "municipal agencies" to "commissions" in the prose?

Year Cities Towns Villages Commissions Rural
communities
2014[14] 632.9 168.8 67.6 13.3 1.8
2013[15] 617.3 167.3 64.9 15.7 1.6
2012[16] 599.9 153.7 61.9 17.7 0.8
2011[17] 536.1 143.9 58.9 16.9 0.5
2010[18] 493.3 139.9 59.1 18.3 0.5
2009[19] 429.4 127.4 55.4 21.6 0.3
2008[20] 393.4 117.6 50.4 24.3 0.3
2007[21] 385.2 110.4 48.5 32.3 0.3
2006[22] 323.1 101.8 42.5
2005[23] 302.5 96.6 37.7
2004[24] 274.2 86.4 35.1 39.1
2003[25] 212.9 107.2 36.2 43.4
2002[26] 207.6 102.0 34.1 37.3
2001[27] 203.4 92.3 33.3 37.4
2000[28] 206.6 88.2 33.1 26.7
1999[29] 201.6 85.0 32.4 25.7
  1. ^ a b "Municipalities Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. M-22)". Government of New Brunswick. 1973. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference MuniTypes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "Community Profiles". Government of New Brunswick. 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  4. ^ "Municipalities (Cities, Towns, Villages) and Rural Communities". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Municipal Capital Borrowing Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. M-20)". Government of New Brunswick. 1973. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Municipal Debentures Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. M-21)". Government of New Brunswick. 1973. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  7. ^ cbc.ca: "N.B.'s economic outlook downgraded", October 7, 2010
  8. ^ cbc.ca: "Downgraded credit rating disappoints Higgs", June 8, 2012
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  11. ^ "Municipalities (Cities, Towns, Villages) and Rural Communities". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  12. ^ cbc.ca: "N.B.'s economic outlook downgraded", October 7, 2010
  13. ^ cbc.ca: "Downgraded credit rating disappoints Higgs", June 8, 2012
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