There’s a $600,000 hole in Au Chateau’s annual budget West Nipissing may have to help plug with municipal tax dollars.
It’s one of several issues coming up on tonight’s council agenda, which includes a general government discussion about ‘ward boundaries’ for the 2022 election.
Au Chateau, which has 102 long-term care beds, serves West Nipissing and Temagami, and it can levy their taxpayers to make up any shortfalls.
Au Chateau’s funding shortfall is being caused by the Dec. 31, 2020 end of a 35-year funding agreement with the federal and provincial government.
The issue is critical for both communities as they look at COVID-19 impacted revenue and expenses heading into the 2021 budget deliberations.
It was briefly mentioned at the last council meeting with the municipality hoping to set up meetings with representatives of higher levels of government for assistance.
The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. and is live-streamed using Zoom on the West Nipissing YouTube channel.
Dave Dale is a Local Journalism Reporter with BayToday.ca. LJI is funded by the Government of Canada.
