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Hearing loss can dampen enjoyment of movies, music, church services, watching TV, eating out and talking on the telephone. Even a mild hearing loss can reduce your quality of life. Gellert Phase 2 into the 2015 capital forecast and the Acton Senior Centre Expansion Design and Engineering and construction into the 2014 and 2015 capital forecast, both were absent. That resolution While the $12.5 million 2012 capital budget and had been approved during the contentious three$101 million 2013-2021 capital forecast is fully arena project special meeting to appease residents funded, it does not contain a lot of big-ticket items demanding balance in the capital forecast for nonsuch as Phase 2 of the Gellert Centre. arena users. Halton Hills budget committee (all members of DeSousa said the projects were placed on the council) approved the $12.496 million budget and unfunded list based on the projected development $101.123 million capital forecast after a two-hour charges (DCs) funding that the Town would be remeeting Wednesday night at the Civic Centre. ceiving over the next couple of years. DCs are the "What you see here is a fully-funded capital bud- developer-paid money provided to the Town to help get and capital forecast," said Town Treasurer Ed pay for road and infrastructure improveDeSousa. ments. "We can't comment on a lot of these He said the Town's DC reserve fund things-- they're just safety things. We balances have dropped over the last sevdon't have enough money to do wild, eral years and, according to legislation, exciting things," said Councillor Jane they cannot have a negative balance. Fogal, when explaining why the de"Based on the existing forecast of bate was limited and short. "We're what we will take in of DCs in the next repairing so many bridges, there refew years, there isn't enough DC fundally isn't money left to do a lot of other ing to do those projects," said DeSousa. things." He added staff will monitor the DCs What's in the budget is primary and the forecast could change annually health and safety items, she said, and as a result. ED "it's obvious we've got to do this. I "It's an unfortunate situation (the DESOUSA think staff has taken the approach we Gellert Phase 2 wasn't included)," said would look after protecting the CorpoFogal. "Last year there was an indicaration and protecting our assets first." tion that it would be put into the forecast and now "Municipalities only collect eight per cent of the it's completely disappeared. There will be some distax revenue but supply 92 per cent of the infrastruc- appointed people and I am one of them." ture-- and that's a huge deficit," said Mayor Rick Other projects not included in the capital foreBonnette. "When people ask why aren't we doing cast include the Acton Youth Space design and some of these things, is because we're not getting a construction (originally slated for 2013/14 $2.45 fair balance of the tax revenue." million), the option to buy land beside the Gellert Budget committee added only three items to (2015, $5.3 million), Glen Lawson Rd. construction the budget and forecast. All were related to the (originally slated for 2012, $2.34 million), fourth Town's 2010-2014 Strategic Action Plan: $50,000 fire station to be located in the 401 Corridor (2021) to develop and implement an Economic Develop- and various road reconstruction on Eighth Line, ment Strategy, and $75,000 annually in the forecast Armstrong Ave., and 22 Sideroad. to implement the Community Improvement Plan In fact, between 2012 and 2021, there are 193 regarding intensification in the downtown areas projects-- new parks, road upgrades, facility reand Guelph St. corridor and $25,000 to market that pairs, equipment and material purchases, totalling plan to businesses and developers. $116 million that can't be included due to the lack Despite a February council resolution calling for of money. the placement of the design and engineering of the See TOWN, pg. 5 By CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer Call me Call me today today for an for an appointment! appointment! 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