Sarnia council faces a property tax hike just shy of three per cent heading into budget deliberations Tuesday.
City Treasurer Holly Reynolds said the budget has reflected the same general levy increase from the beginning.
"The little bit of clean up we did from the time of the budget highlights to the draft budget was offset by the amount transferred from reserves to support the operating budget, keeping the increase to 2.99 per cent," Reynolds tells Sarnia News Today.
When the highlights were revealed in October, Reynolds said the proposed budget amounted to nearly $164 million with around $85 million to be raised through taxation.
Reynolds said there was a small funding increase from the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF), a small increase in the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority budget and an error was corrected, all totaling approx. $120,000.
"No changes were made to the transit levy or water and sewer rates," she said.
Reynolds shared in November the draft capital budget had been reduced by $6.2 million since it was first presented in September.
A number of municipal grant applications will be considered Tuesday, including an $80,000 request from Blue Coast Primary Care Recruitment to continue its physician recruitment efforts.
Budget deliberations get underway on ZOOM at 9 a.m.
