Staff
Property owners can expect a bigger water and sewer bill in the mail next month.
Town council agreed Monday night to apply a 2.5 percent increase to residential ratepayers and 3.24 percent hike to ICI (industrial, commercial, and institutional), which will generate an additional $152,384.30 in revenue compared to last year.
The 2.5 percent hike for flat rate residential customers will increase bills from $909.20 per year in 2016 to $931.93 in 2017–an increase of $22.73 per year or $1.89 per month.
Non-residential customers’ volumetric rate will rise from $5.21 per cubic metre in 2016 to $5.34 per cubic metre this year.
The volumetric rate, meanwhile, will be set at $3.03 per cubic meter for the industrial and commercial customers and $3.49 per cubic meter for institutional ones.
A 3.24 percent increase to the ICI (industrial, commercial, and institutional) will see the minimum monthly rate go from $1,224.38 per year in 2016 to $1,263.99 per year in 2017–an increase of $39.61 per year or $3.30 per month.
The 3.24 percent increase also would be applied to fire hydrants and sprinklers
Also at Monday night’s meeting, council:
•agreed to send a letter of support for New Gold re: an amendment to Schedule 2 of the Metal Mining Effluent Regulation;
•approved a travel expenses claim for Fort Frances CAO Doug Brown in the amount of $65 for attendance at a CUPE mediation meeting Jan. 18-19;
•approved a travel expense claim for Brown in the amount of $653.01 for travel to and attendance at the ROMA conference held Jan. 28-31 in Toronto;
•approved a per diem and travel expense claim for Mayor Roy Avis in the amount of $269.19 for his attendance at a meeting with MPAC on Jan. 25 in Thunder Bay;
•approved per diem and travel expense claims for Coun. Ken Perry in the total amount of $815 for his attendance at the RRDMA meeting in Rainy River on Jan. 28 and the ROMA conference in Toronto on Jan. 29-31;
•approved a per diem claim for Coun. Perry in the amount of $240 for his attendance at a NOMA executive meeting Jan. 24 in Thunder Bay;
•approved per diem and travel expense claims for Coun. Wendy Brunetta in the total amount of $867.50 for her attendance at the RRDMA meeting and the ROMA conference;
•approved a per diem claim for Coun. Brunetta in the amount of $240 for her attendance at a NOMA executive meeting; and
•approved a travel expense claim for Coun. Brunetta in the amount of $116.39 for her attendance at the AMO conference in Windsor back on Aug. 14-17.
