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Capital services and workers are being cut back by assembly in order to attain a 2.7 % tax escalation for Salmon Arm people.

In front of a tax upsurge in the new year of just about five %, Salmon Arm committee handed the 2010 municipality financial plan back to personnel to discover extra areas to cut. The resulting financial plan, talked about last Wednesday at a special committee assembly, includes a employment slash of $151,590.

Town overseer Carl Bannister translates this into a drop in city workers.

Besides a decrease in staffing, city residents will be expecting to see a decrease in street services, as council agreed to eliminate the subsequent from the budget: $50,000 from the dust abatement program, reducing applications from two to one; and $43,700 or one-third of the budget for asphalt patching. Also, committee slashed $6,000 for paving fire hall number one, and $3,000 for the city’s Japanese swap program. Additional slashes suggested by staff included $32,000 for the spring wood-chipping program, Staff also suggested closing the SASCU Recreation Centre pool on Sundays in May and June, while the facility is least used, for a reduction of $3,000.

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