The Blue Mountains council will invite officials from the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority to attend an upcoming meeting to discuss the 2024 budget situation.
At its meeting on Oct. 10, council voted to request the NVCA send a delegation to a future council meeting to go over the details of the authority’s draft 2024 budget.
Council received the draft budget as correspondence during the meeting and did not make any comments about the numbers.
NVCA CAO Doug Hevenor outlined the draft budget in a letter and information package that was included on the agenda for the meeting. The authority is currently seeking input from its member municipalities on its proposed finances for 2024, with an eye towards passing the budget in December.
The draft NVCA budget was based on a general levy increase of $393,658.05 spread across member municipalities.
There are three major components to the budget for the authority: costs for provincially mandated programs, costs of category two and three CA programs (these programs require the authority to have agreements with its member municipalities to provide those services) and capital costs for all programs (provincially mandated and category two and three).
In the draft budget, The Blue Mountains has 1.45 per cent of the assessment in the NVCA watershed.
The total levy requirement (which includes all three components) for The Blue Mountains in the draft budget is: $48,491.95. This is up just over $6,000 from 2023.
“The NVCA worked very diligently to address the impacts of rising inflation and subsequent pricing increases, combined with the uncontrollable costs of items such as insurance, without adversely impacting our member municipalities,” Hevenor said in his letter to council.
