No Tax Raise, Millions To Be Spent On Sewers And Roads In 2014

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The City of Windsor is holding the line on municipal taxes for the sixth consecutive year (and the 7th in the last 9 years without a property tax levy increase) in budget documents released today for 2014.

Included in the budget:

• The City is asking departments to develop reduction plans for 6% of their 2013 net operating funding levels
• City-funded agencies, boards and committees are being asked to make budgetary requests at or below their 2013 funded amounts
• the City says service levels in the 2014 budget remain generally unchanged from those approved in the 2013 budget
• the budget intake from property taxes for 2014, and the matching budget outputs will be $319,054,396.
• $95,188,000 will be spent on capital projects, of which $31 million will be spent on sewers and $13 million will be spent on roads
• Roads getting new sewers in 2014 include:
  • California from University to Wyandotte for $1.7 million
  • Erie Street West from Wellington to Crawford for $1.5 million
  • Cross Street and Baby Street near Chippawa for $1.5 million
  • Hall Avenue from Riverside to Wyandotte for $2.1 million
  • Hickory from Seminole to Metcalf for $1.0 million
  • Cadillac at Alice and Reginald from Cadillac to Drouillard for $1.5 million
  • Norman from Adstoll to Joinville for $1.7 million
  • Fairview from St. Rose to Edgar for $1.78 million
  • Edward from St. Rose to Edgar for $1.785 million
  • The Ojibway Sanitary Sewer upstream of Weaver Avenue for $1.65 million
• Roads being rehabilitated (repaving and reconstruction) include:
  • St. Rose between Lauzon and Fairview
  • Pelletier between Campbell and Rankin
  • Little River Acres Drive
  • Mount Royal between Cabana and Cousineau
  • Church Street between Wyandotte and Erie
  • Newbury Street between Dougall and Brudge
  • Caroline between Dougall and Janette
  • Hall between Giles and Shepherd
  • Pelissier between Wyandotte and Giles
  • Wyandotte between Langlois and Devonshire
• EC Row will see improvements:
  • The westbound Conrail bridge (between Jefferson and Central) will be repaired
  • the eastbound lanes at Walker will be paved
  • the eastbound CN Rail bridge will be repaired
  • the road surface will be repaved between Dougall and Dominion