County of Grande Prairie sets budget, taxes to go up
The County of Grande Prairie has finalized its 2018 budget at $155.4 million dollars. Of that total, $80.8 million is for operating expenses, $74.6 million for capital projects.
County CAO Bill Rogan says most of the capital portion is for road projects.
“We’ve just got a number of shorter (projects), in the range of one to three kilometres, spread across the County. That is not uncommon, trying to stretch out some of our current paving system a little and connect more people to pavement.”
Council has approved a final 2018 budget that calls for a 2.68 percent increase in average farmland taxes, 1.8 percent for residential and .82 percent for non-residential properties.