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Whitnell, Tim, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 14 Jul 2006, p. 9     Public school board okays budgets... TIM WHITNELL Special to The IFP The Halton District School Board passed its operating and capital budgets for 2006-07 with relative ease Monday. Eight of the 11 s

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 13 Jan 2006, 1, 3     Before the slicing and dicing begins Monday night (Jan. 16), the Town of Halton Hills budget committee got its first look Tuesday at the 2006 operating budget calling for a $50 increase in taxes on h

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 10 Feb 2006, 1, 5     New library coming, but taxpayers will have to pay for it There will be money in the town's coffers to build a new Georgetown library starting in 2008 but it means tax increases of about 5 per cent f

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 21 Mar 2007, p. 5     Close to $300,000 was spent on salaries and expenses for the Town's 11-member council in 2006. The Municipal Act 2001 requires the Finance Department submit each year a statement to council itemizing

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 12 Jan 2007, 1, 11     Town Finance Director Ed DeSousa has told budget committee members that the proposed 2007 budgets contain few "extras". DeSousa said the 2 per cent base budget increase to the operating budget does n

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 12 Jan 2007, p. 6     Editorial cartoon by Steve Nease. George Bush looking into open grave with Iraq tombstone, saying, "I've got it! If we just keep digging deeper, we'll come our sooner or later, right?"

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 10 Jan 2007, p. 3     Mother Nature was kind to the Public Works Department's budget in 2006. The mild weather over the last couple months, and early in 2006, has resulted in $177,000 savings to the snow-clearing budget.

Mozell, Howard, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 14 Jul 2006, p. 9     ...and so does Halton Catholic board HOWARD MOZELL Special to The IFP The Halton Catholic District School Board has approved its budget estimates for 2006/2007. At last week's board meeting, trustees

Cynthia Gamble, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 18 Jan 2006, p. 3     The Acton Soccer Club kicked off the Town of Halton Hills' 2006 budget discussions on a good foot Monday night by announcing it was contributing $100,000 towards the construction of a soccer field in

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 3 Feb 2006, 1, 3     Halton Hills taxpayers will have to reach into their wallets for $101 extra to pay for their Town and Region taxes in 2006. Halton Hills budget committee unanimously accepted a $20,509,200 operating

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 8 Feb 2006, p. 3     A last-minute windfall from the provincial government has dropped the 2006 tax hike from 5.1 per cent to 4.7 per cent. Halton Hills council approved the 2006 operating and capital budget and capital

Gamble, Cynthia, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 8 Feb 2006, p. 3     A last-minute windfall from the provincial government has dropped the 2006 tax hike from 5.1 per cent to 4.7 per cent. Halton Hills council approved the 2006 operating and capital budget and capital

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 20 Jan 2006, p. 12     Halton Hills budget committee approved a $10.4 million capital budget for 2006 at Tuesday meeting. The top four expenditures are: · $1.2 million for a Georgetown South satellite fire station-- locati

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 23 Aug 2006, 1, 3     The Town will go ahead with building the Acton skateboard park, even though tenders came in $50,000 over budget. Council approved the tender award at last week's meeting. The park, named the 3 Musket

GAMBLE, CYNTHIA, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 20 Sep 2006, 1, 9     `Creative' budgeting to reduce tax hike CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer A new method of budgeting, which Halton Hills Chief Administrative Officer Dennis Perlin describes as more transparent to taxpayers

HENNESSEY, Melanie, Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 14 Jul 2006, 1, 3     Region predicts 3.7% hike in taxes MELANIE HENNESSEY Special to The IFP A tax increase that could be quite similar to this year's is on the horizon for Halton residents in 2007. Region staff is forec