The RM of Hanover has now followed the lead of other municipalities within Hanover School Division.

Back in February, council was told that all other municipalities within the division had passed a bylaw to install reduced speed signs outside schools. On Wednesday of this week, Hanover Council did the same.

According to Reeve Stan Toews, the new speed limit will be 30 km/h. Once the signs go up, the reduced speed will be in effect from 8am to 5pm from September 1st to June 30th each year. But Toews says it will be awhile before any signs are put in place.

"Hopefully by spring some time, once frost is out of the ground and construction season starts," notes Toews. "Nothing will happen this fall."

Toews says the last estimate they received was that purchasing the signs would cost $8,000 and that it would cost another $8,000 to erect them. He notes each community has a sign fund and the project will be funded through this program. As a result, it will have to be included in their annual budgets.

Council gave first reading to its school speed zone bylaw back in the spring of 2014. The move happened after the province in 2013 gave authority to municipalities to reduce the speed limit to 30 km/h.

As mentioned, in February of 2015, Hanover Assistant Superintendent Rick Ardies appeared before Hanover council. He identified Hanover as being the only municipality within the Hanover School Division catchment area that had yet to pass a bylaw to install reduced speed signs. Councillors had hoped to at least go fifty/fifty on financing the project, but the school division indicated that wouldn't be happening.

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