BUDGET REQUESTS ON THE DOCKET

By Kirk Winter

Budgeting season has begun with CKL Council. At a Special Meeting on October 29, groups began making their budget asks of Council that will be key to setting the 2020 budget for CKL.

By the time the meeting was done, Council was looking at millions of dollars in requests. In no particular order, these were the budget requests made of Mayor Letham and his councillors.

Kawartha Lakes Housing Corporation

2019 budget - $919,000

2020 budget ask - $940,891

Haliburton - Kawartha Lakes - Pine Ridge Health Unit

2020 budget ask – a 10% increase over 2019

Ontario Provincial Police – City of Kawartha Lakes

Cost per household - $291.69

2020 budget ask - $8.55 million dollars or $712,640 a month

Lake Simcoe Regional Conservation Authority

2019 budget - $39,088

2020 budget ask – $38,453

Kawartha Conservation Authority

2019 budget - $1.54 million

2020 budget ask –$1.52 million

City of Kawartha Lakes Library Board

2019 budget - $1.9 million

2020 budget ask – $2.3 million

Lindsay Business Improvement Association

2019 budget - $143,500

2020 budget ask - $143,500

Lindsay Airport

The facility is breaking even and can pay their operating budget. They will require no municipal support for the 2020 budget year.

City of Kawartha Lakes Police

2019 budget - $8.259 million

2020 budget ask - $8.261 million

Many more big ticket items are still to come like Fire and Emergency Services. Council accepted the nine tentative budgets submitted for discussion only. In the next four months, Mayor, Council and senior staff are going to have to make some tough decisions about who gets what and how big a slice of the budget pie is allocated to one group or another.