Interim tax levy bylaw
At the Feb. 16 Hanover council meeting, council voted in favour of a bylaw to provide for interim tax levies for the year 2021.
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The Municipal Act provides council, before the adoption of estimates for the year, to pass a bylaw levying amounts on the assessment of property in the local municipality rateable for local municipal purposes.
At the Jan. 11 council meeting the result was an overall tax increase of 2.82 per cent ($23.96 for every $100,000 of assessment).
Gas tax funds
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Gas tax allocation
During the Feb. 1 committee-of-the-whole meeting, Hanover council voted that the mayor and CAO be authorized to complete the Letter of Agreement with the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) as the host municipality for the Saugeen Mobility and Regional Transit Corporation (SMART) for the public transit Provincial Gas Tax Allocation, and that council approve a bylaw at a future council meeting to enter into this agreement with the MTO.
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Hanover Mayor Sue Paterson received a letter, dated Jan. 14, from the MTO confirming that the ministry is providing provincial gas tax funding to Ontario municipalities for public transit for the 2020-21 fiscal period April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021. The purposes of providing dedicated gas tax funds are to ensure that local public transportation services continue and to increase overall ridership through the expansion