HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-08-24, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1988.
Education taxes swell
E. Wawanosh budget
When East Wawanosh Town
ship council met in mid-June to set
the 1988 mill rates for its tax
payers, it was forced to set rates
which will see taxes raised by 10.5
per cent in total, with more than 34
percent of that going toward ther
requisition from the Huron County
Board of Education for the current
year.
In dollar terms, East Wawanosh
ratepayers must raise a total of
$1.07 million this year, up by more
than$52,000 over the $1.01 million
they handed over in 1987, with
close to $312,000 of that going
towards the township’s share of
the 1988 HCBE budget.
But all in all. East Wawanosh
property owners are better off than
several other local municipalities
as the result of the switch this year
to market-value assessment on a
county-wide basis, despite the fact
that they also have to provide close
to half a million dollars this year as
the local share of the cost of the new
10th Line bridge, now under
construction. The rest of the local
share of theb ridge costs will be
included in the 1989 budget.
Public school supporters across
the township will pay 10.2 per cent
more in taxes than they did in 1987,
with the HCBE requisition going to
$311.902 from the $305,685 re
quested in 1987. On the other
hand, separate school supporters
will pay exactly the same amount
less in taxes than they did last year,
due largely to a misunderstanding
on the part of the Huron-Perth
Roman Catholic Separate School
Board, according to Mrs. Thomp
son. The HPRCSS requisition is
only $17,546 this year, as compar
ed to $18,053 in 1987.
Because of county-wide, market
value assessment the effect of the
increases vary from one taxpayer
to another.
East Wawanosh ratepayers will
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remaining railway lines for the
reasons listed (and please add any
other reasons). Ask them also to
reverse recent decisions to aban
don rail lines, and to deny all
current and future applications to
abandon rail lines, until it is
possible to produce new Canada
wide transportation/energy poli
cies, which take the environmental
impact of various transportation
modes into serious account.
Ross Snetsinger
Toronto
P.S. Copies to your M.P. and
M.P.P. would also help.
Writer praises
course's teacher
THE EDITOR,
I am writing in regards to the
A.M.C.T. courses which were held
in your Brussels Public School
during the last two years (run by
Conestoga College).
I would like to say a public thank
you to Mrs. Ruth Sauve for being
more than a teacher of this course.
Your town is very lucky to have
someone so interested and capable
on town council.
The course also gave us an
opportunity togetto know a few
people and businesses in the
Village of Brussels. I will certainly
miss my Thursdays in Brussels.
Many thanks.
Linda Cranston,
Lucknow, Ontario.
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pay $93,746 in county taxes, up by
another 10.2 per cent over the 1987
requisition of $91,600; while
$647,865willgotowards municipal
needs (not including the 10th Line
bridge allocation), an increase of
10.7 per cent over the $603,275
requested in 1987.
To raise the necessary tax
dollars, the total mill rate for farm
and residential public school sup
porters has been set at 18.15, while
the business and commercial rate
for public school supporters is
21.35 mills.
The farm and residential mill
rate for separate school supporters
is 18.40, while the business and
commercial rate is 21.64.
Under market-value assess
ment, ratepayerscan calculate
their own taxes by multiplying
their property assessment by the
appropriate mill rate, and dividing
the total by 1,000 (a mill is equal to
one one-thousandth of a dollar).
For example, a public school
supporters with a home assessed at
50,000 will pay a total of $907.50 in
property tax in 1988; while a
separate school supporter with a
farm assessed at $100,000 will pay
a total of $1,840.
Hullett No. 2 Peewee team was runner up for the league championship in a tournament held in Benmiller
Saturday. Members of the team are: [front row, left to right] Scott Shaddick, Kevin Shillinglaw, Chris
VanLoo, Terry Greidanus; [back], Bruce Shillinglaw [coach], Randy Shepherd, Brian Van Steelandt,
Laurence Bergsma, Brent Howatt, Danny VanBakel and John VanLoo, [coach]. Absent when the picture
was taken was Rob Finch.
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