Mayor Craig Snodgrass

High River's Mayor is no fan of the Province's Disaster Recovery Program.

Some claims are being denied now because appeals weren't filed in the proper time frame however there was never a time frame established in the beginning.

Craig Snodgrass says it's not a matter of changing the system.

"We can change for the next disaster, that's when the change needs to take place," he says. "Right now the bureaucracy that's flooded this DRP is absolutely ridiculous because they're analyzing everybody's claim so much that it's costing $10,000 to save a thousand on somebody's claim. Give them the thousand, it ridiculous, it's absolutely stupid."

Snodgrass says he's heard of at least a couple cases where the government is saying claimants were overpaid and they want some of the money back.  He says it'll cost $20,000 in bureaucracy to get back $1,500 that may have been overpaid.

"Here we go again, we're on our sixth Municipal Affairs Minister, you know I've made brief contact with Danielle (Larivee, the new minister) just through twitter, requesting that she come down, for me I've found twitter the quickest way get attention, " Snodgrass says.

He says he didn't want to jump all over the new government for the problems with the DRP program that pre-dated them, but says now he wishes that had jumped up and down and screamed as soon as the NDP took power to step in before these problems were allowed to continue.