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HST increase could close funding gap: AMO
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
The Association of Municipalities
of Ontario (AMO) thinks it might
have the solution to pay for
deteriorating infrastructure through-
out the province, and Huron East
councillors are cautiously
supporting the plan.
"Across Ontario, municipal costs
are growing and municipal revenue
isn't keeping pace," states a letter
from AMO. "The reality is playing
out in different ways in different
communities. Some cannot fund
local roads and bridges. Others can't
fund transit or emergency services.
Growing communities need millions
to support water and wastewater
infrastructure. Municipal govern-
ments need billions to maintain safe
social housing units. Everyone has
their own story and everyone's story
is the same. Ontario's municipal
order of government does not have
the revenue it needs to fund current
priorities and the problem will only
get worse without significant
change."
Huron East Mayor Bernie
MacLellan had addressed the plan
with council over a month ago,
although he said he couldn't get
into the specifics of AMO's plan
until it was officially released to the
public.
Now, AMO has released the
details and council had to address
whether or not the municipality was
interested in the organization's plan.
AMO is proposing a one per cent
increase to the HST that would be
dedicated to supporting municipal
infrastructure. MacLellan told
councillors that unlike many
provincial proposals in the past,
rural communities like Huron East
will actually fare well compared to
large cities like Toronto, Ottawa or
London.
While the solution might seem
drastic, he said, the problem is also
reaching a breaking point that
requires a drastic answer.
"Province -wide, the cost of
delivering municipal services is
growing at a rate of about $2.7
million a day, or $1 billion every
year. Municipal governments also
face the massive responsibility of
owning two-thirds of all public
infrastructure, all of which must be
maintained, repaired or expanded to
sustain our communities. Over the
next decade, municipalities will
struggle with an annual budget gap
of $4.9 billion," the letter read.
"AMO has spent months
quantifying the problem. We have
travelled the province, hosted about
50 consultation meetings and
released two reports on the matter.
Today we can say that consensus is
forming around a proposal to give
municipal government access to
retail sales tax revenue"
MacLellan said that he had
already responded to AMO on
behalf of the municipality, due to a
June 12 deadline, but his answers
were general in nature and non
committal. He said that the
municipality is experiencing
financial hardship in a number of
areas and is having a tough time
keeping up. He also said the
municipality was interested in taking
part in the process and supporting
the proposal.
However, in the years to come if
the proposal gains steam, MacLellan
said it will be crucial to gauge the
public's interest in the proposal and
perhaps hold a public meeting or a
vote to ensure that the people of the
municipality will be behind the
solution.
Both Councillors David Blaney
and Kevin Wilbee said they were
supportive of the proposal and felt it
made sense, but they were skeptical
as to whether the plan would ever
actually be enacted given the
province's political landscape.
Wilbee said that no party will
pitch this idea of raising taxes if it
wants to get elected. Then, once
elected, raising taxes will not be a
good way to be re-elected, so he said
he would be surprised if the proposal
would ever see the light of day.
M -T IPM
budget
approved
for tent
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
After initially being rebuffed by
Morris-Turnberry Council as too
expensive, council's International
Plowing Match committee's budget
has been brought back to council
with significant changes made.
The committee is comprised of
councillors and is responsible for
what will be in the "barn" display
area that is allocated to each
municipality in the Huron County
tent.
The original budget included
samples from local businesses that
were meant to attract people to the
Morris-Turnberry booth and show
what the municipality's businesses
have to offer.
The committee includes several
councillors who work together to
bring suggestions back to council as
to how best represent the
municipality at the prestigious event
this September.
The original budget was nearly
$12,000, however council as a whole
felt that, as it is tax dollars being
used, that was too much.
The committee decided to remove
several "handout" items from the
budget including the amount of
honey from Fear's Apiaries and
pepperettes from Green's Meat
Markets, as well as splitting the cost
of a tourism -focused video between
the IPM committee's budget and the
Morris-Turnberry Economic
Development budget, saving a grand
total of $3,900.
The final budget for the
municipality's participation in the
event was dropped to $7,677.75.
Recommendations from the
committee included handouts and
prizes that the committee might
make use of for the booth, which
will be operated by staff and council
members throughout the duration of
the event.
Committee member Councillor
Jim Nelemans reported that the
representative from Huron County
said Morris-Turnberry's committee
was ahead of other municipalities in
its planning.
"We're putting in more effort,
according to the representative," he
said.
Council approved the lower
budget for the event, which is
set to take place in Walton this
September 19-23.
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