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ANNUAL WATERWORKS INFORMATION
ANNUAL INFORMATION TO BE MADE AVAILABLE AT THE MUNICIPAL OFFICE
Year: 2025
Name of Municipality: Village of Montmartre Date: August 19, 2026
WATERWORKS RATE POLICY
According to the policy, the following monthly rates shall apply, as adopted by Bylaw No.301-2025, on October 9,
2025, a bylaw to fix the rates to be charged for the use and consumption of water and to fix the rates to be
charged by way of rent or service charge for the use of the sewer for 2026, 2027 & 2028 to meet annual
expenditures.
Monthly Water Rates: Effective March 1 of: 2026 2027 2028
a) Minimum monthly rates shall apply for the use of fourteen (14) cubic
metres or less of water per month:
i) Private Dwellings, Business, Churches, Mobile Homes, All Others S 40.00 S 42.00 S 44.00
ii) Water service user outside Village limits S 70.00 S 73.50 S 77.00
iii) Consumption of water over fourteen (14) cubic meters per month S 1.60 S 1.65 5 1.70
per cubic metre or part thereof.
b) a monthly flat rate will be applied to the following:
i) Health Care Centre $480.00 $504.00 $528.00
ii) Low Rental Housing & School $560.00 $588.00 $616.00
Monthly Sewer Service Charges:
i) Private Dwellings, Business, Churches, Mobile Homes and All Others 5 26.00 S 27.00 5 28.00
ii) Sewer service user outside Village limits $ 45.50 S 47.25 S 49.00
iii) Health Care Centre $312.00 $324.00 $336.00
iv) Low Rental Housing & School $364.00 $378.00 $392.00
Monthly Ifrastructure Fee
i) Monthly infrastructure charge per connection S 5.00 S 10.00 S 15.00
Council will review the waterworks policy annually to determine if the annual waterworks revenues cover the
waterworks operating costs and $25,000 or more, per year to be utilized for utility capital expenditures and/or to
be transferred to Utility Reserves to address waterworks and wastewater infrastructure problems that arise and to
replace aging waterworks and wastewater infrastructure as required.
Bylaws will be passed for water rate changes.
In March 2006, the Village received the Waterworks System Assessment (WSA) Final Report, it provided
recommendations for improvements to the waterworks system. These waterworks upgrades were completed in
2012. The Village’s drinking water meets the standards as established by the Provincial Government through The
Water Regulations, 2002.
In 2012 the Village was notified that the sewage lagoon was undersized and therefore Lagoon Capacity Study was
completed in July 2012 and revised January 2017. To meet the current and a 20 year projected population a
lagoon expansion began in 2018 and was completed in 2021.
To continue to prepare for future water infrastructure replacement and improvements, the Village Council, on
October 9, 2025, passed the current Water and Sewer Rates Bylaw that they feel is needed to continue putting
funds into a reserve to provide for needed infrastructure. Waterworks operating costs, or expenditures, include
waterworks’ staff salaries, benefits and training; power; telephone; fuel; heat; insurance; chemicals; repairs;
maintenance; supplies; etc. The goal is to transfer $25,000, or more, per year to Utility Reserves for utility capital
expenditures.
WATERWORKS CAPITAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY
On June 11, 2026, Council passed a resolution to adopt a 5 year Capital Plan which is reflected in the Capital
Investment Strategy.
The objective of the utility capital investment strategy is to address the immediate drinking water infrastructure
problems and anticipate future infrastructure replacements in a timely fashion to ensure the municipal
waterworks is in a condition to provide safe drinking water to residents and businesses in the community in the
present and future. The principal document from which this strategy was formed was the March 2006 Waterworks
System Assessment (WSA) being a requirement of Saskatchewan Environment’s The Water Regulations, 2002 for
infrastructure planning.
The Village’s Capital Investment Strategy in a continuation of the review of the utility revenues to expenses that
resulted in the present utility rates being established. These rates were established on the premise that they
would be able to cover both the normal annual operations of the utility and the costs of the present and
anticipated future infrastructure improvernenls and/or replacements of the utility even though short-term
borrowing may be necessary as part of the financing major capital projects.
Capital plans have been established to address the waterworks and wastewater works infrastructure deficiencies
as identified in the March 2006 Waterworks System Assessment and the 2012 Lagoon Capacity Study and revised
in 2017. The current waterworks and wastewater works capital plans as outlined in the 2025 Five Year Capital
Works Plan and planned sources of funding are as follows:
Project Planned Year of 2025 Cost Future Cost* Source of Funding
Completion Estimate
- Water Plant Renovations & Generator 2030 $ 300,000 $ 338,000 $ 113,000 — Utility Reserves
$ 225,000 - Grant
ANNUAL WATERWORKS FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
The following information on the Village of Montmartre’s waterworks, as required under The Municipalities
Regulations.
2025 Waterworks Financial Overview:
Total waterworks revenues $234,000
Total waterworks expenses (plus amortization of $66,599) $307,002
Total Debt Payments 5 0.00
Comparison of Waterworks revenues to expenditures plus debt payments, expressed as a ratio:
$234,000 =0.762
$ 307,002 +$0
RESERVES
Reserves available for waterworks capital infrastructure — $80,000
The following additional information is available at the Municipal Office on the waterworks:
-The August 13th, 2026, waterworks rate policy and capital investment strategy.
-Capital plans in place and related sources of funding for the projects.
-2025 financial overview of the waterworks.
-Waterworks reserves.
-A copy of the 2006 waterworks assessment.