If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
The City of Kenora is once again going to appeal for the unincorporatated areas to help pay for long term care.
Mayor Andrew Poirier is off to the Rural Ontario Municipal Association Conference in Toronto, and that’s one of the issues he wants to bring up with cabinet ministers.
“To provide some of that money that is collected, and have it reverted over to the Kenora District Home for the Aged, which would drop our commitment,” explains Poirier.
“If that happens, it could be around $800,000 a year for the City of Kenora.”
Poirier says they’ll lobby for change to the Provincial Land Tax levy at every opportunity they get.
“And we’re going to continue to lobby for that at ROMA, at KDMA (Kenora District Municipal Association convention), it’s going to go to NOMA (Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association convention). It’s going to keep going. We going look to try and set up meetings with the appropriate ministries to make that happen.”
Poirier is also going to seek funding for repairs to the Portage Bay Bridge, which could cost in excess of 10 million dollars, and to replace it even more.
