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Budget
Committee Minutes
City
Of Peterborough
June
24, 2013
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Minutes of a Meeting of Budget
Committee Held on June 24, 2013, in the Council Chambers, City Hall.
The Budget Committee meeting was called to order at 5:15
p.m. in the Council Chambers.
Roll Call:
Regrets:
Minutes
– November
26 and 28 and December 5, 2012
Moved by
Councillor Juby
That
the minutes of the Budget Committee meetings held on November 26 and 28 and
December 5, 2012 be
approved.
Disclosure of Pecuniary
Interest
There were no
declarations of Pecuniary Interest.
Director of Corporate Services
Report CPFS13-030
2014
Budget Guidelines
Moved by Mayor Bennett
That Council approve the
recommendations outlined in Report CPFS13-030, dated June 24, 2013, of the
Director of Corporate Services, as follows:
a)
That
the Draft 2014 Operating Budget reflect a 2% all-inclusive (Municipal,
Education and Sewer Surcharge) tax increase for increased operating costs and
traditional support for the capital program.
b)
That
the Draft 2014 Draft Operating Budget reflect an additional 1%
all-inclusive (Municipal, Education and Sewer Surcharge) tax increase to fund
the 2014 increase for tax-supported debt charges and any increase to base capital
levy to continue to implement the Capital Financing Policy approved by Council
at its meeting held April 23, 2012.
c)
That
the 2014 Draft Budget reflect reductions to the Commercial and Industrial
Classes Tax Ratio in accordance with the Tax Ratio Reduction Program but not
the Multi-residential Class.
d) That a 3.6%
increase in the net Police Services budget be accomodated within the 2% general
increase and any increase in the net Police Services budget beyond the 3.6% be
addressed by Council during its 2014 budget deliberations.
“CARRIED"
Other
Business
There were no
items of Other Business.
Adjournment
Moved by Councillor
Parnell
That this
meeting of Budget Committee adjourn at 5:23 p.m.
“CARRIED"
John Kennedy
City Clerk
Councillor H. Clarke
Chair