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Positive property assessment for Champlain Township
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Jailed for drugs Benoît Cousineau of Alfred-Plantagenet Town- ship pled guilty in provincial court, January 10, to four charges of drug possession with intent to traffic. The charges resulted from four separate incidents in the Village of Alfred dur- ing April 2017. Judge Marc D’Amour sentenced Cousineau to four months in jail, followed by a two-month probation period, which includes a no-contact order concerning two witnesses to the incident. – Gregg Chamberlain Exceptions to the overall increase in indi- vidual assessment values could be the result of building demolitions or other actions that might change the value of a property. Failure to maintain a property in good condition can affect its assessment. Other factors may be involved but a property owner would need to contact MPAC for a more detailed explanation. Champlain Township is worthmore as far as the provincial agency that does property assessments is concerned. TheMunicipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC) sent Champlain Township a copy of its 2017 year-end assessment report for the 2018 tax year. Mayor Gary Barton comment- ed on the report during township council’s review of the document during the January 9 council meeting. “Lots of people complain that the (prop- erty) assessments are too high,” Mayor Bar- ton said. “But the (MPAC) assessment does not (always) match the market value.” MPAC does annual reviews of overall and individual property assessments throughout the province. Changes to the overall assess- ment figures are phased in over a four-year period. The 2017MPAC review report noted that some of the challenges to doing the assess- ments for Ontario during the past year in- cluded decisions bymanymajor companies on retail and commercial franchise closures that affected some Ontario municipalities. Some of those decisions were spurred by the increase in online shopping that resulted in some businesses closing because their walk- in customer base vanished into cyberspace. The appendix to themain report features a list of the different classes of property in Champlain Township, from residential to those classed as “property tax exempt”. The list also provides combined current assess- ment value totals (CVA) for the entire town- ship for 2016, 2017 and 2018, along with the percentage changes. The appendix table noted that Cham- plain Township had an overall 4.4 per cent increase in the combined total value of its property assessment from 2016 up to and including the projections for 2018. “We are going up (in value) every year,” said Paula Knudsen, township administra- tor/treasurer. “TheMPAC assessment, with a few exceptions, is going up.” Knudsen noted that the township is ex- periencing some residential growth. There are several new subdivision projects in the Village of L’Orignal.
La dernière évaluation de lamunicipalité par la Société d’évaluation foncière desmunicipalités (MPAC) fait état d’une augmentation de 4,4% de la valeur totale de la municipalité. . —photo archives
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