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The FCC asked for a refund of property taxes dating back to 2016 and the cancellation of 2021 taxes, totalling $42,815. A tax exemption request was also made for the Wheaton-Penney Family Childcare Centre and Legacy Counselling Centre, which are both located at the church.
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The property was exempt from municipal taxes until 2016 when counselling and childcare services began. At the time, 10 per cent of the property became taxable.
The church was told by the municipality that both operations could apply for tax exemptions. The municipality’s financial services department says a refund or cancellation cannot be fairly determined without an application, which they told council was never submitted.
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The development group estimates tourism accounts for less than five percent of the local economy. Kevin Weidlich, CEO and president of FMWBEDT, hopes the sector can help with economic recovery and become a stronger pillar of the local economy. The organization has already partnered with McMurray Métis to develop tourism strategies and has hopes to partner with other rural and Indigenous operators.
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Northern lights tourism is one of the initiatives FMWBEDT hopes will drive tourism traffic into the region. In early 2020 before the pandemic began, Michael Seiger, vice president of tourism with FMWBEDT, took several local business owners to Yellowknife to study that community’s northern lights tourism sector.