2025 Operational and Capital Budget

Hello, I believe our current approach for the beachfront redevelopment is overly complicated. I believe it would be more effective to simply break up the land into lots and sell them as long term leases. Let's allow the free market to decide on its own what goes there. Private owners will build their own buildings with their own money, and if it's not something people like then it will not be profitable and they will sell to someone else who can offer something better.

I would imagine with this approach we will end up with a variety of shops and offerings that get put up fast. We can have designated lots for commercial and some for residential if condos would benefit them. This is as opposed to the current strategy of trying to acquire a single developer to do a mega, all-encompassing development.

Thanks for your time.

What is absolutely critical for this budget is for it to be an increase much lower than the last two years. While taxpayers mostly understood why the higher increases were unavoidable due to the TPAL spend, I believe another large increase would have repercussions and won't be well received.
A difficult task given the infrastructure and future plans we need to see come to fruition.

Would like to be informed of all projects present and future for our Town.

I am a staunch supporter of public libraries and especially that of the new Wasaga Beach Public Library. For a long time the residents of Wasaga Beach have been under serviced in this area. No where else in this community can so many free services be offered to so many. Our new facility is a show piece that we should all be proud to say we built. This has been a year of many firsts for this library and more people than ever before have come forward to take part in all it has to offer.

Yes, our library has books. And yes, many avid readers would like to see the library continue to build its collection. But books are a very small part of the Free Services that our library has to offer . It does not matter the age of the person, his race, his level of education or his wealth. The library offers a safe relaxed place for our seniors to meet each other, participate in programs designed to stimulate their love of music or art or to teach them how to operate their new phone or computer. Our youth, so long without a high school, now have study rooms to complete group work, study for tests or work on a project outside of school hours. Young children play vigorously wth new friends, tumble over the building tubes or create messy art projects.

Our library staff have worked tirelessly to understand the needs of our community in order to create programs or staff to meet these needs. They have not yet had a full year to gather data to support their success, but it is evident that never before have we had so many Wasaga Beach residents with Library Cards. Never before have we had so many Wasaga Beach residents taking part in Library Programs or attending concerts, speaker series or special events.

A strong public library system is vital to every community as it helps its residents thrive. Please do not cut the budget for the Wasaga Beach Public Library. We need not only for it to keep its present level of service but to continue building on what they provide.