The general manager of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority has presented board members with a new five-year budget forecast.
Brian Horner said if they were to do everything they've done in the past, without cutting any programs, the increase for the first year, 2020, would be about 12.2 per cent.
Over five years, that would level out to about a four per cent increase.
Brian Horner – General Manager, Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (photo by Bob Montgomery)
"What I heard from the board is that if we were to introduce that 12.2 per cent in October, for 2020, that would not be acceptable," said Horner. "That can't happen. So hopefully some other things become clear over the next few months and we'll deal with it then."
Horner also points out that in the past few years the conservation authority has met the two per cent target the member municipalities have requested.
