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100 per cent funding from the province in the past. But the most recent notice from Queen’s Park is that provincial support is now cut to 80 per cent. How that will affect the counties childcare program is unknown at present. The finance department is scrambling to work with other departments on reviews of 2019 budget lists. A new budget report should be ready for UCPR council in June, but how big a change it will be from the one approved in February is unknown. Ménard-Brault confirmed there will be C’EST LE TEMPS CE PRINTEMPS
no changes to property tax rates, because those are already approved and the notices sent out to property owners. She also noted that a deficit budget is not an option as pro- vincial law prevents municipal and regional government from running deficits. i8FMMIBWFUPMPPLBUTPNFUIJOHFMTF u she said. “Use reserves, do some financing next year instead, or we have to make some cuts.” “I’m sure we’ll be able to work around it,” TBJE8BSEFO3PCFSU,JSCZEVSJOHBMBUFSJOUFS - view. “It just makes things uncomfortable.”
The United Counties of Prescott and Russell (UCPR) need a new budget plan for this year and it’s all thanks to Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government. The UCPR’s Finance Director, Julie Mé- nard-Brault, told the mayors attending the committee of the whole session, May 8, that her staff has to redo the 2019 budget after a series of recent notices about changes in provincial funding support for various programs and services. i8FSFHPJOHUPCFEPJOHUISFFCVEHFUTJO the same year,” said Ménard-Brault, during a later interview, as she noted that the 2019 budget was finished and approved in February, and her staff was going to start advance preparation for the 2020 budget plan. Some of the letters and emails UCPR finance staff received either state that expected support funding increases for some programs will not happen, or that last year’s funding levels are being cut as part of the province’s own budget restraint plans. Ménard-Brault cited the Prescott-Russell emergency services and childcare programs as examples. The 2019 budget included an expected 1.15 per cent increase in support money for emergency services, which operate the
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regional ambulance program. Instead, pro- vincial support remains the same as for the 2018 budget, with no increase in emergency service funding. Ménard-Brault also noted that the coun- ties’ childcare service program received La directrice des finances Julie Ménard- Brault et son personnel doivent travailler rapidement pour réviser le budget 2019 des Comtés unis de Prescott-Russell. Le budget a été approuvé en février de cette année, mais le gouvernement progressiste- conservateur nous fait maintenant parvenir des avis au sujet de changements ou de coupures dans le financement provincial de certains services régionaux comme l’aide aux services ambulanciers et aux garderies. —archives
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