Thompson city council devoted several minutes to discussing the minutes of the April 26 meeting when they met May 10. Coun. Les Ellsworth contended that the minutes didn’t accurately reflect what. . .
Four councillors and members of the public put up a valiant effort to try to stop the 2021 budget from passing at a marathon council meeting May 10 but it was approved in a 5-4 vote, as were second. . .
The total value of all taxable property in the city rose slightly from $443,291,170 last year to $444,696,070 in the latest assessment rolls. Five of the nine council members voted in favour of the levy bylaw but the four who opposed it did so vociferously. “There’s no way in good conscience … that I could ever support a budget like this,” said Coun. Les Ellsworth, while Coun. Earl Colbourne said anyone who voted in favour of the levy bylaw should be ashamed. “We’re still spending money like crazy on things that, right now, we don’t need,” he said. What we need right now for the citizens of Thompson is tax relief.
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City manager Anthony McInnis said council was directed to proceed to second reading by the Public Utilities Board of Manitoba (PUB), which is ultimately responsible for establishing the water and sewer rates. Between first and second reading, the PUB recalculated the numbers submitted by the city after first reading last November and requested some minor changes in the costs listed in the bylaw. The changes did not affect the water and sewer rates of $3.81 and $1.79, respectively, or the quarterly service charge of $22.20 per water meter, but did raise the minimum quarterly charge for customers with 15 millimetre water lines, which includes 14 cubic metres of water, to $100.60 from $100.53. For customers with 20 to 150 mm water lines, the minimum quarterly charges have increased between 13 cents and $11.73. The changes are a result of adjustments to the commodity water and wastewater charges included in the minimum quarterly charges.