Moose Jaw will make less money in 2019 from the automated traffic cameras in the city, and it's not because people are slowing down.

The three traffic cameras stationed around Moose Jaw have caught plenty of aggressive drivers, but the province has changed the rules on how revenue generated by the cameras is divvied up.

It used to be all the revenue, after expenses, would go towards Moose Jaw. Now, beginning January 1st, we will only be getting half of the revenue, after expenses.

It was clear that the members of City Council aren't happy about this.

"For the most part, the funds should be staying in the City of Moose Jaw," Mayor Fraser Tolmie said. "If you're going to have this pilot project and you're going to actually put it into other communities and you're going to take money away then just take a small portion and then have more cameras in other communities, but leave the larger pot of money in the City of Moose Jaw."

According to budget documents, by the end of the year, an estimated 1.6 million dollars worth of speeding tickets will be issued by the cameras. After $900,000 gets paid to a Calgary company to go through all the photos and issue fines, that left us with anywhere between $500,000 and $700,000. Now, we'll get just half for traffic safety initiatives

That's just $350,000.

"Now I realize not all those speeders are from Moose Jaw but we're taking 1.6 million dollars and 1.25 million goes out of the city right away," Councillor Brian Swanson noted. "That's a pretty good way to suck a lot of money out of Moose Jaw is to have photo radar and seventy almost eighty percent of the revenues disappear from Moose Jaw."

It's not clear what council will do with this change, but it is clear that it wasn't asked for.

"Sort of seems like we're always getting crumbs from the province," Councillor Crystal Froese added. "I mean the premise of this initiative is really important, it's like participating in it is a great thing but then we don't benefit from the actual revenue side of things and I'm just really disappointed. The piece of this pie is just tiny compared to what we should be getting."