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Museum embarks on provincial partnership program
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Cash crunch catches city groups
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GOING TO THE GAMES
TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
Council continues to cut cash from community group coffers as the blade rose and fell on more groups. The quest to cut seven per cent from the multi-million dollar budget of the city, or around $300,000, continued OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Monday night. Council approved 2104 COLUMBIA AVENUE, several more cuts to ROSSLAND ✩ 250-362-2280 community group budgets for grants and operating support. The city annually gives out money for community support in the form of grants, as well as municipality-funded Affordable home plus operating support. 2.7 acres, Operating support is 259,900 the city covering the costs incurred for each group. But in order to help cover the shortfall, ONE PERCENT REALTY council has been looking at how much 368-1817 | 362-9094 it gives community nancykaiser.ca nnckaiser@gmail.com groups, and debating the level of service Your Horoscope For the Week should withtaxpayers Michael O’Connor inside now leaner Horoscope the offer West KootenayinAdvertiser For the Week economic times.
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Red Mountain Racers will be sending six athletes to th 2014 B.C. Winter Games in Mission this month. Heading west will be (from left) Gavin Patterson, Orion Humpherys, Logan Merringer, Mattias Hoffmann and Kaysa Panke. Missing is Samantha Gaul. For a complete story, see page 7 inside.
Property tax increase expected TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
Although the final numbers are yet to be cast in stone, proposed property taxes for Rossland residents will increase. Just how much isn’t known. On Monday night city accountant Lois Hunter told council during a committeeof-the-whole discussion regarding the 2014-2018 draft financial plan that an additional $241,320 will be required from Rosslanders to help pay for the ColumbiaWashington project upgrade.
Although an expected cost and approved last year through an alternate approval process by the community, that money will not include the expected rise in operational costs—fuel, labour, inflation—that council is grappling with. Council has now tasked themselves with finding savings to cover the infrastructure project costs, plus operational increases, to keep the increase less than 6.7 per cent, the number needed to cover the additional debt.
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