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introduced to eliminate the use of emergency policing provisions
as justification for withdrawal of Municipal Police Unit
resources to provide federal policing of planned events.

In the event that Municipal Police Unit resources are used for
emergency policing elsewhere, the Municipality will not pay the
costs of the absent Members.

MUNICIPAL POPULATION

In cases where population of the municipality passes the 5,000 or
15,000 threshold, the determination date will be the year
following the related Canada census. The forner agreement used
the year in which the census is taken, which often resulted in a
period of uncertainty and budget difficulties.

ACCOMMODATION

Telephone equipment is no longer a part of accommodation for
which the municipality is responsible. Telephone equipment will
be acquired by the RCMP and will become part of the cost base to
be cost shared.

Heated garage space is no longer an automatic requirement. These
needs will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

A new procedure is introduced to set out responsibilities of both
the RCMP and the Municipality in dealing with identification and
correction of accommodation deficiencies. It includes defined
time frames to enable municipal planning and implementation of
corrective action.

BASIS OF PAYMENT

Cost shares remain constant for the full twenty year term of the
Agreement.

The elements of cost included in the cost base are better
defined. A provision elsewhere in the Agreement provides for the
Municipality to receive a current copy of the RCMP Expenditure
Coding Dictionary, which provides a comprehensive listing of
items and their designation in accounting records.

Cost increases are phased in over a period of years and in all
cases the amounts are less than requested by federal negotiators.

The cost of divisional administration is now calculated using the
annual average of Members, rather than a number as of one
specific date per year, which provides a more accurate
accounting.

The formulae applied to calculate costs are better defined and
easier to understand.

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