Signs similar to this are being requested outside all schools in Hanover

The Reeve of Hanover says there isn't room in this year's budget to pay for reduced speed limit signs near schools in the municipality.

Stan Toews says the province last year gave municipalities the authority to reduce the limit to thirty kilometres per hour. Council then received a request from Hanover School Division to have the speed reduced in front of all schools within the municipality.

RM of Hanover Chief Administrative Officer Luc Lahaie says purchasing the signs would cost about eight thousand dollars. He adds installing them would cost another eight thousand dollars.

"There was no money in this year's budget," explains Toews.

The municipality tried to get the school division to cost share the project, but Toews says because no other division in the province was paying for the signs, Hanover School Division said it wouldn't either.

Hanover Council has given first reading to a bylaw that will see new signs installed at all schools but that's where the matter sits for the time being. Toews says there's always a chance it will be revisited prior to approval of next year's budget.

Toews says there are a lot of signs that would need to go up at each school. He notes you would need three signs as you approach, and another one for traffic that's leaving the area, and that's on each side of the school. For schools situated near a T-intersection, Toews says numbers magnify.