Kincardine councillors have seen most of the municipality’s operating budget but will look at the rest and the capital budget hoping to find areas to cut.
Tonight’s meeting starts with a budget that calls for a 10.09 per cent tax increase for next year.
Deputy Mayor Laura Haight admits the increase, as it stands, is not an appropriate increase but because they lost their Ontario Municipal Partnership Funding, they were behind the 8-ball before they started.
Haight says last December, she recalls council kicking around a 6.5 per cent increase in taxes.
But she says 10.09 per cent increase doesn’t sit well with her but she also knows a zero-percent increase budget is virtually unachievable.
Haight says, though, she has to wait to see the entire budget document before she can even think of an increase that would make her comfortable.