The Dauphin City Council held a special council meeting tonight to discuss the City's 2022 Financial Plan. This meeting was also an opportunity for the public to bring up any concerns about the budget.
City Manager, Sharla Griffiths, gave a PowerPoint presentation breaking down the plan, some of the highlights include;
- Taxation decrease of $200,000 from 2020. It is slightly up, 1.6%, from last year. The decrease over the past two years compared to 2020 is due to the government's Federal Restart Funding for COVID relief.
- From 2020 to 2021 it dropped by $301,000.
- There is a continued level of spending on municipal infrastructures like roads, sidewalks, and water distribution.
- There are no program cuts as part of this year's budget.
- Year 2 of a multi-year project to improve drainage at the south end of Dauphin.
You can hear the full presentation of this year's budget on the City of Dauphin YouTube page here. You can see this year's financial plan from the City of Dauphin website here.
