After hearing from ratepayers at a public input session held at Woodford Hall on February 6, Meaford councillors got to work on Monday, February 11, finding ways to trim the proposed 2019 budget in order to lessen the required rate increase for the coming year.
Meaford Councillor Paul Vickers has announced his intention to seek the Conservative nomination in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
Vickers has a life-long connection to the riding. After receiving a diploma in Agriculture from the University of Guelph, he returned to the area and officially took over the family farm in 1988, expanding and increasing the efficiency of the operation over the past several years.
The 2019 draft budget was tabled at the January 22 meeting of council; now councillors and residents have some time to review and digest the budget package prior to a public engagement session which will be held at Woodford Hall on February 6.
As one of the fifty Ontario-wide municipalities which experienced a systems error during open voting for the 2018 municipal election, the Municipality of Meaford will be the recipient of a 20 percent discount from the service provider, Dominion Voting Systems.
