Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Council runs up budget tab

Thunder Bay City Council ran up a 242 thousand dollar tab at Wednesday night's budget meeting.  Councillors reviewed the capital and operating budgets and added items to it.  An extra 160-thousand dollars for Roads in the Shuniah area was tagged on.  65-thousand goes to the Children Aid Society and 17 thousand for the Minnesota and Kushnier rinks.  The tax rate as it stands now is at 1.27 percent.