Home /Surplus spent on roads projects News19 May 2021 By Chad Ingram A 2020 surplus for the Township of Minden Hills that would have totalled some $1.1 million has formally totalled just more than $106,000, with the township spending the bulk of the large, anticipated surplus on a series of public works projects. Minden Hills councillors received a report on the surplus from finance director Lorrie Blanchard during a May 13 online meeting. As Blanchard explained, 72 per cent of the $1.1 million surplus came from wages and benefits from unfilled staffing positions in various departments, “either positions that didn’t get filled in 2020, or were much later in the year getting filled than what we had hoped.”