{"id":196140,"date":"2023-11-17T17:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T22:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=196140"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:26:57","slug":"tantramar-budget-passes-shared-services-calculations-to-be-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tantramar-budget-passes-shared-services-calculations-to-be-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tantramar budget passes, shared services calculations to be reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tantramar council passed a number of budget resolutions this week, setting capital and operating budget spending as well as tax rates for the municipality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 tax rates for Tantramar, per $1000 of assessed property value<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former town of Sackville: 1.5389 (down 0.0095 from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Former village of Dorchester: 1.5415 (down 0.0225 from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Former Sackville LSD: 0.5625 (0.974 w\/ provincial portion, up 0.05 from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Former Point de Bute LSD: 0.7637 (1.1752 w\/ provincial portion, up 0.05 from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Former Dorchester LSD: 0.6411 (1.0526 w\/ provincial portion, up 0.05 from last year)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The slew of motions also included one that commits council to reviewing how it divvies up the fiscal responsibility for some of the services that are deemed \u2018shared\u2019. As treasurer Michael Beal explained to council, when the cost of running the municipality is allocated to the different areas, the share covered by former Local Service Districts (LSDs) is calculated at 90 percent, a decision made by the provincial consultant who was hired to create Tantramar\u2019s first budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shared service model says that as you go further from the central core services, the local service districts should pay less for some of those shared services. The 90% was chosen by the province, and we don\u2019t know why that was chosen,\u201d said Beal. So staff recommended, and council approved, taking on the task of evaluating that shared services rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould it be 90? Should it be 80? Should it be 100? It\u2019s not a quick analysis,\u201d said Beal. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take some time.\u201d The analysis will take place sometime in the first half of 2024, and will present an opportunity for council to discuss the fairness of the municipality\u2019s tax system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the radio story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tantramar council passed a number of budget resolutions this week, setting capital and operating budget spending as well as tax rates for the municipality. 2024 tax rates for Tantramar, per $1000 of assessed property value Former town of Sackville: 1.5389 (down 0.0095 from last year) Former village of Dorchester: 1.5415 (down 0.0225 from last year)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":151007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[32228,33081,8981,28897,22841,20501],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196256,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196140\/revisions\/196256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196140"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=196140"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=196140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}