Niverville Town Council will have a chance to provide feedback on Tuesday regarding the proposed changes to the provincial electoral map.

In mid-May, Manitoba’s Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission released it’s interim report outlining the proposed boundary changes and additions. As it stand's, the proposed boundary map would see Niverville move from the Morris Riding which also includes the communities of Headingley, La Salle and Morris to a new riding called Sandilands which includes Piney, Sprague, and La Broquerie.

Niverville Mayor Myron Dyck says council would like to remain closely connected with communities in the Winnipeg Capital Region.

"What this boundary adjustment does is it puts us together with other municipalities who we really don’t have a whole lot in common, not that we couldn’t, but as far as provincial jurisdiction boundary alignment is concerned, we feel we are kind of losing our capital region base and being noted as being extremely rural and that is not who Niverville is."

Dyck says over the years they have had a lot of shared initiatives with surrounding municipalities such as Tache, Hanover, and Richot and it would make sense if they were grouped with nearby communities in the revised provincial electoral map. He says rather than directly objecting to the changes, council has chosen to present constructive suggestions.

"We did some brainstorming. Some residents that have political interests often times like to weigh in on matters like this and so there has been some informal discussions with them and we understand the numerical dynamics as far as the amount of voters in a particular riding and we believe that there is a fix to this that we will be suggesting. We believe that the proposed boundaries could be much more condensed also making it easier for an MLA honestly to be able to serve their particular riding."

Dyck says he hopes to attend the open house Tuesday evening and present Niverville's suggestions.