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ROAD FUND STAYS IN COUNTIES BUDGET
AMBULANCE DEBT: COUNTIES LOSING PATIENCE WITH OTTAWA
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
a municipal aid fund with $2 million shared out each year among the eight member municipalities, to help with UIFJSPXOSPBEJNQSPWFNFOUOFFET TFF QIPUP -BTUZFBSXBTUIFFOEPGUIFGPVS year agreement for the special fund and JUXBTESPQQFEGSPNUIFCVEHFU ESBGUCFDBVTFUIF6$13IBWFTFWFSBM NBKPSFYQFOTFTUIJTZFBS The eight mayors objected to can- cellation of the fund. Counties staff reworked the budget plan to keep the $2 million aid fund by trimming costs for other programs and also drawing POUIFDPVOUJFTXPSLJOHSFTFSWFGVOE St-Amour’s suggestion, based on staff recommendations, was to keep the aid fund at $2 million in this year’s counties budget, and then cut it down UPNJMMJPOJOUIFCVEHFU5IBU would help all eight municipalities with their capital works planning this year, BOEHJWFUIFNNPSFUJNFUPQSJPSJUJ[F UIFJSSPBEXPSLTGVOEJOHOFFETGPSOFYU year. $PVOUJFTTUBGGXJMMEPGVSUIFSSFàOF - NFOUTUPUIF6$13CVEHFUQMBO BOEQSFTFOUJUUPDPVOUJFTDPVODJM OFYU NPOUI GPSSFWJFXBOEBQQSPWBM
Staff is still crunching numbers for this year’s final budget for the coun- ties, but one thing is certain. There will still be a special fund to help eve- ry municipality in Prescott-Russell with local road improvements. i8FWFHPURVJUFBGFXCBMMTUPKVHHMF with in this budget,” said Mayor François 4U"NPVSPG 5IF/BUJPO.VOJDJQBMJUZ EVSJOHUIFCVEHFUSFWJFXQPSUJPOPGUIF January 23 regular session of the United $PVOUJFTPG1SFTDPUU3VTTFMMDPVODJM Mayor St-Amour offered up a suggestion, which all of his fellow mayors agreed on, as part of a solution to keep a municipal infrastructure aid fund as part of this ZFBSTBOEOFYUZFBSTDPVOUJFTCVEHFU The preliminary counties budget report presented earlier this month did not include a $2 million municipal infrastructure aid fund. The fund was DSFBUFEGPVSZFBSTBHPBGUFSUIF6$13 abandoned its proposed ecoLarose conference centre project for lack of TFOJPSHPWFSONFOUàOBODJBMTVQQPSU 5IF6$13TTIBSFPGUIFFDP-BSPTF project was used instead to create
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
FYQFSJFODFEBTJNJMBSTJUVBUJPO "MTP UIFDVSSFOUQSPWJODJBMQPMJDZEPFT not make reimbursement mandatory. Muni- DJQBMJUJFTIBWFUPXPSLPVUUIFJSPXONVUVBM aid agreements and so far Ottawa refuses. A TJNJMBSTJUVBUJPOFYJTUTCFUXFFOUIFDPVOUJFT and Cornwall, with that municipality owing the 6$13BMNPTU JOBNCVMBODFEFCU Out of patience i8FIBWFUPDVUIFSFBOEZFUXFHJWF BNCVMBODFTFSWJDF UP0UUBXB uTBJE8BSEFO ,JSCZBUPOFQPJOUEVSJOHBSFWJFXPGUIFDPVO - ties budget. “It’s not fair. If Ottawa wanted to be neighbourly, they’d pay their share.” Counties council treme need” or else stop responding to any dispatch calls from Ottawa. Administration DPOWJODFEDPVODJMUPUBCMFUIFJEFBVOUJM BGUFSUIJTNPOUIT3VSBM0OUBSJP.VOJDJQBM "TTPDJBUJPODPOGFSFODF 30." TPUIBU BENJOJTUSBUJPODBOSFWJFXBOZQPUFOUJBMMFHBM issues. "6$13EFMFHBUJPOXJMMNFFUPOUIFJTTVF XJUI3PCJO.BSUJO QBSMJBNFOUBSZBTTJTUBOUUP UIFQSPWJODJBMIFBMUINJOJTUFS BUUIF30." DPOGFSFODFJO5PSPOUPUIJTXFFL8BSEFO Kirby did not rule out the chance of bringing the issue up with Premier Doug Ford, if he meets the premier at any time during the conference. “If I can meet him, politely,” Kirby said. considered appro- WJOHBSFTPMVUJPOUP FJUIFSSFTUSJDU6$13 response to Ottawa ambulance requests UPTJUVBUJPOTPGiFY -
Tempers are starting to fray at the counties council table over Ottawa’s refusal to pay its ambulance debt to Prescott-Russell. “They don’t want to co-operate then don’t BOTXFSUIFQIPOF uTBJE8BSEFO3PCFSU Kirby, during the January 23 counties council TFTTJPO8BSEFO,JSCZFYQSFTTFEUIFHSPXJOH frustration at the United Counties of Pres- DPUU3VTTFMM 6$13 PGàDF PWFSUIF$JUZPG Ottawa’s refusal to pay an outstanding debt
of more than $1.5 NJMMJPOGPSVTJOH6$13 ambulance units to handle some of its municipal and rural area emergency calls. Part of the cause
“It’s not fair. If Ottawa wanted to be neighbourly, they’d pay their share.”
PGUIFQSPCMFNJTQSPWJODJBMQPMJDZEFBMJOH with ambulance dispatch. The situation used UPCFDPWFSFEVOEFSNVOJDJQBMNVUVBMBJE BHSFFNFOUT TJNJMBSUPUIPTFUIBUBMMPXàSF departments to send backup assistance units and crews to areas outside of their normal jurisdiction. The municipality bene- àUUJOHGSPNUIFNVUVBMBJEUIFOSFJNCVSTFE its neighbours. #VUOPX QSPWJODJBMQPMJDZJTUIBUUIFOFB - SFTUBNCVMBODFVOJUBWBJMBCMFGPSEJTQBUDI goes to an emergency call. That change IBTTPNFUJNFTSFTVMUFEJO1SFTDPUU3VTTFMM IBWJOHOPBNCVMBODFTBWBJMBCMFUPEFBMXJUI its own emergency calls because all the VOJUTBSFJO0UUBXB3FOGSFX$PVOUZIBT
Les municipalités de Prescott-Russell recevront encore cette année une aide financière des Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell (CUPR) pour leurs propres budgets de construction routière. Le conseil des CUPR a approuvé une solution temporaire pour maintenir le fonds d’aide municipale de 2 M$ dans le budget des CUPR de cette année et pour l’inclure dans le budget de l’année prochaine également, mais avec une réduction à 1,5 M$. —archives
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Les membres du conseil des Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell (CUPR) commencent à manquer de patience au sujet du refus de la Ville d’Ottawa de payer sa dette de 1,5 M$, pour l’utilisation des services ambulanciers de Prescott-Russell pour ses propres appels d’urgence. Une délégation des CUPR rencontrera des représentants du ministère provincial de la Santé à ce sujet, lors de la conférence de l’Association des municipalités rurales de l’Ontario, qui se tiendra cette semaine à Toronto. —archives
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