Gilbert Plains Municipality has released details of how it plans to recover over two million dollars in deficits, a large portion of which comes from a fraud case that rocked the municipality.
400 thousand of that deficit will be covered by insurance money, with the rest to be recovered over the next seven years.
Reeve Jim Manchur says the plan was presented to Gilbert Plains residents during a public meeting on Thursday night.
"There were concerns, and they wanted to know how we are going to deal with this and how we arrived at those numbers. I hope the presentation and the numbers that we presented made sense. Obviously, it is not a situation that we really looked for to having and wanted to have to deal with, but such as it is we have to present it and give everything that we have moving forward."
The plan includes a special increase of 1.463 mills to the tax rate.
For a residential property valued at $200,000, that represents an extra $130 on your tax bill.
CAO Courtney Roehl says that levy may only need to be collected for 1-2 years, depending on future forecasted surpluses for the Municipality, which would also be used to bring down the deficit
