Last Thursday night, a public meeting was held for the 2018 Gilbert Plains Municipality budget.
A first and second reading of the proposed budget was done.
Reeve, Blake Price, tells us what the mill rate looks like for urban and rural.
“The mill rate for 2018 will be equal mill rates for the rural and the urban. The difference between the urban and the rural will be a 3.5 mill rate, that’s a special service levy rate for the cost of the payments for the waste disposal site. So at the end of the day the urban mill rate will be 3.56 per cent higher than what it would be in the rural.
This year's mill rate is set at 19.5 before the levy, which is a 2.5 per cent decrease from last year.
Some of the capital expenditures being considered are the purchase of another gravel pit and a replacement shop for the public works one that caught fire earlier this year.
Recreation saw an increased contribution this year from the budget, however the new hall project wasn’t allocated any money from this year’s budget.
