Mayor Myron Dyck says this year there will be a routine 2% property tax increase which will result in an additional $35 in taxes on the average Niverville home valued at $288,300. He notes town council has tried to maintain small increases to keep up with inflation.
"It has been part of our philosophy rather than going through the tax freeze and then sticker shock which we have seen in other communities like the City of Winnipeg for instance. Costs continue to rise and so we have gone with 2% or cost of inflation. We have been trying to monitor that and then we will set our budget accordingly."
Dyck says over the last few years, council has been making plans with the hope that they would receive funding for their Community Resource Centre project. He notes now that they have officially received funding from the federal and provincial governments, it solidifies those plans.
"We have been planning for it and now it is just about implementing what we hoped was going to be our primary plan as far as roads, as far as sidewalks, as far as infrastructure."
Dyck says this year the town will hire another recreation programmer to keep up with the additional work that comes with the new recreational facilities. He notes there are a number of other large projects that Niverville Town Council is looking forward to in 2019.
"We have a plan for sidewalk enhancement, it is going to be going across the CP tracks as part of the safe passage to school for children. Sixth Avenue, we know for the residents in Fifth Avenue Estates it is major thoroughfare so the first half of that is going to get paved now and of course the development in Hespeler Park, $300,000 investment there, and the expansion of the parking lot."
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