HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-12-13, Page 12County engineer Bob
Dempsey gave county
council a look Thursday at
what the 1979 road
committee faces when it
strikes its budget for the new
year. Dempsey submitted a
preliminary report for council
pointing out that with in-
creased costs and new con-
struction projects in the
budget the county would
have to raise 28 percent more
money for roads than last
year,
The engineer told council
that the preliminary budget
was an estimate only and
could not be firmed up until
early in 1979. He said he
lacked three vital pieces of
information needed for an
accurate forecast of costs in
1.979 and only intended the
draft budget to outline
projects proposed for 1979 as
well as what maintenance
costs are expected to be.
$100,000. Using that figure
he told council the county
share of the 1979 budget
would be $1,643,500. He
estimated the' surplus from
1978 to be $77,500 and
deducted that amount from
the county portion to arrive
at the 28 percent increase.
Dempsey made no attempt
to convince council to
attempt to come up with the
extra money to handle 1979
expenses. He indicated that
the 28 percent increase was
hefty and offered council
three alternatives to trim
costs from the budget to
arrive at a reasonable
increase.
He told council it could let
the preliminary budget stand
and increase the county levy
to meet those added costs or
the road committee would go
over the budget to establish
priorities in new construction
and then take some of the
less important projects out to
reduce the net increase. The
third alternative according to
Dempsey is to re-work the
entire budget with the idea of
taking a little money out of
each item to hopefully come
up with an increase that
could be handled by the
county levy. To make that
point the engineer said that
with a six percent increase in
the county share $437,500
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12 — THE BRUSSELS POST, DECEMBER 13, 1978
Huron engineer sayscosts up 28%
To prepare the budget
Dempsey estimated what the
province will allocate to
Huron County for roads next
year, what the final costs of
1978 will be and what the
county faces in either a
deficit or surplus for 1978.
Based on lasts year's
budget Dempsey estimated
the province's share of the
road costs to be $1,892,000
but pointed out that that
figure could go up or down
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