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City of Trail clarifies tax increase related to new sewer line
both annual principal and interest payments, are an operating cost Taxing by property assessment and recovered through the propsaves the homeowner money in erty tax system.” the long run, says the City of Trail. The City of Trail has always Now that the new sewer line recovered the regional requisideal is in place, the city expects the tion through the establishment of regional requisition to increase by property tax rates based on ratios about $275,000 next year. prescribed by the Province of B.C., That means, all Trail proper- he added. ty owners are subject to a tax “If regional costs were recovincrease related to ered through some “If regional costs other system (such as the regional debt payment, whether they user rates or parcel were recovered are actually using the taxes) the cost to the through some sewer system or not. residential user would other system “It's a regional serincrease significantly.” vice that is being paid Further, specifthe cost to the for through a regional ic costs for services residential user loan authorization,” that are included in would increase explains Trail Mayor the property tax levy, Mike Martin. “So the whether it be as part significantly.” approach is that all of the municipal or DAVID PEREHUDOFF (taxpayers) whether regional property tax levy and correspondthey are currently hooked up or not, will contribute ing property tax rates, is not tied to individual use. for the service.” “Some municipal costs howevMartin lives in Tadanac, clarifying that homes in that neigh- er may be partially or completely bourhood are on septic, but all offset by user fees or other revare subject to the tax increase enues but the bridge cost recovery of $31.50 based on the average is done entirely through property taxes as part of distributing costs houses assessed at $183,000. “It is there for the benefit of through to the entire assessment the region,” he added. “And there base,” Perehudoff said. “In other words, there will not may well come a point when septic tanks are no longer acceptable be user toll fee or other levy to and the city would have to put recover the costs.” Trail's regional service partners that infrastructure in to deal with it. So this is a regional benefit in Rossland and Warfield chose to that (someday) everyone may be introduce a flat tax rate to all their property tax owners rather than hooked into.” Based on property tax assess- base payment on assessments. “This increase to our taxpayers ment, all tax classes including major industry, such as Teck Trail is significant because Rossland Operations, and small business, does not have any industrial taxwill see an increase in their 2016 payers to help soften the blow for property tax bill related to the new our residential taxpayers,” says Rossland Mayor Kathy Moore. utility line. “The only businesses we have “In the context of the regional service, and the City of Trail's in town are independently owned, participation, costs are attributed small enterprises.” She reiterated the city worked to each rate class and collected accordingly,” clarified David hard to collaborate with its partPerehudoff, Trail's chief adminis- ners to come to an agreement, because holding off until next trative officer. See WARFIELD, Page 2 “Debt servicing costs, including BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
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Beaver Valley parents had quite the operation going Saturday when they cut, split and stacked wood to help raise funds for their child’s preschool.
Helping hands raise funds Wood sale brings in $2,500 for Beaver Valley Nursery School BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
The steady sound of a running chainsaw could be heard in the Beaver Valley this weekend, as a group of parents cut, split and stacked wood into customers' trucks. The Beaver Valley Nursery School wood sale is an annual fundraiser that supports in-house projects like last year's deck addition and this year's back lot development. The group brought in about $2,500 and the nursery still has wood to sell. “Parents sign up and donate their time and bring their own saws,” explained Jen Pederson, a parent who headed the fundraiser. “Everybody puts their time in, and it raises quite a bit of funds.” There was clearly no slacking Saturday, as
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about a dozen parents muscled the logging truck load donated by Atco Wood Products. Wood went by the short box truck load for $100, the long box for an extra $30 and a heaping pile would tack on another $20 to the bill. “We have parents volunteering their time to help us raise money through this fundraiser to keep their costs of preschool fees as low as we can,” explained Sheila Issel, director of the non-profit society that operates the preschool. The nursery is located in an old one-room school house in Beaver Falls. Including Issel, there are eight staff members, some with decades of experience in early childhood education and others new to the field. The facility offers four different pre-school classes a week with 18 children in each, totalling 72 kids. There is also an after-school program under its management that cares for children from another 20 families out of Fruitvale Elementary School.
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