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Feb 5, 20 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Viewpoint • Bruce Corcoran • 1 Comment
For anyone who opted to put themselves through the ordeal of watching Chatham-Kent council’s budget committee at work last week, we have a suggestion for you: try self-water boarding instead. All joking aside, the process is fatiguing to say the least. We...
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Feb 4, 20 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Editor’s note: This is our compilation story reviewing the 2020 municipal budget process. For stories following each night’s efforts by council, click Budget 1, Budget 2, or Budget 3. Following three nights of budget deliberations that at times...
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Jan 31, 20 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • 1 Comment
The budget committee of council followed up a night of cutting 1.35 per cent of proposed tax increases by willfully walking into a quagmire of minutiae Thursday evening, yet recovered to finalize the 2020 budget with a tax increase of 2.97 per cent. They...
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Jan 29, 20 •
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The budget committee of Chatham-Kent council opened its 2020 deliberations Tuesday evening without a $434,000 tax deferral, while discussing a bicycle trail and several staffing positions. The proposed tax increase did dip slightly, as administration altered...
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Jan 28, 20 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
As council gets down to the business of finalizing this year’s municipal budget this week, it received feedback from the public at five draft budget presentations around the municipality recently. The fifth and final one took place at the Active Lifestyle...
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Jan 21, 20 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Before municipal councillors break out their carving knives, the proposed 2020 municipal tax increase sits at nearly five per cent. Chatham-Kent administration released the information at a special budget meeting Jan. 15, with the proposed budget for the year...
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Jan 7, 20 •
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For residents who want a say in how Chatham-Kent will spend taxpayers’ dollars, the 2020 budget process begins next week with meetings planned for community input. According to a media release, the draft municipal budget will be presented to council Jan....
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Oct 23, 19 •
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Hard work pays off, according to the head of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. Lori Marshall, president and CEO of CKHA, said the alliance teamed up with other medium-sized hospitals across the province to lobby the government to update its funding model for...
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Apr 16, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Mary Beth Corcoran • No Comments
The Ford government delivered its first provincial budget recently, one that may be surprising to critics who were expecting a “slash-and-burn” style of debt reduction. Rick Nicholls, MPP for Chatham-Kent Leamington, is busy promoting the first budget,...
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Apr 5, 19 •
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A free course is available to help you learn to manage your money better and learn to budget, save and spend well. Gregory Drive Alliance Church is hosting this free course for four Wednesdays this spring season. The Course starts April 10 and continues until...
