1965 County of Essex Annual Estimates

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CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX ' TREASURERTS OFFICE Windsor, Ontario March 10, 1965 Mr. Warden and Members of the Essex County Council: Re: 1965 General Fund Budget — 6.6 Mills The attached General Fund Budget was recommended for your approval at a joint 'meeting of the Special Finance Committee and the Chairman of the various spending committees, Prior to this meeting, other meetings were held with the following committees, who recom— mended those items of expenditures coming within their jurisdiction: ' Agriculture Committee Jail & Property Committee ' Sun Parlor Home for Senior Citizens Committee Juvenile & Family Court and Special Children's Aid Committee Special Finance Committee 'The members of these committees conscientiously reviewed every item of expense as shown in these estimates and this resulted in an estimate of net expenditures of $904,388.00 which requires a mill rate of 6.6 mills, an increase of $193,831,00 or 1.,2 mills. A study of the estimates reveals that the main reasons for this increase over last year were due to the following: 1. This was the first full year of our Health Unit resulting in an increase of $70,000.00, It might be pointed out that this is now an item for which a local levy need not be made. r2. The first debenture payment for our new Courthouse comes due in 1965. This amounts to $395680 00. Our Courthouse debentures did not fully meet our share of the cost of the Courthouse making it necessary to level an additional amount of $15,000.00 for a total of $54,680.00. 3. Children+s Aid requirements increased by $51,800.00 for 1965 representing a ' net cost to the County of $31,000 00. 4 This was also the first year we had to meet the full debenture payment for ' our Sun Parlor Home for Senior Citizens. This represented an increase of $37,000,00. 5, This year we had $20,000,00 less surplus to bring into revenue. The road budget has been estimated at 6 mills making a total of 12.6 mills. Last year the budget was set at a total of 12.8 mills but an amount representing 2.4 mills of the road budget was debentured bringing the total levy to 10.4 mills. On pages 15 and 16 I have shown some budget comparisons which might be of interest. One comparison is in the mill rate of the various items of expenditures and the other in the percentages that each bears to the total budget: I respectfully submit these proposed estimates for your study. I will do my best to answer any questions that arise when this comes up for your approval on March 17th, RAV:1r Respectfu yo s, R. A. Van den Brande, County of Essex Treasurer