7/31/2019 Front Page - May 25, 2012

1/1

It was

necessary orus to have this

increase

Ray Orr Minnedosa Mayor

Vol. 130 No. 11 Friday, May 25, 2012

www.minnedosatribune.com

90 cents + taxMinnedosa, Manitoba Canada R0J 1E0

O NLINE S UBSCRIPTIONS T O T HE M INNEDOSA T RIBUNE

$35 plus t ax per yearVisit www.minnedosatri bune.com or call (204) 867-3816

By RICHARD DAVIES

he 2012 f nancial plan or the own o Minnedo-sa has increased $76,358.83 over last year to sit at

$4,099,974.46. Te Net Municipal axes and Grants in Lieuo axes are budgeted with an amount o $2,537,850.47,an increase o $45,860.54 over last year.

Te town has set an increase o 3% in taxes. Te mu-nicipal portion increased 2.37% and the school taxes in-creased 4.3%.

Te big impact on taxes this year is because it wasa reassessment year in which all properties are based on April 1st, 2010 market values, s tated own ACAO Chris Yuen.

Tere has been a shi t in assessment between com-mercial and residential properties. Residential propertiesreceived an average increasein assessment o roughly 25% while the commercialproperties received an aver-age increase in assessment o roughly 2%. Tis means thatthere is a slightly larger bur-den o total tax revenue to theresidential class.Everyone will be a ected,but some will see their taxesincrease more than others. Yuen sa id, Everyone will seedi erent increases on theirtaxes, based on how much their assessment has in-creased rom this year compared to last year.

Properties with a higher percentage assessmentincrease rom 2011 to 2012 will receive a larger grossamount increase on their tax bill as compared to simi-larly assessed properties with a lower percentage assess-ments increase.Mayor Ray Orr said o the budget, We had to come

up with a certain number o dollars to operate the townsoperations, capital programs, etc..; to come up with thosedollars, it was necessary or us to have this increase.In the f nancial plan, ransportation Services in-

creased $142,080.00 to $840,580.00.

Continued on Page 2

Town taxes increase

3% overallBudget increases $76,358.83 CP employees of the rails

By RICHARD DAVIES

Since 12:01 early Wednesday morning,members o the eamstersCanada Rail Con erence( CRC) union have beenon strike. Around 60-70

CRC #668 Union mem-bers rom Minnedosa join4,800 CRC members na-tionwide to walk the picketlines.

T ere has been abreakdown between man-agement and employees asCanadian Pacifc Railway (CP) wants to create majorchanges to its operations.Te strike comes at a timeo a management changeas CPs CEO Fred Greenle t the company last week.

T e ederal govern-ment responded to thestrike early on Wednes-

day. Federal Labour Min-ister Lisa Raitt says thatshe will be giving noticeo legislation to send CPsemployees back to work i both sides do not come toan agreement. I they can-not conclude their deal, we will have the ability to in-tervene, she said in a newscon erence in Ottawa.CP did not ask or the

legislation, however, the

government is putting thisorward in the interest o

the Canadian economy.Raitt said, Te govern-ment is concerned aboutthe national economic sig-nifcance this will have and we are prepared to act inthe interest o the nationaleconomy.

Continued on Page 6

Photo by Richard Davies

Teamsters Canada Rail Conference #668 Union members picket along Main Street Wednesday afternoon. Locally, some 60-70 employees walked the picket

line in support of the nationwide strike.