Council Committee | Road Dust Control

City slashes expenses but duty in spite of everything need increasing

City services and staff are being cut back by assembly as to attain a 2.7 per cent tax increase for Salmon Arm people.

In front of a tax swell in the new year of just about five per cent, Salmon Arm council gave the 2010 municipality financial plan back to employees to discover additional areas to cut. The resulting financial plan, talked about last Wednesday at a special council gathering, includes a employment cut of $151,590.

City administrator Carl Bannister translates that into a cutback in city staff.

Other than a reduction in staffing, town inhabitants will be expecting to get a lessening in street services, as assembly agreed to get rid of the following from the plan: $50,000 from the dust abatement plan, reducing applications from two to one; and $43,700 or one-third of the resources for asphalt repair. Also, committee slashed $6,000 for re-surfacing fire hall number one, as well as $3,000 for the city’s Japanese swap plan. Additional slashes recommended by staff incorporated $32,000 for the spring time wood-chipping plan, Employees also recommended closing the SASCU Play Centre pool on Sundays during May and June, when the facility is least used, for a cutback of $3,000.

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