It’s been a tough process this year but Grey Highlands has finally completed its budget.
Mayor Brian Mullin says thank goodness for Grey County keeping its budget at a zero increase otherwise it would have been even more difficult.
In the end — Mullin says the bottom line increase for homeowners is just under 5 per cent which works out to about 100 dollars more on the average tax bill.
He says however the actual increase in the budget this year was close to 14 per cent.
Mullin says council did not want to cut services, road work or other infrastructure projects — and he says they still managed to put another 100 thousand dollars into reserves for the hospital.
He says they were behind the 8-ball this year thanks to a cut in provincial funding of almost 395 thousand dollars and an increase in the OPP budget of 144 thousand to 1.5 million.