Northern Sunrise County’s Council has approved their operating budget until 2023 and capital budget until 2025. The 2021 tax rate bylaw was also passed on April 27, 2021, and the county will be able to maintain the current mill rate for residential, farmland and industrial properties for another year.
Northern Sunrise County’s Reeve, Carolyn Kolebaba says they’re grateful they don’t have to change the mill rate. “We are going to give subsidies to those who pay before the deadline; 5% for residential and farm accounts, 3% for commercial accounts and 2% for designated industrial and linear accounts.” Kolebaba says keeping the mill rate the same is to help those struggling in the economic downturn.
The 2021 budget also includes plans for new cell towers in Marie Reine and St. Isidore to improve connectivity for residents, installing a shade shelter Mamowintowin Hall in Cadotte Lake, as well as paving the walkways at Cecil Thompson Park and creating a wheelchair accessible dock. Some of the gravel roads within the county will also be getting rebuilt along with ongoing projects to add additional day use sites and the construction of a washroom facility at Murphy’s Flats Day Use Area, drainage work, maintenance of the oil stabilized gravel road network and the annual regraveling program in the Marie Reine/Judah area.
$1,919,339 of reserve funds are being transferred this year to balance the budget. The projected revenue for the county in the 2021 budget is $36,590,696, operating expenditures of $20,529,187 and capital acquisitions expenditures of $15,937,500.
-Erika Rolling, Trending 55 Newsroom
