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AP township roadworks budget doubles
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pool, development plans for the new Al- fred library building and purchase of library books, new computers for administration and the planning department, buying land for the site of the new Wendover fire sta- tion and purchase of new bunker suits and self-contained breathing units for the town- ship’s volunteer fire department. Township administrator Marc Daigneault noted that the municipality is able to in- crease its capital works budget this year because it has paid off some old capital projects loans. Now that the loans are paid off, the township’s borrowing capacity has increased again so it can get loans this year for new infrastructure projects on its list of targets for community improvements. “We’re also using a variety of financial sources to do what needs to be done,” Daigneault said. “It’s ongoing improve- ments. It’s not a piecemeal approach. It’s an integrated approach.” The township may be able to maintain its larger capital works budget next year when some more loans are paid off. Those loans were taken out for the township’s share of infrastructure aid grants that the federal and provincial governments offered mu- nicipalities as economic stimulus and job creation programs during the past global recession. Daigneault noted that “strategic borrow- ing” works better in the long run for the township’s long-term capital works needs rather than always waiting until there is enoughmoney available in reserves or from other sources. “If you look at what we’ve achieved over the past four or five years,” he said. “Three new tanker trucks for the fire department, public works has new trucks, a new grader, new brushcutter and other equipment. This is a good budget, it’s within our means and we are planning for the future also.”
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PLANTAGENET | Alfred-Plantagenet has its 2013 budget and unlike some other mu- nicipalities, the township has increased the capital works portion. When the snowstorms blow away at last in the spring, the road crews will start get- ting busy in Alfred-Plantagenet Township thanks to the new $11.5 budget council approved Feb. 19. That budget includes a $3.3 million capital works program, which is more than double what was in the town- ship’s 2012 budget. “I feel good about it,” said Mayor Jean- Yves Lalonde, regarding the overall budget. “It is reflecting what our taxpayers are really expecting.” This year’s budget means a 1.9 per cent increase to the property tax rate. For the average homeowner who paid $579 for every $100,000 assessed value on their property in 2012, this year they will pay $590 for every $100,000 assessed value. Individual property tax amounts may vary, either increasing or decreasing, depending on whether the assessed value of their land and buildings went up or down. The majority portion of this year’s capital works budget has $2.4 million dedicated to road work and related improvements like storm sewer upgrades in Wendover, ditch work in Lefaivre, and rehabilitation of the bridge on Concession 3 in Alfred. Conces- sion 3 road in Plantagenet, Blue Corner Na- tion Street in Alfred, and Concession 10 in Pendleton will all see construction crews on site this summer. Other capital works improvements planned for this year include replacement work for the Plantagenet public swimming
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Translation service continues at United Counties meetings
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cast of UCPR meetings. The counties budget provides $2500 for the service to meet demands for bilingual access for the public to counties council meetings. Champlain Township Mayor Gary Barton indicated his support for keeping the translation service item in future bud- gets. “There are some people who actually watch the council (meetings) as entertain- ment,” he said. “Incredible, but true. For $2500 a year, it’s no big deal, and I do know some people who watch who can’t under- stand French.”
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L’ORIGNAL | Cable T.V. broadcasts of the United Counties council meetings will still have English subtitles when needed. Administration presented a report to the United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR) on the cost of hiring a translator to provide English translations of any French content during counties council sessions for the community cable television broad-
Roads expansion in Alfred-Plantagenet
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ALFRED | A couple of roads in Alfred-Plan- tagenet Township will get a little wider later this year. Council approved two resolutions to ac- quire pieces of property to allow widening of Bolt Road, Concession 3, and Ritchance
Road in the village of Alfred. Work on preparing the roads for widen- ing will take place later in the year when the spring construction season begins and after the township planning department has the design specs ready.
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