12-17-2024, 09:30 PM
This increase translates to a $580 increase for the average Wilmot tax bill (or an extra $48/month). About a decade ago I was talking to an administrator for another of the townships who shared the challenge of increasing taxes to pay for infrastructure repairs or upgrades. In their case, any percentage increase would have had to have been quite large in order to generate any meaningful increase in revenue.
Of course, the problem would be smaller if the province uploaded the various services and pieces of infrastructure that were downloaded in the 1990s which would allow the local governments to return to to focusing on the part of the community that need immediate work or repairs.
Unfortunately, we are not going to build ourselves out of this backlog by simply adding more residents or businesses to the tax base. The watershed is almost tapped out and if we are expected to reach a million residents, that's going to require a very expensive pipe to be built to Lake Erie.
Of course, the problem would be smaller if the province uploaded the various services and pieces of infrastructure that were downloaded in the 1990s which would allow the local governments to return to to focusing on the part of the community that need immediate work or repairs.
Unfortunately, we are not going to build ourselves out of this backlog by simply adding more residents or businesses to the tax base. The watershed is almost tapped out and if we are expected to reach a million residents, that's going to require a very expensive pipe to be built to Lake Erie.