Theres been a bit of a stumble in Owen Sounds financial planning process.
City council and staff were to have gone through a pre-budget meeting on Friday in order to help prepare for the new fiscal year.
But the absence of some vital information from the province is holding things up.
Council needs to know whether they’re going to receive transfer payments from the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund.
That fund provided more than 2 million dollars to the city this year… approximately 10 percent of Owen Sound’s budget.
Staff and council went through the preliminary numbers anyway on Friday but there was little debate on the figures being presented by city departments and their directors.
Still, both city manager Jim Harrold and Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners felt it was an important part of the planning process, even though itll have to happen all over again in January.
Its hoped the city will learn later this month whether or not it will receive any OMPF money in 2010.