North Battleford can officially get ready to pay more for property tax and utilities in 2019.
The 2019 budget was adopted Monday night by city council at their final council meeting of the year. The vote to carry the budget was unanimous, as were the votes on several budget-related resolutions that were before council that night.
The final vote followed three nights of budget deliberations held over the previous two weeks. Throughout the process, the four per cent property tax increase and 4.5 per cent utilities increase remained intact.
Councillors acknowledged it was going to be painful. But Mayor Ryan Bater explained they had to make up the shortfall.
“We had a $1.7 million revenue hole,” said Bater. “And we had to get right to the point in how to overcome that.”
Watch for our Dec. 13 issue of the Regional News-Optimist for all the details on the budget.
