Budgets

The Municipality of Otter Lake has kept their mill rate steady at 62 cents per $100 evaluation, something Mayor Terry Lafleur said has been the case for the past five or six years. Revenue ($3,844,378) One of the biggest increases on the revenue side of Otter Lake’s 2023 budget was transfers, which increased from $823,837 […]

In the last few weeks, municipal councils accross the MRC Pontiac have been developing and adopting their budgets for 2023. chipfm.com readers will soon be able to see the budget overviews of each MRC municipality and read up on the realities they face this year. The Municipality of Waltham In 2023, the Municipality of Waltham […]

In the last few weeks, municipal councils accross the MRC Pontiac have developed and adopted their budgets for 2023. In 2023, the Municipality of Waltham is projecting a budget of $2,092,877 in revenue. Which is a significant increase from previous years. The CHIP 101.9 Newsroom reached out to Fernand Roy, the municipality of Waltham’s long-time […]

The CHIP 101.9 Newsroom is currently in the process of gathering and analysing each municipal budgets in the MRC Pontiac. Over the last few weeks, the news team has been talking to municipal officials and reporting on their budgets. Here is a look at: The Municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims: As the farthest-reaching municipality in the MRC Pontiac, […]

CHIP 101.9 spoke with Shawville Mayor Bill McCleary about the municipality’s recently passed budget for 2023. He said that this year’s budget wasn’t easy, as expenses were up due to pressures from inflation and the increased cost of gas. Revenue ($2,871,945) McCleary said that they raised the mill rate for 2023 to 83 cents per […]

Recently, municipal councils across the MRC Pontiac have been developing and adopting their budgets for 2023. CHIP 101.9 is in the process of gathering the budgetary information from each municipality in the region and discussing with municipal officials on realities they face this year. Here is a look at: The Municipality of Sheenboro For 2023, […]

Note: Some of the audio clips below have been edited for length and clarity. The Municipality of Clarendon is keeping with a longstanding efforts to keep its mill rate at 60 cents per $100 of evaluation, the same as it’s been for years. Mayor Ed Walsh and Director General Patricia Hobbs spoke with CHIP 101.9 […]

Over the past few weeks the municipal councils across the Pontiac have developed their budgets for 2023. CHIP 101.9 will be discussing with officials about the process of developing these documents within the realities of their municipalities. First up is Mansfield-et-Pontefract Mayor Sandra Armstrong and DG Éric Rochon.  Armstrong explained that the first order of […]

André Fortin took advantage of the Pontiac Quad Club and the Penguin Snowmobile Club press conference to also announce more funding. An increase to the Rénos Québec program of the Quebec housing corporation. The additional financial assistance has been increased by $ 56,000. Residents of the Pontiac who are meeting certain criteria, can apply to […]

The council of the Municipality of Pontiac adopted its 2018 budget just before Christmas. The total amount of the budget is $ 8,062,331. According to the Mayor Joanne Labadie, the main challenge of this latest budget was to minimize the tax increase given the increase in the proportion required by the MRC des Collines. $ […]