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Despite the increase, it’s not enough, councillors said. “Certainly any time we can get some money from any level of government to help us with the issues we’ve got in town would be helpful,” said Coun. Les Ellsworth. “I wish they would fund a half a dozen safety officers so we can get a handle on what’s happening or at least get some control. There’s people in our community right now that’s scared to shop downtown.” “This community supports Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries a lot more and this funding should be a lot more,” said Coun. Kathy Valentino, including lottery and video lottery terminal (VLT) revenue in her calculations. As the late Coun. Judy Kolada used to like to point out, grants based on VLT revenue provided to Manitoba municipalities are calculated per capita, without consideration given to how many, if any, VLTs are actually in the community or how much they are used.
Thompson city council voted 8-1 in favour of a resolution to transfer nearly $1.4 million in outstanding water bills to property taxes at their April 12 meeting. Deputy mayor Duncan Wong was the . . .
City manager Anthony McInnis said council was directed to proceed to second reading by the Public Utilities Board of Manitoba (PUB), which is ultimately responsible for establishing the water and sewer rates. Between first and second reading, the PUB recalculated the numbers submitted by the city after first reading last November and requested some minor changes in the costs listed in the bylaw. The changes did not affect the water and sewer rates of $3.81 and $1.79, respectively, or the quarterly service charge of $22.20 per water meter, but did raise the minimum quarterly charge for customers with 15 millimetre water lines, which includes 14 cubic metres of water, to $100.60 from $100.53. For customers with 20 to 150 mm water lines, the minimum quarterly charges have increased between 13 cents and $11.73. The changes are a result of adjustments to the commodity water and wastewater charges included in the minimum quarterly charges.
“They’ve asked our chief financial officer to make a change under Schedule A to the table,” said McInnis. “They had recalculated some of the numbers.” The changes did not affect the water and sewer rates of $3.81 and $1.79, respectively, or the quarterly service charge of $22.20 per water meter, but did raise the minimum quarterly charge for customers with 15 millimetre water lines, which includes 14 cubic metres of water, to $100.60 from $100.53. For customers with 20 to 150 mm water lines, the minimum quarterly charges have increased between 13 cents and $11.73. The changes are a result of adjustments to the commodity water and wastewater charges included in the minimum quarterly charges.