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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

March 31st

We See

SQCRD Budget

I was provided with a copy of the Budget passed last Monday

  I was expecting some major changes --- but what was there were minor

Mainly 4T dollars taken from Regional Archives budget and 5T added to Electoral Areas Budget --- But latter saw shift of taxes from all other areas to Area E which will pay $2,821 more in 2009 & thus restoring to amounts previous year

 

2008

2009

2010

 Actual

Budget

Budget

 

$4,362,025

 $    6,911,748

 $      4,254,733

 

 

2009 Conditional Grants - $ 2,331,822

2009 Sees 2.6M$ of new projects --- these are one of a kind – as can be seen by looking at 2010 in the 5 year financial plan (left)

 

Dodge Cover Water -

$       794,800

Oona River Hall

 $       201,000

Sandspit Hall-

 $       560,000

QCI Recycling Depot-

 $       750,000

Landfill Closure

 $       382,240

Total

$    2,668,040

 

 

This item remained unchanged from Budget handed out Friday

 

Note too How Skidegate band paying same Tax levy as all the village municipalities and Elected Areas – perhaps no ‘user fees’?

But that is why have local management committees to work that kind of stuff out

Isl. Waste Management

I have only provided some elements – but note how spent 978T in 2008 and planning to spend only 822T in 2009 while at same time collecting 137T$ more in revenue --- much of this in User Fees --- note too the large deficit run up over the past few years (412T$)

 

Expenditure

2008

Actual

2009

Budget

 

Total Expenditures

 $       978,741

 $    822,084

Net Surplus (Deficit):

 $      (144,530)

 $    149,216

Opening Surplus (Deficit):

 $      (267,851)

 $   (412,381)

Closing Surplus (Deficit):

 $      (412,381)

 $   (263,165)

 

Revenue

2008

Actual

2009

Budget

Tax Requisition

 $         93,750

 $    108,500

Grant in Lieu

 $           3,857

$        3,800

Grants

 $                  -

$               -

Miscellaneous

 $              390

$          500

Old Masset Band

 $         73,920

$      81,400

Recycling

 $         18,358

$      29,000

Skidegate Band

 $         93,450

$    108,500

Tipping Fees

 $         65,116

$      73,000

User Fees

 $       449,178

$    566,600

Transfer from Reserve

 $         36,192

$               -

 

 $       834,211

$    971,300

 

 

Note about 60T$ more of total revenue coming from Taxes – as the sale of materials decreased by about 40T – and wages went up etc

Regional Recycling – I will return to this tomorrow

The significant element from Rupert perspective is how much of total ‘we’ pay

 

Tax Requisition

 2008

2009 

 

City of Pr. Rupert

 $         98,632

 $    152,074

District of Port Edward

 $           4,476

 $        7,026

Area A

 $           3,641

 $        5,667

Area C

 $           1,381

 $        2,233

 

 $       108,130

 $    167,000

 

 

Lots of leaks along this stretch

I bet there were 8 to 12 water leaks --- And looked to me like all of them ‘caused’ by cars parked off the street – presumably breaking water line --- and though I would have to look closer – most all these cars appear parked on ‘City’ property (the ‘Boulevard’)– using the location of the water shut off as signifying the property limits

(See my earlier for Boulevards) )

 

Museum and old NWCC campus buildings

At one time this was the ‘home’ of the Tsimshian Tribal Council – before Treaty negotiations broke up that entity into constituent parts --- so it will be very interesting if Kitkatla has negotiated to buy the Museum buildings as has been rumoured locally – more later

 

 

More Water leaks

 

 

This one is across from the Civic Center – and just showed up recently – presumably caused when the vehicle whose tracks seen here ran over a buried water line --- but there are several breaks in this same area

Created by LG on 31/3/2009

Last updated on Wednesday, April 01, 2009