Budget 2024

All forecasted capital acquisition projects should be postponed for the next 5 years until the actuals for the TPAL O&M expenses have been reviewed or analyzed as to its actual future financial impact on the tax rate for this community. Pie in the sky thinking has indebted many people with rose colored glasses. This will again be a hotly contested election issue for the Rate payers association and many of the seniors who cannot afford to keep paying these annual tax rate hikes.
An independent major audit of all municipal departments should be considered at this time. This will ensure our municipal Hr growth plan is in-ine with other similar municipalities.
These times are becoming financialy challenging for all Wasaga Residents and a major thinking change will be required to stem the tide of rising expenditures.
All new hires should be on a 6-12 month contract with no guarantee of renewal. No more permanent positions should be considered for the next 5 years.
A wage freeze of all management and municipal employees should be implemented for the next 5 years.
Tough times are around the corner and we need to be pro-active this time.
Risk management and its mitigating circumstances are now coming to the forefront for many municipalities. It's time to be fiscally responsible.

I would like to recommend that all restaurants and stores in main street get painted so they can look better. Perhaps consider hanging pots of flowers. Put more trash and recycle containers all along the beach Thanks you

Ease provide a realistic budget with 5 priorities not 84 and none have come to fruition. Inflated salaries due to increased positions. At a time of restraint this council spends. Get rid of the clinic or let the province do their job. Why are we the residents paying taxes for every non resident to use. Yes we are paying. You are using casino money that could have gone to better like transit. More affordable services instead of a clinic we are double taxed on. No more consultation on things that were consulted on years ago aka beach drive. Why? It was better closed and money goes into our town 200k in consultation when it could have stayed closed
Enough about B1. Get rid of it and get condos built
We are not a tourist town, if we were it would have been built in 2012. Lower your spending and start to be realistic on your priorities.

I’d like to see more summer events with bigger name entertainment to draw more folks up here putting more $$$$ in our community coffers. I also would like to see more organized events like the Elvis fest Collingwood used to have or Ride for Sight events not necessarily them but along those lines something to draw folks here.

- The playground replacement for Leo Boulevard should be done in 2024. The park is hazardous, with rusty components, inaccessible equipment, and safety concerns (the bridge is so slippery I can't even allow my daughter to use it, even when it's bone dry). A family member of mine specializes in playground equipment for a municipality in QC and let us know that the park is due for replacement by all standards. Also the trees have become so overgrown that the park is constantly covered in debris.
- Continuing the sidewalks down River Road East from Blueberry Trail to the new arena should be a top priority. This stretch has partial sidewalks already but you can't reach the arena, library, walk in clinic, or daycare on foot. Creating family friendly amenities only works if a family can walk there safely. This could be a very walkable community if better equipped and instead it's a safety hazard.
-A 2-3% increase in property taxes would be acceptable

After this years 8+% increase, I cannot fathom WHY another 5.2% is on that table for next year. Is this council spending too much money..or is it the positions/employees you have hired for nothing.
I would like to see sunnidale rd revamped, you have allowed a tiny village to be built and it’s a damn mess.
Please stop with the medical
Clinic. You are wasting our tax dollars, and the casino earnings. You want a clinic, open one and charge the ones that use it. Or better yet, keep after our provincial government.
An acceptable tax increase is maybe 1-2%. And that’s if you spend it on actual tax payers not tourists

Do you had any information on the snow and ice piles that the plows leave at the end of our driveways. It was said that the piece of heavy equipment used to plow the roads in town will have a gate that lowers on the end of the blade, blocking snow and ice from filling the mouth of the driveway. The wet, heavy ice and snow is too much for us to handle!