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Budget plan ready for Champlain Township

GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca

Pay rate of Champlain Township council Champlain Township council approved Bylaw 2017-69 during its Dec. 12 session, which will set the annual stipends for members of council and also their per diem allowance when attend- ing council and committee meetings or other official meetings dealing with township busi- ness. The rates in the bylaw take effect Jan. 1, 2018. The annual stipend for the mayor will be $33,780 and the stipends for each councillor $15,256.The per diem for attending council or committee meetings or other official meetings dealing with township business will be $120. – Gregg Chamberlain What the actual dollar figure will be for the individual homeowner’s property tax bill next year will depend on whether the Mu- nicipal Provincial Assessment Corp. (MPAC) determines if the property increased or de- creased in value or remained the same. Final approval of the 2018 budget will take place during the January session of Champlain Township council. The council meeting schedule for 2018 includes both a regular session on January 9 and one last special budget session on January 24, if there are any final changes needed for the budget report. Champlain Township council worked out what its members hope will be the final municipal budget plan for next year. But they couldn’t avoid an increase for prop- erty taxes. “We can’t run a deficit,” saidMayor Gary Barton at the end of the Dec. 14 budget ses- sion. “We have to pay for what we do. But we are moving ahead and we are making improvements.” Council spent last Wednesday andThurs- day afternoons with administration and de- partment directors, reviewing the operation and capital budget plans to determine what expenses are essential and what projects or equipment purchases could be postponed. The municipal levy portion of the 2018 budget will be about $5.8million.That is the part of the municipality’s budget revenue The increase in the 2018 municipal levy compared to the 2017 budget levy will be 8.96 per cent “We can’t run a deficit,” said Mayor Gary Barton at the end of the Dec. 14 budget session. “We have to pay for what we do. But we are moving ahead and we are making improvements.” which comes fromproperty taxes.The rest of the budget revenue is made up of provincial and federal grants and other sources. The increase in the 2018 municipal levy compared to the 2017 budget levy will be 8.96 per cent. For the average homeowner, that wouldmean an increase of $23 for every $100,000 worth of assessed value of residen- tial property.

Le conseil du canton de Champlain a approuvé le plan budgétaire de la municipalité pour 2018. Le budget proposé comprend une augmentation de 8,96%de l’impositionmunicipale pour couvrir les dépenses de fonctionnement nécessaires pour lamunicipalité, les améliorations aux routes et autres projets. —photo Gregg Chamberlain

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