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Property tax raise to stay consistent with past financial plans ALEX KURIAL Editor
SPRING SCENES The sun shone bright on the USSC Marina and Bowen as a whole this week as we start to see more and more surefire signs that Spring is settling in to stay. / Alex Kurial photo OPEN HOUSE
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This year’s municipal budget process is now in its closing stages following some final changes to the document. Chief financial officer Kristen Watson presented a final draft of the budget to council last week which included changes to reduce this year’s property tax increase to 7.7 per cent, a number which had originally started at 9.5 per cent. This was done by reducing the number of future staff hirings in the year ahead and factoring in recent grants awarded, including a BC Hydro grant to fund heat pumps at the Fire Hall. In dollar terms this would represent an average property tax bill of $3,768 (based on average value of a Bowen home being $1.596 million). Two of the remaining proposed hirings came under scrutiny though – a parks crew worker for the parks and roads departments ($35,205) and a booking coordinator for programming and front desk work at the Community Centre ($22,000).
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